just matt

Selfie in the seats at the Phillies game

Phillies baseball field

Phillies scoreboard

Outside of Phillies ballpark

Trying out a unique cultural amenity while in Philly w/ @questionableway.bsky.social

there is a funding bill & a reform bill on the floor right now and i’m hearing it’s not so likely either passes…

CTA will run out of money if the state legislature doesn’t get its shit together in the next ~40 hours btw

Just going to put it out there that appointing a CTA President with no transit experience, after the public has lost confidence in both the leadership at CTA in the past and the current Mayor, may not be the best move.

it is spanish or french quality for basement prices. and some of most unique varietals & methods in the world. brilliant country—envious of you for having it in family’s backyard

i’ve been so many times that the brothers who run the place, whenever they see me, automatically pour an iced coffee and hand it me for free without asking. theyve invited me on their smoke breaks before

i am the single biggest café 53 booster in the world. in 2020 when my work paid for one meal a day bc my hours were so bad i spent over $1000 there in 3 months

yeah i’ve not actually been but heard good things!

oh @slucy.bsky.social is about to open a wine bar im really excited for though. his selection at 57 st wines is good

for bars it’s just jimmy’s. go to jimmys. it’s a dive. it’s mostly grad students. it’s good. it is as limited as any other dive is and it’s perfect that way

the med for baked goods and pastries

build coffee for another good cafe with solid pastries

it is the best sandwich in chicago i’ll die on this hill

virtue is excellent upscale southern. it’s pricey for hp but cheap for the quality

cafe 53 no joke has the best sandwiches in the city—get the vegan sumac chicken

robust: their coffee is great & food is too

daley’s diner—oldest restaurant in the city. standard diner. it’s good

they also have what is, dollar for dollar, one of the best wine scenes in the world. price per quality thru the roof

it is straight up Not There at all

for the right the question of citizenship is irrelevant. one does not become american via citizenship; americanness, for these ghouls, is a question only of race ancestry and language

anyone who thought they’d stop at non citizens is a mark

i’ve never had it

this is actually a rlly complex legal question left unanswered by a supreme court case in which chicago was a litigant! but generally you can constitutionally do a dispersal order (no crim consequences) for “disturbing the peace” or “blocking the public way” and then crim liability for noncompliance

does that taste like old bay

i think it should be a personal domain of king chuckie

that just isn’t true empirically

i’ll fight with you about canada

you cannot seriously support reducing violence if you aren’t trying to get guns off the streets and as it stands neither side wants to do that

the big flaw in public safety debates is that the major factions respectively want to either ignore violence altogether or do dumb and expensive unrelated things to ‘clamp down on it’ (read: lock up black kids for no reason). this is because one side is stupid and the other is racist and stupid

when we go to the farmers market in two weeks and post our haul, this site will blow up

can u make it faster

you’re actually taking resources away from the problem to chase a ghost problem. dumb

i think

1) this will not make us safer

2) does nothing to address the actual root cause of the problem (guns)

3) doesn’t even do anything to solve this issue. teens out at night is fine, it’s the large disruptive gatherings that are the problem. police those and drop the curfew

this app is just so much worse :( but i miss my friends