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Chicagoan. Valpo grad. Member of Half Acre Cycling. Awesome Foundation. Occasional Karaoke singer. Anti Fascist. Fuck Terfs.
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I have both those dudes names blocked, and it's still all leaking into my feed.

Honestly, the whole shop but...... One of my favorite pins!

I really hate this new season in Chicago. Late spring/wildfire smoke season.

Lary Snelling used Chicago Police to assist ICE in deporting Chicagoans yesterday. Will there be any accountability for violating our sanctury city ordiance, or is this policy just feel good words on paper that won't be put into practice?

At 8 AM the AQI was 161 and the dominant pollutant was PM2.5 PM2.5 = 161 or 78.34 µg/m³ PM10 = 62 or 78.3 µg/m³ NO₂ = 9 or 10 ppb SO₂ = 0 or 0.32 ppb O₃ = 25 or 26.77 ppb CO = 3 or 0.3 ppb

Please note that CPD isn't only just lying about assisting yesterday, they sent their propaganda unit to the scene to *make sure* they could craft the perfect lies about it. This is what they always do. And the networks eat it up.

Not Great Bob! www.iqair.com/us/air-quali...

Some time in the last few weeks, CDOT has put up a map / schedule of when bike lanes are swept by their special small bike-lane-sized sweepers. www.chicago.gov/city/en/site... CC @chi.streetsblog.org

A facebook user’s sock puppet army continues to harass me for a second day and I continue not seeing any of it until a real person replies. Continued thanks to @localcelebrity.bsky.social and his diligent work maintaining this mute/block list of local weirdos

can we just please put the reaction gifs to bed please

i have the brain cells & masters in compsci to handle a nuanced discussion on the broad topic of artificial intelligence, but not the character count allotment on here. i will say, the “you’ll be left behind if you don’t use it” crowd is very goofy just like the “have fun being poor” web3 folks were

Another day of cops parking their Shitass Utility Vehicles near an entrance to the park so they can intimidate the youth on our dime.

Walked up to Heron Corner without the zoomy camera so of course things were popping off including a green heron hopping around. Then farther along I saw a great blue from one of the North Park U bridges so not a total loss.

I am currently on the Pride train and in my car have been a gay couple reading a board book to their adorable young child and a dude with a Chicago style hot dog tattooed on his bicep. FUND TRANSIT YOU COWARDS this is what makes us a real city

I'm glad we're long past the Rauner budget crater. That said, my controversial take tonight is that I'd take a fully funded and resourced mass transit system over a balanced budget.

Street art

This is the sort of program that I wish didn't need private donors, but helping people who've been incarcerated dealing with their trauma can help them in their return to their communities. Join me and @prisonculture.bsky.social in support. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

Once you realize that every public good you want has a cop in the way, then you begin to understand our current predicament.

Donate tools at Half Acre June 4-12 in support of the Chicago Tool Library. We're accepting useful items for home repairs, woodworking, gardening, cooking, crafting, audio/visual projects, and camping. Tools must be in good working condition.

We are paying cops ot for this fucking nonsense

I think generative AI is incredibly destructive to our teaching of #university students. We ask them to read, reflect upon, write about, and discuss ideas. ... #GenAI can simulate all of the steps ... But that would be like going to the gym and asking a robot to lift weights for you.

A society with any sense of self-preservation would have destroyed Uber ages ago

New mural on lake and Beaubien CT at Prudential plaza.

Let’s Go Transit Bill Quick ILGA Approval Happy pride!

The Illinois 2025 budget

Probably should outlaw DoorDash