most of the hardest young rappers in the city are now dropping songs about why girls are nothing but trouble and how their parents buy them embarrassing back-to-school clothes
Jared Rutecki@jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 2d agoThere were 37 homicides in the city last month, the lowest total for any such month dating back to at least 1970. That total is down 18% compared to July 2025, and is less than half the totals of July 2020 and 2021, which each saw more than 100 killings.
working on my list of all pro-wrestling related bars and restaurants in japan - currently sitting at 67 known locations... side quest is developing some code that will plot them on regional maps
when you're being mean to me online, this is where you're posting from
dmercer.bsky.social@dmercer.bsky.social · 4d agoGothic Revival on N. Harlem in Chicago's Dunning neighborhood
This is another issue on which I've 100% flipped in my lifetime. The First Amendment as broadly interpreted in the US has been a huge mistake, and it does more harm than good
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last wk.so fucking tired of how socially acceptable it is, even encouraged, to film random people for no good reason at all other than clout and post it online. I cover surveillance all day every day and this shift sometimes scares me the most watch more/subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Sb...
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
cops hate automated enforcement *because* its fair. They conceptualize their role not as punishing rulebreakers but punishing "bad people" (poors and minorities). They dislike red light/speed cameras because they wind up punishing "good people" for doing something they see as essentially harmless
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w agoit's fucking insane that so many people get away with hiding their license plates so that they can get away with running red light cameras and cops mostly don't care (I'm sure some of them do on their personal vehicles too). like this is something where broken windows policing actually makes sense.
i will say this about lindsey graham. he was from south carolina, a state which contains some of the best food you can find in these united states. just incredible cuisine, almost on par with new orleans and new mexico. great place to pig the hell out
my best friend is one of those people who explore rural Japan looking for abandoned properties and he recently found these signs out in the country
Masochist Sowing: "Ha ha ha! YES!" Masochist Reaping: "Ha ha ha! YES!"
There should not be any six-story warehouse buildings on or near Wacker drive (directly across from the Sears freaking tower!) no matter how pretty the decorations on the facade were.
Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 4w agoIn no other place on earth would you run into world-historical architectural artifacts tossed into the water as rip-rap flooding buffers, and this speaks to both Chicago's embarrassment of riches and tragically late blooming preservation movement blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/08/a...
The thing is, Chicago also downzoned in the 60s-early 2000s--in fact, a huge chunk of Humboldt Park was downzoned. You will be shocked to hear that this has not prevented gentrification, and that in fact downzoned areas are associated with disproportionate growth of white residents.
Mike Eliason@holz-bau.bsky.social · 4w agoseattle downzoned in the 50s - 80s and those neighborhoods are now some of the most expensive in the city - even after sizeable upzones oops
evidence just keeps piling up that my ideological opponents are also bad people!
At long last, we have created the Fourth of Shit from the classic dril tweet, "This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender"
We saw this last year and were blown away. If you’re in/near Kobe at this time, please go see it!
Tokyojardin.org@tokyojardin.bsky.social · last mo.The Rite of Spring, butoh style Dairakudakan, the famous butoh company established in 1972 and still headed by Akaji Maro, one of the most famous butoh dancers and choregraphers still alive, was chosen by Dance Box Kobe selection series 2026 for their revisited Rite of Spring, choregraphed by…
nyc friends be careful outside today. its even worse than yesterday, the 2019 film about a man who remembers the beatles
111,000 people per bowling alley? no wonder all the lanes are reserved three years out!
nick andersen@nicktheandersen.com · last mo.america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)
Maybe this is an instance of 'homage vice pays to virtue,' but I just as soon take it as open mockery of the idea that there is anything anyone needs to know about anything
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.Karoline Leavitt posted a photo from Trump’s new Air Force One yesterday. The books behind her appear to be fake and say things like Library, Arts, and Architecture. x.com/nickmmark/st...
…one of 'em says, "Boy, the scrabble at this place is really hard." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions!"
Rural Indexing Project@ruralindexing.bsky.social · last mo.Hardscrabble Restaurant Streator, IL
it's so funny that one of things the german national team is blaming their bad world cup on is that they had such a great time in chicago it made their actual basecamp in winston-salem seem deadly boring and depressing in comparison www.bild.de/sport/fussba...
Okay. So. Obscure Military Holy Orders. Bear with me on this one: In 1687 the French were aggressively expanding their trade and slavery operations on the Gold Coast. As part of this two young West African boys were sent back to France, most likely as slaves. One may have been called "Aniaba". /1🧵
If the ROH TV Champion wins the TNT title, Ring of Honor gets the Collision time slot – sorry, but those are the rules
All Elite Wrestling@allelitewrestling.com · last mo.Wednesday #AEWDynamite 8/7c TBS & HBO Max TONIGHT TNT Title Kevin Knight vs Lio Rush After intervening in the #ForbiddenDoor Steel Cage match at the chagrin of Team DCMJF, unpredictable ROH World TV Champion Lio Rush will fight “The Jet” Kevin Knight for the TNT Title, TONIGHT!
while you were studying the blade i was studying the blade, which makes sense because we're both blade majors at Fight University
the NHK b-roll of America during their story about the dollar-yen exchange rate is really something else
(i remain semi-convinced that liberals spend too much time complaining about the officiating at the language game championships. "previous winners pick the refs for next time" is an inherently corrupted system, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.)
Few things make me more irrationally angry than Democrats with supermajorities talking about slow-rolling their own party's legislative agenda
Matthew Eadie@mattheweadie.bsky.social · last mo.State Sen. Laura Fine: “I think it’s possible to get there, but I think we have to do it in a very careful way, that we take into account that IL is a very big state…and if we pass a bill that’s going to impact every community, we have to make sure it does it in the right way."
