The meanest thought I ever had about a baby was “oh no, he looks like John Byrne drew him”

Did I ever share this from our NYC atlas with you? "What Is a Jew? From Emma Goldman to Goldman Sachs," a map whose specificities breaks down the idea of a homogenous population so useful to antisemitism. Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Bernie Madoff to Rose Schneiderman to the Beastie Boys.

This is your reminder that if you live in #Chicago we have a free bookstore. YES, free bookstore. You can get free books here. I donate all of my books here. So, they generally have a solid horror section because I keep them well-stocked. www.books4cause.com/free-booksto...

If my house burned down, my village zoning code says I legally couldn’t rebuild it. If “preserving neighborhood character” means you can’t recreate the existing built environment, it’s not actually about the “character” of the neighborhood

Day 50: Hannah Jadagu - My Love (2025, USA, NK✅) Breathy dream pop, but fresh and interesting, with cool multi-tracked vocals. #TheTwen2ie5 I'll just squeak in on the HM list deadline - thanks everyone for making it so hard to narrow down!

Day 49: Annahstasia - Be Kind (2025, USA, NK✅) Whiskey-voiced Annahstasia should be the next weird girl pop sensation, if not the next Nina Simone. #TheTwen2ie5

His recent turn in Swan Song, playing a retired elderly gay hairdresser who goes on a day-long odyssey from his old folks’ home to style the hair of his best former client (with whom he was close but from whom he is now alienated) one last time for her funeral, was perfect. youtu.be/heN0JtJu4pE?...

Rest in peace, dear weird king 💔

Also: what someone is eating or not eating isn’t any of your business.

I was miserable in academia (and no good at the administrative side, which is most of the job) so I figured I'd work for my mom until I got myself together. A decade later, I've mostly taken over the family business.

We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now. "Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.

Day 48: Say Sue Me feat. Kim Hanjoo - Vacation (2025, South Korea, NK✅) NOT K-Pop, not a Korean imitation of Western art pop, but a relentlessly upbeat, guitar-driven third thing. #TheTwen2ie5

I mean, it’s not NOT religious, exactly, but it’s sure as fuck not Christian, and it is in large part specifically about how the gilded churchy holiness they try to force it into is NOT the totality of God or the sacred, and that the holy is present even in our tawdry little doomed one night stands.

Jason Brown said same-sex ice dance!

I TOLD Y'ALL I didn't want to learn anything else!!! I said I was DONE with information and I MEANT IT!! I don't want to KNOW THINGS any longer! I was VERY CLEAR about this: do not inform me.

Day 47: Obongjayar - Not in Surrender (2025, UK, NK✅) Carefree disco revivalism, but cleverly arranged and vaguely menacing. #TheTwen2ie5

*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly* people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!! *hitting you on the forehead with the spoon* STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...

We're staycationing in a hotel in downtown Chicago for our anniversary, and we both feel like there should be a time zone difference. There was a protest vs tree lighting shitshow of some kind, but we were off in the West Loop eating dinner like fancy people.

Suburban communities in Illinois are failing to meet the requirements set out for them in a 22-year-old law aimed at increasing the state’s affordable housing supply.

So folks become more honorable when Batman is standing in the room Public policy talking heads on Bluesky... Discuss this plz

Day 46: Perfume Genius - It's a Mirror (2025, USA, NK❌) Uncharacteristically straightforward country-tinged rock, until you realize it's an elaborate camp fake-out. #TheTwen2ie5

All you need to know about Chicago is this: we put our literal shit into the Chicago River, which flowed into Lake Michigan, which is where we got our drinking water, and where a lesser city would’ve said “let’s stop throwing our shit into the river” we reversed the flow of the goddamn river instead

It's Trans Day of Remembrance. I don't know a single trans person who hasn't lost another trans person in their circle. Please hold them in your hearts today, even if their names are new to you. And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.

OH MY GD???????!!!!!!!!

Day 20: Radiohead - Karma Police #20SongsByYear 1997 OK Computer defined 1997 for me. I got into it the way you can only get into music as a teenager, listening on repeat, feeling every note in my bones.

