3 Friends Visit Every CTA 'L' Stop In 9 Hours In Effort To Set Guinness World Record blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/13/3...

had to see what this disambiguation hatnote was about and sure enough, apple's original thumbnail (before they fixed it):

I like The #AmazingRace because you actually learn stuff. The parliament building in Bucharest is the world's heaviest building. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_...

This is the best takedown of Musk I’ve ever read. From a beloved author around my age no less, Joyce Carol Oates.

Man, fuck McAfee and fuck his stupid show. What a disgrace to punters

I noticed Green Bay's city boundary juts out to include Lambeau Field. It turns out there is a story about this. www.wpr.org/history/fasc...

Today I learned the region of New York I thought was the “Tuckhill Plateau” is actually the Tug Hill Plateau. I had never seen it written out before. I’ve only heard TV meteorologists say it. Tonight, it distinctly sounded like they were making a G sound instead of a K sound, so I looked it up.

I’ve been saying for years that Dick Durbin needs to retire. That he’s too old and out of touch to do the job. He just demonstrated it. He doesn’t have the will to fight. Vote for Raja in the primary. He will fight for us.

Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting. Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.

It's important to understand why there's never been a Republican healthcare plan: Obamacare IS the Republican plan. When Obama began to work on a way to expand healthcare coverage and eliminate the devastation caused by lack of coverage or coverage denied because of...

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

When your wife sends you a vanity plate pic, you know it has to be good

Yang Liwei who became China's first human in space in 2003

The guy doesn't know the difference between "to" and "too."

With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”

Not a fan of today's Wordle. I bet a lot of people don't know this word. When I made my last guess, I had to look it up first to see if I was even guessing a real word. Wordle 1,604 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Corporations like to make the argument that they are people. Well, we execute people for committing heinous crimes. There should be a legal process for shutting down corporations that fail to act in the public interest.

ICE agent charged with driving under influence in Oak Brook crash after leaving Broadview facility abc7chicago.com/post/ice-age...

Guardians of Geography: The team at UW-Milwaukee behind one of the world's largest map collections www.tmj4.com/news/milwauk...

The story goes, that as part of the media blitz for the Beatles arrival, the Washington Post called up Irv Robbins, and asked if the chain was planning a Beatles flavor. They weren't, but he blurted out, "yeah, Beatle nut!" He then reportedly developed and rolled it out in 5 days.

Seems that Donald's "irrefutable fact" was refutable after all . . .

They are driving Dacia Joggers on tonight's episode of The Amazing Race. They are nice-looking vehicles. Practical design, and it isn't giant like the stuff sold in the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia_J...

Sandwich guy's team zeroes in on the gag gifts that Agent Lairmore accepted from other agents, including a sandwich plush toy and the "Felony Footlong" patch he put on his lunch box. "If someone assaulted you, offended you, would you keep a memento of that assault? ... Of course not."

Interesting thread.

This Maverick should be added to Gran Turismo. We don’t need yet another variant of Nissan GT-R. There are more than enough of those in the game.

The latest crappy trend I see in social media is people posting copypasta from ChatGPT trying to sound smart, or thinking they're contributing to the conversation. How does one paragraph of super generalized info make you sound smart? It doesn't.

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.* The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

from 2003

Trump’s Autopen

I was looking at the Bears' flights to & from Cincinnati. The flight to CVG was 1 hr 18 mins long. 21 mins of taxiing at ORD, 10 mins of taxiing at CVG. So 40% of their flight time was spent taxiing.

LOL. Caleb Williams with 2 receptions so far. #Bears

That's hilarious. The Bears looked like ass on that kickoff, then their QB *receives* a touchdown pass.

What's the fastest a touchdown has been scored in the NFL? 11 seconds by any chance? #Bears

‘Son, you ain’t lived until you sh*t under a chandelier. That’s class. Just like Lincoln.’

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I worked at a college library as a student employee for a couple of years. One of my favorite jobs ever. My job was to process new book orders for the librarians. Place the orders, then unpack the new books when they arrived. We used Baker & Taylor. This is a big deal. lithub.com/libraries-ar...

They literally ruin everything they touch

A post popped up in my feed from a guy complaining (rightfully) about the cost of a flight from his small-market airport. Commenters suggested he drive 6-8 hours to fly out of a bigger airport to save $. Seriously? Spend half the day flying, then spend another 8 hours driving? Impractical.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem rejects Gov. Pritzker's request to suspend immigration enforcement on Halloween, she calls it "shameful" and said immigration enforcement will continue to make streets safer. wgntv.com/news/sec-noe...

Around 2001 I spent a summer working for a company that negotiated bills between insurance companies and healthcare providers. One part of the office had ~8 fax machines. The project I worked on involved importing scans of bills into a system. I fixed errors made by OCR, which wasn’t good yet.

Every authoritarian action Trump is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity. He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness. Remember this.

Court blocks order requiring CBP Chief Bovino to meet with judge every day on immigration operations abc7chicago.com/post/border-...

Our nation is in such a sad and stressful state because a large percentage of its inhabitants *live* for confrontations and negative reactions.

Not many plane pics on my phone, but I have tens of thousands on my computer.

While Trump’s chaos threatens the economy, Illinois proves fiscal discipline and responsible leadership work

I think a major thing in our culture that changed is a bunch of Dem elites also now believe false things too because they're cooking their brains on Twitter, a fascist controlled brainwashing machine, all day.

Border Patrol chief ordered to meet with judge daily on Chicago immigration crackdown abcnews.go.com/US/border-pa...