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MICROSOFT: We'll keep providing Windows 10 security & service updates but you gotta fork over 70USD for the first year, 140USD for the second year, and 210USD for the third year. You bitch. You fucking piece of shit

MUSCLEFUR VTUBER: Open Powershell and hit three keys to do it completely free

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SHOW OUT TO OUR COURT HEARING TO SUPPORT THE NU STUDENT'S CLASS ACTION MONDAY OCT. 20 2:00 PM COURTROOM: 1719 219 SOUTH DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60604 THE BUILDING IS ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF DEARBORN & JACKSON WE INVITE NORTHWESTERN STUDENTS, FACULTY, THE GREATER EVANSTON COMMUNITY, AND THE GREATER CHICAGO COMMUNITY TO COME TO THE HEARING! TO SHOW THAT WE ALL CARE ABOUT THIS ISSUE AND THAT THIS CASE AFFECTS US ALL! [HEARING ON PLAINTIFFS' PETITION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERI COURT ETIQUETTE • BRING YOUR ID • NO BANNERS OR DISRUPTIONS • DRESS NEUTRALLY • BE RESPECTFUL • BE ON TIME CASE INFO: HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/FILEDCOMPLAINT

Folks I know there’s a lot going on, but if you’re free tmrw in Chicago plz support NU students been banned from classes for refusing to watch Israeli propaganda. Their lawyer (& mine), Rima Kapita, has filed an emergency order demanding the courts intervene. I filed an affidavit of support. 🙏🏾

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

No Kings march in full swing in downtown Chicago. Large crowds headed east toward Grant Park and the lakefront.

Thousands of #NoKings marchers are making their way past #Trump Tower in downtown #Chicago. I grabbed this view from NBC5’s helicopter stream a few minutes ago.

View looking east from the Skydeck at top of the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millenium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-18 15:09:43 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 68.27 F | 20.15 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: SW at 2.997 mph | 4.82 kph // Humidity: 84%

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

ALT desc. made me laugh ty

Also I would have been out in the streets with propaganda, lol. Bring your fliers, pamphlets and zines, there's no better opportunity for popular education & to recruit people to organizing work.

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[ #oc ] memories of funeral flowers; a glass scythe with a familiar reflection to shatter

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up. Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

A Facebook post and comments: Hey folks! I'm a part of an ICE bike patrol group for Lincoln Sq/Ravsswood and Albany Park. ICE has been all over the north side today and there are a few schools that have reached out to see if our folks are available to help monitor during dismissal. I know some schools/parents have organized specific groups within their community to do this sort of dismissal ICE watch. If you know of one of these groups at our neighborhood schools and would like support from this bike patrol group please reach out to me. Happy to be a conduit for information sharing. Also. You're welcome to disagree with any of this, but please know I will delete comments at my discretion Comment 1: Sent you a message-please PM me if I can help Comment 2: Thank you & everyone in your bike patrol group! Grateful to have neighbors looking out for each other

Looks like the ol' neighborhood has it covered. Hell yeah, Chicago

we are all allowed to get snoozy

People once again need to internalize that "generative AI" is a small subset of machine learning, that machine learning is a critical tool that you cannot run a site without past a certain volume Bluesky has long since exceeded, and that it is FAR more reliable than user reporting.

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When your custom character appears in a cut scene

Hey artist friends, maybe consider using Nightshade or Glaze or similar before uploading your art online, if you don't do it already <3

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

a man in shadow, stepping into light. his obscured face is stretched and warped

a misty, skull-like visage. one eye hole is a socket, the other is like a hole in a mask a frantic eye is peering through

a dog-like figure with a bald, grinning human head balanced sideways on its neck

a sepia toned screaming man, his upper head drifting into a white blur

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Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

I don’t want to talk about this because I don’t want to be a target

But on just a human decency level the person tirelessly deleting Gazans just permabanned the guy who uses his thousands strong platform to boost the fundraisers of literally anyone who needs money or mutual aid every single Friday

An illustration of a flying Mothman. He is airborne and has a dark body with red webbing in his wings and red antenna. His face is pale with his mouth twisted in an open scream, his eyes are wide and are red. The background is a pale pink

The man, the myth, the legend: Mothman

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

Everyone in EU, UK or any US state with ID laws on the books [or even ones without them] should contact their representatives and mention this data breach specifically and [link the article if emailed]

Show them the actual, tangible results of all this digshit online ID legislation