getting spicy here

TFW NBC News is using "Gasolina" in their piece on new gas saving "trends" like apps and carpooling.

Oh that's right : Music cracks my soul open and makes me feel my feelings and TikTok helps me avoid my feelings when cracking my soul open doesn't feel safe or convenient.

Do you tell people you love them enough? Trick question : I don't think you ever can. But you can damn well try, and you should.

Does your hospital have a quarterdeck? Or an Apollo zone? Or space photos? Doing some moon nerding while I wait to get out of here.

One more episode. It's gonna be a doozy.

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

I'm never strong enough to just do the whole "let them" thing but I fucking wish I was.

Growing up as X-ennials means that space missions are fraught - and sometimes it's tempting to look away. But #Artemis2 is changing that, for us, and for the world. So maybe #LookUp.

Every so often I post it here first: #artemis2

Just had an awesome Polish Easter dinner with friends. I was up til 4 am making golabki last night but it was worth it. They had kraut, handmade pierogi and fresh baked paczki and mashed potatoes and tea and champagne and some Polish music. We went on the lawn and hunted eggs with their kids. <3 <3

Inside my head I'm like "I've got some cheez-its and a cherry pepsi and we're gonna play some games" and somehow I can turn that into a fucking crisis because INSERT DUMB REASON. I hate my brain.

So, I'm proud of this. Because I work with a team of obscenely talented folks I now call friends, but simply put: we work hard to do this every single year. And this is what it's like. thirdcoastreview.com/beyond/2026/...

A note for anyone who's worked in a restaurant kitchen in the past but no longer works there. You USED to have restaurant hands. USED.TO. Now you have one VERY angry thumb burn and about five more articles to write before you sleep. THUMB BURN.

Just me or does it look like this says "AMC Stabs" cuz that's how I read it, and I was like "I feel like this is too aggressive even for a horror fest ad" before realizing it had nothing to do with horror, which only made it more frightening. Kerning, y'all.

I love #ProjectHailMary so much, so being able to shoot this panel and get teasers for a potential sequel from the man himself: AMAZE. I can't wait to see what comes out of that strange brain next.

We're out on the #c2e2 floor all weekend and our photographers are looking out for all your amazing cosplay. Here's our favorites from Friday!

Super happy I got to spend yesterday shooting mostly cosplay at C2E2 with a couple other fantastic photographers

Hey, physical media lovers - you know #RecordStoreDay is not that far away, right? We're already planning what to keep an eye out for, and if you're looking for some great pics, give this list a click:

We've done our part: We've been shooting bugs and taking notes for the greater good of gamers everywhere - see what we thought of the brand new @starshiptroopers.bsky.social game, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!

So there was no lack of incredible stuff at the Joffrey's Winning Works showcase, but Daniel Ojeda's "The Visitors" is burned in my brain forever. Here's my writeup for @culturecombine.bsky.social

Chalamet who? Had the chance to preview Winning Works at @mcachicago.bsky.social with the Grainger Academy at Joffrey Ballet and can't wait to share more on @culturecombine.bsky.social because this show was kind of mind blowing.

While the premise might seem like an internet meme to some, @timberborn.bsky.social by @mechanistry.bsky.social , its adorable exterior hides a game that takes its survival mechanics seriously, and is one of the best examples of the genre released in recent memory.

You may have heard about the Xbox's demise after the announcement of Project Helix - but where does that leave Sony, and what have they been doing to prepare?

Chicago's Lunar New Year festival is a beautiful sight to behold - and luckily, we had a photographer on site to capture it. Feast your eyes on this!

Keeping track of all those #ThePitt plotlines takes a lot. If you blacked out a bit, catch up with us on last week's episode before tonight's premieres:

This is just to say that the 80s and 90s were a weird time, should you examine them through the lens of the ads of the time. And that the Clapper was actually a pretty damn good innovation. Man are 80s cars ugly though.

A weird thing I do to keep noise in the background is to play 80s and 90s commercials. There was never not a TV in the background playing Pizza Hut or Empire Carpet commercials in my house or my grandma's where I spent the majority of my time, and it's comforting. Don't come for me.

I have a genetic blood disorder. Most of the time, it doesn't affect me too horribly. Once in a while, esp. being female, it means I bleed extra, and sometimes bleed even extra on top of that. Bleeding extra when you're already bleeding is stupid. I feel like garbage. Blah.

See a pattern here?

It's another game of "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" on #ThePitt for episode 7, and we've got the recap. Grab a snack and join us for the recap before you dive into 2 pm, won't you?

Hey #ThePitt fans - are you ready for 1 pm? Don't fret if you're not - we've got recaps from the past 6 hours of this 4th of July shift on tap for you, with our latest handily posted below. Follow along and let's see what happens next.

Sure, I'll do the episode recaps for the series where there's at least 20 storylines going at once and at least 15 main characters to report on at all times, she said. Because I love med shows, she said. And I still do, but damn.

Let's be honest - if I'm photo editing I'm probably in something that's neither pajamas nor quite passable as regular day apparel with crazy hair and a ramen noodle on my shoulder. And I might accidentally go out in public without realizing that's what is happening. Feral me does the art, ok?

I wrote about Chicago winter music festival fatigue and one of the exciting standouts: Music Frozen Dancing

Editor in chief Sarah Conway was on @citycastchicago.bsky.social to discuss the case of Marimar Martinez, who was shot 5 times by a Border Patrol agent last Oct. Earlier this week, Martinez testified before federal lawmakers in a forum examining use of force by the Department of Homeland Security.

Have you been wondering about #WonderMan? We did, so we checked it out. See what we thought of Marvel's latest and let us know what you think, too.

I've been losing my ability to give a fuck for years and it's almost entirely gone. If I don't belong in the room and I can't be met on an equal plane in the room, I'm not coming back to that room. If there's not room for me how I am now, just no.

I waste so much time thinking people are going to care about my mental health in any way other than to be upset at how it affects them. I've been there for so many people's stuff and would still be and boo hoo get over it if it's me. I fucking get it.

Have literally had no issues with #Lyft until I'm supposed to be shooting a show debut with a new venue that potentially has work for me on VDAY and then of f#%#ing course

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

this seems very odd

A heartwarming tale of how even if you aren't subscribed to Google Nest their cameras still upload and save "about three hours" of video which can be recovered in the form of "residual data" from "backend servers," surprising even the FBI who claims to have previously believed it was impossible

boooo

Whirlight: No Time to Trip is a brand new point and click adventure in the works that hearkens back to some of the best. See what we thought of it so far in this preview:

Tell me you've never been on a train in your life without saying you've never been on a train in your life

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

Good morning from Chicago’s Loop, where Marimar Martinez and her attorneys are holding a press conference to announce a civil lawsuit stemming from her shooting by a Border Patrol agent in October. They have some of the agent’s texts blown up on posters

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...