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carved wooden fish date/designer unknown wood sourced from estate sale of a woodworker/artist (i think) on display on trinket shelf no.2 (ex-Saks 5th Avenue display shelf)

A small hand carved wooden fish on a chunky base, with a vacant expression.

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 6h

took an embarrassing amount of time for me to realize "I feel like Im always putting too much pressure on one foot, I wonder if one of my legs is ever so slightly shorter than the other" and "I wonder why half the time I have to correct my photos by 1-3 degrees" may be related problems

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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 7h

i am stomping around my house incredulous you’re telling me the biggest funder of climate denialism and the fascist takeover of the american judicial system are also paying their servants to create rat infestations in lincoln park is there a gas leak in here are you fucking kidding me

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 22h

Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 20h

Just announced: The Uptown Theatre has been added to the Chicago Architecture Center's Open House Chicago. "Visitors will enter though the main lobby and take a short guided tour of the auditorium. No photography will be permitted." 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 17 and 18.

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Uptown Theatre

The Uptown Theatre is the crown jewel of theater developers Balaban and Katz and renowned movie house architects Rapp and Rapp. Built in 1925, the Uptown is the largest freestanding theater in North A...

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Having a shred of experience in a dying trade gets you some great recruiter texts. I'm sorry US Steel recruiter I do not want to relocate to Gary to be a machinist

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🎃 unskippable cutscene after dying/retrying the yunalesca fight @curiousquail.com · 30/09/2026

I'll do a new post once this year's server is live but MAYOR BONES ANNUAL GHOST TOWN PUMPKIN FESTIVAL returns TOMORROW!! Here's some notes from last year's shenanigans, enjoy! It's truly a thing of wonder from @adamgryu.bsky.social and friends (The folks behind A Short Hike) See you there!

blog.curiousquail.com

Before October is over, you owe it to yourself to visit Mayor Bones Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival

Servers usually shut down shortly after Halloween

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Antifa CEO (official) @ultrafast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jeep owners: NO you don't GET it I absolutely NEED 25" of clearance for my daily commute!!!! Construction workers driving their 20 year old corollas to the job site:

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

obsessed with this tailor shop I found in Lincoln Park who has a bunch of papercraft suits and dresses in their window display. And the paper dogs!!

Several small dresses and suits, made out of paper, in a display window. there's also small paper dogs on the ground

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pour some out for the steamers Philip R Clarke & Arthur M Anderson, some of the oldest freighters on the Great Lakes, now in long-term layup in Toledo, neither expected to sail again. The Anderson was the last ship in contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald. Photos by Lou Gerard & Altafest.

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagining a world where you get a draft letter to "defend your country" next year, but instead of going to war it's to force you into a ten year lease on a base model Chevy Traxx

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fredy @fredy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is GILLIG HEAVEN out there!!!! #gilliggang they look so cool especially next to the rectangular old school trains and minecrafty station designs with the grid panels everywhere

figure 1: 40 foot diesel gillig low floor on route 16

figure 2: 40 foot battery gillig on route 91

figure 3: 29-foot diesel gillig on route 1

figure 4: the grid panels forming a fence on the east eads bridge station

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎵and you've left behind you the world of men, with no way in hell to go home again, when you're pushing the speed of light music.youtube.com/watch?v=uaLe...

music.youtube.com

Space Heroes & Other Fools 09 - Pushin' the Speed of Light [HQ]

YouTube video by Songs from the Stars

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

finally got one of the 2026 250th quarters in my change and by god what a staggeringly ugly coin

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

is the only way to watch The Area (about the chunk of Englewood Norfolk Southern tore down for its yard expansion) seriously to formally request a screening or buy a $375 lending-licensed DVD?

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lupi @chimoora.zone · 28/09/2026

I went up the 50' tower to see if I could see The Fucker and instead I saw joy

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

shoutout this sick abandoned barn I found on my way home from IRM

A weathered, abandoned barn with two silos next to it

A closeup of the silos, showing a sizeable tree growing out of one of them

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スリバーヨー @sliveryaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

going to the conbini (Wawa) to get my chicken katsu sando (chicken tender hoagie)

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today was the Illinois Railway Museum's annual bus day, and with it they premiered their new CTA 1995 Flxible Metro "E"! 6163 was retired from service in 2010, and was then given to the CFD for use as a training bus, and they returned it in 2023. It was donated in May 2026 and speedily restored!

