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CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM @chirpradio.org · 12h

Chicago's Slow Pulp is No. 1 on CHIRP Charts again! Hear What's Next: chirpradio.org/charts 1. Slow Pulp 2. Beabadoobee 3. Boy Harsher 4. Hannah Cole 5. This Is Lorelei 6. Ibibio Sound Machine 7. Lex Walton 8. Improvement Movement 9. 1-800-Mikey 10. Blair Gun

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 05/10/2026

i behold public bathrooms all the time at parks and libraries and train stations, they just aren't open. chicago needs to open the actual public bathrooms instead of doing whatever the hell this is

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David Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026

So “slop” is the negative externalities imposed on consumers by the imposition of synthetic communications by profit-seeking entities.

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Triumph over an imposter!

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Samay Gheewala @samay-gheewala.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pretty wild seeing someone with a fresh tattoo insisting on masking.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/10/2026

iso cam on Charissa Thompson as she's forced to listen to praise of a rapist

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Phil Rosenthal @philrosenthal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Television's digital graffiti of superimposing advertising on surfaces where there is in reality no ad is an unwanted distortion of reality during sports coverage. When the technology goes haywire and blocks game action, it's more than merely annoying. It's enraging.

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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 01/10/2026

Is this the 2026 equivalent of your grandpa building the elaborate model train landscapes in the basement

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/10/2026

Mike tolin you city loving FREAK!!!!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/09/2026

I firmly believe a pi hole-style ad blocker that specifically stopped liberty mutual ads from being seen during football games would lower the temperature in this country

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: Bring me your fatties, your weirdos, your radicals yearning to breathe free.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Western civilization guys always elide over the fact that the traditions of “Athens and Jerusalem” (even going by the most broad definitions) hated each other for hundreds of years. The literature of the Maccabean revolt tells you all you need to know about Jewish opinions on Hellenism

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 30/09/2026

The guy who proclaimed the Iowa Hawkeyes are the Atlanta Hawks also said a month ago that anyone who thinks Michigan fans say "beat Ohio" doesn't know ball. The absolute goat in the crowded "Republicans don't know ball" marketplace. Yes he voted for his govt to control college sports, why do you ask

The Hawks/Hawkeyes guy accusing libs a month ago of not knowing ball

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@Eric_Schmitt
“Beat Ohio?”

Tell me you don’t know ball with saying you don’t know ball.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the major challenges is that there is no single set of background check standards that covers all publicly funded ECE employees even though one agency does all the checks. I think this is probably why it's hard to outsource to a third party vendor.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If Paul Vallas understood consent, he'd stop writing these damnfool op-eds.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you claim to have never heard Crazy Frog’s “Axel F,” it says more about you than it does Mr. Frog. This about virtue signaling that you are better than entire genres of music, that your friends are not in the custom ringtone game.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, this is the piece I want to read. We all knew that Where the Red Fern Grows was sad! This was the point of the book! Your real-life childhood dog will die too and that's why there is art about it! "I refuse to watch this one kind of sad thing" seems like a new development.

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Samay Gheewala @samay-gheewala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why are a bunch of American leftists who never posted about Canada suddenly hating on Mark Carney right now? Did he do something to cozy up to Trump?

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Natalie @natalieruiz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have been pro-pitch clock until very recently, there's only so much Mike Krukow left and I wanted him in the booth for another hour tonight

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

motherjones.com

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🔵 +18.5 Noticing circles 🔴 -38.3 (!!!) Scrolling too quickly American Institute for Being Disappointed by Posts (9/23, 631 respondents)

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every show would be better if it was animated and took place in space.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

anyway i don't really care why you want to wear a mask, i have no problem with mask-only spaces, but if you want *me* to wear one i'm going to need a parsable reason like "there is a COVID spike" or "do not get my adorable newborn sick" or "grandma's doing chemo" rather than "the plague never ended"

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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

BTW, there's a whole set of impoverished British blue bloods and ex-politicos on the American speaking circuit. If you should ever need an affordable speaker for some campus occasion, you could get yourself a Marquess or Baron or former MP. No jokes this.

