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log̷o, respawned dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 6h

I've been saying for months now: I want video of IRS tactical entry teams kicking in the doors of multi-million dollar penthouses and throwing around guys in suits the way ICE loves to terrorize innocent brown people

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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 23/09/2026

This rules

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 21/09/2026

Alright, who fixes old-old CRT televisions between Chicago and Milwaukee. I'd like to get this beast back for at least part of horror season...

Photograph. A large, late-1970s Zenith System 3 "Panorama" television console in silver with fake woodgrain on a checkered tile floor.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 21/09/2026

Dragged it home from Waterloo over a year ago, only for it to pop a fuse in the first 10 minutes and take something else, with it -- now it has a wobbly picture. Dreaded Zenith 9-160 board.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 21/09/2026

Alright, who fixes old-old CRT televisions between Chicago and Milwaukee. I'd like to get this beast back for at least part of horror season...

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 16/09/2026

IIRC it's a state-owned piece and could not remain when the building was sold to private owners

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 13/09/2026

We had 25 Fieros on a Route 66 cruise today; stopping in Joliet, Elwood, Wilmington, Braidwood and Gardner.

Photograph. A group of Pontiac Fiero owners and enthusiasts gathered in front of the Gemini Giant statue in Wilmington, Illinois.

Photograph. A parking lot of multi-colored Pontiac Fieros in Gardner, Illinois.

Photograph. A large group of Pontiac Fieros and owners visiting a roadside attraction in Elwood, Illinois

Photograph. A magnet purchased from a Route 66 gift shop in Wilmington, Illinois

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 12/09/2026

Fiero caravan through Joliet, this morning. Part of Fierorama weekend; there's a show in St. Charles, tomorrow

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I TIRE OF THE CODES. ENOUGH CODES. 75% OF MY TEXTS ARE ONE TIME CODES FROM EIGHTEEN DIFFERENT COMPANIES. JUST LET ME USE MY PASSWORD. FOR MY ACCOUNT. THAT I SET.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 09/09/2026

So with Six Flags selling off a bunch of midwest parks and ye olde legacy membership still valid the rest of this season, I'm trying to knock those coaster credits out. Valleyfair is likely next. Still trying to figure out a Six Flags St. Louis/Worlds of Fun weekend, that may be October.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 09/09/2026

I changed jobs recently, I'm no longer rotting in tech and have no commute. Now I'm using the gas savings toward weekend adventures. Yesterday's took the Fiero five hours north to Michigan.... namely Muskegon.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 09/09/2026

Hi I revived @sfgamzone.com to separate tism's/shitpost about roller coasters again

Photograph. jonrev's Pontiac Fiero at Michigan's Adventure amusement park. Shivering Timbers roller coaster and other contemporary vehicles in the background.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 28/03/2025

Tears for Sears Golf Mill Shopping Center - Niles, Illinois (2023) #deadmalls #sears #abandoned #polaroid #polaroid600 #photography

Polaroid photograph of an abandoned Sears department store at night, the sign has been removed but old unpainted brick still leaves a strong "SEARS" labelscar on the facade

Polaroid photograph shows the silhouette of a stray shopping cart under the lights of an abandoned Sears store entrance at night

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

AI strikes again, preventing humans from accessing these important resources

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Derfcurrie @derfcurrie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ok with all these deaths of people I loved watching growing up in the 80s I need this week to be over so I can go watch Batman in 70mm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social and feel like a 10 year old again with my matchbox Batmobile which I'll have with me.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Ford City Mall redevelopment is moving forward after city commission approval. blockclubchi.co/4xdDqr9

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20/08/2026

I love it when a city adopts an otherwise-unloved car

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 20/08/2026

Motocompacto vs. Prairie Trail/McHenry residential streets... least I found where my phone jumped out of my pocket

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The cute sea creatures on the lower levels of the Fisher Building I'm familiar with. The monstrous terra cotta hordes swarming down from on high were a new & terrifying sight. Architects: DH Burnham & Co (with Charles B Atwood as lead), 1896 Addition: Peter J Weber, 1907

Color photo of a small portion of the truly bonkers upper facade of the Fisher Building. Photo focuses on a section of lovely arched windows clad in an orangey-brown terra cotta. Spandrels of the arches are overflowing with shields and foliate designs, and the curves of the arches themselves are replete with gargoyles/grotesques. Some appear to be in the process of stealthily crawling down the facade as if stalking prey, and some are placed if about to pounce on the unwary below. The comparatively less ornate spandrels are encrusted with mesmerizing S-curve tracery.

Color photo of part of the ridiculously ornate terra cotta facade of the Fisher Building. We've got extremely detailed foliated cresting, quatrefoils, trefoils, fleurs-de-lis, arches galore and gigantic, threatening birds posted up in odd places.

Color detail showing the very corner of the upper reaches of the Fisher Building. Here we have a geometrically complex frieze of arches, each stuffed with trefoils that are in turn crammed full of some sort of foliate design. Arch spandrels are decorated with another floral design. A floral band above this has huge and terrifying duck-like faces that gape at you at regular intervals from their perches above tripartite clusters of colonnettes.

One last look at some of the exquisitely rendered terra cotta nightmare fuel making its way down the facade of the building.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 19/08/2026

...by that, meaning I start a new job literally in my backyard next week

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 19/08/2026

Finally got a break in the rain for its last work commute ever...

