Pokey
@junkyardcrawler.bsky.social
architecture, dead mall, train, car enthusiast
Chicago-based
takes too many photos
non-binary but like it's complicated and I'm working on it, I swear
Website/Blog: https://etaoin-shrdlu.net/
RIP COHOST - EGGBUG FOREVER - KEEP EM POSTING IN OUR HEARTS
Chicago-based
takes too many photos
non-binary but like it's complicated and I'm working on it, I swear
Website/Blog: https://etaoin-shrdlu.net/
RIP COHOST - EGGBUG FOREVER - KEEP EM POSTING IN OUR HEARTS
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November 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
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This blows. Not only are we losing a 130-year-old church, but in return we're getting just four homes on a site that's almost half an acre and only a 10 min walk to the Blue line.
The underlying zoning is RS-3, and it's just a lot easier to build SFHs by right than contend with a rezoning.
The underlying zoning is RS-3, and it's just a lot easier to build SFHs by right than contend with a rezoning.
Another Church Demolition Permitted, This Time In Logan Square, For SFR Redevelopment - Chicago YIMBY
Even as some Chicagoans are still coming to grips with the demolition of a vintage church in Ravenswood, another has been slated for demolition and redevelopment.
chicagoyimby.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This blows. Not only are we losing a 130-year-old church, but in return we're getting just four homes on a site that's almost half an acre and only a 10 min walk to the Blue line.
The underlying zoning is RS-3, and it's just a lot easier to build SFHs by right than contend with a rezoning.
The underlying zoning is RS-3, and it's just a lot easier to build SFHs by right than contend with a rezoning.
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Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
I already did not vibe with Lincoln Park but reading The Battle of Lincoln Park (about the first wave of gentrification in the 1950s-60s), I now strongly believe we need to do some Mao Zedong shit to that entire neighborhood
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I already did not vibe with Lincoln Park but reading The Battle of Lincoln Park (about the first wave of gentrification in the 1950s-60s), I now strongly believe we need to do some Mao Zedong shit to that entire neighborhood
maybe theres just too much light pollution in my neighborhood but I cant see any aurora borealis :c
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
maybe theres just too much light pollution in my neighborhood but I cant see any aurora borealis :c
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November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Organizing my backups & found this scanogram from 2018 which I am staring into wistfully tonight
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Organizing my backups & found this scanogram from 2018 which I am staring into wistfully tonight
forgot to say: 46 minutes.
Not for lack of trying by Burlington, by the way, they run that place like the Navy. All registers flying, it was just Busy.
Not for lack of trying by Burlington, by the way, they run that place like the Navy. All registers flying, it was just Busy.
I WANT to be home processing photos from my trip today but it appears that the entire northwest side has forgotten to buy winter clothes (like I have) and so I am stuck in the Burlington line from hell.
It has been 16 minutes. I just reached the start of the outer checkstands
It has been 16 minutes. I just reached the start of the outer checkstands
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
forgot to say: 46 minutes.
Not for lack of trying by Burlington, by the way, they run that place like the Navy. All registers flying, it was just Busy.
Not for lack of trying by Burlington, by the way, they run that place like the Navy. All registers flying, it was just Busy.
I thrifted some fancy floor lamps 😁
I can't find these exact ones for sale, but they're made by a German company called Holtkotter, who do not seem to make cheap things. These ones are older ("vintage"?) and so are halogen, not LED, but still.
I can't find these exact ones for sale, but they're made by a German company called Holtkotter, who do not seem to make cheap things. These ones are older ("vintage"?) and so are halogen, not LED, but still.
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I thrifted some fancy floor lamps 😁
I can't find these exact ones for sale, but they're made by a German company called Holtkotter, who do not seem to make cheap things. These ones are older ("vintage"?) and so are halogen, not LED, but still.
I can't find these exact ones for sale, but they're made by a German company called Holtkotter, who do not seem to make cheap things. These ones are older ("vintage"?) and so are halogen, not LED, but still.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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from today's outing; two different sets of former Illinois Central locomotives, affectionately known as "deathstars" due to the late railroad's final logo. Photographed from the 211th St Metra Station.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
from today's outing; two different sets of former Illinois Central locomotives, affectionately known as "deathstars" due to the late railroad's final logo. Photographed from the 211th St Metra Station.
I WANT to be home processing photos from my trip today but it appears that the entire northwest side has forgotten to buy winter clothes (like I have) and so I am stuck in the Burlington line from hell.
It has been 16 minutes. I just reached the start of the outer checkstands
It has been 16 minutes. I just reached the start of the outer checkstands
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I WANT to be home processing photos from my trip today but it appears that the entire northwest side has forgotten to buy winter clothes (like I have) and so I am stuck in the Burlington line from hell.
It has been 16 minutes. I just reached the start of the outer checkstands
It has been 16 minutes. I just reached the start of the outer checkstands
one of the fascists pointing guns at journalists seems like hes specifically a christo-fascist, unsurprising I know but I wanted to make note of it
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
one of the fascists pointing guns at journalists seems like hes specifically a christo-fascist, unsurprising I know but I wanted to make note of it
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
for want of a sticker printer
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
for want of a sticker printer
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today my teacher in japanese class wanted to teach us how to text using a japanese keyboard, which she then put up on the class tv. she asked us to send our favorite emoji, and i really didn't think this would send but
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
today my teacher in japanese class wanted to teach us how to text using a japanese keyboard, which she then put up on the class tv. she asked us to send our favorite emoji, and i really didn't think this would send but
Gradalls are the doohickiest machines of all time and I love them
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Gradalls are the doohickiest machines of all time and I love them
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went for a walk, happened upon a beautiful castle guarded by shields and gates
Austin High School, chicago public schools
Austin High School, chicago public schools
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
went for a walk, happened upon a beautiful castle guarded by shields and gates
Austin High School, chicago public schools
Austin High School, chicago public schools
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Every day these motherfuckers present us with more & more evidence that there exists no depth of depravity they will not gleefully explore. It is a CHOICE to come up with & enact a plan that purposefully traumatizes the smallest members of our society. A fucking CHOICE. Hell ain’t hot enough.
This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Every day these motherfuckers present us with more & more evidence that there exists no depth of depravity they will not gleefully explore. It is a CHOICE to come up with & enact a plan that purposefully traumatizes the smallest members of our society. A fucking CHOICE. Hell ain’t hot enough.
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on cohost we called this "poster's delight"
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
on cohost we called this "poster's delight"
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Bluesky rn
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Bluesky rn