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Ian

@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social

i play video games, i bike, i have strong opinions about urbanism, i have weak opinions about many things, i am a scientician https://www.backloggd.com/u/ibaram

created July 3, 2023

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Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

the state proscribing almost all non-tenant-labor work except finance, which was proscribed for all christians, also had a rather predictable impact

1/9/2025, 3:36:19 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture a matt (@thrillhowse.bsky.social) reposted

👇😲❗️

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31/8/2025, 10:14:33 PM | 60 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

yes it's the conference center

31/8/2025, 6:07:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

boooooooooooo

31/8/2025, 5:09:30 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

good morning chicago

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31/8/2025, 5:09:30 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

the croton dam is so underrated, it's stunning

31/8/2025, 1:39:20 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

murgi jhol for dinner

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31/8/2025, 12:59:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steven Lucy (@slucy.bsky.social) reposted

Before the Drive separated the park from the lake

30/8/2025, 9:04:03 PM | 34 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

most public restrooms aren't staffed here!

30/8/2025, 7:10:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah i mean i live in boystown and i explain my location to all of my midwestern family as "near wrigley field"

30/8/2025, 7:02:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

have you been to bryant park

30/8/2025, 7:00:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

i think this is the first time i've seen a product with romanian on it

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30/8/2025, 6:42:24 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah i know some of them lol. there's always been an uneasy peace between the tribes, and it's so interesting to me which stores get claimed by the straights vs the gays

30/8/2025, 6:24:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

new bumpouts going in at brompton and halsted

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30/8/2025, 4:41:59 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

i didn't remember it happening either! had to look it up

30/8/2025, 4:27:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

trump pardoned him. he did end up doing time for contempt of congress during the biden admin, and he took a plea deal for state level fraud earlier this year

30/8/2025, 4:25:17 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

i don't understand how the roggenart on the boystown strip manages to have such str*ight vibes

30/8/2025, 3:52:57 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

à la The Milwaukee Road

30/8/2025, 3:49:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

all i can say is I really hope RFK Jr is gathering all of the best alternative medicine doctors to provide our president the best alternative medicine there is available. some ashwagandha should fix him right up

30/8/2025, 3:46:03 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

30/8/2025, 3:44:54 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

monkeypox is not sexually transmitted, it's transmitted by close contact, condoms don't protect you from monkeypox. There wasn't a ton of guidance saying "totally refrain from sex", but there was guidance saying "limit your exposure until you're vaccinated" which worked because everybody got the vax

30/8/2025, 2:01:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

call me insane but i think that if a train is already running like 10 mins behind it should go express instead of waiting 2 minutes at every stop for people to try to squeeze on

29/8/2025, 11:18:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social) reposted

I think the idea of a ‘guilty pleasure’ is a good one: you should still enjoy trashy stuff, you should also feel a little embarrassment about this. I find some warhammer stuff entertaining. Warhammer is a setting made to sell video games and miniatures. It’s not great art, and I won’t pretend it is.

29/8/2025, 8:57:45 PM | 224 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

this is the first time i've gotten on a red line car that smelled like smoke in months and whoever was smoking has already put it out and/or left. it seems like the immediately post-pandemic era is getting left behind

29/8/2025, 9:12:57 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

i had the same thought

29/8/2025, 8:17:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

greenland is at least sort of off doing its own thing, but aruba??? apparently when they left the netherlands antilles back in the 80s they really didn't want to keep their old phone numbers??

29/8/2025, 7:37:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

TIL for phone numbers everywhere geographically in the americas are on the north american numbering plan (+1) or in the latin american zone 5 (+5xx) except for Aruba and Greenland, which are numbered as African zone 2 countries (+2xx)

29/8/2025, 7:30:17 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

all guns are deadly.

