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The Lawrence station at night with a bike blurred going past, with horizontal bars of light at the top

A further out view of the Lawrence station glowing in the dark, with a red car passing underneath

The Argyle CTA station at night, with the Argyle sign illuminated and the station glowing in a variety of colors

An under the station view of the Argyle station, showing the geometric pattern above in closer detail, casting a purple glow onto the brick work below

Forgive me new CTA stations, I wasn't familiar with your game

I roll to disbelieve, basically everyone watches anime now

Maybe it’s specifically the people who say anime is a hobby

Must have been working on this PR I saw:

Skimming Twitter for the last six months be like oh thaaaaaats how the Holocaust happened. Hell I used to be kind of sympathetic to the idea that the average German didn't really know about it, but they clearly totally did and thought it was fine, as many people would now

All those beeps and boops R2-D2 makes are actually because they're bleeping out the EXTREMELY racist shit he keeps saying

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

When a Yautja gets killed by a human, do normie Yautja react to that the way people did to the OceanGate accident?

Legit, “sometimes things just suck and all you can control is how you respond to it” is an amazingly widely-applicable life philosophy

Way more cowboy hats at the 4th celebrations than I remember seeing in years past in the Chicago far suburbs.

There are a lot of arguments one can make against Zionism, but an argument on the basis of the rights of indigenous peoples to political self-determination in land they were driven out of is not one of the stronger ones

Alvin and the Chiptunes

I’ve run into that a lot

🧔🏻: “Look at all the genocide the Israelites committed!”
Me: “Okay but if you believe all that is 100% true, then that also means G-d did give us the land.”
🧔🏻: “Oh I don’t believe that part, just the parts where Jews are evil.”

“I asked chatgpt”,” “I asked grok,” well I asked a heavenly voice to rule on the status of the purity of the Oven of Akhnai and the rabbis just... overruled it?

I keep forgetting it’s Thursday and thus not Shabbat tonight. Thank you tomorrow’s holiday

My favorite part of in-office days are the people on Teams calls who refuse to use headphones

The synthesis of “all politics is consumerism” and Murc’s Law is “I want to speak to the manager, a Democrat.”

הי”ד

Me and the boys when we see a smallholder's homestead

A fun game but it gives people an unrealistic view of farming

Meanwhile the farmer we get our eggs from had to scale back over the winter because a fire killed a bunch of their chickens and how they have to rebuild the hutches.

Drought? Easily solved with a watering can. Pests? Barely existent and easily stopped with a fence or a scarecrow. All harvests are predictable at the moment you put seed in the ground. Animals never get sick.

My wife is currently playing Stardew Valley obsessively (bad I’ve been playing Vintage Story) and I think a lot about how most of the problems of farming just…don’t exist in those games

I think survival games may have helped perpetuate the fantasy that feeding yourself from the earth is easy. "realistic subsidence farmer simulator" is probably not going to be a thing.

The tendency of left-wing thinkers to search for economic explanations for political phenomena has consistently pulled the entire left-of-center away from the obvious explanation for MAGA, which is that they find torture and domination psychologically rewarding, and are seeking that reward.

All the sins of Wade–Giles romanization, rendering
北京 as "Peking" and all,
are forgiven for setting up this joke.

Reading about “coffee badging” and it’d be tempting except no one in my division talks to each other when we’re in the office anyway

Comrade Mamdani order drone strikes on Dimes Square

Blood quantum

Glad it doesn’t feel like 42°C anymore and we’ve graduated to “now it will probably rain for three days straight”

A lot of rueful nods when I was done talking

On YK I was sitting with some people who all left during Yizkor and one person said “I don’t know why I’m here, I don’t believe in G-d” and I told that joke about the two rabbis who argue about G-d and eventually agree that He didn’t exist and then still go to Shaḥarit the next day