Day 45: Kendrick Lamar - Squabble Up (2024, USA, NK✅) It's no surprise that other track from GNX still gets most of the attention, but this is the better song. A victory lap with a vision of unity nestled in densely imagistic lyrics, flowing between rhythmic motifs. #TheTwen2ie5

Day 19: The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Puff Daddy & Mase - Mo Money, Mo Problems #20SongsByYear 1997 You couldn't walk down a city street in the summer of 1997 without hearing this thump from someone's car stereo.

"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...

Reminder for holiday shopping: When you buy from indie artists / small biz, you DIRECTLY pay the bills and put food on the table for creative people, and we appreciate every purchase. Add the #BlueskyNightMarket feed to sell and shop direct from the Bluesky community: bsky.app/profile/davi...

Happy 4th birthday to the Red-Purple Bypass! 🎉

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

laughing again because during a quiz there was a question about a famous pirate and I said to my friend just name any pirate and he panicked and said long bon jovi

Day 44: Megan Thee Stallion - Bigger in Texas (2024, USA, NK✅) Megan might be the most agile wordsmith in the game right now. Syncopation and slant rhymes over a minimalist sample, with a rapped-through chorus that's all swagger. #TheTwen2ie5

Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...

Day 18: Björk - Bachelorette #20SongsByYear 1997 We realized at the time that Homogenic was a great album, but it's so meticulous and bold, so sui generis, that it sounds better as it ages.

Day 43: Bartees Strange - Sober (2024, USA, NK✅) I've had the guitar riff from this theatrical rock song in my head since the first time I heard it. *11 POINT BONUS* #TheTwen2ie5

Skipping the 20 songs game for tonight so I'll end a day late. My excuse: took my mom to see Patti Smith play Horses in its entirety, and now I don't want to listen to anything else.

Day 42: Soccer Mommy - Lost (2024, USA, NK✅) Evocative lyrics about resolving feelings around a dead parent. Structured like loud-quiet-loud 90s indie rock, but wistful and soothing as it swells and pulls back. #TheTwen2ie5

Day 17: Pavement - Date w/ IKEA #20SongsByYear 1997 My favorite song on Brighten the Corners is one of the few not by Stephen Malkmus but Scott Kannberg, who yowls the semi-nonsensical lyrics over some of the band's most accessible riffs.

Day 41: Lucy Patané - Glitter Negro (2024, Argentina, NK✅) Patané takes us to the lesbian club in Hell with a stomping bass line and a long, crunching guitar outro. #TheTwen2ie5

This beautiful group of people came together at Skate America to show their solidarity with trans figure skaters harmed by the new US figure skating policy and to protest the bigoted and dehumanizing attacks on trans people in our communities.

Day 16: Jay Z feat. Blackstreet - The City Is Mine #20SongsByYear 1997 One of Jay Z's best rap performances, making a whole meal out of the emotionally conflicted rhymes. Some critics have ragged on what he and Blackstreet do with the "You Belong to the City," but I think it's brilliant.

Vladimir Litvintsev has terrible form and iffy skating skills, but those jumps were on tonight. And his choreographic sequence was the most fun we'll have in this dumpster fire of a men's event. #SkateAmerica

Just in time for the #SkateAmerica #GPFigure women's SP: Dead Drop gin, pomegranate liqueur, lime & clementine juices, club soda, lime garnish. (This will be the least drunk post in this thread.)

No photo because it just looks like a glass of cola, but my #SkateAmerica pairs FS beverage is Maker's & Pepsi with a splash of Fernet Branca, a Luxardo cherry, and a big lime wedge.

Gabby Papadakis is calling ice dance! Damn it, Peacock, I'm trying so hard to hate you. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure feelings in this thread, as well as home bartending photos maybe.

Day 40: The Vindys - Elton Glasses Baby (2024, USA, NK✅) Happy pop-rock banger that interpolates, references, and transforms Elton's music in a bunch of cool, non-obvious ways. #TheTwen2ie5

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.