my goal for the week is to not cry at friendsgiving about how much i love my friends

i have no idea that's going on here

you know i think one of the problems i have with lit fic is that other people's lives and conversations are substantially less interesting than my own

i like returning books at Howard Washington library bc their book slot i has a conveyor belt and it just eats your book

a person just went through my car on the L (which is almost entirely women) and was screaming at other people when they didn't give them money, and after they left one of the women was like "they just try that bc they think women won't fight"

caroline polachek gets stuck in my head every time i play the digital edition of root (the board game) bc the lobby join ditty is basically the bassline of bunny is a rider shifted up a couple of octaves and played on pan pipes

bridge hands of gay women

"back in my day nobody was adhd" back in your day you could buy amphetamines over the counter

driving an awd sports car with snow tires in the middle of the night during a snowstorm is honestly one of the more enjoyable experiences in this world

oh baby thundersnow

if you shucked a very elderly bowser out of his shell i think he would look almost exactly like chuck schumer

the second these guys had to deal with the smallest personal inconvenience in the form of flight delays they folded like wet cardboard

the Logan Square reconstruction is yet another example of how the diagonal streets make everything worse

bridge hands of gay women

i was gonna go watch my team play basketball today but taking a Lakeshore drive Express bus with a forecast of 18" of snow accumulation seems like a mistake

we got ourselves a nice wintery weather mix out there right now

Clever movie details: In Jurassic Park (1993), the character of Dr. Grant grabs two female seatbelt buckles during a moment of turbulence, but nonetheless he "finds a way." This is a reference to the fact that the movie stars lesbian icon Laura Dern

a lot of punks think they are doing counter-culture when what they are actually doing is normal culture while having a sleeve tattoo

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

a lot of punks think they are doing counter-culture when what they are actually doing is normal culture while having a sleeve tattoo

lululemon is nike for people whose favorite color is gray

ok you all have convinced me, keep the express buses but thru-run them with the 66

it's honestly so crazy that the lsd express buses cost the same as a normal bus, they are literally cheaper than the subway

we need the red line to skip everything between Wilson and Loyola except Bryn Mawr when the purple line isn't running

what is the logic behind the liberal justices technically following the rules in a way that allows the conservative justice to deliberately break them to the detriment of the most vulnerable people in our society

the lsd express buses inexplicably not stopping at chicago ave is yet another reason why we should discontinue them

as long as it pays rent on time i don't care

dude i just looked at one of my teammate's ig and i realized she's dating another one of my teammates and i was somehow obvious to this fact

I'm not the biggest ray of sunshine and positivity on earth, but some of you are so addicted to your aggressive doomerism it reads as cowardice. It's very easy to snap at everyone you meet - you never have to wonder what the outcome of an interaction will be if you're always hateful and unlikeable.

we can bring back the east-west buses that ran to elston before running express to downtown maybe just close the express lanes on the highway and rebuild them so buses can use them bidirectionally

i just realized this would result in a bunch of u chicago people on the northwest side so i think we would probably need police checkpoints to kick the uchicago people out at clark/lake

the purple line should run all day on the express tracks to forest park via the dearborn subway, and skip the asinine brown line stops by switching to the inside tracks at Belmont the blue line should run on the local tracks of metra electric down to south chicago

now that all the red line stations are reopened up north we can cancel the 136, 146, and 147 and use those drivers and buses for more important routes

the fact that the Kennedy took over the I-90 signpost from the Eisenhower when it was completed is evidence that the Eisenhower is obsolete and should be ripped out and replaced with literally anything else

they should extend the paulina connector up to the blue line and run the ohare branch to the loop from the west instead of the northwest

my takeaway from legislative victories yesterday is that Sarah McBride should resign in disgrace

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

accusing people of having protestant brain is fun because everyone who isn't a protestant is appropriately insulted bc they know exactly what that means, and protestants are appropriately insulted bc even they don't like each other

they are both a type of circle k

i think republicans should suffer whatever the most extreme punishment that i won't get banned from bluesky for advocating for

loving that every election coming in is being called basically instantly for whoever the most left candidate running is. its like, oh, yeah, everythings shifting so hard left that the "i will shoot a republican to death with no mercy" guy got to clock out before 9 pm

republicans simply should not have turned his election into a referendum on whether they should all be put down like rabid dogs

unfortunately i think i reinjured my rib slightly by hugging a friend I hadn't seen in months

i want a Chicago 1950 map for subway simulator just for the sake of not having highways and mostly being pre urban renewal

someone give me an op ed i want to write about how metra could save freight railroading by putting pans on an sd70 and proving it's possible to electrify railroads in the US without building a single new locomotive

sirens work

1046 North Leclaire Avenue

rip to the guy who just woke up on the 49, looked out the window and yelled "oh shit" before yanking on the stop cord like it owed him money