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Just want to remind people that Affinity exists, Affinity is free, and Affinity is AWESOME! (not sponsored)
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The aftermath of buying out a tamale vendor on Clark

Have posted almost once a day since I got bsky (on average, joined June 18, 2024)!

Just fyi, tear gas is less effective in winter...

Yep, saw someone on reddit who has made 60k so far with donations from the community. I've made some myself to hand out from the free little library

We don’t have to choose — we can win the midterms *AND* build a Democratic Party that actually fights for us: indivisible2026.org/?utm_source=bluesky

Good, I was getting kinda worried. Maybe he just needed two days' break for cooking up this joke

If I ever make a song and someone uses it for the most genuinely low-effort, low quality YouTube short- 😑

Yeah, we all wanna know, but why would they draw attention back to it if not just a distraction?

MMM
(Music Me Up)

**assuming his data was self hosted and not on Bluesky's servers, but that goes back to the no good alternatives thing

Also the beautiful thing about Bluesky is that if there were any spinoffs also using AT Proto, he would still be there. Sadly, we don't have any
I don't condone his behavior (pedophile apologizers are a problem tho), people don't need to be acting like we're becoming Twitter. It's basic moderation.

Not a bailout. Transit should be funded and doesn't need to turn a profit

No, thank you! For blessing my eyes on this wonderful day

This is something I need to see.

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive | TechCrunch Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restored f...

We're trying to revive the original dream of Vine. techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/j...

The point of it this time is that it's open source and you control your own account and can run your own servers, so we can't shut it down.

You can read the emails yourself:

Trump is in the files.

He "knew about the girls."

He spent time with the victims.

He was involved in the coverup.

He was "the dog that hasn't barked."

The government can no longer be complicit in this coverup. Release the files.

Chicago Loves Local campaign aims to prop up neighborhood businesses

The new initiative aims to get more Chicagoans to shop local and support shops from the North Side to the far South East Side near Indiana.

A coup d'état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/ ⓘ; French: [ku deta] ⓘ; lit. 'stroke of state'),[1] or simply a coup,[2] is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent person or leadership.[3][4] A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay in power through illegal means.[4] General Napoleon Bonaparte during the Coup of 18 Brumaire in Saint-Cloud, detail of painting by François Bouchot, 1840 By one estimate, there were 457 coup attempts from 1950 to 2010, half of which were successful.[3] Most coup attempts occurred in the mid-1960s, but there were also large numbers of coup attempts in the mid-1970s and the early 1990s.[3] Coups occurring in the post-Cold War period have been more likely to result in democratic systems than Cold War coups,[5][6][7] though coups still mostly perpetuate authoritarianism.[8]

A soft coup, sometimes referred to as a silent coup, is an illegal overthrow of a government. Unlike a classical coup d'état, it is achieved without the use of military force.[1] Definition The concept of a soft coup as a strategy is attributed to the American political scientist Gene Sharp, a Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, who has been a theorist and author of works on the dynamics of nonviolent conflict. He studied the potential to spark, guide, and maximize the power of sometimes short-lived mass uprisings, as he tried to understand how unarmed insurrections have been far more politically significant than observers focused on military warfare have cared to admit.[2] According to Axel Kaiser, a Chilean lawyer member of the Mises Institute, the soft coup is often part of a conspiracy theory used by Latin American populists who seek the centralization of power but do so under the pretense of improving democracy. Kaiser argues that the Latin American leaders' rationale is that democracy should be a system where the general will must be absolute, and that the populist leader describes himself as the representative of the general will by virtue of having been elected by the people. Kaiser says that these leaders feel that the will of the leader equals the general will, and that any limits on the will of the leader would be also a limit to the general will itself.[3] In this scenario, opposition to the leader is treated as an act against democracy, justifying persecution of the opposition, forced nationalizations and limits to the freedom of the press.[4] This notion of democracy is opposed to the one traditionally held in the United States, which considers that rulers must have limits to their power;[4] it also conflicts with minority rights.[5] Several military coups took place in South America during the 20th century, in particular during the Cold War. There is a perception of tho…

City Hall mulls deep cuts to domestic violence programs as funding dries up

The end of federal COVID money could mean a 43% reduction in city spending for domestic violence aid as fatal attacks jump. Mayor Brandon Johnson has tied future funding for programs to his proposed corporate head tax, which faces City Council opposition.

Hi

Start cooking, y'all

We just wanted to say thank you to everyone! ICE agents keep lying under oath, and you’re the reason the truth is coming out.

Your videos and documentation have been crucial in revealing the truth behind those claims.

Not a bailout

ATTN: If you were on the Sandwich Guy jury and you'd like to chat, my Signal is in my bio. I'll keep you anonymous! Please share this post!

Yes. Obviously. It's money. It's always money.

Have Chicago’s top arts organizations fulfilled their diversity pledges? Many won’t say. Five years ago, the murder of George Floyd sparked a rallying cry for change, with arts groups vowing to diversify their staffs and boards. A recent WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times survey takes measure of progress.

Five years ago, the murder of George Floyd sparked a rallying cry for change, with arts groups vowing to diversify their staffs and boards. A recent WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times survey takes measure of progress.