My 12 year old thinks all movies should look more like Empire Strikes Back. “It’s just a little better designed.” 🥲

Now reading Martin Chuzzlewit

Turkey 👏 turkey 👏 turkey 👏

Planning on a slice of Costco pizza for lunch 😋

Sandhill cranes flying overhead today

The geese are out in force today. Must be peak migration here.

It really is much easier to talk about things you hate than things you love

There's a patron at the library today with a full-sized Apple studio display set up

My local public library did a One Book event where they try to get the whole town reading the same book. The pick was The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. I read it in two days. It was lovely.

The sitting president of the US said “quiet, piggy” to a female reporter asking questions he didn’t like, and it has barely registered.

Anyone know where I can get some aplomb

This quote from P.J. O’Rourke keeps coming to mind these days

Seeing ads opposing the Chicago sports betting tax is making me want to support it even harder

49 degrees and 45% humidity might be my favorite weather. It feels so good to be outside and just breathe today.

Finally did it catfishing.net #512 - 10/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

MZEU

Is England real?

“Despite”

The world would be a better place if more people would just stay home and enjoy time with their families

Guy who thinks wife guys are pathetic because they don’t realize his wife is better than theirs

Every Epstein email is like > down . waht if up ? . smae difection or > hey just wanted to reach out about our crimes and the following accomplices

We keep reinventing debt bondage

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win, then you get co-opted by the system which is vastly larger and more powerful than your enemies ever were

Serious interview advice: maintain a question bank related to things you wish you knew about previous employers before you accepted their offers.

A lot of coups come from the lower ranks of senior officers. Colonel Level Anti-Chief

Hamtramck Amtrak Travel Tracker

"Dude, stop recommending Detectorists to everyone" Never. I will never do that

I’m hearing that the newly released Epstein files contain evidence that Trump is a pervert and a predator. Big if true!

One thing about the AI bubble: when the dotcom bubble burst, it did not mean the end of the commercial internet. It just separated the wheat from the chaff and gave outsized power to people like Marc Andreesen and Mark Cuban who cashed in on time.

First season of Broadchurch. Final season of Detectorists gets honorable mention

Recommendation: Karen Pirie is a good mystery series if you're into that sort of thing

Over the years we have evolved from drinking coffee from a tiny little cup on top of an enormous insulated flask, to drinking coffee from an enormous insulated cup. Much to consider

only 36 minutes until the guns go silent

I think we might have a slight problem on here with "getting so mad about *posts reacting to posts* that you incapacitate yourself with despair". Any1 else

Latest Chicago S spotting: an ad for a local ford dealership mentioning a “JD Powers” rating

@cheatlines.co say hi to your brother Ed for me

Our political opponents refuse to negotiate on anything so our only choice is to give them everything they want

The young ginkgo tree in front of our house dropped all of its leaves (which were all still green) during the snow overnight. Poor tree

There was a fatal crash today at the same spot we had a very bad accident that totaled our car four weeks ago.

*overrated chant* pumpkin pie-eye

Wow Indiana, wow

Got the rain barrels drained and cleaned, replaced some torn mesh on one of them, drained the hoses, turned off the outside water, put the deck furniture away for the winter … it’s coming folks

Someone send in the troops to save us from this urban hellhole

My name is Hal C. Ondays

Not only does this have nothing to do with the game or the prediction, it doesn’t even answer the question posed. Incredible stuff

Congratulations to St. David Beckham. Well deserved

I’m not psychologically prepared to get the snow blower ready, but the forecast is telling me I need to

Dudgeon and Draggin, a game of resentment and ennui

I think this sums up the ignorance of the right wing pretty well