Eric Allix Rogers
@ericallixrogers.com
Architecture, interesting & historic places, Chicago, exploring cities by bike & transit. Mostly photos. Views my own. He/him. 🚲 🏙️ 🚆 🐱 🏳️🌈 📷
The problem with waking up at 5am is I thought this headline misspelled "golf course."
Reuters@reuters.com · 7h agoMajor Gulf bourses mixed as investors await clarity on US-Iran talks reut.rs/4hJIM8A
I just want to go on more silly little train & bike trips 🥺
tschuy 🏳️🌈@tsch.uy · 21h agoI've built a map displaying where on the Amtrak network you can take your bike, line-by-line and station-by-station. This data isn't available anywhere else, check out where you can go! amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev
Just bit into the most disgusting peach, and man if that doesn't feel like a metaphor for how this entire summer has gone.
Hey Zoom, if I try to log in on an unfamiliar device, there is probably no point in sending a secret code to my other device, because I would be logging in on that device if I were in the same place where it is, hope this helps!
Is there a connection between opulence and the decline of empire? Who cares, suggests Chad Mizelle, Trump's 2025 former Deputy Attorney General, as he comments on the tourism draw of gilded statues and the "opulence of the epicenter of once-great civilizations," without a shred of self-awareness.
I should probably do something with my life, or at least day.
I wasn't taught proper typing until 7th grade, but it is one of the most valuable things I ever learned. It had not occurred to me that schools might not be teaching it anymore. That's insane.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d agoI wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵
The "attempting to clean and organize just a little bit" to "concluding that my life is an irredeemable disaster" pipeline.
Beginning to suspect that having a much newer and faster computer isn't automatically making me more productive. Damn.
Just cleaned my desk for the first time in over a year and reorganized it around my new laptop, please clap. Unfortunately now I need to do something about the pile of stuff that has now been relocated to not on my desk.
Just bit the bullet and ordered several new pairs of shorts in my fat waist size. Womp womp. Diet begins tomorrow, etc.
Stayed up too late and accidentally ate a second dinner, oops.
Weird moment in being a person with (limited but real) responsibilities: cutting a check to myself, in my official capacity, to reimburse myself for something I had to pay for with a credit card. Genuinely kind of surprised that mobile deposit worked with the same signature on both sides!
Mass text from "The Urban Center" targeting "Hyde Park and Calumet Park families" to ask us to ask Curtis Tarver to ask Pritzker to veto "340B expansion". I'm assuming based on the source that this is not good?
The part of me that wants to go on bike rides this weekend is sad looking at the weather forecast. The part of me that is a Lollapalooza hater is, well, you can guess.
Chicago Police Department is on it with teen takeovers, but nowhere to be seen when hundreds of motorcycles parade down US-41, blocking all lanes, forcing buses to stop for minutes at a time, riding down sidewalks, violating noise ordinance, and generally pissing everyone off.
