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Coming soon, my new memoir on travel, aging, and sitting still, “Taking the Blue Line to Forest Park: a one-thousand year journey.”

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Big ups to the guy cracking a refreshing hard cider on the Purple Line at 7:30 am.

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I have never walked from the Daley Center Divvy station towards the southwest. So, this is the first time seeing the Picasso from this angle and suddenly…it takes on a completely different face. Damn.

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#DataViz is my passion. I cut off the multi-sentence figure label, but that honestly didn’t help clear things up.

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I was worried that America’s Greatest Posting Agency had been beaten into boring compliance recently. But the CPSC continues to hold strong during these times

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Cyclist infrastructure is my passion

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Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

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I live at a 5-way intersection in Chicago. Three(!) of the corners have banks

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Ran the Zoo Run 10k. My pace completed collapsed the final mile, so I finished at 7:06/mi average. I feel bad about falling apart so badly, but I didn’t expect to even threaten sub-7. So, it is a victory* despite the close failure of my final time. *2nd in my age group, 23rd overall

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Zoo Run packet pick up at the lion house? Absolutely

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She doesn’t get the most out of the office sunbeam in the summer, but she never skips out

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PSA: If you own a gun, CDPH has resources to keep you and your loved ones safe. ♥️ Gun Safety workshops are available in the summer, where we share first aid skills to respond to a gun injury, when & where to turn in unwanted firearms, and more. Learn more about gun safety: chicago.gov/gunsafety

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it's a good day for masks and air filters. stay safe out there

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Good to see you today, Ceres. Sorry about all the wildfire smoke

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This box is part of a home Death by Snu Snu kit.

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I’m shocked she’s only a 10x winner.

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Someone is having puppy dreams during this Zoom meeting.

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URGENT: 2 transit bills to be heard in House/Senate committee this morning. Please witness slip in SUPPORT. See below.

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Ho. Lee. Cow. My dissertation mentor, Dr. Keshia Pollack Porter, is going to be the new Dean at Hopkins SPH. There is no one I know who is a harder worker. She is so kind & generous with her time. I can’t say it’s a huge surprise, but I still feel stunned & shook that it happened. Wow.

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Who is this woman with the glorious winged hair sitting behind home plate at today’s Cubs game? My wife was wondering where someone could even get such a haircut in 2025

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Sounds like Cubs are playing a home game in Cincinnati.

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I was on this ride (looking closely in the article I am in the background of some pictures). It was an opportunity to reflect as we rolled along. The overcast skies set an appropriate tone.

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Any hubris I had from this good 800s workout is gone after today’s run. Ran 8 miles (combined treadmill & indoor track due to rain), & I feel like ass. Tired pretty much the whole time, feet hurt after like 6.5 miles. Too tired even to stretch after finishing. Appropriate humbling by running.

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The Ride of Silence is a free ride, hosted in cities worldwide, that aims to inform motorists, police and city officials that cyclists have a legal right to the public roadways. The ride also honors those who have been killed or injured. 9 Illinois communities are offering a RoS on May 21.

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800s on the track, before and after. Way faster than expected: 3:06, 3:02, 3:01, 2:59, 2:57, 2:52 (3 min rest between). I am flying on endorphins right now, but my quads might explode at some point tonight.

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Given that I was once insulted in the newspaper by the NRA for researching homicides of American law enforcement personnel, I have many thoughts (facts, ideas, & opinions) about this NYT Magazine article about police suicides www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m... A short thread 1/7

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It’s the first hot day of the year where I am working from home, so I can finally wear shorts. I now realize that I look like a 5’ 10” toddler

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Big thanks to the volunteers who came out to canvass with us yesterday at several bus and train stations. We passed out nearly 600 palm cards to transit riders asking them to take action to prevent devastating cuts to transit in the region. win.newmode.net/icjc/mma

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Ooooohhh Cubs. They keep drawing me in.

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I was about 30 when I first heard about it. Police bombing citizens from the air, then no one talked about it for decades? My mind had trouble conceptualizing that all this was true

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First and possibly last time I bike to our office in Pilsen. I am too sweaty of a man to make this a part of my work day.

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There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

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Chicago style hotdog pizza. Including celery salt, skipping bright green relish. I take no credit for its construction.

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Calm down, coffee machine. You live in a hotel in Columbus that is barely above motel status. You aren’t crafting anything. Just let me have my coffee & our interaction can be complete.

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Met the Lincoln Park coyote this morning. It ran past the dog & I down Fullerton then north on Burling. It looked to be healthy & was moving fast. Peanut was too enraptured by smells to even look up at it. Didn’t get a picture, but it looked basically like this

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Did you know on the 10th floor of City Hall there’s a huge model of downtown Chicago? It’s in the elevator lobby outside the Dept of Housing. You’d need a city ID (or appointment for city business) to get up there. But it’s cool as hell.

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