it's so funny we built a completely new 4 track main that can support 55 mph operations and then built stations that are the L equivalent of running a bus on a street with a stop sign on every block

self-portrait logan square, chicago

called it make UP take the belt route to get to global ii

whenever i shoot a 3 instead of passing it I'm teaching my team to get offensive rebounds

whenever people see my video work they ask me why i don't do more of it and the answer is that standing in one spot for a long time and then spending even longer editing it is not adhd friendly

sunset o'hare, chicago

what kind of midwestern holiday is it when you can’t even keep beer in natures refrigerator

it's gonna be 55° on Christmas and i don't know how i am supposed to keep all the food refrigerated if i can't just stash it outside

People are assuming this is Trump's fault, but it's actually climate change + a private utility monopoly refusing to update their infrastructure to make it more resilient and instead shutting off power to thousands of customers so they don't get their asses sued when they cause another Marshall Fire

the city should be lobbying the feds to approve this merger but only under the condition that the leadership team wear explosive collars that go off if any of their promises aren't upheld

Thanks to that reduction (plus some other factors), the combined UP + NS projects they'll be able to close two of their Chicago-area intermodal yards, Yard Center and 63 St.

...you really could not have asked for a more perfect illustration of how fundamentally *institutional* this problem is. In their merger app, they estimate they'll eliminate ~350 truck transfers a day from Chicago, or about 120-130k/year.

A few years ago, I wrote a long piece about why NS wanted to bulldoze part of a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side to expand an intermodal yard. homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/c...

i love my friends

you ever get a post that starts to blow up and you just start to hate it more and more every time you see it? the lesbian bridge hands post is basically the opposite

i think everyone is familiar with the situation where a couple breaks up and one person gets way hotter as a fuck you to the other person but my personal favorite is where both people get way hotter as a fuck you to the other person

garage, 1910 long beach boulevard, long beach, california, 1977?

this post has certainly picked up a lot of saves

my friends have been bullying me so hard about my dating habits that i think it might actually stick this time

i think a substantially weirder part of this is that there's also a contingent of people who think that im an angel or a prophet or something

whenever i see a trans woman with shorter hair than me i have a brief moment where im like what the fuck having the shortest hair in the room is my thing

street photography was invented by people who were too off-putting to get invited to hang out with interesting people in cool locations

life is almost certainly the most precious thing in the entire universe and the degree to which our society treats it as disposable is stomach churning

to this point, the news went from reporting that US strikes on venezuelan boats might have been illegal to saying the venezuelan ship the US seized was violating sanctions the sanctions in question are US laws and have nothing to do with any of the fucking ships or countries in question

"actually there is a difference the state violated its own rules bc they didn't follow the proper procedure of making the victim homeless before they murdered him"

i hate reading the fucking news bc the article will be about how the government is murdering people and instead of taking a stand against the government murdering people it has 100 quotes about how the person who got murdered had a job and had a family and wasn't a criminal

do NOT put your tree next to a chair with floral upholstery it WILL burn your house down

hot take but buses are so fast at night that i would rather they run more frequent overnight bus service replacing the trains than run the trains every 30 minutes or whatever and use the added downtime to do track maintenance

aoife lore: i played chess against a friend almost every day for 2 years straight and lost every single game

it’s still so funny that he was killed under a big banner saying PROVE ME WRONG

when i visited Canada this year i was amazed by how much force it took to use doors, the pocket door in the apartment i was staying in probably took like 20+ pounds of force to pull and the handle was tiny and angled in a way to make this incredibly difficult

i somehow made a left handed finger roll in basketball today

i asked the organizer if she saw the photo i shared from 2 weeks ago and she was like "yes and aoife i love how you always have all these like absolutely perfect photos and never share any of them"

i bet all of you wish i went a month between mentioning it

i mean this in the kindest way possible but we have to consider making wisconsinites wards of the states of illinois and minnesota

do straight autistic women all need an emotional support lesbian or something every time i turn around I've collected another one

the ziwe interview with vince staples unfortunately kind of gave me an insight into what trying to have a conversation with me is like

every time i go outside i learn about a new bookstore whose name is apparently their what 3 words address

it does kind of baffle me when people don't have rizz like why are you saying the wrong thing instead of the right thing

i wasn't allowed to dribble in games yeah well you were 5'8" in 6th grade they weren't gonna make you point guard you gotta work on that shit on your own time

im so confused every time another big asks me how i learned to dribble bc it's like i just wanted to dribble so i did?? like it's the easiest basketball skill to pick up you literally don't even need a hoop or another player

in addition to the perennial "the internet makes it too easy to find other like-minded antisocial freaks" problem i do think we have a "the decrease in the number of friendships people have means that there isn't anyone to tell you when you are acting out of pocket" problem as well

i used to be afraid of getting accosted while taking photos but if I'm just like "omg i just think this thing is so beautiful i love stuff like this" i can watch them look me up and down and decide that yeah this white girl would like shit like that

sometimes im stuck in a conversation with someone who keeps mentioning their son like how smart he is how much money he has how he owns his own house and i just want to be like that's wonderful anyways you wouldn't happen to have any daughters would you

chicago cultural center the loop, chicago

ok do it you stupid morons

why are the most chaotic people i know all into printmaking

i just got a shock from a grab rail on a bus that had my arm buzzing like it was hooked up to ac power