unmikely.bsky.social
Old dad, fortunate husband, nonprofit marketeer, jaywalker, viajero, Chicagoan by way of many places.
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Trump 2: The Aricept Has Stopped Working Presidency
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In a lot of lower-density Chicago neighborhoods, drivers only look for other cars. Lots of them sail through stop signs. I’ve come close to being hit more times than I can count. The offending driver is usually shocked to see me. Like, “my GOD, what are YOU doing there, like, walking?!?”
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This driver looked at me and my six-year-old entering the crosswalk, decided, “fuck ‘em,” and rolled the stop sign. This is a block from his elementary school when lots of kids are walking to school. I see this sociopathic driver behavior in Chicago every day.
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My alder sends out “shots fired” updates, but when I reach out about how wildly dangerous it is to walk my son to school, nothing can be done. Our block was prepped two years ago for speed humps and this is what they sent me (5 months ago) when I asked about them (for the 4th time). Totally useless.
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Beat me to it.
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When Robinson died, Mike Royko wrote this great reflection about seeing his debut at Wrigley Field when he was a kid. Read it as a sort of antidote to the poison smeared around by racist scum who will always lose in the end. deadlineartists.com/contributor-...
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Decades ago my Chicago neighborhood was rended for an expressway, followed by the drive-thrus that blight commercial areas. Went here on foot yesterday for the first time to get my son a Happy Meal. Not fun. It’s basically a kiosk inside. Idling cars, 3 curb cuts, totally hostile. Ruined corner.
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They all are!
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A bunch of those started appearing in my neighborhood recently. Some mysterious person must be sticking them at every corner …
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I was thinking about this yesterday after reassuring my son that sometimes I get scared of stuff too. While this pathetic fight plays out for the world to see, my wife and I are over here trying our best to help our kid develop empathy, curiosity, generosity, impulse control, emotional intelligence.
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We’re going to Spain soon and this will be our view as well. Staying a couple days in Segovia and there’s no way the aqueduct will be able to compete.
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Thank you. Hardest thing I ever did but helping her was one of my life’s most profound experiences. At one point we went to a support group together and I met many spouses. I don’t like comparing loss, but theirs was so much more shattering and complex than mine. I’m sorry about your husband.
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Yep, a full neuropsychological eval. My mom did well on the MoCA when she was spending $300/day at the grocery store and calling me at 2:00 am asking why it was dark outside. So many people don’t understand dementia, but I’m sure over the next few years they’ll learn a lot.
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In the year Grassley was born, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the board game Monopoly was developed, Alcatraz island was acquired by the DOJ, Prohibition was repealed, FM radio was patented, and the Marx Brothers’ “Duck Soup” was released.
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Europeans should weigh in here. My parents lived in Italy in the late 90s and I remember a drive through the center of Florence that made my mom cry.
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www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile...
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This jagoff takes massive government contracts and trashes the government even though, due to his obscene wealth, he’s never interfaced with it at a consumer level. The Illinois MVA is great. My mom had Alzheimer’s and I managed her health and finances for years. SS and Medicare were fantastic.
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Let’s all go easy on Joni. I mean, who among us doesn’t follow Matthew 7:12: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you: do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Except for immigrants, old people and the poor. They’re gonna die anyway, so fuck ‘em.”
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The Dementia Grandpa Presidency is going to get increasingly difficult for them (and legacy media) to hide. All appearances must be limited and staged (sitting down, signing EOs or yelling at foreign heads of state), but he’s a narcissist who needs attention like it’s oxygen. Quite the predicament.
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S&P is about where it was 6 months ago, and down ~2% since the Super Business Genius took office.
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Big stories in the news today about his drug abuse and the wealthiest man on the planet shows up high with a black eye in the oval for a press event. Fucking clown show. Thanks Trump voters.
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“About You” is a statement, an all-time great album opener. Gran Prix came out after Thirteen, which (though I love it) was a flop. So they kick off GP with a song that says: This record is catchy and clear. This record has harmonies. You’ll want to turn this record up. youtu.be/Td8on_8vbFA?...
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This is a sidrería in my wife’s hometown in Spain. Pop. 5K and there are 10 playgrounds. You see kids and seniors everywhere in Spain, participating in life. Streets are safer, common to see kids w/o parents. Childcare varies by location, but it’s generally ~€200-500/mo. College is practically free.
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I was on a 36 Broadway bus in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood at Christmastime. Two guys boarded and announced they were giving out boxes of chicken from Harold’s to anyone interested. “Spreading love to our brothers and sisters on the 36!” They gave it all away within a minute and exited to applause.
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I’ve been riding Chicago’s CTA for 27 years, never been the victim of a crime. Safer/less stressful than driving. Every time this idiot trashes transit, I share this: My son loves the CTA. Once on the 53 Pulaski bus, he randomly told a woman he was 5 and a guy exiting the bus gave him a fist bump.
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Dude’s lucky. If it were up to me, camera tickets would come with points.
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people.com/fred-trump-f...
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When my mom started telling meandering, nonsensical stories, I called a neurologist. This guy’s kids ramp up the grift and his handlers shove EOs in front of him. Dude’s brain is dissolving in real time and the NYT gives it 37 vague words in the 21st paragraph. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
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12 years ago I worked for an org that provides autism services. I feel like the conspiracy nuts, grifters and pot-stirrers who polluted the org’s Facebook page and email inbox with their unhinged, easily disproven MMR garbage have crawled back out.
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So what? If what you say is true, he made a really dumb mistake, since the I-751 process is easier. But the point of the 2-year is to prove bona fide marriage. Their marriage is clearly real. In the past, people could clear stuff like this up. Do you think he should be in a prison for schadenfreude?
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Steve Schmidt’s description of Lindsey Graham as a “pilot fish” applies to Rubio as well. He has no principles. No conviction, no moral compass, no shame. If he hasn’t soiled his kids with values, I wonder what they think of him.
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The U.S. Army’s 250th birthday, you say? “Brave soldiers who fought, bled and died,” you say?
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Sponsored my wife for perm residency via easiest way possible (marriage) during Obama admin. Process was thorough but also arbitrary. Easy to make a mistake. And in some circumstances, even if you follow the rules, you’re in a gray area/limbo. This is nitpicking cruelty. Wrecking lives for a quota.
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It’s a real shame that lots of people have been walking across the recently-laid sod. Real shame.
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Can confirm. Went to one for one of my 5-year-old’s friends. Ridiculous, even with gutter bumpers. I winced every time a kid threw the ball up into the air and it slammed into the lane. My son threw a ball into the lane next to ours! Staff had to fetch several balls that didn’t make it to the pins.
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“Down posit” = word-finding challenges = dementia.
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Our long nightmare of only having 99% of infra devoted to the speed and ease of drivers is mercifully behind us. The 30 shop owners who sacrificed mightily by parking 137 feet away on side-streets finally have order restored. Children are free once again to go on play dates, as Exxon-Mobil intended.
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Dems should call all of this what it is: the Asshole Party. Shameless, insulting dishonesty and opportunism from low-road, principle-devoid scum. They abandoned any pretense of representing Americans and will say and do anything in their effort to destroy the country to further enrich billionaires.