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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why are there no interior photos of Bob's Grilling Veranda & Castle Honeymoon Suites & Garage

imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Someone out there has a profile that contains, "Studies German language in the haphazard, chaotic, undisciplined manner of a dilettante who lacks dedication and method; sad, really"

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Uses U.S. shipping address and credit card, but keeps searches for price range 'tuppence a bag.'"

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Even advertisements benefit from wide margins for multiple layers of commentary interacting with both the original text and earlier analysis.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, I accidentally removed myself from the game by changing app windows from Bluesky to the calculator to see precisely how incensed I should be. This building was not constructed in 1831 or 2023.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's already been an amazing week for scathing obituaries at the NYT, and it's only Tuesday morning

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is why we need a 👎 reaction option.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It matters to them in that they see people whom they do not identify with succeeding in education, commerce, government, culture, and American society generally, and they feel resentment and anger that demands revenge.

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Public Universal Fiend @acgodliman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Toot

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Humor is a skill, and one that’s somewhat esoteric. AI reliance is insidious. It starts with using it innocently as a tool, and then your instinct becomes to use it first and you lose the skill to lookup and parse information yourself. I am troubled by how fast this seems to happen. 9/10

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh man, D*ug Wils*n would have absolutely looooooved the opportunity to persecute Quakers, especially anti-slavery Quakers and those who were"the cultural elite," in person in Philadelphia in 1776.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That movie is a struggle between the actors and the screenplay writers, a classic human conflict.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How do I file a report with the ghost of Malcolm Hulke?

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If only there were *any* Dr Who stories from the last six decades about massive transnational technology & extraction corporations run rapaciously, destructively, catastrophically amok.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Re the boast timeline, I wonder whether the rise of fraternities correlated to the decline of Episcopalianism as the dominant religious affiliation of the WASP upper classes & accompanying decline in cultural cache of Freemasonry, regarded w/ suspicion by some other Protestant denominations.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These days I'm listening to Imaginary Chicago's Navel Adoration Society. They/it have/has plumbed the depths of my navel in ways of which generations of human artists could only dream, mapping every crevice of the inny of my soul. They're pretty obscure. You've probably never heard of them.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Married dads have a cultural offset wherein as a Husband & Father *anything* they do for money and social status is now morally justified, even sanctified and mandated, so long as they do it to their own ethnic/racial/economic/religious demographic or one(s) lower in the hierarchy of social power.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I did a triple take passing him in a crosswalk by City Hall, and my lasting impression was, "Wow, he really *does* look that smug and fighty. The cameras capture him accurately." Just swaggering around emitting ambient particles of condescension and bellicosity that form a cloud...

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He's probably not really running for the Presidential nomination but running to be picked as VP / attack dog for Kelly or any other non-Pritzker nominee. He would probably be decent at it in a campaign, and then a Dick Cheney -esque gothic specter of a scheming vizier as actual VP. Do not hire.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wife A&M has those pink boots all the members of the Wife Corp wear to their weddings

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Interesting graphic, implying that the parents in question are being gently euthanized.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is how to manage line cutoff for maximum teaser effect.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I misread it and "caramel pronouns," and was absolutely ready to learn.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brent Eric Anderson used to draw these kinds of guys. They were not the protagonists.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the long tail of the PUA manuals of 20 yrs ago: negging a woman, attempting to block her exits from a private space while continuing to accost her after she has refused multiple insult-laced propositions, and probably then poasting about the Male Loneliness Crisis in angry confusion

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the avocado toast upon which I would spend all my money.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think you're supposed to wash them both in the bidet, one piece at a time, like Jonny Cash said.

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Gilgert Martwel @mkroll.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People in this city love to be afraid of everything and the only way to solve it is some old guy from Jefferson Park to watch your every move.

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

More like Kavanaugh Stomps, now that I think about it.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I remember hearing in the '90s, "pyramid schemes are illegal in the financial world, but not in God's kingdom!"

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There are Chicago cabs emblazoned with the url "taxiwithus," which I consistently misparse as an invitation to taxi wit' Hus. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus...

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Jan Hus - Wikipedia

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And the Art Institute already has a very similar sculpture by the same artist

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tonči zonjić @tozo.today · 17/09/2026

thursday plan: eight things (that seems like a reasonable number)

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is the push notification of the year. The only question is whether Thi*l believes he has identified the Antichrist, or believes he is the Antichrist. Remember, Thi*l bought V*nce the Ohio Republican senate primary campaign that guaranteed V*nce a Senate seat from which he could become VP.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't think this is going to be a banner day for NYT opinion journalism.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm worried that we haven't seen Ving Rhames lately.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"I wonder why the robot is mean" *is* a good question.

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imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Is this like a human experimentation situation? Do the vloggers have to submit the foods to an ethics board to determine whether they're unduly cruel (as opposed to deservedly cruel)?

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