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chicago / wisconsin - he / him - boring white dad & bureaucrat - incurable collector - irascible scamp - citizen of the world and the middle west - west coast expat - great lakes internationalist - geographer - philatelist - lifelong trail blazers fan
Juan Orlando Hernández receiving the news
a man is sitting at a table with a briefcase and talking on a phone
ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a briefcase and talking on a phone
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans

“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
but seriously folks try the veal
Trump on the turkeys he's about to pardon: "I shouldn't say this. I was gonna call them Chuck and Nancy. But then I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people. I wouldn't pardon them. I wouldn't care what Melania told me."
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I don't know about anyone else, but in terms of my life, this is some impactful shit right here. Thank you, Joel, Trace, Josh, Kevin, and Jim.
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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1️⃣ Der #Vulkan #HayliGubbi ist nach Tausenden von Jahren in der Afar-Region, #Äthiopien, ausgebrochen⤵️
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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An eruption from the #HayliGubbi volcano in #Ethiopia resulted in a large ash cloud, visible here from space. 🌋

This impressive view was seen 36,000km above Earth by our Meteosat-12 satellite on 23 November at 13:40 UTC.
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
dang it guess i'm cliffposting

youtu.be/RNNDNkVz5FA
jimmy cliff - miss jamaica
YouTube video by bootbhoy
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The problem with running stuff like a business is that most people aren't actually good at business
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
help mods i am in the post and i do not like it
And so it was that Bob Cratchett did not get furloughed but became the GIS Admin and was virtually unfireable because he didn't write documentation and no one knew what he did. And Tiny Tim, who did not fail geography, actually went on to totally sweep the National Geography Bee.
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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tfw things are going great for your asset class
Private credit rating agency fights back against one of the market’s greatest threats: the FT
KBRA excludes media from event ‘debunking some of the recent misleading media headlines focusing on private credit’
on.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
oh sure you're estranged from your spouse but are you 'fuck you i'm going to space' estranged?
A former Air Force intelligence officer pleaded guilty last week to lying to law enforcement when she falsely accused her estranged wife — who is an astronaut — of illegally accessing her bank account from space.
Wife of Astronaut Pleads Guilty to Falsely Alleging Crime in Space
Summer Worden admitted lying to federal agents when she accused her spouse, the astronaut Anne McClain, of illegally accessing her bank account from space.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Filed next to Jimmy LaValle's Locust tattoo
A “high-level” Trump admin official told the @newyorker.com that in an interview for her position “her interlocutor opened his mouth to reveal that he had a MAGA tattoo on the underside of his lower lip.”

The official said, “It’s over the top, but it’s the currency of the realm.”
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
parks $5
libraries $5
schools $5
police $2,100,000,000
cta $5

somebody good at the economy help me my city is dying
Johnson vows to veto any budget that includes a property tax increase or makes cuts to the proposed $2.1 billion for the Chicago Police Department.

CONTEXT: No one has seriously proposed either.

Days until the Dec. 30 deadline for the City Council to pass a budget: 43
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Showing up for the dj gig with my 1's and 2's
There’s also a $150 record player that shows the unaltered presidential seal

3/
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
attention portland residents of a certain era
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM