Reposted by mark nicklesMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 574215844210
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We shall sell ourselves the rope with which we shall hang ourselves - v. lenin 110
Reposted by mark nicklesMaria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 05/10/2026OSSOFF: REVENGE and plow the earth with salt where they stood EMANUEL: We must embrace our good friends, the Republican rapists murderers and thieves The Ossoff message will attract a tidal wave of eager supporters; Emanuel will only drive everyone away again like they did with Walz in '24 210714
Reposted by mark nickles❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Here’s Pike’s 2024 constitutional rights complaint challenging Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol: “it fails to provide a contingency plan with emergency medical services on-site in the event of a botch“ 115411
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Diplomacy, babyaxios.comScoop: Rubio ordered Iranian delegation to leave the country, U.S. official saysIt was a highly unusual diplomatic rebuke. 010
Reposted by mark nicklesGerald C Brown @geraldcbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Look I got the color wrong, but I was way too close here 613725
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Going to have to put every linguist and intel shop into a concentration camp to meet the goals of this policy 000
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New market signal: Tik tok hustlegrind landlord influencers appearing in obituaries 000
Reposted by mark nicklesMadeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It sure sounds a lot like these guys are just committing a whole bunch of serious crimes and pretending a wizard did it. 231842
Reposted by mark nicklesBarry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We are now entering the Autumnal Equinox time. In this town, it's known as Chicagohenge. 784442697
Reposted by mark nicklesSarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"poly? you mean polyCRISIS?" 0171
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Mark Zuckerberg spent a trillion dollars trying to make this and this guy.. just posts it 020
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Interim Secretary of the Army. No expertise other than time as a Republican legislative staffer and then corruption enforcement goon during his 1 year at the Corps of Engineers. 000
Reposted by mark nicklesAlex @acannon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I don't think there is a more obvious candidate for a new Chicago train station than in Humboldt Park along the MD-N,MD-W and NCS Metra tracks. We should talk about this more. @nitachicago.org do something 3463
Reposted by mark nicklesrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/08/2026if centrists didn't want to be put in a situation where the democrats have to reform the electoral system and judiciary within the first two years of the next president's term, perhaps they should have done it when it wasn't an emergency. if we do not do it, we will die under worse than Jim Crow. 201754285
Reposted by mark nicklesSam @samd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026we can learn a lot how Magyar launched “Operation Cleansing Fire” to reform the courts and completely de-orbanize Hungary the funniest things to me though is that 1. this has been an extinction-level event for Fidesz 2. human rights Watch is mad about it for some reason, truly beyond parody 281571310
Reposted by mark nicklesRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The discipline this is actually coming for is my own, we are 100% getting AI-Powered Originalism where we simply ask James Madison the answer 0202
Reposted by mark nicklesJordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The fact that Canadians are taught the actual discourse, headlines, and political discussions around the founding of our country is a thing most Americans do not understand, cannot relate to, and find deeply insulting because they were the looming threat that drove it. 410823
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A salute to all war fighters who have lost battles with piss bottles 110
Reposted by mark nicklesSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026After 18 years of litigation, the Fourth Circuit just wiped away a $42 million jury verdict against CACI for its role in torture at Abu Ghraib—a verdict the same court had *affirmed* earlier this year. Why? Because of #SCOTUS's 6-3 June 23 ruling in Cisco, which eviscerated the Alien Tort Statute:georgetown.box.com 33635349
Reposted by mark nicklesConnor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 19/08/2026conference proposal // conference paper 1325117
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 15/08/2026how much more arrogance is embedded in our national security strategy 021
Reposted by mark nicklesSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Became a tourist for the day 2547219
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry“ hits the dopamine button v nicely 010
Reposted by mark nicklesElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Just to brighten up this thread: here are five books by women that I've read recently and loved: 1625852
Reposted by mark nicklespublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026this is an actual problemchicagotribune.comChicago grocers are severely affected by reductions to SNAP: ‘We need to bail out this industry’In Illinois, the implications threaten not only individual households but also the viability of the Chicago area’s independent authorized SNAP retailers. 553028919
Reposted by mark nicklesHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026Be cool if companies stopped trying to reinvent physiognomy every few years.theguardian.com‘It confirmed my flaws’: women are paying for face scans that score beauty and suggest excessive procedures‘Looksmaxxing’ culture has led to the rise of facial analysis services – but experts warn they aren’t backed by science and can be harmful to users 89621
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Why are they like this? Chicago already has one of the highest number of officers per capita in the country and as we shaved 2k from the force crime has dropped precipitously! This is political malpractice—throwing taxpayer money into bonfire 0186
Reposted by mark nicklesVicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Important anti fascist skill to learn is being brave enough to yell "shut the fuck up" at someone in public 13203980
Reposted by mark nicklesDavid Harvey @davidharvey.org · 28/07/2026"Now, at 90 years old, he has written a book on Marx’s magnum opus for the generations who came after the New Left rupture of 1968. The Story of Capital connects two worlds: the world of the ivory tower and the world of the street protest." newrepublic.com/article/2113...newrepublic.comDavid Harvey’s Masterclass in MarxThe Story of Capital connects the world of the academy and the world of the street protest. 0248
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 28/07/2026destroying priceless books to feed the child porn generator 101
Reposted by mark nicklesvictoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 27/07/2026it’s bad film criticism bc she isn’t a critic, she’s an academic. i don’t blame her for it, this just isn’t her medium and there was never a chance she would ever be able to *not* obsessively pick everything apart (this is why i find academia suffocating even if it’s obviously necessary and good) 21306
Reposted by mark nicklesvictoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 27/07/2026nobody who knows a work of art as well as emily wilson knows the odyssey is going to react with anything but horror at *any* filmed adaptation of that work. she has agonized over every single line of that poem. this was always going to make her completely insane 51728
Reposted by mark nicklesFuturism @futurism.com · 25/07/2026"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."trib.alAI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies RemainAI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare. 52425
Reposted by mark nicklesFederica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The tragedy of an individualistic rich society is that people think they can insure themselves from anything, but when collective crises happen, people will be desperately looking for public help that will have depleted because of the past hyperindividualism 1187
Reposted by mark nicklesNature @nature.com · 23/07/2026The El Niño climate pattern that is strengthening in the Pacific Ocean is on track to be the largest one in at least 150 years, researchers said today at a briefing. go.nature.com/4fkayakgo.nature.comThis El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights. 212066
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I will gently push back on this with the example of Tito’s Yugoslavia which produced innumerable treasures (including the invention of multiple genres of music like Yugo-Mex). 130
Reposted by mark nicklesChristo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Can you believe what 2004 you would have thought if he knew we'd be referring to the Iraq War as the tragedy contrasted with the present Farce? 0181
Reposted by mark nicklesDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/07/2026We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.heatmap.newsWhat Worries Me Most About This Wildfire SmokeWe didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are. 511483548
