Private Dancer’s parking lot was packed. Columbus fellas, if you’re in Private Dancer on a Wednesday night… you may have an issue.

posting from heaven now. the wifi is pretty good but it's got the aesthetics of a modern mcdonald's, which kinda sucks.

Picking up riders at lost lands & my cell service was nonexistent. I ended up wandering the rideshare pickup lot asking ppl if they have a ride yet. It’s the closest I’ve ever been to being a street walker.

Trans rights are human rights.

@steveshives.bsky.social well well well… looks like someone’s theory about avoiding the beep chair was proven right.

Superfans ruin every fandom. They become gatekeepers & they enforce unrealistic standards on the brand that turns ppl away. Star Wars is the best example… but also religion. Fundamentalists are just religion superfans. Meanwhile, spiritual ppl just want gay friends & bacon… & a social safety net.

My late Thunderbolts review: A movie about fighting depression through the power of friendship.

Pallas cat, Columbus Zoo, 8/26/25, © Chet Kresiak

OMG… www.dispatch.com/story/news/c...

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? What a nightmare…

Now this is messaging. Not my constituents, not the people of Chicago, he said “MY PEOPLE.” Very effective and moving.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Please update style books to use the term, “exile” Sending someone to a completely different country on a completely different continent is exile.

It should be said that Jillian Michaels absolutely exuded evil energy on Biggest Loser but she was bullying fat people so it was ok

/9 Here is Texas v. Johnson, 1989, specifically rejecting 36 years ago this verminous administration’s stupid, dishonest arguments: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

Hakeem Jeffries accused of tanking the season to get a better draft pick

Imagine a Republican mayoral candidate getting voters this excited & the RNC wasn’t rallying the whole party apparatus around them…

What a fantastic, creative way to excite, inspire, & mobilize voters, to get them involved in your campaign, to have them connect w each other, & to grow an even stronger political movement. Mamdani is the type of candidate the Dem. Establishment needs, not that they'll ever agree. #ZcavengerHunt

The crowd at Stop One of the Mamdani scavenger hunt!

Meanwhile the DNC is like, “But we’ve got a perfectly good Hakeem Jeffries right over here…”

What a burden to be old enough to know who Dean Cain is

@steveshives.bsky.social thoughts on Book of Eli? Did you see that movie?

If you truly think tweets are going to bring down fascism I’ve got a Lincoln to Project you

Skanking against the machine.

True

Violence in Columbus creates fear & anxiety, regardless of whether it’s real or perceived. I use to reliably get rides from Muirfield/Jerome to downtown for dinner during the week, now it’s only younger people. This impacts retail & service workers downtown as well, who make less $$ bc of this.

Another example. An argument escalated(probably) bc this guy knew he had a gun, so he wasn’t afraid to engage. W/out the gun, this would be a shoving match or a fistfight. That shooter’s life is also ruined (to a lesser extent, obv) bc IF he gets out, he’s not going to have a life.

This used to be a fistfight. Now it’s a shooting. Every problem is ‘solved’ w/ a gun. The victim’s life is obviously ruined but so is their family & even the perpetrator & their family when they’re caught. It’s stupid & creates an irrational fear of crime that keeps ppl home.

Talked to a server at Guild House in Short North, Columbus & she said she was talking to another server & noted they made way more money last summer by now. Not a great sign.

@jennylsq.bsky.social “Save Me Now” by Wisp pairs well with “Cherry Waves” by Deftones. I could see Deftones covering that song…

She’s going to win.

Governor Pritzker is right. No more blank checks for Netanyahu’s right-wing government and its military. No more blank checks for war crimes against Palestinians. forward.com/fast-forward...

DRAMA… Jeni of Jeni’s Ice Cream is claiming that NYT posted nearly her exact James Beard awarded recipe without crediting her after repeatedly trashing it or preferring custard based recipes. She seems unhappy about this…

My first self produced documentary is now live. You’re Being Watched: The Company Behind America’s Mass Surveillance Takeover youtu.be/GNqZ-Yrzh1o?...

They mentioned $21/he & I countered with $30. Probably won’t be hearing back.

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

This is legitimately funny

What am I worth? Is it wrong to turn down $20/hr? Even after the money saved on gas/expenses related to driving Uber, it may not be enough to replace what I bring in, let alone increase it. Also, it has to be enough for me to sacrifice the freedom of starting & stopping whenever I want.

Indie artists do country music better than most country artists.

Tomorrow’s Pelotonia!! Out day and night in all kinds of weather, all the year round training for the day!! Thanks so much to everybody who has supported this ride to fight cancer and—if you haven’t yet—now’s the time! www.pelotonia.org/profile/DK79...

i give it a year tops before some administration account is tweeting pro-slavery propaganda

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

@jennylsq.bsky.social for Old School, can you play the most unhinged Mclusky song you have?

I get so tired from Uber driving that on my days off, I’m too tired to get real adulting done. It’s a vicious cycle.

Pickled veggies on pizza is incorrect. I’d much rather have fresh sliced jalapeños on my pizza than salty, wet discs… especially when reheating leftover pizza. It’s not great.