Nicholas Sideras ☃️

You’ll also be shocked to hear that the Reddit commentariat didn’t care to hear the entire story and started leaving bad reviews for local businesses who “call the cops on a guy for giving balloons away”

A yellow road sign says “surface may be icy” ahead of a curvy road surrounded with lots of green grass and foliage

keepin’ it really on the 90°F days

RIP Eternal September 1993-2025

It’s official, driving through a barricade and sending people to the hospital is just a normal oopsie that anyone could do.

Anyone know how I can get a copy of @jessiesinger.bsky.social’s book to the mayor’s office?

Milwaukee’s own. 🚀

Do I have to bring my own secret stadium sauce or is that included?

About a dozen various flannel shirts hanging on a clothes rack. Not all of them are Pendleton but probably close to half are. Come to think of it, this is probably also missing 2-3 of my flannels

I…own one or two. Maybe half of this rack? They’re great.

Between my brothers, my dad, and me we could probably start our own vintage Pendleton store. Just need to get some of those fancy blankets

I walked down the stairs into the vintage shop (Milwaukee’s To Hell and Back) and immediately spotted it across the room, that’s how fantastic it is. It’s a women’s and juuuust a tad small in the sleeves but I couldn’t pass it up

exactly

I got a fantastic vintage wool flannel the other week and I was eyeing it today wondering if I could get away with it in the low 80s

The local water tower is getting… cleaned? repainted?… something involving a giant dust tent and converting it to a dull gray. The tent goes up and down daily, which is sort of like a flag? So I keep imagining the crew lined up to salute the water tower every day. And that would also need a bugle…

A screenshot of me texting my friend Nate. There’s a picture of the president standing on the whitehouse roof, and a text that says “just another Tuesday”

This is gonna be an underappreciated post for the out-of-towners but is absolutely A+ content

Lost the last game of the season by 1, drowning my sorrows in cheese sauce

A picture of a baseball field taken from the 3rd base side facing home. Long shadows are over the field from the sun low behind home

Good day for ball

Kids these days probably think 2001: A Space Odyssey was made in 2001 because the special effects are so old

I have so many questions but wish you the best of luck 😬

I’m not sure if the house is smoky from the grill in the backyard or just, you know, from outside in general

Subscriptions to @urbanmilwaukee.com continue to be an absolute steal when they’re giving away things like MANDI tickets to members

Two bumper stickers on the back of a dark colored car. A partial Wisconsin license plate on the side has the number 5 and a renewal year ending in 6. The first bumper stickers says “I brake for wildflowers” with a stylized drawing of various colorful wildflowers. The second says “I sold state secrets for Kohl’s Cash”, with the green Kohl’s Cash logo.

We’re hitting the time of year where bees hang out all day in the ivy covering the house, which means when the AC isn’t running it sounds like I live in a beehive

any good sampler platters?

A map of the Great Lakes and surrounding areas. The extended boundaries of the lakes are colored green, indicating hypothetical boundaries of a Great Lakes Autonomous Zone

Extend it right into GLAZ

"Normal Bikes for Normal People": Rivendell's New Derailleur Is Mechanical Why the non-electronic, non-indexed Silver OM-1 manufactured by Rivendell is the most important rear derailleur there is

A fun article that talks about electronic bike but isn’t about e-bikes. It’s really more about being ok with “normal bikes for normal people in normal clothes who want to enjoy the outdoors in a completely normal way”, rather than something built like an F1 car.

Checkered kids shorts on a carpeted floor. The shorts have a black & white checkerboard pattern but there really is no white left. Everything is gray, wet, and muddy with even darker gray in the middle.

A sign the kid had a successful rainy day at Milwaukee’s Urban Ecology Center’s kids summer camp: his black & white shorts today came back home as black, gray, & darker gray

The Twilight Zoning Board You’re traveling through another neighborhood, a neighborhood built from a maze of zoning-board restrictions. A journey into a redlined land whose ...

"A used-car dealer is forced to reveal the truth after selling a car to an old man, who claims the vehicle is haunted. There isn’t a ghost in the car, but instead a college student living in it after residents sued the local university to block more student housing."

even more fun

It’s the most fun!

I’m not sure how to fully capture a weekend of over a thousand bicyclists coming together for a 24-hour non-competitive race (including sidequests, numerous block parties, all sorts of community meals and roadside food) but here’s 4 pictures from my 64 miles during Milwaukee’s Riverwest 24 weekend