Chicago Style Chicago Flag spotted in Palatine!

As the National news media outlets continue to get worse and worse, the more I’ve been relying on @npr.org and @pbsnews.org for my world news. Be sure to support them, AND local news sources like @blockclubchi.bsky.social @thetriibe.com and @chicagoreader.com

I'm replacing my "Hang In There" cat poster with this. #Chicago

The archives for the old Curbed city sites have been offline for at least two weeks. If these sites are gone for good, it’s not just a loss for those who contributed to Curbed over the years, but a loss of ~15 years of reporting on new development, neighborhoods, and architecture criticism.

Good games everyone.

"If you don't call me cool and give me my lil award I'll kill as many people as possible out of spite" really does appear to be the driving animus of everyone in this administration and its adjacent oligarchy.

There’s a lot of things I want to see happen this year - watching the AI bubble pop is in my Top 3.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

I haven’t seen this guy read a poem in almost 20 years. An absolute legend.

Bumper sticker, plz

He must be stomped.

It's a pretty good list!

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

Let's start 2026 off right: I'm collaborating with Tom Skilling to help Chicagoans! www.harebraineddesign.com/products/ski...

I'm gonna need everybody working at the U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Defense to read these paragraphs. Slowly. Everybody. Right down to the fucking interns. #Chicago is not going stand for their bullshit anymore. Not for a damn second. WE GOT NUMBERS, YOU BASTARDS.

it was rowdy and full of people, but everyone was in good spirits and chatty. so if yapping is dangerous, handcuff me

Welcome 2026.

Judging by this particular alderperson's especially sanguinary visage, you would think he would be more acutely aware of the particulars of sunsets and sunrises during any time of the year.

sunset is 4:30pm dude 😆 he’s constantly telling people to be afraid.

2026's First Light. This morning's sunrise in Chicago to start off the new year.

these fucking people. they pass laws to make sure every person with a screw loose who wants an Armalite can show up to the day care armed & ready to kill, then complain that the day cares are locked to protect the children inside

Here’s my alderman telling people not to take public transit on the drunkest night of the year.

Have fun tonight! Remember that the CTA is a free and safe option if you’re going out tonight! #chicago

Look at this. You could get shirts for $2.50 and puzzles for fifty cents. www.harebraineddesign.com

We’ve got a sale going on that’s about as big as this here Godzilla. Get 50% off all warehouse items when you use the code HALFOFF. #chicago

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postcrastination

Use the code HALFOFF and this Rat Hole shirt could be yours for $2.50. See, I told you I was bad at business!

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

You understand the assignment, blooskis.

Let's go, Chicago!

Oh yeah. Chicago definitely needs a snowplow named Abolish Ice this year!

Vote vote vote

This is the year. Go vote. www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

I don’t wanna say I’m bad at business but I’m definitely losing money on some of these products.

We’re already seeing luxury brands reject AI, since luxury is all about exclusionary signaling, which is a good sign that the public is experiencing slop fatigue w/r/t Generative AI ‘design’. We’ll see a lot more of this in 2026 I think.

Here’s Steve Albini on the Diner Grill, from a 2023 story I wrote about a different diner chicagoreader.com/music/the-ac...

It's a very @harebrained.bsky.social Christmas!

Merry Xmas! Who’s wearing a pair of our Shitters Full boxer briefs? #christmasvacation

We got him boys.

Seconded.

Great news procrastinators! There's still time to give the gift of gift cards! www.harebraineddesign.com/products/gif...

Henceforth this shall be known as the Shut the Fuck Up About Chicago decision. @harebrained.bsky.social

BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

My Birthmas gift to myself from @harebrained.bsky.social arrived! They had a lotta good versions it was hard to pick.

The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband

@harebrained.bsky.social made a very good shirt

Ope sorry- You got 3 more hours to grab something from the Harebrained website and be able to pick it up from @howlingpages.bsky.social tomorrow! #chicago