@chicagocta.bsky.social President Leerhsen far exceeded my expectations of what a transit leader and supporter can be. It was an honor — and blast — for her to join the show! Between her approach and the audience’s enthusiasm I feel more hopeful than ever about the future of Chicagoland transit 🚊 🚎

What's the matter babe you've barely touched your event horizon ribs

Today's 1am curse was painstakingly de-soldering and re-soldering buggy keys on one of my keyboards...I sucked so much solder, man 😩

few things better than chicago in september

Zoomies

The lovebirbs snuggling on the balcony. A continuation art of the tavern talks between Quelrin and Vesuvius.  comm for @coffee.cobra.monster and his dnd bois

Canned air is now a locked item at target and requires an ID to purchase...coolcoolcool that's cool

mmmmbnuuy 🎨 - @stercoremurum.bsky.social

is nothing sacred?

Headache cut my workout short today....so treating myself to my fave costa rican restaurant for lunch :3c

They say train bunching is bad, but consider: 2 min separation on a Saturday means I get an entire 7000-series car to myself, so who can really say if it's bad #chicago

I wish I had unlimited time to plink away at my silly little website

lemme be more specific: you wouldn’t want to live before, at bare minimum, the discovery *and wide-spread adoption* of penicillin. that happened *just before* WWII if you got wounded in WWI, abt 20 years prior, and it got infected, odds were good you’d die/lose a limb. 20 yrs ago we had MySpace.

I guess I found the weekend @transit.app brown line party train! I think this is the most I've ever seen at once lol

cramming some Angular videos to refresh my knowledge and oh my god what is going on w/ this framework anymore signals and component constructors alone are completely new to me....do we not just use Rxjs observables anymore :(

Re: "never sign up for a protest", go a step further and simply ignore anything attached to a Rachel Maddow video for credibility

Just corrected my posture on the train and became the dominant commuter

I'm gonna shamelessly repost this until I do another one b/c it was just so much fun. Plus!! It's already paying dividends in my coffee shop chattin' Just today I made a connection at a coffee shop by expressing my #coffee nerdery and was able to talk about my little coffee shop trip :D

Back from the gym and enjoying the post-workout endorphin rush ☺️ I wish I could take respectful pics at the gym but shameless selfies at home are *almost* as good! UwU

Cool cat @briva.bsky.social proves my point by being both a fantastically fun PEAK bud but also by drawing over our ridiculous badge-hunting shenanigans. lmao 💀 @court00ns.bsky.social

After doing nothing but React for 2 years I suddenly need to know enough Angular to be a "Subject Matter Expert" at work tomorrow 😬

So fucking lucky that my gym has an entire "Hammer Strength" machine room. They're just the best, every time. Plus perfect mirrors for checking out the muscles in motion 😤😤😤

Dave's Poisoned Bread That Kills You

🚉 with the success of the first #MBTAnimals event, I can finally post my contribution! :) I designed the mascot Charles as well as the first trip's badge artwork! 🐶 @toastisa.dog - all the graphic work, organizing and being so awesome 💜 🦊📸 @scramblefox.bsky.social badge in paws 🐾

"communism sounds good in theory, but have you considered [CIA propaganda] [Nazi propaganda] [a speech written by Adolf Hitler]"

Yayy book review! This one was awesome. Picked it up on a whim at Goblin Market and it was such a cool read :3

Some quick sketches of the snake folk of Fomoria, the Valiskar. #ttrpgs #mörkborg #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgart

Friends visiting #chicago from TX looking to move here! They're set on the Northside, so I'm devising a bike ride through Uptown, Ravenswood, Edgewater...maybe even further north to get a feel for the area + maybe spot some apts for rent...it's not my neck of the woods tho so not sure where to start

After 6 days of writing I've finished my comprehensive "review" of a bunch of coffee shops in the Chicago Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods! Perhaps the first of many future coffee-tours, here and in other cities :3c #chicago #blog #coffee

belated gift for @koboldorion.itch.io 's bday >:)c ✨

After 6 days of writing I've finished my comprehensive "review" of a bunch of coffee shops in the Chicago Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods! Perhaps the first of many future coffee-tours, here and in other cities :3c #chicago #blog #coffee

Weretober2024 Day 12! Serpent 🐍

here is the truth the mainstream media doesn't want you to see The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s toxic legacy is underway www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

My mother posted a memorium video for Kirk in the family chat, and for a moment I was scared that she'd actually been in tune with him and his vitriol...but no, it was just a dramatic supercut from one of his campus "debates" where he talked about being a Christian

some #comic tips for artists who do #art [1/2]

they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter

The far-right responding to Kirk's death with rage indistinguishable from theirs re: "cracker barrel changed their logo" is both unsurprising and pathetically hilarious I'm more unnerved by the instant, very public outpouring of support from liberals reinforcing a fictitious characterization of him

dentist appt was so uneventful that I nearly fell asleep in the chair. fantastic news for me and my mouth 👍

oh no I've learned how to add those hover-captions on my markdown blog posts...👀 I've got like, 4 separate levels of "aside" now for my prose/voice but this is the ultimate 'off the cuff.' I feel powerful

Was gonna schedule my covid shot this weekend, but forgot about it. Got it today--but between then, CVS' scheduling questionnaire changed from a 'do you have preexisting conditions' question to just simply 'do you meet the requirements to get this vaccine' which feels like an improvement!

At the gym in my slutty tank top with my slutty shoulder proudly baring my slutty CVS vaxx bandage...draw them in with the muscles...seed the vaccination thoughts next...

Double-vaxxed!! Flu and Covid 😤 and I guess tetanus 3 weeks ago! I've gotta hurry and get to the gym to cut off the soreness now...!

A slide from my med school syphilis talk

comm for @coffee.cobra.monster ! (light audio) an average workday for this buff snake.. what an impressive technique.. #furryart

And that's it! Caught up w/ the last place haha. This was a lot of fun, especially getting to visit a few w/ some friends :3 I think Nabala Cafe is a *definite* re-visit, and "Everybody's Coffee" for group stuff. So big success! Which part of Chicago's cafe scene should I check out next? 👁

Swallowed some plant pride+fear and took 2 of my guys to the plant shop down the street. Glad I did!! One had spider mites and the other needed to be replanted in a better draining situation...

starting to suss out which friends are depressed by who spends the most consecutive time playing Silksong 🤔

Here we go 😤 Starting out at pHlour bakery--heard many good things about the food quality here. Got a basil and tomato danish, and an incredible blueberry scone. Great start!