This could be us but you want an F150
handle kind of gives it away. architect + procrastinator. transmitting from beautiful Indianapolis, Indiana. sometimes i complain for fun. i enjoy cool breezes and rainy mornings, separately. my other bike is a bike. is that bad?
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This could be us but you want an F150
does he think the plebes run are always saying the phrase “kitchen table issues”
Beer pong
this is the kind of shit that people won’t believe when you tell them, you sound like a crank just describing what is happening
get this putrid shit out of my country you dipshit kkk wannabe
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
president (war) crimes
you didn’t cry when we got a Culver’s?
oh this is absolutely it
we should probably trust them, benefit of the doubt and all
I’m at the invasion of Venezuela. I’m at the invasion of Illinois. I’m at the combination invasion of Venezuela and Illinois.
seems bad
welp
this mfer said “finally finally”
it’s finally time for a “we’re the adults in the room” moment so of course Dems finally abandon it lol
anyway, I was hoping to wake up and feel Not Sick but today is apparently not that day
we're also up against building code esoterica and parking accomodations, which combine to make lots of shitty buildings.
well now you’re into the bldg technology and global supply chain part. A way-too-reductive but mostly right conclusion that labor was cheap and building technology was simple and now neither is true. Otoh I think it’s possible to make good buildings within this milieu and far too many people don’t.
Mr. President sir, would you play Calvin Ridley in the flex
chicago is so filthy with good buildings
we're never going to get the attention of the mayor's office if these incidents keep happening at far flung rural intersections no one has ever heard of
Black art is alive and well in Indianapolis stereotypes be damned
looks like he brought a bag lunch
He packed a bag lunch, smart.
sometimes you want to will yourself into health and sometimes your body knocks you the fuck out for an hour and a half during your “10 minute Power Nap” to remind you who’s in charge
“rubes vs non-rubes” gets you close but to get closer you have describe it by what they won’t trust, which is “expertise.” imo you can decades or anti-intellectual bullshit combined with “systems working too well behind the scenes” for its emergence.
Asking an LLM to do basic math or count letters in a word is indeed a poor test of what they are capable of, but it's also wrong to criticize people trying it, because the companies pushing this stuff brought it upon themselves by not explaining the limited capabilities, because line must go up
AI could never
wow
What idiot called them Sharrows and not a Protected Sike Lane?
ahh yeah here he comes, big 45-47, donny trump himself, looks like he brought a bag lunch, smart
true blueskyism has never been tried
the paint hasn't stopped this?!
“I refuse to spend my time on Elon’s website” was all that it took for me. I literally never think about these other things.
But the framing and POV really needs to change. 240,000 tickets in one month doesn't mean drivers are getting slammed. It means your city has an epidemic of dangerous speeding that needs to be fixed. The conversation should start there.
Two people tried to run the 4 way stop signs at 52nd and Penn and crashed this morning. Thank goodness there is a sensible roadway design here otherwise it coulda been way worse
the reasonable centrist position: I shidded my pants
Please put in the paper that I got diarrhea.
if we had just cast him in a show about being president it would have saved us all from this hellscape
Enchantment under the sea-ass press conference.
Anyway. If any publication wants me to write about the ghastly Gaza Riviera, I welcome and need commissions 👋🏻
hopefully there are some wayfinding upgrades coming with the Blue Line
this is obviously all bullshit AI slop but any architect willing to work on this should be tarred and feathered
The leaked Gaza Riviera plan is more grotesque than you could ever have imagined.
DOD is now HBO DOD
"What about them Boyz" Chicago, Illinois
A big assumption of American democracy is that each branch of government would jealously and furiously guard its power, that people’s egos would keep other egos in check. Congress ceding its authority blows up that whole dynamic.
he's declaring war on woke
Trump at 2pm today 🤞
what's it like to have a mayor who likes cities and the working class
scream Movie
Jesus Christ
live look at Bill Belichick on the sidelines
live look at Bill Belichick on the sidelines
Bill Belichick, college coach
I miss Norm
Bill BeLOLchick is that anything
I differ on the solution (I say fight, they say leave) but I don’t disagree with the diagnosis
but I doubt they regulate it that far from the school. However most of these people have never walked half a mile in their life lol.
also many schools have policies to prevent alternate drop off spots for safety reasons
Belichick is wondering around that sideline looking like he wants to talk to a furniture salesman in like a giant Raymour and Flanagan. I like this ottoman, is there anyone over here who can help me
Really taken with the idea of someone at an Oasis show, sometime on this tour, learning that Donald Trump has died by having Noel announce the news and then being like "right, then, this one's called 'Some Might Say.'"
now I am a cynic but also an idealist so I think we can and should do whatever we can to fight back. we can create pockets of good and that’s a noble fight, but sprawl won and we will be dealing with that for decades if not centuries. tough cookies for urbanists I’m sorry to say.
this metaphor has been marinating in my head for a while and it’s not great for an already cynical mind but I really do think we’re in for a long haul of shit bc of the decision to go all-in on sprawl 70 years ago. it seems bad now but it’s still getting worse & there’s not much we can do about it.
flag levitating above the pole
you know how a star can die but you wouldn’t know for hundreds of years because it’s so far away? well this star died when sprawl became de facto policy and now we’re seeing the light go out.
No he didn’t. That isn’t true.
Charlie Brown had rakes
I want it to happen just as much as anyone else. Not in a looking for secret clues dem-anon way but in a much cooler guy way to be clear.
ah yes, I too remember the throngs of “generic Chicago bulls” jerseys in the 90s
Yeah yeah everyone gets old and looks shitty but have you considered that this is the worst person in the world
well I’ve seen enough, he’s obviously healthy
extremely not the point but what a name lol
all you need to know to understand America’s weird blend of libertarian authoritarianism is that the most important instruction of the Gadsden flag motto isn’t “don’t tread” but “on ~ME~”
happy labor day m.youtube.com/watch?v=_2aj...
no I think we should continue to try our best to”fuck you, you need us more than we need you” strategy it seems to be working
This is a rousing appreciation of Studs Terkel for Labor Day. His book Working, as he wrote, is "above all (or beneath all), about daily humiliations. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us" (1/2)
how do you find time to read so much
I’m addicted to posting, not to the company hosting the message board. Different form of pathetic!
Loyalty to any posting platform is stupid. I’m not laying down my life for my Favored Company, I’m going wherever I can say “kush got me feeling like the white Tony Soprano” and right now that’s Bluesky
"well you see, son, when people approach middle age..."
they want to be france so bad lol (this extremely sucks)
anyway, I think positioning "closers" vs "openers" flattens the debate and doesn't allow for proper reflection
the school closure discourse is broken because I think the "close them" faction was right at the beginning but after the vax came out, the states that reopened were right while very blue places kept them closed too long. imo Indiana stumbled onto the right mix (no credit where due).
we are the last posters on the titanic, and there's nobility in that. but you gotta shut up about how the boat is sinking.
ACAB includes babies
son asked why people have midlife crises and my answer came out too quickly and cogently for my liking lol
refusing to "Weekend at Bernie's" Donald Trump on ideological grounds against socialism
Also shout out to click clack moo imo
eh I don’t know how that would apply to any contemporary issues
900 W. Argyle, Chicago. 1929, Sidney Minchin, architect
the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands
what guys mean when they say they’ve got a lot going on
to be fair this is how you might write about a rat too
of course my neighbors with the pickleball court have a gas mower
This is the average American driver post-Covid.
it’s someone else’s car! she was renting it
don’t worry he reported it, maybe he’s on the McCarthy server
tfw you log onto bumble