who's excited for the spelling bee tonight, LET'S GOOOOOO

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

Just a baby drinking coffee

Every time I hear Owl City's "Fireflies", one of the worst songs of the 21st century, I turn it into a metalcore song in my head, just to maintain my sanity I'd like to make my self BUH-LEEEEEDDDD

I'm no fan of the Knights, but any enemy of Enos Stanley Kroenke, one of the worst humans on earth, is a friend of mine (for now). Vegas in 4 but I hope they get steamrolled in the finals.

If a restaurant spells the salad "Ceasar" or the sandwich "Rueben", I will boycott them. There is no excuse. We live in a society with rules.

I know 2020-2021 is a memory hole for a lot of people, but I still think about Blaseball all the time. Jessica Telephone and Peanut Bong were absolute icons.

Legitimately crying at how funny this is. I am EXTREMELY excited about the possibility that Shaq and Chuck are about to learn about I Think You Should Leave. I would pay $1,000 dollars to watch them watch "Coffin Flop" live.

I have two brown thumbs, but I think this jade plant is doing pretty well (other than the wide fanning out - I think that's a light thing, but it lives where it lives). Any master gardeners out there with some insight?

The basketball will continue until morale improves

Ain't a thing better than game 7 OT. As long as your team wins.

It's often kinda sad to see past-their-prime folks putting themselves out there maybe a little too much, but Sir Paul fuckin' tearing it up on SNL at 83 is inspiring.

It really bugs me that the Muny's recent ads do the song in 4/4. The jingle is really stiff. They used to swing it. It feels right swung.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Not every playoff series can be as chippy as Pens-Flyers, but Habs-Sabres is getting pretty pretty pretty good for neutrals. Kinda pulling for MTL since their goalie went to high school in St. Louis.

I just "KA-KAW!"ed a family of folks in the Grove all wearing Battlehawks gear, clearly headed to the game. All of them looked at me like I was crazy. And people wonder why STL is dying.

I got What's the Story Morning Glory from the library on CD in 5th grade and dubbed it to cassette. Also paid a kid $5 and a couple Oreos on the playground for Dookie on CD which he had stolen from his older brother

this is like an arrested development bit

Hot take: Lord Huron is country music

Anyone familiar with the Station nightclub fire should know that naming a horse Great White is gonna be bad luck.

Wide open Derby this year. Small handful of favorites but I like Danon Bourbon, bred in Kentucky and undefeated in Japan.

Weird vibe at this Buckethead show. Odd mix of flannel-clad guitar nerds, KSHE dads, and methed out Jefferson County hoosiers.

I'm starting to fear that someone put the batteries in the Arch backwards.

FINE, universe. I get it. I'll finally start watching Veep.

Panem et circenses. Don't believe a word anyone present says about it; if they had any integrity, they wouldn't be there.

I think we can retire the UFC at this point and just have a Pens-Flyers game every Saturday night.

Anne Hathaway and Anna Kendrick should fight like Tyson and Jake Paul, but it's a theater kid karaoke battle

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

I liked DTF St. Louis, but it managed to get everything about St. Louis wrong, plus parts of Chicago, umpiring, and broadcast TV call letters. Weird show - in interesting ways sometimes, but mostly in boneheaded ways.

AI is gonna make libraries and archives a very interesting line of work in the coming years. And by interesting, I mean like in the Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times."

Thoughts and prayers for anyone trying to go to the dispensary today

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

Tornado watch gets canceled, and Steve Templeton unrolls his sleeves. He might not have started the game on purpose, but he knows the rules and he's playing it. #stlwx

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

God never listens to what I say

I swear, having a smart watch is worth it just for 2FA codes

Played a little too much Red Dead over the weekend, I guess - bopping around the neighborhood on my electric scooter, just got the urge to shout "Howdy, mister!" and "Out of the damn way!" at pedestrians

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

Cool to see Hot Mulligan on the Coachella feed, but their mix is dogshit. Might as well just be someone in the crowd with a mic.

They powered down the toilet around 15:30 central time, so I'm sure those poor astronauts have gotta piss like a racehorse by now

I'm sorry but I will never get over the fact that we, as a species, shoot people into space. And they come back alive. Just completely fucking insane

Sounds like the coverup artists at the CIA have been playing too much Metal Gear Solid lately

Watching the astronaut press conference live from SPACE and so touched by the intelligence and lovingness and sincerity of these people 💚👨‍🚀

I guess I'd expect NASA to have some magic beefy high-fault-tolerance cameras for space photography. But flickr shows the metadata and they were taken with like a gopro or a D5. www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

This is amazing. Aadam is a legend, has been taping shows in Chicago for 40 years.

lmao FAFO

I kinda love that the astronauts are dealing with Outlook being shitty, a broken fan in the toilet, getting micromanaged a la "where did you save your TPS reports on the network drive", etc. They are just like us