Photograph. jonrev's white Pontiac Fiero Formula reflected in a puddle, a bright orange Mustang out of frame, left

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 19/08/2026

Lookin' at you, Historic Aerials...

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 19/08/2026

Hey, we have decades worth of satellite imagery that I'm pretty sure is paid for by our taxes -- why is this data watermarked to death, hidden behind adblocker-blockers and more rage-inducing to browse than navigating a car dealership's website?

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

101 years. It's been 101 years since the opening of the Uptown Theatre. Closed for four decades, why does it still fascinate us today? What are its allures and mysteries? Why hasn't it been restored? We try to answer all those questions, at the link. arcchicago.blogspot.com/2026/08/aura...

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 18/08/2026

The film photography content-creator-industrial-complex has discovered Polaroid Big Shots and Fuji FP-100C and I feel a sudden need to move the contents of my film fridge to a bank vault.

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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

impressive tag on the casino but pretty embarrassing that it’s come to that

concrete and glass tower with the elevator core exposed and a three story graffiti tag running down from the roof

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Kaveh Taherian - NYCC - H26 @kavehtaherian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hell yeah I’m into AI Arresting Individuals who steal from artists

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 17/08/2026

Anatomically incorrect Pontiac Fiero

Photograph. A remote control Pontiac Fiero toy car made by New Bright and sold at Wal-Mart sometime in the 1980s, new in original packaging, at a local antique mall. A large supercharger blower extends from the hood of the car; on the real Fiero the spare tire is under the hood, the engine is over the rear wheels.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Somebody who has the keys to the social media pages of a couple neighborhood history organizations keeps taking perfectly usable or legible images and "cleaning them up" with GenAI, thereby making the details misleading or incorrect or even downright incomprehensible. Two recent before-afters:

In a news magazine clipping, we see an illustrated layout of a two-story rowhouse. It has a living room in the front on the first floor, and a kitchen in the back. The upper floor has a large bedroom in the front and two smaller bedrooms in the back, with a small bathroom between them.

An AI "cleaned" version of the image shows several changes to the original illustration. A curved wall just inside the entryway is shown as an interior window instead, a label for a window bay that previously said "bay" now says "bath" with the implication that a bathtub would be directly inside the home's main floor front windows, the stairs between the two levels have direction arrows that don't make sense, and the upstairs bathroom, previously labeled "WC" for water closet, is now labeled the nonsensical acronym "RC". A bunch of different windows have been added to the sides of the layout, where the rowhouse's walls meet the neighboring dwellings in the original illustration.

A political cartoon titled "What the gold bugs are doing for Uncle Sam", drawn by Watson Heston. In it, bankers drawn as antisemitic caricatures approach an auction block tended to by politicians labeled Grover, Carlisle, and Sherman. The bankers carry sacks that are labeled "British gold" with British pound signs on them. Grover is a fat auctioneer, and Sherman is shown as the devil with a forked tail reading a Bill of Sale for U.S. Gold Bonds alongside Carlisle. On the auction block stands Uncle Sam, tied to a post labeled "gold standard" and wrapped in ropes labeled "US gold bonds". A sign around his neck reads "to be sold into perpetual slavery for gold!"

In an AI-retouched version of the political cartoon, the leftmost banker's antisemitic caricature nose has transformed into a second face, the bankers' bags now read "Bryan's gold bugs" instead of "British gold bonds", and the second banker is wearing a label on his leg that says "Bryan". The auctioneer previously labeled as Grover is now labeled Sherman, and the other two politicians have lost their labels entirely. The document they're holding now reads "Bill of Sale of gold bugs", their hands are twisted into strange forms, and the unlabeled politician previously labeled as Sherman is no longer depicted as the Devil, his tail having turned into the edge of a poorly defined platform upon which the auction block stands. A paddle-like object hangs from his hand with text on it that reads "13 to 1". The post that Uncle Sam is bound to still sort of says "Gold Standard", though the text in the second word is a little garbled. But the rope he's tied with now has many more words, including "monopoly, Republican platform, and Uncle Sam". The auction sign around his neck now reads "to be ssld to to perpetual slavery for gold!"

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A plan to replace Ford City Mall with an industrial warehouse and public plaza is moving forward. blockclubchi.co/45Zb0VJ

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 14/08/2026

Other sources name Abrams Realty & Development as the developer -- same firm acquiring the 80s-gem Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing, PA with intent to demolish; as well as the recently-closed Exton Square in West Chester, a project currently stalled amid community backlash.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 14/08/2026

Plans also include closing both Macy's department store, and separate home store that was crammed into a former office tower. Both once part of the Strawbridge & Clothier chain.

Photograph. Interior of a 1980s-vintage Macy's department store, originally built for Strawbridge & Clothier. Escalators cross under each other at a 90-degree angle. There is abundant wood trim and specular surfaces covering the facades of the upper level and escalator sides. Jewelry and cosmetics counters seen on the lower level.

Photograph. Store entrance to Macy's at Concord Mall, retaining a large stone Strawbridge & Clothier Seal of Confidence as its centerpiece.

Photograph. Store entrance to Macy's Home Store at Concord Mall, viewed from the third floor looking down on the mall. A small Strawbridge & Clothier Seal of Confidence is seen on the second level column to the left.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 14/08/2026

Permits filed to demolish the 90s-vintage Concord Mall in Wilmington, Delaware -- home to the infamous "hidden Burger King" -- as Namdar Realty crashes and burns another to the ground. Views from barely a year ago. #deadmalls www.wdel.com/news/partial...