I will be attending my first ever music festival in the US from tomorrow. I suspect that I will have Thoughts. I might try and post them.
Kai
@kaiho.bsky.social
balding man yells at clouds by day, loves cats and loud riffs by night. ✶✶✶✶ Chicago by way of lots of the world. Software by way of academia, beer and accidents. And by software I mean my last gig was devops shizz but if you hire me I'll do whatever.
We deserve safe streets, and I'm fucking pissed off and tired of this horseshit where we're politically tolerant of drivers fucking creaming people with their stupid giant fucking trucks and then leaving them for dead.
Abby Klionsky@abionsky.bsky.social · yesterdayBiker hit on Lake Park Park just north of 51st -- bike is in the median with bent rear wheel, but biker not on site anymore. CPD caution taping off the area, mentioned blood on the ground. Cops say biker taken to UChicago hospital, probably in the last ~30 mins. Idk any other details.
I have only just clocked that the drive direction arrow on the Prime NFL on-screen graphics is a vertical non-chevron version of the Amazon A-->Z arrow.
I know Buffalo is right on the border but wait, why are the Barnaked Ladies singing O Canada before this Bills/Lions game? @aspleenic.bsky.social ?
You wanting to snort coke with your friends every day is not an addiction.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 3d agoCan social media be addictive? @taylorlorenz.bsky.social says no. “You wanting to communicate and chat with your friends every day is not an addiction,” says Lorenz. “And to frame it that way is incredibly harmful and anti-science.”
social media is not "just wanting to communicate with your friends". And Taylor knows it. This is a deliberate denial of basic reality, and a large body of science on how algorithmic social media can harm kids in particular.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 3d agoCan social media be addictive? @taylorlorenz.bsky.social says no. “You wanting to communicate and chat with your friends every day is not an addiction,” says Lorenz. “And to frame it that way is incredibly harmful and anti-science.”
Let me get this straight. "Diesel is being driven up by the fact it has a hard time coming out of Russia" according to DJT. I thought Russian oil was embargoed? Guys, guys?
I'm at the Robyn show at the United Center and the shirts are a hundred dollars plus tax. $100 plus tax. $100. Actually I lie. There's one that's $150. What the actual.
How the fuck does this work? "Oh, it's both our home stadium, it's fine?"
I may have said this before but I goddamn hate the term "speakeasy". Just because it's a cocktail bar with dim lighting and people are possibly dressed up does not make it a speakeasy. Prohibition is over in the US, folks.
The two young American guys in front of me on this tour bus are comparing their Confluence setups. Whatever Confluence is. Help me I am in hell
When you are an absolute fool and start to watch Jiro Dreams of Sushi on a domestic flight and what you discover is an empty stomach
Just listened to Susana Mendoza taking caller questions on In The Loop. Somebody asked about traffic congestion and the first thing she did was blame bike lanes. The second was to blame crime on CTA, as opposed to bad service. Disqualifying.
Bessent, six months from now: “Ah, but I didn’t say *which* Tuesday or Wednesday, now did I?”
CNBC@cnbc.com · 2mo agoBessent says there may be deal Tuesday or Wednesday to open Strait of Hormuz with ‘freedom of movement’
Holy moly Katie from Michigan. I didn't see the sign but I'm assuming it said she could play, given she just stepped the fuck up
Government lawyers said in a 20-page court filing that information provided since the indictment of David Hearn shows that the damage was the result of a “flawed installation by the contractor.”
Justice Department drops criminal case against ex-Olympian charged with damaging Reflecting Pool
chicagotribune.com
The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
I'm watching this Notion set from Lollapalooza on the "live"stream. Man that crowd sure is white and homogenous
With the silly US law in most states where even passengers aren't allowed to drink alcohol in a car (a driver, of course, isn't either), does it also hold when there's no driver, i.e. are you allowed to cane booze in a Waymo?
Ruin a book by adding a word: Blood Orange Meridian
Care-e@theoutregirl.bsky.social · 2mo agoRuin a book by adding a word: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Shearing
Ruin a book by adding a word: Jefferson Starship Troopers
Care-e@theoutregirl.bsky.social · 2mo agoRuin a book by adding a word: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Shearing