Over winter, it's easy to forget how much better the house smells when you finally open a few windows and doors.
16.02.2026 00:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@mrdankelly.bsky.social
Chicago Writer/Editor from Oak Forest Living in Highland Park "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."—Terence
Over winter, it's easy to forget how much better the house smells when you finally open a few windows and doors.
16.02.2026 00:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mañanacillin?
15.02.2026 22:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I learned you can check out a blu-ray player at my library. Figured I'd check it out before finally breaking down and buying one.
15.02.2026 05:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Low-life scum.
15.02.2026 05:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I actually do.
14.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Roses are red
Violets are blue
To the centre of the city in the night
Waiting for you
See, surprise and shock tactics work and freak folks out…at first. Then you find yourself confronted by many angry people looking for payback. Im reminded of the folks on the plane who swarmed the shoe-bomber.
13.02.2026 23:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If you’re pro-ICE and you still expect anti-ICE folks to treat you with kindness and respect at this point, you have a very poor grasp of reality.
13.02.2026 23:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You shouldn't criticize people's appearance, even if they're the worst goddamned people on the planet. It's low-hanging rotten fruit, and you're playing into the prejudices THEY usually truck in. At the same time, I'm leaving it at that. I'm not interested in providing excuses for their behavior.
13.02.2026 18:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New Chris Ware -- 11/26
13.02.2026 18:24 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 3Even in the throes of my personal Catholicism, I hesitated when it was suggested the words of some virginal weirdo on a column in the desert—or whatever his cloistered, celibate, etc. circumstances—had anything to say about the average person's life.
13.02.2026 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lit Editor Business for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. Patrick T. Reardon provides another great review for a book combining religion and horror: David Scott Hay's "The Butcher of Nazareth" from @whiskeytit.com.
thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2026/02/...
Again, generally speaking and remembering my earlier history as an ostensible conservative, the idea of order, containing chaos, and maintaining focus on pragmatic solutions as a means to repair society is tempting. But it falls apart when you realize we don't all need to be the same kind of person.
13.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm not familiar with Dreher, but generally speaking, modern conservatives believe only "worthy" folks at the top deserve comfort, pleasure, and security... Then a good chunk of those "worthy" folks deny themselves the pleasure part...until they finally crack and seek it out in bad places.
13.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1Let that Aklo ghost language come out of you!
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"
"Fhtagn! Fhtagn! Iä!"
This is why you don't make friends with those people. You don't meet them halfway. You don't accommodate them. You don't try to understand them. You don't make peace with them. You don't "set aside politics."
13.02.2026 15:50 — 👍 78 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 0Illinois Primary Voters: Check out Injustice Watch's guide for the judges' races! 2026primary.injusticewatch.org
13.02.2026 15:08 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Ten years ago, Scalia descended into Hell.
13.02.2026 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Good. They’ll try to find a sneaky way to do something similar, but they got caught looking, so to speak.
13.02.2026 00:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Clavicular was brutally frame mogged by the ASU Frat leader.
13.02.2026 00:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We need to blow up the internet and start over.
12.02.2026 23:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The man deciding who gets to live or die, folks.
12.02.2026 23:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Something something AI slip something the real crime is ignoring the Epstein files…”
12.02.2026 23:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Or is it…? Then some of their friends will say, ‘I dunno, that looks pretty good. What does it bother you, bro?’”
12.02.2026 23:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Then we can patronize the angry people by acting all like, ‘Hey, man, NBD. We’re just, like, drinking coffee out of a roast chicken’s ass.’ Then we reveal…psych! It’s all bullshit! How owned you must feel! Or do we…?”
12.02.2026 23:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“You know what would be funny that would also cause some people to become enraged?”
12.02.2026 23:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
12.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: 47 Senators just blocked a measure that would have provided billions more dollars of no-strings-attached funding for ICE and Border Patrol to continue their violence and abuse.
While we applaud these Senators for taking action, the fight continues.