Opals25
@opals25.bsky.social
Nashville > Chicago. Sometimes I post photos and bad takes.
For all it's faults, after a week struggling against Clipper in San Francisco, I'm filling out my Ventra apology form. It gets so much worse out there 😵💫
Ventra has sent me approximately four thousand emails about updates to the ventra app and it’s still unclear to me what, if anything, they want me to do about it
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
For all it's faults, after a week struggling against Clipper in San Francisco, I'm filling out my Ventra apology form. It gets so much worse out there 😵💫
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Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
San Francisco was beautiful.
November 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
San Francisco was beautiful.
Yeah, definitely see this a lot around the Lincoln/Western updates. Complaints about parking, slower traffic, etc and little to say about the people who live here and need to cross these roads on foot. At least the work is getting done though.
One thing that’s so frustrating living in a city center is the pervasive belief among suburbanites that your neighborhood is nothing more than a consumer experience for them and that the city should bend over backwards to ensure they can speed as fast as possible on their way to buy treats in it.
November 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Yeah, definitely see this a lot around the Lincoln/Western updates. Complaints about parking, slower traffic, etc and little to say about the people who live here and need to cross these roads on foot. At least the work is getting done though.
Why are they just playing Hey Ya! now 😭
join this stream to see a bunch of folks awkwardly stand around not looking at the screen that says ZOHRAN MAMDANI WINS RACE FOR MAYOR while Uptown Girl plays over the intercom
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Why are they just playing Hey Ya! now 😭
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Woke Two: We’re Doing Reconstruction For Real This Time
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Woke Two: We’re Doing Reconstruction For Real This Time
Happy to see the election results so far tonight, but I do wish it wouldn't have taken electing Trump a second time for Americans to realize that, oh wait, they don't actually like Trump.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Happy to see the election results so far tonight, but I do wish it wouldn't have taken electing Trump a second time for Americans to realize that, oh wait, they don't actually like Trump.
Sounds like a hot take, but I liked A House of Dynamite.
November 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Sounds like a hot take, but I liked A House of Dynamite.
Done. Spread the word.
Just got this action alert, I think from @betterstreetschicago.org
Sign a witness slip immediately for the transit funding bill. Info in alt text
mbl.ms/mKgZnW7m-BQ
Sign a witness slip immediately for the transit funding bill. Info in alt text
mbl.ms/mKgZnW7m-BQ
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Done. Spread the word.
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
Why do these photos make him look like he's in a German industrial band. Rammstein doesn't want you.
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Why do these photos make him look like he's in a German industrial band. Rammstein doesn't want you.
More old rails dig up in Lincoln Square; this time under Western. They should bring this back.
October 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
More old rails dig up in Lincoln Square; this time under Western. They should bring this back.
Hell yeah
Every TikTok I see about Chicago, I post "Chicago is the greatest city in the world" and get a chorus of "hell yeah" replies. And you may ask yourself, why do people love Chicago so much?
It's simple. Chicago is the greatest city in the world.
It's simple. Chicago is the greatest city in the world.
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Hell yeah
Took a walk downtown late last week. (It wasn't this past weekend since the loop was closed.)
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Took a walk downtown late last week. (It wasn't this past weekend since the loop was closed.)
I'm at the Lou Malnati's; I'm at the Express Clinic. I'm at the combination Lou Malnati's Express Clinic.
the health problems are bad. but the causes? the causes are very good
October 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I'm at the Lou Malnati's; I'm at the Express Clinic. I'm at the combination Lou Malnati's Express Clinic.
Guy thinks he's ketamine Mr. House.
ELON MUSK: “If we build this robot army, do I have at least a strong influence over this robot army? … I don't feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.” Read the full piece from @aarianmarshall.bsky.social on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Wants ‘Strong Influence’ Over the ‘Robot Army’ He’s Building
In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them.
www.wired.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Guy thinks he's ketamine Mr. House.
Very impressed with the size of the march today. Happy to lib it up with you all; even the Communists near the park. lol
October 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Very impressed with the size of the march today. Happy to lib it up with you all; even the Communists near the park. lol
I like a walk around the loop on a wet dreary day. Makes for some nice black and white photos.
October 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I like a walk around the loop on a wet dreary day. Makes for some nice black and white photos.
When I first started watching Rob's videos I lived in Nashville and commented on the lack of walkability in the video about walkable neighborhoods in unwalksable cities. Now I live in Lincoln Square and see a ton of spots I walk around regularly in today's video.
Up on Nebula now: I went to Chicago to ground-truth the “crime-ravaged third world hell hole” allegations. You will NEVER GUESS what I found
nebula.tv/videos/cityn...
nebula.tv/videos/cityn...
CityNerd — Shockingly, They've Been Lying to Me About Chicago
I went to Chicago to see if it's really the crime-ridden, third world hell hole I've been told. You will NEVER BELIEVE what I actually saw.
nebula.tv
October 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
When I first started watching Rob's videos I lived in Nashville and commented on the lack of walkability in the video about walkable neighborhoods in unwalksable cities. Now I live in Lincoln Square and see a ton of spots I walk around regularly in today's video.
Tracks caught fire near Western. Looked like some construction material maybe got caught around the third rail.
October 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Tracks caught fire near Western. Looked like some construction material maybe got caught around the third rail.
I've been watching the Fallout show and re-playing New Vegas again; and boy do I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the Fallout franchise. Probably to an unhealthy degree.
September 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I've been watching the Fallout show and re-playing New Vegas again; and boy do I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the Fallout franchise. Probably to an unhealthy degree.
Replaying a Viva-New-Vegas run and still the greatest game of all time.
James, I hear you.
Counter-argument:
Counter-argument:
September 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Replaying a Viva-New-Vegas run and still the greatest game of all time.
Why does it seem like the earliest people to every concert are the tallest?
September 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Why does it seem like the earliest people to every concert are the tallest?
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Destroy car dealerships and you save US democracy
whoa. Every single one of the Sinclair advert buyers on this list is automotive or automotive related (insurance). That is one aspect of the power in our society held by car companies that I haven't seen studied enough.
September 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Destroy car dealerships and you save US democracy