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uptown ilocana@yajeetz· 1d

“i rly like that fan!” - older neighbor

a photo from my perspective of a large hand fan with the stripes of the bisexual flag

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· 1d

my friends painted a mural in memoriam of our friends in 🇵🇭 on an embankment wall of the nsml

a photo of a painted mural on a mossy concrete wall. it has a filipino flag, a rice field and country side, a 19 point sun, and a poem.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· 5d

limp wristed! at the illinois railway museum

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· 8d

let it be known that i had barricade for up-w last weekend

a photo of a platform at ogilvie transportation center, a metra terminal for the UP-W line. fences have been set up to control the flow of lollapalooza attendees. from the camera's perspective, matching my own, my hand reaches out to hold the fence, as if i was at the front of a crowd at a concert, "getting barricade".

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· 23d

that's a lot of monitors i like it

a screenshot of the airnow app showing air quality monitors over a map of chicago. air quality monitors of the city of chicago are shown in translucent yellow and green citcles following city limits and mostly in a uniform grid spacing. air monitors by other organizations are in opaque yellow circles displaying a numerical value for the air quality.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· 29d

too hot, can’t breathe, and no berries

this poster is sourced from a webpage of the UNT digital library. i’ll use their resources.

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc488/

A smiling man relaxes in an easy chair while reading a newspaper and smoking a pipe. A Springer Spaniel dog lies on the floor beside him. On a book case at his side is a framed picture of a young soldier, a radio, and a fan which blows his hair back.

albert dorne is the artist.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Jun 20

happy birthday maddie i thought of something funnier than 24

a screenshot of the s3e13 spongebob squarepants episode “new student starfish”. talking in class, spongebob asks patrick what is funnier than 24, which turns out to be 25. they’re holding in their laughter.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Jun 17

today i think ill break out the locks (L socks)

a photo of socks on my feet. they have cta l destination signs on them.
orange - midway
purple - linden
pink - 54th/Cermak
Yellow - Dempster Skokie
Red - Howard
Blue - O’Hare
Brown - Kimball
Green - Harlem
in the background are neckties. notably, my red after dark flying toasters tie. i’m a red background are sewn patterns of crt computer screens and also cartoony toasters with wings

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Jun 10

turned a quarter still a dime also happy one year

a wide angle closeup photo of myself looking closely at someone’s fingers. im wearing a ball cap that shades my eyes, glasses, and a black face mask. my fingers wrap around the fingers im inspecting

a photo of myself at the lincoln park honeycomb. im lying on the ground, on my back, looking up. in the background, the honeycomb structure is over me, and the chicago skyline is far away.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Jun 6

tadc finale was pretty good idk what to do with my life now lol

a photo of myself in a movie theater lobby. i’m standing next to a cardboard cutout for the amazing digital circus. im standing on its left, behind jax, who is siting with his head down. i’m standing with my hands wrapped behind my back, wearing all black.

a photo of myself in the hallway of a movie theater where im posing under the led sign indicating the showing of the amazing digital circus last act. my leg is up, im making a peace sign, and im looking down at the camera wearing all black

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· May 28

cat tools

a photo of a cat sniffing a hammer and sickle

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Apr 30

tshirt that says "i walked broadway and all i got was this tshirt and a new banner"

a collage of the unique street signs along broadway, a road in chicago. the signs are either rectangular with the name of the street or side street in capital or lowercase letters, a cardinal direction, and the suffix. broadway does not have a suffix. the pictures are assigned in rows. left to right, there's a row of the unique signs of broadway, and the next row starts all the side streets, from devon to diversey.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Apr 27

happy birthday, you nerd!!! 🤓

a photo of my sibling wearing all black, sitting on a purple yoga mat. my cat is loafing on a blue towel, lookin at the camera.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Apr 14

retirement plaque

a photo of a wooden plaque honoring 30 years of service by a now retired employee of the southwest division of pace suburban bus. the plaque has a platform for the shoulder patch indicating “pace southwest division”, and a small wooden pace bus. there is a post-it over the engraved name and position of the recipient.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Apr 11

tysm for your suggestion! i went to both prairie crossings and visited one of the developments nearby. it was interesting.

a photo of an empty three way intersection. behind the street lamp is an empty field of growing… fauna. but it isn’t green fauna.

a photo of the non-gazebo grilling shelter in grayslake. it’s an open air shack in a green lawn.

