Current* conditions near St. Ignace, MI:

RayLo posted a tranche of photos from his reelection campaign kickoff party and if you played a BINGO game based on people you'd expect to be there, everybody playing would win

KJM's 2016 "Mastry" retrospective at MCA Chicago was perhaps the most personally affecting exhibition I have ever attended. I was living near the setting of "7am Sunday Morning" at the time but wasn't rooted in Bronzeville, and the work prompted me to seek to know the neighborhood with real depth.

One of my neighbors is having a big prom party for their daughter, and there's currently a middle aged white couple standing directly across the street from them in front of my house just staring at the party, and I am gonna be so pissed if they decide to make a problem where there isn't one

2648 West Maypole Avenue

Been so busy this week that my kitchen sink currently looks like it belongs in a punk house

June 5th, join us for the debut of "Pullman Porters & Maids: Invisible Labor, Visible Legacies", a new solo art show by Shane-Jahi Jackson exploring the lives and labor of Black workers at the height of American rail travel through figurative painting rooted in archival records and family stories:

Anne With An E, S01E01, 2017

J. Lewis Crozer Library, public library in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Lewis_Crozer_Library #libraries #books #map

General principle: when somebody comes in with a novel thing that nobody's tried before and claims it's gonna save your town, they're likely deluding themselves and misleading you.

I hate the way the AI techbros have caused a muddying of terms because "data center" means literally so many things and only a recent wave of them are specifically part of what we're all mad at.

The isle royale northern lights are back!

Current* conditions near Allouez Township, MI:

Thank you Taskmaster for showing us that celebrities are exactly like us

Never noticed this before now, but the photo at the top of Chicago's Vacant Building Registry website appears to depict Baltimore, if I'm not mistaken

So glad somebody already wrote a no-holds-barred takedown of this dude and his terrible idea to run for governor in a competitive Wisconsin race:

So glad somebody already wrote a no-holds-barred takedown of this dude and his terrible idea to run for governor in a competitive Wisconsin race:

Interesting to see some of the groups behind the quantum development in South Chicago go full steam ahead on a $$$$ charm offensive to try to defuse opposition from neighborhood groups, like funding this pool project

You can get a glimpse into the hell I made for myself this evening through this post and the subsequent posts in the thread. Public records are fallible and it's pissing me off. Does anybody actually own anything? Have a great night.

Assembling a conspiracy pinboard that mostly just mirrors the fact that county property records are a fucking mess in Harvey and it's impossible to tell whether certain parcels are really connected to the same people or if their records are intermingled because somebody recorded the wrong address

Rigo, my hero, is back

Things judges say when your lawsuit is definitely going well

HOLY SHIT WE ARE BACK TO MAKE MORE PHOTOS WITH SHIT CAMERAS! NO-ONE COULE HAVE PREDICTED THIS! WE WILL SAVE YOUR ASSES FROM YOURSELVES! ANOTHER FUCKING #SHITTYCAMERACHALLENGE IS COMING! JULY 1ST TILL SEPTEMBER 30TH DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT, BUT BEST DO IT WITH A CAMERA THAT SUCKS SHIT!

So much local prom drama this year

I wonder how many total theological schisms have taken place in Christian history as a direct result of a guy wanting a divorce but also wanting to keep his position in the church

Rarely has a newly invented term been so immediately valuable and useful as Slopulism is

Neil Young very nearly cracked his egg when he got really into synthesizers in 1983 and named the resulting album what he did

It's hard enough doing this kind of research without the extra bullshit

4/ while we're on the subject, i was a bit surprised to hear jason hernandez, sheriff dart's intergovernmental affairs chief, tell commissioners that the ccso currently has 71 flock cameras. i submitted a foia last month for the locations of all the ccso's cameras and they only disclosed 50...

In my mind it's still called Rezkoville

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Robots don't have to be evil surveillance tech nightmares. They can play in grain bins.

mature camry no. 316

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office withdrew its request to purchase BriefCam for monitoring people incarcerated in Cook County Jail from the County Board’s Technology Committee meeting agenda. Stay tuned for next steps to keep this harmful AI tech out of the jail: endmoneybond.org/plan-to-use-...

I've turned a kids toy into an art vending machine to bring a little whimsy to the markets I sell at

One thing I learned back in the days of Freakanomics is to discount anyone who writes extended passages claiming that Nobody Else Would Think To Do what the hero author has done.

The staff at the Wikimedia Foundation (which runs Wikipedia sites for 345 languages, plus a handful of related sites) are forming a solidarity union >> Wiki Workers United is a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo... wikiworkersunited.org

Politicians hold state power. Organizers deserve to push Mamdani—and any of our faves—to keep promises. As Bayard Rustin said, “I do not look upon myself as one who supports this or that politician to get in office, but as a person who says if and when you get into office you must do these things.”

Dewey Square, by Frank Stella American, 1936-2024 1962 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/66201

Adobe is still evil but unfortunately after getting used to Lightroom Classic for five seconds I can confidently say that it's a million times more intuitive than the alternatives for RAW development and has already made my workflow a lot faster

recently

2837 West Warren Boulevard

Same

I've slowly come around to the idea that all takes are wrong

LAUREL HILL: 3957 2ND AVE, LAUREL HILL FL 32567-9998

God forbid a bus have a thriving social life

Watch out for the boss fight against “a gradual incline”

About to make a normal latte

My colleagues were curious if the state travel reimbursement law which very specifically bars reimbursement for circus expenses has any interesting backstory. A famously corrupt clown? Lawmakers bribed with bags of peanuts? CC @johnamdor.bsky.social @capitolfax.bsky.social

I know that not everyone keeps up with everything, but I'm surprised that there are enough people out there who aren't aware of (or don't care about) the various Amanda Palmer horrors that The Dresden Dolls expect to fill venues like the Salt Shed and Massey Hall during their upcoming tour