you mean st. petersburg?

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012)

"Salsa mayo" is such an incredibly 1990s combination of words. Wash that down with some Frutopia and smoke inside if you wanna, bay-bee.

Date Everything (2025)

Just wild sometimes, thinking about the total human hours that have gone into the material science and industrial design of reducing urinal backsplash. An astonishing diversity of techniques, products, and deployments.

Taking over a billboard that had previously been occupied for YEARS by casinos and their predatory shuttles, just a thoroughly cursed ad lease.

This is Depression food, just so we’re all 100% on our culinary history here.

The objectively best dinosaur just got a lot a) older and b) tinier! Look at that wee little bonky baby.

I am old enough to have immediately assumed this was referencing Bawls, its obvious predecessor in the energy drink/genitals marketspace, which is bad news for my back.

new bot! @chicago-seasons.bsky.social i found someone on r/chicago who wrote their own local interpretation of the japanese calendar's traditional division of the year into 72 microseasons of 5 days each. it'll post a description on the first day of each kō. please share to your chicago feeds!

Was lucky enough to catch “Peking Opera Blues” at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social this weekend and I cannot tell y’all how poly/queer this movie from 1986 is. Just at this drag king and her girlfriends. (They also have boyfriends! Some of them share boyfriends!) It’s amazing.

NEW: Illinois is the only state that has yet to reform its tax sale laws after the Supreme Court found unconstitutional a process that can cost homeowners their residences. illinoisanswers.org/2025/09/11/l...

I follow and am followed by a relatively small number of people here on Bluesky, and that is still far, far, far more people than have ever disliked Bluesky enough to write a column or a blog post or a newsletter about it. Just sayin’.

melville 🤝🏻 rfk jr

*hand over heart and off-key* 🎶 On the record of thy years, Abraham Lincoln's name appears, Grant and Logan, and our tears, Illinois, Illinois🎶

Don’t think of your city as an island. Think of it as a fortress surrounded by moats of water and land owned by your regional wastewater administration.

(trying to explain "fuck, marry, kill" to a black widow spider) no it's *three different* guys

<the president has declared war on the city I live in and our society is being torn apart for scrap metal> it's my fault I'm so anxious. I should do yoga

Asking the real questions

stand for the flag / kneel for the cross

Goddamnit people, I haven't been wearing tailored suits and trousers with button suspenders all these years just to have the notion of "performing male" get co-opted by tote bags and lattes. 😤

The Sweeneyish Chef

Love it when the flavor of the week person telling Bluesky that Bluesky is dead turns out to be someone I already had blocked, like yessssss confirm those priors baby.

Boy howdy did Chicago ever get the perfect Labor Day today, tho.

99% of all issues on here are solved by 1) follow at least 500-600 people 2) block annoying people Once you do it it’s a wonderful experience

I have got to hand it to The Nation: in the incredibly competitive landscape of publications trying to render their content unreadable on mobile, I think theirs is the literal hardest to read. Just an endless, roguelike churn of constantly moving chumboxes and videos and bloat. It defeated me.

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

Media bothsidesism is getting out of hand.

A look at the people still left in the cold from Illinois budget impasse 10 years later with an eye towards the federal Medicaid cuts coming soon w/ @hannahmeisel.bsky.social and Molly Parker illinoisanswers.org/2025/08/28/i...

Never thought the grand jury ham sandwich joke would be so literal.

I’m just gonna leave this here: www.bettergov.org/2022/10/18/a...

Made with Goya corn, one can only assume.

When you realize that dog is ALSO carrying a chew toy. 🤣

“Don’t Tread on Me! …no seriously bro don’t, why would you do that, aaaaah, leave me aloooone” 🐍🐍

“Batten down the hatches” not “batter down.” (You can also batter down hatches, but at that point that’s a boarding action, and will have rather the opposite effect.)

'Logan Lucky' released in theaters 8 years ago and this George R.R. Martin joke still holds true today

Lol! Gjaldskylda means you have to pay for parking but these poor tourists think it’s the name of the mountain/foss/geyser.

You gotta admire the commitment to realism when the water at Medieval Times will give you the shits.

EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT Not so clumsy, nor so random - As a blaster - in its rage More elegant - the weapon More civilized - the age

90% of bluesky users revealed to be currently living in edgewater, chicago

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

Officer Carlos Baker has been stripped of his police powers. Baker fatally shot his partner Krystal Rivera and was accused of attacking a female officer this week. He's also under investigation for allegedly seeking video of that incident and claiming he was investigating it. tinyurl.com/2rdx49ms

Oh cool I was getting bored of the screaming jet engines nice to vary it up with a sonic boom and really rattle the ol' house

when i was like 14 my cousin who was like idk 7 or 8 asked me if i wanted to hear the worst word in the world and he whispered to me "horsedamn" he had gotten horseshit and goddamn mixed up and despite my correction he used it as an insult for years. you're a horsedamn! i hate this horsedamn bike!

It is very difficult, when organizing people in this moment, to balance two true things in tension w/ each other: 1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense 2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense

It's not the cover price that really gets you, it's the shift to bespoke tailoring so you can have trade paperback sized pockets put on all your jackets.

NEW: A forensic toxicology lab at the University of Illinois Chicago tested people’s bodily fluids for DUI-cannabis investigations using scientifically discredited methods and faulty machinery, leading to wrongful convictions.