100% there but those leather recliners have to go

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

And the map of the streetcars in Chicago was insane. You could pretty much get anywhere without a car.

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”

Chairman Kaga made his own plates to celebrate the 2000th meal on Iron Chef and intentionally made them huge. Grand dishes for a grand meal. He has the soul of a poet 😢

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

it's such an alien worldview

the longer i'm sober the longer i'm grateful for that, this sounds... sad and no fun

Wouldn't it be nice if the IRS just sent you a bill every year and if you didn't agree, you could do your taxes yourself?

I mean, literally, the IRS knows how much you should owe before you file. Then they expect you to get it wrong or lie enough to audit you.

you're telling me, I didn't see her for a few weeks and she came back BIG and now it's MY problem

ICE activity in Chicagoland has been on the rise with the temperature the last few weeks. These incidents don't have the spectacle that characterized Greg Bovino and Border Patrol's raids in the fall, but people are still being abducted by federal agents across the city and suburbs.

a pile of newborn tabby kittens

i set up a little box with clean towels for her but she climbed inside the winter shelter full of straw to have these babies of course. i can’t wait to hold these babies but i’m just delivering food outside for momma until she lets them roam free

a sleepy tabby momma cat resting in a shelter with one tiny sleepy kitten visible and plenty more hiding in the background

the outside cat had her kittens 1.5 days ago and i’m behind on work because i just keep going outside to look at kittens (do you or anyone you know need a kitten? there are 6 and some of them should have an inside home)

TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File.

Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.

omg no thanks (although ours was flipped about 10 years ago and a lot of expensive work was done, i don’t think our plumbing is that great either!)

my main lesson of homeownership so far is that doorknobs can be so fucked up in ways i never even imagined

Coachella performers are funding the MAGA movement Following the money from Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G to the politicians advancing Trump’s agenda

1. Coachella performers, including Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G, are funding the MAGA movement.

Let's follow the money.

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This is also why I tell yall I’m a prison abolitionist bc there’s no way yall think prisons are meant to stop crime when your 30+ felony president pardons criminals left & right.

It’s there as a loophole to slavery which is why the black community is over policed.

Nearly six years reporting on working homeless families taught me one thing: the precarity isn't incidental to the profits. It's how you get them.

Kimberly-Clark could pay a living wage and still clear almost $2 billion a year. They can afford to pay workers enough to live. They just choose not to.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers

its finally something I’m qualified for

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Public Access is a game that's dear to me for several reasons, most of which is that it was the first game that I was asked to contribute to. There's still time to nab your copy and enable sick minds like myself and my co-contributors to bring even more sick things into the world.

those push notifications that pop up when you get a signal message? the fbi just forensically extracted signal message content saved to an iphone’s push notification data for a case. here’s how to make that more secure

disagree, public shaming is the only way to stop it