A massive loss to Chicago. Truly a one-of-a-kind artist. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/t...

Mohamed Abozekry room the Beverly Arts Center on the #SouthSide of #Chicago. A fantastic fusion of #jazz and #middleeastern #music. #oud and #saxophone. Check him out if you've never heard of him.

A free concert of middle eastern music in my neighborhood. #Chicago #beverlyartscenter #worldmusicfestival #dcase

FAIR Fund Chicago is a registered 501(c)(3) dedicated to ensuring that ALL kids can walk away from their school book fair with books! No one leaves emptyhanded. #books #booksky #literacy #nonprofit #indiebookstores #bookfair #schoolbookfair #dogoodthings www.beverlyreview.net/news/top_sto...

"South Koreans Swept Up in Immigration Raid at Hyundai E.V. Plant in Georgia" And this will make South Korea want to continue manufacturing in the U.S. how? And this will make South Korea want to invest in the U.S. how? This administration never sees the big picture. They never make predictions.

Dear Chicago, Painting a picture of a bike on the street doesn't make that street a bike path. Sincerely, A person who drives in Chicago

NY Times Pips today E: 23 seconds M: 55 seconds H: 2:48 Definitely a record for me so far.

Best thinking puzzle games i play daily: 1. Honeycomb Hotel by Everett Kaser Games. I've been playing this for literal decades. Logic. 2. Sootly: Probably the most challenging word game ive played (shy of cryptic crosswords). Wordle on steroids. 3. Pips, the new ny times puzzle. Three levels daily

Ipswich town and a sweet kitty. A nice way to start a saturday.

Baguette. Croissant. #catpics

AP Language teachers, a great example of a post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy. Just because Sydney Sweeney's niche film floppe after the american eagle ad controversy doesn't mean it was the cause, as this headline from huffpost seems to imply. I didn't read the article because I don't care.

"Yes. It was me. I pooped on the rug. I'm a bad lap doggie."

I still miss Paul Sherwen as Phil Liggett’s partner. The way he talked about the scenery, sights, sites, monuments, architecture, and history along the Tour de France routes was one of the reasons I watched it every year. Bob still does it a bit, but it’s not the same. #tdf #tourdefrance

Dogs know. #dogsky

For those of you in Chicago, the monthly BUBO BLOWOUT SALE is happening on the south side at 2419 W. 103rd St., in Beverly! Used Books $1-$2! Today and tomorrow (6/28-6/29)! Noon to 5PM. THOUSANDS of books. Share with all! #booksky #chicago #books

Wise words from @sadiehartmann.bsky.social

Trump vs. Musk makes Edward vs. Jacob suddenly seem like something of grave importance.

How did Wallace Shawn not win an Emmy for his role on Young Sheldon?

JD Vance is like Catholicism rejecting a transplanted organ.

A rose breasted grosbeak!

I saw this movie. It’s called A Bug’s Life. The character on the left is Hopper. He makes the hardworking ants pay him in hamberders. #tyrant #fascist #wannabemobboss

So Tesla is starting to lose money. Isn’t the next step to start supporting its competitors in the electric car market by buying their products and stocks?

@therookieabc.bsky.social F^#% your Amazon prime product placement. I guess you didn’t notice that they’re ruining the country, as is Bezos. Stop supporting billionaires and monopolies.

It’s the small businesses that will suffer.

How is this not the most unsanitary way to wash your hands? This is a sink faucet with the hand dryer integrated right in the sink. You wash bacterial off of your hands only to have it blown back into your face along with everyone else’s? Am I missing something?

MAGA men are Alfalfa Males.

If I go out to breakfast can I bring my own eggs and then the restaurant can charge me a crackage fee? #eggs #arewegreatyet #economy

While so many are focused on the economy he’s crashing, please don’t forget the racist shit he’s been allowed to get away with since taking office. It’s all a shit show, and he needs to be stopped. They need to be stopped.

There needs to be a White House Critics dinner on the same night. I know an available comedian. I also know which broadcast I’d be watching. Maybe John Oliver can make it happen. Seems like the kind of thing he’d be into. Is he on bluesky?

“What a creep. What a jerk,” says Lone Skum as the Fox News caption says, “Minnesota Governor takes aim at Tesla Stock Price” and not “Shithead billionaire takes aim at Tim Walz.”

The number of people responding to continued overt racism from the Trump administration with “What about the Holocaust museum?” is disturbing. It’s like the insulin/methadone complaint. Other people’s suffering doesn’t negate yours. “Do it to Julia!” #1984 apnews.com/article/trum...

The GOP manual of operations: Deflect. Deflect. Deflect. Genuflect.

I’ve never seen it so poorly advertised! It’s earth hour tonight at 8:30! Central for me in Chicago. #earthhour

My favorite part of a weather app (we use carrot) is when I can see heavy weather on the map, there are warnings coming out, the tornado sirens are going off, and my app tells me I’m outside the warning area. That’s useful, important, and relieving.

With these racists deleting everything about black people from history, I suppose we’ll have to duodecuple down and declare every month as black history month. These people have lost their minds. We will always carry books by and about people of color. Diversity to the end, whenever that will be.

Ides of March — meet Orange Julius Caesar. Do your thing.

Helping the Catholic members of my family do Lent right. Halibut. Good stuff, Maynard.

There is nothing special about my daughter’s eye. Don’t look closely.

It’s been almost two months since the inauguration. Literally no one had an LED Biden sign in front of their house four years ago. You are in a dangerous cult. Might as well take down your U.S. flag and put up the hammer and sickle. #cult #russia #tangerinetyrant

One of our favorite events to host! Kids can come to the store and read to the puppies from SitStayRead. So cute.

If you’re in or around Chicago, Bookie’s is having another blowout sale at our outlet store, BUBO: Bookie’s Used Book Outlet. Come find some amazing deals. March 22nd & 23rd. #booksky 💙 📚#cheapbooks #usedbooks #bargainbooks

Pretty sure the Chicago Reader can now be considered a pamphlet. What’s it going to take to bring it back to former glory, or is it too late?

So many posts about magas now regretting their decision. I’m not quick to forgive something the effect of which will be unspeakable damage. Limit his abuses of power by shifting the house and senate. It’s the only recourse. Stop voting against your best interests out of spite and bigotry.

While Trump is definitely Putin’s puppet, people need to stop depicting him as a marionette. He’s definitely a hand puppet with Putin’s hand directly up his ass.

You mean to tell me he was full of shit then and he’s full of shit now too? Say it ain’t so!

B.S. There is nothing Zelenskyy could have done differently. If he’d bent the knee and declared fealty, the U.S. would still have left Ukraine in the lurch. Wasn’t worth it. Trump and his cabal are weak and performative. Zelenskyy was railroaded. It was all planned. forward.com/opinion/7004...

Trump and Vance’s unhinged flexing, posturing, and attempted humiliation is exactly why we needed a woman president. That display wasn’t manly, presidential, or tough. It was unforgivably weak, the kind of thing mob bosses would see and understand stupidity brings them danger. Trump is Joey Zasa.

Are we sure the Tangerine Tyrant is emulating Hitler and not Charles Manson? Recent moves have seemed more like Manson trying to start a Helter Skelter race war. Maybe it’s both. It’s probably both.