O'Neill of Chicago
@brianoneill.bsky.social
Books, baseball, Great Lakes. Writes reviews all over, and at South Side Sox. Big fan of rivers and such. He/him
Durbin experiencing very high call volumes, perhaps because not a single person who voted for him for decades wants him to cave to the fascists.
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Durbin experiencing very high call volumes, perhaps because not a single person who voted for him for decades wants him to cave to the fascists.
Yeah, you can't even get, like, a rotisserie chicken, which can provide a meal for a family for pretty cheap. It's grotesque.
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Yeah, you can't even get, like, a rotisserie chicken, which can provide a meal for a family for pretty cheap. It's grotesque.
"I wonder if Penn State fans will rush the field if they upset Indiana" is not a thought that would have made sense at any other point in your life.
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"I wonder if Penn State fans will rush the field if they upset Indiana" is not a thought that would have made sense at any other point in your life.
It is incredible that we take it for granted that the President will abuse his power if people don't agree to satisfy his ego.
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It is incredible that we take it for granted that the President will abuse his power if people don't agree to satisfy his ego.
I'm on SNAP benefits and I made myself a way better dinner than this cousin-wedding slop.
Food served at Mar-a-Lago as Trump fights for the right to starve Americans
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I'm on SNAP benefits and I made myself a way better dinner than this cousin-wedding slop.
Uh, yeah, *this* is why no one likes my posts.
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
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Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Uh, yeah, *this* is why no one likes my posts.
This, 100%. "But Sam Altman and a bunch of VCs want to become even richer" isn't a reason to let a democracy-killing Suicide Chatbot exist. Killing corporations like this is a key part of rebuilding our society for the better.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This, 100%. "But Sam Altman and a bunch of VCs want to become even richer" isn't a reason to let a democracy-killing Suicide Chatbot exist. Killing corporations like this is a key part of rebuilding our society for the better.
The thing about this lickspittery is that it is so hamfisted and obvious and pathetic that there is literally only one person in the world it could work on.
this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery
absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA
absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA
the first what now
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The thing about this lickspittery is that it is so hamfisted and obvious and pathetic that there is literally only one person in the world it could work on.
One of my "favorite" Cheney stories is that, when the administration had capsized under the weight of its own malevolent stupidity, he personally intervened in CA legislation to protect whales, because he just had to do something evil.
www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24428...
www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24428...
Delay in ruling on whales tied to Cheney's office
An attempt to protect the endangered right whale has languished in part because Vice President Dick Cheney's office and White House economists questioned the science, documents show.
www.nbcnews.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
One of my "favorite" Cheney stories is that, when the administration had capsized under the weight of its own malevolent stupidity, he personally intervened in CA legislation to protect whales, because he just had to do something evil.
www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24428...
www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24428...
Cheney argued that the Vice President, since he votes in the Senate, was subject not subject to any oversight. The Imperial Fascist Presidency was his goal, even if he personally disliked Donald Trump.
Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Cheney argued that the Vice President, since he votes in the Senate, was subject not subject to any oversight. The Imperial Fascist Presidency was his goal, even if he personally disliked Donald Trump.
It's genuinely amazing (not amazing) that Cuomo can't even fake anything other than self-interest. It would be so easy (and politically smart!) to say "this jerkoff can't threaten New York and can't tell US who to vote for, bay-bee!" But he can't even do that.
"The president is right: a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani," Cuomo says on 77WABC radio in response to Trump's words of support just posted on Truth Social.
"Now it's gonna be up to the Republicans, and I hope they listen to the president," he adds.
"Now it's gonna be up to the Republicans, and I hope they listen to the president," he adds.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It's genuinely amazing (not amazing) that Cuomo can't even fake anything other than self-interest. It would be so easy (and politically smart!) to say "this jerkoff can't threaten New York and can't tell US who to vote for, bay-bee!" But he can't even do that.
I am a Butler alum. I think about Hayward barely missing that shot to beat Duke in the championship all the time. I've had dreams where it goes in.
Regardless of how awesome this postseason has been for Jays fans, and how fondly they'll remember it, just missing it never goes away.
Regardless of how awesome this postseason has been for Jays fans, and how fondly they'll remember it, just missing it never goes away.
November 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I am a Butler alum. I think about Hayward barely missing that shot to beat Duke in the championship all the time. I've had dreams where it goes in.
Regardless of how awesome this postseason has been for Jays fans, and how fondly they'll remember it, just missing it never goes away.
Regardless of how awesome this postseason has been for Jays fans, and how fondly they'll remember it, just missing it never goes away.
