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Jim Laczkowski @jimlaczkowski.net · 07/10/2026

Everyone in the Chicagoland area should be really excited for this year's Mental Filmness Film Festival hosted by Sharon Gissy. It's this Friday and Saturday starting at 7. Details here along with a trailer feat. some of the films playing! www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-fil...

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Colin Cunningham @sgtzima.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When the waitress brings out your plate of sizzling fajitas

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

David Lynch applying makeup make-up to Laurel Near on the set of ERASERHEAD (1977) She was BOTD in 1953

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well I made it to Litomyšl for the Jan Švankmajer: Reliquaries and Fetishes exhibition at Miroslav Kubik Gallery! What a thrill, got to meet a couple of bonafide movie stars in the White Rabbit and Little Otik. Also great to see some brand new pieces for 2026 - 92 and still going strong..!

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Alex Kittle @alexxkittle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

honestly i am so sick of thinking/reading about men this week so as i do every year i am sharing my ever-expanding list of horror movies written and/or directed by women, trans, and nb filmmakers so you can listen to someone who isn't a fucking man this shocktober letterboxd.com/alexkittle/l...

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Horror Recs by Filmmakers of Marginalized Genders

Horror written and/or directed by creatives of marginalized genders (women, nb folks, trans folks, folks who are not cis dudes, etc). Some of these are more horror-adjacent but I'm not too picky about...

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Emily Barney @sundaesmilemily.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was just thinking about when Biden was elected, and I was so happy that Trump would soon be out of office. I drove around the city, everyone was out celebrating. It was so joyous. I don’t think I’ll feel that way whenever Trump leaves office. 1/2

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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 01/10/2026

a new episode of Wild Chicago just dropped

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WBEZ @wbez.org · 25/09/2026

On 10/17, we’re giving Nosferatu a second life with a live original score by Chicago local Circuit Des Yeux, feat. Alan Sparhawk. This one-night-only performance serves as the perfect sonic counterpart to Count Orlok’s shadow. Tickets: mrf.lu/2mfy7

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hannah Einbinder was just arrested protesting Benjamin Netanyahu's safe passage into New York and the genocide of Palestinians. Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon, and Chelsea Manning are among those currently blocking the road

Chelsea Manning among others at the protest against genocide and Netanyahu's visit

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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Emily Barney @sundaesmilemily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I hope Richard Harrison is out there reforming the ninja empire in the sky.

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Patrick Macias @patrickmacias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

RIP Richard Harrison, star of the greatest scene in movie history youtu.be/0ziWt0DFQAY?...

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Richard Harrison Phone Conversation

YouTube video by Howie Benatovitch

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Kyrie Page @kyriepage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rest in peace to Richard Harrison, impeccable B-movie master, part of one of the funniest movie endings of all time.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2026

virulently anti-Catholic lapsed Catholic here: It's of actual geopolitical significance that the Catholic Church is talking like this this time around with these pigs. It wasn't like that 90 years ago.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Emily Barney @sundaesmilemily.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m so glad to live in a time when orthopedic shoes are really cute so I can be excited about buying lots of new shoes to dull the horror that I’ve developed arthritis and my feet are falling apart. #deathcomesforusall

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”

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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.

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gwen 🌶️👹 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

ed sheeran is lifting the bestiality ban for supporting acts.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

Apropos of nothing, sharing this little except from Prince’s memoir, “The Beauiful Ones”: “…they keep trying to ram […] Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it.”

about competition, how can we outsell. Monkeys and primates could sell music. With Clear Channel [a radio and media conglomerate, since rebranded as iHeart-Media] it becomes like Soylent Green-people feeding people to people. We need to tell them that they keep trying to ram Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

This doesn't even need to be said but not taking a side is absolutely taking a side. Free Palestine. If that bothers you more than tons of dead children and a genocide then that's a "YOU" problem. And if you don't like that I said that you can just as easily unfollow me, block me and very leave. 🙃

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 17/09/2026

Robert Kraft is worth $15B To quell backlash for supporting Israel’s genocide & for canceling Macklemore, Kraft is donating $2M to “the region.” That’s 0.0133% of $15B—the equivalent of a working class American donating $16. Ya—16 whole dollars. What an insultingly lame PR strategy. #FreePalestine

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 15/09/2026

Nine Inch Nails' debut single "Down In It" was released on this day in 1989. If you've never seen it, this 1991 "Hard Copy" segment is a hilarious piece of lore about a camera lost during the filming of the music video that resulted in the FBI launching a murder investigation:

