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Chicago Collisions Coalition: A New Bird-Friendly Building Law

Chicago residents can ask the city council to prevent bird-window collisions through a new mandatory bird-friendly building design ordinance.

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Apparently shouting down a trans woman for the world's mildest criticism is allyship. Real ones remember he doubled down on his ableist tweet and only apologized when his Jeopardy gig was on the line. White men (especially those who think they're smart) really can't handle an OUNCE of opposition.

Them@them.us · 2d ago

The ‘Jeopardy!’ host made it absolutely clear where he stands once again.

Love how absolutely NOWHERE in this did you mention the Trans Woman who has been getting harassed as a result of Ken being a Transphobic shithead instead of just apologizing for a dumb joke. You should take this article down and rethink your life choices.

Them@them.us · 2d ago

The ‘Jeopardy!’ host made it absolutely clear where he stands once again.

Pissing myself at this section

Megan Fox@glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 15h ago

It's honestly nice to hear that most of the AI bubble really is people play-acting to keep their jobs: hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... Doctorow has a big essay on this, but I prefer the source (this isn't an outsider, they're a high profile tech consultant actively mixing it up in the biz)

"Ready Player Two movie is officially in the works"

if it's layoffs on ship no matter what, never pay that company for anything. why would you. your money will never reach anyone who worked on what you bought, or respected those people. you'll not be investing in anything in any sense software is on the honour system and these people have no honour

Insider Gaming@insider-gaming.com · 8h ago

Halo Studios Hit by Layoffs After Campaign Evolved Launch insider-gaming.com/halo-studios...

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use."

This is a Juvenile Gouldian finch it takes about 5 to 8 weeks to complete its physical color transition during the juvenile molt. The entire color change process typically starts around 3 to 4 months of age. Live in grasslands and open savanna's of Northern Australia

omg I found the picture ❤️

ECP@ecppdx.bsky.social · yesterday

Years ago I coined the milleneuve, which is a unit to measure how horrible the sky color is based on Villeneuve films. Blade Runner 2049 is around 900mn. Today is around 250 I'd say. (It's a very scientific scale.)

NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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I think it’s very fitting that Tana French has basically just been crowned the Elena Ferrante of thrillers

Saw a post saying "I don't want NSFW accounts to talk about voting, just let me jack off" Buddy, NSFW artists and sex workers are being constantly attacked by a government of nonces trying to distract from their own crimes by pinning the blame on porn. They have the right to speak up about this.

In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.

A badly misleading headline. It presumes there is such a thing as “responsible” use of tech built on plagiarism & fueled by ecocide, and that a corporation with a financial interest in selling its product can be trusted with “educating” children. You’re better than this Google PR, WGN.

WGN NEWS@wgntv.com · 10h ago

Artificial intelligence is becoming a bigger part of classrooms across the country, but so are concerns about how students are using it.

It's so funny that a SpaceX rocket crashed into the moon. It's so easy to not crash things into the moon. Almost nothing ever does that. This is Rube Goldberg-level goofball precision.

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

Fields of Mistria 1.0 is here!✨ Thank you to everyone who's joined us on this journey, shared feedback, showed us your farms, created fan art, and loved Mistria as much as we do. 1.0 is just the beginning. 🌱 Download on Steam: bit.ly/Mistria

NEW — The Chicago Park District has released its lineup of fall programs, giving Chicagoans a chance to sign up for everything from cross country, boys and girls flag football, softball and basketball to ceramics. Online and in-person registration began this week. thetriibe.com/2026/08/chic...

Chicago Park District opens registration for fall programs, highlights free summer activities • The TRiiBE

Boxing, cross country, flag football, ceramics and more are among the late summer and fall programs offered by the district.

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Included free with your (allegedly) cursed object: an excuse to look up what day of the week you were born.  Explore the reality behind the full list of allegedly cursed objects  ➡️ w.wiki/RmAW

Business Elite Access Shredding is thing I didn’t know I loved… until now

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterday

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

In Chicago we can start with parks and libraries. Parks should have 24/7 all gender public bathrooms

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 18h ago

Efforts to police bathrooms are evil and will impact peoples' health. Segregated bathrooms themselves must be done away with, it's the only solution. I reported this question out, years ago for @99pi.org 99percentinvisible.org/episode/wher...

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

This is 💯 not true. It is never a choice between ‘taking big tech’s money and doing nothing’. A stronger moral imperative is NOT to take the money and the strings attached to it - particularly if you do not and cannot yet understand the implications

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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I always think of Dr. George Tiller when Kansans protect abortion rights. 17 years later and our state is somehow still a site of refuge, even in the wake of Dobbs

Today's gender is Karen Allen dressing up in Pacino's leather bar togs in Cruising (1980).