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MisterJayEm

@misterjayem.bsky.social
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**FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY** Chicago's #1 Fan. Utility-Grade Content from Parts Unknown. Post-Hip/Pre-Retro. Avant-garbage. he/him 😷 middle-class/middle-aged/middle-brow

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h
i think about this sometimes www.vice.com/en/article/p...
vice.com
Palmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the Game
The man who created the Oculus Rift has invented a virtual reality headset that will explode the forebrain of a user who dies in a video game.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 2h
Reverend Wright was 100% correct about America.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 4h
OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE NOT RAHM EMMANUEL ON MSNOW AGAIN STOP PROMOTING THIS HORRIBLE HUMAN.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 3h
Some people can't be helped, Johnny.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 4h
I wonder what changed...
The Pope wearing his White Sox ball cap
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 7h
How many Snuffleupagus died to make this jacket?
bullairs.com
Sesame Street © - Snuffy Zip Up Sweater | Bull Airs
Expected to ship Q1 2027Please note expected shipping date is subject to change. Unknown delays in production can happen as Bull Airs aims to deliver the best possible quality of every item produced. ...
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 7h
Just having some people quietly in the gallery would mean a lot to me so she knows she's not alone. If this is something you're interested in, please email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com for details.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 7h
Chicagoland friends, I have a favor to ask. I have a pro bono client, a Black woman, who is currently facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at her abusive ex - who admitted to raping her. I would love if there could be a show of support for her at her next few court dates.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 8h
My goal is to be forgotten long before I'm dead and I'm right on track!!
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 13h
new: @jamieludwig.bsky.social put together everything you could possibly want to know about alprs (and some stuff you probably wish you didn’t know) into a wonderful guide. check it out:
chicagoreader.com
Automated license plate readers, explained - Chicago Reader
Whether in or outside law enforcement, the spread of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology raises alarms around privacy, data security, and public safety. It also begs the question of how t...
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 9h
Doug Wilson < Robert Anton Wilson
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 9h
"The plaintiffs said the companies “engaged in a coordinated, fraudulent marketing scheme to portray plastics as broadly and ‌readily ⁠recyclable, knowing that the vast majority of consumer plastics cannot be and are not recycled.'"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h
Not a scam at all. Definitely real things and not just a scam to steal taxpayer money
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 9h
I'm no aviator, but that seems suboptimal.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 9h
TONIGHT!
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 9h
Finally, some good news!
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 9h
"And drunks."
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 10h
ACAB includes
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 10h
Cook County voters! 1) Don't skip the judges on your ballot, and 2) Vote NO on Judge Krista Butler
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 10h
A poison-pill voter ID requirement was attached to it.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 11h
"Brain on drugs" is more famous (scores of parodies), but "I learned it by watching you" is the GOAT.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 11h
Forty-five minutes of synchronised swimming and diving.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 13h
This is largely because normal people got involved in left-wing organizing and marginalized the cranks.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 11h
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten needs to be removed from office.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 11h
New research shows lemurs (left) use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes
A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 11h
here's an example from last week
chicagotribune.com
CPS enrollment falls by 11,500 students, continuing decades-long decline
Chicago Public Schools enrollment dropped 11,537 students this year, continuing a decades-long decline amid a shrinking number of school-age children.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 12h
"He accused a prosecutor of working backward from a verdict, and made the case by working backward from a verdict."
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John Dickerson (@johnfdickerson)
You may have seen the exchange between Jack Smith and Senator Eric Schmitt. Shakespeare called it long ago in Hamlet. First: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk f...
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 15h
I'm not joking when I say this. Music isn't a problem to be solved.
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com

I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.

Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.

Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 13h
A Good Guy tells the women in his life, "If he does anything to you, I'll kill him," thereby keeping the women in his life from telling him anything in order to protect him from his own commitment to violence.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 13h
In our latest for @unraveledpress.com, @peoplesfabric.bsky.social and I tracked months of ICE using Chicago police parking lots, in defiance of a mayoral executive order barring immigration enforcement operations in city-owned lots. Some of these incidents happened in full view of CPD officers:
unraveledpress.com
In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 13h
"We are not in the same reality, all of us. If you recognize those things as being real problems, you stand on one shore. If you recognize some, but not others, you reside on an island of indeterminate size. If you dismiss these things, you live in a land far from me, but a land of your own."
teenlibrariantoolbox.com
The Big Why and THE VELVET KNIFE, a guest post by Maureen Johnson
Evil things happen when people stop reading. Stop searching for information. Stop thinking. When books are banned and removed. When dissent is not permitted. When history is not studied. When the clue...
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 14h
A: He's a bigot.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 14h
Blocking Michael Tracey and muting the word "Michael Tracey" can only improve one's life.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 15h
I'm not joking when I say this. Music isn't a problem to be solved.
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com

I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.

Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.

Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 16h
Fact check: Lou Ferrigno hadn't even heard of Pope Leo XIV until last year.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 17h
thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[Looks at Iran] Successfully, I'd imagine.
Rachel Marsden: You’ll never guess how Canada would fight a Trump invasion
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What's a poster you had in your room growing up (At the time I could have identified 98% of these beautiful freaks)
Massive 1983 Legion of Super-Heroes poster by Keith Giffen that included every character that had appeared in the Legion mythos up to that point
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spectacular failure "likely out" after failing spectacularly
radaronline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS After Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger as 'Anti-Woke' Editor Blamed for Torpedoing '60 Minutes'
Bari Weiss has been blamed for 60 Minutes' slide in viewership this season after making sweeping changes to the news network.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The fairy tale is over.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
D'oh!
Google image search result for "realistic Homer Simpson"
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Does everybody get these therapy ads on Hulu? Or am I being targeted?
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At the Brookfield Zoo, three boys were chasing geese with a stick and I shouted "KNOCK IT OFF!" at them so loudly that two of them fell down. Their parents quickly, and quietly, hustled them away.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Never give your cell number or email address to a political campaign.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[Looks at Iran] Successfully, I'd imagine.
Rachel Marsden: You’ll never guess how Canada would fight a Trump invasion
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Paper is a time-tested technology.
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𐇔 BeeVine𐇱𐇳 @succulentubus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WE SHOULD IMPROVE DEMOCRATS SOMEWHAT.

Yet you are trans. Curious.

Enjoy the camps
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"He is neither particularly well-adjusted nor maladjusted. He is simply adjusted, moving in his peculiar way through a world that has made him ill at ease since the second-best math student in his middle school rebuffed him."
pitchfork.com
How Dinosaur Jr. Learned to Tolerate One Another, Kind Of
For 40 years, J Mascis has quietly led his incredibly loud band into the annals of indie rock. But during his annual vacation in Cape Cod, he opened up about almost everything: interpersonal dynamics,...
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