Jackson Miller

Members of a volunteer-run Avondale maker space bought their building after a successful fundraiser. blockclubchi.co/3O90B4b

@Chris_arnade Chicago trains are just vintage. They still keep up the traditions by having a sleeper car and a smoking car.

Got on the Red line in Chicago. One car had guy living in his own shit, sprawled out in his filth eating Chinese take out food, and the car smelled like it. The other had two guys openly smoking joints yelling about the Bears. I chose the shit car because I didn't want to get into an argument about Caleb's lucky toss since that might have ended with one of us being stabbed. Thanks Chicago for such luxurious choices.

I'm not (only) mad, I'm (also) disappointed

A baiku: Red lights are yield signs Stop signs mean nothing to me Fear me: the biker -Anonymous

Meet the bike-riding "Pint Peddler" who is bringing homebrews to the people. blockclubchi.co/46zaNsv

@JonahDispatch There's nothing like waking up and kraken open a cold one

It will awaken the Kraken.

@jessesingal Maple Syrup. I started using it and haven't looked back

What is your favorite olive oil + balsamic + X "just shake them together in a tupperware" easy small-batch salad dressing?

Just realized I've been using a day cream face lotion before bed instead of my usual night cream. This explains why I haven't been sleeping well.

A fitting name for the station today

I've kept my eyes trained on the Guatemalan flag outside the restaurant across from my office as a weathervane to tell me when the wind won't fight me on my bike ride home

Saw three dudes walking around Wrigley wearing Braves, Red Sox, and Cardinals jerseys. Are they Cubs fans or Reds fans?

Called 311 to report a tweaking rat hanging out on the Metra platform fence. Did anyone have a more Chicago morning than that?

Fannee Doolee must really love the Dutch

Art Deco buildings of Chicago.

@Tom_Maguire @IMAO_ Both examples you just gave have also started their own new businesses with some of their billions, which sends the cash back out in the form of paychecks and capital investments. And both of them have space companies, which is just coincidence but still interesting haha

@Jacksoniscool @IMAO_ Good answer. Being a billionaire is (to most of us) obviously not the same as "pathologically hoarding cash". Bezos and Musk have their wealth in productive companies changing the world. The shortage of examples of actual cash hoarders suggests Fortune doesn't lionize them.

Who hoards cash? I know Scrooge McDuck, but in real life?

@IMAO_ Probably the only people who have vast sums of unbanked cash are drug kingpins? But they are rarely on the cover of Fortune magazine

This goes back to Adam Smith, but the innovation of banks is wealth never just sits around doing nothing.

@LVpolitic I used to live on that same street. Glad I moved before things got crazy!

@bendreyfuss This is New Domino, of the New Domino Theory

In the new show THE AGENCY, a character says “are you aware of the new domino theory? We are only three dominoes away from nuclear war. Minsk is a big fucking domino.” But all dominoes are the same size and also if you knock one over, they all fall down.

Tall people should be banned from concerts, as well as most other places

@EsotericCD I drove right past there last night but didn't realize any of this was happening since I was on Lower Wacker. Also beautiful, but in a very different way

All this accomplishes is reminding people of how beautiful Chicago's downtown can be at night.