bunny knuckes

cuterpillar:

tks arspaneil

Old but still awesome.

nirak:

whynotshesaid:

lipsticklyf:

this was MY LIFE.

MY LIFE

MY LIFE

YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW MANY WORDS I’VE FUCKED UP 

I love running into other people who mispronounce big words because I know I’ve found a fellow autodidact.

It’s embarrassing when I do it in a work meeting tho.

Much to the amusement of my roommates, I once called a trebuchet a Tree-Bucket. 

One of them almost choked to death on his scotch he was laughing so hard.

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alithea:

GUESS WHO HAS A NEW HUSTLE.

Fuck yeah.

skeptictank:

pasalubong:

Chaely, in 30 years.

Whoops, Chaely in 30 weeks.

And Loren right along with me.

And me and Layne.

hannahbrun:

Ladies, it’s Spring! What’s in your bag?

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istealforksfromrestaurants:

They Live is the most under appreciated movie starring a professional wrestler ever.

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istealforksfromrestaurants:

“CTA President Forrest Claypool on Wednesday called a proposed cost increase for single-ride rail tickets “a voluntary payment.”

The CTA is proposing hiking the cost of single-ride train tickets from $2.25 to $3 when the agency rolls out its Ventra payment system this summer.

“No one has to pay a fee. It’s only if they choose not to participate in the Ventra system,” Claypool said at a press conference announcing an expanded CTA apprentice program. “It’s just [for] someone who insists on getting an expensive [paper card] one time use. In that case, it’s an added expense we have to carry.”“

I knew there was gonna be a fucking catch to that new god damned system. Sure, anyone that “insists” on using a paper card or anyone that doesn’t have access to a credit or debit card. Assholes.

fuck this guy, and fuck this bullshit. I am so pissed off about fucking Ventra.

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There is an excellent chance we have enough cotton yarn. on Flickr.

calumet412:

Milwaukee and North Avenues, 1922, Chicago.

LoC.gov

Looks like it was taken from the 2nd floor window of where Myopic is today.

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skeptictank:

womanhouse:

omg the ovarian gang sign is CATCHING ON

SPREAD THE WORD

“Ovaries so big, we don’t need no fucking balls.”

infanttyrone:

thepeoplesrecord:

How workers laid off from a Chicago factory took it over themselves
March 5, 2013

Four years ago, as the recession took hold and layoffs around the country were approaching 500,000 a month, a group of workers in Chicago saved a factory and inspired a nation. Fired by their boss, they occupied instead of leaving. Fired by a second boss, they occupied and formed a worker’s cooperative. Now they are worker-owners of a load of equipment and they’re setting up a factory in a new location.

All they want to do is to get back to making and selling windows. It shouldn’t be this hard to keep good jobs in Chicago, but “A cooperative can be a way of surviving, of moving forward,” says Armando Robles, one of the workers.

Robles was one of 250 workers fired in December 2008 without notice or severance by Republic Windows and Doors when the company announced it was closing its Chicago factory. The company said that it could no longer operate because it had lost its line of credit with Bank of America. The irony of the situation was clear. Bank of America had received billions in government bailouts to keep the economy working, and yet the Republic workers were being laid off without their entitled payments and benefits. Supported by their union, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Robles and his fellow workers voted to resist. They occupied the plant for six days, winning back pay, severance, and time for a new company to take ownership. Generating thousands of articles and news reports about their fight, they encouraged a downcast nation, even an incoming U.S. president.

At a press conference during the factory occupation, then President-elect Barack Obama declared: “When it comes to the situation here in Chicago, with the workers who are asking for their benefits and payments they have earned … I think they are absolutely right.”

The public relations potential, combined with the prospect of stimulus spending and a green economy boom, spurred Serious Energy of California to take over the former Republic plant in February 2009. Among the investors in the new business was Mesirow Financial, a Chicago-based firm, with close ties to (among others), then White House Chief of Staff (soon to be Chicago Mayor) Rahm Emanuel. With $15 million from Mesirow alone, Serious looked forward to landing substantial federal and city contracts.

Two years later, those contracts were yet to materialize. The ballyhooed green economy? Chicago’s grand green retrofitting scheme? They were nowhere in sight, and city and state spending was essentially on ice. By the end of 2009, only 20 of the Republic workers had been hired back. In February 2012, Serious announced it, too, was closing the Chicago factory and selling off the machines.

This time, Robles et al. only needed to occupy for a matter of hours before management agreed to a deal. Serious agreed to give the workers the first option to buy the plant’s equipment and 90 days to come up with a bid.

“Republic walked away from our jobs. Serious walked away from our jobs, but we are not walking away from our jobs,” said Melvin Macklin, who had worked at the plant for more than a decade. In the time between the first layoff and the second, the workers and their families became aware of other options. As it happens, after appearing together with Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis on GRITtv, Robles and United Electrical field organizer Leah Fried sat down with The Working World, a nonprofit that has helped start and maintain worker cooperatives in Argentina and other parts of Latin America.

Full article

This made me so happy.  I was so proud to be a part of this city.  I brought a case of water and my heart swelled up.  This means so much.

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