when the pandemic started i was in a partial hospitalization program for people with OCD and all of us were like Um this is the actual thing that you’re telling us we all have irrational fears about so what now
Great progress on the Clark Street protected bike lane in River North! Curbs and delineators coming soon.
This new bike lane will complement the recently installed northbound protected bike lane on Dearborn, making biking downtown safer and more comfortable.
my honest truth is i DO think you have to like children. i think if you are a person who goes around saying you don’t like children that signals something very wrong with your soul and you should seek therapy about it.
i was listening to bleachers earlier and i realized like jack antonoff was only making good music when he was with lena dunham. Which could mean nothing
“it’s a cool feeling to leave chicago and go to another city and realize ‘chicago actually is better i’m not delusional’” - my brother who is in nyc right now
@gargoylekings
they just used the same tactics they use in normal treatment! we basically just had to treat it like one big exposure. accepting that many of us were living in a worst case scenario event and still able to manage our anxiety through it was the best course of action tbh!
like children are an entire class of people and one of the most subjugated groups in the world and i think the attitude of “not liking them” is societal rot
i talked to someone new to the city & i asked him why he chose chicago and he said “i just think chicago’s cool” and i said HELL YEAH! and he said the other thing is in other cities when you say their city is cool ppl say ‘eh i don’t think so’ but here everyones obsessed with it
@alxoh0lic
truly putting in overtime lol they were all complete saints especially because i’m sure their own anxiety was flaring up!! everyone’s was! they handled it with such grace & competence i am eternally grateful.
@borzoimcgee
did you become vegan/vegetarian as an adult? I feel like the impossible burger caters to people who miss meat but i’ve been vegetarian my whole life so i don’t want something that tastes meaty bc i’ve never liked that!
went to ikea with gf who never goes to the suburbs & grew up in the city and she goes “is it okay for us to hold hands here?” schaumburg is like russia to her
new rule for replying “yes” is you need to either offer encouraging words or tell me the website on which you found said job and what you do for work and if it pays well but most preferably tell me your company is hiring and you’ll vouch for me
one crazayyy (read: stupid) thing we do in chicago is that not every intersection has street signs. i have no fucking idea what corner i’m at sometimes. that should be illegal. actually how is it not illegal.
an ant hitched a ride home from work on my laptop. sorry man everything you once knew is an inconceivable distance away now. yeah, you have to experience the agony of being the last of your kind in a strange new world. basically you're done for.
woman sitting in her car listening to Night Shift by Lucy Dacus at a volume so loud that even with her windows closed I on the sidewalk can hear every chord
on tuesday 3/12 my dad got hit by a car while riding his bike on clark just north of wilson, the people who hit him ditched the car & ran away & he was badly injured. he’s okay now & he is looking for the people that helped him on the scene. he said they lived in the area +
americans cannot conceive of the notion that children may in fact deserve special accommodations and as adults it’s our responsibility to use our grown up coping mechanisms to handle our annoyance about it
I’ve always wondered what people who do this are thinking, because it just seems like such a shockingly inconsiderate asshole move, and it turns out… people who do this are just shockingly inconsiderate assholes.
@MarcosACabrera
@kdeleon
i get where you’re coming from but i’m worried that if we start saying “look how hard they’re working” we’re going to lose sight of the fact that they have no other choice and that it doesn’t have to be like this. we shouldn’t be cheering them on, we should be helping them.
ok these aren’t hash browns so i understand the complaint but this truly is one of the greatest ways you can cook a potato and i don’t wanna hear any home fries slander
@gargoylekings
literally hardest part about ocd is the treatment haha but it’s also the number one most proven effective treatment for any mental health disorder!!
@tagathascamelot
yeah i mean i think there’s a difference between being annoyed or frustrated by a behavior and having a pathological dislike for children. there are things my nanny kids do that i can’t STAND! but i love them anyway!
like i knew intellectually that the job market was brutal right now but really like no interviews? no interviews at all for anything? anywhere? what the fuck did i get this expensive ass degree for?
Bicycling grew more in Chicago than in any other major American city since 2019. But bike safety advocates say the city could be doing much more to protect cyclists and make biking even more attractive.
my dad said he was one of five people at the hospital that were hit by cars just on the day he was there, 2 of whom were pedestrians and 3 of whom were hit on bikes. it’s a complete crisis & failure of society that we just allow this to happen.