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TIL that when the @andnxor.bsky.social badge mentions chip clips they don’t mean the things to hold a bag of chips closed.

I was really confused why/how someone had a special chip clip. I’ll be inventing something very jank as a substitute now.

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.

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is playing on repeat at my school. Surprised that’s the only thing so far today.

How do they not get that people are going to die?

I’m so glad technology has progressed. Downloading one game over a slow internet connection is much better than waiting 50 minutes for Disc 1 to install, then having to catch the prompt to put in Disc 2.

Today’s random project. Saw this at an estate sale and couldn’t pass up the awesome shiny box.

If InstallShield ever works I might be able to share photos of the game too.

“I have a lightsaber and you don‘t. Ha ha!”

Lightsaber fight 2.0 is starting.

Update: the potential president of the hall is sledding down in one of the large orange traffic cones.

Reports of the fun police have also come in.

First snow of the season. Lightsaber fights and Christmas music blasting. Also one dude skidding (intentionally) down the hill in what appears to be crocs.

We have snow, sledders, and a few brave carolers (they’re actually in tune!).

Sorry I’ll log off now.

This was not a category of photos I thought I had.

Some of these may be stolen.

Had more of these than I was expecting.

The Linux users here make their presence known.

Smelly’s life must be so fascinating.

Met someone with a tattoo of Johnny Cash today. I was the first to identify him correctly the first time. Past guesses included Elvis (fair, similar hair), Ray somebody (jazz maybe?) and others.

Someone else guessed it was Elon Musk. I need a moment to cry somewhere.

TIL Hughesnet exists, and is not just multiple people mispronouncing Usenet.

Whoops.

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

That was the one random thing I looked forward to each day. And now…

The utter betrayal of thousands of us.

WE HAVE SNOW!!! THISIS NOT A DRILL, WE HAVE SNOW!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉

I also may just be funny insane. I’ve microwaved a hamster and tried holding heated socks to the badge. Neither got expected results.

Does anyone have tips on removing battery holders? I‘m unable to use a soldering iron at the moment, and trying to pull the holder straight up form the metal is not working.

#defcon #defcon33 #hardware

Currently discovering
a) there’s a really good reason stand mixers were invented
b) bagel dough is a brick and is not fun to mix by hand