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Aaron Cynic

@aaroncynic.bsky.social

Photographer, Chicago guy, punk rock nostalgia keeper. Sometimes I still write things too. www.aaroncynic.com

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Aaron Cynic@aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1h ago

This is inevitably where means testing to try to quell right wing hysteria over alleged fraud takes us. Not every person down on their luck or otherwise in need is going to be wearing a burlap sack or fit whatever other image someone thinks poverty should look like. Just feed people.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 1h ago

I’ve volunteered at food pantries and you sometimes get people upset to see someone in a nice car using a food pantry and I need to completely assure you that the person with the nice car actually is in need of that food because people who aren’t in need do not pretend to need food

Brie Callahan@briecallahan.bsky.social · 4h ago

When we talk about the importance of funding libraries and library workers - this is the result of being down just *six* people across the entire city of Chicago. Wherever you live, libraries have been running on shoestrings for years and years. Fighting for funding improves service you use!

Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · 6h ago

Thousands of books are piling up in Chicago libraries due to staffing shortage. blockclubchi.co/3TFy5Kj

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5h ago

New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

404media.co

Mr Fengi@mrfengi.bsky.social · 6h ago

Forgive the all caps but: WHEN POSTING A QUOTE OR HEADLINE, INCLUDE THE AUTHOR'S NAME & THE PUBLICATION. DON'T ADD TO CONFUSION & SLOP. MAKE THEM OWN THEIR WORDS. IF YOU FORGET, DELETE & REPOST.

bort@crushbort.bsky.social · 6h ago

I really hate wearing pants. my calves need to breathe. but society decided men needed to cover up their legs when they work at the computer

Vicky ACAB@vickyacab.bsky.social · yesterday

Everyone keeps trying to appease the nazis by being more like the nazis and all that happens is you get more nazis if only there were some sort of historical precedent for understanding this process

jj skolnik@supremenothing.myatproto.social · 16h ago

i did not know that being trans was a possibility until my late teens. we have informed consent now instead of RLE. we can prevent HIV. mental health treatment has come leaps and bounds. there are a million medical improvements, period

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian @doriantaylor.com air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*? like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*? 2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026
Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 18h ago

Wild that people are voting for candidates who are taking positions they are screaming for and promising to actually do things over stale political theater and social media posts that had to be bought for $1,500 a pop. Someone make it make sense.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 19h ago

This is a wildly prescient story about Chicago's proto-RFK Jr., in charge of public health during the Spanish Flu. He thought beer killed malaria and that bathing could kill you. He had a feud with an actual TB doctor, who insisted bathing is good. He bullied the TB doctor until he killed himself.

Sachs believed that the new administration was undermining patient care by making hiring and contract decisions based on political connections. Thompson and Robertson in turn accused Sachs of being financially extravagant, incompetent, and dictatorial. As Sachs resigned from the sanitarium he had worked tirelessly to build, Frank Billings, one of the most respected physicians in the city, called Robertson “utterly unqualified.” On April 2, 1916, Sachs committed suicide. For reformers and the medical establishment, Sachs was a martyr to grotesque political corruption. Although The Republican, a propaganda sheet literally published in an office in City Hall, sneered that suicide “occasionally has been a haven of moral cowards who preferred the shelter of death to public exposure of their shortcomings,” Robertson took a less confrontational tone after Sachs’s death. Still, he refused to step down.
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19h ago

Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 20h ago

Corporate media in the age of monopolization isn’t worried about ratings or views, those are secondary to appealing to oligarchs and corporations who will supplement lost viewership in order to ensure control of mainstream discourse and the information diet of politicians and parties

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 22h ago

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

Dr. Manhattan on mars meme