Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026To catch a mouse you have to think like a mouse, I say, but you can’t understand me because my mouth is completely full of cashews 020
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Vinyl listening bars should play live baseball radio broadcasts during the playoffs, since "obscure records with cocktail accompaniment" and "baseball on the radio" have essentially identical fanbases 000
Reposted by Steven MelendezAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026The kicker is *chef's kiss* 521449243
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026someone should open a gym with live lectures and performances while people work out 020
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Was “spoopy” the last time they let millennials make slang 120
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Love to walk through Wicker Park and see the Gen Xers smoking outside the bars and the millennials laptopping in the coffee shops ❤️🍻💻 001
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026(me on hour six of addressing the United Nations): ... and fantasy football should have *elves* and *wizards*, not spreadsheets and gambling 000
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Is it possible to come up with a rule-based definition of what a telephone is in 2026, or is a phone just what social convention deems to be a phone? 120
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Amazing City on the Make and The Man with the Golden Arm are closer in time to 1893 than to today 020
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Also, I don’t think you can have a serious discussion of rural white working class music without including metal which, to vastly simplify things, is what you listen to if your boss listens to country. 120
Reposted by Steven MelendezSalem Collo-Julin @hollohulo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Artists: apply for a solo or group show at Chicago's Co-Prosperity space in the Bridgeport neighborhood. Funding available. Open to sound art, performance art, visual art, and more. Deadline Sun 9/20/26 at 11:59 PM CST @LumpenRadio Go to coprosperity.org/chicago/2026... to apply @pmi.bsky.socialcoprosperity.org2027-2028 CO-PROSPERITY OPEN CALL FOR EXHIBITIONS — Co-ProsperityCo-Prosperity is thrilled to announce that the application for 2027-28 SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS is back up and running! Apply by September 20th for a 6-week exhibition! Applications will ... 031
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Obsessed with this AI cartoon that manages to incorporate two nostalgic fallacies in one speech bubble * We didn't worry about [disease] back in the day (because we took basic steps to prevent it) * We didn't care about [X] back in the day (because our moms took care of it for us) 100
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026There are self-proclaimed punk venture capitalists, real estate brokers, HR consultants, and executive retreats. I wrote about why so many business leaders are claiming inspiration from a subculture not known for its love of capitalism. www.fastcompany.com/91603663/pun...fastcompany.comPunk's not dead—it's in the boardroomWhy business leaders and consultants are taking inspiration from the famously anti-sellout subculture. 010
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Wow this is the most effective diet supplement warning I've ever seen 110
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Is it really necessary for The New Yorker to send me multiple emails literally every day inviting me to resubscribe? 000
Reposted by Steven Melendezdan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo 346475961
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Why do they call it whale watching excursion and not “the trek with the whales”? 020
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Just putting a little note in the icebox in case William Carlos Williams stops by 021
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Going to develop a new pastry: a cannoli shaped like a gun. I will call it the Godfather’s Dilemma. It will represent the futility of trying to comply with corrupt authority. 010
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The mixed metaphors here are fascinating in terms of how we describe work versus how we actually do it. Nothing against Coinbase employees, but they do not “get their hands dirty,” nor are they athletes or coaches. 110
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 31/08/2026They used to sing about aquarium drinkers, now it's aquarium smokers, but I guess that's just the trend nowadays blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/31/a...blockclubchicago.orgAquarium Smokers Are A Chicago Barbecue MysteryThe glass-walled barbecue pits bathe meat in smoke, allowing for even cooking while letting customers see the goods, pitmasters say. 000
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Another fascinating example is “dancing to the Electric Slide at weddings” 010
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Don't talk to me until I've had my Swamp Tonic 020
Reposted by Steven Melendezthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 28/08/2026when it works out it's one of the BEST experiences you can have an artist. somebody in a different discipline translates your visions into their realm. and then others see it and enjoy it! this is the whole fucking point, not "oh there has to be something on the cover" 2/2 82387
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026All else aside, Brooklyn isn't a neighborhood—it's a borough roughly equal in population to all of Chicago. blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/27/i...blockclubchicago.orgIs Pilsen The 'Brooklyn Of Chicago'? Travel Guide Makes Comparison, But Residents Aren't ConvincedThe travel guide "Brooklyn Of" aims to find the coolest neighborhood in every major city. Longtime Pilsen residents say it echoes attention that has contributed to gentrification in the neighborhood. 100
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Man dies at home Realtor dot com: Is this a... real estate story? www.realtor.com/news/celebri...realtor.com'Rocky Horror Picture Show' Star Tim Curry Dies at 80 Inside His Los Angeles HomeCurry reportedly died on Aug. 25 at the age of 80, after suffering from a series of health issues. 000
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Slapping my belly like a car salesman and saying "you can get so much premature demise out of this bad boy" www.scrippsnews.com/health/exces...scrippsnews.comExcess belly fat could reveal more about the lifespan of older adults than BMIThe study found that a larger waist circumference correlates with a higher risk of an early death, but those being overweight based on BMI have a lower risk. 000
