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@morentsy.bsky.social
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Cat person. Interests: being outside, music, art and design. Weather geek. Beer nerd. Computer guy. Anti-fascist. Supports democracy. Chicago, Illinois.

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Dumb Industries @dumb-industries.com · 5h
All-new designs in the Dumb Store for our Dumb Spooky Sale! And ALL 15% OFF with code SPOOKYDUMB15: Lady Frankenstein, Arch Hall Jr. and Dumb Dumbs by @carmenart.bsky.social, The Incredible Melting Man by @lunamacaroon.bsky.social, Pumaman and Club Scum by @joshflowers.bsky.social.
Dumb Spooky Season 2026. 15% off new designs: a Lady Frankenstein t-shirt dress, an Arch Hall Jr. t-shirt and a Matt and Chris Dumb Dumbs ringer t-shirt with art by Carmen Cerra, The Incredible Melting Man t-shirt by Chelsea Kelly, and the Pumaman DIY Halloween Costume long sleeve shirt and a Club Scum t-shirt by Josh Flowers. Use code SPOOKYDUMB15 at dumb-industries.com.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
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What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death
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columbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 04/09/2026
From Garfield Park to Lake View, from Oak Park to Belmont-Cragin, cicadas are singing their summer chorus across the Chicago area. So, are they louder this year?
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Are cicadas louder this year?
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this is kind of stunning tbh
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🏳️‍🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟 @coleurbanist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here's a map where a contiguous green area represents 50% of the state population
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morentsy @morentsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Again.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-politely-re…
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fukuyama said it before me, Hoffer said it before Fukuyama, and Nietzsche said before all of us
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Dumb Industries @dumb-industries.com · 21/08/2026
BELA GOES BANANAS! SEPTEMBER 8! Movies Are Dumb presents an all-new movie riff on the 1943 Bela Lugosi flick: THE APE MAN! Premiering in The Dumb Clubhouse 9/8! WANNA TRY TO WIN A FREE DOWNLOAD? Just "like" and reply below! We'll choose a winner at random on Monday! Good luck!
illustration by Carmen Cerra of Bela Lugosi in the 1943 movie THE APE MAN, looking rather ape-ish in a suit and top hat that resembles Abraham Lincoln, and he's surrounded by apes from Planet of the Apes. the entire poster looks like a retro comic book and it says FROM THE PRODUCERS OF THE MADS ARE BACK | CHRIS GERSBECK, EMMY MARTIAN & MATT REISER | MOVIES ARE DUMB: THE APE MAN

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BELA GOES BANANAS! IN A MOVIE RIFF YOU'LL GO APE FOR!
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sunrays on Sunday. Yesterday over Chicago in Black & White.
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Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It’s a pretty telling signal to how dangerous a location is if the ghost bike of someone who was killed there also gets hit
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
16yr old Saxophonist DAVID BOWIE posing for his band — The Konrads — in 1963.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I didn’t come anywhere near this when I was on the Roosevelt (‘87-‘90) - I think we hit like 85 straight days at sea. But even that was miserable. This is an abuse of the force and will have long term repercussions
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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Embarrassing that Chicago is only in 7th place in transit ridership, shows how much room there is for improvement
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 12/08/2026
Illinois has already broken the state record for most tornadoes in a year. According to preliminary numbers from the National Weather Service, Illinois has recorded 198 tornadoes as of Aug. 11. The highest mark the state recorded before this year was 142 twisters in 2024.
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What to know after latest round of tornadoes tear through south suburbs
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morentsy @morentsy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Batten down the hatches Chicago!
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Right now, everyone faces a hard binary choice between authoritarianism and democracy. If you don’t think it’s a binary choice and that because of your issue or issues that both sides are the same, then you’re part of the problem.
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Chicago Public Square @chicagopublicsquare.com · 23/07/2026
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AP updates newsroom standards for artificial intelligence  | The Associated Press
AP today released updated newsroom standards governing the use of artificial intelligence, reinforcing that AI can assist journalists with specific tasks.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 23/07/2026
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
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Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Quick, what’s the most iconic ‘90s-era Wisconsin beer, launched by a craft brewery that is the inheritor of the state’s famous local brewing tradition? If you said Spotted Cow, you got the right brewery, but I’m talking about an even more influential beer.
