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Had a conversation with someone over the weekend about the boardgame Don't Break the Ice, but now realize I was talking about the game Thin Ice.

I feel such the fool.

Watched A Complete Unknown. Bob Dylan is the villain. Pete Seeger and Joan Baez are the heroes. Dylan betrayed the movement

I know it's old news by now, but I have really enjoyed seeing all the Kraft signs come down around my neighborhood

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

@wutrain.bsky.social in your next term, I propose a new city initiative of increasing the number of public drinking fountains (hey restrooms, too, if you're feeling really ambitious). Out for a long run, and it's too hard to find a place to get a drink. Thanks!

Had a moment earlier where my vision went all wonky, like I couldn't see my peripherals at all, apparently tunnel vision? Perhaps caused by anxiety-induced fight-or-flight because my children kept yelling and hurting each other while I tried to cook dinner? Anyway lorazepam works

Tits out, fingers in butts, blowing rails, picking cortlands right off the branch

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

But ... but NYT said

Pics or I didn't happen

Local brewing observation: picked up Dorchester Brewing's festbier, and feel like uh the head retention is better? Like, used to disappear like foam on a soda, but fluffier and lingering now.

Anyway, another good local fall beer

u guys seemed pretty sure just a little while ago tbh

A lot of lone nuts with no coherent political philosophy seem to be very closely related to one specific political philosophy

kirk was killed by a dropout engineering student afflicted by brainrot but to the free press that is no reason not to slander the nation’s institutions of higher education

Reasons to be wary of Southie have changed a lot over the decades but generally better off if you don't spend too much time there

Hey that's a good place for a couple beers and a pizza

My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.

My guess is that his threat to prosecute feds who violate the rights of Chicagoans did it. Every D governor and AG should be making the same promise.

Now he can stop pretending he lives in Boston and go home to the suburbs

But none of this means we need to pretend Charlie Kirk wasn't a hateful piece of shit.

Fucking ridiculous I have to walk by flags at half mast for this asshole.

And he was a hateful piece of shit who had people in his life who loved him, and I feel sad for them, especially his children, who did not yet understand their father was a hateful piece of shit, they just knew he was dad. I have enough basic humanity that I am honestly tearing up a bit right now...

Charlie Kirk was a hateful piece of shit.

Should be have been murdered because of that?

No, obviously not, and everyone, all sides should condemn violence in all forms...

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff

Everyone: oh, like what?

Every centrist hagiographer: very important things

Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?

Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

US rightwing group targets academics with Professor Watchlist Turning Point USA’s list gains fresh attention after it expands and some notice it disproportionately names academics of color

You people trying to rewrite the history of who Charlie Kirk was are pathetic. He used his organization to bully, dox and attack people he didn't agree with. Free speech my ass. He was one of the worst aspects of American politics. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

9/11 is a great time to remember that the imperial power will seize on any opportunity to do what it was going to do anyway, especially if it gets to do it under the gaudy pagentry of being the Aggrieved

imagine working at a post office this week and somebody asks why the flags are at half staff and nobody knows who the hell it's for because nobody in this conversation spends 22 hours a day on the internet

Wild. The political murders of legislators in Minnesota were “killings.” The shooting of Kirk which cause is unknown is an “assassination.”

They bend the knee without even being asked.

On Fox News, the anchor Will Cain choked up on-air as he read aloud President Trump's announcement of the death of Charlie Kirk. "I don't know where we go from here as a news program," Mr. Cain told viewers, "and I don't know where we go from here in America." Megyn Kelly, streaming live on YouTube, was tearful even before the news was confirmed, sobbing with her guest, Glenn Beck of The Blaze. She described Mr. Kirk as a friend who supported her even when her relations with the MAGA world were strained. "I am so sorry to be bringing you this news," Ms. Kelly told her audience. Later

They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

Oct 12, 2022 - Screen grab of a tweet from Jason Campbell: Still from the Charlie Kirk show Charlie speaking. Underneath the quote from Charlie reads a quote from Charlie’s broadcast that day: “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage.”

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