WATCH: One of the UK’s last coal-fired power stations demolished #energysky

My city is a target.

In the era-defining US fossil fuels v China clean tech export race there's only one winner, reports @Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/ne...

This weekend’s ICE activity has confused and set every Chicagoan on edge. Like everyone, I'm working to figure out what sources I can trust in this moment. (apologies to @peternickeas.bsky.social for appropriating his photo)

Peter is a veteran police reporter and a chill dude. Follow this guy for accurate information about #ICE in Chicago.

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Federal agents handcuffed Humboldt Park Ald. Jessie Fuentes as she confronted them at a hospital. blockclubchi.co/3Wkje5V

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

In the way that I can recall how different life was before cell phones, my son will likely think about life before Sora.

Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025 Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦

Walkability, pub culture, and bake shops. After two weeks in the UK, I’m not sure I have any truly unique insights. But it sure seems to work. middling.industries/2025/09/28/w...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

As someone with direct experience with autism, I urge you to read this. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/tylenol-an...

I’ve been using Apple products since Mac System 1.4 (I’m old!). The new iOS Glass interface is the worst of them all. It’s a step backward in usability, visibility, and intuitiveness. It makes me want to use my phone less.

In London, hate will never win.

I’m old enough to remember these sorts of predictions during Web 1.0. It didn’t happen, instead we experienced steady growth linked to increasing productivity- partly tech, partly automation. These guys don’t know more than the rest of us.

It’s a link-o-rama this month!

My kitchen is my workshop. I got an induction stove two months ago. It is faster, cleaner, better in every way than my old gas stove. I worried that I'd miss gas, but now I'll never want to go back.

Hey there! I keep a monthly newsletter discussing things non-political and interesting internet flotsam I've encountered. Want to read it? I'd love it if you were a reader. middling.industries/sign-up/

There's a revolutionary message in here.

My afternoons are basically organized around reading @garbageday.email and @rusty.todayintabs.com

"Perfect Hair & Teeth" Love that movie.

The hardest thing about living in Chicago's Lincoln Square is deciding which of the 28 places you want to grab a coffee. Have we gone too far?

We are threatened with Hobbsean visions, but perhaps Fred Rogers-style love is what we should employ.

The rebooted Commodore 64 is total X-er bait. I wish I still had my 1541 floppy drive to use with it. www.commodore.net

Damn. Today In Tabs cuts a bit too close. www.todayintabs.com/p/what-would...

We don't want this.

"All of it — created by Chicagoans. All of it — obliterated in a staged inferno." chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

In a dense part of the city, I saw a guy working in his crowded little garden wearing just brown loose running shorts and shoes, no shirt gangly legs. He was awesome. I thought: You go, guy. For us. For all of us, you go!

This is a great time to get solar panels.

If these get to market in China, it would literally be a better deal for me to buy one in Shenzhen and ship it to the US myself than for me to buy ANY OTHER American car. Not hyperbole.

Treasured birthday wishes this year: My State Farm agent, Protein Bar, my health club app. #botblessed

This has so many good insights. It's a bit long, but valuable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=awU5...

As I become an older man, I see how many other men retain love and caring sides, but struggle to reveal it. They believe only anger and aggression are socially acceptable. Don't be a rage-fueled anger monster. Be the Papa John's roommate and the world will be a better place.

This is for all my sailing nerds out there. I can't believe how hard I laughed at this. xkcd.com/3090

I'm getting solar panels because: 1) it's a good financial deal, 2) electricity prices are likely to go up, 3) Congress will likely take away the 30% income tax credit next year, 4) I like the climate benefits.

Now maybe the world will know of Reinsdorf’s criminal mismanagement of the White Sox.

It's happened: After a year of working for Brits, I now reflexively use an S rather a Z. I apologise for that. Next up, getting changes down in my diary.

Pretty sure the Disney+ app is melting down from all the Andor demand.

I'm going to the Midwest Climate Summit next week in Madison to represent the UK Chicago Consulate. Are you going? Look for our booth! midwestclimatecollaborative.wustl.edu/summit2025/

The stars have aligned for this to be possible and it is glorious

Nothing like forcing your children into polyester suits to celebrate Easter!

As politics has encroached into my life more and more, cooking has become my respite. My Easter gift to you are my tips on how you can become your own great cook.

Never seen it framed this way by all recent elections Wild

I wanna be one of those people capable of having a very intense, loud conversation on the train. Seems liberating.

Hey ChatGPT: Give me a picture of two Chicagoans.

Here's a breakdown of passengers processed -- US vs non-US in 10 major airports between 3/15 and 4/3 comparing 2024 vs 2025. Huge drop in international travelers coming here, no drop in Americans traveling overseas.

Hey Americans, this kind of stuff is ALL OVER papers in Europe. Imagine what they think of us.

I will never forget The Big Board of Tariffs.