Maybe along the same lines you’re thinking- Finn Sisu is closing tomorrow! The xc ski shop!
So many of my favorite businesses from my grad school years on this list 🥹
I deleted bluesky and installed tetris because that’s basically what i have the capacity for right now but i just heard about this and thought my tiny corner of the internet should know:
www.standwithminnesota.com
If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
She opens her eyes when I say her name 🥹
Information I needed in advance of the primary
I have the flu and everything is a trash fire but would you believe how silly this kitten is
It's very clear from the commentary exploding on the timeline right now that hardly anyone outside Chicago knows ICE shot and killed a man in his car here in the fall.
It's probably not your fault—too much news.
But if you're choosing to jump in & *report* today, please contextualize. Thanks.
Thank you friend!!
i am standing right here
Chicago’s annual snowplow naming contest is underway and Mayor Brandon Johnson is backing the name “Abolish ICE.” blockclubchi.co/4pi3DA4
Literal words to live by: “Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, but don't let okay be the nemesis of terrific either.”
I never know how to answer out of towners when they ask if i live “downtown.” Like, yes, but no, but yes?
Yes, the travel book guy
Said it before and I'll say it again - if you look at every awful Rogansphere inspired "comedy" trend of recent years and think "I kind of want the exact opposite of that", Josh is pretty much your guy.
Comedy that's smart, warm, empathetic, and laugh out loud funny because of it.
I’m sorry but BOTH my books are bestsellers???
I’m sorry BOTH???
I’m sorry but BOTH??????
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We deserve this win.
Lol of course they are
Hey Chicago peeps, you know what to do.
Do it.
Do it.
Wild to consider that I read 1984 as as 9th grader and thought it was so far fetched so as to be dull
It's wild that this public perception is shifting when dems continue to be weak as hell on this. It isn't media driven, it's entirely people's lived experiences that's influencing this swing.
Something that will make your brain feel a little happier if you could use that today (or tomorrow or the next day....)
That's awesome! I stayed at his house via his roommate's couchsurfingdot com account in 2008 and I have never stopped repeating the joke about the magician kindergartner going "there's NOTHING IN MY HANDS!"
“Your property taxes are higher than they should be because commissioners on the Cook County Board of Review keep handing out massive tax breaks to corporations, which shifts their tax burden onto homeowners like you.”
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Come for the malort, stay for the sobbing into your coffee
Counterpoint Yosemite Yellowstone government offices being open while you're on your lunch break (I'm substituting Denmark for France there) not officially interfering with the dress preferences of Muslim women, off the top of my head
What is with this crop of upper admins who spend millions of dollars a year on their faculty, all of whom are employed in part on the basis of their ability to read, and then send out videos with no transcript we're expected to watch?
i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets
i just learned that my piece, Collagen sits on a throne of lies, was picked as a notable selection in Best American Science and Nature writing 2025! my haters are blue in the face to see a humble blog receive among the highest honors a science piece can get!
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