Bryan Sills

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

chicago’s city and county elections should be in november.

and yesterday should have been a federal holiday.

a screenshot of a spotify playlist for treating speakers. grizzly bear’s two weeks is on it.

lmao

hell yeah!

the related section for "punk rock" on the egg punk wikipedia page. the "subgenres and fusion genres" row has way too many parentheses. skate punk is a subgenre of pop-punk (and that makes sense), but apparently nintendocore is a subgenre of electronicore which is a subgenre of metalcore which is a subgenre of hardcore punk.

there's a joke here about the parentheses being chaotic but balanced

ah wet hot american summer! we need more comedies in these ballots but i forgot that one. i did dewey cox.

likewise! i’m out of town for the last one, but let me know if you need any help for the first 2 dates. i live in the neighborhood.

hell yeah. thank you for putting in the work to make this happen again.

Chicago Pope, please bring back the Pitchfork Music Festival

There is a networking event here in Chicago on Tuesday and the dean of the CoC will be there. Any questions you want me to ask him?

In between the stories of horrific human rights abuses and trade war insanity I remember that they have also destroyed all our research and data infrastructure and effectively ended any environmental, health, or labor regulation.

oh neat it’s using the space over where metropolis brewing used to be

i’ve heard google maps is inaccurate for the cta because maps only uses the published schedules, not realtime data. would gtfs rt make google maps a better source of info?

sleeping village has been feeding the post-punk/hardcore boys well on sunday evenings

i’m in cardona’s ward and i just called his office to make that suggestion. hopefully we can make that intersection safer.

Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary

honoring the oscars by watching a shitty movie

Confusing traditional cultural touchpoints for current median American culture is a great way to lose the zeitgeist. Every medium size town in this country is obsessed with bubble tea, or with thrifting as a fashion practice. These things aren't left-coded; they're burgeoning mass culture. Go there.

for folks that own their digital music library: what apps do you use on your phone to listen to music?

south dakota v dole seems to be helpful here. trump’s actions probably don’t fly with the 5 conditions in the SC decision.

serious, good faith question here: what is the difference between this and how congress raised the drinking age? i don’t wanna argue drunk driving vs trans rights (i support trans rights), but the only difference i see is the executive sidestepping the 10th amendment vs congress.

imagine toni morrison calling you a pedohile at the most watched event of the year and the whole crowd going wild

If responsibility for guarding the Constitution falls to the Court alone, it's not clear why the President and lawmakers should be required to take their own oaths. The better reading is that they too are obliged to stand up against unconstitutional goings on. /7

2/3rds of the space in the UI in Gmail is ads

it is wild how gmail totally flies under the radar for all the ads it shows users

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

austin screenshotted jamelle bouie and bouie was talking about congestion pricing. austin, are you saying that because a tiny proportion of marginalized folks are negatively impacted by congestion pricing, we shouldn’t do it?

i don’t mean to rehash the discourse from the weekend, but fun fact: from the perspective of the data in uber’s servers, your burrito really was the passenger in a regular ass uber ride.

when you are perched on a bicycle moving amongst cars you see shit like this *all the time*

i try to mind my own business, but this guy is wearing jncos at the climbing gym…

i have a short video from dec 2021 that i am happy to give permission for people to use