Lol.

Reactions to IL-09 results on my timeline are all over the damn place.

RETVRN

Desperate for him to walk us all through his thinking in the post-game press conference.

Doing a no-caffeine experiment, and my body's all over the place! I did sleep HARD last night, though.

Oh, interesting, a new daily? ... Oh.

A fresh close-up in daylight. The way it ripped the fence and concrete sidewalk right out!

Daaaaaang, scene outside on Jonquil after Chicago's big Oscars storm. Some photos courtesy of @ohbusiness.bsky.social and @bikinandyellin.bsky.social.

Something I never expected to say in my life: I've been cited by the Atlantic. Very much identify with @cwarzel.bsky.social's take here, and appreciate the shout-out.

Been looking at old small-town websites from the '00s (don't ask, please), and folks were doing just *anything* in the CSS back then, I tell ya what.

The weird part is even the fancy DraftKings sportsbook attached to Wrigley looks off-putting and sad to me. A thousand flashing screens on all sides, and only a handful of patrons. The only time I've seen it filled is for a big game here or there, but I guess somehow it's popular enough to persist.

I've never been in a competitive district, and I hope to never be again, because the negative mailers, calls, and texts have been relentless. Did you know groups will text video attack ads now?

Anyway, gonna try to forget the world for 50 minutes and kick back with a mellow, cozy mass-casualty episode of "The Pitt."

Writing that is "clean" is not necessarily better, and it's *definitely* not better when it comes to literature, poetry, and criticism, where applying your personal signature is integral to the process. Hell, even before AI, plenty of folks were writing critically about homogenized "MFA voice."

I recognize in this paragraph aspects of a certain sort of conversation I see all too often on this app.

CTA, come reboot your monitor.

I rediscovered the Cat Power covers records recently after not listening to them for years, and I'd forgotten the way the opening guitar of "Silver Stallion" sends rays of light all the way to my nerve endings.

I will vote for whomever pledges to curb cigarette smoking on the train. I'm now a single-issue voter.

That feeling when I want more tea but I know I've had enough tea for the day.

This was legitimately what ground my watch of the show to a stop.

Book's got me listening to Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in the office.

Been dipping a toe back into "ER" as I wait for more "Pitt." Just an ep here or there while I get ready for bed or fold laundry. The interesting big difference is how judgy the '90s docs are w/r/t drug addicts and other hard-hit patients coming in. They're people, too, Anthony Edwards!

Oh that’s my friend Montressor’s wine cellar

First porch read of the season. (Kinda forcing it in this wind, but whatever.)

Sometimes if you're up late enough, too. 😬

Never tell me what this municipal-service marking actually means. I like to pretend it's a warning about Tie Fighters.

Cannot imagine giving a single shit about an individual actor's opinion on another art form, let alone spending whole days talking about it.

Presently in the middle of a long chapter that's making me feel bad for Shostakovich.

OFFENSE TAKEN.

This is how I feel about most of Tim Burton's output, even the early stuff so many love ("Edward Scissorhands," "Batman," etc.). His whole thing is black licorice to me.

Would be cool if the downfall didn't stop here, but I know better than to expect such things.

The strangest Netflix category I've ever seen.

*Screams in Illinois primary*

Pinched nerves are quite upsetting!

I think I came to the conclusion a bit ago that you can aware yourself to death, and it's not gonna make much difference. I keep up, but I try not to panic anymore about not keeping up enough.

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

One of the big ways I feel any boycott of the NYT and other pubs is bullshit is that the boycotters cannot also bring themselves to divest from algorithmic slop platforms, which are just as (if not more) deleterious to the information that comes to those boycotters.

Just a quick progress check-in.

Say, what happened to @leaflet.pub's in-UI Discover feed?

Feels potentially doable if you plan your day out with some rigor, no? You keep yourself to a beer and a taco an hour, with plenty of water and rest in between? And then just do a light mile once an hour during the daytime hours?

the consolidation of major media institutions by the president’s oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but…

Here I was, with my hand-thrown mug from home, thinkin' I was the tea champ of the office, and then I passed a woman in the kitchen washing out a floral china tea kettle.

*Sigh* This is how I find out.

If I find kernels in my cornbread, we're in a fight.

Haha what if we were each other's lighthouses? Guiding each other back to shore despite the choppy waves, despite the charcoal skies? Our very own beacons of warmth and safety in the unpredictable ocean we call life? Anywayy

The rice discourse is getting pretty weird.

I don't know if there's a name I've looked up yet whose life didn't end in murder, execution, assassination, or suicide.

Lotta talk on here today about the best way to cook rice, which I, a Midwesterner who only knows how to prepare short- and long-grain rice by burning it lightly on the stove, will not be offering an opinion on.