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idle vaporings of a mind diseased🏳️‍⚧️

she/her // Chicago, IL
Joined July 2018
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@north0fnorth
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“chicago rat hole” this. “chicago rat hole” that. i’m going back to the chicago weed bench
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it’s amazing how many conservatives are still failing this test
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@KeenanPeachy
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Perfect visual proof that Democrats are the party of out of touch coastal elites
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we live in a society
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chicago is still like this lmao
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@CaudilloXIV
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We must reclaim Chicago
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thinking about my favorite experience on a minecraft server again
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are you kidding me
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in honor of the vice website shuttering here are my favorite two paragraphs in any article ever
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so the limit is 412 chicken nuggets
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i remember back in 2015 i went to an ice cream store in colorado and asked if they had blue moon and they asked me why the fuck they would have beer at an ice cream store
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Regional American Food
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Blue moon (left) is an ice cream flavor found in the Upper Midwest, often used in the creation of another regional specialty, Superman ice cream (right)
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setting train tracks on fire to keep the trains running in the cold is one of those things that sounds like it would never work but somehow it does
@TormeyMike
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Cold? Doesn’t stop Chicago
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they’re doing a gay wedding at the chicago rat hole
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you can find comments and quote tweets calling me a trans man, trans woman, non-binary, gay man, straight man, straight woman, and lesbian. and that’s how i know i have achieved peak queerness
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what 1250 days of just estrogen and testosterone blockers does
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i’m sorry it lost the grammy to fucking what
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they should invent something that has the exact same vibes as smoking a cigarette when you’re in a doomer mood but doesn’t give you lung cancer
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woke up to the funniest comments section i’ve had in a long time
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after careful consideration i’ve decided this is the best video of all time and nothing else is even close
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happy one year anniversary to the greatest reply i’ve ever received
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imo in any normal society the fact that you can take a single hormone and go from male to female would be regarded universally as the coolest thing ever and not something controversial or political. why can’t everyone be as chill about it as the comments on this post
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what 1250 days of just estrogen and testosterone blockers does
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HELP MY MOM SAID "WHO'S A GOOFY PUPPY" TO HER DOG AND I ACCIDENTALLY RESPONDED "ME"
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@north0fnorth Won’t the bulletproof vest be too hot in June?
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worst wave of transphobic (and anti-semitic despite me not being jewish) hate comments i’ve ever received. this person’s fan base sucks so hard
@VLONEPREDATOR
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here’s what you would look like if you transitioned to black or chinese
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sometimes i think i should move to new york city but then i remember this ad i saw on the subway last summer
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what the actual fuck is going on in Texas
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7 months
did you really just post a video on social media of you clearly going through a stop sign without fully stopping and then ask everyone if you did something wrong
@alanhenney
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That's me driving the white Crown Vic on Blagden Ave at Allison St NW. DC has fined me $200. Should I pay or contest it?
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“the midwest looks so boring” can you not comprehend the beauty of a vast, open space? of seeing the entire dome of the sky? of the great titanic relics of long-gone industry that served as the engine of the nation? of seeing lakes so vast they present as seas? skill issue
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people are upset at this because it’s “cringe” but personally i would rather have fun outside with the local community than sit on my phone complaining about harmless things being redditcore. what’s wrong with a little whimsy in your life
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gave the rat hole sweet tea because they were thirsty
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roommate just returned from spending christmas with their family only to reveal to me that i’ve been drinking LEADED TAP WATER for SIX MONTHS
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why do people have such a hard time understanding that the Great Lakes are more like seas than lakes. like they’re called “Great” for a reason
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@KennyGoo
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Today I learned midwesterners get really upset if you tell them that dirt on a lake shore isn't a beach lol
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“fuck cars” refers to a distaste for the way we design cities to *only* be accessible to drivers. it is not, in fact, a call to ban all motor vehicles regardless of utility or necessity
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transphobes can always tell
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the nazi comic creator has discovered urbanism and their take is just as bad as you’d expect
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yeah
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@latkedelrey
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do any of you guys live in walkable cities that you really like that aren’t new york
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listen i know john oliver is not a full-on leftist but his large role in propelling many median voters leftwards via de facto journalism like this cannot be understated. easily my favorite current late-night host
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terrorism is when i ride a bike on the street with my friends
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are you kidding me
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the CSI episode where they go to a furry convention is so infamous that you can just Google “that episode” and it’s the first thing to come up
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they want people like me (trans women) to fucking die. i get comments from them telling me they hope i personally die on a weekly basis just because of who i am. project 2025 calls my mere existence “pornographic”. why the hell am i supposed to treat them kindly exactly
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Please stop dehumanizing Trump supporters.
