Geoffrey Cubbage

Got a little obsessed with this house a few years ago. Junot Whitehouse, the explosives exec this home was built for, is buried at Rosehill, having ended his days in the Elgin Insane Hospital labeled a "distracted person." The year before his death, there was all sorts of drama concerning his estate

The way I immediately knew this view just from the general shapes and colors, before even making out any words. 🤣😭😍

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

Chat is it good when a candidate in a very crowded primary starts sending campaign emails as unsolicited BCCs with no unsubscribe at the bottom?

i’m sorry what

A PR Push on the Public Dime: Chicago Police Podcast Records Peel Back Layers of Expanded Communication Costs Podcasts are a new avenue for police to reach the communities they serve. A monthslong public records battle with CPD identifies the cost of the podcast “Roll Call.” It is the latest evidence of the h...

The “Roll Call” podcast is just part of a larger push in recent years to expand CPD’s communications operation.

Comms have vastly expanded over the past decade, and costs rose along with it.

Why Is The Cook County State's Attorney Prosecuting Nonviolent ICE Protesters? A Block Club investigation found dozens of protesters arrested by state police are still facing criminal charges for minor infractions, such as sitting on a concrete barrier — even after Gov. JB Pritz...

They're charged w/ misdemeanors for things like sitting on concrete barriers.

One w/ a felony for allegedly fingerpainting on a barrier.

The feds have dropped similar cases; the Cook County State's Attorney is prosecuting nearly all.
📝 @minabloom.bsky.social

blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/w...

iambic tetrameter ass stick

This explains a lot actually.

Bruce Springsteen making an album called Nebraska and filling it with even more songs about New Jersey is the most east coast shit anyone has ever done

In my eeriest yet Bluesky synchronicity (no not the album; this is not a long walk to a Police joke), this post crossed my feed while listening to Nebraska. 😱

(Which, despite my advancing age, is not THAT frequent of an occasion in my household.)

Hipster baker starring in People's Gas promo, Chicago undated

also; there are a lot of great journalists on here- many of whom are ALSO excellent shitposters! HI TO YOU

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Realtime Transit Data Primer An overview of how realtime data gets from a transit vehicle to you (the rider) and how to think about the data quality issues you experience.

New blog post: How realtime transit data gets to you, the rider! A conceptual summary of how data is published and processed to hopefully help empower riders to better understand and diagnose issues they experience.

lauriemerrell.com/posts/realti...

the Bluesky drafts folder is the weapon of the enemy. we do not need it. we will not use it.

Northwestern Law, Illinois Cycling Club, Rush-Lake Forest, Indianapolis Light Artillery, Chicago Physicians and Surgeons

When I say I want college football schedules to go back to what they used to be, I'm referring to 1895 Notre Dame

Two people holding hands under a platform heater with a heart above and the phrase 'You light up my life!'

Front view of a CTA train on tracks with, "This valentine is running express to your heart" below.

Illustration of train doors with a colorful CTA map above and the phrase 'Next stop: my heart' written on top.

Two blue accordion-style seats side by side with the text 'Be my accordion seat partner?' underneath.

send this to ur valentine 💘

Oblong, Illinois, is actually square.

Divorced Dad Energy is out, we’re transitioning to polycule fission.

Here's my story on the judicial races w/David Jackson. A key trend in these primaries is fewer people trying to be judges, which observers link to cost, a hotter spotlight & Democratic dominance. Some candidates have a glide path to power despite liabilities that might matter if they had opponents.

BIPA continuing to deliver for us.

Love that a certain type of Guitar Dude has existed since at least the 17th century.

I feel like Bluesky must be a really different experience for people not from Chicago.

Loot that drops after defeating me:

- paperback book

- jacket with pockets big enough to hold a paperback book

- 1d3 handkerchiefs

- 3d4x10 dollars cash (from trying to always have more than a twenty on hand, but also never much more than $100 at any given time)

- pocketknife/multitool

And they say “romantasy” is a recent genre invention.

An American Kestrel perched on a balcony. Lake Shore Drive is seen below and a snow covered park and Lake Michigan are in the distance.

Spotted this at work today in Chicago. Foster and the Lake, 18th floor balcony.

Oooh that’s a good one. Masters of Atlantis was legitimately laugh-out-loud funny at multiple points, just a masterpiece portrait of uniquely American venality.

I say this as someone who does not have $4-500ish to drop on first editions: the going $4-500ish for first editions in decent condition of Naomi Mitchison’s “The Corn King and the Spring Queen” are insultingly undervalued.

(I contented myself with the very handsome 1990s hardback reissue.)

It is not an animal story! It is VERY MUCH not an animal story. But it is spooky and weird and kinda makes me wish he’d done more Not Animal Stories.

(That said, The Ship’s Cat was a masterpiece and I can still recite large chunks of it from memory. So I guess I have two Adams entries.)