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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am comforted by the fact that as my golden years advance, I can look forward every year about this time to headlines saying, "Donald Trump Once Again Passed Over For Nobel Peace Prize."

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I really hate it when announcers refer to a player's hands as his "paws" ("Smith got a paw up there and blocked the field.goal try"). It's almost always said of a Black player, which is not a good look.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.

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Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029

High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Seen in swanky Lakewood-Balmoral this afternoon.

Beat-up white van with slogan hand-painted in blood red: "DEAD RATS 4 LOW PRICES," and hand-painted silhouette of dead rat lying on its back with legs in the air

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Beautiful morning for a ride by the lake, and I saw the whoo-woo lady on the LFT, which I take as a good luck sign.

A blue bicycle on its kickstand under a small tree next to Lake Michigan looking east.

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you're in Chicago at Halloween, don't miss Manual Cinema's performance of their fabulous, otherworldly take on "Frankenstein."

black and white photo advertisement for Manual Cinema's "Frankenstein," with a wide-eyed mad scientist about to generate the electrical connection that will reanimate the monster.

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Well, that's not a good time at all.

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

1000 more cops AND bringing Shotspotter back? Really grateful to Alexi G for letting me know straightaway not to even consider voting for him for Chicago mayor. A real time-saver!

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Absolutely outrageous incompetence by WSBA. Everyone responsible should be sacked, and emergency diploma privilege granted to everyone whose effort to sit the exam was frustrated.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/07/2026

not to come back to this again but i read the statement in full and once again, respectfully, DANG “We are not called to the legal minimum of hospitality. We are called to the radical welcome of the one who sought out the excluded and the overlooked.”

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

at least six cars driven by ice agents have been circling chicago’s austin neighborhood since 6:30 this morning, per local rapid response groups. at least one person has been abducted. www.facebook.com/share/p/1EaB...

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

we don't usually see each others' headers, but here's mine. quote post with yours (if you feel like it)

Image of play equipment in a children's playground on the shore of Lake Michigan (Lincoln Park, Chicago). The boats are made of concrete and rest on a padded blue rubber "sea."

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Apparently, the neighborhood spot where I usually fill up is now opting for the "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" approach.

Photo showing the sign at a Shell gas station, but the places where the gas prices would ordinarily be illuminated are all dark.

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Andrew Hertzberg @andhertz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

ICE in Albany Park again this morning, these motherfuckers

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Chicago Far North-siders: Expect traffic snarls this Thursday and Friday, including on DuSable Lake Shore Drive, due to the wake and honors funeral for CPD officer John Bartholomew. Take the CTA or ride your bike if possible (not just tomorrow and Friday, but always!).

Flyer distributed on the Far North Side of Chicago to alert residents to traffic disruptions expected on Thursday, May 7, and Friday, May 8, in the area of DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Sheridan Rd., and Bryn Mawr Ave., due to the wake and honors funeral planned for the late John G. Bartholomew, CPD officer recently killed in the line of duty.

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

post a picture of yourself from the past that puts you in a light people on here wouldn't expect

A man (me) in snowshoes pausing beside a trail through the Indiana Dunes, on a snowy but brightly sunlit day when there had been about 8" of fresh snow. The man is wearing a blue windbreaker, a knit cap with flaps over the ears, sunglasses, gray gloves, and black snow pants, and is leaning on two ski poles.

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Anyone mistakenly inferring from my profile pic that I'm one of those Roman Statue Guys, pls note: it's the statue of Young Lincoln in Chicago's Senn Park (near our home), locally known as "Sexy Lincoln" (see attached t-shirt image I created for my wife), and I intend its use as gently self-mocking.

composite image: photo of statute of young Abraham Lincoln superimposed on photo of Chicago's Edgewater Beach Apartments, with caption "EDGEWATER" and pink heart containing the text, "Home of SEXY Lincoln."

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The only winning move is not to play. edroso.substack.com/p/sotu-what-...

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SOTU What?

Give it up already. The State of the Union is Bullshit.

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Sam Fels But Who's Buyin'? @felsgate.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I'm one of a select few who would attempt a serious piece under a picture of Hacksaw. This is why I'm going nowhere. Anyway, it's a pretty scrambled thinker on where I am with all of the Team USA stuff, and the Team USA stuff to come this summer. sam-fels-but-whos-buying.ghost.io/who-gets-to-...

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Who Gets To Wave The Flag?

Hockey gonna Hockey, as a great man (Jason Goff) used to say. For sports fans like me, it's a pretty interesting, or tiring, stretch over the next few months. Those of us that love, or at least claim...

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Citizen Slain @shanesheehy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Look at my lawyer dawg I'm going to jail

Reddit ad for an "artificial intelligence lawyer"

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 17/02/2026

HAPPY PACZKI DAY

Four Paczkis, polish donuts eaten on fat Tuesday.

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

My wife and I celebrated our traditional Chicago Valentine's Day, by gunning down seven Irishmen in a dirty North Side garage.

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dropkickCHARNEL @dropkick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards

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Grateful Dad @tmartinsmith.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Here’s one #Apple should load for free. #FreeMinneapolis

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 07/01/2026

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The Hawks can mothball these black jerseys anytime, thanks.

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Seen on a corner in Edgewater (Chicago).

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Sign for today's action outside the Peterson Target in Chicago

Sign reading "Target helps ICE kidnap your neighbors"

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

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SpookyLaggy @idiotlaggy.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Its officially that time.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This is nowhere close to being true. Two @ij.org clients are citizens who were arrested & @propublica.org found 168 more. Plus, we have witness statements from others who--like most of the citizens caught up by Noem's tactics--didn't have their arrests recorded so they didn't make the news.

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It's like our signs from "No Kings" -- "unpaid protestor," "I hate him for free." Anybody who'd join ICE doesn't need the $50K come-on. They'll put a knee on a man's neck from sheer love of the game.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

@govpritzker.illinois.gov, @jbpritzker.bsky.social How about it, Governor? Constituents like me are waiting for your response. If you are genuinely committed to free peaceful protest, you have to put the ISP on the sidelines at Broadview -- not standing shoulder to shoulder w/ ICE & CBP.

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 02/10/2025

Seriously. Fuck these fascists. Join a No Kings protest on October 18 and stand up for our rights and our democracy.

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no kings

Seriously. Fuck these fascists. Join a No Kings protest on October 18 and stand up for our rights and our democracy.

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Vandy Beth Glenn @vandybethglenn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I'm a transgender keynote speaker. Please hire me for your event! I give versions of this talk of any length, up to an hour or more. vandy.beth.glenn@gmail.com Bluesky: @vandybethglenn.bsky.social Instagram: @vandybethglenn LinkedIn: vaglenn youtu.be/tr9DaH4eTyc?...

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Keynote Sample

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Yeah this is very, very worth your time today!

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Rob Owen @townthattoddled.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Count us out on Tubby's big push.

Modified Chicago flag image, with black "HANDS OFF" in upper white field and black "CHICAGO" in lower white field, with these two fields separated by two horizontal light-blue lines, which between them have four red six-pointed stars arrayed in a horizontal line.

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