kelly

life’s not all flowers and sausages

[Keegs @lordesghoul]

There’s a chicago-wide conspiracy to walk slow in front of me

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

For AI to respect human dignity and truly serve the common good, responsibility must be clearly defined at every stage: from those who design and develop these systems to those who use them and rely on them for concrete decisions. It must be possibile to identify who must “account” for decisions, justify them, monitor them, and, when necessary, challenge them and remedy any harm caused.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[kelly @notkellymac]

@rzdchxrry amyl & the sniffers

[unite! • commissions open!!! 🖌🍉 @sistertonin]

senatobia police find that tear gassing a crowd of grieving protesters in front of a walmart is the right move instead of understanding that these people want justice for the black baby their police force MURDERED and for the family they destroyed.

[trash jones @jzux]

i’m actually stealing AI’s job (wasting resources and making up stupid shit)

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

That “pollinator seed mix” might be planting a problem.

A University of Washington study grew out 19 wildflower seed packets and found something wild: Every single packet contained invasive species. Not one or two bad mixes. All 19.

Some had 3 invasive species. Some had 13. Eight contained plants considered noxious weeds in at least one state. A third of the packets didn’t list contents at all. And only 5 accurately listed what was inside.

The most common species? Bachelor’s button. Pretty? Sure. But absolutely harmful. It can spread into native grasslands and crowd out the plants local insects actually evolved to use.

That’s the trap.

People buy “wildflower” mixes because they want to help bees and butterflies. But vague seed packets can introduce aggressive nonnative plants that make the problem worse.

Better move: Buy region-specific native seed mixes. Use local native plant nurseries. Check with your state native plant society. Look for packets that list every species by name.

[kelly @notkellymac]

EVERYONE GET UR BUTT TO THE THEATER TO SEE I LOVE BOOSTERS THIS WEEKEND OR ELSE

[kelly @notkellymac]

@RiotFest @clairemcgannn

[Riot Fest @RiotFest]

Set your alarms. Riot Fest 2026 lineup and tickets are dropping on Thursday, May 28 at 10AM CDT.

We’re giving away a pair of 3-Day VIP tickets to the festival. Here’s how to enter:
- Retweet this post
- Tag the friend you’d like to bring with
- Winner picked on 6/4

[✨localchaos✨ @localchaos_]

when is it Chicagos turn for a mamdani

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

To be clear, I don’t just hate GenAI. I also hate golf, war, monoculture farming, clear-cutting forests, and building on floodplains. I love biodiversity, wildlife conservation, regenerative forestry, soil restoration, sustainable farming, and economic degrowth.

[emily north @north0fnorth]

happy international workers day from chicago! today commemorates the 115 workers injured and eight who lost their lives fighting for the eight-hour work day after someone threw a bomb and the police open fired on civilians during a peaceful protest in west loop’s haymarket square

[darah of a wimpy kid @tboytinabelcher]

chicago bitches be like beach dayyyy

[Papii🥤 @ammalusty]

When I was a tiny baby a witch put a curse on me to eat chips.

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

There are many reasons to resist AI (e.g. environmental harm, the power it gives to states/corporations, intellectual theft), but perhaps the biggest one for me is that, despite it all, I still believe that the human intellect is miraculous, irreplicable, & worth fighting for.

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Tidy illustration of why you can’t be an environmentalist without being an anti-imperialist

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

Congo is again not a headline and the news there is being overshadowed by other stories. More than 200 ppl, including approx 70 children have died after a coltan mine collapsed. This is horrific news. Devastating for these families. These lives mattered.