i need more chicagoans to stop bitching about the "lack of nature" when they mean "no mountains" and go learn to appreciate the prairie and understand how precious it is and how much we've lost

Malignant Circlet

Who up🐉 dragob posting?

Who up 🐉 dragon posting

Got a new shirt the other day! ✨💪

im so sorry but the obama center building is so ugly like why does it look like the headquarters of the evil lab corp thats building cyborgs or some shit 😭

Former Pixar employee u/PixelatedRonin fires back at chief creative officer Pete Docter on Reddit over claims on LGBT storyline cut from 'Elio' (2025):

Catching strays at ECCC

Docter and many other old timers at Pixar wanted to deal with heavier, more serious issues like grief and emotional regulation, with tons of “therapy speak” in Inside Out, Wall-E, and Up. But when it’s queer themes it’s all “Back off loser, I’m not your therapist. I’m just here to sell popcorn!”

its always "but then the straight parents will have to explain to their kids what gay people are!" and never "these kids probably already have encountered gay people in the real world" or "gay parents will have to explain to their kids why they never see themselves on tv"

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life. I'm serious, read it all please

they way i would have been 100x more interested in Marathon if it was just a remake of the original game, like doom

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

I know this is just a Me issue but yall really need to stop assuming everyone has a degree or went to college 😐

You can view all of them here. Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944) — The Public Domain Review share.google/1ElXNUy92SIB...

This is my all time favorite map. The Mississippi Meander Belt (1944), original and GIS-enhanced

WE ARE SO BACK

No amount of cutesy tshirts or products are gonna make me forget the communities you betrayed and the principles you advertised standing for that you so quickly abandon when a new power threatens you even a little bit 🤷

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so i finally read annihilation

check out this story from 2023 for more on the water crisis in joliet and the current solution—a billion-dollar pipeline that will syphon tens of millions of gallons of water per day from lake michigan.

the aquifer that supplies joliet is running out of water, yet officials are moving forward with a plan to build the state’s largest data center in the city. the project, spearheaded by two out-of-town investors, could consume up to 55 million gallons of water and 1.8 gigawatts of energy each year.

hey i almost started sobbing.., gawd damn

requiem for vanished birdsong

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

chickens and rats deserve better deaths than the people responsible for this

One trans woman's decision not to change her gender marker on her documents - along with the zealotry and cruelty of the Kansas State Legislature - has revealed a terrifying truth: Kansas has a transgender registry.

If you are cis and you are not loudly talking about the active eradication of trans rights to all the cis people you know, you are part of the problem.

CAN WE DO THIS IN CHICAGO?

hey are these americans in the room with us right now???

in more beautiful news, i heard a red-winged call for the first time in months and was gifted with many passing cranes singing all day (and maybe a whooper?)

I don't want decorum in politics I want Ilhan Omar telling Nance Mace to lay off the juice

boy i sure do love being repeatedly disrespected by a man at work 👍

oh and the nazi tattoo

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production. you have until March 23rd to comment. i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

Ruination

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

we should bring back defenestration

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

feeling very deprived of Little Kitty Cat right now

sooo how much more blatant does the naziism gotta be, like??

And this isnt even getting into, ya know, FOOD DESERTS! if they actually cared about Healthy Eating™, theyd be advocating for state ran subsidized grocery stores in underserved communities, but thats the thing! they don't actually care!

ok besides being like.. how do we even define it, the big thing that frustrates me about the ultra processed food debate is its failure to address WHY people eat a lot of these: Because they're cheap and usually require very little prep, if any.

Mass horror at the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti has DHS’s budget at stake. And yet in the past week, agents left a blind refugee to die alone. And lied about it. They pretended to be police looking for a missing child, to detain a college kid. And lied about it. What does this tell you?

Functionally, this is the end of foundational science research in many fields in the United States, the money taken away to subsidize already wealthy billionaires and their companies.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

what kinda sucks tho is a lot of these people, i presume, have a decent amount of money saved up to be able to move to another country... meanwhile all us poors™ are trapped in a sinking ship