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First off, dipshit, it’s the “Magnificent Mile”. And it’s not a “shopping center”, unless you’re thinking of Water Tower Place. Also, LMAO at the idea that MICHIGAN AVENUE is overrun by crime. Unsurprising, though, given these rough, tough men shit their pants at the thought of riding the subway.

Was recently discussing memorable events when we were teens and young adults, and man, music WAS genuinely cheaper back then. Lollapalooza 1993 was $31.50, which in 2025 dollars is around $71. Even at the minimum wage of the time, you could earn that (pre-tax) in less than a full 8-hour shift.

My wife gets today off, but I don't, despite me being a veteran. Gonna ask HR why my firm HATES ARE TROOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽😢

"At the end of the day, the fight lives on," motherfucker you just capitulated. That's the OPPOSITE of fighting. Words have meaning, you unctuous little serpent.

November 10th, all. Keep a weather eye out for the Gales of November

There is a weather warning for Lake Superior today, folks. The gales of November. They’re early. And they’re hungry.

A group of my friends moved to MeWe a few years ago and have a nice little insular community there MeWe just did a major visual update, and I can’t believe that after literally THIRTY YEARS of web design that something like “chat windows should block the chat selection pane” gets pushed to Prod

The annual start of the Extremely White holiday season has begun: the L. L. Bean Christmas Catalog has arrived

I need to be more intentional about taking my D7200 out with me on walks and such. I got a few snapshots I liked today up in Wilmette when we took our pup up there, but I should spend more time doing in the moment photography…I’m just so used to the extensive prep for DSLR astrophotography.

Took the lad up to the beachfront park in Wilmette today. Chilly and windy, but a perfect brisk fall day... November af.

Goddamn, just watched “Spotlight” again, and (1) damn if it didn’t earn that Best Picture Oscar, (2) a good journalism procedural is like catnip to me

L M A O

I get that you don’t need to read every article, speech, or whatever to get the impact of what it is and means. I promise you, this is different. Unless you’ll be triggered, please read this record of ChatGPT valorizing this poor kid’s suicidal desire. This is repugnant and literally anti-human

This is fucking awesome, and Glory to the House of Ruth!

My wife and I just sent some money to a trans friend of hers in financial straits that has had SNAP cut off, and they were so embarrassed to ask. Folks: part of a mutual aid mindset is accepting help as well as giving it. I know it’s not easy because of our socialization, but give yourself grace!

I dunno, y’all, giving the man who oversaw the destruction of USAID and is responsible for over 600,000 deaths as a result a trillion-dollar pay package sure seems like a plot beat in a story that comes right before folks decide drawing and quartering needs to make a comeback.

In solidarity with the Hurl of Sandwich. You're the hero, brother.

Jesus fucking Christ, this prick is just DYING to call Mamdani “uppity”, isn’t he?

I know this is a random thing to notice in this photo, but the Space Force flag has campaign/battle streamers? LMAO for WHAT, exactly?

OUR HERO IS TRIUMPHANT!

Oh my GOD I’ve fallen off the Lego train a bit (buying a 1000 sqft condo will do that) but this is extremely tempting. blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...

*Inspecting everyone around me carefully for signs that I've slipped into the Mirror Universe*

"Speaker Johnson then gulped audibly and adjusted his collar, releasing a plume of steam.”

One of the secondary and more subtle effects of the Bluesky nuclear block that I’ve recently become aware of is that I don’t get into as many vitriolic arguments as I used to. And I think that’s because the block means I always have the ability to remove myself, and that gives me more patience.

Sure, sure, 15 years of soccer when I was younger gave me good flexibility, balance, and leg strength... ...but the REAL value is when I casually flick a dog toy across the floor with my left foot and it slides to a stop right in front of the pup.

Among all the other good news, this is worth highlighting. This is for all you folks who blithely dismiss southern states, these circumstances are what drives change, sometimes PROFOUND change. This election win can be just the beginning.

This is critically important. As terrible as Trump is, “Make America Great Again” is a brilliant campaign motto, because it’s ACTIVATING. It calls on those who hear it to join the struggle. Mamdani is adopting that activation language, and it’s huge for coalition-building.

It’s freakishly counterintuitive, but it just might work!

All of this, too. The way that so many of the same Democrats that called for him to resign the governorship lined up behind him against Mamdani, even after the primary, should never be forgotten, nor forgiven. The test was administered, and you all failed.

Except the Reds were more dignified

Not gonna lie, I wasn’t expecting THIS kind of shellacking in VA, GA, etc. It’s gone from “Democrats and Independents are mad and voting about it” to “I will crawl over broken glass, vote, and write ‘FUCK TRUMP’ on the floor in my own blood before dying” Hopefully the trend bears out in NYC as well

This is a manifestation of the decrepitude of this country's socioeconomic engine. Hopelessness and seeing the game as rigged against you makes it easier to convince people that long-shot shortcuts to financial security are worth the bad odds, because hey, the odds of success sick anyway, amirite?

I mean, on top of the fact that he’s directly defying a court order, fam, is it smart to explicitly state that you’re holding SNAP hostage to attempt to extort Democratic votes?

I can do this all day

Oh my god

GenAI, like all technology/automation for work, is capital, and displaces labor. That doesn't mean it should be opposed! But it DOES mean that you have to figure out how to alleviate the impact on labor to avoid social disruption. And the more transformative, the bigger impact!

You know what this “Only I can fix it” shit reeks of? Contempt. “You’re all too weak. The people can’t do anything. Only the elites have power.” That’s what he’s really saying. God, his loathing for New York just OOZES off him. He can’t even muster ANY positivity, just “you’re doomed without me”.

And he's 100% lying about the former... particularly since it only works if he's looking at pictures of starving kids.

LMAO yes because the folks that would be moving to Texas from NYC after the election are DEFINITELY Mamdani voters, you sclerotic, imbecilic choad.

*”Curb Your Enthusiasm” theme music plays*

What an absolute heartbreak. I’m gutted for Toronto. Phenomenal series, and L.A. deserved the win, but what an awful game to have to endure.

Oh that bunt was poetry

Y’all, I know this is awful to experience, but according to my calculations *points to chalkboard covered in equations* we have a chance with this Game 7 of correcting the timeline that went off the rails when the Cubs won it all in 2016!

I’m just laughing helplessly now. FOOTBALL is a game of inches? Eat my entire ass!

I’m fully expecting a Game 7, and for it to go so long that it actually brings the U.S. and Canada to the brink of war.

If this game goes past daylight savings time a portal to The Good Dimension opens and we call all walk in!