Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦

In fairness, it was generally only 7 numbers, back in the day...

no lies detected

ewwww

very scary indeed

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

blue liquid in trap...

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Nineteen people feared dead after blast at Tennessee munitions plant Police chief calls explosion near Bucksnort, south-west of Nashville, ‘devastating’ and says ‘we have some deceased’

a tragic event with energetic materials, alas

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

¡Feliz! 🙇‍♂️

oh, man, that was my post office when I lived in the Mill District. it was so fabulous to get my FBI background check there when I needed a visa. you could get your 10,000 steps in just buying stamps!

Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over ‘warrantless arrests’ A Chicago federal judge has extended a nationwide consent decree requiring ICE to better document and report probable cause for immigration arrests and found the agency repeatedly violated the 2022…

Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over 'warrantless arrests' www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/f...

Enjoy that while you can. Trust me.

MOFs at last, eh?
*sigh* gonna have to close on a home with my wife's power of attorney in December, I guess...
#UnusualProblems

same

It's the TX guard troops that add further volatility, unfortunately. Too many bad faith actors hoping for an excuse to rampage.

I don't have much faith in the power of prayer, I admit.

But for Dolly Parton? Least I can offer. 🙏

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

this is what I want -- none of the guilt, all of the EtOH!

I'll take it

respecting the oath 🫡

not necessarily the police, per se. more the situation that has different security forces arrayed with their controlling authorities having contrary priorities. the potential for things going kinetic with little warning is high...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Heavy police presence in the Loop. A pair of officers on every platform at the 3 El stops before I got off the train.

Hoping everyone stays safe, tonight.

"Complacent art is ... illustration" is a pretty good comment, imho

a city skyline is visible behind a frozen lake Alt: a city skyline is visible behind a frozen lake

Went to #Chicago 12th St. Beach with @gagliardilaura.bsky.social to check the October-swim-in-Lake-Michigan box. A brisk wind added some swell and it was glorious. I'm game to try November (LG, not so much), but we'll see...

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Wilson! Suit up! Yeah, I know your ankle's broken, but trust me, you just lean on Walters, here, after the snap, and we'll get you a touchdown stat for this season. Suit up.

I suppose the comforting part of the low fever I'm enjoying today is that I can be confident there was something IN those vaccines... 🤒

a glass and bottle of beer on a bar top.

Talk about the best of both worlds! It’s still 80 deg F in Chicago, but my favorite pub just got its first delivery of N’ice Chouffe!