(if you've met me IRL you've probably heard me talk about my dream venue, which is a bar that simply hosts a wedding reception every night, open to all, maybe you eloped that morning and all your friends come, maybe you just wanna dance.... might try to pull this off for my birthday this summer)
if your space offers private events you should be required to post your prices. if you're out of my price range then my inquiry wastes everyone's time!
Tell CMAP to pump the brakes on 'Redefine the Drive!' No highway on our lakefront! act.betterstreetschicago.org/cmap-dlsd-ac...
The Obamalisk seen from across a Jackson Park lagoon. Bench in the foreground with graffiti reading “Magic protects this space!”
I like it quite a bit actually
recognized the party pants before I even saw your face
The Vince McMahon meme: Having friends Having friends who live near you Having friends who live near you and take transit Running into your friends on the bus
Ran into @rozphy.bsky.social on the red line
what patios are we sitting on this afternoon folks
in one transaction they netted an amount equal to my entire retirement savings!!! and I’m doing reasonably well financially!!! bonkers
Friends just accepted an offer on their place in Buena Park and it’s 31% more than they paid in 2023 🤡 terrifying housing market out there folks
Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."
I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.
www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...
The people do not want to be shackled to this system that ultimately sends us into endless wars over oil.
They want trains. They want true freedom. They want peace.
And it's why we're winning. This is the way!
Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").
Shut up
Crisis upends existing arrangements but we can also start without a crisis. Write a short list of all the places in the radius you regularly go to do your life stuff (take out your commute) and write a list of the places where people from different communities actually meet.
How short is the list?
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
Welcome home, Pippin! 🤍🟢
Our beloved Pippin has returned. Many will remember he departed last summer with something tangled around his foot. We feared the worst.
Pippin has returned to us with his right foot missing and a limp but otherwise appears well.
📸:Liam Francis Shanley
the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there
wait what?? (re: “back door confirmed”)
"Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime" is so fucking funny I'm sorry everything is terrible but calling the literal Pope weak on crime is sending me into space
:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::
I also have:
- the Night Sweats
- the Heartbreakers
- the E Street Band ofc
- the Blowfish
Thinking about this because I saw Florence and the Machine this weekend and she did in fact refer to her band as “the machine”
I lived in the Coachella Valley when the Coachella producers added Stagecoach (country) and then Desert Trip (classic rock, only happened once). We joked about pitching Backup-chella, which was backing bands with their frontman removed, e.g. the Funky Bunch solo without Marky Mark. Who else?
Good luck!!
I’ve found a lot of exact matches for Target and IKEA stuff on Facebook Marketplace over the years! It’s a waiting game though (likely months, assuming you’re not locked in on Marketplace 24/7)
Absolutely no one is surprised by this. It was in fact expected.
"Many of the foundations that rushed to make grants to Black-led nonprofits following the murder of George Floyd in 2020 have not followed up with consistent support, acc to research released this week"
www.abfe.org/news/new-rep...
Lake Sturgeon spawning
After disappearing from the Milwaukee River in the early 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss, the new discovery of an adult sturgeon 20 miles upstream from Lake Michigan is a milestone in a massive restoration project that’s been underway for 20 years www.wuwm.com/lake-sturgeo...
Movies must be capped at two hours unless you get a special dispensation from, idk, somebody. CUT THAT SHIT DOWN
I don’t know if there is clearer example of a long percolating obviously racist and fake Fox News trope to the enactment of actual policy now in trump II
