'Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture! What a picture! What a photograph!

Got a notification tonight that my online facsimile machine has AI now, so that's exciting.

RFK Jr. Rushed To Gym After Heart Attack

This is my biggest fear about these stupid things. Driver looks at their phone at a stop sign for a few seconds and, uhh... Yeah. We should tax these out of existence unless truly, actually needed.

Alanis The Slackers Goldfinger Rancid Green Day The Dandy Warhols Bird & the Bee St. Vincent Patti Lupone Celine McLorin Salvant Mumford & Sons Basement Party Vic Ruggerio (solo) Dave Hillyard/Rocksteady 7 Slapstick Hepcat I was going to the Fireside at 17 and then turned into a theatre+NPR gay.

I'm happy to say that I'm vehemently pro-trans and anti-fascist. I think we should let people be themselves and stand against the ideologies of people like, you know, Hitler, Mussolini and their followers. Come for me if you must, but I'm pretty firm on this. This isn't courageous—just correct.

Spotted at the M14 bus stop a Lyft add encouraging people to take Lyft mind you that line also parallels the fucking L train for most of its run. IDK an ad on mass transit designed to undermine mass transit seems gross.

I can't see this without remembering that I (surely mistakenly) liked The Last Starfighter as a kid. youtu.be/UwZ-kdHgTi8

Opinion: Hairless cats should have to wear shorts and a t-shirt to go outside like the rest of us mammals without full fur. *Wanders off murmuring something about frickin' alien nightmare fuel*

"Ba'in doughn deh hachess, folks: De NAcherel wedder serviss in chi-CA-goh hass issyout a sefere winn wournin for deh grater Chicagoland area. Pleese tayke appropriat caushons." (I literally grew up speaking with this accent, rather heavily, so don't come for me. It is what it is.)

See also: Meats and cheeses: always pleases!

'Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture! What a picture! What a photograph!

I just remembered that this (I'm up late so psychologically Saturday) morning a pigeon got spooked alongside my building, flew away in a hurry, directly into my face. Fully bodied by a pigeon. I think we really now are in a simulation.

Tonight I had the strange urge to have Ritz crackers with some duck patê and then thought "I don't have cornichons but I /do/ have pickle dip. So I guess I invented upper Midwest charcuterie tonight. 🤷‍♂️

Why must we have a truly inspiring and beautiful moment in human history while also in a historically disastrous period for humanity? The dichotomy of today is insane. But I'm glad we had the former today and this last week to remind us we could just make good choices and reach for the stars. 😭

One Thing in One Place A Single Time

Is true. Here are some ridiculously luscuous things I'm very fortunate to be able to have consumed from a recent visit to see friends in London.

I just heard jingle bells in an ad while taking a scrolling break. This is not acceptable.

Reach out to your state electeds and ask for a progressive vehicle weight fee like Washington DC

Chicago wind gauge

Dress for the regional rail service you want.

Gm, marine layer

I choo choo choose you!

send this to ur valentine 💘

I’ve been meaning for a while to talk about this... I’m proud that with my team at work that we’ve been working to simplify signage for accessibility and internationalization, including using fewer, simpler terms, applying a predictable information hierarchy and using pictograms where possible.

Has anyone else ever heard someone say that you shouldn't use your turn signal so if someone's following you they won't know your next move? Aside from that logic, what the hell is up with folks who don't do it for lane changes? So someone doesn't speed up to not let them in?

I'm humbled that LeVar Burton, who I knew from the orig Reading Rainbow, was what made me interested in Star Trek TNG, and then became my idol as a kid—a kind, sensitive person who could solve anything with a brilliant, technical mind. It's so cool my gen got to grow up with a Black genius hero.

It me, again! So many features to talk about with what we're doing at work. So proud to be able to move Chicago forward as someone who grew up on this system, bringing into reality things I wish I had as a kid and bringing some of the best ideas from around the world to make Chicago better.

❤️

It me! (And coincidentally we did this in the morning before I went to the office and flew to London that night to see friends and did, in fact, catch up with my counterpart and swap stories! It's always great to catch up with peers and share ideas.)

May she rest in peace in the lea of a picturesque ridge, surrounded by only the finest of fruit wines... and may we never forget her name.

'This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release.'

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

Güten Abend, Chicago

What are your top three cities you've been to, in no particular order? I'll go first: Chicago London New York (Sorry, LA, I love you, too, but you're hard to span and the dining is maybe the most expensive of what would be my top four.)

Good morning Chicago.

Güten Morgen

In not-terrible news today I've been sort of redecorating my flat and made this derivative mid-century modern art as I lean into that as a style. Sure, I pay for a personal Adobe license, but the print and frame probably cost me $20.

New wayfinding signage to Washington/Wabash while State/Lake is under construction.

Sometimes if you wave at just the right time, they'll toot-toot at you!

What is this fucking weather? I did not approve this.

Can someone make a map of which countries tend to put the loo/toilet roll on the rod correctly and which ones are full of W.C. war criminals?

Why is it that every time I open this app it destroys my mood? Here is a picture of my grandma's mid-century modern china in a hutch I just bought from Wayfair so it's not in storage anymore that makes me happy.

I had my unread work emails down to 18 this morning in London I am now back in Chicago and there are now 143 unreads. HOW? How does anyone get literally anything done when email is a thing that exists? I shall be requiring all messages be sent by interoffice mail those yellow envelopes.

Just gonna readily admit I sometimes take inspiration in my professoonal art from London in the most cheeky ways.

A bit of Berlin station name signs (in their many tile-surrounded typefaces).

As per tradition, London, I have a prawn and mayo sandwich and cloudy apple juice for the Lizzy Line ride in and have dressed properly for the occasion of my arrival in you.

Am I joyscrolling? I think I am.

Transit is freedom. Transit makes Chicago great. It is for everyone and it is beautiful. 32 years ago today I boarded at this spot on the Pulaski Orange Line platform with my legally blind mom to help her learn her new, faster way to work on its first weekday. 'L'ove at first ride.