morentsy
@morentsy.bsky.social
Cat person. Interests: being outside, music, art and design. Weather geek. Beer nerd. Computer guy. Anti-fascist. Supports democracy.
Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago, Illinois.
RIP Perry Bamonte of the Cure.
Watching "Show" from 1992.
Watching "Show" from 1992.
December 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
RIP Perry Bamonte of the Cure.
Watching "Show" from 1992.
Watching "Show" from 1992.
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If you miss groovy local television and analog experiences, you’re gonna wanna go where the action is! More Programme4.tv coming to a switched-on happening near you!
Coming this Spring & Summer: MAKE THE SCENE with the Programme 4 Fall Preview Tour, featuring a screening of Programme 4 television now with an exclusive preview of an all-new half hour programme4.tv/makethescene
December 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If you miss groovy local television and analog experiences, you’re gonna wanna go where the action is! More Programme4.tv coming to a switched-on happening near you!
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Just one of many unnecessary deaths this year, but this one touches me deeply because I worked in a suburban library that added Bulgarian materials to their collection. The Bulgarian community was so proud and grateful -- as were we to share our library with them.
December 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just one of many unnecessary deaths this year, but this one touches me deeply because I worked in a suburban library that added Bulgarian materials to their collection. The Bulgarian community was so proud and grateful -- as were we to share our library with them.
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“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
Can't wait for the US version of Trabant.
December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Can't wait for the US version of Trabant.
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Dave does a great job distilling and synthesizing the rise and fall of Rogue, and reading it makes me realize how out-of-step brands founded on toxic masculinity (to use a shorthand) have fared. The country is steeped in TM now, and it’s just not into beer brands offering more of the same.
After a year of increasingly dire developments at the pioneering PNW craft brewer, last month it abruptly shuttered all its locations, declaring bankruptcy the day before Thanksgiving. At @vinepair.com, I charted Rogue's rise & fall against the fate of the craft-brewing industry it helped to create.
Rogue Is a Case Study in Craft Brewery Collapse
On rare occasions, the beer industry produces a perfect metaphor. In 2022, for example, a high-profile California craft brewery called Modern Times Beer soared up the volume charts, overextended itsel...
vinepair.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Dave does a great job distilling and synthesizing the rise and fall of Rogue, and reading it makes me realize how out-of-step brands founded on toxic masculinity (to use a shorthand) have fared. The country is steeped in TM now, and it’s just not into beer brands offering more of the same.
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Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
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Eternal Silence in the snow, this morning at Graceland Cemetery
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Eternal Silence in the snow, this morning at Graceland Cemetery
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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Fun fact: Orange carrots are relatively recent. In ancient Rome, they were usually white or purple; and in the Middle Ages, red and yellow carrots arrived in Spain through trade with Iran. It wasnt until the 16th century that Dutch farmers started cultivating an orange and sweeter hybrid version.
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Fun fact: Orange carrots are relatively recent. In ancient Rome, they were usually white or purple; and in the Middle Ages, red and yellow carrots arrived in Spain through trade with Iran. It wasnt until the 16th century that Dutch farmers started cultivating an orange and sweeter hybrid version.
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Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
Help protect people in your community!
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Help protect people in your community!
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The structure of Federalism and separation of powers is brilliant and worth preserving, but unfortunately it requires a critical mass of serious, well informed citizens to maintain. No power structure ever devised can resist a stampede of idiots.
November 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The structure of Federalism and separation of powers is brilliant and worth preserving, but unfortunately it requires a critical mass of serious, well informed citizens to maintain. No power structure ever devised can resist a stampede of idiots.
Did you hug yourself with kind thoughts?
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Did you hug yourself with kind thoughts?
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great. just what I need, my tax software telling me to kill myself
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
great. just what I need, my tax software telling me to kill myself
RIP Rogue Ales.
I'll always remember drinking their beers and trying to brew clones at home. I will also remember the times spent at the Edgewater Lounge in Chicago drinking their "locker stock" beers.
I'll always remember drinking their beers and trying to brew clones at home. I will also remember the times spent at the Edgewater Lounge in Chicago drinking their "locker stock" beers.
Now that Rogue has apparently shed its mortal coil, I have to do another brewery obit. (Ugh!) Given Rogue’s reputation today, one may imagine its legacy is merely surviving. In fact, it was a hugely influential brewer, and at one time its beers were considered groundbreaking.
Rogue Ales, 1988-2025 — Beervana
With the apparent permanent closure of Rogue Ales, it’s time to consider the legacy of this early craft brewery. It may surprise many drinkers who today think of Rogue as tame and boring to learn that...
www.beervanablog.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
RIP Rogue Ales.
I'll always remember drinking their beers and trying to brew clones at home. I will also remember the times spent at the Edgewater Lounge in Chicago drinking their "locker stock" beers.
I'll always remember drinking their beers and trying to brew clones at home. I will also remember the times spent at the Edgewater Lounge in Chicago drinking their "locker stock" beers.
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I have heard the whistles in Norwood Park. Cop and firefighter neighborhood, Chicago’s own Staten Island (minus vampires). Chicago forever.
It’s being reported that Greg Bovino and 250 of his goons will be leaving Chicago. But it’s also being reported that he’ll be back, in larger numbers. But Chicago is a boxer, tired but unbowed. I wrote about how we’ll be ready. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I have heard the whistles in Norwood Park. Cop and firefighter neighborhood, Chicago’s own Staten Island (minus vampires). Chicago forever.
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My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets.
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
Chicago has always defied kidnappings of our neighbors - Chicago Reader
Even after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, local officials and everyday people resisted the legalized abductions of men, women, and children who had escaped slavery
chicagoreader.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets.
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
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"I can't afford a house" and "I only qualify for a 50-year mortgage" mean the same thing.
November 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"I can't afford a house" and "I only qualify for a 50-year mortgage" mean the same thing.
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Chicago,
The roads and sidewalks are slicker'n hell in some spots.
Penguin walking is back baby!!
The roads and sidewalks are slicker'n hell in some spots.
Penguin walking is back baby!!
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Chicago,
The roads and sidewalks are slicker'n hell in some spots.
Penguin walking is back baby!!
The roads and sidewalks are slicker'n hell in some spots.
Penguin walking is back baby!!
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Teddy is hanging out in Edgewater but is probably ready to go home!
Rescued this teddy from the sidewalk near Sheridan and Winona
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Teddy is hanging out in Edgewater but is probably ready to go home!
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Many Chicagoans could have written this. Thank you to the person who did.
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Many Chicagoans could have written this. Thank you to the person who did.