Bear weather ❄️😂 #bears

Republicans are deliberately starving Americans.

If the squirrels don't getcha, the snow will ❄️

Ledger art—narrative art painted or drawn on accounting ledgers—is an art tradition that developed in Plains tribes when the buffalo hide traditionally used for painting became scarce. Artist John Isaiah Pepion keeps the tradition alive in his work. orionmagazine.org/article/blac...

It blows my mind that after 45 minutes 20 guys chasing one little ball can't even score one goal. #EPL ⚽️

Leonard Cohen who died on this day 2016: I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Smartphones are partly to blame for our decline in literacy. But we also should blame the men who run the companies that make them: our country’s economic elite no longer see the value in an educated workforce.

One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song?

Kazak prayer rug

The 1920's textile work of Hungarian, Bauhaus weaver/designer Otti Berger #womensart

Anni Albers, Design for a rug, 1925. One of the best known Bauhsus trained textile artists of the 20thc #womensart

Andrew Wyeth The Observatory, 1978 watercolor and pencil on paper 30 x 22 in.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. -Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

Am I an atheist if my religion is Arsenal?

Oo oo oo What a little sunlight can do to you . . . Looking up through the Japanese ornamental red maple in my yard. This past week the maples have been spectacular around here. (Billie Holiday's recording of "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" is a great listen, too). #Photography #Nature

The feds have declared "no more prayer" and are banning religious gatherings outside the ICE detention center near Chicago. The fake Christians keep getting more fake.

66117.01 Ginkgo biloba #Ginkgobiloba #Ginkgo #leaves #fallcolor #fallfoliage #gold #pattern #mosaic

From Bandcamp >> Benefit for NC Food Assistance >> hissgoldenmessenger.bandcamp.com/album/seven-...

Red Caribou Grazing Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq 2016

The Three Sapindaceae Graces Bogdan Molea 2009

Full Moon Paterson Ewen 1988

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘November Farm Work’ Farm Crops in Britain - Puffin Picture Book, 1955 Artist: SR Badmin

“A tawny owl is looking down from its high vantage point at the great bonfire” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

Happy 1st of November. Here’s a biscuit tin, designed in 1958 by CF Tunnicliffe

For the leafers out there #Chicago

It's really no big deal about airplanes not flying in the U.S. because we have a world class passenger rail service.

Reflection - yesterday's walk at Spring Grove Cemetery Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II Olympus 12-100mm F4 IS PRO I am trying to use some lenses that I have, but not explored in a systematic fashion. (Lenses I could afford to buy before I lost my federal contractor job in 2017.) Brain development.

Glad the guy who threw a sandwich at an ICE loser was cleared of his assault with a deli weapon charge, especially bc they deserve SO much fucking worse

St Louis if you want to see fall colors, today is the day -- they arrived all at once and it will freeze this weekend!

A cold front Saturday is likely to bring the first snowfall of the 2025-26 winter season to the Chicago area. Temperatures Monday may dip to 10 to 15 degrees above zero, according to a meteorologist.

I'll save you a lot of reading: unless Mamdani starts taking money from Turks and roasting leprechauns - and even then - there is no way in hell Stefanik is going to win New York a year after this election in the city.

My column today in the Sun-Times: www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/11/gove...

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Pelosi retiring? Gee, did something happen that suddenly made her feel 2000 years old? Sorry about the unrelated photo

A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this

So....they want to bring down cost of obesity drugs while starving SNAP recipients? I'm mixed up...

Backlit sugar maple 🍁

These quotes are hilarious. Years from now legal scholars will reference them. They'll be in history books.

Good morning. Fall continues falling and there's some hope that the fall of the Republic as been slowed a bit. #Photography #Today #Fall #Chicago

Scientists can analyze tree rings from coffins for clues to past climates. https://scim.ag/43AUj2n

#BannedBookSkyClub schedule: November 2025: Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler December 2025: A Wizard of Earthsea (The Books of Earthsea, 1) by Ursula Le Guin January 2026: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Link to feed in replies. #BookSky Please join us.

Amid SNAP cuts, an Englewood activist has launched "Tiny Kitchen Project" to feed neighbors in need. blockclubchi.co/4hIYMFJ

Wednesday's WOW! This morning's spectacular panorama sunrise over Chicago.

Reporting live from the "hellhole" of Chicago. (Short bike ride to the North Branch Trail this afternoon. Contrary to popular belief, Chicago has a lot of lovely green space!)