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
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)
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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”
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
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
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…
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?
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
>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.
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
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
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”
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Shockingly Un-Meteored Rewhan | UN RESOLUTION 377A
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
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
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
a single unified political entity containing nyc, toronto, chicago, philly, the twin cities, detroit, milwaukee, etc. would be so powerful you have no idea