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Super cool how if you accidentally tap your debit card with insufficient fare and you get denied, your card is randomly locked as having insufficient fare for an unknown amount of time no matter how much more money you put on it.

How did you get one of these here (Damen)?!?? How did you even get it down to the CTA platform at O'Hare!

Paulie Gees receives a "perfectly solid" on my nonexistent pizza rating scale

If the Art Institute demolishes the Chicago Stock Exchange trading room I will do something that makes [redacted] look like setting off a firecracker in an empty field

I'm gonna be curious to see how it goes in real world tests. I've always been tempted by a nice MacBook and this might juuuuust get into my price range.

It's so funny to me that while you have a right of resale in the US, brand names are still trademarked, so if a company doesn't want you reselling their products, they just ding you for trademark infringement if you say the brand name. What a functional legal system we have.

these dorks are just cheap enough that I feel like I could justify them as a birthday present. Dangerous.

I love finding obvious former payphone booths. This pair is down a hallway at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, IL

my ephemera hoarding meant I inadvertently captured Atlas Stationers branding change pre and post craft-stationary revival

I gotta get one for my window

I enjoy the like, 1970s-1980s transitional era where a bunch of American heritage brands still existed, but had since been bought up by random other companies, so everything was like The Only Good Skillet Ever Invented (smaller text, entirely different font) by Jimco

any modern Alfa-Romeo

An action figure of Luke Skywalker in white robes from Star Wars. He's holding a blue lightsaber, a strange long barreled gun, and has ridiculously well defined pecs. Screenshot from "Nineties Star Wars Figures Showcase | Ashens"

clearly devised by the same designer who did the ridiculously hench 90s Star Wars figures

stuff like this is a nonzero reason I want a printer

its a real chore even when you min-max it with a spine cutter and a sheet-fed scanner. If you cant destroy the original copy? Even worse.

some wonderful buildings from Roseland earlier today

"if you need to get to Midway, transfer to the orange line. If you need to get to O'Hare, transfer to the Blue Line. If you need to get to LAX, you're very lost"

"Why is it called Southport if it's on the north side?"

"I can't get the announcements to work so you're stuck with my voice." It's about to be a great ride

Developing a theory where once you leave city limits everywhere is Pennsylvania

I think next paycheck I am going to buy an irrational amount of vocaloid merch

@victoriascott.bsky.social merch idea for Trans Girlismo; "Shapes Place Annual Passholder" bumper sticker, as close to the Disney ones as copyright law allows

a downy crake in basket, looking inquisitively at the camera.

peep? #aenore'spics #monsterhunter #mhwilds

better quality: aenore.fr/virtualphoto...

photo from my drive home

Stop staring at me with them big ol eyes

when I bought crypto to buy HRT I overbought a bit just to cover fees and stuff, and now every time I open Paypal its just like. Hey. You lost, about $3. :) . Have a good day.