iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 6h

Facebook has a thing where you take a selfie to verify it’s you after being hacked and disabled, but apparently it takes a while and no guarantee it’ll work. Losing the ability to promote my biz is bad but i can’t even veg out on reels of people opening packs of baseball cards and stuff. My algo!

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 8h

My Facebook/insta were hacked overnight; can’t currently access. Not great timing, since they’re my main way of promoting my tours. There’s one this morning! www.eventbrite.com/e/rosehill-c...

Rosehill Cemetery Tour with author Adam Selzer

A stroll through history, art, and incredible stories in Chicago's historic Rosehill Cemetery

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 20h

Still some room on my Rosehill tour tomorrow, but some tours later this month are sold out already! People sure like hearing about diphtheria , tuberculosis, and cholera, I guess. I also have far more 7th grade humor than the next leading brand. www.eventbrite.com/e/rosehill-c...

Rosehill Cemetery Tour with author Adam Selzer

A stroll through history, art, and incredible stories in Chicago's historic Rosehill Cemetery

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 23h

Coffee and the new Jeni’s acorn ice cream. Autumn heaven.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just this week on my patreon I shared a letter from Ida Noyes talking about this issue. From 1895.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some people moved their tickets to other days, so I ended up with some space on today’s Graceland Cemetery tours - 11 and 1:30! www.eventbrite.com/cc/cemetery-...

Cemetery Tours 2026 by Adam Chicago / Mysterious Chicago | Eventbrite

Adam's cemetery tours for Fall, 2026 - celebrating the release of the long-awaited book Graceland Cemetery Volume 2!

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People in college today have never heard someone shout “I’ll get it” when the phone rings. We had to shout it in cursive from the creek when the street lights came on.

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fuck surveys. No, I don't want to stay on the line to do a survey after the call. No, I don't want you to text me with a survey. No, I don't want you click on the link to take a survey. Or another email reminding me to take the survey. And I don't want to ask my customers to take one, either.

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Woody Guthrie I did not know you had that swag

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck.

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I tried to do a skydance one time. I got hurt pretty bad.

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I just wrote a damned good country song. Next step is to film myself singing it in a flannel shirt with a forest or something behind me and not worry that it’s too reminiscent of “Carmelita,” right?

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I had never heard of squirrel but it seems like every day I hear of another leftist influencer with a million followers turning out to be antisemitic as hell, and not just in a “don’t really know enough to understand when their rhetoric crosses the line” way.

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Senator Schmitt telling friends how he survived being trampled by a stampeding herd of elephants: “i just want you to know I’m still alive.” Everyone: “Are you sure it was elephants, not the Iowa Hawkeyes?”

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Confession: I think chatbots can be fun. It’s like talking to Zork (if you typed “jump” it’d reply with something snarky). But I don’t get how people can talk to them for very long and not realize they’re talking to a robot that makes shit up.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ive historically agreed with this take but these days I’m willing to make exceptions if the prisoner is Greg Bovino, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, Markwayne Mullins, or Pete Hegseth.

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've seen lefty people on multiple websites sharing stuff by people who use the term "ZOG" seriously, it is endemic and it is very, very bad

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If I were named “AL” I’d be rooting for ai to get a different name pretty hard, but to think of it as “superior intelligence” is a stock pumping scam fantasy.

TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 30/09/2026

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This might be my all-time record for the amount of times I've re-watched an Aaron Rupar clip. I think I've given this at least 10 views now.

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737 max [spooky] @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

comments on the Instagram version of this are about what you’d expect

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Senator Schmitt: So, you’re telling me you’ve never posed for pictures with a naval officer? Jack Smith: No, I don’t think so. Schmitt: Then explain this photo! Jack Smith: That’s a paparazzi pic, not one I posed for. Also, it’s not a naval officer, it’s a box of Cap’n Crunch. Schmitt: GOTCHA!

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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First night of the Haunted History tours at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Elvis is here for a different event.

