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Sylvan Apostate

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Absurdist || Restoration Ecologist || Writer Musician aka Animal Laughter alpha.subvert.fm/animallaughter animalaughter.bandcamp.com IG: @animallaughtermusic Chicago-based

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
The US has a long history of suffering and death as public spectacle and the administration has been tapping into that vein of US tradition since their return.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
White people attended public lynchings in droves and had picnics with their children there. I mean, PLEASE.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 08/10/2026
Brutal scenes coming out of Lochiel, Arizona tonight. Border Patrol is moving a truck with a land defender locked to it while firing off pepper balls and tear gas: instagram.com/reel/DeODKqCt_BS/
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Things that come out of the grass
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...
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The Most Unlovable Man in New York City
On being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:
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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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Four panel comic. Panel 1: two guys playing basketball outside. Guy 1 looks off to the side and asks, “is someone in the window?” Panel 2: a creepy ghost woman stands in the upstairs window of a house, watching them. Panel 3: Guy 2 calls up to the creepy ghost, “you wanna hoop?” Panel 4: the ghost is outside playing basketball with them. She bricks a shot from the free throw line. Guy 2 says, “that’s H-O-R.”
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nothing is a cognitohazard. You are just mentally gumptionless.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again
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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Whoa
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie.
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Sylvan Apostate @sylvanapostate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘We’re near a breaking point:’ firefighters say US government is failing them amid intense wildfire season
US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fire
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 09/09/2026
Chicago-area members of Congress have asked DHS's Inspector General to investigate a "severe pattern of incidents of excessive force" by ICE and CBP agents. The letter heavily cites our recent report on an increasingly violent group of agents we tracked across Chicago, Minnesota, and Virginia.
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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Its almost jean jacket season. The jean jacket is a unifying force. It brings us together. The workin man, the rockers, the punks, the girlies, the baddies, and lets not forget, good old fashioned sluts god bless em
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 07/09/2026
i think the bare minimum for trans politics is dropping association w/ your assigned sex. this can mean not having a sex at all, this can mean that your sex is neither male nor female but nonbinary, this can mean you're changing sex, etc. it requires no medical
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I got their press alert an hour ago and figured, these are good kids. Surely I've got one more story in me tonight.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 01/09/2026
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 31/08/2026
Nine police officers fired dozens of bullets at a 67-year-old Black man in Gary on Friday night. His family has no idea what happened:
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Family of security guard fatally shot by police in Gary, Indiana, left with questions
Indiana State Police said that on Friday night, officers were called to 4th and Broadway because Williams, who is an armed security guard, was acting unusually and erratically.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24/08/2026
Happening now: A crowd is gathering outside a Target parking lot off 33rd and Damen on Chicago's south side, in reaponse to ICE agents who appear to have been involved with some kind of car collision earlier today. Press, elected officials also on scene.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 19/08/2026
if we ever meet intelligent aliens our first question should be "so what kind of dumplings you guys got"
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is the case where over three dozen people, including journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, face conspiracy charge over a protest at a St. Paul church where an ICE official served(s?) as a pastor. It was prosecutorial misconduct before a grand jury that sank the Broadview Six case in Chicago
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Judge orders full review of grand jury materials in St. Paul church protest case
A federal judge has ordered prosecutors to turn over a broader set of grand jury materials for review in the case against 38 people charged in connection with a January anti-ICE protest at Cities Chur...
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18/08/2026
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026
New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
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Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Zoë Takaki @zoetakaki.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Nearly every day, federal immigration agents continue to violently detain Chicagoans. Today, rapid responders have already confirmed five ICE sightings and at least three detentions. This is most likely an undercount. Humboldt, Hermosa, Carol Stream, St. Charles and West Chicago were hit.
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día de les muertos @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Mi'kmaq homies being cool as hell as always
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
me: so in a way, instead of saying jellyfish have NO brain, you could say they're nothing BUT brain small son, immediately: PLEASE DO. PLEASE DO MAMA me: okay. they're nothing but brain small son: THANK YOU
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026
Anyway we are in the midst of a revolution right now. It’s a fascist revolution. From their perspective they are not simply destroying society, they are rebuilding it in their image. That’s why in order to combat it we must be revolutionary as well. Otherwise we’re just victims of their revolution.
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The whole Sophie Cunningham "the media needs to focus on my basketball" thing is such a fucking joke because WHAT FUCKING BASKETBALL YOU'RE A BENCH PLAYER WHOSE A FLUKY 3 POINT SHOOTER WHO CAN'T PLAY DEFENSE ON A TEAM OF REAL SHOOTERS WHO CAN'T PLAY DEFENSE YOU EXIST Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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zeet (irrigation engineer) @zeet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is an amazing descriptor
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2026
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris. (Published January)
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“We're Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk's Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 07/08/2026
the joy of being up at 2am and finding that the new mountain goats album dropped
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Reader, they hired me.
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Friends are telling me that they are re-occupying Willy St right now. This comes after police forcibly removed the protest encampment earlier today set-up at the intersection where a police officer murdered Corey Ruiz.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@emilystjams

Gender isn't binary, except for the two (2) shows about soccer. The boy show (Ted Lasso) is about what happens when boys play soccer (crying), and the girl show (Yellowjackets) is about what happens when girls play soccer (murder). Both shows are accurate.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo didn't deserve to die in a concentration camp. No one deserves to die in a concentration camp. Every single death at ICE's hands, every day this modern day gestapo and these modern day concentration camps exist, is a crime against every single one of us.
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gwen 🌶️👹 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 01/08/2026
damn this sure feels racist as fuck from the paper that treats teen takeovers as one of theost terrifying things possible
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Tribune editorial board approves of "teen takeovers" -- as long as the teens are white
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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