Max Legroom
maxlegroom.bsky.social
Max Legroom
@maxlegroom.bsky.social
I'm a writer, coffee snob, and sci-fi nerd. Let's think about the future over a cup ☕️
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Tomorrow, Friday Sept 12th come to Welles Park at 5:30pm to test ride different ebikes, then afterwards at 6pm we will do a group ride through the neighborhood to see all the new infrastructure

RSVP docs.google.com/forms/d/1KMn...

@andrefor40th.bsky.social 🤝 @aldermanmattmartin.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Another view of Wednesday’s Rainbow.
June 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Dressing like a guy in Andor now. My shirt collar is also part of my jacket somehow. My tie is some kind of strap. I have two capes on.
May 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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May 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Infrared+Ultraviolet view of Venus taken by Japan’s Akatsuki orbiter in October 2016.

In the distance is Earth and the Moon.

flic.kr/p/2maa5QV
May 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Here's satellite loop of the dust kicking up in central Illinois and visiting the city #ILwx #WXsky
May 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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*crab-walked
May 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Believe it or not, there’s more. When the cop pulled the car over, the raccoon was IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT
May 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Quite the payoff
May 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Lincoln Square Road Closure and Accompanying Comments From The Local Facebook Page (April 2025)
April 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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this is too good not to share.
April 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Don't get excited. But maybe you can get a little excited about the possibility of getting excited.

(Also, this is exactly the sort of stuff the current administration is planning to defund. Fuck those dudes.)

Gift article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Ah yes, April Fool's day on arXiv. Enjoyed this one.

arxiv.org/abs/2503.22795
April 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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your outie includes reporters in the war planning group chat
March 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“What if we didn’t suck” is what I’ve been saying!!!
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
March 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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A rainbow appears at sunset following a late afternoon storm in Chicago on Wednesday.
March 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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March 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Chicago Means Green. Yesterday on the Chicago River for St. Patrick's Day.
March 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Another moment from today in Chicago as the city celebrates St. Patrick's Day.
March 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
March 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063
March 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Unpopular opinion: I think all CrossFit gyms should be renamed Croissant Fit and people should exercise by kneading dough to make croissants for me to eat
March 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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March 14, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
March 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM