JP Murphy

We used to be a proper city

Straight up one of my biggest Final Destination-esqu fears

You gotta love it when your 34yr coworker with 8 years of experience in your industry calls you freaking out because he doesn’t know how to use a PDF editor to sign something.

This is fine. Everything’s fine.

Tell me you use AI without telling me you use AI.

lol at Spot Hero using an incredibly dated photo of Soldier Field

It’s certainly a choice to spend thousands of dollars for advertisements only to put the same ad right next to each other

Good lord what happened to the congress branch???

If transit Twitter is annoyingly toxic, then wtf is weather Twitter?

I love suggested routes where you hop on an airway for a single fix. What’s really the point of filing the airway if you’re only on it for a couple miles?

I spend half my day looking at FlightRadar and the other half telling accounting to do their jobs and reply to an email instead of making me do it.

A world where Wrigley Field opens up the concourse on a Friday in the dead of winter, just the concourse, and you can go there and have a beer and just sit in complete silence.

9 dollars….9 dollars for a croissant in the suburbs of Chicago. 9 dollars, for what amounts to fancy looking bread lite with a nut that costs less than $0.50 per ounce. We’ve lost the fucking plot.

this is basically my experience with the US and cities

Hot take. I think more meteorologists need to be calling out Max Velocity’s framework of social media as not acceptable to the field.

True depression is pulling up the GFS and realizing the 16-day forecast never climbs above freezing even once 🙃

Goodness. Airports closed: ABE AFW AVP CDW FAY FYV GLH GMU GON GSP HTS HVN HYA JLN LAW LEX LGA MKL MMU MWA PAH PHF SWF TUP

LGA being closed for 7 hours was not on my bingo card, good god!

@MidwesternPRA What does double blue mean?

IL state legislature has introduced HB4279 the "Passenger Rail Planning Act" The bill sets targets and guidelines for passenger rail in Illinois and helps planning coordination with other states. Each corridor would be nominated for the Corridor ID round 2 grants.

When you work a hybrid job, being forced to sit in an office after you’ve been done with your work for 4 hours, with zero calls or emails the entire time, is such a waste of time. If I can drive home and still stay on shift and pick up any work that comes in, why am I stuck here?