I'm sure there's nothing that can be identified about my mind from the fact that I've spent a very long time studying this accurate track map of CTA, Metra and freight lines in Chicago. www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/docs/...

Not sure how a lady with her tits out is related to the civil war but I’m not complaining

love deftones for saying you know what this track needs another eight guitars on it www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLa0...

Man, @bsky.app needs a "Turn off Repost"/"Turn off RT"/"Turn off Reskeet" button really bad.

I don't understand why there's a big push to bring back the Buccaneers old "creamsicle" uniforms. All I remember them doing in those uniforms is losing.

Look at CBS being cowards and not bringing back their actual NFL Today Intro from the 1970s: youtube.com/shorts/ozCFx...

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There's no incentive for platforms to perform robust content moderation anymore. - Moderation is expensive and the costs keeps increasing. - Failing at moderation won't lose the platforms any users, folks are hooked. - There's no incoming legislation that would restrict what people can post.

New t-shirt idea for the next Sox game.

Don't be surprised if whoever killed Charlie Kirk has no coherent political ideology, didn't do it for any particular reason, and doesn’t fall anywhere neat on the left/right paradigm.

The WNBA needs to fold the Sky and give Chicago an expansion team. Ownership doesn't know what the hell it's doing. They're just an embarrassment.

Will lead to sitting around, just talking about a bunch of guys(viruses). "Do you remember H2N2's 1957 season?" "A real underrated season was H1N1's 1977-78. It really came out of nowhere"

Shout out to anyone still trying to create regular meetups with their friends & acquaintances. It can feel thankless. People dip in and out, don't respond, and just drop out. I appreciate the folks who are persistent to reach out to folks and try and form some sort of community in 2025.

Look at me, I'm an owner of the Green Bay Packers because I hold stock in the team, that gives me no equity interest, paid dividends, or ability to trade. Also these pilot wings I got as an 8 years old makes me the captain of my very own commercial airplane.

Still immune to the measles, according to my test results, so I got that going for me.

So Chicago got PCA outlier months in the first half of the season and is getting Colson outlier months the second half of the season. It's building a hot young superstar for the city in the aggregate.

We got to get away from this as a society where we can't see rich people as being capable of doing dumb stuff. Rich people do dumb stuff all the time. They're human, many are greedy, that makes you do dumb stuff! They just don't usually suffer the consequences of it because they're rich!

Weird place as a White Sox fan. - Feeling more positive about this season than last season. Feels like they're on a positive trajectory. - But looking at the standings & seeing they're still 4.5 games behind the team with the 3rd worst record in baseball. Still the worst team in the AL by 10 games.

-Bridgeview wasn't a total disaster, but it was clearly a failure all around. That loss of both soccer tenants proves that. Curious what the future of the stadium is. -Whether the Stars admit it or not, I figure they are going to try and move into the Fire's new stadium, if it's built.

Imagine a world where "My Blue Heaven" was the gritty drama and "Goodfellas" was the light hearted comedy

Speed Cameras are a necessary evil right now, but the revenue from the cameras needs to go towards actually improving the infrastructure of the streets to make it more difficult to speed. We need traffic calming in the areas around cameras to eventually make them unnecessary.

Can't think of a worse promotion than this. "CHSN Demolition Night" would go over better than this.

....and Andrew Vaughn has reverted back to normal. .196/.276/.216 over the last 2 weeks. I don't think the Brewers actually fixed him.

If Summer starts after Memorial Day, Fall starts after Labor Day. Let's be real, all the kids are back in school, and football has started. Summer is over.

Cooking chili for dinner to summon some Autumn weather.

Socializing isn't more expensive than it ever was. We just have more options for home entertainment than before or can chat/call/video call with friends online for virtually free & those are less risk and effort than actually going to someone else's house.

I did not know there was such a strong Phil Collins backlash in the 90s until them South Park boys attacked him. It's touched upon in the video that Black people have loved Phil Collins since his solo stuff dropped. I definitely grew up with it playing in the house. youtu.be/U0kCxNj_4hs?...

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All this AI recording of meetings is definitely making them worse. You get worse conversation, folks are worried about saying something incriminating. It stifles natural conversation and less information gets conveyed. Plus they suck any possibility of any camaraderie out of the interaction.

Been watching this 25 yr old TV show this past week that I'm sure only more than a couple dozen people remember.

Them: I need help with <blank> program, can you help me? Me: Sure, can you start by restarting your computer. Them: FUCK YOU, I CAN'T DO THAT, I'M BUSY!

I am high key obsessed with this song but you can really only listen to it two ways: driving down the highway in the middle of the night, tears in your eyes as you catalog your regrets sitting in a big chair with a glass of whiskey in the dark, tears in your eyes as you catalog your regrets

Next stage of middle-agedness reached today by buying a rain gauge for the yard.

Lotta this happening in Chicago rn

Frankly, more guys should throw their bats at pitchers after getting hit by pitches.

Me in my house constantly cursing the person who owned it before me. Thanks for mounting a security light with no junction box and wires exposed to the rain. It's totally no big deal until the light stops working...

I'm still blown by how bad every single Chicago sports team is. The Bears, Bulls, Sox, & Hawks have been bad for years. The Cubs are crashing out of a playoff spot. The Red Stars & Sky are both dysfunctional and terrible. The Fire are tied for the last playoff spot in the MLS Eastern Conf.

Sox fans making room for Cubs fans in baseball Hell

The 3yo got a space shuttle stuffie as a gift and I just don't have the heart to tell him that the Space Shuttle program was a misguided endeavor, signed off by Nixon, that crippled American spaceflight for a generation.

They should definitely hollow it out and make it a permanent music festival ground/park. Put Lolla, Riotfest, and North Coast in there. The shows going on in Northerly Island can go in there too.

Heard an ad in the car for kid's Sketchers shoes that have an AirTag compartment in them "so you can always find your shoes". Explained to the 9yo that its actually used for parents to track their kids.

Air & Water Show is another thing that illuminates the idea of "2 Chicagos". Its a scourge to downtown and the north side, particularly by the lake. But its mostly invisible to a majority of the city's neighborhoods.

I still ...like... The Bear, but I would have liked it so much better if it had stayed about an Italian Beef stand. I really don't care about the culture of fine dining, but the culture of a working class spot trying to stay above water is very interesting to me.

Do the White Sox know I'm black?

Young Frank Dux must be going crazy.

No regular season football game, whether pro, college, or high school should go to overtime. Overtime is only needed for playoff games.

Andy the Clown sighting at the White Sox game. I guess he's been unbanned.