graham in chicago
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professional librarian, amateur musician
I have unfortunately been made aware of this Dolly Parton mirror that I'll probably never have
We're living in the After Times, folks. Giants no longer walk among us; the long 20th century is sputtering out its last breaths www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlvs...
Dolly Parton & Pee Wee - Hey Good Lookin (Dolly Parton Show 1987)
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our investment prospectus? that we will invent and enslave god, producing an effectively infinite engine for economic growth our politics? absolute opposition to redistribution of any kind
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 5d agoThe “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible
More shots from this flick, most notably her performing at the Rainbo! Plus Dinkel's, CPL, CTA, and obligatory Wilco/Goldberg/corncob
chigeek.bsky.social@chigeek.bsky.social · 7mo agoIn honor of Dolly Parton’s 80th birthday today, here are some screenshots from the 1992 film Straight Talk, set in Chicago. Harry Weese Church! Sun-Times Building! Wabash Bridge!
The Wisconsin accent on this guy is as sharp as a 9-year cheddar
404 Media@404media.co · 6d agoThe City of Chetek, Wisconsin, has decided to take its Facebook page offline due to "death threats" related to backlash over Flock cameras the town's police department installed without public discussion, local media reports. Here's a video of the police chief from July addressing the outcry:
Randomly stumbled into a Squirrel Flower show in the Humboldt Park boathouse on our nightly walk. The band sounded great (was not familiar), incredible setting and turnout, and they hit at the perfect vespertine hour. Ran into some of my favorite neighbors.
I just saw a woman at the WP farmers market wearing a "Bucktown moms against gentrification" shirt 🤔
For any weird music heads in Chicago, I'm on this great bill playing duo with a Korean lute player from Boston and uhh... Björk's former drummer. This is out west on Belmont in a crazy looking former Polish punk/metal bar
The cool thing about learning to make Sauce is that while cooking, Sauce™ now just intuitively Happens™ in the pan
Worth reading, esp if you see the kind of fringe ideas that X users think are becoming normal, even if they reject it www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-yo...
This Is Your Brain on X
Shifting the Vibes Again
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is your brain on social media.— t.co/jQI4qvJClr
You can't put aside that he's just mad that young people are progressive... Because placing a requirement on a certain class of people to force them to obtain absentee ballots from a faraway state is an engineered plan to diminish that group's vote
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3w agoI don’t object to people voting in federal elections, no matter where they live in our federal Republic. I get very testy about people deciding that they can vote on very local issues that they will then walk away from in just a few years.
Remember, Social Security only faces problems because the rich people took our wages cepr.net/publications...
First, They Took Our Wages; Now They Want Our Social Security
Social Security’s funding problem is driven by decades of upward income redistribution, not demographics or overly generous benefits.
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GabrielleLA@gabriellela.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm with Sen. Sanders on eliminating the cap on Social Security payroll taxes. What purpose does it serve? www.notus.org/economy/cent...
If you live in a city, own you shouldn't of had car to need out've
I must live in one of the zip codes with the highest percentages of nonbinary 8-14 year olds in the country. ✊
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
It happened so quickly but I’m already at the point where I need to never see another AI-generated hamburger again
Dawgs nobody cares about this suburban BS you're a Chicago newspaper
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4w agoOne Naperville fitness center closing while another plans to open
David Rivkin, architect of ‘Minneapolis Sound,’ dies at 78.
David Rivkin, architect of ‘Minneapolis Sound,’ dies at 78
The producer worked with Prince, “Funkytown” and Jonny Lang as well as Etta James.
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On this day in 1919: Black teen Eugene Williams floated on a wooden tie past an invisible but mutually understood line that separated a Black beach at 29th Street from a white beach at 26th Street. White youths threw rocks at him, according to later investigations, and Williams was hit and drowned.
Today in Chicago History: Stoning death of Eugene Williams triggers 1919 race riots
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