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I would like the AI bubble to collapse soon because I really need a proper desk chair and I’d like to get a super-cheap refurbed Aeron from an office liquidator.

Lula Goes HARD

oh you made the computer sound like a guy? it can summarize answers really fast? well life-giving liquid just falls out of the sky and a delicious tomato can just appear magically out of dirt. id say "but your thing is cool too" but id be lying. your thing is dumb as fuck compared to a tomato

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Democrats didn't even run on it.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

not perfect grammar, always perfecting timing, the mike stands for money and the d is for diamonds

Wacker Drive officially opened 100 years ago today. Gift link to my Chicago Tribune story:

When this is all over, we need a GoFundMe for Aaron Rupar to go to filth detox and a mental health resort.

I waved back at someone waving at the person behind me so I walked past them pretending I was waving at someone much farther away but who is also invisible.

Go to your camera and search “boat” and post one that you like

Marvel and Disney have announced that Avengers: Doomsday has been "scrapped" after a screening for executives who "can't make heads or tails of this [film]" citing reasons such as "too many of these god [like] guys" who spend the movie "running around talking nonsense for four [frustrating] hours."

Illini Maiden, Shoot Out in Gurney Mills, Can't See Downer's Grove From Here, There's Still A Lot of Love (In Melrose Park)

Ever throw a slightly spoiled fruit into the woods for the deer? Feels good. It's Recall Thursday.

Forget about Pooh ... The Hundred Acre Wood is One Hundred Years Old today

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I've spent the afternoon working at a small Chicago Public Library branch with a diverse population of non-native English speakers, confused teens, lonely elderly who long to chat, and a few personal hygiene challenged, and I am coming here to say that these librarians are SAINTS. #respect

before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC

here’s one for ya, @chicagotree.bsky.social ~ Keeler just north of Lawrence, majestic, just starting to turn

I have been inside 129 Illinois public libraries and don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this in Sterling: three-story stacks with glass floors to let in more light, original to the 1904 Carnegie building.

it's real, i'm a brand partner

"Yes, I understand the monkey had a gun; but the monkey isn't the problem - whoever gave him that gun is..."

devastated pronounced like demonstrative. but only if you pronounce demonstrative the way i do

Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

📷 Masons build a headhouse for the Calumet intercepting sewer system on the west bank of the Calumet River on June 13, 1923. 📽 Learn how the MWRD improves the water environment on our next virtual tour on October 13 ⬇️ https://mwrd.org/education/tours/virtual-tours

Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

working from home

Nestled amongst the Go Fund Me’s for sick children, victims of fire and dying mothers is my campaign to buy myself an expensive desk chair . Pitch in! Explore your own selfishness through supporting mine gofund.me/d9a0b04be

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British comics artist/editor/writer Paul Neary created this splendid strip cover for January 6th 1977’s New Scientist.

🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “I’m a capitalist. We don’t live in capitalism. We live in corporate socialism.”

2026: it's fine to ride a dirtbike off a couple of grams of shrooms and one (1) tallboy

I usually haven't enjoyed a lot of the actual stories Clamp has written, but their skill at drawing a comic page still something to be studied. Check out this ambitious 8 panel comic page, which still manages to read easily. Leading the eye is an art in and of itself!