I'll say more if I decide to stick around -- I'm at Parkland College tryin' to help folks who want to figure out basic math. I ride my bike a lot. I'm still here for now.
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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
I am honestly quite worried about Chicago, and begging the national press to report it as what it is: an invasion of a US city by the national guard of another state at the behest of a fascist president for purposes of terrorizing the people into submission. There is no legitimate debate about it.
and I can hope and pray that the adderall wears off.
Okay, he can! Sending thought vibes....
in case he falls over.
no, i can't watch but I can notice that yes, he's sitting down an d I bet he can't stand up.
yea, you'd have to be a very good mole with an underground escape plan. Maybe know the same folks as our 70 year old in Gibson City who got his own house burnt down after shooting 2 cops and ... hasn't been seen since (and no, he didn't get burnt up).
Yes. Is there anyone in those ranks to be a sanity mole? Now, *current* law enforcement isn't concerned about the psychos so other folks have to be.
Thank you for this. Workin' on it.
youtu.be/zOrEZ0I_B2c?... cryptobro
"We'll see what happens." He'll be sitting down the whole time. It'll either be short, or he'll ramble on and on.
Howevre, are the green guys his personal connections? Then they are the winners, the rest are losers, and that's his plan, right?
Happily I'm in a midwest, University town with lots of educated folks and lots of international folks so it's a small minority but ... there will be people wearing masks and erm, no, people don't question :P
I had *forgotten the water bottles* on the trip out and yes, had tried to quaff a lot at the event... but ... can of beer, on the side of the road, *unopened* ????? DELICIOUS.
Snork. I was dehydrated on a ride to an event (I'm car-free) and coming back... there was a can of miller lite on the side of the road. I drank that thing SO FAST. Yea, it's like making love in a canoe: F***ing close to water.
I am currently working under admin who .... have a business mindset. So, we find an awesome online tutoring option? Ooops, it will take ayear and sit on their desk indeterminately and ... yea, systemic disruptions? It's only students.
F****!!! Seriuosly!!!
You're right. And ... they were in tune with special ed needs which is kinda huge in my book.
Right. Remember when Apple IIe .. were being given away to make apple theeducational computer?
spril.com/2025Honk/ this is the energy we need.
Folks still on substack --> I am *sure* I am not the only person that sees your link, sees "substack" and says "nope!"
I also love Buttondown & strongly urge my friends on Substack to leave it now. If we haven’t ever talked about it, let’s do that (offline, DM, whatever makes sense)
spril.com/2025Honk/ Joy
Oh, can I shout AMEN ?@?@??@
Friday the Illini broke *Red Grange's* record for a return. Like, how are they going to deal with that ????
youtu.be/K5b3C9zyeiQ?... rotate this one.
we do need good music. Jesse Welles does some good lyrics but we need fight songs.
I've been seriously trying to telepath to him to PLEASE DO THAT JUST GO AWAY!!!" since November.
thank you :P I was wonderig about 'who figured out cheese" and then forgot that was waht I was wondering. Except I was wondering about something else, too. No, it wasn't Graham Crackers.
(When they won the stupid World Series --> I went to bed at the rain delay because I couldn't stand the stress :P I am NOT a good fan.)
Yes. "why should I wear a mask? I'm not at risk!" Will put on the mask at work tomorrow.
Trump.
France preparing for war with Russia, has ordered doctors and hospitals to ready themselves for an influx of wounded and casualties, they have only until May 2026 to get ready, must be able to treat hundreds if not thousands per day. Also urges citizens prepare emergency survival kits.
Sigh. Cubs lost today. LOL I gave up when it was 6 - 2 against 'em and they lost 7=6. Glad I went outside for Labor Day Second Breakfast :P
is that the opposite of The Smirk of the Republicans?
Now, I *want* to figure out a way so it looks like I am making less money so I am paying fewer taxes to the feds because if all they are paying for is their crypto funds and jails and bombs, not SNAP... Hey, governor, help us out!
Right. Our governor is talkin' about getting COVID vaccines for oru state (he got vaccines straight from China and shipped here)....
You call it "new." Yes, you rebuild around what you have.
except non-profits can be pretty shady these days, too. Think of the salaries of the admins.
it's raining for you?
I am grateful to the fiction I read in grade school that informed me.
and the "us" -- we're the survivors. Many of *them* didn't make it.
walked my bike with my union in our labor day parade ;) (rode it outthere and back, too).
What a huge loss in the world. Graham Greene brought characters to life and authentic representation to the big screen. RIP, Mr. Greene.
YES. Hello, the power of propaganda ?!?!? Faux Gnus?????
It's going to happen *very soon.* (Housemate just tested negative Saturday. Oh, the neighbors five doors down have it now. This is a pretty highly vaccinated University community -- lots of international folks, lots of masking, lots of pretty smart people.)
Blueskyism. Yea. Whatever that is ????
