CyberGriffin

Light: What? NO! That name doesn't even have a Dingbat or an Ampersand!

*Ryuk laughs in the background*

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-...

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school and find that their parents are gone.

Anne Frank

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secret mission to find out what dino wants for his bday 🐥🎁🦕

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”

What are we doing?

“This is how you’re allowing them to treat the people taking care of our babies”

We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.

She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.

The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.

The only explanation I know came from a BBC 8th Doctor novel, Legacy of the Daleks.

i am surprised that the president saying he is going to defy court orders in order to starve americans didn‘t provide the gop a bigger last-minute boost

Two overlapping spiral galaxies, IC 2163 on the left and NGC 2207 on the right, against a backdrop of stars and distant galaxies. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

ESA/Webb (@esa.int) images (Oct 31, 2024)

IC 2163 and NGC 2207 are engaged in a cosmic dance, with increased star formation rates and a history of supernovae.

esawebb.org/images/weic2426a/

FUN FACT:

My favorite part of tonight's election results is that all three of the major trump endorsements (Ciattarelli, Miyares, and Cuomo) LOST bigly.

And trump handed out 53 down-ballot endorsements in New Jersey and Virginia. THEY ALL LOST.

Every. Last. One.

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.

Nero would be proud.

Godzilla Day!

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if you see this, quote skeet with a female anime character you love

A split image of the spiral galaxy NGC 628, showing observations from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope, highlighting dust and light contrast. Credit: NASA; ESA; CSA; STScI; Janice Lee (STScI); Thomas Williams (Oxford); PHANGS Team

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (Jan 29, 2024)

NGC 628, a face-on spiral galaxy, is depicted with contrasting views from #JamesWebb and #Hubble, highlighting the effects of dust on light.

flic.kr/p/2pv9AF7

A tweet from MAYRA (@LePapillonBlu2) includes a target emoji 🎯 and an image with bold white and black text on a soft green and gold background that reads: “At some point, being pro-life has to extend to kids that are actually living.”

I am pro-CHILD.

This is how it's done. Cut through all the crap. Like a knife through butter.

A dwarf irregular galaxy, I Zwicky 18, with two distinct starburst regions surrounded by brown dusty filaments, set against a backdrop of smaller galaxies. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, A. Hirschauer, M. Meixner et al.

ESA/Webb (@esa.int) images (Mar 26, 2024)

The James Webb Space Telescope captures I Zwicky 18, a dwarf irregular galaxy with two prominent starburst regions, shedding light on star formation in the early Universe.

esawebb.org/images/potm2403a/

Once again, political cartoons doing the work that the main stream media is failing to do. @mluckovich.bsky.social

A detailed image of NGC 4254, a spiral galaxy with a central blue haze and orange spiral arms. Credit: NASA; ESA; CSA; STScI; Janice Lee (STScI); Thomas Williams (Oxford); PHANGS team

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (Jan 29, 2024)

Webb's view of NGC 4254 reveals its intricate spiral structure and vibrant colors.

flic.kr/p/2pvfNQB

Bahahaha

RFK: Tylenol causes autism.
Tylenol: Do you have evidence? We can sue you.
RFK: Tylenol doesn't cause autism.

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I love the cup on the back, implying a second place setting.

A friend once threw a Masque of the Red Death party, with colored light bulbs in each room. I asked for the colors he'd use. I made big sashes of each color and hung them up in each room. I wore a basic black suit and changed the sashes any time I went into another room the entire night.

The Wambulace: Mobile Crying Post

He may need a ride on...

#Thugs