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NIN "Down In It" report on "Hard Copy," March 3rd 1991

"Hard Copy" report on how a mishap during the filming of Nine Inch Nails' "Down In It" video became an FBI murder investigation.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bands retroactively quitting the tour loool

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

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Emily Barney @sundaesmilemily.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m going to have to remember to wear bug spray to work tomorrow, because I keep getting bitten by mosquitoes and there’s one of those stable flies in here, too. WTF. #chicagosummer

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A week from today, I'm hosting a Reveal screening of RED ROOMS @davistheater.bsky.social with a virtual Q&A with director Pascal Plante. Many sickos have already bought tickets, so I'd advise acting fast. What a picture! davistheater.com/movies/red-r...

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Red Rooms

We see you, and you are obscene.

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33rd Ward Working Families @33rdwardworking.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Join us Saturday to canvass for our #TaxTheRich slate! We will have FREE CHILDCARE ON SITE. Collect signatures for our champions in Chicago's February Elections. Get out the vote for our School Board candidates in November. Every Saturday, 11AM 3248 W Montrose Ave RSVP: bit.ly/Rossana33Sat...

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ICE has been active in multiple NW side Chicago neighborhoods this morning; reports, w/ corroborating video, of detainments in Portage Park, Albany Park and Jefferson Park. Reports of activity in Pilsen from around ~9:20 a.m., but posted around ~10 a.m. so unclear if agents are still in the area.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass!

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

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jes @jwolfe73.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There is another stuck bridge

Today 6:21PM
Notify Chicago
Emergency Alert:
Torrence Avenue Bridge stuck in the up position due to the heat. Please seek alternate route.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A group of major medical organizations released recommendations this morning for Covid, flu and RSV vaccination, including guidance for the general population as well as specifics for children, people over 65, pregnant people and immunocompromised people. Here's a guide.

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Your Guide to Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Vaccines This Fall (Gift Article)

Major medical groups released new recommendations on who should get the shots, citing a lack of strong guidance from the federal government.

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m happy for you if you don’t know the fear of armed goons rodding through your neighborhood in giant SUVs, brutalizing and abducting your neighbors at random. It wrecks your whole fucking day living through it even on the periphery and we should never become complacent.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Can't help but think of this hiker-rescue story I saw earlier today

The USFS said the climbers told them they had used an artificial intelligence platform, YouTube videos and AllTrails to plan the trip. They said they relied on Al to decide what food to bring and how much food and water they would need.

The group said it packed supplies for an eight-hour climb, not its roughly 16-hour ascent. The climbers said Al recommended simple carbohydrates instead of fats because fats "take too long to digest."

"We relied too much on Al rather than our own critical thinking," the group told rangers.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 02/09/2026

After our trip to the Gaza-Egypt border last year, @merkley.senate.gov & I released a report entitled, "The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians." Now the Israeli Min of Defense confirmed that's the goal. We must end our complicity.

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Israel ‘organised and prepared’ to remove Gaza population if US gives green light, Katz says

Israel is "organised and prepared" to remove Palestininians from Gaza "by every way possible", Defence Minister Israel Katz told reporters Wednesday, adding that there was no alternative "solution" to...

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Toscha 🍂 @poemless.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Me every time I return from outside now:

Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs talking about the lambs screaming.

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HBO MaXXXinoparsnip @dekkoparsnip2.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Saturday! It's been a tough week for celebrity deaths, so join me for a stream that celebrates their lives! It's six hours of Dolly, Tim Curry, Peter Cullen and more! Don't go on some Jaye P. Morgan chase for your entertainment, join us on 9/5 starting at 7pm at app.kosmi.io/room/@dekkop...!

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

August. Shit. 96 films for a 2026 total of 668. Best first watches: MORGIANA and FERAT VAMPIRE, both by Juraz Herz; Casper Kelly's BUDDY; COYOTE VS. ACME.

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 01/09/2026

If you come across a clanker jam like this, toss them into the street where they belong

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Chicago in Pop Culture @chicagopopculture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Drawing Inspiration: How Chris Ware Sees Chicago, 2021. School of the Art Institute of Chicago Magazine.

Chris Ware illustration of Chicago, 2021, arranged as a mosaic of city scenes and everyday details, including the Sears Tower, Tribune Tower, Wrigley Building, elevated train structures, three-flats, storefronts, traffic lights, alleys, street furniture, food, snowdrops, and quiet domestic interiors, rendered in Ware’s precise geometric style and muted blues, grays, and brick reds.

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