mutual: ugh the discourse is so bad today me (only seen tweets about gay little gnomes): yeah it's pretty rough out there

The thing about bluesky dying or whatever is that I'm literally just hanging out with my friends over here and I'll go someplace else to hang out with them if they all go somewhere else. If my post goes outside of my circle I mute or delete it immediately. I don't want to network.

Current* conditions near Toronto, ON:

People who get precious about cast iron pans and sourdough starter forget that both of these things were dragged around in the Wild West. My current pans were under a sink rusting when I found them. My starter makes good bread even if I’m not carefully controlling the ratios. Imperfect still works.

There's no indication that Cody from the Rescuers Down Under intends to go back for those other animals in McLeach's lair. He very explicitly tells Marahute to take him home. And the McLeach is dead so effectively, so too is that lizard, koala, and oddly handsome kangaroo.

i’m coming at this in good faith fyi: a lot of it starts with centrist academics/journos/etc coming on here to share their published story about how much we all suck on this site in our echo chambers etc etc; often times when we look at the profile of the author, they barely follow anyone or post

I’m not waking up everyday thinking about “engagement” Here’s a cool book Here’s a cool movie Here’s a cool butt

Former MLB player Brad Lidge, who threw the final pitch to win the Philadelphia Phillies the 2008 World Series, is now an archaeologist researching the Etruscan civilization. He is joining the Penn Museum Board of Advisors, calling it a “full-circle moment.” www.penn.museum/blog/major-l...

Ship reportedly stuck in Lake Superior ice just outside Duluth More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/ship-reportedly-stuck-in-lake-superior-ice-just-outside-duluth

I hope the idolatry was worth it

As mainline liberal protestant clergy I'm having a great time seeing the fundamentalist shitbags, who already claimed the word evangelical, now claim the entire concept of protestantism.

hell is not hot enough for any of them

Iran Imposes New ‘Cash, Grass, Or Ass’ Fee For Strait Of Hormuz

This is one of the funniest pictures in US history lmaoooooo

I don't know why the antennas on the Sears Tower were red and blue last night, but I'll choose to believe they're for Palace.

What’s the point of having a White Sox fan pope if the home opener falls on Good Friday and he doesn’t give everyone a dispensation to eat a hot dog with grilled onions?

duluth's haunted "what?" *gathering salt and accelerants* duluth's haunted

The US has been proudly acting like the asshole at the party all night, then wonders why nobody wants to drive us home.

For anyone who doesn't know what the current discourse re: books and perspective is about I offer you a lovely flashbang of information And also some bog standard misogyny to go with the inability to understand that 1st person is a character telling YOU what happened, not you self-inserting

we’re ramping up to near weekly lately

Gary Gaetti!! Ron Coomer!!

a cool thing the ruling class does is run articles like this to convince you the wealthy are undeserving of a free resource, and therefore it shouldn't be universal. then they switch to convincing you that the poor are cheating, and also don't deserve it

Ominous, I love it

What A Blast! 906pm on Thursday over Chicago. All that lightning in one moment...this is one image.

Paul Newman in a 'get really stoned' tee with four beers in 1981. Dude.

Thunder Thursday. Lightning over the Chicago skyline at 903pm this evening.

sorry its this one

It is the meteorological equivalent of rage tweeting, comes in with a bunch of bullshit nobody wants, stops, and then 15 minutes later here comes "AND ANOTHER THING,"

“No one paid any attn to Shane when he stood up &shouted that there was something biologically, not psychologically, wrong w/his brain. Now he’s dead &thanks to his last act of giving, donating his brain, his life is vindicated. He died w/CTE, a serious brain disease, &it’s time we listen &change”🛟🧪

People talk like building is the only way to make sure you have a lot of housing, but fighting displacement and thinking about how we can get existing housing fixed up instead of feeding the “demolition pipeline” is also a way to bolster housing supply

THE SKYDECK IS BACK

This cam has quickly entered my top 10 cams

Having 24 hour, near-instantaneous access to every bit of information about how the most ethically challenged people alive are actively dismantling the society you're living in is probably more than the human psyche was designed to handle.

Iran just reportedly hit an Oracle data center in Dubai and i can't stop thinking about how good it would feel to see my tax dollars spent firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at data centers.

Ahahahahaha once again getting dragged kicking and screaming down hockey memory lane.

it’s without a doubt this heater from @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social

someone should coordinate a Philly and Chicago cultural exchange program where people swap houses for 6 months between the two

Send backup I need to go fight a Greek Orthodox priest

Reveling in the death and destruction & suffering he can cause. And this is all imbricated with Hegseth’s “no mercy, no quarter” & Trump’s declaring warcrimes on main. But here we are. This is beyond appalling. And Congress allows it to continue (enables actually). Such have we become.

It’s bad that 10 people have more money than 4 billion people

CALL YOUR REPS! Tell them these bills do not do what they say. That they will be used to entrench monopolies, shift liability off Meta, and enable mass surveillance that will be used to target LGBTQ folks, activists, and abortion seekers! www.elections.il.gov/electionoper...

Turns out OpenAI is among the groups fueling dark money initiatives to introduce surveillance bills at the state level under the guise of ‘Protecting Children’ like Illinois’ HB5066, and SB3977 all of which are being pushed by @govpritzker.illinois.gov gizmodo.com/group-pushin...

so it's Bondi Thursday?

Keeping the campaign office open as a mutual aid hub and community event space, working with other campaigns to do similar community building with them

Can someone tell me what Kat's video was about with words instead of a video

The pride of Evergreen Park Illinois lol

1. Because of the PWHL's unique anti-tanking rules, the most exciting race at the end of the season might be at the bottom of the table, not the top. The Gold Plan, the PWHL's system for draft seeding, gives the #1 pick to the team that can accrue the most points AFTER being eliminated.