I decided not to tonight lolol too tired 🤣💀🤣💀

And I haven’t had a single drink since 2024

An hour and a half until I’m off. I think I will be drinking tonight.

Words are meaningless, actions show everything.

Television is slowly dying. On the cancellation of Organized Crime and the manufactured emptiness of modern television.

The cancellation of Law & Order: Organized Crime hit me in ways that have little to do with my unhinged affection for Elliot Stabler.

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Watching False Prophet on Netflix… this man is *sick*

View looking SE from 2800 N Lake Shore Drive as the Chicago shoreline meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-04-18 16:06:03 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: 2800lsd.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 46 F | 8 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: WNW at 12 mph | 20 kph // Humidity: 65%

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View of Chicago skyline from William E. Dever Crib in Lake Michigan east of North Avenue. // Image captured at: 2026-04-18 15:20:01 UTC (about 17 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/chi/ // Current Temp in Chicago: 47 F | 8 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: WNW at 12 mph | 19 kph // Humidity: 61%

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North Branch unsurprisingly flooded but passable. Probably going to be that way through the weekend. About 6" at its deepest. Cicero to the Metra tracks.

Needs to be $25/hr now for inflation at minimum 🥲

Sometimes I wonder if I’m broken.

ALLOW TINY HOMES IN CHICAGO.

View looking east from the Skydeck atop the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millennium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan beyond. // Image captured at: 2026-04-17 22:36:13 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@earthcam // Current Temp in Chicago: 78 F | 25 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: S at 14 mph | 23 kph // Humidity: 54%

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Two fists with tattoos on each hand. The Left hand has 5 fingers reads "Fuck" and the Right hand has six fingers and reads "A.I.art"

Keep making fun of AI "artists". Keep calling it slop. Keep shaming companies that use Gen AI.

No, I’m sorry. Fuck all the way off.

Friday Fog. This morning in Chicago's South Loop at sunrise.

Rotating view from the top of the Shedd Aquarium where Chicago meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-04-16 17:36:04 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: fox32chicago.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 66 F | 19 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: W at 10 mph | 16 kph // Humidity: 77%

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A photo of a small black cat sitting on a wooden chest below a windowsill, looking wistfully out the window. Next to her is a metal chair back displayed on the chest, as well as a commemorative frisbee for the opening of the new Chicago Park District headquarters and two black and white photo prints of a bike shop and a muffler shop from about 40 or 50 years ago.

Birdwatcher

If “I’m an ignoramus shitbag” were a person

Getting back $200 for taxes. Accountants cost?? $200. Yay, I’m getting nothing back for the first time, ever. Since I started working w2 type jobs… fuck you Donald Trump. And fuck all you mother fuckers who voted for that orange pig.

Cherry Cherry. The blossoms in Jackson Park.

Mural on the side of a building in Chicago depicting Robin Williams. The background is made out of various Genies from Aladdin.

Robin Williams mural on Milwaukee Ave.

View of Chicago skyline from the roof of the Field Museum of Natural History. // Image captured at: 2026-04-13 17:02:18 UTC (about 4 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: windy.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 73 F | 23 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: SW at 12 mph | 20 kph // Humidity: 79%

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Mel’s handwriting saying “I used to. I’ve stopped accepting shitty, half assed, effort.

They’re never going to stop trolling.

Life is lifing me rn.

Deal!!! I slept from 8:40-5:00 last night

Ah, yes. I have a fever. And I have to work tomorrow because it’s my coworkers half day… (and my other coworkers is on vacation)… why does my body constantly fucking breakdown???? It’s obnoxious, yo.

The Cherry Blossoms are back at the Museum of Science and Industry in Jackson Park. Chicago on Tuesday evening.