Cait Hakala

Everything I've learned about the Battle of Agincourt is because I'm married to a man.

Screenshot of an email from IL state treasurer Frerichs: Connectivity Creates Competitiveness I recently read a description of an outhouse: A small building a hundred feet from your house that’s a hundred feet too far in the winter, and a hundred feet too close in the summer. This reminded me of a conversation I had with Dad a few years ago. I grew up with indoor plumbing. Every friend I knew had indoor plumbing. My father did not until he was about 8. Before then, he had to use an outhouse and bed pans.

Uncommon reason to vote for Michael Frerichs again as IL state treasurer: his official Treasurer update emails are personable, unhinged delights.

I was going to buy Pick 'Em tickets for the Hawks this year but given the recent behavior of the NHLers on the USMNT, I'm making a late new years resolution to only monetarily support women's sports in 2026.

In every scene of this promo, cops are directly in the way of people using the train.

Yeah but that format generally ends up being that very AI-coded numbered bullet point list so if you're trying to NOT look like AI made it/convince yourself you packaged the final product, it makes sense to tinker on your own.

People who use chatbots regularly have been told they can't simply copy and paste responses because they will be clearly identifiable as AI. So they do things like this for "style" and to "make it their own." I'm sure she genuinely thinks this is user generated content because she added line breaks.

I did the math so you don't have to: there are 2 Casimir Pulaski fanfics on AO3 (not just references to Sufjan), they're both in Polish and both gay slash. One is Pulaski/Washington and the other is Pulaski/his subordinate 🔥🔥🔥

The Washington one is a 2 parter, unfinished. A Pulaski Day tragedy.

I have been doing 3 years of fairly extensive dental work at this point and there have been several "oh wait we need to fix one more thing"s and it's actually killing me. Plus the actual pain sucks.

Very much a PR spin move, hockey players are usually more insulated from their bad personal opinions breaking containment so they were not expecting their actions to have consequences for the good will they drummed up last week.

I'm also doing estate planning this week! That and we got new blinds which was more thrilling than it had any right to be.

It's wild how much we've needed an opponent for this seat--I was happy to keep voting for Andrade because he seemed fine and gave me a popsicle after a 5K once. I'm not kidding. I just hadn't heard anything bad about him so I figured he was fine. WRONG!

It's wild for the Chicago Athletic Association to change to a seated-by-host table format, inform you that you have a limit of two hours, and then never come back after your first round. Vibes are fully ruined and I won't be back.

"cars don't ignore laws" lol. lmao, even.

It fully is!! I did not know how public that was, I had some insider tea but it sounds like it's public knowledge

I feel like I know which cat ladies you're talking about and if you and I ever meet in person I have the hottest, wildest goss about them lol

I could really get behind this idea--especially if we improved transit options for solider field. You know what would be an immediate improvement? BRT for DLSD.

And now we know! It's Chicago Beverage Systems' fault. Thanks for all this info!!

I love this website. My car complaints turn into learning fun facts.

Wow that is absolutely wild to me!!! Thanks for the info

Idk the difference, if it says Revolution Brewing exclusively on the side it could still be from another distributor?

Does ChicagoSky know if there are any ordinances about political campaigns collecting their trash/sloganeering materials after election day?

Very disappointed today to see a Revolution Brewing delivery truck across the street from Toon's on Southport blocking the bike lane. They host the @atalliance.bsky.social member party every year :( I'd expect better from a Chicago-based, purportedly bike-friendly brewer.

ah that's cool! Thanks for the response

I'm so sorry Em, may his journey be peaceful.

Are these a station design that also charge the bikes?

Mine sits until pretty late in the game ever since a few years ago when I voted for Amara Enya early and learned too late she had lied on her taxes.

It's so funny that people are like oooh what if Heated Rivalry encourages NHLers to come out?? Meanwhile the USWNT/PWHL have normalized queer players since their inception.

I promise you and @slucy.bsky.social I'll actually finish it next time. I just wasn't expecting anything else and was like bahhh too much! But clearly it's not that much more effort.

I have done it but it's really a pain in my experience. They wanted me to fill out a whole other form by a specific date which they sent me by email. I'm like why is my 311 report not enough for this? I never did it because it was just too much administrative effort.

Whatever happens with this, Arlington Heights tax payers lose.