jad 📸

@aerojad

Information technology trash with a penchant for photography. Will like all photos of your pets. Chicago is the greatest city in existence. ♫ and while I’m alive, I’ll make tiny changes to earth ♫ [he/him]

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jad 📸@aerojad· 29d

Has anyone mentioned: Chicago

The Chicago skyline glows over Lake Michigan from my bike ride literally now. Some funky reflection makes it look like aliens are descending over the middle of the frame. I for one welcome them

jad 📸@aerojad· 29d

📸 Light up my good side #Prague #photography

A tower that in an earlier century served as a gate in a city wall stands well-lit by a spotlight at night, its darkened brick contrasting sharply with the lighter buildings in the foreground. Street lights illuminate the day and pedestrians walk about

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 12

📸 Market on a drizzly night #prague #photography

On a slightly drizzly night, a market unfolds in a square before brilliantly lit old timey buildings and an imposing church in the background. One of the buildings has a spotlight shining off to the right as well, adding to it. The bricks in the foreground shimmer in the bit of water

People browse items for sale at a couple of different stalls at an Easter market in the historic center of Prague. Some light rain adds shine to the bricks they stand on

Sausage smokes next to a stand selling said sausage in an Easter market in a plaza in the historic center of Prague. A light rain has turned all the bricks shiny in the night, and a church dominates the background at left

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 12

#wxsky: the coming week will be dominated again by a heat wave slowly shifting from the high plains eastward into corn land and eventually, potentially, toward the Great Lakes. Here's a look at today's highs and a reminder that it is really hard to end up >25º above normal for a summer high and yet

Expected high temperatures today from the European model, showing an area of widespread 100º+ over a large portion of Montana

Same model and time as the previous image except now looking at departures from normal. Highs extraordinarily above normal stretch from Montana to the shores of Hudson Bay with >20º above normal temperatures seen in Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, northern Minnesota, Manitoba, and western Ontario

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 12

love it when the labelers deliver

Example of a TERF caught TERF'in by a TERF label because as it terfs out, they're a TERF.

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 12

FIFA’s world rankings for the boys, which happens to be the four teams left

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 11

Mayor Mamdani in a skeet I just reskat shrugging his shoulders and saying let’s go Norway

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 11

📸 You & I #Prague #photography

At night in a very light rain that has turned a narrow brick street into something reflective and shiny, a hand-in-hand couple walks into the middle distance. Old buildings of several stories on either side provide a quiet, peaceful man-made canyon for them to continue to walk down

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 11

Updates on remaining on a mailing list for Czech rails: service expansion(?) edition. Let the Baltic Express take you from Prague to Gdaňsk, Poland. What was a 7½ drive for ~460 miles is now a 8¼ train ride for €29. That's Chicago to Nashville. Vancouver to almost-Banff. Toronto to NYC

Route map of some trains from Prague bound for some destinations leading generally east. A new route, the Baltic Express, is shown in red leaving Prague with stops in Pardubice (Czechia), Wroclaw (Poland), Poznań, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk and Gdynia.

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 10

📸 Bricks, the night, and a light rain are an unfair combination (complimentary) #Prague #photography

Under the slightest rain, street and shop lights gently reflect off brick in an I suppose stereotypically romantic European way. It’s night, it’s quiet, a tree at the right is just collecting its first spring leaves

A narrow street listens in a light rain, a few drops of which are visible in a street lamp mounted on the side of a building at left. It’s dark and things are mostly quiet and empty of people

A narrow brick passage running between an old building at left and a park at right glows in a nighttime light rain. Helping the glow is a street light that is itself somewhat covered in the leaves of a nearby tree

Along the Vltava River in Prague, a sleepy riverfront is dotted with a couple of pedestrians who are outnumbered by boats resting for the night. The lights of the opposite bank reflect off the calm waters, with Prague Castle glowing atop a hill at back right

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 10

we made it everyone, a whole year later and they’re finally repainting the bike lane on Glenwood

On a shady Chicago Street on a sunny late morning, unfinished painted lines for a long existing bike lane

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 9

📸 Plaza passersby #Prague #photography

A lively scene in a plaza in the historic center of Prague. It’s cloudy out but that’s not dampening much. A red old timey tram makes a turn at the right, a cyclist passes before it, a dozen pedestrians walk about the frame and at least two pigeons join them

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 8

📸 Coming back with ten thousand photos of pointy buildings is an accomplishment of a sort #Prague #photography

A car drives down a brick street in between cars parked diagonally in the historic center of Prague. The buildings are bright and colorful even under an overcast sky

A rather impressive pointy building on a V-shaped street corner in Prague. I’m not the only one taking a photo, two people with their back to me are sharing the same experience in the bottom right of the frame

The Powder Tower, stoic and the exact opposite color of powder, stands at the end of a brick street in the historic center of Prague. It’s cloudy out but the buildings are bright, this time generally yellow

The pigeon division of the official Prague welcoming committee trots up to and near me in a plaza along a brick surface. One is staring right at me, others to the right are taking a snack break