A photo of the station sign for MD-N Prairie Crossing.

a photo for the station sign of NCS Prairie Crossing.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Mar 31

today is trans day of visibility. do you see me?

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Mar 20

hbd @czaerra.bsky.social one of the siblings of all time marg tower marg tower marg tower

a screenshot of the video “my weekend as a 28-year-old in chicago”.
the title is in the top of the thumbnail of the video and screenshot. there’s a guy pointing up at the title but only his head and left arm are visible.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Mar 14

why is everything green

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Mar 9

besides this photo of cornstarch, no not rly…

a photo of a container of cornstarch in one of the rear seats of a 2600 series blue line train. it’s the only subject in the photo, as there are no other people in the frame, and there’s just litter on the floor.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Mar 7

happy sesquicentennial! (150th) i don’t think i’ve posted these yet

a photo of a tan western electric 2500dm on the crosswalk at lasalle and van buren. it’s under the station and train tracks block the sun. there are cars parked along the side of van buren, and tall buildings along the tracks. i squatted so the photo is low to the ground.

a photo of a tan western electric 2500dm on the crosswalk at lasalle and jackson. along the street, there are tall buildings with flagpoles flying flags of their institutions. far from the camera, there are cars parked along the curb and driving towards or away from the camera. i squatted so the photo is low to the ground.

a photo of a western electric 2500dm sitting atop an enamel painted bollard just past the southeast exit staircase of quincy station, at the northeast corner of jackson and wells. it’s framed so that the phone is glowing under the overcast sunlight in the center of the photo and the frame of the staircase entryway surrounds the phone. one step of the staircase reads “stop no entry”.

a photo of a western electric 2500dm on the crosswalk at adams and wells. in the background, two large hotel buildings along the street are flying flags and the street lamp poles in front of them fly banners for “broadway in chicago”. the art institute and adams/wabash station are visible at the end of the street. i squatted so the photo is low to the ground.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Feb 13

nice part of spring of deception when all the doorways un-warp from the cold and i can close my doors again

a picture of a list of seasons. i added emoji arrows to fool’s spring and spring of deception.

winter
fool’s spring
second winter
spring of deception
third winter
the pollening
actual spring
summer
hell’s front porch
false fall
second summer
actual fall

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Jan 19

the surgical glove people 🥹 igthere’s a new meta if i got these while in the hospital then i wouldn’t’ve been bored :P

a photo of three surgical gloves inflated and tied with surgical masks to look like people wearing bonnets and holding blood vials. smiling faces with closed eyes of long lashes have been drawn on two of the dollls. the third has a mischievous smiling face.
this screenshot is from this tiktok by laviedestephhh.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8faAH8s/

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Jan 9

(forgot to post this last week) i love lemon pig

a photo of six lemon pigs arranged in a 2x3 grid on a white table on top of a purple-ish carpet. The photo was arranged in a similar way as the preceding year.

The lemon pigs are arranged so that each column represents my own or czaerra’s pigs (mine are on the right column), and year. (the back row welcomed 2024, middle for 2025, and front for 2026.)

Lemon pigs are lemons that have been decorated to look like pigs, using pepper corns for eyes, pennies stuffed into the “mouth” to manifest money in the new year, and the bump opposite from the stem as the nose. Toothpicks are used as feet and foil as the tail. The head is cut in a way to create ears.

The 2024 and 2025 pigs arevery old and dried out. they have shrunken to be smaller than the 2026 lemon pigs.

The 2024 lemon pigs do not have foil tails and use plastic toothpicks for feet. The 2025 lemon pigs use plain colored toothpicks. The 2026 lemon pigs use colorful toothpicks.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Dec 26

i’m so goated

a screenshot of the results of @laurie-merrell.bsky.social’s Chicago Local News Quiz 2025
i scored 100%
https://lauriemerrell.com/chicago-news-quiz-2025/

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Dec 25

marin christmas, everyone cook county townships gingerbread cookie and chicago townships gingerbread cookies

a photo of my hand holding a baking sheet lined with wax paper and containing gingerbread cookies. one big cookie is in the shape of cook county. it’s is white and black lines to show townships of cook county. there are 9 more cookies, one for each township of chicago minus maine, leyden, stickney, calumet, and worth.

