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prairie-style socialism and postcards

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looks like mike quigley just bought a big list of emails or signed up anyone who’s ever sent an email yelling at him, because no fucking way would i have subscribed to this
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
grilled cheese bus stop
December 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
waiting for the bus in the snow after snocaps feels like a perfect chicago december evening god damn
December 2, 2025 at 4:54 AM
1910 -> 2025
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
the congregation’s second church on this site burned down in 1896
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
i don't know why i make these

1891 - 2020
December 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
woof
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
not looking it up, but deciding that jean-luc picard's name was taken from these terrifying looking french balloon twins
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
good show

(you can call that number to hear the lia kohl piece)
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
November 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
CALUMET SKYWAY
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1896 st. louis tornado killed 255+ people
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
they’re making quick work of that church on mclean and richmond
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
why do we think there was a single car freight train on the UPNW tracks in edison park
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
a hundred years after his death in 1784, there were virtually zero monuments to serra in california—this was a project from the 1890s to the 1930s, a cousin to the confederate statues thrown up around the country in that era

three out of these four are now gone
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
the local angle is that tilden's statue was cast at the american bronze foundry co. in chicago
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
i think about this brutalist baseball dugout at the old alameda naval air station like once a month
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
City of Towers
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
genuine question, can someone help me read this?

it's from former san francisco mayor james phelan to irish academic douglas hyde
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Chicago's Grant Park and Skyline
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
i’d never been inside lane tech before
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
seems like they use it more to educate kids about the hydrology of the bay area, but the bay model is way more interesting as a quirk in the history/practice of science and engineering—there’s like a 35 year period max where “huge building to model tides, salinity, turbidity, etc.” made sense
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM