As somebody who has been in several leadership roles, in both work and volunteer settings, leaders who do not accept that the buck stops with them are perhaps my greatest peeve. If you do not want that, step aside.

Pritzker started losing me because of his silence over the transit fiscal crisis, and now he has completely lost me over his silence about the ISP colluding with ICE in Broadview

Just a splash

Need to do a bunch of work for not a lot of pay while police forces brutalize the political opposition in the suburbs, happy Friday

I love a sad bop. A song where you’re dancing and then you start paying attention to the lyrics and say “oh 😕.” Together Again by Janet, Dancing on my Own by Robyn, Stayaway by MUNA, Perfect Crime by Tinashe, One by Amber Mark, etc.

One of my neighbors consistently orders food delivery and then just leaves it to rot on the stoop for literal hours, and I just don’t understand spending that amount of money to feed the rats

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

Top albums of September according to Last.fm (which incorporates vinyl listening): 1. THAT’S SHOWBIZ BABY! by JADE 2. Perimenopop by Sophie Ellis-Bextor 3. Essex Honey by Blood Orange 4. Three Dimensions Deep by Amber Mark 5. Tension Tour//Live 2025 by Kylie Minogue www.last.fm/user/adamgog...

September in music

"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van”—a report from a Chicago apartment building. These are essentially white nationalist attacks on US residents, including children, being paid for with our tax dollars

Few Chicago DJs have garnered the kind of mythical status of Lee Collins, who issued few recordings of his own but whose skills behind the turntables earned him international praise. I talked to eight different people about his life and legacy for the Reader.

This morning’s workout fueled by Rochelle Jordan and Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Will I still enjoy Expedition 33 if I haven’t played the previous 32 installments

Taking a moment to admire the spotlessness of my fresh-out-of-the-box new white shoes before they face the streets of Chicago

Sunday evening chill continues

Chill evening

So much depends on this Bloody Mary.

She is making it very difficult to be productive today

They’re playing Natalie Merchant at the bar let’s gooooo

Got like 4+ hours of new music to listen to today 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Gays at the theatre @iamtravieaustin.bsky.social

Yesssssssss

My hot take is that NIMBYism is often a release valve for the racism and classism of people in blue cities who self-identify as progressives more so from peer pressure and desire to fit in than their own strong sense of values and morality

I love to lose a pair of sunglasses

It’s Wednesday and I KNOW y’all didn’t get raptured yesterday. Let’s see those humps

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

I wonder if this cold brew realizes how much is riding on it this morning

I need you to know that the people who believed the rapture would be today will not care when it doesn’t happen. That’s because Evangelicalism is a grift about all else. It’s made up of grifters and the willingly grifted. Everything else is flexible.

I hate to be crass, but these bakers from the current season of GBBO could definitely uh, bake my bread

She loves to luxuriate on the bed and watch me get ready to go into the office and earn a living for both of us 😒

Strava has gotten so annoying to use. Do we really have to enshittify every app?

It finally came

I would never buy a fridge with a screen, but if I did, and the screen started showing me ads, I would simply smash it. I’d rather have a broken screen than giant ads in my kitchen.

Being a Janet stan in the year 2025

Told work ✌🏼 and hit the beach one last time for this summer

Self Saboteur by JADE. That’s it. That’s the skeet.

🙃

Layers by Sophie Ellis-Bextor. That’s it. That’s the skeet.

This happened seven (7) years before I was born, and I’ve got a bald spot and my knees click when I go up the stairs.

Though I had dodged the post-booster crappiness this year, but turns out it just needed 24 hours to kick in

What song is a ✨perfect ✨ pop song?

Really enjoying JADE’s album. Not listening to most of the singles was the right choice because it still sounds fresh!

🔔 Ring ring 🔔 It’s the Gai-tronics phone, and it’s for you

My original goal here on Bluesky was to just talk about music and gay shit, so while it’s hard to stay away from politics given the urgency of the current moment, let me re-center and say… Tomorrow is JADE and Sophie Ellis-Bextor day!

Whose lives get to matter here? Can we have a heart-to-heart about that?

Hungry! At the Gymnasium

It’s never been clearer that the Democrats are not going to save us

I will say this was a great example of why the SUV and truck craze is so harmful because this time, it was a sedan that struck me, and I just kind of turned and sat on hood. If it had been a truck or SUV, they would have knocked me into the concrete

Am I a real Chicagoan now that I’ve been hit by a driver flying out of an alley? (I’m okay)

*small boyfriend @iamtravieaustin.bsky.social