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Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 32m

Well shit, I guess I gotta go to work. Booo.

The best dog in the world sleeping on the couch.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 34m

Yes. Not saying that this is wrong, but well-meaning people of all political stripes spread misinformation all the time, and it’s annoying/dangerous.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 38m

You’re doing the correct thing, but you’re not doing it correct enough, and really that makes you worse than our enemies. — several posters here.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 2h

Bears kicker Jake Moody being hoisted upon the shoulders of his teammates after kicking the game-winning field goal against the Washington Commanders.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 13h

Bears kick/punt coverage has been terrible.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 14h

Gonna have to mute Linux.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 14h

Aikman has mentioned Washington’s injured receivers a hundred times. How many times has he mentioned the Bears injured secondary?

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 14h

That’s how every left tackle lines up every play. These officials are killing the Bears with shitty calls.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 15h

The knee counts.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 16h

Windows updates:

a woman says we won 't give up while holding a microphone

Alt: a woman says we won 't give up while holding a microphone

media.tenor.com

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 16h

I leave the room to check on dinner while Washington has the ball, and somehow the Bears are in scoring position again when I come back a couple minutes later.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 16h

My most perfectly well hinged literary take is that authors make characters say “after all” a million times more than anyone says that in real life.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 17h

I really do appreciate it when news orgs frame it this way.

“Our guys screwed up, and now you all have to pay. Them’s the breaks.”

WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 21h

Taxpayers should pay $8 million to the family of a man who died after being strapped to a stretcher by Chicago Fire Department paramedics, city lawyers recommended.

https://to.wttw.com/3ITBqR1

Family of Man Who Died While Being Treated by Chicago Paramedics Should Receive $8M: City Lawyers

Leonardo Guerrero, 44, died at an Uptown hospital on Aug. 31, 2022, after his heart stopped in a Chicago Fire Department ambulance.

to.wttw.com

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 17h

I will forever find it funny that many of today’s music makers like to emulate the sound of VHS tape warble.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 17h

a woman in a scarf says greed in front of a national geographic logo

Alt: a woman in a scarf says greed in front of a national geographic logo

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Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 1d

Okay. Go buy a newspaper, read it, and leave it for someone else to pick up.

Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 1d

If my children learn nothing else from me by the time they leave the nest, I want them to 1) be able to identify a grifter, and 2) understand that driving is cooperative, not competitive.

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