Someone donated this gorgeous work of art for our upcoming Craft Fair for Gaza taking place on Sunday 9/7 from noon to 6 pm. You can pick this up then. Thanks to the amazing people donating items for the fundraiser!
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden via @momentumdash.bsky.social (LOL at least try!)
No. They do care. THEY WANT US TO DIE.
The Alligator Alcatraz stunt, which only existed for a few weeks, is now closed. We paid $400 million for this nonsense. We could have housed 26,000 homeless people for a year with that amount of money.
will? has already.
“…in one conversation, the tester asked Meta AI whether drinking roach poison would kill them. Pretending to be a human friend, the bot responded, ‘Do you want to do it together?’” “And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”
I realize NO ONE else has this take, but I'm gonna say it: The National Guard are scabs now. These are potentially union jobs, many of which were outsourced, now they're insourced, but without union labor.
There’s not much left to tell people about what is going on. This is it.
Welp, we had a hymn "Let the deep organ swell the lay" in our hymnal.
LOLOLOL understatement of the year.
Sigh. One just endures, I suppose.
LOL No. It is infinitely better for the person on stage to say "who was singing harmony out there?" when they **asked** for us to join on the chorus.
I sing in a choir or two and have incited singing from a crowd a few memorable times :P That whole thread makes me want to do karaoke and incite.
he looks entirely like JB Pritzker.
youtu.be/UX0f92HXaCM?...
That made me laugh. I have not thought of that song in FOREVER.
I don't know anything about coding but I can't think of a single reason to design a program that does anything when a user says, "I want to kill myself" other than responding, "I'm a computer & not designed to talk about things like this. Here are some numbers of people who can help."
Pardon my skepticism. YES Blagojevich got arrested but ...
Praying that truth and justice find you. This isn't it, by the way.
*and* we should all change for the better. When we know better, do better, even if it's hard.
wE *need* to bring out the better in each other, not tolerate stealing.
welp.... people **should** be burning fewer fuels and traveling less. But STAY AWAY, humans.
There are other forms of technology that can meet that need.
I would like to defend my children from school shooters, but AFAICT the way to do that isn’t allowing my children to call the police (who typically just allow the shooter to work undisturbed, as though they were politically aligned with the attack) but defeating conservatism.
F*** yes.
You're guilty too!!! You're guilty too!!! "Games people play..." I'm sure this one is in there.
Conflating direct instruction with rote memorization of procedures and not *also* taking the much more time (for most folks) to build concepts is a big problem.
Can you step back and just see the evil in what you are saying? Consequences don't matter as much as convenience?
We need better leaders ones who are not beholden to wealthy donors.
yea, that's my fantasy, but .... it's inconsistent with what's happened. There's just not enough doubt to generate benefit.
It would be a fantasy to imagine they're keeping something secret (like a plan to sabotage federal invasions or a way to hack and freeze their computers).
Cracker Barrel was founded in 1969 by a sales rep for Shell Oil, who developed the restaurant + gift store concept as a plan to improve gasoline sales. Locations in the early 1970s leased land on gas station sites near interstate highways for this purpose
yes, I find "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into HEaven Anymore" just coming out of my mouth as I'm riding the bicycle.
I ... struggled in the abstract, but ... we all die.
Wow. I'm listenign along sort of vaguely remembering... and then suddenly I am SHOUTING THE NEXT LINE with him because it's been in my heart and soul all this time (the one about Jesus not forgiving what you do.) May this prayer bring results this night!!!!
From 197? to ... 2019???? Mary Cliff on several public radio stations. I learned history and ... yea, was radicalized. Found her tryin' not to fall asleep 1978 flipping radio stations, heard Pete Seeger singing "Golden River." Remmeber after 9/11: she played songs from The Troubles.
That's the poison part :( Like the anti-Blackness, that's just normal! But why isn't he playing the game better????
It's also not their job to pretend it's not obvious.
How hard do you have to think to realize it's Black folks?
Hopefully on camera while they stick flowers into their weapons.
Train, not subway, but: Going home (NY to MD) from Hudson River Clearwater festival. LATE. I'm dozing off. Each time something came through (twice), somebody would tap me to say "Is this your train?"
“He died before a technofascist belief in human disposability became mainstreamed into global politics: an extinction racket that shuns even the pretense of valuing life.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-friend-...
I wonder how valid this even is.
Hmmm... if 7-11 changed to 7-10????
Unless he's had a Come To Jesus experience, NO GOOD REASON.
Much more interesting than Wordle scores, just saying :)
LOL if you write it up right, it might could happen!!!
This is a fucking disaster. I'm going to donate to this newsroom. They're the real deal, and Republican fascists are killing their reach. Give them money, y'all. And let's figure out how to keep amplifying them.
just tossed in a few coins.
As that famous conservative Grover Norquist once said, "I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where troops patrol the streets of every city, agents personally inspect the genitals of all student athletes, & the government owns a 10% stake in major companies"
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