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly Parton wrote this song! It’s an ultra-sharp, pitch-black comic take on violent drunken men, even by the standards of country music, closer to Huck Finn’s dad than Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’. But it’s also written like a goofy Halloween tune and performed in the movie by Sylvester Stallone. 121
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I think a lot of the NYC bodega, etc., discourse comes from the fact that NYC is one of the few places in the US where lots of infrastructure and commerce is still thoughtfully designed for specific local needs, instead of being a lazy adaptation of suburban infrastructure or tourist-centric 100
Reposted by Steven MelendezAdam, as the world falls down 🏳️🌈 @trickstertao.thechaoticneutral.com · 24/08/2026This is a bonkers good deal on a bonkers good book. 0145
Reposted by Steven MelendezFight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 23/08/2026As the carcass of Spirit Airlines is picked over, tech companies descend, bidding millions for corporate data, including consumers sensitive data, to train AI models. We spoke with @fastcompany.com about it. www.fastcompany.com/91593881/why...fastcompany.comWhy Spirit Airlines' internal data has become a hot commodity for AI companiesGoogle, Micro1, and Mercor have all bid millions for the carrier’s internal data, as AI companies race to buy the records of how businesses actually work. 03323
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I wrote about why AI companies are bidding millions of dollars for Spirit Airlines corporate data, and the potential business and privacy implications of the industry's push to license anything from Slack messages to customer service documentation to train AI www.fastcompany.com/91593881/why...fastcompany.comWhy Spirit Airlines' internal data has become a hot commodity for AI companiesGoogle, Micro1, and Mercor have all bid millions for the carrier’s internal data, as AI companies race to buy the records of how businesses actually work. 000
Reposted by Steven MelendezGosh @historygosh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Bluesky bugged out and said I had 30+ notifications. Freaked me out briefly. Thankfully I remain unknown and my posts bad. 381
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Whoa, the old Vieux Carre Courier is available on newspapers.com now! www.newspapers.com/paper/the-co...newspapers.comThe Courier ArchiveExplore The Courier online newspaper archive. The Courier was published in New Orleans, Louisiana and includes 8,883 searchable pages from 1961-1977. 100
Reposted by Steven MelendezJoe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 19/08/2026"they required users to insert five cents—roughly $2 today—each time they made a call" chicagoreader.com/city-life/fe...chicagoreader.comThe original pay-as-you-go phones - Chicago ReaderHow technology, economics, and political corruption put pay phones in homes across Chicago 151
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Hey 90s kids! Homer Simpson’s your age! And he’s canonically making, like, double your wage! 010
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In the early 20th century, most Chicago home phones were nickel-a-call payphones, with a phone company rep visiting the house every month to collect the coins. I wrote about why this arrangement was uniquely popular in Chicago. chicagoreader.com/city-life/fe...chicagoreader.comThe original pay-as-you-go phones - Chicago ReaderHow technology, economics, and political corruption put pay phones in homes across Chicago 184
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This headline is confusing—until you get to the semicolon it sounds like he just nibbled on some snacks chicago.suntimes.com/2026/08/17/r...chicago.suntimes.comRobbins mayor grazed during birthday party at Harold's Chicken restaurant; security fatally shoots gunmanMayor Darren Bryant was at Harold's Chicken & Ice Bar, 13730 S. Claire Blvd., to celebrate a Robbins resident's birthday just after midnight Saturday when the shooter opened fire, grazing Bryant and w... 000
Reposted by Steven MelendezRMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Hate the sneering subtext of “America B” rhetoric. Delusional too. Baby look at our executive legislative and judicial branches of power, we are all living in America B 041
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It's kind of bad that "dietician" is a licensed profession, and "nutritionist" is a self-awarded title, but to the 21st century American ear, dietician sounds archaic at best and nutritionist sounds legitimate 010
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This is what they mean by keeping humans in the Loop 131
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 09/08/2026It’s very weird that fire as a technology is on track to disappear from the average person’s everyday life 100
Reposted by Steven MelendezANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Happy Leo season! If you are the kind of person who resents Leo energy for its shine, splendor, power, and raw magnetism, you might just want to stay inside. antigravitymagazine.com/column/wild-...antigravitymagazine.comWILD WAVES - ANTIGRAVITY MagazineIf you are the kind of person who resents Leo energy for its shine, splendor, power, and raw magnetism, you might just want to stay inside this season. Jupiter’s movement into Leo ensures the Leos wil... 064
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Ugh but DVDs are not "analog formats"—the first D is for digital! 040
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I can't quite explain it, but the most centrist-coded thing I've seen in a while is Axios Chicago publishing a list of festivals and events under the headline "Traffic snarls to avoid" 100
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I randomly opened a 1950s Army magazine at the library and there was an article reminding officers to think about what to do if their soldiers were fatally irradiated by a nuclear bomb but not yet symptomatic 010
![“You think we’re getting a little too close to Meta?” [John Georges, co-owner of Georges Media Group, the state’s largest media organization and parent company of the state’s largest newspaper, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate], asked. “I’m not afraid of the sun. You know — Icarus? I’ll get as close to the sun as I can.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mencpxk4spd3xn3qotwkyyqf/bafkreia33tcihiyejau2ixybgiv7jkvehdllebx47swwbiuevu54p574ry)
