Nicholas Sideras ☃️

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Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· 17d

Matt Damon as Odysseus in 2026’s The Odyssey. He’s screaming, it’s a bit of a meme lately, and has what appears to be a ship’s mast behind him, but I haven’t actually seen the film yet so I don’t know if have the correct scene here.

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jul 16

A bit harder to see downtown Milwaukee from Marquette’s campus today than usual

A view of downtown Milwaukee from 16th and Wisconsin Ave. 2 maybe 3 buildings are visible through the smoke. A man on a bicycle is crossing the street.

A view of downtown Milwaukee from 17th and Wisconsin Ave on a typical sunny day. All sorts of buildings are visible in the city skyline.

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jul 6

Amazon’s creepy advertising profile technology is on to me

A screenshot of the Amazon mobile app’s “About you (beta)” page, showing a description that says “We use these details to personalize your experience. (Learn more)”

The “all” category is selection, with other options scrolling off the side. Under “52 results”, the first item card is titled “Home & Family”, with a description of “Owns multiple bicycles”

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jul 6

average poster hearing about the Balogun red card reversal

The Grosdoriane tweet from 5/24/19, but with “America” crossed out and replaced with “FIFA”:

This is NOT what FIFA is about.
FIFA is about *opens history book*
uh oh
*Frantically starts flipping though pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jul 4

A still from the 1962 film The Music Man, showing the various salesmen on the train during Rock Island. The caption says “He’s a fake and he doesn’t know the territory”

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jul 1

The Milwaukee Brewers racing sausages stand on the sidewalk. In the foreground is a “No Grilling Allowed” yard sign, which explains in English and Spanish that “Grilling of any kind is strictly prohibited at Milwaukee Recreation playfields”

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jun 28

I will never get over the fact that Weather Underground is the name of the weather app I used for years

A screenshot from en.wikipedia.org, showing the top of the Weather Underground article. A gray box with italic text says:

This article is about the United States militant organization. For the weather forecasting service, see Weather Underground (weather service). For other uses, see Weather Underground (disambiguation).

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jun 28

A partial screenshot from en.wikipedia.org:

electrical tape. Investigators were not mollified by the discovery that the devices were not explosive in nature, stating they still intended to determine "if this event was a hoax or something else entirely". Although city prosecutors eventually concluded there was no ill intent involved in the placing of the ads, the city continues to refer to the event as a
"bomb hoax" (implying intent) rather than a
"bomb scare"

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jun 27

I’ve always felt like within 1% was a great showing in a year where rw incumbents did very well.

The Wikipedia info box for the November 8, 2022 election results of the Wisconsin senate race between Ron Johnson (Republican) and Mandela Barnes (Democratic), with a 56.7% turnout and 1,337,185 (50.41%) votes going to Johnson and 1,310,467 (49.41%) votes going to Barnes

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jun 23

A post from Troy Johnson @_troyjohnson
6:06 PM • May 19, 2024 • 367.6K Views

You: "I'm only 35, I have my whole life ahead of me."
Sports Broadcaster: "Here comes the oldest player in the league. He's 32. A miracle."

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jun 12

My car is in the shop so I’ve got a driver for me and my bike this evening 🚲🤝🚌 @ridemcts.bsky.social

A view from inside a city bus, looking forward from the middle. It’s sunny outside and the bus is shiny clean

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jun 10

I'm working out of my childhood hometown’s library today. A lot of it looks the same but it got a little ridiculous when I realized that they still have the same scratch paper on the study carrels. I don't just mean it's the same style, I mean it’s actually still the same paper dated from the 90s

A stack of thin strips of green and white paper. The white paper says “DUE DATE MARCH 26, 2000 NO RENEWAL”, and the green paper says “DUE DATE DECEMBER 9, 1999 NO RENEWAL”

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jun 10

Baseball!

A picture of my TV showing a graphic from today’s game:

HISTORIC NIGHT IN LAS VEGAS
BREWERS AT ATHLETICS
MONDAY
29 RUNS
11 COMBINED HOME RUNS
16 COMBINED ABS CHALLENGES
MOST IN A GAME THIS SEASON

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jun 10

I missed last night’s shenanigans but today’s brewers vs A’s home run derby game promises to be just as hilarious

A picture of my TV showing an aerial show of “Las Vegas Ballpark”. The score is 2-1 Brewers at the bottom of the 1st, each team has had a home run already

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Jun 8

Last year for my son’s 8th birthday party, we loaded up my dad’s truck with snacks, drinks, sports equipment, cake, etc for an afternoon of soccer and kickball at the park with ~35 people. This year we did the same party but I thought we could do better on the transportation #CarryShitOlympics

A Tern GSD loaded with snacks and a cooler. Next to it is two Burley bike trailers with soccer nets and a folding table

My son on his bike, pulling one of the Burley trailers. A large bag of various sports balls is hanging out from the top.

