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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

40 minutes ago felt a bit like one of those characters in a scary movie where one wonders, "Why did he go into a rural nature park at sundown?" Well dusk was beautiful as was the path that included some boardwalks over marsh until it abruptly ended at one ominously overgrown. (More in alt text)

Photo of a distant fading red sunset seen through trees. As my eyes had adjusted this was brighter and prettier in person. Nice and contemplative.

Flash photo of where the path suddenly terminated in an abandoned boardwalk being subsumed by branches and vines of a boggier part of the forest. It was at this point I realized just how far I walked into this area, an awareness that remained acute during the stroll back, because running made no sense and would just encourage whatever was there to chase me

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Refreshing as a cup of coffee.' Me: What an odd slogan and yeah, right. [One bottle of intensely caffinated cane sugar citris later] Í̵̳̟̄̃ ̸͓̖̞͋̎ ̵̳̈̉C̵̆͜ ̷͙̊̄̽A̴̲̼̎̈́ ̷̨̦̖̒͗Ṇ̴̜̭͒ ̴̤͇̍̚͘ͅ ̴͖̖̹̂̈́͝S̸̞̭̳̕͝ ̷̥͔̅̔̽Ȇ̵̡̫͕̈́ ̸̬͈̓́̾͜E̷̩̪̤͌̾ ̶̺̈́́̆ ̶̮͕̦̎̓̇ ̵̺̿G̵̛̰͓͕̒̑ ̶̮̻͓̅̀O̴̲̕͝ ̶̞̝͇͋D̷̟͍͛

Image of old timey Sun Drop sign and bottles with slogan in post.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Shawano WI has the Twig Soda factory and museum and it is super charming. They've kept making original recipie Sundrop after Keurig bought the national can and plastic bottle rights and changed it. Also make their own stuff. Their story: www.twigsbeverage.net/our-story

Mural near the entrance of the Twig museum factory and store.

The interior with Classic Roadside America eccentricity and old school Wisconsin tourist trap.

The origin of Twigs - a war vet finds his calling, keeps it in the family.

Surprise Dale Earnhardt - for me. Did not realize Sun Drop was a big regional southern thing & Twig brought it to WI

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Being in IT means contemplating the occasional art installation on a random desk, intentional or not. Your own Personal Shit Jesus Army With a penny for your prayers Someone who's there Reach out and touch a tiny duck

A big 3D shit emoji toy guarded by 4 tiny Jesus Love You dolls, a penny and a tiny porcelain duck.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thought: who is Diane McBain? Turns out comic book fans knew her cause she played a cartoony socialite on Batman. Can you imagine the level of nerdery to remember that back then when there was no internet to look up such things? I'm sure it was in some magazines but still.

Diane McBain as Pinky Pinkston on Batman 66 in her all pink room outfit hair and dyed pink little dog.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

WAITING: Stand in Solitary to protest the closure of the DePaul Art Museum October 8th, from 5PM - 6PM DePaul Art Museum 935 W Fullerton Ave Gonna be out of town but show up for this. Details here and in alt text: thevisualist.org?p=194219

What: WAITING: A community demonstration

• Where: Begins at the closed doors of the DePaul Art Museum (935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL
60614) and extends east toward Lake Shore Drive

• When: Thursday, October 8th, 2026, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

• Who: Open to all Chicago residents, artists, and cultural supporters

Local residents, artists, and culture advocates will stage a bold, peaceful civic demonstration titled WAITING to protest the closure of the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM). Participants are invited to gather to form a massive queue starting from the museum’s currently closed doors and extending down Fullerton Avenue toward Lake Shore Drive.

This fall marks what would have been the museum’s 15th anniversary. Before the DePaul University president announced its closure last spring, DPAM earned a national reputation for championing Chicago-based artists, elevating underrecognized voices, and fostering civic dialogue.

The demonstration is a commentary on the absurdity of losing a vital cultural anchor, and a heartfelt plea for the value of the arts in Chicago. By standing together, participants will highlight the void left by DPAM’s closure—echoing a broader national trend of shuttered arts institutions—and demonstrate the community’s desire to reconnect through art and culture.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But too bad for them, there's a second sign on the other end but the cashier looks out of it so no stealth correction.

Another We Sell Mask sign in a different window.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of my fave small things in Logan Square: a sign at California Food Mart has said We Sell Mask for 6 years until someone wrote a small S on the window recently, agressive but not fully confident. And you know they've lived here since 2020 at least & it bugged them the whole time.