A blocky white and black transit bus with blue and red stripes. The headsign displays "56A N MILWAUKEE"

The rear of A blocky white and black transit bus with blue and red stripes

A blocky black and white transit bus from the front. The headsign displays "VIVA MEXICO"

The crowded interior of a bus, with every seat occupied

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I saw a pig in Ravenswood. His name is Snoopy.

A large black pig in the front yard of a house

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

there's nothing in the bible that says you *can't* turn a trolley replica bus into a diner like you did with old actual trolleys, but it still *feels* wrong flickr.com/photos/agili...

flickr.com

former trolley from Maine

Newport, TN

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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

no yeah it looks good. yeah man it looks fine, really

A Kirby block toy that appears to be screaming, its face contorting around its mouth

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the VCFMW free pile serves an important fantasy roleplay purpose, that being getting to live and work on the sci-fi great junkyard planet

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

starting a thread of Objects oblong cat bowl date/designer unknown ceramic sourced from estate sale of long-closed secondhand store in use as a key and wallet dish

an oblong white bowl with a dark blue rim and blue designs of a cat, fish, and a cartoon fish skeleton

a view from the side, showing the fish and fish skeleton pattern

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

does the yen cratering at least mean I can buy dumb shit from YahooAuctions Japan more effectively

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Seeing double and GameCube-ey: speculative renders in April 2004's Electronic Gaming monthly of what the Nintendo DS might look like.

A snap of the issue feature with two renders o a GBA SP-alike design with a flip up screen on a thick hinge and a bottom screen. There's also GC controller alike face buttons and a tiny little analogue stick that looks like it would be horrible to use.

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mistress von toasty @toasty.cx · 24/09/2026

voice training to sound like the Dankpods Sexy Speaker

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This handsome midcentury auto shop, severely neglected along with the many once-expensive cars that filled the property, is now gone. The building was recently torn down by the Village of Calumet Park as part of an economic development play, and a drive-thru Jimmy John's is being built on the site.

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wonder if I have any insane scratches on my back from all the random bullshit implements I use to scratch my back instead of buying a back scratcher for like $2

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🌊🦈Despia🌈🏝️ @despia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Turns out if you turn the render scale all the way down in Big Walk it becomes Lego Island

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

tales from the village discount outlet. I dont drink coffee (or particularly want to start with an ancient plastic machine), but I almost want to buy this just to re-adapt the chassis. Sadly it was probably crazy overpriced bc village discount outlet (and I have WAY too many projects anyway).

a 1970s plastic coffee machine in a rounded 3-compartment plastic chassis.

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the hours after 7:00 are longer. Not so that you can get any more work done, no. Just so you have more time to feel bad about wasting the previous ones.

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

today I discovered the Nintendo Switch Online Playtest Program, which was a block-based creative MMO where you play as a little caveman creature uncovering a world shrouded in darkness. It was last accessible over a year ago with no updates since. Still not 100% sure this wasnt an elaborate hoax.

a screenshot posted by Twitter user Skylar @Skyn246 , showing a block based sports arena type area, with a depressed center and two lights on poles on either side of a bridge. On the bridge, a small caveman creature with a luminescent tail is facing down Sans from Undertale who's holding a large green glowing block above his head.

A screenshot from Youtube user "StarChyme" in the video "I have Become the worlds first "nintendo playtest Program" Streamer!. It shows a crude lego man standing on a hill above a church-like building, a red and green house(?) and a tori gate.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

alternating between "cant believe I wasted my monday night" and "its fucking monday night dude its your right to waste it"

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 10/03/2025

Thinking, as I often do, about this DVD I saw at Family Dollar

A two-movie DVD case branded at the top with "HIS Vs. HERS DOUBLE FEATURE: Who Will Get To Watch First?". The two movies on the disc are The Fifth Element and 13 Going On 30

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah I know a good number of these

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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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Joel @jtmac1709930.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🚨Transit/lego enthusiast alert: the Chicago Botanic Garden currently has a scale model of their Farm on Ogden facility and it includes the Central Park pink line station.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Saw a bumper sticker that said "Mom of Boys ❤️" in cutesy curly text and read it as "Mom is Bugs ❤️", and now I can't get "Mom is Bugs ❤️" out of my head

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Do you wanna read a little bit about a forgotten fishery and some Great Lakes trivia? Course 'ya do. The latest on Etaoin Shrdlu: Fishin For A Livin (Ain't No Livin At All) www.etaoin-shrdlu.blog/2026/09/fish...

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Fishin For A Livin (Ain't No Livin At All)

If you're normal like me and often take the time to walk the weird industrial wasteland that occupies the area around Elston and the "Lincol...

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