Admittedly the "affordable housing = $1K studio in the suburbs" also broke me haha
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Admittedly the "affordable housing = $1K studio in the suburbs" also broke me haha
Tbh I was shocked by how expensive all the food was there! Santa Monica prices without the nearby beach 🥺
Trump thinking they were pals and not that Modi is just an enormous opportunist is hilarious though tbh
yeah I vaguely saw the heat is supposed to come back eventually? but really seems unlikely at this point.
Oh nice Google tells you the train frequency...this is the Metra (regional rail) not the El so it's infrequent. Plus it only makes two stops in the city, one near Wrigley, so maybe these assholes will go watch baseball instead.
We're having a very lovely September right now tbh! I think it's supposed to get worse but honestly won't be shit compared to Texas.
Rahm would've probably supported this. Dude sucks
Honestly a shame they finished construction on that part of 94, but it's never too late to start more
Where was the winning progressive candidate?
Sun Times has had struggles but they're miles above this crap
Pritzker was right to call out the media in his last speech.
Right, that's why it would be great if he were funding journalism.
at a minimum, the wider media could report it as such instead of parroting his lies.
genuinely wish he'd set up a fund for local journalism - we need more freely available sources against the slop flooding the airwaves
one of the things that impressed me most when I met Pritzker in 2017 was how genuinely *angry* he was about what was happening (Muslim Ban 1), and of course now it's 10X more
unfortunately MSM is repeating his crime bullshit uncritically
yeah that is *majorly* caked on makeup
props to the makeup team
54 is actually a steep decline from postpandemic years, but then they'd have to give progressives & Biden credit
Lawrence Lessig had the right idea in his 2016 bid tbh
oh yeah the best Middle Eastern, Greek and Indian in Chicago is...in the suburbs. Or on the outer edges where the city is way less dense already!
2016 as well! remember "Hillary the Hawk, Donald the Dove"
What's their version of Pentagon pizza
NYT has a distinct pattern of how it reports on minorities and minority led projects tbh
Tbh I'd believe a cosmetic procedure took place, at minimum.
Can we sticky this to the Internet
Important to remember that during COVID a lot of people primarily experienced the world online and so when you hear them resurrecting their gripes it’s actually just them getting mad again about the things they saw *on social media*
I was so sad when I discovered supermarkets aren't all consistent with their aisles
You can follow all the non-Substack newsletters that people post about on Bluesky by following this feed!
It does kinda boggle my mind that even post Theranos there's not been a lot of soul searching about how vulnerable to rhetoric investors are, tbh
Terry Pratchett was right to say that the origin of evil is treating people like things but he failed to anticipate that some folk would go on to treat things like people. futurism.com/openai-inves...
Substack is now forcing writers to allow Apple iOS subscriptions—which raises prices, delays payment, and moves control of customer lists from the writer to Apple. Move your publication off Substack while you still have full access to your paid list. mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/substack-j...
That's how you know it's friend
this is evil
I bet your BIL hasn't
This enormously pernicious and no one should still be on Substack - not just because of the Nazis, but for sheer practical business reasons.
Aaand I just learned that Texas is currently trying to charge someone with a hate crime for graffiting "fuck Israel." There's just no threshold where oppression won't bleed over.
Ikr?! Although there's a chance we could just convince everyone else they've been saying it wrong....
I really want to know what that 2020 GOP recovery is. The COVID vaccine before they were told to be scared of it? Jan 6 cause they're traitors?
Ha I learned how to say "detritus" today (the i is long?!). Truly English is a nonsense language.
Taylor Fritz better bring it 😤
I mean, solo dining cause you can't get your friends to go with you is very relatable ðŸ˜
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
If he's profiting off anti vax views why not say that instead of making it sound like he has some moral reasoning behind his case
I'm reading Naomi Klein's DOPPELGANGER and this is a thing that gets called out--left wingers sounding like academics--but it's also like, why are these terms not being allowed into the mainstream where "climate change" (Frank Luntz) and "death panels" were
Wider media could've easily normalized left wing framing by now. Words like "heteronormative" and "unhoused" (from the original quoted post) seem academic because they're not getting wide traction even though they're accurate.
