‘Even the Mets cannot lose on an off day.’

‘Even the Mets cannot lose on an off day.’

There’s not much! Beatnik on the River is the best sit-down option I’ve found that falls within the critical “close enough for guests who maybe aren’t super big walkers” radius. And then French Market across the bridge for something more causal.

Real lack of good after-show bars close by, too. 🙁

This, but girl Ranma ALSO transitions, for a rare 360 degree gender swap anime.

This is why you get a union, and this is why your union gets byline withholding in your contract!

ANCIENT GREEK PRO WRESTLING PROMOTER: ok so you're going to be what's known as a "heel"
ACHILLES: fuck you

Siegfried is the opera version of that children’s book “Are You My Mother?”

Screenshot of Google image search results. Apart from one GIF of the actual movie scene (YOU know the one), the results are all print-on-demand throw pillows with quotes or stylized images referencing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” They range from the mildly gauche to the deeply uncomfortable, depending in part on how you feel about Jack Nicholson.

So the Google image results for “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest pillow” were

uh

not what I expected.

Ok but what ARE Chicago’s outer-borough neighborhoods, discuss.

Spider-Man largely fights other guys with eight limbs (Doctor Octopus, Scorpion, Green Goblin since he’s two guys, Lizard since he’s two guys,)

Buddhist monks? Oh, you mean the Koan Brothers?

We’re calling it the “Hello Dali” collection.

@soundingline.bsky.social does post bangers, but you should really check out his longer-form work as well. It’s a lot of fun!

Or pivot to Asia! (Not being from any of the participating Asian countries will presumably not, this being a Eurovision product, prove much of a barrier to entry for determined artists.)

Awkward and a very weak field; even in the countries that aren't boycotting there were clearly a lot of potential entrants that looked at the politics and went "you know what, maybe next year."

A bronze statue of the late Cubs announcer Harry Caray that stands by the entrance to the bleachers at Wrigley Field. Harry is seen wearing a windbreaker and his signature large and thick-rimmed glasses. He’s gesticulating with both arms, one holding a microphone as he leads the crowd singing in the 7th inning stretch. The base of the statue is a sculptural rendition of the stands of Wrigley Field and rising up from it, in what can easily be interpreted as bronze hellfire, are faces of damned and tormented Cubs fans. I know it sounds like I’m being facetious but that is sincerely what it looks like.

For those previously unacquainted here’s the sculpture known to me as ‘Harry Caray and the Harrowing of Hell’

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Say this much for 2026: it’s made listening to the miraculously resurrected voice of a man who famously sold his soul to the devil seem like a safe bet, spiritually and ethically speaking, relative to most contemporary entertainment options.

Officials have released footage showing the fatal shooting of Krystal Rivera following months of work covering the case by Peter Nickeas, @ctoner.bsky.social and our friends in @cstguild.bsky.social. Another example of invaluable work made by our members.

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

Will make it to the Supreme Court as a 2nd Amendment case

The Right to Bear Arms

The metaphor holds up even better when we look to the past, in which many doctors endorsed cocaine and many Popes endorsed wars!

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Image from Episode 2 of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion, showing the foot of a giant purple robot (technically an artificial life form and also Shinji’s mom but that’s neither here nor there) stomping on the ground hard enough to shatter the glass of a bus stop shown in the foreground.

Ok but hear me out…you know what OTHER robot carrying a precious cargo accidentally destroyed a bus stop?

Officer Krystal Rivera’s Partner Hid After Fatally Shooting Her and Failed to Provide Aid, New Video Shows Body camera videos released Friday show that officer Carlos Baker ran up a stairwell after encountering an armed man and firing the gunshot that killed Rivera.

Video released in the shooting death of Ofc Krystal Rivera from last summer. Been going through material, this story has been / will continue to be updated.
illinoisanswers.org/2026/04/17/o...

Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme?

3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice”

Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”

There’s a certain purity of scroll on broken-Bluesky, viewing posts as they come but unable to see replies, what’s being replied to, etc.

Just your pure, unadulterated feed, shorn of context; the online experience you’ve chosen for yourself and nothing more.

Horrifying, yet strangely compelling.

“Welp we needed the rain” dad evolves into “fog’s rolling in fast” dad!

I love Chicago this time of year.

Sorry that I find it so fucking hilarious to stress Bluesky’s beleaguered infrastructure further by reposting every single post about the outage

“Just functional enough for users to bitch about the site not functioning” is actually an AMAZING social media pitch. The pure black tar heroin of engagement.