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I took some pictures from around the town.

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Please add banana for scale.

CAUTION Bee

Enjoy hell! Smile and laugh more!

It did indeed.

Hey, I remember that class. It's both pre and post WW2 since I remember the war ends during the events of the book.

This IS indeed very much worth reading.

[Gift article]

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Pretty sure the comic I'm currently working on can double as a guide on what to do and not do in an interview.

Most locally-oriented Japanese real estate sites still look like this.

"giddy up jingle horse" sounds like a slur.

You will never guess what this is in reference to.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Full disclosure: I have worked at Microsoft and have built multiple "wizard" menus for applications.

I don't know, one is 10 button presses and the other is 8...

This appeared in my feed right next to this: bsky.app/profile/retr...

Perhaps a √, not a ✓

"Quick! Get to the safety of the large white room!"

without additional context, at first i thought this was about Jane Goodall

No one has ever see a shutdown like this. Senators came to him, big manly men who didn't cry when their mothers died, with tears in their eyes, saying Sir...

Found a counterfeit Starbucks on Google Maps, lol. Honestly, I wish I could visit it. maps.app.goo.gl/TsyzE6mBzWkC...

"うん。無理" -> "yeah, nope"

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Sci-Fi Cold Opening - Saturday Night Live YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

FYI: "May divorce be with you" was used in an SNL skit youtu.be/35n6Ya-dW-4?...

I let a goat from my local zoo run SQL commands against prod without protection and it nuked my data

The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

The original meme for reference. Also, you can claim it for yourself by calling 高信 Real Estate at this number, I suppose. Anyone want to pay me to open a Michaelsoft Binbows memorial museum/shrine?

Today I made a pilgrimage to the old Michaelsoft Binbows building.