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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ideal Chrono Trigger zone. Feels like a stage in the game

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Flying through time with the Chrono Trigger Orchestra at the Auditorium Theater 🪽⏱️

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Barring injury, American fans will love our swaggering young prince

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Visited the 16-inch Softball Hall of Fame in Forest Park tonight. Look at how swagged out these jerseys are

Mayor Daley Youth Foundation jersey. Wear on the softball diamond in Bridgeport for an instant stats buff

Jersey for the Flamingo's, a Black softball powerhouse

Jersey for the Shooters softball team with an Elmer Fudd picture that probably doesn't clear copyright

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

More than a billion dollars in income taxes have been shifted to the rest of us in the past six years through the program, which was expanded at the beginning of the year to make it more lucrative to film in Illinois

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I always feel cooler stepping inside Helmut Jahn's United terminal. Been to lots of airports, good and bad, but O'Hare is like being in an airplane wing soaring through the clouds

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Me paying a monthly fee just to watch the White Sox, with a week left in the season, crash out of a division lead they've held since July

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Seems bad Northwestern's new Ryan Field opens in 3 weeks and they're still trying to sell seats

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy about the housing but the Clark Street bell glow up makes it look like a Baja Blast

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bike the Drive review: Utopian

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Undertale: The Determination Symphony" at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago ♥️

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Also St. Joseph has a WR with a curious name

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This goes hard as hell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Chicago school board candidate not committed to "political sides" 🤔

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Boredom came up a lot in our talks about compulsive gamblers. Our story ends on one man's meditation on boredom.

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Gambling addiction is about gambling, but it's not at all."

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

People addicted to gambling often seek treatment, and their lives can improve, too. One man celebrating his year of sobriety talked about finding the beauty of stressors in his life.

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"The next day, we got a call that he took his own life, and he just couldn't, I guess, handle it anymore."

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Compulsive gambling can lead people to the depths of despair, or worse. "I definitely thought throughout the year, not just towards the end, about ending my life and also possibly ending my wife’s life at the same time."

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"If you told me that if I got cancer tomorrow and it was stage 4, I'd be like 'That's not the worst thing.'"

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

One woman stayed playing a slot machine while her husband was wheeled out of the casino in a stretcher. "And he's on the floor passed out cold, I'm still playing."

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

One man talked about reading the first and last pages of a Dr. Seuss book to his son... So that he could go downstairs and continue to gamble. He celebrated 25 years of gambling sobriety in May; his family was with him ❤️

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

One person addicted to gambling spoke about his cool and calm exterior demeanor and the crushing anxiety surging through his brain.

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"I went as far as I could go, in terms of how much money I could potentially get to, which for me, is a really big number. It's not healthy to say. But for me, over that two and a half years, probably close to a million dollars."

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"I never felt as happy winning, as sad as I felt losing."

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If you're my age, you can remember the cigarette ads that used to be in every stadium in America. Then they weren't. Gambling companies have now taken up the same advertising space

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

You might have seen the Circa | Sports gambling ad where the guy never looks away from his phone. She did.

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A number of celebrities including Kevin Hart are now endorsing gambling companies in the ads that scroll across our screens everyday.

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Sports betting put the casino in people's pockets. It gives people 24/7 betting access and allows gambling companies to literally touch people with phone notifications and text messages. This man thought about coming clean about his addiction, but then Draft Kings sent him $5k to keep him playing

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Gambling addiction isn't just slot machines and poker. It can be Bitcoin. Or Shitcoins.

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I spoke someone in the addiction treatment industry in Boston and they told me that gambling addiction can seize on existing trauma and make everything worse. One man told us he started gambling after he and his wife tried and failed to have children. "It's OK — it sucks, actually."

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There's a stigma that gambling addiction is only for scoundrels, which is false. You can be addicted to gambling and also be what others would consider "successful." One person told us they started gambling because they got moved to a new hospital where they weren't doing as many heart surgeries.

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

One person recalled amassing a $1,000 gambling debt to a friend over video games when he was 11-years-old

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Gambling addiction can be hereditary. We spoke to a man whose grandfather played the Lotto and would always buy his grandchildren tickets for Christmas

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Fox Sports analyst Sam Panayotovich hit with a beer shower while discussing the big Mexico victory outside a World Cup watch party

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Bears are turning me into Rorschach from the Watchmen

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Flyers posted around Wrigleyville on behalf of Chicago Republican mayoral candidate Danielle Carter-Walters promising "FORENSIC AUDITS, INDICTMENTS & PRISON TIME."

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This bench inscription at A. Montgomery Ward Park (unheralded all-star park) killed me. ♥️♥️♥️

"In the park where our mornings began and my heart found its home in you."

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