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this is the kind of american suburb they’d call too exaggerated and unrealistic if it was invented for a movie. but it’s somehow completely real
@FuckCarsReddit
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The suburb from the new season of 'Love is Blind' is a classic example of density without urbanism.
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i remember the day this came out my junior high school history teacher put it on the smartboard and had us watch it in class because it “will be of historical note in a decade”
@notgwendalupe
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10 years ago today, Ylvis released the viral song 'What Does the Fox Say?':
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how quickly we forgot the 2017 Windex The Bean movement and its subsequent fallout
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So does someone windex The Bean?
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shout-out to the band setting up in the middle of the chicago river right now
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80% of the comments and quote tweets are just this lol
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good morning from chicago where we don’t get any earthquakes
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my favorite tiny detail here is the fake neighborhood name “east loop.” there’s a loop, south loop, and west loop, but no east loop because that would be lake michigan. dude’s eating underwater
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My Weekend as a 28-year-old in Chicago Illinois
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lots of people think old European cities have better urbanism just because they are old, but many of these cities also went through car-dependent phases. the only thing separating Chicago or Philly from Dublin or Amsterdam is a few decades of investment in reducing car dependency
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Dublin, Ireland (1970 vs 2022)
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shout-out to whoever decided to run a secret illegal narcotics lab here in the heart of america’s second-largest downtown
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@EricTendian
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Confirmed meth lab. Level I Hazmat, 320 W Illinois, now secured on the orders of 2-2-1. #ChicagoScanner "Office, at this time, update from 2-2-1: We had nine people evacuated. There is no requirement for human services. What was tested came back as a narcotic lab. 2-2-1 is…
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good news
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they should do construction that makes roads worse
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please keep it up this is so fun
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@shmoe_jose
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@Libs_OfChicago The 3 pillars of Chicago Marijuana Abortion Gambling Wait a few more years, it can only get a lot worse
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LMAO WE DID IT
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@LVEBakfietsMama
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I’m really over seeing posts of this same truck, doing the same incredibly dangerous thing! People have called, reported the truck, talked to the driver, etc and nothing has changed. This happens every damn week. This is 3:30p on a Friday! @lawsonfor44 - can you do something?
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thanks to my doctor i now know my number one issue is “transgender person”
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everyone talks about the Chicago Bean but for some reason nobody talks about the truly unfathomably bizarre thing right next to it. may i present to you all: the fountain with a face that spits on you and then smiles and vanishes into the ether
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California: we’re incapable of building anything except suburban sprawl because earthquakes :( Japan:
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the human pet guy has come out in defense of pronoun options in video games
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@I_Am_CyberSmith
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>I don't identify as a he/him because I don't need to, it's bloody obvious what gender I am, as it is for nearly all people Computer programs aren't people. They literally do need to know what string to insert into variable dialogues and questlogs. THIS IS HOW VIDEOGAMES WORK.
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does anyone have more of these
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indianapolis is handing out free eclipse posters btw
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this is in Chicago’s officially recognized gay neighborhood you bonehead there are pride flags everywhere here
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Excuse me @dominos , What does this have to do with Pizza?
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one of my favorite weird chicago facts is that there’s a piece of the berlin wall hidden in the corner of the western brown line station. it’s just chilling back there
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gigantic protest for palestine going on down at michigan avenue right now. an absolutely incredible turnout
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they should build a megacity right here
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friendly reminder that chicago has the most perfect grid of any major city in the world and it is glorious
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luckily my american ass is free to say jk rowling is a holocaust denier
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@rivkahbrown
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On 13 March I tweeted that JK Rowling “is a Holocaust denier”. That allegation was false and offensive. I have deleted it and apologise to JK Rowling.
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wild story going around the furry community right now. an infamous married conservative Christian furry ran away from her husband to be part of a polyamorous relationship with two other people who had started dating each other at approximately ages 15 and 21
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it’s three a.m. you wake up to a noise in your room. looking around, you see a shadow in the corner. you turn on your light. the ceo of boeing, david calhoun, is standing there with a gun. “you have disrespected my company,” he says. “now you are boeing to die”
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NO FUCKING WAY
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yeah it is lol
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if i was given this brutal of a one-two punch i would simply crumple up and turn into a corncob
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north american recreational cannabis laws have come a long way in the past decade
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rip whoever’s car broke down next to the train station and shout-out to the person fixing it with a tail on
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girlfriend is building a Fallout character
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it’s very interesting to see how many “best climate to live in” maps seemingly start with the assumption that everyone in the world wants to live in california and work backwards from that
@StatisticUrban
Hunter!📈🌈
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The USDA maps how desirable a place is to live based solely on geography. It seems subjective, but their criteria are warm winters, winter sun, temperate summers, low summer humidity, topographic variation, and water area. The west + Florida are the clear winners.
