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la pigeonne

@thebadassonance.bsky.social
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Chicagoan. Aspiring toward a future with in-unit laundry. I block bots.

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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It is a nice thing on weekends when the pace is more relaxed and the neighborhood’s elders are pottering around and you exchange a nod and a “good morning!”, something I fear my own generation does not appreciate.
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Telkei @telkei2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We don't hate the rich enough
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
gadgetreview.com
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Completing the retaining-judges part of my ballot is exhausting. I’m pacing it out over several days.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My pet peeve too, Marnie!!
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Things that come out of the grass
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is why I'm so in favor of accessory commercial units. Just getting people in the US used to **walking** for a cup of coffee or a sandwich in the neighborhood may finally do something to rid Americans of our terminal car brain.
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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think a lot about how we currently live in the utopia imagined by the dreadful midcentury lawmakers who wrote codes like this—dominated by cars and highways, neighborhoods sapped of people and commerce, everything segregated to oblivion—and how we can and should put all their ideas in the trash
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A coyote checking out some tombstones.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good morning, Happy Sunday. Don’t do this
A front yard in Chicago: a large bush swathed in that fake spiderweb crap that traps birds and other critters
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Carrot “lox” is gross; don’t try it.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, as a child. Off panel, someone says to her, “Enjoy your youth!”
The second panel shows child Sarah again, now frowning. The person off panel continues, saying “After you’re 30 you’ll be old and your life will basically be over.”
Before the last two panels there is text that reads “LIFE AFTER I TURNED 30.”
The third panel shows adult Sarah opening a door.
The fourth panel shows the door opens to a beautiful field with flowers, a rainbow, and a pond. Sarah says “Wait what.”
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows a brain. The brain is saying "I'm 30 and YOUNG! I only recently fully developed!"
The second panel shows a heart. The heart says "I hear ya! I can keep going for DECADES more!"
The third panel shows a spine's face. It weakly says, "I am old".
We zoom out and the spine is using a walker. It continues, "so very old".
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exquisite autumnal light at Horner this morning. Notice the monarch flutterbyes convening up all high lately? Think they must be planning their group flights to Mexico. So magical, and it’s heartening to see so many.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/09/2026
"The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven."
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ChatGPT or whatever AI you use is not some oracle. Use your brain.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Saw a very sneaky-looking coyote, an egret, and many butterflies*, geese and ducks, all in the city proper. Excellent wildlife flaneusing at home this weekend. Urbs in horto indeed. *One of said butterflies eclosed on the deck of my very own hovel.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nothing is sacred to these money hoarders
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Surely some smartie journalist has already written a piece about how the preponderance of spam calls and texts today only fuels the paranoia of our senile elders like my mom.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reposting as reminder to self to try the app
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Democracy takes many forms, and giving the bus its own lane so 40 people on a bus can sail by a handful of people driving alone in private cars is one of them.
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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is how they are ending our elections @wajali.bsky.social @msignorile.bsky.social @deanobeidallah.bsky.social @joesudbay.bsky.social
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Seriously messed up. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/u... “Fitting ankle monitors on noncitizens w/o a criminal history who remain in compliance with their immigration cases has little precedent…. [They] will make it easier for federal authorities to locate immigrants if full-scale deportations begin.”
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In Ohio, Haitians Feel Shaken by Ankle Monitors and Increased ICE Presence (Gift Article)
The devices, which will make it easier for authorities to locate immigrants in Springfield if large-scale deportations begin, have intensified a sense of dread.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Something we all know: Health insurers go making the most arbitrary declarations about what is not medically necessary. And they definitely think we’re all “disposable” after a certain age.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The audio lead-in to this on @wbez.org has been something like, “Commuting in Illinois is going to cost more.” Yes. If you drive. That bit of clarification would’ve been useful. www.wbez.org/transportati...
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Illinois Tollway OKs first rate hike in nearly 15 years
The 45-cent increase for passenger vehicles is expected to raise around $1 billion a year for construction projects. The potential hike was allowed under a provision of the state's new transit funding...
