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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2h

CHICAGO STATIONERY LOVERS!!!! Scratch Pad, a new cat-themed stationery shop, just opened today in Wrigleyville!!! It’s full of stickers, pens, washi tape, and a million of other cute kitty desk necessities. I got sooo many Heater and Dragon-themed stickers: scratchpadchicago.com

A variety of kitty-themed notebooks and washi tapes !!!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2h

when i was a kid my teachers warned us not to click links on Wikipedia because it wasn't safe

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 1h

Sunset was a burner thanks to clouds from the remnants of Hurricane Isaias

A cotton-candy colored sunset (blues, magentas, and pink) over the Chicago skyline thanks to remnant clouds from Hurricane Isaias

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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 09/10/2026

Our team researched every one of the 61 Cook County judges up for retention so you don't have to. See what we found. buff.ly/2uB0Pxp

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Cook County November 2026 Judicial Election Guide

Injustice Watch's guide to the November 2026 Cook County judicial elections.

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's Wold Octopus Day. Remember to hug your octopus.

O is for Octopus: A screenprint done for a show of alphabet illustrations. A pink-purple octopus posed with its arms all curling around every which way, holding a gold letter 'O' inscribed with a tentacle design. At the bottom there's a human skull nestled within the arms.

CephaLovePod: A screenprint of a red octopus posing with its mantle and arms forming a valentine heart shape. It is wrapped around a harpoon in place of Cupid's arrow.

4 Limbs Bad... 8 Limbs Good.: A screenprint of an orange octopus on the bottom of a sea wrapped around and cradling a broken human femur and a skull. A banner bears the title of the piece.

Octopus Samurai: A screenprint of a pink-ish octopus wearing blue-green Japanese samurai armor and a helmet with a gold crab-shaped crest on the front. The octopus holds a katana in one arm, a wakizashi in another, and a naginata with two other arms.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/12/2025

FINALLY GOT IT! I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000. Over 20,000 the past month alone. Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away" In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare: Fish success story. 🪶

a pelican with their mouth open, and two fish are above to fall into their pouch, but one is above another and may take a path out

the pelicans mouth is closed, and there's a fish out

the pelican looks at the camera, miffed, the fish is far away from its head at this point

the pelican opens its beak and tries to go for it, but i can report back it failed, the fish was long gone

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Anaheim Ducks’ incredible organist Lindsay Imber played a rendition of A Cruel Angel’s Thesis from Evangelion during the Ducks’ home opener vs. the Florida Panthers www.instagram.com/reel/DeH0AXO...

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Sarah @writesaidsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Enjoy how much of my job is just getting yelled at by men who make more in a day than I do in a year, about situations that I have no control or sway over. Hope you felt real good getting snippy at someone who can’t actually make meaningful change, sir! Try yelling at your managing partners instead!

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Sarah @writesaidsarah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I need to drop everything and go to Portillos immediately

Screenshot of an email from Portillos advertising an Oreo cake shake, regular Oreo shake, and oreo cake.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The approved 2026 Chicago Public Library (CPL) total budget request is $169,257,813, which includes an operating budget of $103,966,346. [Just thought I would leave this here]

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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alison 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @bluishorange.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

they sell professional cheese now

my hand holding a label for a bag of babybel cheeses that says “babybel PRO.” the cheese wrappers are an unappetizing bluish purple color.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution. SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.

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After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botches the execution

SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Do you ever think about the British English names for music notation and get scared

The list of British names for note value: breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, and demisemiquaver

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

until chicago pope i don’t think i ever truly understood that the pope is like a guy

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Sadly Rutschman @flannelgoddess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh shit the White Sox are literally on a mission from God

Letter to Jerry Reinsdorf from the pope

I was pleased to receive the kind letter that you
sent
following the game that took place at Rate Field on August 11, 2026. I am most grateful for this thoughtful gesture.
As I have noted,
"sport can truly become a school of life,
where all can learn that abundance does not come from victory at any cost, but from sharing, from respecting others and from the joy of walking together" (Letter Life in Abundance, 6 February In this spirit, it is my hope that the White Sox will
continue to foster bonds of friendship and solidarity people, and thus bear hopeful witness to the possibility of living and working together in peace.
With
these sentiments, I willingly invoke the Almighty's
abundant blessings upon you and your loved ones.
From the Vatican, 9 September 2026
Leo PXIV

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azure ☃️ @zurrr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

good names on petfinder today

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

One great thing about having grown up watching Wishbone is that I can't read classic literature without picturing the show at least once. You're neck deep in Frankenstein, a story about a guy stitching body parts together, and you think "Awww, and he's stitching them with his widdle paws."

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3455 prefers the classics

Two bunnies are standing near a record player, and one starts to play their preferred record, "Something Else" by the Kinks. Next to him, the second bunny is miffed that she can't play her preferred record, "Room On Fire" by the Strokes.

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Kathoween III: Season of the Witch @burritomadness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think Oregon should just pass a bill saying the back of the flag is the front of the flag now. I love him, your honor

The back of the Oregon state flag,a yellow beaver on a blue background

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 26/09/2026

If you own 20+ flashlights, at a certain point you're probably running an unregistered lighthouse but we're not the lighthouse safety commission so keep up the good work.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 26/09/2026

They shouldn't have wasted the name Skye Rizzy on some drug that does whatever it does. That was meant to be the name of a teen celebrity who's famous for reasons I understand as little as I understand that drug

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pour some out for the steamers Philip R Clarke & Arthur M Anderson, some of the oldest freighters on the Great Lakes, now in long-term layup in Toledo, neither expected to sail again. The Anderson was the last ship in contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald. Photos by Lou Gerard & Altafest.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is one of those stories that drives home just how horrifying the current administration and its immigration policies / enforcement tactics are. It’s heartbreaking and stomach turning.

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 26/09/2026

yeah this guy is one of the top preventing-nuclear-war saints, followed closely behind by Renfrew Christie and co and a few handfuls of others, many we'll never learn about either due to secrecy or safety of their freedom

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 26/09/2026

queen victoria told me the northwest passage keeps eating her poorly planned expeditions so i asked how many expeditions she has and she said she just goes to the royal academy and gets a new afterwards so i said it sounds like shes just feeding ships to the ice and then prince albert started crying

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Sarah @writesaidsarah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Chicago pals, I have an extra ticket to see Top Gun Maverick with live score performed by the Chicago Philharmonic on Saturday night (at the Auditorium Theatre downtown) if anyone would like to watch the zoom zoom movie plus violins with me ✈️

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books

Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?

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Sarah @writesaidsarah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

RIP boots that were already falling apart anyway, you still didn’t deserve what Riot Fest did to you, you lived a worthy life

A pair of short lace up boots in a plastic bag. The boots are technically black but they are like 95% covered in mud.

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