All of you are like "please Jays, score more" but imagine how awesome it's going to be when it's a 1-run ninth. We all might die!
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
All of you are like "please Jays, score more" but imagine how awesome it's going to be when it's a 1-run ninth. We all might die!
I did not know how good Vlad Jr was with the glove. I know he won a Gold Glove but so did a lot of people. He's awesome. Baseball is awesome!
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I did not know how good Vlad Jr was with the glove. I know he won a Gold Glove but so did a lot of people. He's awesome. Baseball is awesome!
What I really want out of Game 7 is a 20-minute break to acknowledge that none of us are in favor of cancer. I think I speak for all baseball fans.
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
What I really want out of Game 7 is a 20-minute break to acknowledge that none of us are in favor of cancer. I think I speak for all baseball fans.
Even calling this -- putting things in a toaster horizontally -- a "rookie mistake" is giving him way more leeway than it deserves. And it is very insulting even as written!
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Even calling this -- putting things in a toaster horizontally -- a "rookie mistake" is giving him way more leeway than it deserves. And it is very insulting even as written!
These idiots should be so ashamed to be kitted out like this in fucking Evanston
I know this fascist shit is doomed when I see late 50s and early 60s white guys in their Costco Shopping Finest screaming ‘fuck you’ in DHS officers’ faces
Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
These idiots should be so ashamed to be kitted out like this in fucking Evanston
Yeah, that's the thing: "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is real. He's the dumbest most aggravating man in the world and he never shuts the fuck up and never stops making things worse.
Utterly exhausted with having Donald Trump in my life every fucking day. Exhausted and enraged beyond belief.
October 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Yeah, that's the thing: "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is real. He's the dumbest most aggravating man in the world and he never shuts the fuck up and never stops making things worse.
Reese's Peanut Butter Pups
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.
I’ll go first. Death Bar.
I’ll go first. Death Bar.
October 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Reese's Peanut Butter Pups
I take some succor in knowing that this fash pig is going to cry like a baby when he's sentenced.
DHS posted this video two hours after I asked about the viral photos of Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino.
The portion where he does hand signals is from Bovino leaving court in Chicago yesterday.
The portion where he does hand signals is from Bovino leaving court in Chicago yesterday.
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I take some succor in knowing that this fash pig is going to cry like a baby when he's sentenced.
Few things as have made me angrier (in re: White Sox, not like life overall). Just treating the idea of paying for the greatest talent ever as laughable. It is infuriating.
Remember that presser after Kenny and Rick got fired and Jerry said “we’re not going to be in on Ohtani,” and then started laughing like signing Ohtani is ridiculous? Such an asshole.
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Few things as have made me angrier (in re: White Sox, not like life overall). Just treating the idea of paying for the greatest talent ever as laughable. It is infuriating.
In addition to the obvious racism, it's so maddening how they take "here's what people who want Mamdani to lose want people to think" as legitimate framing. It makes it clear that this is also what the Times wants people to think
I honestly don't think the NY Times has been this bad in my lifetime, it's deeply shameful.
October 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
In addition to the obvious racism, it's so maddening how they take "here's what people who want Mamdani to lose want people to think" as legitimate framing. It makes it clear that this is also what the Times wants people to think
Sounds like @pftompkins.bsky.social supports cancer, which can only be "s(tood) up to" by music, and signs.
Wasn’t able to watch WS live but apparently the Jonas Bros did some of a song at some point? I cannot express this urgently enough: NO. Baseball is not meant to be associated with entertainment. The beauty of baseball is its uninterrupted agony. The outside world must be barred from the stadiums.
October 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Sounds like @pftompkins.bsky.social supports cancer, which can only be "s(tood) up to" by music, and signs.
One reason social media is bad is because I have a fire going and a bottle of good wine and am reading a beautiful book which keeps moving me to tears but I looked at my phone to check the time and opened this app instinctively and now am mad that someone I DON'T EVEN FOLLOW doesn’t like "Heat"
October 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
One reason social media is bad is because I have a fire going and a bottle of good wine and am reading a beautiful book which keeps moving me to tears but I looked at my phone to check the time and opened this app instinctively and now am mad that someone I DON'T EVEN FOLLOW doesn’t like "Heat"
These are the same people who never stop saying that conservatives are persecuted. God, I fucking hate them so much.
“Islamophobia is fake. Also you people complain about being mistreated, whatever get over it or leave.”
October 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
These are the same people who never stop saying that conservatives are persecuted. God, I fucking hate them so much.