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Pokey
@junkyardcrawler.bsky.social
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architecture, dead mall, train, car enthusiast Chicago-based takes too many photos non-binary but like it's complicated and I'm working on it, I swear Website/Blog: https://etaoin-shrdlu.net/ RIP COHOST - EGGBUG FOREVER - KEEP EM POSTING IN OUR HEARTS
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Illinois transit is going to be bigger and better than ever! SB2111 passed!!!
Ill probably just start doing it again in a few weeks once my supervisor has stopped paying attention but its done a good job of reminding me to save up some money so I can leave this job
I hope whoever narced to my supervisor at work that I was wearing an earbud wakes up with wet socks forever. I can't wait to "enjoy" nothing but hvac buzz, air compressor hiss, and some jackass wailing on an impact drill for 8 hours tomorrow and now the foreseeable future
I DID buy this pair of vintage pepper mills
I am unfortunately a simple creature, with a very small apartment but a wide definition of "neat", so thrifting is always a battle lol
things i didnt buy at the thrift store
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‼️🏳️‍⚧️ Anniversary Comic (1/6) 🏳️‍⚧️‼️
strangely atmospheric google streetview of an Indiana Kmart
doing film camera crimes (replacing a light seal with gaffer tape and cutting it with a kitchen knife)
this one's my favorite because it reads like a senator armstrong meme
give those photos the uncompressed upload they deserve
its really cool how every hurricane season we just lose another island nation and no one with the power to fix this cares enough to even acknowledge it's happening
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Cicero Life, July 12th, 1940
Chicago Tribune, March 22nd, 1987
Newspapers indicate the address was once home to the Chicago (Lead) Smelting & Refining Corporation, built 1940. Went to an IRS tax sale in 87. By 2005 most of the building didn't have a roof, by 2007 it was demolished except this front office and the back wall.
I feel like there's a good photobook to be made out of Chicago's junk & scrap trucks
Ive also never heard vacco in my life but I have heard someone use 'bando' in casual real life conversation in Chicago for whatever it's worth
I remember when unmarked black government helicopters were the realm of only the most lost in the sauce extreme far right wing cranks. Yet now, it's day to day reality.
Unmarked black helicopter flying very low over Edgewater at approximately 12:30pm on 10/27. Heading north parallel with the lakefront. Not showing on air traffic monitoring apps. @the48thward.bsky.social @leniann.bsky.social
Got a solid nugget of cheese in my Ritz bits
my understanding is they're a rolling locker room for welding and other maintenance crews. The CTA used to have a lot more but they're rarer these days as the CTA's responsibilities have shifted and more duties are taken over by the industry standard service bed F-series
probably not far off from what they're used as, I think it's basically a break/locker room for the CTA maintenance crews. Certainly a strange scene to come across unaware, though.
this weekend's downtown work brought out one of the CTA's work buses. Converted from buses retired out of the everyday transit fleet, they're a fairly rare find 'in the wild'. This one is a 2005 New Flyer D40LF, formerly 1011 in service.
you know what's been a quiet loss of the streaming age? Slightly janky pilots disguised as S1E1.
I'll go to the suburbs, I'm desperate
is anywhere other than the Music Box (already sold out) doing a midnight showing of Rocky Horror on Halloween?