madopal
@madopal.bsky.social
Chicagoan (Portage Park), bungalow owner, recovering gamedev (Jaleco, Midway, et al), cat lover, data engineer, bike/transit advocate(ish) (former NW MBAC), aspiring historian/baker/woodworker, White Sox, Gen X, music nerd, just zis guy, you know? ✶✶✶✶
Watch your back, Ohio. This isn't over.
depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 1h ago10 years ago today
“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
pitchfork.com
well sure, since he died in the last one, he's gonna have to come back as a zombie or something
The Independent@the-independent.com · 7h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
defector.com
GOP: SCREW OUR ENEMIES, EVEN WITHIN OUR OWN COUNTRY. BLUE STATES DON'T DESERVE DISASTER RELIEF! Media: Huh, that's an interesting take, how provocative Progressives: All children are children and deserve to be protected Media: SOCIALISM IS EVIL AND IS DESTROYING THE DEMS!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoEl-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
KLUWE PLANS UNICORN HUGS TO CURE CANCER
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
In your article, you mentioned a graphic "Only You Can Prevent Data Centers"- that you thought was made by AI. It wasn't, it was made by me, an artist that is very much against AI. In fact, I turned it into a shirt and raised money for a local arts education nonprofit in Chicago.
I'm planning a cold fusion-powered time machine
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon
Howard Hughes? Portrayed as nutjob walking around with kleenex boxes on his feet talking about megaplanes. Elon Musk? Portrayed as genius who will change the world talking about moonbase factories powered by robots.
Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 3h agoAs I was saying
Found a pretty amazing article from National Builder, 1923.
BTW, since they mention the absurdity, I always wonder why it's not the other direction. "You can't expect the bike infrastructure in Skokie to work in Avondale!"
Streetsblog Chicago@chi.streetsblog.org · 3h agoWho gave mayoral hopeful Susana Mendoza the idea to trash the Archer protected bike lanes on WBEZ? Let's wrangle over that question for a spell. 🤠
For some, repurposing found items is a way of life. https://bit.ly/4hao29Q
‘I found it in the alley!' - Chicago Reader
For some, repurposing found items is a way of life.
chicagoreader.com
Doctors say that you should eat a balanced diet that includes whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seat seats and doesn’t wipe his ass says you should subsist entirely on sauerkraut and steak. For a busy eaters it can be hard to know who to trust.
Listen, strokes/folks etc, but "Batman Begins > Barry Lyndon" should trigger a wellness check
Motorized scooter tooling around city sidewalks at the Illinois Institute of Technology, 1959
"Skooter Chicago" (circa 1959)
YouTube video by chicagofilmarchives
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The survival and then flourishing of jazz in Chicago is due to the efforts of this woman.
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 6h agoThe ‘first lady of Chicago jazz,’ Geraldine de Haas dies at 91
I know Chicagos storefront theatre scene is kind of legendary but I didn’t realize we had enough storefront…opera companies to constitute a scene but apparently we do? chicago.storefrontopera.org
Here in Calgary I show people this graph and if I get any further guff I ask if they know what a graph is. #yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #Wildfires #smoke #cdnpoli #abpoli
Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social · 3w agoI am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times
The entire Republican Party, and a chunk of the Democratic Party, have a direct interest in convincing you that conservative wins are a mandate and anything else is not.
Red Crescent Moon over the CTA Elevated Tracks in downtown Chicago. This week, 7 years ago.
