how fucked am I if I can't even afford AROs while working for the city on a scale of 1-10

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

also why is every chicago sports team so fixated on getting a new stadium rn... hard for me to grasp as someone who doesn't care about sports but it just feels like an insane waste of resources

not to be annoying or uncool but im bummed that the spot for the new fire stadium wasn't turned into a nature preserve instead because that would have been such a cool spot for one

The push for short form content, especially on younger people, the past 5 or 6 years has been intentional to whittle down peoples attention spans and patience so that they're more susceptible to ai/feeling the need to use ai to summarize/answer questions for them

Disney promoted pixar’s films disproportionately more than their own to manufacture consent for the closing of their 2D animation department, which had gained significant bargaining power over payment for their work due to the success of the Disney renaissance

To be clear, the United States military is not just "war crime" evil, and "genocide support" evil - it is also lawless pirates.

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

nintendo trying to sell a digital rerelease of a 20 year old game for $20 feels like it should be illegal

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!

And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

the corporate propaganda machine desperately needs us to think this is some scary extremist behavior

hashtag make chicago spongey

Typographically this has a gravity and a cadence that is truly inspiring to me

black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

and maybe an edition of earthsea. and the hobbit. why not

THE DUCKLING LOAD! OVER 20 WOOD DUCKLINGS WITH A SINGLE MOTHER!!!!

After 6 days baby bird free, today more than made up for it!

I don't know if it's a bluesky record, but it's a Brett Banditelli record! 🪶 🐣

so am i losing it or is it kinda early in the year for this many midwest tornadoes???

People should hire me to illustrate their native seed packets bc im rly cool and smart and talented

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

a post from staff stating that bluesky uses ai to code, followed by a whole lot of repliess that won't load

environmental story telling

Where is this?

🚨🛑HALT🛑🚨
this is your mandated timeline cleanse by way of duck inspection ✋
You may proceed

hey its me, the man who just sat down behind you on the bus. yes i will be coughing during the ride. No, I don't have a mask. Also I'm going to watch tiktoks with the sound on

can someone please explain to me why the most active group for sharing resources regarding queer housing in Chicago is a goddamn Facebook group?? why the fuck are you using Facebook??

This city would rather spend decades boring 30 ft tunnels underground (yes look it up) that clearly aren't mitigating flooding that effectively than accept the fact that this is a marsh and will always be a marsh and need Permeable surfaces

help! I've covered my wet, marshy land with a bunch of impervious surfaces and now for some reason shit keeps flooding! if only we had more Permeable Surfaces to collect all this water that naturally accumulates here...

the more rain we get the more i think about bioswales

do you think we'll survive this storm, guys?

there was the commissioning and then canceling of that Pride collection by queer and trans artists, then there was the DEI rollback, now it’s AI-driven false arrests. Target is setting land-speed records for torching customer goodwill, given how high their popularity and how far they had to fall

This story is horrific. Worth noting that Target is not the only retailer using AI for theft prevention. It’s an entire industry. And if you’re looking for alternatives that are safer to shop at in this regard, you’re very likely out of luck. Small, non-corporate businesses probably your best bet.