It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

How could we have possibly seen this coming 🤔

This is exactly what I thought my top 2025 track would be and I wish I had not needed to have this on repeat

how much do the burrito taxi robots weigh? seems like good clean fun to pick them up and set them back down upside down out of the public way

Dibs is antisocial behavior and I find posts characterizing it as a cute regional traditional both annoying and disappointing. I know Chicago as a city that shows up for each other so why y'all refusing to help out when we're all going through this weather together

Looking back at all the people who told me in childhood, "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life". Not a single one of those assholes had a full time job.

I have completely ruined autocorrect on my phone 5ever by routinely typing in English, Spanish, and French without changing the input language. Just started owl Portuguese too so only getting worse

It’s about to be Giving Tuesday and I’m still $500 off of my giving goal for 2025. Which NPOs do you love to support with your time and/or money?

Do any of you know someone hiring for digital marketing? Mid-career, chicago area or remote. HMU, please share

Now feels like a good time to reread Doctor Faustus

Happy global cloudflare outage to all who celebrate It’s almost like funneling a corner stone of modern life through just a few companies is not a good idea 🤔

I am personally matching donations up to $500 made to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund by Friday at 5pm. Send me a screenshot & I'll post my match by EOD Friday. They've got a larger $20k match on the table. Courts are finally stepping in some so let's get these folks home. www.mibfc.org

I will never understand how USAC manages to make ever web relaunch worse than the previous website

That’s not technically wrong I suppose

how much coffee lethal for human

I am counting on all of you to post snow photos while I’m still away today

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There’s gonna be some obnoxious vacation content here too. I’m in El Valle de Antón, Panamá

I would go see Pan’s Labyrinth in theaters

Nothing like being out and about at “Walgreens is closed” o’clock

Got my $50 for participating in an endometriosis study. Gonna order delivery and call it my menstrual pizza

The amount of assistance that our social safety net provides is so shitty that even if someone were doing fraud to subsist on it, imo go for it. It’s a really hard life and I don’t know why anyone who knows anything about it would assume that it’s a real life goal for anyone in that situation

I made @lefttheprairie.bsky.social rescue me from a big scaweeee spider

Every time I land at O’Hare I sincerely believe this is gonna be the time it takes less than 20 minutes to taxi to the gate

Last year I went to fort mchenry which is the US historical site about the war of 1812 so today I’m doing the tour of fort york, the Canadian historical site about the war of 1812. So far levels of jingoism are equal

If I puke on a train, I will have collected all the types of mass transportation

Every single type of person who goes to the airport is in this blue line car right now

Ok thank you you all did an excellent job of congratulating me when requested

Sunset is early enough that I’ve switched to the dynamo bike until spring

I am 5’2” and today I squatted 145lbs 8x Please clap

Roosevelt is blasting Marc Anthony’s “vivir mi vida” and this song always makes me laugh

Just got through my last massive project launch for the year and really need 2 days to just not before diving back into everything around me in a capacity beyond just financial

Tis the season to try to remember where the fuck I put my rain jacket

Sometimes listening to this 2009 optimism is actually painful. Used to be common take that after Bush things would just be better music.youtube.com/watch?v=VYz5...

The paid-protestor myth is big among conservative honks because none of them can fathom the idea that people would want better things for their communities and neighbors out of the goodness of their hearts.

I had a week where a lot of things went wrong at work, but even then, I was heard and treated with respect. Had several conversations with the CEO which actually made me feel better about working there. Even when this job sucks, that is hard to find and really valuable, encourages staying

This was recorded during the Obama surge (yes he deported a ton of people) but it’s still just as relevant today. Undocumented people are our friends and neighbors and deserve better. youtu.be/0lNJviuYUEQ?...

I know this is the answer that would be most painful but also probably trolling on this question will get me deported

Was just told that ICE arrested people outside of a church in Belmont Cragin. I am glad that our city is rallying to care for each other because it is so apparent that literally nothing is sacred to ICE

Here's a reminder that now is a great time to support the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights www.icirr.org

Hell yeah sue them they suck

The working poor of this country have been and ARE directly subsidizing your drive-thru Starbucks PSL, your same day Amazon delivery, your *entire goddamn food chain* And so much more. It ain’t sustainable for you and it damn sure ain’t sustainable for the folks who actually make this all “work”

This morning as I was riding just east of the Lawrence red line a man threw a bush towards the street

i've never said "wow i'm really glad i had that argument with someone on the internet today" when the takes get bad moving on is the right choice for me i like being exposed to different ideas but i do universally hate people being jerks to each other

It's Baby Safety Month.

the greatest gift i can give myself is already being done having to think about travel back to north dakota in the middle of winter

Chicagoland bike teams stand united. We are deeply disappointed in the recent USA Cycling policy change banning trans women and creating barriers for trans men in racing. We will continue to do the work to support, uplift, and race alongside our trans teammates and community members -- always.

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy