Emma GZ R 📍🗺️✨

Community development & Chicago nerd | Food, fitness, & pop culture lover | @UChicago & @MITDUSP alumna | she/her ✶

[FEMME MUSE @itsthefemmemuse]

Keep fresh flowers, have a signature look, have a spot for everything, know what you like, cherish your style, curate rituals to your liking, romanticise your life, find magic in the mundane, be an interesting person, challenge your limiting beliefs — maximise your existence.

[Emma GZ R 📍🗺️✨ @EmmaGZRoberts]

It was wild seeing this from my downtown office window! Blue skies and sun out at about 7:45pm.

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"Money, power, and privilege are perfectly acceptable forms of affirmative action, while kids growing up like I did are expected to compete when the ground is anything but level."

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

Chicago has the worst air quality in the world right now. Here’s how to protect yourself: https://t.co/8MhZtJg4tt

[Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9]

It officially becomes summer at 9:57am this morning in Chicago. #chicago #weather #SummerSolstice

[asif @chromaticgaga]

lady gaga opening her first ever album with this track order

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“One of the best things that can happen to you is to achieve professional success when you’re young. That way you can learn that it does little to change your happiness.” - via @SimoneStolzoff

https://t.co/6TAKceAdFN

[Lorenzo Green 〰️ @mrgreen]

Expanding famous album covers using AI. 🪄

(Photoshop generative fill)

h/t to @dobrokotov for this amazing idea!

1. Michael Jackson - Thriller:

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#ToListen

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@jackanfer A case for @SwitchedOnPop

[glo ꕤ @hewontglo]

HOLY MOTHER KELLY CLARKSON

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

I know a lot of you wanted a technical breakdown of this meme so here it is!

I don't think you will find this level of detail anywhere else so keep reading if you don't want to miss out.

[jamie loftus 🌭 @jamieloftusHELP]

jack black assigning the kids positions in the band in school of rock is the greatest scene in the history of movies

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

My friend @waitbutwhy has a Life Calendar that breaks down your life into weeks.

Each row represents one year.

I started thinking about this more with the birth of my son in May 2022. He’s almost a year old now.

As the saying goes: “The days are long but the years are short.”

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Best vibe of them all

[Leigh Giangreco @LeighGiangreco]

This is a very specific vibe but what are the best bars in Chicago for reading a book solo?

(@Shokdiesel I feel like this should be an @eaterchicago list).

Bonus points if there’s an Old Style sign outside and a surly bartender inside.

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"It's hard to build momentum if you're dividing your attention."

This @JamesClear quote has been rattling in my brain since I read it. How can I put aside certain projects/tasks at work to get momentum on projects that really need it?

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What are folks' favorite #siteblocking Chrome extensions? I've used Self Control for years, but need something that can accommodate more sites. #productivty #focus

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So many good food murals round town

[Titus Pullo @chibbqk1ng]

Did you know Chicago style food is also an art movement?

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🥹 can’t wait to cry my eyes out

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

.@Jbrekkie’s Michelle Zauner has tapped ‘White Lotus’ star Will Sharpe to direct the adaptation of her best-selling memoir, ‘Crying in H Mart.’ https://t.co/Jx7HOmBB9s

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Greek philosopher Epicurus on desire and contentment:

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Via @JamesClear