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 8

niche Chicago weather info for people who are already into niche Chicago weather! you've probably heard about the reservoirs for excess runoff getting filled up but it looks like after a few dry days they are now draining according to NOAA's river flooding monitor service #ilwx

McCook Reservoir once again falling after a recent fill up due to area-wide heavy rains. Currently at -78.7 feet, normally at -280 feet

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 7

📸 Land, check in, immediately go outside and start snapping. I couldn’t resist and I’ve also never heard of rest #prague #photography

A street in Prague’s historic center, all full of bricks and tram infrastructure, under an overcast sky. There’s a market set up at the right, scattered pedestrians, and buildings of different brighter-than-terracotta colors

A red and white tram chugs its way along a bridge in Prague, separated from vehicle traffic as god intended

A bend in the Vltava River leads your eyes toward a distant Prague Castle at a higher elevation. Close run the foreground, a bridge and several docked tourist boats, all beneath an overcast sky

A person sits in one of four chairs in front of a Georgian restaurant in Prague. The sidewalks are full of pretty bricks, with ornate lamp posts and unfortunately parked cars next to them.

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 7

what’s the point of this shit

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 6

I love the World Cup

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 5

lake forever, they deleted the skyline for now

My black bike, full of bags ready for shopping in a little while, stands on the concreach at Montrose. In the background is a watery-grey Lake Michigan sat beneath a thick fog. In the background where the skyline usually is, simply more fog. That or the Chicago Tribune editorial board has achieved their final victory, replacing The Loop with a twelve-lane Michigan Avenue and a parking lot

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 5

why the fuck is CNN airing archival Navy Pier fireworks as live?????

According to this CNN live shot it’s an hour earlier than it is and there’s not a cloud to be scene. Meanwhile it’s dark out and foggy af

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 4

📸 Made the most of five minutes by the lake before I got absolutely soaked, worth it of course. #Chicago #photography #ilwx #wxsky

Three lightning strikes light up the sky at Foster Beach, reflecting off the relatively calm Lake Michigan waters in the foreground

A single lightning bolt dressed in rain on either side strikes Lake Michigan as shot from Foster Beach

A rather thick lightning bolt strikes Lake Michigan, reflecting off water in the foreground, as shot from Foster Beach

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 3

lake forever, it finally only feels like 92° so I’m back on my bike for now

Three boats head out into Lake Michigan one after another beneath a midafternoon summer sky full of puffy clouds and a Chicago skyline in the distance

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 2

me when cars defeated

A close-up of the above image. A sly smile. An homage to the death of cars, in a gray shirt

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 2

it’s less ass outside this morning thanks to some outflow from storms far to our north in Wisconsin - that’s what that funky cloud was this morning for rush hour. the center will probably not hold and mere corn sweat will likely be loosed upon the land once more by afternoon #ilwx

Current radar image showing a barely noticeable (visually) outflow boundary originally from storms deep into Wisconsin which have for the moment knocked down the heat and humidity. As it warms across the rest of the state later today these winds will reverse

jad 📸@aerojad· Jul 1

committed to the bit btw

The narrator of this account in his messy, still not fully unpacked home, wearing a new Mexico jersey with my arms out and my beard bearding. It’s a tighter fit but who cares

jad 📸@aerojad· Jun 30

a brown line has broken free and wandering to Bryn Mawr. the whole city is its oyster. Kimball via Linden via Door County

A sign at Bryn Mawr saying a Brown Line to Kimball is showing up in 12 minutes, a physical impossibility

jad 📸@aerojad· Jun 29

A look at temperature departures from normal later this evening (central time) showing simultaneous heat waves across North America, Europe, central Asia + northern India, and sub-Saharan Africa #wxsky

GFS departure from normal temperature output for this evening central time showing North America the current world heat wave champions, clocking in at as much as 12C above normal. 5 - 10C above normal patches are also visible in Europe, central Asia (especially northern Asia), and western Africa

Daily surface air temperature chart from climatereanalyzer.org showing unmistakably how this year (red) and last year (orange) continue a trend we've seen all our lives: it just keeps getting warmer

jad 📸@aerojad· Jun 28

lake forever, Chicago somewhere over that horizon for now

A busy Silver Beach in St. Joseph, MI sees dozens of people in the sand and dozens more in a large water park in the foreground. The sky is overcast, the lake is calm and matches the sky color-wise

jad 📸@aerojad· Jun 28

never has there been a country so free

an honest to god police car I guess in St. Joseph, MI, covered with an absolutely comic amount of cameras in every direction

jad 📸@aerojad· Jun 28

with thanks to @laurie-merrell.bsky.social digging up some choice selections from the @mixmoji.pixigeko.com account I present: this week's forecast for Chicago

A crudely made forecast for Chicago this week, though using data from the GFS model so I didn't just pull it out of my ass.

Monday: Sunny, 94 / 80
Tuesday: A woeful flame in the sky, 95 / 77
Wednesday: Corn sweat, 96 / 77
Thursday: A woeful flame in the sky with a chance of thunderstorms, 97 / 75
Friday: A woeful flame in the sky, 95 / 78

jad 📸@aerojad· Jun 26

(river connecting a couple of the) lake(s) forever, double bridges for now