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Samay Gheewala @samay-gheewala.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How many of these new data centers going up are for AI, and how many are for more mundane cloud systems like Salesforce, Gmail, etc?

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I argue that this AI doomsday stuff is marketing hype, I mostly get ignored and I think I know why: people don't understand why "our product will destroy humanity" is an advertising pitch for the product. You're right. It's counterintuitive. But here's why www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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What might an AI doomsday look like? Experts have given it some thought

Researchers have worried about the increasing power of AI systems for years, but an explosion of interest has ignited old controversies about exactly how AI will cause chaos.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think it's important a lot of you understand many thigns people call "controversies" don't actually exist. They are inventing opposition to things because that's their business model. Nothing can ever be good enough because if there's nothing to be mad about, they lose their audience.

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Secret Base @secretbase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

did you know Rick Fox is currently a senator in the Bahamas? he is that

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Samay Gheewala @samay-gheewala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's amazing how some extremely combative centrists and leftists have completely changed their minds on how important trans rights are now, compared to 2024. Almost as if they're only here to start fights

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Samay Gheewala @samay-gheewala.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Remember when Trump said he replaced the head of the Federal Reserve to lower rates?

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

goddammit Duolingo you can’t give me a sentence like this and then not tell me WHY GRANDPA APPARENTLY WASN’T INVITED TO THE WEDDING

Duolingo exercise “my grandfather wants to me my wife”

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Samay Gheewala @samay-gheewala.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For the last 10 years, Republicans have been bragging about their ability to spread misinformation online and that they can spark conflict between leftists and moderate Democrats. They're actively trying to start fights here, don't fall for their BS!

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The reason that ousted HHS officials are proposing this is, and I say this with respect for their service: they are the architects of the status quo system that has been handily defeated by the dumbest, sweatiest men in America. We have. To try. Something. New. WE HAVE TO TRY SOMETHING NEW.

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Samay Gheewala @samay-gheewala.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's always rich douchebags who have never heard "No". They're all like James Spader's character in Pretty in Pink or the villains of any 80s movie set in a summer camp.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Grotesques on the facade of Theodore Roosevelt High School, 3426 W. Wilson, Chicago. John C. Christensen, architect, 1927.

Terra cotta grotesque depicting a mischievous-looking old man wearing a mortarboard and tassel and a huge bowtie. The terra cotta is mottled tan and light orange.

Grotesque of the head of a deranged looking man with bulging eyes and a creepy grin. He is also wearing a mortarboard with tassel and is made from the same terra cotta as the previous one.

Terra cotta grotesque of an old bald-headed man, all scrunched up, with his arms holding a globe and he other arm a compass.

Another terra cotta bald guy, scrunched up and holding a book.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

[AI does something weird and unexpected] Oh my god! How we ever understand what it’s doing? [Literally any other tool does something weird and unexpected] Shit. It’s broken.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

there's a dog here sniffing people's luggage at baggage claim but it's not like a police K9, it's just somebody's lapdog. absolute hustler. just doing it for the love of the game

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Spilly @spilly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It takes 4 flushes in a row to get what you want and each time you do Lake Mead lowers a foot

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Samay Gheewala @samay-gheewala.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's a little strange that there have been several retrospectives about Border Patrol 's Midway Blitz that focus on the South Side but barely mention Albany Park or Humboldt Park, despite the terrible things that happened here.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

iit would probably be in poor taste for me to re-heat this article every time the 49ers have a season-ending injury but boy. they sure do have a lot of season-ending injuries. perhaps because of the thing I'm talking about in the article

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Samay Gheewala @samay-gheewala.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Santa Clara County votes 60%+ for Democrats every election. Most races in this fall's elections don't even have a Republican candidate. "Silicon Valley" here appears to be a few rich guys. not the tech industry.

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