Laughing Whale

rainy mood #pixelart

It’s very much “pissing on the poor” tumblr vibes.

Scenes From the Occupation As the feds cracked down on immigration in Chicago this fall, filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz’s camera was rolling. These stills and footage show a city in crisis — and a city defiant.

Low-intensity warfare is uncanny. We continue to go to work, bring kids to school, shop for groceries, etc. But our everyday routines are punctuated by random episodes of spectacular violence; war as a way of life.

Cook County Board Reapproves Contract with ICE-Linked Data Firm as Raids Sweep Chicago Four years after first being warned that a contract risked exposing immigrant data to ICE, Cook County approved another renewal—this time with advocates commissioners voicing frustration that stronger...

I’ve been tracking this contract since 2023, and last week, Cook County quietly renewed it. As ICE raids continue across Chicago, the board approved another $1M deal with a data broker tied to ICE. My latest for @southsideweekly.bsky.social

Rihanna needs to give lessons in walking on grates haha

Edward Burra (British, 1905-1976) - Dancing Skeletons (1934)

Highlighting fantastic palaeoartists:

渔火 on xiaohongshu, a mixed-medium artist from China. Magical depictions of theropods. Pictures are panels from their Spinosaurus comic.

This is obviously gutter bigotry but it’s wild that a nominal Democrat is using “he’s no Rudy Giuliani” as a negative

artist Benoît Prévot

Study finds only thing worse than being ignored is being perceived The only thing worse than nobody noticing you is somebody acknowledging your stupid, embarrassing existence, a study has revealed. The study, conducted by researchers who had reportedly “run out of…

The study, conducted by researchers who had reportedly “run out of ideas”, showed that while going through life feeling invisible is painful, it’s nowhere near as bad as someone making a comment on a minor change to your appearance.

elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

Reminder that za/um is made up of businesspeople that stole disco elysium from the creators, kicked them out of the company, are currently suing them, and are making a mobile game of disco elysium

Do not pay money for DE, and do not give za/um a cent otherwise

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Donate to Help Disco Elysium Writer Survive the Winter, organized by Argo Tuulik DISCLAIMER: This fundraiser was disabled for several hours due to GoFundMe te… Argo Tuulik needs your support for Help Disco Elysium Writer Survive the Winter

Disco Elysium is 75% off this weekend-*do not* buy it! Don't give money to the businessmen that have stolen ZA/UM. Go to fitgirl and torrent it using any free torrent client.

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Donate to Argo Tuulik instead. He got no compensation for his story and is now unemployed.

If you’re struggling to find folks by other means, sure, connect with a local leftist org to try to find cool people who want to do the same kind of disruptive things you want to do.

Then go do that stuff outside of the org.

If you already have those people in your life, you do not need an org.

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

Haven @sadistichaven.bsky.social • 10h Frotting with your puppy sub, edging them until they can't take it. Tears stream down their face as they beg you for permission to cum. You finally allow them to and continue to frot against them. Holding them in place as they try to squirm away, overstimulating them further. Pink Lemonade has left Xhitter @rosalimonada.bsky.social Are you describing what Putin does to Drumpf?

if starmie is in it and I can dress up cute then it’s a perfect game :)

"reblag to fuck me nasty" is so good

Earlier today I was listening to one of the hosts from Here and Now repeatedly ask a resident from Southeast Chicago whether throwing rocks at ICE was justified. And finally she just said, "They invaded our community. They have machine guns."

Today, in the face of Trump’s attacks on our schools and communities, Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed a historic $1 billion TIF surplus in his 2026 “Protect Chicago” budget.

Now City Council must meet the moment and vote YES to fund our schools.

This is Chicago’s tradition of solidarity.

30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.

Child marriage, defined by the United Nations as a marriage in which at least one party is under 18 years of age occurs legally in the United States. The U.S. is the only UN member state that has not yet ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Its Committee on the Rights of the Child "reaffirms that the minimum age limit should be 18 years for marriage." Within the United States, each state and territory as well as Washington, D.C. set the marriage age in its jurisdiction. As of June 2025, four states have no statutory minimum age when all exemptions are taken into account. These states are California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

Watching New Amsterdam and there's an episode on child marriage. WTF America.

Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.

Now's the time to call up Visa/MC to ask 'hey, how come you guys will pay for ChatGPT and Twitter subs but I can't buy certain games off of Steam?' Because I frankly would LOVE an answer to that...

Probably worth noting that both Vance and Trump have been “joking” about murdering fishermen in these strikes.

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.”

It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.

An adorable raccoon.