If you have a book you don’t want to finish, ride your bike to the lake. It helps.

Last year, I emailed Chicago’s chief homelessness officer, Sendy Soto, as well as spokespeople for both Soto & Mayor Johnson, six times. I wanted to understand their approach to evicting unhoused Chicagoans from the shelters they build to survive. No response. chicagoreader.com/news/housing...

Saw Quigley in the lobby of Sulzer library earlier today . . . harrowing

I guarantee you, the current escalation of “opsec” discourse is a fed op.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Details for the memorial ride for Alex Pretti in Chicago this weekend. - Meet at 1:15pm, Roll at 1:30pm - John Walsh Park (E end of The 606) - Route to come, we will roll @ party pace (casual, no drop) toward the VA on Damen where a memorial is set up for Alex. See you Saturday.

I hope this man disappears from the public and into the long bitter void and waste of utter isolation and despair. And I hope to one day still have the opportunity to spit in his face. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/

advertisements should not be allowed full stop

Being a camera guy now, my boss tasked me with taking photos of our new build at the shop. I shot about 150 photos, hated most, but these are some of the good ones. It was fun.

Every time, it’s the big megacorp retailers that are the first to do this. Those with the most wealth to the protect are the thinnest skinned and most fearful little babies.

I tried this two days ago and the driver was my pastor lol.

I have never been a photographer at any level, but I caught little camera bug and bought an old but kind of nice digital camera. Expect to see my bad photos here somewhat frequently.

Just imagine how good it would feel to be that Metra train though.

Nothing gives me an adrenaline rush quite like waking up, surfing the web to news website dot com, and seeing humongous font.

Never war. Never ever ever war. I don't care about the legal jurisdiction or approval for it. Every act of war is an atrocity and a sin.

I spent a week in Florida with @ellgarden.bsky.social visiting my parents, enjoying the ocean, riding roller coasters, celebrating (Christmas, my birthday, our anniversary, the new year), camping, hiking, exploring, etc. It was lovely. I'm so glad to be back in Chicago.

Saw a coyote in Chicago in broad daylight this afternoon.

it’s true! [people alienated from their communities via the machine of post-industrial hyper individualized consumerism] do be shoppin

don’t make me tap the sign, etc. deadspin.com/the-future-o...

I’ve long insisted that Trump would die in office this term, but now I think I was wrong. He’s going to die live on television.

I hate spending money on a Moleskine or similar paper notebook planner each year, but I can’t function in my life without one. And they never have the space and layout that I actually want. So I made my own.

All big books should be bound as smaller, more manageable volumes. No more big books!

thank you

Some people actually go to the newspaper and ask them to publish: "I'm a big stupid baby who lets the bad-at-math lying machine guide the finances of my small business."

They should give it a pithier name, like Penicillin 2.

Owning animals as pets is a violation of their inherent rights.

Explicitly religious people have been some of the most clearly truthful opponents to the government’s efforts against immigrants and against protesters.

"What's happening here is evil."

Love getting to work early from the train and sitting in the window drinking my coffee.

This seems to be less about the art and media form of “podcasting” and more about the gold rush of mass consumer audio media and user data harvesting that boomed post-Serial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW06TjJbWEc

Yes! Please! Call in the troops. Michigan Ave is overrun with armed violent gangs!

Oh no! Whatever could have possibly caused such a tragedy!?!?

First snowfall walk around the neighborhood. I don’t remember ever before seeing this combination of snowfall in the ground and green still in the leaves.

Grievance is for babies. https://consumerbads.net/archive/2025/11/man-question

If I think about this for too long, then the minority report guys will come get me.

Seen walking to the train in a park in Wilmette: It’s hard to see but the snow writing says “PROTECT TRANS KIDS”. Hell yeah.

Ok but this is accurate. I truly believe you cannot get a good sandwich outside of New York. Charitably, but outside of the northeast.

Three of my bicycles were stolen last night.

pretty funny that this sign is still up

More . . . ethics in gaming journalism, would you say? Hmm.

Just had to intermittently jog through quaint neighborhood streets of Wilmette to make the Metra train on time.

ominous

Idaho stop would be clutch

Well would ya look at that https://chicagogravelrace.bike/

Distracting myself from the horrors by thinking about organizing a bicycle race later this year. I've never done anything like this before, but what the hell, right?

I’m always saying it, but: Satan himself could not come up with such blasphemies.

they shrink-flated ben & jerry’s