29/8/2025, 6:01:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

this seems insane

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29/8/2025, 5:53:55 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

oops

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29/8/2025, 5:10:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

the only source i've seen for this is a fox news reporter so there's likely context missing, but like, if this actually happened,,,, wtf

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29/8/2025, 5:01:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

i'd make aliyah

29/8/2025, 2:50:54 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture GZY ⍼ גז"י (@gamzehyaavor.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

להיות עם מתנמנם בארצנו....

29/8/2025, 2:49:19 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

there are so many resort towns on the cote d'azur that i always assumed were caribbean islands lol idk, antibes totally sounds like a caribbean island

29/8/2025, 2:22:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

drivers tonight are also the second most obnoxious post-event drivers i've experienced (number one is post-pride)

29/8/2025, 4:38:30 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

yes

28/8/2025, 11:40:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah that would make sense to me

28/8/2025, 10:56:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

the traffic caused by chris brown at wrigley is worse than any cubs game i've seen this is absurd

28/8/2025, 10:37:27 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

it is so easy to convince me to buy an ingredient i don't need if it's less than $5-10. sure i already have chinese dark soy sauce which this recipe says is a good substitute, but the thai black soy is only like $3....

28/8/2025, 10:19:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

the cta has enough bus drivers to run good service and instead chooses to waste like 2/3s of revenue hours on empty buses that follow full ones

28/8/2025, 10:11:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

dw folks three back to back to back buses just started on the route so the average headway isn't bad

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28/8/2025, 10:10:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

passed a huge crowd waiting for the lawrence bus, looks like a 35 min gap in bus service just before rush hour

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28/8/2025, 9:46:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Nichols (@backwardsriver.bsky.social) reposted

Store ad aimed at French-Canadian immigrants, Chicago 1893

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28/8/2025, 9:01:34 PM | 9 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

ventra has the slowest website i have ever used

28/8/2025, 4:16:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

that's just how they're pronounced in america. english just inconsistently anglicizes "-stein". epstein barr virus is also pronounced epsteen

27/8/2025, 9:35:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

definitely long

27/8/2025, 9:33:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

and yet both hosts managed to pronounce it totally incorrectly!!! they apparently have never been exposed to the german language before

27/8/2025, 9:25:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

it's real!!

27/8/2025, 9:22:59 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture D Fletcher Dunham (@dfdunham.bsky.social) reposted

For some people it’s very important that we build less affordable housing lest it offend the delicate sensibilities of the homeowner class

27/8/2025, 9:18:20 PM | 74 12 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 9:21:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

genuinely pisses me off when people don't take the like 10 seconds it takes to learn pronunciations for topics they're supposed to be "experts" on, especially for people's names

27/8/2025, 9:19:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

patrick h willems said "i don't think anybody knows how to pronounce his name" about uwe boll on a podcast???? uwe is a pretty common german name!! you can also just look up the pronunciation!! it's on his wikipedia page!!

27/8/2025, 9:19:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

watch this video if you can.

27/8/2025, 6:15:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam D Boyer (@adamwritegood.bsky.social) reposted

“The new @lindsayellis.bsky.social video has everything: Analysis of pre-K children’s entertainment, doomsday cults, digressions about Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rwandan genocide—“

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27/8/2025, 2:01:43 AM | 813 126 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

it's genuinely wild how many pro-israel posts would be seen as blatantly antisemitic like a half century ago. red-headedness is also a jewish stereotype!

27/8/2025, 5:07:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

there's a reason why cucumber salads are typically sliced thin or smashed

27/8/2025, 3:49:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

got a cucumber salad appetizer and the cucumber was sliced into huge chunks so it barely picked up any sauce and it was so disappointing idk they made a nice cucumber tower but it just tasted like whole cucumber (which i do love tbf)

27/8/2025, 3:49:24 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah it's been less and less tempting for me to go back recently, this weekend was especially bad

27/8/2025, 3:30:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

he is also painting himself as the most gullible man on earth lmao. he says he would call israel horrified by a news story and then just believe the offending military's spokesperson who told him that that actually the news was all fake and the children deserved it anyways