a photo of a map of townships in cook county. there are lines for township boundaries, indian boundaries that have influenced them, and the boundary of the city of chicago.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Dec 23

i saw the metra thing

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Dec 22

extension this morning 🫩

a photo of a cta bus at the 93 california/dodge stop of the logan square blue line / bus station. the destination sign cycles between the name of the route “93 california/dodge” and davis purple line, not shown. it’s night so the sky is dark and the street lights are on

a photo of a 93 California/dodge bus at the davis purple line / bus station. it reads “93 California/dodge” and cycles with “kimball brown line,” which is the old destination. it’ll go to the logan square blue line. it’s daytime, so the sun is shining on the parking garage behind the bus.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Dec 20

oh what fun it is to ride

a selfie in the holiday bus. the camera is facing the ceiling, showing the decorative wallpaper, colorful aisle lights, and children’s drawings in place of the ads. i’m in the bottom of the frame, wearing a black facemask, glasses, and the cta holiday beanie. it’s of a green border, red top, and christmas lights. i’m holding a sprinkles cookie in a plastic wrapper.

a photo of the led sign at the front of the holiday bus. the grab bars are decorated with white and red stripes like candy canes. the ceiling has snowflake wallpaper. the aisle lights are colored red and green. the stop displayed on the led sign is “marina city”, but i posed the camera so that a grab bar would block the sign, reading “marin city”

a photo of the holiday bus at navy pier bus terminal. it’s during the day and the building and everything is illuminated by indirect sunlight. it’s partly cloudy. the holiday bus is in frame. it’s articulated and the exterior has a wrap depicting a winter wonderland. the windows and frame of the bus is lined in christmas lights. the skyline, bean, and christmas trees are in the background.

a photo of the holiday bus laying over at 95th red line north terminal. the sun has set and the christmas lights around the frame and windows of the bus glow bright. the destination sign reads “103rd garage”.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Dec 18

girl who’s been on the purple line for the past 3 1/2 hours

a photo of the ceiling interior of the cta holiday train. it’s a 2600 series train with wallpaper and colored furniture themed around the holidays. the interior lights are green and red. the ceiling is wallpapered blue with snowflakes. and the ads are about the holidays and the sponsor of the holiday train and bus.

a selfie of myself looking down at my phone. behind me is the ceiling of the holiday train. i’m wearing my glasses, a black surgical mask, and the 2025 cta holiday beanie with christmas lights

a photo of the rear of a car of the cta holiday train. the interior is dimly lit by the green and red aisle lights. christmas lights are hung along the frame of the ceiling, beneath the ads. the wood paneling has wallpaper themed around gifts. and the chairs have plastic that is green and red.

a photo of the holiday train at howard, having finished its last run of the day. the exterior is a light blue sky with snow on the ground and depictions of santa through a chimney. christmas lights trace the frame of the train car, and there‘a a big LED screen that says “cta”. the door is open, showing an empty, yet illuminated holiday car interior.

uptown ilocana@yajeetz· Dec 16

marin who just rode ~all the transit on western av 49B, X49, & 349

a photo from the bus stop in the terminal of the first sb stop of 49B North Western. the bus stop sign is in the middle of the terminal boarding island and the sidewalk is covered in snow. the sun has almost started setting. facing west from the east side of western av.

a photo of the 79th & western av bus terminal, taken from the drop off platform. the photo shows the opaque canopy showing the stops for 49, X49, 79, and 349. it’s night time so the bright lights illuminating the terminal are causing reflections in the lens of the camera, showing lights in the night sky that do not exist.

a photo taken from the dropoff stop of the pace harvey transportation center. other buses like 352 and another 349 are in their bays. there are lights over the opaque metal canopy illuminating the terminal.

a selfie of myself in a metra electric train restroom. i’m wearing a yellow-ish cap with a chicken, a black surgical mask, my clear aviator-ish glasses, my dark green jansport jacket, my black mesh bike gloves with green highlights, my black mitski tshirt with a design of a filipino martial artist kicking in the shield of a police officer, and my satchel, which isn’t in the shot but the yellow strap goes over the design of the tshirt.