Image of sign in a window that says We Sell Mask. Someone had added a small S on the glass

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is how the png of the map looks in a mobile browser with zooming in also not the best for print [blurry shades of blue]. And despite the web's decline, there so many tools for making interactive maps often for free. This is a site project person doing a bad job.

This is a bit zoomed in - when the image opens its almost illegible.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Called them and, unlike other orgs I've asked recently, the reply was "well, we are trying our best, get a brochure on site." Having done this myself know it takes recources to do this flipbook & image only stuff than a page of text. Also, in order to make this one needs a text document first.

"Join us for the 22nd annual Arts Weekend!" Image of a brochure that exists as an animated flipbook with a huge amount of unreadable text that includes addresses, times, etc. that people might want to know before they decide to spend time.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Globe didn't get 1000 subscribers, it got a paltry $1000 exploiting homophobia. This is the paywall: 1K people paid $1 for a subscription they will likely cancel immediately, cause they didn't know how to bypass it. Here is a Paywall free link because screw the Globe. archive.ph/LCvgM

Here is the paywall for the Lesbian Bar article. "You've been selected" (clearly untrue, this appears to everyone) "Only $1 for six months." but also "Cancel anytime".

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Globe didn't get 1000 subscribers, it got a paltry $1000 exploiting homophobia. This is the paywall: 1K people paid $1 for a subscription they will cancel as they didn't know how to bypass it. Here is a Paywall free link because screw the Globe. archive.ph/LCvgM

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Like Jonathan Chait, Jill Filipovic found career benefits in liberal concern trolling that avoids material analysis to focus on how there's always someone using lefty terms to be foolish or mean online that can be used for bad faith attacks on the vulnerable.

Ideas
I Was Wrong About Trigger Warnings
Has the national obsession with trauma done real damage to teen girls?

By Jill Filipovic

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

Sarah Shahi as Shaw in Person of Interest and if you didn't I'd post this or Amy Acker, you don't know me at all.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is an image of damage to a public park done for private profit that will take weeks to months to fix. This is on everyone who bought tickets and supported support the racist, classist, irresponsible and kind of sad nostalgia event, and think a bit less of them, even pals.

An artful image of Douglas Park being destroyed so a largely all white crowd could enjoy a festival of largely all white artists that relies on bunch of nostalgia acts that vary from "okay but could play somewhere better" to "not really the band any more" to "why are you giving money to this mean old asshole?"

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lorenz has become another example of Mr. G from the famous essay by Dorothy Thompson "Who Goes Nazi?": "...he will never be anything. His brain operates quite apart from the rest of his apparatus. He will certainly be able, however, fully to explain and apologize for Nazism if it ever comes along."

Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant prodigy. He has been concerned with general ideas since the age of ten and has one of those minds that can scintillatingly rationalize everything. I have known him for ten years and in that time have heard him enthusiastically explain Marx, social credit, technocracy, Keynesian economics, Chestertonian distributism, and everything else one can imagine. Mr. G will never be a Nazi, because he will never be anything. His brain operates quite apart from the rest of his apparatus. He will certainly be able, however, fully to explain and apologize for Nazism if it ever comes along. But Mr. G is always a “deviationist.” When he played with communism he was a Trotskyist; when he talked of Keynes it was to suggest improvement; Chesterton’s economic ideas were all right but he was too bound to Catholic philosophy. So we may be sure that Mr. G would be a Nazi with purse-lipped qualifications. He would certainly be purged.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Before Dave Sim became a rabid misogynist nut, his parody of fantasy types included a character named Elrod, so this line immediately came to mind.

The pompous Elrod, last ruler of a dying race or perhaps a delusional charlatan, saying "Mind your manners, son. I've got a tall pointy hat! Status, boy! You can argue with me, but you can't argue with status!"

It really is too bad that Sim did a ton of acid then went through a messy divorce and surrounded himself with friends & fans unwilling or unable to confront symptoms of some sort of mental disorder & turned his anxiety & resentment into what he imagined was a cosmology of hating mommy.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Stopped by the Resolution factory on Fulton as they were having a narrative closure warehouse sale. It was mostly inventory that Netflix ordered then never used. Saw a pallet maried RR Martin and asked if that was available and they said, "not just yet."

Large industrial building and fenced in yard with RESOLUTION on the roof.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Replace "trans people" with "blacks", "women", "the poor", "immigrants" or any religion & this post is cleraly by a murderous fash sociopath trolling & blocking them & any mutual who follows them cause such social toxins are not worth time nor energy & shunning is vital.