I think constantly about how as US regulations crumble, you're gonna need to know a guy
It doesn't even have a remotely party appropriate vibe?!
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
The gut punch moment for me was when she mentions global warming 🙃
I'm assuming cosmetic work tbh
One word: bronies
I do connect really well with my 14 cousin though 💀
The Skids from Letterkenny
Yeah honestly Bojack would stop trusting it because it's designed to stroke his ego
Unfortunately, my love of local ingredients means I so would
I'd have to be invited to the group as a journalist! Can't just lift all the interesting shit I'm seeing 😅
I once skipped out of work early to see a rare duck in the middle of the city near a restaurant I like, which is a far far cry from waking up at dawn to watch the sky
The lengths people will go to in order to get lifers!
Has anyone written anything about like hardcore birding culture, because I am *fascinated*
I would love for people like this to go drink the tap water in India and see how they do after a week
Aaaaa I love creatively low tech ways to store energy
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
Ahhhh thanks
The worst part of writing this thread is discovering that I was very wrong in stating that US publishers probably filed copyright for you, because whew I have seen some big names get called out as not filing copyright.
Oh if you're not familiar with the seasteading shit, it's genuinely amazing marine-digital.com/article_cryp...
I wish heartily that he would go seastead right now
I think it is difficult for lefties -- ok, has been difficult for me -- to really, truly absorb, on an affective level, that people like this are not mistaken about the facts. They're not confused. There's no "false consciousness" waiting for liberation. Their zero-sum values are deep & sincere.
cannot believe people gave Stephenie Meyer shit when *this* logic exists
the dream sequence where they're just playing hockey and going FUCK FEELINGS is A+! although honestly if all you remember is the dad that's like 90% of the best scenes haha
HAHAHAHA OF COURSE THERE'S A CONFEDERATE VAMPIRE
"godspeed motel" omg
Would be nice if people would stop mainstreaming nonsense tbh, it's drowning out...actual information
Haha Boondock Saints would've been way unchallenging. I saw II in the theater with my friends and we were almost the only ones there 😂
💅💅💅
I don't care what anyone says, I LOVE that movie
I suddenly want a Road House but with vampires. better leave in the yoga scene though
Interestingly Walgreens says overweight or obese, which is a much easier bar to clear.
oooooh I forgot how heavy the Anne Rice influence would've been at this time. admittedly it was also probably way harder to get a gay romance through in 1987 😬
there are always so many *fluids* in vampire films
oh *and* it's Peak 80s
a vampire western directed by Kathryn Bigelow?? NEVER DARK here I come
Guessing he doesn't know we are already the biggest exporter of plasma
Iiiii was wondering why seasteading was in my feed 😬
Even my nurse friend likes Scrubs!
They're creating so many bumpouts and protected lanes. We love to see it, although my dream is still fully pedestrianizing every single diagonal street.
Ha tbf that's called out at some point
All I think about watching that show is insurance denials 🙃
Israel is banning doctors from treating Gazans if they have a Palestinian grandparent or describe what they're seeing but no, it's totally not a genocide 🙄 www.npr.org/2025/08/28/g...
Mate-seeking spiders looking to smash are getting smushed by cars in Southern Colorado. So the state is building tarantula crossings.
Iiiii have guesses as to what RFK is about to claim the "cause" of autism is.
he's *so* concerned though
yeah I mean...what's the point of being a senator if you do not wield any power
and then he made excuses for RFK firing the committee!
the problem with that belief is that their money doesn't come out of thin air - it starts with there being consumers for their shit. fewer consumers = less for them, too
The vital currency in all modern political disputes is the public's attention. The more you escalate a conflict, the more attention you get, and if you're in the superior, more defensible position - which may not be the most POPULAR position, at the outset - fighting it out wins people to your side.
Forcing them to fight for every inch - and escalating every conflict to the utmost - spends their time, their legal resources, and makes each subsequent battle RISKIER for them rather than SAFER, as you’re constantly testing public acquiescence and you never know when popular opposition might emerge
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101.
Bill Cassidy, you could stopped this months ago if you had a shred of integrity.