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Hello, and welcome to my unboxing video
Fun page to keep tabs on for days like today: NOAA has a river gauge *in the Deep Tunnel* so you can see how full it currently is. (NOAA claims combined sewer overflow events start to happen once it's above -100 feet or so.) water.noaa.gov/gauges/MCCI2
My Heated Rivalry hot take is that a show by and for queers can’t get away with pretending that men’s formalwear unbuttons.
Those are STUDS and I should see people SETTING THEM ASIDE when they take each other’s shirts off after award dinners and such.
While I was there for school the city/chamber of commerce were going ALL IN on a whole jewel-box themed branding thing for the downtown, and lemme tell you, early 2000s jewel-box motifs as imagined by a chamber of commerce look about as good next to an actual Sullivan jewel-box as you'd imagine.
Look I’m always happy for some representation in pop culture, whatever label they wanna put on it.
Unicode took a look at 2026 and said what we’re really gonna need is a “womp-waaaaah” and an obvious shorthand for sinking yachts, huh.
Came here to check for the Lupin III quotes and comments; was not disappointed.
Yeah the difference between “people can choose whose posts they see (and are maybe choosing to not see yours!)” and “algorithm deliberately weighted to feed you right-wing radicalization” seems…unsubtle?
And if you prefer the latter that’s more about you than about people who prefer the former. 🤷🏼♂️
New from me for @bettergov.bsky.social: Chicago's city council made history in December by passing a budget over the mayor's objection. By the numbers, however, the mayor's spending plan remained mostly unchanged, with nearly all of the council-authored changes affecting revenue rather than spend.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
How do you do my fellow penguins
solved the problem (das rheingold)
I thought that was Stephen Hopkins? But I am very willing to be re-educated if Mx. Pulaski made some sort of cameo during the Declaration drafting, tell me more!
The original “Into the Woods” recording goes so hard. No overture and no intro beyond what Sondheim gives us; we’re like 30 seconds in and “festival!” is already running straight into “squeeeeeze pal,” try to keep the fuck up.
Oppenheimher
when i told a polish friend they’d exhumed pulaski’s tomb in savannah and the remains had biologically female characteristics her immediate response was
“do you think the russians did this?”
Colored sketch of Revolutionary War hero and (probably) intersex bae Casimir Pulaski, looking very dapper with rosy cheeks and a wee little moustache.
Happy gender-ambiguous cavalry hero day to all who celebrate.
Got a little obsessed with this house a few years ago. Junot Whitehouse, the explosives exec this home was built for, is buried at Rosehill, having ended his days in the Elgin Insane Hospital labeled a "distracted person." The year before his death, there was all sorts of drama concerning his estate
The way I immediately knew this view just from the general shapes and colors, before even making out any words. 🤣😭😍
you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two
Chat is it good when a candidate in a very crowded primary starts sending campaign emails as unsolicited BCCs with no unsubscribe at the bottom?
i’m sorry what
The “Roll Call” podcast is just part of a larger push in recent years to expand CPD’s communications operation.
Comms have vastly expanded over the past decade, and costs rose along with it.
They're charged w/ misdemeanors for things like sitting on concrete barriers.
One w/ a felony for allegedly fingerpainting on a barrier.
The feds have dropped similar cases; the Cook County State's Attorney is prosecuting nearly all.
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iambic tetrameter ass stick
This explains a lot actually.
Bruce Springsteen making an album called Nebraska and filling it with even more songs about New Jersey is the most east coast shit anyone has ever done
In my eeriest yet Bluesky synchronicity (no not the album; this is not a long walk to a Police joke), this post crossed my feed while listening to Nebraska. 😱
(Which, despite my advancing age, is not THAT frequent of an occasion in my household.)
Hipster baker starring in People's Gas promo, Chicago undated
also; there are a lot of great journalists on here- many of whom are ALSO excellent shitposters! HI TO YOU