Me on the GSD, pulling the trailer with the soccer nets. I have the cooler on the back and a Riverwest 24 sticker on my helmet. Two neighbor kids are riding bikes behind me.

The two bikes and their respective trailers on the grass at the park, fully loaded with everything for a party.

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· May 11

this just keeps coming back up

A tweet by pennipotentum (@spinozylvannian) from November 5, 2004:

Chinese international student in my class was telling me about how his evangelical dad in Beijing believes that Trump was chosen by god to win the election, but that this victory is part of a larger divine plan to destroy the united states

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· May 7

Just Wisconsin Things #wiwx #mkewx

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· May 4

Ben Stiller, wearing a hoodie and cropped out of the original, is Bay View

The memey picture of Tina Fey, Timothée Chalamet, Kylie Jenner, and Ben Stiller at game 5 of the Knicks v Hawks eastern conference first round playoffs

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· May 4

Happy Quintuple (5/4) Time & Dave Brubeck Quartet Day to all who celebrate 🥁

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Apr 20

Upstream Timeout is my favorite Shane Carruth ripoff movie put out by The Asylum

The Bluesky app login screen on iOS. There’s a red alert banner that says “Upstream Timeout”

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Apr 19

went and delivered a gliding rocking chair by cargo bike today because it didn’t fit in my car 🤷‍♂️

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Apr 2

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District is once again reminding us that no one needs to be doing housework 🫡

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Mar 21

Great weekend for vintage Montgomery Ward. Faux fur lining on this bad boy.

It’s me in a full length mirror, wearing burgundy corduroy pants and a red, white, and blue plaid flannel. The plaid means it doesn’t look at all like an American flag.

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Mar 17

Never forget the midwestern reason for the season ☘️

Harrison Ford as the wrongfully accused Dr Richard Kimble in the 1993 movie The Fugitive. Ford is wearing a green bowler hat and looking back at the camera with an anxious expression as he flees from Deputy US Marshall Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) in the Chicago St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Mar 11

Milwaukee County Office of Emergenc...
23m •
Today's routine monthly outdoor warning siren test occurred later than usual. The sirens operated normally when they were activated at 12:24 PM. The test has now been completed.

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Mar 10

Democratic Party of Texas, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social?

Hall grew up in Oklahoma, where he worked as a correctional officer, before moving to Texas a decade ago. He visited Austin for South by Southwest to party, parked somewhere he shouldn't, got his car towed and ended up staying in town to work for the towing company because he couldn't immediately afford the fees.

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Mar 9

Life comes at you fast

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Mar 2

@tmj4.com your videos never seem to work on mobile or desktop. The video is there in the post record but something’s not quite right about it atproto-browser.vercel.app/at/did:plc:g...

A screenshot of the above post, showing an error screen on the video embed, with a retry button underneath:

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Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Mar 2

DPW held an informational open house about a “proposed bridge improvement project” for one of my regular bike routes (see my pinned post) and it turns out the word “improvement” is engineer-speak for a bit of touch up paint. Totally fair but not what I expected from their jaunty invite 😅

A picture of a paragraph on the project information sheet, all spelling as in the original:

Proposed Improvements

• Concrete surface repairs, crack sealing and repairs, joint gland replacement, and spot painting of areas with deteriorated coating

• Concrete surface repairs and crack sealing of the substructure concrete columns and abutments

• Painting of the steel girders and steel bearings at locations of the expansion joints and areas of deteriorated coating.

• Existing facilitiese for people walking and biking will be maintained

The jaunty invite, with a nice picture of the bridge and lots of blue design elements around the text:

JOIN US FOR A PUBLIC MEETING!
HAWLEY ROAD BRIDGE
Over W. State Street
Join the City of Milwaukee for an open-house meeting to learn more about the proposed bridge improvement project tentatively scheduled for construction in 2028.
Monday, March 2, 2026 4 - 6 p.m.
St. Sebastian Parish
1725 N. 54th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53208

Nicholas Sideras ☃️@nicholas· Feb 25

they love the heated walkways!