It's funny how the "colonize mars" contingent is composed mainly of people who pay untold millions for the privilege of having sun-drenched verdant and/or oceanic views right outside their window

No two CTA rear bus doors have ever functioned the same way

Just got a PR email with the subject line "Lemonade Is Having A Moment" and I'm like

Who are the absolute cops answering these surveys?

Building a summer bucket list and realized that 5 of the 11 items so far are just various ice cream flavors I urgently need to try

Your local library loves you as no other municipality can

Oh, how the mind still wanders toward it

Obvious, but worth reiterating the fact that the worst person on earth is also about to become the richest is not a coincidence

The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the general public that cyclists are the reckless ones

I have a feeling that one of the key features of Merriam-Webster's online dictionary has switched to being handled by AI and I need someone to confirm because I'm hopping mad

AI is so notoriously unreliable that even ads hyping up its capabilites have to acknowledge its most foundational flaws and act like they're no big D

Interesting* that the convention became "Mark As Read" instead of "Mark Read" [*to me and me alone]

9:18 because NO RULES

Midwest suburban culture dictates that if you spot a friend or acquaintance in the wild, you must make yourself known with some kind of gag or a killer opening line (ex: "They'll let anyone in here, huh?" "You gonna finish that?" etc.)

The CTA is making me ride in a Dude Wipes–wrapped train car

20 years ago today I was pumped to all hell to buy The Hush Sound's "Like Vines"

Instagram, continually at a loss to figure out which products to hawk to me, has moved on to luxury watches

As a pedestrian I support robust cycling infrastructure primarily because I don't enjoy being escooted toward at high speeds

🚨Shirt Alert🚨

The Southport Corridor's empanada coverage is oddly total

I can smell these

Everyone in Chicago is currently hotter than they've ever been

I mean

I think if you're gonna have headways like this you should at least be required to tell me why

🙏 Plz consider a repost 🙏

Chicago, I could use your help! 🙏 (thread)

When Hank Scorpio asks Homer if he's ever seen anyone say goodbye to a shoe and Homer replies "Yes, once," was Homer referring to a separate prior incident or the scene he had just witnessed

I don't think the internet is for me anymore. Why is everyone sharing a list of "Absolutely Unhinged Things I Do To Feel Like I Have My Shit Together" and it's full of stuff like "folding my laundry." Why is that happening.

My phone just autocorrected "I'll Venmo" to "I'll bebop" and I think I've just invented new slang

The voice on the bus that says "please do not stand in the rear door area" is the same in NYC and Chicago

The best response I've heard/seen to the question of using AI in writing was Yann Martel: "Why would I? It would be like hiring someone to have sex for you. I love writing. I love the materiality of it. ... Why would I want to use it when it's the very creative language that I like?"

I am so excited for so many technologies that aren't AI

13 minutes until the train comes (unacceptable headway) and there's nothing I'd love more than to wait for it in a squatting position, but America simply isn't ready for that yet

Some days, reality is such that every single ad is the stupidest ad I've ever seen

Hell yeah @kellygarcia.bsky.social at Injustice Watch knows what's up

Ask me my least favorite aesthetic on the planet and I will show you "dogs on white backgrounds photoshopped to such hell that it makes you wonder if they even started with an actual photograph in the first place"

9:46am? Cheez-It o'clock

No line at Del Sur this morning fwiw

I think I speak on behalf of everybody here when I say I’m cheering for the mutant super pigs and will happily die for them if need be

I don't usually do this, but look at how lovely my grid was this morning 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Another great example of how the people most equipped to amass the most wealth are also necessarily the least equipped to enjoy any of it

I copyedited a food website, so this joke basically sums up my employment from 2019-2024

Lyft drivers showing up on the incorrect side of the intersection is the "bread landing butter-side down" of the 21st century

I'm the Coco Chanel of Bluesky in that I encourage everyone to look in the mirror and delete at least one thing they've posted today

I'm looking forward to how they commemorate the next International Women's Day.

This sets a high bar for future nuggets and their respective celebrations

Experiencing a very funny glitch on Tidal where every single Daily Discovery playlist features "Lilacs" by Waxahatchee, a song that is in no way new to me and which does not seem to get logged as having been listened to already

You just have to convince several people that your dreams should be their job to sell