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 16/08/2026
The reason I've gone more left in recent years is that I previously accepted that we simply couldn't afford decent cheap housing, heavily subsidised transport, a universal basic income, etc. Then in 20 years in politics I saw what we actually could afford. And it's a lot. It's just never for you.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Page One in Arizona: the shrinking Colorado River 😞
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Herons and goldfinches and barn swallows, oh my. Also: mushrooms
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This reporter has called it Hurricane Lulu and Hurricane Lula. It is neither.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Illinoisans, Chicagoans do not send enough hate towards Northwestern
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Can’t imagine having to sit in front of screens the whole workweek and then choosing to sit in a car all weekend. Best way to see any city worth its salt is on foot.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/08/2026
Reduce police budgets. Increase social services.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trib intern has an excellent piece on how the weakened Endangered Species Act could hurt Midwest wildlife. Migrating birds need protections at *both* their locales. www.yahoo.com/news/science... Would share a @chicagotribune.com URL if their site stopped incorrectly saying I’m not a subscriber….
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From piping plovers to dragonflies, federal changes could threaten endangered Midwest wildlife
As temperatures hovered around 80 degrees and few clouds obscured a bright blue sky, many people took the opportunity to enjoy a summer day last week at Montrose Beach. Children dug holes in the sand....
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"'AI is adverse to the idea of learning. An educational institution should be focused more on teaching us than making us ready for a job. I’m not measuring my success on a billionaire’s mindset. I want education for the sake of education. I want to learn.’” ht: Dagmar Monett
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As Colorado universities align with ChatGPT, student AI resisters take a stand against the ‘plagiarism machine’
“The majority of my participants flat out don’t think AI has a place in education,” said Mirakle Wright, a CU graduate student who is studying resistance to artificial intelligence.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Then there was (is?) this terrible moment where writers are for some reason called content designers. *Come on!*
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The tech that young ppl generally embrace is stuff that helps them rebel, allows greater self-expressivity, creates a shared generational vernacular. AI ain't it. In fact AI corrals new thinking into stale, billionaire-owned algorithmic patterns that are the opposite. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Usually, Young People Embrace New Technology. Gen Z's Attitude Toward AI Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry
Gen Z is increasingly skeptical about AI, according to a new survey, because of its perceived negative impact on humanity.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So sick of my government wasting their energies on petty stuff like this against a good man who looked out for us all instead of what actually matters www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
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Trump Live Updates: Senate Committee Holds Fauci in Contempt for Refusing to Answer Covid Questions
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bagel shops should offer labneh to their schmear menus.
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Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · 20/07/2026
We designed cities for cars, and we wonder why nobody walks anymore. It’s like draining the lake and wondering where the fish went.
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natalia barbour, phd @nataliabarbour.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Let’s un-normalize the: “Did you walk here?” [stare] When it is referring to a 15 min walk in a light rain or a little hot weather. Because yes, we did.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
So a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Defend universal mail service. Tell your senators the Post Office deserves governors with postal expertise—not corporate restructuring resumés. Urge them to reject Jeffrey Brodsky and William Gallo. actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
actionnetwork.org
Demand the Senate Reject Trump's Postal Board of Governors Nominees Now. Stop USPS Privatization. Election Interference Schemes. Price Hikes and Service Slowdowns.
Trump nominated four candidates for the USPS Board of Governors in an attempted takeover of the cherished public institution that is older than the nation itself. And he knows good and well USPS is re...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Mgmt installed new machines in our garden-level laundry room. Analog dials are apparently outmoded, so we now have to walk up a few steps and exit to the outdoors to choose a machine in the app, and then run back inside to hit “Start“ on the machine itself. We live in the most absurd of times.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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la pigeonne @thebadassonance.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
act.betterstreetschicago.org/cmap-dlsd-ac...
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Tell CMAP to hit the brakes on 'Redefine the Drive!' - Better Streets Chicago
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