Ian McLeod

OK. Personal breaking point. This somehow, earnestly, both sides "the doubt of judges" and "open lying and defiance of court orders by the justice department" as co-contributors to the erosion of "healthy court function". Holy pitch-bot. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Costco in England (in 2006) - 1540 Tetley tea bags - Amusingly, unlike the US stores, this location outside of London would sell you a single jar of Skippy peanut butter instead of two shrink-wrapped together.

Hey fellow alumni, it only takes a minute:

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I don't think I've seen a better example of an animal smiling in my life... 🥹

Canceling transmission lines will raise electricity prices and raise emissions. Canceling transmission lines enhances corporate monopoly power and profit. Canceling transmission lines is climate denial.

I found this "Silent mode #fox" comic that I drew three years ago.

photo of a neighborhood alleyway in Chicago in late afternoon

Chicago's alleyways are so good

Ahh yes. That tracks. :-) Thanks!

What is the input data here? (Asking from a red part of Rogers Park.)

For everyone who grew up around there, this is largely a due to "precision farming". Back in the day, the edges and corners were very stunted, now seed density and fertilizer are adjusted so all the plants receive similar conditions. #couldabeenthirdgenJohnDeereemployee

for ease of use and quality of output i genuinely cannot think of a better brewing tool than the aeropress. i have had mine for almost 15 years and still break it out at least once a week

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Hoping that someone can help me identify this location from Andrew Davis' Stony Island (1978) - the apartment of Harold the appalachian sax player. It's supposed to be in Uptown, but not sure if another location is standing in. A few clues in the next post . . .

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Contrast that with the Petroleum inputs to transportation. Roughly 80% end up as Rejected Energy due to the inefficiency of combustion engines. Indeed, a largely electric/renewable US economy would require substantially less input in the first place. (H/T @jessedjenkins.com)

This is almost certainly a misleading framing of this kind of Sankey diagram: flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowch... - 3% of "primary energy production" comes from renewable sources. Nearly all of it becomes actual used "Energy Services". Losses are very low.

I live in a city where the lack of AC contributed to 739 deaths. AC is life saving: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Ch...

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

Metra train from Rogers Park, Chicago heading downtown is packed FWIW.

Interesting numbers for Golden Gate Park.

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

This weekend June 14 & 15 is Artist of the Wall! We’d love anyone who’d like to participate in painting our wall space on Loyola Beach to come out this weekend. The theme this year is All Together Now! Feel free to comment here if you’d like to participate. See you this weekend! #artistofthewall

YouTube video by everythingman28 Lethal Weapon 2 - Bathroom Bomb

"First time in 20 years I've got the bathroom all to myself" - youtu.be/T9tNhyEiRuc?...

The grave of John Peter Altgeld at Graceland Cemetery

"UNDER THE LAW AS YOU ASSUME IT TO BE, A PRESIDENT, THROUGH ANY OF HIS APPOINTEES, CAN APPLY TO HIMSELF TO HAVE THE MILITARY SENT INTO ANY CITY, AND BASE HIS APPLICATION ON SUCH REPRESENTATIONS AS HE SEES FIT. THIS ASSUMPTION IS NEW, AND I SUBMIT THAT IT IS NOT THE LAW OF THE LAND. THE JURISTS TELL US THIS IS A GOVERNMENT OF LAW, AND NOT A GOVERNMENT BY CAPRICE OF AN INDIVIDUAL" MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT CLEVELAND 1894

“… this is a Government of law, and not a Government by caprice of an individual.” — Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld’s message to President Grover Cleveland, protesting the sending of federal troops into Illinois during the 1894 Pullman strike. Graceland Cemetery.

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How about: "Free and low-cost energy abounds, if you know where _and when_ to find it!"

That "omg Musk is on ketamine" story is not only a year (at least) behind public Internet knowledge, it's also an example of access journalism getting played by its sources yet again.

Printing what anonymous insiders tell you to, and when, makes you a pawn in politics, not a journalist of it.

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This seems like an excellent issue-escalation opportunity for the opposition party.

I was a regular public radio listener for many years before I realized how common this is. It's one of those things that is difficult to un-see/un-hear once you know it is there. But I do feel like, when done well, and if you're not already sensitized to it, it can work.