Lots of stuff has improved in our lifetimes: Televisions Food Beer Pharmaceuticals Unleaded Gas Tennis Racquets Telephones Air Travel is still cheaper and more plentiful than ever Earplugs General Music Tech Computers/Personal Electronics Hygiene Products Car Safety Athletic Shoes Contact Lenses

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 16h ago

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

At this point, selling any small business to a larger conglomerate is a way to tell everyone in the shop that their jobs are on the chopping block. It's more a matter of "when" than "if".

i'd still hold off on the gladhanding until michigan can figure out how to count with anything resembling speed

amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 4h ago

please think of the ohioans in your life today. it's really hard for us to have to hand it to michigan about something

TONIGHT! 6pm! Our pals and compeers at @goblinmkt.bsky.social are once again hosting SOLO RPG SILENT BOOK CLUB at the bar! Bring your own solo RPG, or choose one from the selection provided by Goblin Market! Either is fine! Make some new friends and have a chill Wednesday night! 6p! Cheers.

as someone who used to work in restaurants i completely understand Francesca Hong's dislike of holidays. people act weird during holidays.

Tasting Tuesday is TONIGHT with Midwest Coast Brewing! We're hearing rumors it might be a keep-the-glass situation but you're going to have to come in between 5:30-8pm TONIGHT to find out. Cheers!

truly remarkable how terrible of an app instagram is. as entertaining as it is redeemable. i don't see how people do it.

new Olivia Tremor Control this year

Zohran Mamdani provides services and treats to the citizenry of New York because he wants to. It's an object lesson. Powerful people do things because they want to.

Every time someone tries to say "You don't understand, being mayor of Chicago is specifically difficult compared to some place like New York" I see that Chicago's mayor is doing things like appointing cronies to transportation boards while on day 37 of shopping around for a ShotSpotter alternative.

kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈@itskylelucas.com · yesterday

“Chicago doesn’t have a mayor problem” then why do we keep having mayor problems?

if we called it galt’s gulch instead of “the camps” these people would be signing up to cough into each other’s mouths

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

i gave a guy on a divvy bike directions to uptown the other day and asked for nothing in return. it actually felt pretty great. we wished each other a good night and everyting.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

we need a strong republican party and a bipartisan MAHA movement and common sense trans sports bans and a bailout for havana syndrome victims. we need a big tent democratic party that includes war criminals and the lady at the the wellness store trying to get your mom off chemo

the trade deadline is awesome for fans of mediocre teams with cheap owners because it's the most proof that nothing ever happens you're going to get

Vigeland should have laughed her ass out of the studio

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

MAHA do not have bipartisan concerns, they are stupid morons who what to feel special by "doing their own research" (watching youtube videos made by complete idiots) and their king is a guy who is probably, as we speak, eating deep fried chipmunks out of a brown paper bag

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

Busy day for ICE across Chicagoland. Reports of encounters with agents across the heavily Latine Chicago neighborhoods of Hermosa and Austin, and in the suburbs of Wheeling and Naperville. Rapid responders report at least 5 people detained this morning in Naperville; 1 person detained in Austin.

Alexi Giannoulias is actually a huge fan of theater, google "Alexi Giannoulias Broadway" to learn more

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 3d ago

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announces run for Chicago mayor

maybe this is what did it

Cheap MLB owners in smaller markets believe there is little correlation between spending and winning unless you're the Dodgers (or, 25 years ago, the Yankees). So, when it's time to clean house because you've counted yourselves out, you sell your assets to the Dodgers, bc no one else wants to try.

Jason Fry@jasoncfry.bsky.social · 3d ago

Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:

once again, my humble proposal of letting cyclists open-carry is undefeated in the public forum

Enrico🐀@redbassett.com · 3d ago

I'm not being facetious, this is a sincere take, but after spending many many hours over the years mulling solutions to distracted drivers, I've firmly landed on not removing the distracted part but rather the driver part. We need solutions to reduce phone use driving, but also driving.

let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d ago

and Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!

the Red Sox could’ve kept Betts. Freeman wanted to stay in Atlanta more than anything and they passed. Machado didn’t stay. It’s not impossible for other teams to keep and sign these sorts of guys.

got t-boned on my bike by an octogenarian who didn’t know where he was and the cops let him walk because the only cogent witnesses were me (biased) and a dude across the street (“yeah i saw you flying in the air”), the driver was old, and i refused medical help (uninsured @ the time).

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

the only question worth asking to/about sophie cunningham is how much she's getting paid by the rich ideologues whose endgame is the destruction of women's sports

Brian Floyd@brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 4d ago

the people doing it here were backed by very rich hedge fund owner and his pac, who did it to push his slate of ballot initiatives (and that includes the teenagers they put courtside). none of this is organic

well it's good to see someone with the organizational capacity to run an event downtown right now

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 4d ago

and Sydney Taylor with another three to tie it

The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers

personally i think anyone who knows what a pied-à-terre is (myself included) should pay an extra tax and anyone who actually has one should pay a hundred times that.

my hottest music take isn’t that hot, i feel. Yield is Pearl Jam’s best album.