Anywhy
@anywhy.bsky.social
It seems to me that human rights aren't really an enforceable concept. They are more like party favors handed out by a government to its supporters. Maybe trans people need new messaging and better ambassadors, who can convince Dems that they're a demo worth courting instead of stepping over.
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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

1. Nathan Cofnas & his supporters getting Nathan Cofnas'd seems about right. 2. Saw a picture of Nathan and he looks like a Michael Emerson character, specifically Leland, the devil worshiping psychologist from Evil.

Leland Townsend getting some "therapy" from a demon.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

[This is a reference to an old twitter joke.]

[Dentist waiting room]

Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth-

Other patients: teeth, TEETH

Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Suspect the entire populace southern shore of the great lakes would be all "oh no, stop, don't" in a Gene Wilder as Wonka voice if annexed.

Gene Wilder doing the "whatever" face before the concept existed.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Haven't watched the video, so maybe it's a rant abouf Malcom and Vivian.

Malcolm MacLaren and Vivian Westwood, somehow the alpha and omega of punk & posuer culture.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Realizing this is a right answer but still posting it.

Baelin the fisherman, an amazingly overpowered NPC in the open world game Azerim a sketch series by the NZ group Viva La Dirt League.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

pictures are working again post something stupid from your phone

Donald: "Everything that we know and love is reducible to the absurd acts of chemicals, and there is therefore no intrinsic value in this material universe."

Mickey: "Hypocrite that you are, for you trust the chemicals in your brain to tell you they are chemicals. All knowledge is ultimately based on that which we cannot prove. Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Not the point, but we may have the same table in a similar location (back stairs landing), and just took a photo of a book on mine.

Entreprecariat : Everyone Is an Entrepreneur. Nobody Is Safe
Book by Silvio Lorusso

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This book is 7 years old but still relevant. silviolorusso.com/work/entrepr...

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Viallany is so inherent to ICE they think its an image improvement to gear up like the Sinister Six. And, alas, shock weapons can kill the healthy as well, especially when deployed by rageboys.

Electro, bored of fighting Spidey is now looking to put folks in camps or just murder them for being witnesses.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Single ownership contracts for monkey drawings. ...infinitely reproducable monkey drawings.

Meme of Homer failing to reassure Bart by saying worst moment *so far*

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Always knew he was shirtless, but didn't occur to me it's like an ursine Bert Kreischer doing PSAs, which seems all kinds of wrong.

Picture of a Bert Kreischer, shirtless as usual, wearing what is pretty close to a forest ranger hat. I added the words "only you" but swear this is a publicity photo I found.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dig this sequence In which one of Tony's workers almost kills him & destroys Stark HQ. His monologue in reaction to Tony having fuckall to say besides "I PAID you for that work. You WORK for me. You agreed to the deal. I OWN it." hits and there's that other layer of how Marvel treated its creators.

Not able to summarize all of the dialogue but Bendis is on his game and the art by Cheung, Livesay and Posner rises to acting in still drawings - the anguish of Kenny (who is also given a line which slightly invokes Caliban and Trinculo from the Tempest) and Stark's reductive, entitled attitude (that he's frozen in his suit does not justify it) - dang.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yes. The origins of modern generational categories is marketing and overgeneralized complaints about age groups, particularly younger ones, is almost as old as writing.

First panel: the Simpson's don't make me tap the sign meme

Second panel: The sign: "Generational BS is a trick to get us to ignore shared class interests."

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There is something extra dystopian & sad about walking past this place on a Saturday night when singles are out and about, especially as it is next door to The Slipperly Slope, which may not be as hot as it once was but is still happening.

A former distillery and before that a business or restaurant, now a 24-7 "Co-Working Club". A concept now as retro as my French made portable cassette player but devoid of any of the fun or valid function.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Bluesky being bluesky, but in a good way.

Image of Clearsky's top 20 blocked with attie.ai now coming in second to Vance.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What I've been doing more than Scrolling & Posting.

Part of a massive cassette tape collection, newly accessible thanks to a new player.

Is this a brag by a retronaught? Yes. Part of a massive cassette tape collection, newly accessible thanks to a new player.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A reminder of one step that helps avoid the traps of social media toxicity: turn off trending topics and videos by unchecking the boxes in the Content & Media settings.

Screen shot of content and media settings. Uncheck the boxes for "Enable trending topics" and "Enable trending videos".

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Gonna be a bit odd yet still cool watching this kid have fun in the middle of the United Center - or does everyone get a playset?

Image of kid setting up the dragon demolition track for Monster Truck Hot Wheels.

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