26/8/2025, 10:52:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

i can't stand it when people pronounce antisemitic "antisemetic" it's like nails on a chalkboard

26/8/2025, 9:42:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

a lot, rural areas have less private insurance and the hospitals bring in way less money, they get massive subsidies relative to thejr population

26/8/2025, 9:18:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

i screamed when i opened it this morning

26/8/2025, 8:27:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

took some thinking to figure out that this wasn't a joke

26/8/2025, 8:26:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

omg chappel roan

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25/8/2025, 11:47:46 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

i helped one (1) person by using transit app's GO feature in Bermuda also bus stop names are so fun in cities without grids

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25/8/2025, 11:45:09 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

from old chicago to new chicago

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25/8/2025, 11:41:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

it's soured on me

25/8/2025, 11:19:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

and the base color, which i think might be driven by them wanting the white of the flag to "stand out"

25/8/2025, 11:18:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

well except when they put on the oneworld logo

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25/8/2025, 11:17:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

that's why modern is worse than old, not why AA is worse than everybody else

25/8/2025, 11:02:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

also also i just counted and they didn't even get the number of stripes on the flag right lmao

25/8/2025, 10:54:17 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

also it's wild that cargo airlines almost universally have better liveries than passenger airlines idk

25/8/2025, 10:51:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

i think i've decided that the current American livery is by *far* the worst of any major airline

25/8/2025, 10:48:58 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

the worst thing is that the current american paint scheme isn't even white it's a hideous gray-beige

25/8/2025, 10:38:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

i wish

25/8/2025, 8:40:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

they still know how to paint pretty planes they just choose not to

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25/8/2025, 8:36:12 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

two gay flight attendants with facial hair 😸

25/8/2025, 7:56:28 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

American has 3 videos for international arrivals: one for generally arriving in the US, one for arriving in Hawaii, and one just for O'Hare

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25/8/2025, 7:39:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

lmao

a sign saying
25/8/2025, 7:35:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

they got trains in this city

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25/8/2025, 7:35:30 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

it was really good!

25/8/2025, 7:33:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

phl

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25/8/2025, 7:32:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

a quick pop into town

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25/8/2025, 6:24:56 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

close enough welcome back georg simmel

25/8/2025, 5:24:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

i'm on the train somebody give me a cheesesteak rec relatively close to the regional rail

25/8/2025, 5:11:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

i was surprised to see every seat with them on all the American flights i've taken this trip

25/8/2025, 5:07:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

might not make it anywhere the tsa isn't allowing anybody to walk through the airport rn they're telling everybody to stop walking and stand still who knows why

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Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

airplane

25/8/2025, 4:50:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

i have a 3 hr layover in philly is it worth it to take a train into the city for a cheesesteak y/n you have 15 mins to decide

25/8/2025, 4:49:33 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

this doesn't look safe

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25/8/2025, 4:47:17 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

and then he got shot?

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25/8/2025, 4:46:54 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

this logo on the wingtip thing is really silly

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25/8/2025, 2:29:53 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

us terminal at bermuda airport showing bloomberg news on the tvs and the jetbridges are sponsored by price waterhouse coopers lmao

25/8/2025, 2:00:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted

Perfect example of how fake and bad-faith this entire language discourse is. A National Review article reprinted on a mainstream news site about a *single mention* of a term in a massive technical document no one will ever read. The document overwhelmingly uses gender-specific language.

24/8/2025, 12:23:37 PM | 1165 184 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

an andrew cuomo special

23/8/2025, 8:49:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

didn't they literally just rebuild the tracks out of jamaica on the atlantic branch?

23/8/2025, 8:48:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

the purple connections today was utter bullshit

23/8/2025, 8:47:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social)

surreal paragraph

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23/8/2025, 1:27:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianofmanycolours.bsky.social) reply parent

this is only true for people who live in the city or on long island

23/8/2025, 1:26:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view