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chicagoan (naturalized), socialist (champagne).

a view of uptown facing east, looking towards lake. a building in the foreground reflects golden sunset light, even though the overall scene is overcast and moody.
anthony quezada in a suit speaking at a political event. neighbors and fellow elected officials also present
informational flyer for an event. the text reads: groundwork meet the slate picnic come hang out at lincoln park and meet members of the groundwork slate for the 26–27 cdsa elections! saturday may 30th 4 to 7 pm garibaldi monument south of lincoln park zoo refreshments provided
screenshot of google maps w traffic layer on, looking at the uptown chicago area. there’s a road closure of dusable lakeshore approx north of leland. lots of red along lawrence, foster, montrose, marine drive, and sheridan
tight crop screenshot from Xitter of a post reading "Spotted on Grand at the bus shelter that previously was dam[aged by a] delivery robot." the post is accompanied by an image of a Chicago bus stop ad, reading "Dear West Town neighbors I took 'breaking into the market' too literally." There is some other marketing copy in smaller type. The overall jist is to be faux-apologetic, anthropomorphizing the robot itself with an orientalized human name instead of the massive corporation dumping their service capital into the street as part of their surveillance business model. The post has 860 likes on Xitter at time of screenshot.
screenshot of a xeet from @dril (alias “wint”) drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not, poasted 12:20 PM 2014-05-09 via the Twitter Web Client
spongebob and patrick basketball meme. i’m too lazy to put the text of the skeet over the meme
low-effort meme of the “i am quite fond of [X]” format. upper frame: white man with steaming ears wearing orange cap labeled ‘liberal’ with speech bubble “the new pope is woke!” next to identical image of white man with orange cap labelled ‘republican’ with speech bubble “no! the new pope is not woke!” lower frame: image of pope leo XIV with speech bubble “I am quite fond of Metra” the text Metra is displayed with the logotype. (i am not the creator of this meme)
screenshot of the Chicago municipal code that outlines the affordable housing percentage of ARO-applicable developments, which all developments in the upzoned Broadway corridor would be subject to. the screenshot reads: Downtown, Inclusionary Areas, and Community Preservation Areas Option 1 20% at a weighted average of 60% of the AMI, provided that at least one-third of the affordable units must be affordable to households at or below 50% of the AMI, of which one-sixth must be affordable to households at or below 40% of the AMI Option 1A Authorized Agency Units Developers choosing Option 1 may lease or sell affordable units to an authorized agency. Such units shall count as 60% AMI units for the purpose of calculating the weighted average of the AMI. If a developer sells or leases more than one-half of a project's affordable units to the Chicago Low Income Housing Trust Fund or another authorized agency that provides rent subsidies to landlords, the required percentage of affordable units under Option 1 increases to 25%. Option 2 16% at a weighted average of 50% of the AMI, provided at least one-third of the affordable units must be affordable to households at or below 40% of the AMI Option 3 13% at a weighted average of 40% of the AMI Option 4 10% at a weighted average of 30% of the AMI
panoramic shot of the interior of Pilsen Community Books, a bookstore in Chicago. A worker-owner is behind the counter, three people are at the head of the room facing the camera, and around 20 people are looking at them. Everyone is masked.
screenshot lifted from The Other Website of a Zohran Mamdani interview in Pitchfork magazine, annotated by me with the ABCs. Here's the text of the screenshot, annotated in [square brackets] with the framework: [question]: What’s your take on the Drake-Kendrick beef? [acknowledge] I think Kendrick absolutely destroyed him. It’s a real testament to message discipline over many songs, and it’s an inspiration for me as a politician to always stay on my message. I’m trying to do what Kendrick did in the course of that beef, but, specifically, [bridge] around affordability. At every juncture, he would bring it back to his central points, and I think that’s the key, is that you keep coming back to what your core message is. [control] For me, it’s about the fact that New Yorkers can’t afford to live in the city they call home.
a logo for an as-yet nonexistent transit agency, the north illinois transit authority. the logo is highly similar to the cta's present logo and is in fact a hatchet job redo of the current CTA logo in illustrator in 10 mins. The logo retains the blue circle with red outer and thinner white inner border, as well as the italisised humanist type of the agency intials in white and lowercase. the tittle on the i of nita is a sheared chicago 6 pointed star, the kind seen on the chicago flag.
screen capture of the Chicago City Council livestream of SO2025-0014841, a bond issuance measure that narrowly passed today. the image shows which alders voted Y/N.
screenshot from Xitter of a post by [at]DrPhil describing Dr. Phil’s day tagging along with ICE and shilling for his own media network “MeritTV” that he created to crusade against what he perceives to be cancel culture
https://xkcd.com/1863/
six panel meme. first panel: a person raising her hand next to someone else in medical distress. caption “is there a doctor on the plane?” second panel: photo of eu commission president ursula von der leyen, caption “i’m a doctor, what’s happening” third panel, same picture as first, caption “a seizure, his right side is out of control and his left side isn’t responding” fourth panel, same picture as second, captioned “mine too” fifth panel, same image as first captioned “what?” sixth panel, same image as second, captioned “what?”
cropped screenshot of the Gmail app icon, with 49,494 unread emails in red on top of the icon
a photograph of the building on the NE corner of Montrose and Lincoln Aves in Chicago; the building will be (someday) the home of an upscale bourgeois burger chain.
A woman stands in front of cyclists at the start of a planned bike ride
our dog Ruby on the front lawn, tongue out
three cocktails on a wooden bar by a window overlooking an alleyway. a pair of vintage sunglasses is at right
a room full of masked event attendees watching two speakers at left.