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A small security building in the foreground leading to the Northpoint Pier ferry dock on the northern tip of the Door County peninsula in Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-03-07 04:36:14 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@michaelstreet8086 // Current Temp in Liberty Grove: 38 F | 3 C // Precip: mist // Wind: SSW at 3 mph | 6 kph // Humidity: 93%

Current* conditions near Liberty Grove, WI:

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon

At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me

Loaves and Witches just won Chicago Reader's Best Coffee Shop!!

Building a small business in Chicago is not for the faint of heart — the permitting alone could be a psychological thriller — and watching someone do it with this much care and craft has changed how I think about "local institutions".

"subway takes" no. no no no. subway gives. the subway gives us so much

Photo looking out over a wet and muddy field with a few trees and Lake Michigan beyond. There's a cloudy sky reflecting some pink from a sunset in the opposite direction and near the center a near vertical stroke of pink where a rainbow started to form.

It tried to rainbow on the south side right as the bright pink sunset peaked, reflecting off of the storm clouds to the east over the lake. Almost!

new camera?

Northern view from Lake Point Tower overlooking the Chicago shoreline where it meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-03-07 01:06:13 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@LakefrontLive // Current Temp in Chicago: 62 F | 17 C // Precip: moderate rain // Wind: SSW at 9 mph | 15 kph // Humidity: 94%

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

At an ETHS forum for IL-09, first question was a new one: which committees would you want to serve on?
— Abughazaleh: Foreign Affairs, Oversight
— Amiwala: Education, Climate and Oversight
— Andrew: Oversight and Intelligence
— Cohen: Ways/means, Commerce, Science/technology
(See below for rest)

View looking WNW over South Beach with the South Haven Lighthouse and channel entrance jutting into Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-03-07 01:36:13 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@cityofsouthhaven // Current Temp in South Haven: 58 F | 15 C // Precip: moderate rain // Wind: SSW at 9 mph | 14 kph // Humidity: 100%

Current* conditions near South Haven, MI:

A concrete puer in the center frame with an iron Structure. It is all grey surrounding.

Lake forever problems for now

the official Python website with an interactive Python shell built into the front page, showing libraries like numpy and sci kit learn are installed

need a quick Python REPL, but you're away from your main computer? but you also need libraries like numpy and scikit-learn? the python.org homepage has got you covered

Massive mammatus clouds in Chicago hang in the air like pouches of ice crystals. A passenger jet flys in front of them dwarfed by their massive size

Mammatus clouds dwarf this passenger jet. Wonder what their view was like

NE view of the Washington Island ferry dock in the archipelago above Door County in Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-03-07 00:06:14 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@michaelstreet8086 // Current Temp in Washington: 40 F | 4 C // Precip: fog // Wind: N at 0 mph | 0 kph // Humidity: 93%

Current* conditions near Washington, WI:

Eastward view from the Belmont flyover with the red line passing, dramatic fog and skyscrapers are in the background

dudes will see this vista and be like, “hell yeah”

Weekday-only rail service, schedules, and moving averages for each CTA line

Weekday-only rail service, schedules, and moving averages for the brown line

Weekday-only rail service, schedules, and moving averages for the purple line

CTA rail service looked much more stable in Feb. Brown line fully out of it's slump.

Have any Purple line frequenters noticed a slight bump in service? The average has been hovering at or above fall levels for a solid 2 months now.

long ago the three nations lived in harmony

I just checked my calendar for tomorrow and found I had created three separate reminders to clean out my email inbox

mood

photo of a very wet looking street on an overcast day but the sears tower reflects sunlight from a clearing sky

still there

Concrete beach in Chicago IL in the foreground looking out over lake Michigan on a very foggy day, it looks like you're staring into a white void, maybe this is heaven?

Lake forever, problems for now

A line of very low clouds, plus long shadows from tall buildings, over Lake Michigan in Chicago.

Looking good, Lake Michigan.

Good lord

underpasses are flooded

It just a pillar, then a smudge, then it was gone, but it was there. Category 1 Rainbow 🌈

I hearby declare this weather Freaky

recall he is in a cone, so his reflection is perhaps rendered more monstrous than usual

whomst among us has never been driven to nonstop yelling at the very notion of the self

the dog is riled up and there's a very real chance it's because it's dim enough outside that he can see his own reflection in the window

when we hit hoodie + shorts season y'all better watch out

I just found an absolutely beloved shirt that I'd lost track of for years