i couldn't decide who to vote for in il-09 so I've just been going back every day and voting for a different person
we need faster transit in this city so i can recruit my friends from way down south to my Friday night team
if only i still knew someone who worked there and could get me in...
i think it might be owned by the state of Illinois? maybe that's why it isn't in the historical resources survey
i can't wait until we find out that the salt mines in Louisiana or wherever that we store the strategic reserve of oil in physically collapsed after we withdrew the remaining oil bc doge fired the guys whose job it was to make sure they didn't blow up
personal vehicles should not be permitted to diminish the transit experience, and this includes bikes in addition to cars
if you look at the data dutch public transit does suck ass and im so glad to find someone validating my belief that instead of looking at Europe for transit guidance we should be looking at Asia
there's a dutch woman on rednote talking about things she stopped doing after she moved to china, and one is riding her bike, bc she was only riding bc public transit in the Netherlands is slow and expensive
-Hanif Abdurraqib
'There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension'
Rosemont is the Dubai of Chicago (extremely derogatory)
sorry i meant that i hate i have to say it, since it should have already happened
got fired from my job at the Transgender Chili's for being a white cis woman
I've got a routing number for them
i hate to say this but unfortunately Rosemont should probably lose its incorporated status as a result of allowing this to happen under its jurisdiction
yesterday a friend told me the literal translation of Earth from Chinese is "dirt ball" or "floor ball" and I've just been repeating "floor ball" to myself all day and giggling like an idiot
i think my liberal arts education is most obvious when you look at the breadth of knowledge i draw from when insulting people
i don't think baseball players are necessarily dumber than other athletes but i do think it's a sport that selects for people with basically no thoughts who are driven almost entirely by their id
if i had to rank athletes based on who was most likely to unintentionally shock themselves to death if they were put in a human sized skinner box, baseball players would take the crown and do a victory lap before second place even got off the metaphorical line
I've been listening to Thomas Dolby all week and it had me thinking about how I was the only person in the audience who wasn't a gay man when I saw him in Austin in 2012
Anna is right. I’m fairly certain that home security systems have killed more women than they saved. Abusers are much more likely to use them to escalate violence than police are to intervene.
After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?”
And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.
they rebuilt the yard on the east side of the tracks after the highway was built, it seems it was mostly to serve the proctor and gamble plant that is where the home depot and the old streets and san facility was
that's what it's called when a city is a stand in for other cities
I'm using Portland as a Schenectady for every city that people fetishize
on the other hand this is just another thing to fuel my Chicago boosterism: the people who want to move to Portland are generally not here!
as ive gotten older and wiser my Chicago boosterism has been tempered by the fact that like actually someone who really thinks Portland Oregon is for them should probably just move there instead of moving here and being annoying and also sad about the lack of mountains all the time
this daylight savings shit rocks we should do this all the time
none it was all free (:
rode divvies about 20 miles today which was cathartic
