What an utterly worthless salary range to post for a job position.

society has moved past the need for the decorative sprig of curly parsley

Checking out a new place

A bunch of lolla kids got on the train at Irving Park.

Once again OTM serves up another banger asking the real questions about who AI serves (the bosses) and who it does not (those of us whose bosses are duped into bringing it on so they can fire everyone but a fall-guy to take the blame when it inevitably fails).

On the Media@onthemedia.bsky.social · 5d ago

📻 Show’s up! Featuring the one and only @doctorow.pluralistic.net: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

We used to be a proper country

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

(In honor of August, bringing this 🧵 over from twitter) August makes me think of the best summer restaurant I ever ate at. It didn’t have a name, just a tidy hand-painted sign: “Tomato Sandwiches—all you can eat.” #tomatosandwiches

I'm pretty sure my overwatered rosemary that was hanging on by a thread on my balcony is just going to give up and die after today.

I suppose this is one way of dealing with your car that got booted

I for one welcome our scantily clad child overlords

The Onion@theonion.com · 5d ago

Chicagoans Over 25 Urged To Shelter In Place Until Lollapalooza Over

I am finally realizing orientation is in 21 days, which is a problem because I'm the one who is planning it.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d ago

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

There you have it, the dumbest thing I've read all day.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d ago

One weird trick to literally destroy America www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Update: my boss's boss replied back, offering to speak, and also made a typo. Guess we are even.

jes@jwolfe73.bsky.social · 7d ago

I sent an email to my boss’s boss asking him to speak at an event and made a dumb typo. Please clap.

If I were my grandfather, I'd be delivering telegrams in Manhattan for nickels.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

I always forget about lollapolooza until I go out for lunch and kids are everywhere

come over for dinner we're having chart and diarrhea salad

I am so tempted to get custom post-it notes that say something along the lines of "outlaw AI slop" and just smack them up on signs like this. Since they are post-it notes, they don't cause physical damage but make my point.

Colin Boyle@colinbphoto.bsky.social · last wk.

These AI ads are garbage & a disgrace. Chicago’s lakefront doesn’t look like this, and whoever approved this trash needs to 1) hire REAL artists to create & 2) simply do better at their job. This is so embarrassing to see, especially at a mall in the heart of Chicago’s Mag Mile.

I sent an email to my boss’s boss asking him to speak at an event and made a dumb typo. Please clap.

It is way too gorgeous to just go straight home after work

It's bleak out there

Jacob E. Peters@archijake.bsky.social · last wk.

That is a huge earthquake for the Chicago Architecture landscape. So many immigrant architects come through this program (including multiple former managers & bosses, & dozens of coworkers) and go on to have significant impact on the creativity of the field & of our local industry.

Jury duty was successfully postponed for three months, I couldn't take that risk.

jes@jwolfe73.bsky.social · last wk.

Of course I'm summoned for standby jury duty the day before I run international student orientation. Fingers crossed I'm not called because that would be a disaster.

Apparently there is now a documentary about a thing that happened a few blocks away from where I live last fall.

Arin Arcady@rnrkd.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh so they finished making the movie about my block www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying

Of course I'm summoned for standby jury duty the day before I run international student orientation. Fingers crossed I'm not called because that would be a disaster.

With the end of D/S for international students, this will likely change how I advise on domestic travel for students with expired visas since I don't expect these thugs to understand the difference between underlying status and an entry visa, which is permitted to expire.

Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

I've been working too fast and making dumb typos and I need to calm down

Did my cat find some secret cocaine party in my apartment somewhere?

Mock me as an uncultured and unadventurous rube all you like, but NO!

Someone on my team keeps announcing that she doesn't get paid enough to do certain things and it's becoming really annoying and I'm not sure how to shut it down without being an ass.

Neighborhood flooding.

The train operator just told everyone in the first car to move to another car…