this isn’t just like a youtube video thing btw. this is my undergrad thesis film and is gonna be screened at the gene siskel film center in downtown chicago. extremely excited (and a bit nervous!) to get something i made projected on the big screen

trying not to get too ahead of myself because it’s still in pre-production but my directorial debut short film is in the works right now and i’m very excited about it. no idea if it’s something my audience here would care much about, but i really hope some of you will watch it!!

update: sometime last night my discord server transcended past merely posting random numbers and began making tiddlywinks into an entire fucking religion. i’m watching a cult form before my very eyes

my discord server has a channel called "tiddlywinks" that technically is based on the real game of the same name but has evolved so far past what tiddlywinks actually is that it's completely incomprehensible to outsiders at this point

woke up this morning burning with rage. nuremberg trials 2 would not be enough at this point. fuck this genocidal fascist imperial regime and fuck anyone who isn’t immediately outraged at shit like innocent schoolchildren in iran and civilians across the middle east getting bombed

i would never post obvious bait

new bit idea: run for alderwoman and send out a bunch of election mail that only says stuff like “emily north has NEVER summoned a demonic entity,” “emily north will NEVER engage in anthropophagy,” “if elected i promise to breath air every single day,” etc

just watched paris, texas (1984) for the first time and i’m pretty sure if you tried to make a movie with colors like this in 2026 hollywood would just shoot you on the spot. the fact that they only had a budget of $1.5 million blows my mind

i love my chungus ass rapid transit system with street crossings. it’s so funny

this is the mindset of the people being given tens of millions to develop the useless ai tools that pervade silicon valley and quite frankly i think we should all be existentially horrified by it

a friend of mine recently turned me on to this incredible article about the bleak state of the ai tech world and the robin hood-esque escapades of one guy on twitter and now i must share it with all of you because it’s the best reporting i’ve read in a while harpers.org/archive/2026...

added a blacklight to the space under my loft bed and now it looks like when a video game has an important intractable object

i’m gonna throw out a hot take here and say i don’t think the bears indiana stadium is gonna actually happen

i’m gonna be back in nyc in a bit over 3 weeks. who wants to hang out

yes it may be the year of the horse and yes it may be fat tuesday but more importantly…HAPPY PĄCZKI DAY CHICAGO!!!

happy fake summer everybody

almost 50 and sunny… it’s basically summer today

sometimes i think about what it must’ve been like to live in chicago from 1969-1973 and see 3 of the top 5 tallest buildings in the world at the time completed in a 4 year span right next to each other

baldur’s gate 3 is a dystopia because it shows a world in which everyone is forced to be british

after much trial and error i have determined the correct way to watch blade runner is to play the director’s cut on laserdisc on a crt piled with a bunch of other miscellaneous 1980s tech equipment

this came to me in a dream

for everyone who moved to chicago in the last few years from somewhere warm and is experiencing an extended period of harsh winter weather for the first time: lots of thin layers trap warm air between them and will keep you warmer than one thick puffy coat. layer properly!!

aaaaa a friend just gifted me a set of metal dice themed to my character… i’m obsessed

started playing in a regular dnd campaign for the first time in my life recently and i’ve gotten so obsessed with my character i bought balder’s gate 3, remade her, and then sunk 20 hours into it in a week. this fictional character of my own making is taking over my life. help

my sleep schedule’s so fucked up because i’m always up at 3am wondering shit like “how did people take care of their toenails before nail clippers were invented”

recently got a really good deal on a pc from 2019 so i’m looking up cheap upgrades i can give it and the prices of gpus now makes me sick to my stomach

do you ever think about how absurd it is that we have an intersection between a street named after columbus and a street named after the leader of mussolini’s air force in the middle of downtown chicago in the year 2026

the cold and precipitation today has lead to the chicago river being almost entirely blanketed in snow

sometimes when i see the moon alone in the daytime sky i start trying to picture it as a planetary-sized world hundreds of thousand of miles away caught in an endless dance with ours until i get dizzy imagining the scale and beauty of our universe

spending 3 weeks on the northeast corridor has really solidified for me how much of an outlier chicago is in the us. you’ve got this one row of high-density pre-car cities with high transit usage (for the us), one midwest city built like that 720mi away, and nothing else similar

THE BIG MAMDANI HAS MADE IT TO TUMBLR

They spelled “permanently abolish ICE, and impeach and charge Noem, Bondi, Miller, Vance and Trump” wrong. Abolishing ICE is essential but isn’t enough. Everyone who empowered them needs to be held accountable for their crimes.

i genuinely don’t know how i can share a country with anyone who isn’t completely appalled at what’s going on

looking at pictures of me from age 18 vs now and it’s kind of amazing how i transitioned from looking like a chud redditor to looking like a lesbian who’s obsessed with mushrooms and frogs

i know the system has a reputation for being ugly and grimy but recently i’ve really fallen in love with the tile murals of the new york city subway

every time i come home from o’hare i dread when i have to find the icon for my specific bus route on here to check the arrival times

a huge shout-out to all my lovely friends and my partner in nyc, it was so amazing to get to spend the last few weeks together!! truly an amazing city and community, i can’t wait to be there permanently soon

goodbye new york city and hello chicago! i will be here for another seven-ish weeks until i return to the big apple once more. i haven’t been home for more than a day since mid-december, i hope i didn’t miss much!!

lake michigan is doing some incredible things in this cold

i’ve done a truly ridiculous amount of traveling this past month. i don’t know if i’m ever gonna top this without going on some huge road trip or something

my partner’s cat really doesn’t want me to leave nyc again

may i offer you a fresh bagel straight from the wonderful borough of queens

the clouds in manhattan are doing some really cool stuff tonight

it is green because you can drink it here

arrived back in new york city on a slightly hazy night

appreciating whoever has purple mood lighting in their empire state building office tonight

tried to take a photo of the “trenton makes, the world takes” bridge but the train was bumpy and i ended up with a piece of abstract art instead

shout-out to my fellow cult of uranium members, was amazing spending time in philly together!!

uranium glass under a blacklight plus a bit of fog results in one of the coolest and most cursed looking objects of all time

slowly becoming convinced philadelphia is quietly one of the best cities for architecture in the country