Rewatching Interview With the Vampire season 2 has really highlighted how effectively the show manages the narrative frame of Louis's perspective on events and getting increasingly excited about what they might have planned for the big focal character shift next season.

No eagles or herons today unfortunately, but still some stunning foliage.

Also was there seriously no ability to put a new curb cut like thirty feet west when exiting Clark Park?

It really sucks how as soon as you get south of Belmont the riverfront gets captured by industrial parking lots.

Heading out to look for some birds.

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

New: Pablo Moreno González and Felipe Agustin Zamacona, two men formerly held at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, and now the named plaintiffs in a federal class action alleging inhumane treatment at the facility, are being released from federal custody per a successful habeas petition.

James Watson, who stole women’s work on DNA and presented it as his own, is dead at 97 There, fixed it for you (Also, TIL he was still alive…)

I do slightly think that what is happening in Chicago could be the beginnings of a non-violent civil disobedience movement that goes way beyond just like, No Kings protests, and could grow quite a lot

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Now listening:

As someone who was an unapologetic Brandon booster, and a very big fan of Zohran’s campaign, there is really almost no comparison between these two. All they have in common is that they were both left-of-center candidates with corrupt, right-leaning ‘Democrat’ opponents with histories of failure.

What a banger

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

Just quit my job ama

BROADVIEW - state and local authorities just arrested about 20 women who hopped the concrete barricades outside the processing center, sat down in the middle of the street and joined hands. Took maybe five minutes all told.

I will say what’s interesting about these buildings is that they are aping prewar industrial architecture more than residential—there actually really aren’t many multifamily buildings that look like this from the early 20th century in Chicago

This further shows how federal agents in nhoods like Little Village don’t just come and go. They stay, walk around, assert their presence throughout all public space (and private ones too), intimidate people, snatch ppl. An invasion of Little Village and the SW Side.

Genuine question: why isn’t this perjury?

Irish Wisdom 🥃 #fuckICE

The Green Knight

La Chimera

best ending of all time, let's be real

Walking home from the gym this morning. Lombard Lamp, a unique street lamp located in Giddings Plaza in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood. A gift from the city of Hamburg, Germany, this ornate lamppost is a landmark in the plaza. #chicago

I presume that, despite being a proponent of more women having lives that are focused on childrearing, Sergeant does not want to return to a world where women do not have a right to financial independence. Bridging those two things requires interpersonal negotiation that *should not be obscured*

If you get this far: I would reword this in hindsight. "Kink" makes it sound like I think its a sex thing, or a domestic fantasy. What I mean is closer to: in the world that liberal feminism has won, attempts to engage in other ways of living involve some degree of negotiated reality

the speed at which RFK books it out of there is incredible

The mistake is pinning too much of this on hostility to mothers specifically and not a side effect of hostility to both women and labor (uh, the work kind). You really have to ignore quite a bit of reality to act like women who don’t have kids are seen as normative, so it’s not just Mom Bad

Okay look this is actually the crux of it for me: did men and women actually interact more successfully in the past? Or were women fucking subjugated? Please note that I am not making a statement about if men and women have issues interacting *now*

a lot of it is downstream from abusive parenting, imo learning to view feelings through the lens of being forced to feel things, having your feelings dictated to you by an authoritarian parent, being relentlessly punished for noncompliance or an "inappropriate" delay

Okay yeah lets do it, because it is an interview with two conservative women, which I think is getting missed in some of the drive by dunks. This isn't just Ross's normal crankery, its a window into a specific conservative project aimed at getting women to buy in.

I've been consciously trying to reduce the number of long "Look at these dipshits" threads I do but I might make an exception for the Douthat "Has feminism ruined the workplace" interview. Vile, stupid stuff.

Cheeseburger in Paradise (2002-2020): A chain of beachside-themed restaurants from singer Jimmy Buffet, named after his iconic song, offering a wide array of burgers along with sandwiches, salads, and tropical cocktails.

It is crazy how timely the release of One Battle After Another ended up being. All I can think about through this whole story is the Christmas Adventures Club.

...this is one of the most bizarrely antisemitic things I've seen recently

The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

Here's a photo of the old Chicago streetcar rails under Western Ave. that have been uncovered by construction. I took this from the Brown Line platform.

The 47th Ward is Wide Awake Get these fucking nazis out of our neighborhood

Don't trust a New York Times reporter. Don't talk to a New York Times reporter. They are the most ambitious journalists on the planet and will do anything to get the story their editor wants. The truth doesn't matter to them, only getting the story their editor wants so they can move up.

Free tacos in Albany Park 5-10 tonight, outside the Alderwoman's office at Lawrence & Sawyer

Here at Northcenter Town Square where 100-200 community members including families and young children are rallying after a teacher was taken by federal law enforcement from a local daycare this morning.

hercule poirot, about to bite into a stroopwaffel, suddenly feels Called by God to untangle this case

I am very tired of gender

Just observed ICE agents transferring detainees between vehicles at Warren Park — city property. This is prohibited.

Now that's interesting.

Judge Gettleman is on the bench.

I genuinely don't know if they believe this or not. It probably doesn't matter.

I hate these people so much