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so weird to think that for millions of years animals were just ripping each others’ throats out and copulating without eye contact

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Saw this, thought of you.

What makes this art and not merely fuckery is that it's not "Malort Baseballs" or "Baseball Malort", it's that it's baseball infused Malort.

I kept coming to this ask and looking at it and trying to decide how to describe the image and just...sighing and walking away again in defeat. But not today! Today I will identify this beast!

But also like.

I keep seeing the image and thinking...It's not like it would make the Malort worse.

[ID: A large glass candy jar in what appears to be a bar or possibly an antique store, difficult to tell. The jar is full of baseballs which are soaking in an amber liquid that reaches the rim. A label on the jar has the logo of Nisei Lounge, a Chicago bar, and under that reads: "Baseball infused Malort. Tastes like trading away Willson Contreras. Unlike every beloved veteran cubs player, this is not for sale."]

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The Banquet by René Magritte at the Chicago Art Institute | The Sullivan Center Target in Chicago, Illinois

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Saw you mentioned you enjoyed knowing what ur plushies are up to, so figured I'd let u know that Sadie (the sinosauropteryx) just finished her 10th road trip (to Chicago) and this time Martha (the thylacine) came along! First trip with many friends to go to museums and see the cicadas emerge. They'll be joining us for many more adventures in the future! :D

Thank you again for creating such wonderful friends to fill the world with!

Thank you so much for showing me and I'm glad they have shared adventures with you! That's so fun and lovely! Did you see the cicadas? I'd love to see some one day, they don't live here in Scotland!

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Natalie Portman being confused by the fact that you have to say “hi” to someone before starting a conversation in France got me like ?????

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Luděk Marold - From the World's Fair in Chicago (ca. 1893)

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Pretend, for example, that you were born in Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map for you; pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with a man or a woman who lives in Hong Kong; and that you fall in love. Hong Kong will immediately cease to be a name and become the center of your life. And you may never know how many people live in Hong Kong. But you will know that one man or one woman lives there without whom you cannot live. And this is how our lives are changed, and this is how we are redeemed.

What a journey this life is! Dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earth quake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

—James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket

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I was blessed by boots and snoots today! It’s weevil time!

Region: Chicagoland

Environment: The tyke got indoors, so I’m really not sure what they prefer.

Size: apx 12mm

Weevils are -not!- my ID forté, so I’m going to tag the most wonderful blog of @onenicebugperday , which everyone should appreciate for both curation, and fantastic photos from around the world! Hopefully they might be able to ID this lovely gal.*

* I think it’s a female. Beetle sexing is also not my forté. A quick peek made me think female.

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Okay so Chicago is an amazing city, we all love her right. Well here's the thing, the Chicago we all love did not exist 25 years ago. This was the Chicago of the 1970s

The riverfront was neglected and the much of the lakefront was inaccessible covered by a rail yard and parking lots .

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Okay so Chicago is an amazing city, we all love her right. Well here's the thing, the Chicago we all love did not exist 25 years ago. This was the Chicago of the 1970s

The riverfront was neglected and the much of the lakefront was inaccessible covered by a rail yard and parking lots .

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sorry to be this guy everyone but i finally tried malort and its actually kinda good

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THE CHICAGO SKY BEAT THE NEW YORK LIBERTY!! ANGEL REESE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR IDC IDC IDC

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The thing with "[location] mentioned!" is that if you're from somewhere small, it will rarely ever come up. If you're from a medium-sized place, you'll probably want to avoid doing the bit to safeguard your privacy—too close to revealing your location; conversely if you're from a really big place it's probably mentioned so much that nobody cares—oh wow, Los Angeles mentioned, I'll alert the media.

There's a sweet spot, though, where it comes up rarely enough to be exciting but it's big enough to stay anonymous—evidently Chicago and Brazil fall in this space, as does Massachusetts.

I'd say the magic number is around 2-3%. Brazil accounts for 2.7% of the world's population, though I'd expect it to be underrepresented on the English-language internet; meanwhile metro Chicago accounts for 3.04% of the US population and Massachusetts 2.08%. Thus, mention of these places is uncommon enough to notice, but they're big enough that you don't feel like you're basically posting your address.