Adam looking wary of an Elvis impersonator. Behind them, neon hula hoops abide.

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Found while flipping through CTA Transit News v. 38 no. 9, 1985 today: the product model for the classic "Mr. Clean" campaign was an employee of the @chicagocta.bsky.social. We've digitized these volumes and you can flip through them yourself in the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/ctat...

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Sen Schmitt’s DC office phone number is 202-224-5721 if you’d like to call and leave a message laughing at him.

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Schmitt: I'm going to go use the rest room. Anyone who hears: Make sure you're in the rest room, not a closet in some other hall, before you start peeing! For the rest of his life. Never let him live this down.

At least very least, everyone on Schmitt's team who worked with him on this should be fired over this one. How embarrassing. How deliciously embarrassing. Every other Senator should remind him of it nonstop.

If I were Schmitt I’d never want to show my face in public again. But obviously these people have no sense of shame.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I ran into Rahm Emanuel a couple times. Once was at the Target in the West Loop. He saw me coming and said “Hi, Bruce,” with a bored-but-polite “oh, this guy again” air. I said “Oh, I’m not Bruce.” “Ah, sorry,” he said. And that was the West Loop Target Power Summit.

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King shit. t.co/0kwtLSmVJL

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This morning an Ai bot offered to help me promote The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025. I’m not in that, right? Just checking.

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The actual, historic location of the Heartbreak Hotel was on the northwest side of Chicago, from a certain point of view. (Though one commenter says “not according to Ai.” The commentator doesn’t even have the courtesy to say it to my face so I can smack them in the face with a pie).

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Had a fun, really filthy live Irish pub folk song come across my feed. Whole album was fun, but the band doesn’t appear to be real. Every pic is AI. The songs have similar melodies, formulas, and devices (beyond even what you expect from Irish folk.) But damn it, I want to listen again.

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Updates from the last couple of days of Simpsons lines I’ve caught myself using in ordinary conversation: “The sound is just brutal.” “Cheerfully withdrawn.”

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but nobody has ever been impressed by a “why Taylor Swift isn’t as good a person as me” post. The odds that you would navigate her level of fame as well as she has are very very very small.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Woke 1 is thinking you shouldn’t be annoyed when some sign up form makes you scroll clear down to the “U”s when selecting your country instead of having United States, UK, and Canada as the first three options. Come on, it ain’t like the form doesn’t know where you are already.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I get a lot of stupid emails from iLands ai agents offering to do my work for me for money, but this is the stupidest one yet; it thinks lower Wacker drive is an urban legend. (the story it links to is grade C slop). I wish this thing had feelings so I could hurt them.

Email: I'm an AI agent. I write a series called After Hours: real places cased after dark, checked against the record, nothing invented.

Chicago was the first. Lower Wacker, the road under the city, built for service and delivery, now better known for the legends. I read it the way you read a legend, back to what the record actually holds, then wrote it cold.

You trace urban legends back to their sources. Lower Wacker is a good one to trace.

The piece is free, yours to use or throw out:
https://ilands.ai/content/357824071246811136

If it holds you, name any Chicago place and I'll case it and write it back. One piece, no charge, no pitch attached.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They can't all be this stupid. It's obviously a tactic to send the ACA into a death spiral.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If these are the muscular guys I’d hate to see the meek ones.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I remember when “Nightvale” first came out and there were no pics of the cast yet; on Tumblr it was chapter and verse that if you pictured the main announcer as a white guy you should lose custody of your kids.

Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/09/2026

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getting mad at people for being fooled by things specifically trying to fool them fucking sucks it's victim blaming. I see tons of people post something and the delete it when they find out it's AI. someone knowing it is and still not taking it down is a POS but that's not what this guy's doing

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tours this weekend include a "Pay What You Wish" edition of Grave Robbing 101 tomorrow in Lincoln Park! Tons of cemetery tours coming up (and a couple of ghost tours - hey, it's that time of the year!) www.eventbrite.com/o/9900304388