I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

As Bluesky's foremost Terry Kath-era Chicago Defender I must add that the album that "Saturday In The Park" comes from starts with a song called "A Hit By Varese" that attempted to come up with a classic rock anthem based on the music of avant-garde composer Edgar Varese (Frank Zappa's idol)

That “Saturday in the Park, I think it was the Fourth of July” song is great because the guy singing it doesn’t even care enough to verify that it was the day that he saw people walking around a park but he still expects us to care enough to listen to that bullshit

“Boutros singled out Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke for being a good partner in prosecuting criminals.”

The fact that it was switching colors right before the rain came in seems to imply it’s functional

I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen the old weather bell at Clark and Monroe turned on in my life

Hell yeah! I'm old enough to remember it being functional

Sign shop worked their asses off coming up with that one. #4thofJuly

Chicago could soon shift how it applies pedestrian design standards near transit. We break down the proposed "TOD Street" ordinance and the pros and cons for good urban design.

It's interesting how everything people used to proudly call "public" when I was growing up (public parks, public libraries, public schools, public transportation, public television, etc) is suddenly "socialist" now that rich people are spinning it.

Tune in LIVE to be throttled by the truth. Stream wherever you want to be perceived.

The difference between now and the 80s and 90s though is that there's so much less public space and every square inch of it is surveilled by a much larger, trigger happy militarized police force

It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.

pickett's charge is one of the stupidest military maneuvers ever ordered and I do not have to die on that hill because so many confederates did it for me

if you say "moses supposes his toeses are roses, but moses supposes..." to the lads they holler back "ERRONEOUSLY!" beastie boys style it's incredible

I got this into the Associated Press.

“What are you going to do, excommunicate me?” - Bishop excommunicated

“Horizons claims its inventory tops one million items—but how did that many records all end up in a tiny town an hour away from Rockford and even further from Peoria and Chicago?” chicagoreader.com/music/music-... @imleor.bsky.social

Hoskins is up for re-election in the spring and locally there’s been some rumors as to whether or not he’ll run again

it's so funny that one of things the german national team is blaming their bad world cup on is that they had such a great time in chicago it made their actual basecamp in winston-salem seem deadly boring and depressing in comparison www.bild.de/sport/fussba...

It is more critical than ever that City Council shows up for transit, as they play a key role in ensuring that Chicago is represented on day-1 when the NITA board is supposed to be seated on September 1st. They go into recess in August, which means they have to get it done this month.

❌ Today, for a second quarter in a row, City Council has ghosted CTA at the quarterly hearings THEY mandated by law. This is profoundly unacceptable, particularly as we are rapidly racing toward a critical deadline for NITA board appointments that will have to be approved by Council.

This gets to the root of my problem with "the problem is that it will affect cis women." The point is standing with trans women & girls RIGHT NOW is the action required to oppose this stuff. If you can't do that, responding down the line is pointless. Solidarity with trans women IS the resistance.

1986 snail farming zine PART 2 openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...

obsessed with this US department of agriculture zine about snail farming from 1986 openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...

Many elderly and disabled people depend on our bike lane network, and yet are somehow completely invisible to and neglected by society.

lol, 1 southbound train north of Belmont

I went to cast up my monthly accounts, and to my great trouble I find myself 7l. worse than I was the last month, but I confess it is by my reckoning beforehand a great many things.

Watched this today. Psychic teenage girl fighting Godzilla, "humans are the real monsters" message. Really bad English for the corpo characters. Extremely fast cuts. Initial D drifting. Human spirit plant monster. Had it all.

Arguably our biggest examples

Wish I was surprised that groups like AIPAC and the ADL will call you an anti semite for saying it's wrong to bomb hospitals, but afaik, they have yet to comment on how Texas is making in mandatory to read Bible verses with the diary of Anne frank bc xtian context is needed to comprehend the text

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperar... okay this is my new favorite architecture term that I will be inflicting on people. ghost signs but for everything

Looking for a quick and easy way to spread the word about #BuildTheTunnel? New on the site: a simple, straightforward, one-page flier to print out and send to whoever you like. Download the PDF at BuildTheTunnelChicago.org by clicking on "One-Pager" in the menu.

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

Are you a 15th century king? Do you want to show that you’re down with this humanism stuff that your scholars keep talking about, but you’re also terrified of your own people & the damn French? Ask your architect if Fancy Renaissance Gate Sandwiched Between Existing Medieval Towers is right for you.

Some people are getting stuck trying to drive over the new median.

Very confusing press release about a teen trend yesterday at Navy Pier that never manifested. The Chicago Public Media's offices are at Navy Pier so it was very easy for us to check in on if anything was happening.

Is this…is he re-deriving the Labor Theory of Value from the other side of the equation?

lol Dems: 'if you want change, you do it in the system, you do it in the party, win people's votes, be an adult' Also Dems: 'wait, no, not like that. It's wrong to do that.'

*gesturing with hands* outside big! inside small

[more emphatic hand movements] thermal capacity asphalt, concrete, very big. Heat island pavement big. [smaller hand movements] inside air, very small hot, relative

the funniest story going right now is that a giraffe has escaped and nobody can find it

guy on a bike called out to me ‘you look so beautiful!’ and i was steeling myself for it to get weird but then he called to a guy on a different bike ‘that’s a great bike man!’ and then ‘smoothie looks fire!’ to a third guy who was drinking one. so i guess i found him. Johnny Compliments

This is not in fact the heat island effect

I was gonna make a joke that this is like if the Woohoo Lady learned words but it turns out she literally did have to re-learn speech (successfully it seems) after a Guillain-Barré diagnosis. so good for her and this is why you search before you joke blockclubchicago.org/2023/08/21/w...