H. H. Holmes’s “Murder Castle” (World’s Fair Hotel), W. 63rd Street, 1890s.
Foolish of me to think, after breaking out the slip-n-slide yesterday, that the Boy wouldn’t want the same backyard shenanigans today
I think the Boy might have a knack for brass instruments? Told him how to blow a note on the trombone and he hit that shit first try
I don’t think they make submersibles large enough to accommodate all the people I want imploded on the ocean floor.
1. Rick Steves has spent $2 million of his own money to rescue a single-screen theater in Edmonds, WA. This is part of a multi-million-dollar effort he has made to invest in community properties in order to preserve local institutions and keep them serving the communities they were built for.
ULEZ is truly transformative, and it's insane that people are still mad about it. Every city in the world should be doing this. bsky.app/profile/dmos...
Daniel Moser@dmoser.bsky.social · 17h agoPollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Ultraviolet bath given to Soviet kids, USSR, 1980s. Photo by Mark Wexler
Not sure how Cubs fans would receive Randy Johnson’s quote about Craig.
every topps card@every-topps-card.bsky.social · 15h ago2004 Topps #141 Craig Counsell Arizona Diamondbacks card 3270/48366
Just noticed the Turtles are playing Magic in the art for “Lessons from Life”, a Magic card
continue to appreciate that the Sun Times + WBEZ have consistently reported on the fact that crime is down in Chicago. this article explicitly says mayoral candidates are "sweeping aside the numbers in favor of anecdotes" and "stoking public anxiety" chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
Mayoral candidates decry Chicago violence ‘crisis,’ even as summer murders hit 61-year low
Chicago had 122 murders in June, July and August, the lowest summer total since 1965, according to city and police data. But in their mayoral quests, candidates keep stoking public anxiety about viole...
chicago.suntimes.com
Nearly 2 out of 3 households in America believe a “minimal quality of life” is out of reach. What a shithole country 🇺🇸
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 2d ago"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
Unfathomable how people listen to podcasts at 1x (actual) speed. 1.75x is my usual, 1.5x if the subject is dense. “Regular speed” sounds like talking to kindergarteners.
A current read. If i did it all over again, maybe (i think to myself) i would study mycology.
This type of heat is supposed to be accompanied by sunlight at 530a. The combo of shorter days and sweat-dripping-offa-your forehead doesn’t compliment each other.
Simply a matter of time before I buy the adult tricycle I’ve wanted for decades.
Forgetting one’s wallet is pretty easy. I’ve done it twice in the last month. But I never forget the goddamn surveillance computer in my pocket. They got me like that and I loathe it
The New York Police Department said the attack on the executive, who was targeted alongside another person, appeared random and unprovoked.
Bank Of America Vice President Fatally Stabbed In Times Square—What We Know
The New York Police Department said the attack on the executive, who was targeted alongside another person, appeared random and unprovoked.
forbes.com
If AI is going to take all of our jobs, one of the first they can steal is overpaid college coaches, those guys are useless.
Tim’s are very good chips. Hard-pressed to think of a better jalapeño chip
Voting by mail is safe, secure, and largely impossible to manipulate. That's why the felon is determined to discredit it. Because he cannot flip paper ballots. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
If my meat isn’t “solid and compressed, but moist”, I send it back to the kitchen.
The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦@thehobo.bsky.social · 2d ago
