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there will come soft maeves@maeveynot.online · 4h ago

today is august 5, 2026, today is august 5, 2026, today is…

did someone yell “come race cyclocross” at me out the window of hopleaf? do they know that i yearn to race cyclocross? am i having auditory hallucinations about wanting to ride my bike in a silly way?

now that’s what i call positive masculinity

Josh Fireland@fireland.com · 2d ago

[shoves bra into bottle of tito’s, lights it on fire] son this is what they call a gentleman’s molotov [yeets it at cybertruck]

how many free jars of pickles do y’all think i could get if i got one of these guys tattooed. i just relate to them a lot

freely available american empire metaphor in the wild again

Mike Fragassi@refrag.bsky.social · 2d ago

I saw this slop ad. Yeah, it does feel like we're Temu United States these days, and that Everything Must Go.

take me to the church of tomato sandwiches

Erik Inglis@allthebeset.bsky.social · 2y ago

That always got someone to say, “well how come you don’t have bacon, then,” and she’d say, “we’re non-denominational, but it’s still church.” The church of tomato sandwiches.

i’m Very Emotional About Charli

gotta wonder if business owners who put out a full bowl of dog treats without a lid have ever met dogs. like, i appreciate the thought, but my walk now has an unscheduled side quest of redirecting this guy from free treat buffet

"hang tight and good luck defeating our frictionless vertically integrated scalping machine" jeezy creezy if i was gonna pay the prices they're charging for any seated show these days i better get sex favors and world peace in the bargain!!!

dear comrades I am afraid I will never stop saying this and I will be sincere and unironic when I do

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley@pressley.house.gov · 6d ago

Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.

instead of throwing my phone in the lake, i will be sitting by the river talking to teens about the prison industrial complex and how access to information is a human right this evening (tabling for chicago books to women in prison) if any mutuals wanna come thru

sorry everyone, i just saw a display of candy at walgreens that advertised it as “influencer famous” and must now go throw my phone in a lake and live in the woods

happy 61st birthday to Medicare, the thing we’re all supposed to have by now

ANOTHER PERSONALLY RUDE FOR ME DOUBLE BOOKING WITH CORIN TUCKER INVOLVED is william basinski and purelink??? the same night as heavens to betsy?!? EMPTY BOTTLE PRODUCTIONS HOW DARE YOU DO THIS DEPRESSED PERSON SO DIRTY

anyway i’m having an ill-advised can of espresso tonic if anyone needs any #coldbrewhottakes about chicago live music, bike routes, food, etc

am i PMSing or is it normal to find new ways to cry about SOPHIE every day of my life

the absolute rudest concert scheduling in a hot minute: putting the b-52s on the same night as sleater-kinney here in the greatest city on earth! what the entire hell bruh, put them all on one big cool lineup!

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Imani getting out of town before municipal elections get started in earnest and every Tom, Dick, and Harry in Chicago begins fighting over securing his endorsement. Wise lil bird, that Imani.

Chicago Piping Plovers@chicagopiping.bsky.social · last wk.

Fair Winds and Safe Travels, Imani Our beloved Imani has begun his southward migration; a natural undertaking as old as his species. 1/4 📸: Denise Poloyac (Imani, 2026)

Happy centennial, Chicagoland.

100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · last wk.

July 27, 1926: "Chicagoland" as a term for the Chicago metro area is coined in a headline that runs in the Chicago Tribune over the beginning of a series on the area's cultural treasures and tourist destinations. Publisher Robert McCormick will relentlessly plug the phrase for years.

brb facing down my spiritual need to write a poem in which the french girl talking about philosophy in “no one lasts forever” is alice notley

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Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 2w ago

{in studio} TELEMACHUS: Thanks for coming on the pod, man MENELAUS: No problem, bro TELEMACHUS: So tell me what's up with my dad MENELAUS: Okay, well, for one thing, Odysseus did not, quote-unquote, "die" in the Trojan War TELEMACHUS: I fuckin' knew the Lamestream Muses were lying to us

two of many Normal Tattoo and Media Thoughts: - i should get a total of 7 birds, then i’ll have a secret TAZ balance tattoo - i should get a bean with a sprout, then i’ll have a not-so-secret joanna newsom tattoo

🗣️DO I WANNA MAKE MUSIC 🎶 AM I BEING FUCKIN STUPID 🎶

caroline cash@cashbrowns.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nancy 7/24/26

i’m always out banging my pots and pans in the public square about substack being a nazi bar that profits off capturing your audience and creating friction to move off their nazi-enabling platform! try literally any other email newsletter platform!

K Lucian Jones (Kit)@spideyj.com · 2w ago

I don't know how you can claim to represent marginalized voices when your mailing list is on substack

would also trade camera for shimano spd pedals

🎉 erin ⁉️@interrobang.bsky.social · 2w ago

finally admitting that dSLR photography is no longer my passion, please buy my old dSLR and fund my future bike race registrations, thanks in advance www.craigslist.org/view/d/chica...

"If my company has no problem making me take an online training course on how to spot a phishing email ..—we need to truly consider why so many U.S. drivers on the road were last trained in the 1970s while lacking a fully-formed pre-frontal context"

Papa Rides a Bike@paparidesabike.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Dutch Reach is not the answer to the problem of dooring. A change in culture is what we need. And that starts with infrastructure. crosstalksignal.substack.com/p/the-dutch-...

easy test for if i am ever replaced by a replicant: play sandstorm in a public place. i will, i MUST, make a damn fool of myself

say it loud, healthcare is a human right regardless of what kind of employment you have or lack

John@localcelebrity.bsky.social · 2w ago

I even like my job and my coworkers and the work we do! But the fact remains, if you ever lose your job involuntarily you’ll feel it: Employer dependent healthcare is a trap. Medicare for all or even just single payer for all would drastically free up and empower America’s workforce.

anyway imo the greatest single lyric is “don’t worry about her, she’s been known to appreciate the elegance of an empty room” (destroyer’s rubies)

🎉 erin ⁉️@interrobang.bsky.social · 2w ago

the latest engagement bait quote skeet being a great single lyric and none of the posts i’m seeing being anything by dan bejar is yet more proof we live in a fallen world where no site has the juice