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one of my favorite things to hunt for in satellite maps is where the old railroads used to be
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slowly becoming convinced this is the greatest piece of anti humor our generation has ever seen
@Rufus87078959
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Princess Jane returns with her tricks. More episodes of the scarlet scourge in progress.
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since the temperature is hitting -6°F/-22°C later this week (not even factoring in wind chill), I’d like to remind everyone what we intentionally do to our train tracks here in Chicago when it gets super cold
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…is chocolate not already plant-based
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can we talk about how conservatives have somehow successfully convinced a huge portion of the country that the most dangerous cities are San Francisco and Chicago and that both are entirely like active war zones without a single nice area even though that’s very obviously untrue
@matthiasellis
matthew ellis
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Just astounding stuff here
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unhinged quote yesterday in chicago magazine
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@JosephFrogman an excuse for what
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what 1250 days of just estrogen and testosterone blockers does
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the average european tourist will act so progressive until the nanosecond they have to help service workers make a living wage through tipping at which point they become hitler 2
@anietotylkoja
Kuba 🇵🇸🇵🇱🌹
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“Sorry, we don’t tip” *laughs and leaves*
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what is france cooking
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exact same zoom level
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@YIMBYLAND
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Today I learned that the Denver Airport occupies more land than the entire city of San Francisco. 🤯 I'm legit struggling to comprehend this.
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they pedestrianized lincoln avenue for apple fest and nobody showed up because there was no parking
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i love San Francisco but the decision to surround an urban park 20% larger than Central Park with almost exclusively buildings under 4 stories tall was absolutely wild and the city should definitely be criticized heavily for this choice
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that’s just a completely different sport
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it’s a shame so much of the Bay Area is crazy expensive suburban sprawl, because this is legitimately one of the coolest-looking natural settings for a city in the world
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has strong towns just never heard of wrigley field. you can 100% have a stadium located in a dense, walkable, transit-oriented environment that brings in huge economic benefits for the surrounding neighborhood
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@StrongTowns
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Stadiums are the universal sign of desperation in economic development. They cost hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to build, and millions more in ongoing infrastructure maintenance, all while perpetuating unproductive land use.
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oh my god they used it unironically
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just want to point out here that my part of Chicago has a density of 21,781 people per square mile (over twice the number this person called “skyscraper hell”) with a maximum building height on most streets of only 3-5 stories
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would not surprise me at all if elon doesn’t know the front end is supposed to crumple to absorb the energy of the impact and just thinks the tougher it is the better
@_Rewhan
Shockingly Un-Meteored Rewhan | UN RESOLUTION 377A
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These crash test photos are terrifying. There's like, no deformation.
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this post is my final straw. i have officially seen it all and will be deactivating my account now. goodbye everyone
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it’s true, i live in Chicago and everyday i walk through the decaying ruins of the city before being promptly shot 500 times and spontaneously combusting. look at how terrible my neighborhood is
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@sam_d_1995
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it’s honestly pretty funny how so many conservatives think that all American cities are literal warzones
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for full context: they have a family member who works for a utility company and got some testing done for our apartment. they found that the pipes that go to our sinks are 100% lead. i’ve been drinking the tap water unfiltered for six months now
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do you think he keeps up with the twitter discourse
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@rustbeltenjoyer that’s like too jovial for a doomer mood though
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this is what a REAL civil war would look like
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it was so funny to say goodbye and wish each other goodnight and then both go stand facing each other on opposite platforms for another 3 minutes
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Lesbian twitter, is 2 tracks distance from your gf considered long distance? Thanks
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they demolished a Frank Lloyd Wright building for a fucking slip lane??????? are you serious???
@IsaacRowlett
Isaac Rowlett (✡️ for 🇵🇸)
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Milwaukee, 1971 & 2022 27th & Highland Frank Lloyd Wright’s Munkwitz Apartments demolished in 1973 to build a dedicated right turn lane
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i’ve been wondering why i’ve felt so foggy and depressed lately without a clear reason. good lord
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i’m biased because i grew up in chicago, but the the american rust belt is one of the most fascinating places in the world to me. here’s a thread of photos of various rust belt cities i visited in 2023 1) detroit, michigan
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what even happens here
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a single unified political entity containing nyc, toronto, chicago, philly, the twin cities, detroit, milwaukee, etc. would be so powerful you have no idea
@twibg312
The World in Broken Glass
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this is the only region screamo should come from
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the chicago river is like three stories below the artificially raised street level genuinely how the fuck did this car get down here
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@the_lettuce_cat
Lettuce Cat!
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THERE'S A CAR ON THE RIVERWALK WHATTTTT
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