speaking of chicago summer fun, who all’s out at the ted leo edgewater music fest show?
🎉 erin ⁉️
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a constellation of enthusiasms in the shape of a midlife dirtbag. for all trans rights and some trans wrongs. she/her/y’all. chicago over everything 5ever ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ https://tadaemoji.com
chicago block party culture is undefeated. they’re grilling tacos and decorating bikes in the street
good things can happen in my nation of chicago
Chicago, Bike Grid Now!@bikegridnow.org · 3d ago🚨NOT A DRILL🚨 We are thrilled to announce that State @senmikesimmons.bsky.social in partnership with Bike Grid Now, has secured a $300,000 planning grant to design 450 miles of the bike grid in Chicago and on 10% of roads in bordering communities, to be completed by the end of 2028.
i do like a little quiz, green are acts i’ve seen live (many of which were at pitchfork fest, RIP) and yellow are ones i’ve listened to at least one full album of that i can remember
Thursday Morning Infinity Net Dance Party Yes, it does involve shaking your ass.
Superchunk - Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama)
YouTube video by Merge Records on YouTube
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The absolute pinnacle of my career was getting to talk to Dolly Parton about books for 15 minutes. Dolly was the kind of person we should all aspire to be -- talented, funny, generous, a ray of goddamn sunshine. The world is going to be a much grimmer place without her.
Newsmaker: Dolly Parton | American Libraries Magazine
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library charity delivers more than a million free books each month to kids. Parton spoke with American Libraries about reading, books, and her first children's album.
americanlibrariesmagazine.org
never forget that in addition to being a fuckin legendary performer dolly parton was also a huge advocate for children’s literacy! i get so emotional about the imagination library.
The Chicago House Music Festival & Conference returns Thursday, I wrote about it for the Reader
The Chicago House Music Festival is one of our best summer events—why doesn’t the city do more to lift it up? - Chicago Reader
This year's festivities include four days of house music in the city that birthed it.
chicagoreader.com
“If I were to play overseas I think everyone would love it. I don’t make music for Brazilians. I don’t make music for gringos. I make music for everyone to dance together.” nobells.blog/marcelinho-m...
Marcelinho MeteBala’s cybercria dance machine
The mysterious Brazilian "cybercria" wizard talks about the samples, the mashups, and the funk that "gringos can't produce."
nobells.blog
it is exhausting to see the whole ”this will destabilize the Middle East vs No It Won’t” bit applied to you and your friends getting to survive a bike ride. every cyclist i know wants a variety of transportation options to increase safety and reduce traffic and every car or business wants Blood
fellow beloved chicago guy @justchris.bsky.social: “look at all those suckers. you know there’s air and water every day? and it’s free? just go outside when it’s raining”
🎉 erin ⁉️@interrobang.bsky.social · 2w agoone of my Chicago Guy Specialties is forgetting that the fuckin air and water show is happening until i am on the way outta town and then feeling extremely smug that i’m ditching my beloved city at one of its ickiest times
one of my Chicago Guy Specialties is forgetting that the fuckin air and water show is happening until i am on the way outta town and then feeling extremely smug that i’m ditching my beloved city at one of its ickiest times
TURN THE GOLF COURSE INTO A PUBLIC SEX FOREST… THIS TIME WITH CYCLOCROSS
Laurie! Live!@laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 3w agoif you could host one sporting event in one novelty location, what would it be?
I know it's hard to engage with everything horrible that's going on right now, but people in the Northwest Detention Center aren't getting proper food and are asking people to make a stink for them. The reach they have to get any attention is so small.
La Resistencia@laresistencianw.bsky.social · 3w ago‼️OVER 140 PEOPLE IN DETENTION ARE ON A HUNGER STRIKE‼️
There’s a tidy little paragraph that lays it all out. Simple as
Chicago Tribune Sports@chicagosports.bsky.social · 3w agoColumn: When I think about transgender people in sports, I think about my friends
Chicago birder friends, especially if you live in the 31st ward, please drop me a line if you are interested in trying to get Cardona on board with the Bird-friendly design ordinance. The ask is an easy one––just email the office! ward31@cityofchicago.org birdfriendlychicago.org/ordinance
Ordinance — Bird Friendly Chicago
birdfriendlychicago.org
worth noting how viciously music-related unions have been crushed (with one or two exceptions) in addition to this very insightful piece. distrokid, night owls, kings road, youtube music, and bandcamp all very much fought for their work to be sustainable and a bunch of rich shitheads pulled the plug
Hearing Things@hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 3w agoThe dream is dead but we didn’t kill it
hyper local river north #coldbrewhottakes: the only good america 250 decoration is putting an uncle sam hat on the lightology roof horse
the only white guy i take unsolicited advice from is john darnielle (this has been a subskeet of a weird chatty roadie from my morning commute who really wanted to tell me how to avoid the cars i was already avoiding)
an absolutely delightful story
Eden Robins@edenrobins.bsky.social · 3w agoAlso to celebrate the release of DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY -- the silly sexy murder mystery I co-wrote as Birdie Horne -- an essay in People Magazine about the decades-long beef I had with my co-author! READ ON FOR THE HOT GOSS people.com/birdie-horne...
i, too, came from the ‘80s and will be there tomorrow, come thru
20x2 Chicago@20x2chi.bsky.social · 3w agoIt came from the '80s; we're here tomorrow! Come to 20x2 Chicago: Where Did You Come From? Sunday, Aug. 9 at Gman Tavern! Doors at 6:30, show at 7, home early enough to get a good night's sleep! 20x2.org/chicago/
any #bikechi folks know if there’s a non-facebook source for DPRT conditions?
happy Big Duck Featured Article on English Wikipedia day to all who celebrate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Duck
Big Duck - Wikipedia
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ah yes. my very silly idiolect for my dog, taylor swift, and dance music of the 90s and 00s is alive and well and living in the at protocol b.mino.mobi/meme/
It’d be so cool if this article connected the dots more: this administration is blocking vaccine access as part of a eugenicist program! Real people will die as a result! You can just say that.
sara g miller@saragmiller.bsky.social · 4w agoBREAKING: FDA approves Moderna's mRNA flu shot, by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
happy new note being played in the 639-year-long performance of Organ²/ASLSP day to all who celebrate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow...
As Slow as Possible - Wikipedia
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tamamo-no-maeve@maeveynot.online · 4w agotoday is august 5, 2026, today is august 5, 2026, today is…