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The Origins of American Wild Ales — Beervana
Quick, what’s the most iconic ‘90s-era Wisconsin beer, launched by a craft brewery that is the inheritor of the state’s famous local brewing tradition. If you said Spotted Cow, you got the right brewe...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/07/2026
Stick it to your loved ones by blowing through their inheritance at The Onion store before you croak. store.theonion.com/products/us-dign…
'US Dignity Reserves Nearly Depleted' Headline Shirt
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morentsy @morentsy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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New School Beer + Cider @newschoolbeer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In Memoriam of Alan Sprints. The legendary Hair of the Dog Brewing founder has passed away at 66. #RIP newschoolbeer.com/home/2026/7/...
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In Memoriam: Alan Sprints, Hair of the Dog Brewing founder (1959-2026) — New School Beer + Cider
A great light in the craft beer world has gone out, but like a distant star, Alan Sprints legacy will shine on for generations long after he is gone. On Sunday I awoke from a post beer fest slumber...
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 17/07/2026
This satellite view of the smoke plume (from today) is insane. Look how far it stretches across the Atlantic.
Satellite view of eastern North America showing a large wildfire smoke plume and hazy air mass drifting across the, Midwest and mid-Atlantic United States, extending well across the Atlantic Ocean. Land features including the Great Lakes, Florida, and the East Coast are visible beneath varying cloud cover.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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morentsy @morentsy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fumé evec fumé ! You brought that s*** back from Québec. #smoke #beer
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 16/07/2026
It's 2020 redux: wash your groceries and wear a mask
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What I'll be watching tonight instead of listening to the never ending lies from the WH about "rigged" elections:
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morentsy @morentsy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Every beer in Chicago is a smoked beer today.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Amazing World of Tomorrow
A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow.
A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk.
It crashes into a rental scooter. 
It backs up.
It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles.
The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again.
A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 30/06/2026
2:30 update: Heat index (un)comfortably above 105° on my balcony. For the few minutes I was out there the meter bounced between 105-109
Kestrel weather meter showing a heat index temperature of 107.8°
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Graphic design is my passion.
A sign that has two concentric rings of text but it's laid out in a confusing way so it looks like the first sentence is "it's against the law to keep alcohol out of the hands of youth" and the second sentence is "supply alcohol to minors."
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Elder Taylor @taylornewc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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Jonathan Surratt @beerinator.com · 15/06/2026
Continue reading: boundedbybuns.com/the-sandwich-that…
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The sandwich that built a chain
Here's my version of The Original sandwich from Schlotzsky's Deli. We're talking about a ham, salami, melty cheese and veggie sandwich inside of a homemade sourdough roll and I'm going to give you the tools to make it yourself.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Wrigley delaying Mumford and Sons WGN brings Skilling out of retirement This is a big deal
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Rachel Lichtman @rachellichtman.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Programme 4 is a groovy, feature-length "broadcast" from The Botany 500 Age of Television: Fake shows, local ads, interstitials, musical guests & more—with a dazzling array of talent! See it in the analog world along with special guest stars & performances. Tickets: Programme4.tv/makethescene
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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Absolutely idyllic at the North Pond this evening, complete with summery cumulonimbus clouds
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 10/06/2026
Heads up, Chicago. We're not in the watch box yet, but some models show potentially powerful storms rumbling through the city around 10-11pm #WXsky #Chicago #ILwx
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Thierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this
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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
How a Nike Missile base became a natural area. #JacksonPark #Chicago open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
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Natural Areas and Missile Bases
Not all battles are won, but many are worth fighting for.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
it is darkly funny that his son got married and he was like "ohhhhh uhhhh something popped up, you know, the war, I gotta do work on the war that night, unfortunately I just can't go" and then 2 weeks later, same war still going on, he's shutting down midtown Manhattan to watch the Knicks
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