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Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him "We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
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Just found out that a person whose childhood basement I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail in during a high school theater cast party, and whose dad's stereo is the first place I ever heard the LP version of Stop Making Sense, is now an Ayn Rand-obsessed far right state rep in Minnesota

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Anyone know about a coffee shop called "Commuter Coffee Service" that moved into Two Mile's old space in the 95th Street - Beverly Hills Metra station? I saw their signage while passing by, but can't find info online.

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Come hear me talk about my job as an architecture critic and the role of politics in imagining a better future! (along with some really fantastic journos and writers working more deeply in city planning and local Chicago politics!

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Another notable thing about the LEADS database is that it's used for DCFS background checks.

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Horrible morning. A 🧵 on how the fiscal cliff and budget works, from someone on the inside, so we understand what happens now. The most important headline: Midnight was not the deadline for the transit agencies, it was the deadline for the legislature. 1/

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I have a new cool guy thing I do which is, when I see a driver weaving across lanes of highway traffic, I say "whoa check out Anni Albers over there."

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Just saw a Facebook group post from a landlord asking for advice about trying to access a tenant's unit unannounced before the end of their lease, and the post included the phrase "do they have any legal rights?"

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Christos Livieratos' never-completed, never-occupied architectural folly in the West Loop is for sale

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Everyone order $50 of Various Size Jars RIGHT FUCKING NOW

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national hotel wreckage, site on front street, deposit, new york, 1978

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The existence of Matteson implies the existence of Glossydaughter

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Here we go, the transit omnibus is on the floor in the Senate www.ilga.gov/senateaudvid...

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Somebody should introduce an amendment that requires all the consequential budget decisions to be made before Soren's bedtime

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925 North Richmond Street

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Metra in a slugfest with Union Pacific. evanstonroundtable.com/2025/05/30/u...

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This hand washing poster has been in service long enough that the IKEA logo bled through from the backing, and Dr. Choucair is now an executive at Kaiser Permanente after a White House stint

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Had a good time today helping present a leisurely community bike ride that stopped at three different public art installations that PullmanArts helped plan over the last couple years in Pullman and Roseland. A group of UIC urban planning + design students came out for the ride, too, which was neat.

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its crazy how everything in the world is just like whichever book i read last.

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Lunch of champions

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Thought I had a billion dollar idea with "Mike's Hard Gatorade", but I looked it up and found out that not only is it an unoriginal thought, but there's even a furry here on bsky with that phrase as their display name

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These are not unknown men. They were ATF agents in plainclothes, assigned to work with ICE. They are on video showing their ATF badges. This is an incident that has been extensively reported on by local New Hampshire media. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

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mature camry no. 226

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Curiosity got the best of me and I have discovered for myself that the Taco Bell chicken nuggets are terrible. Dry, somehow mostly breading, just irredeemable.

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We're holding our second annual Kids Art Market at the Block House Gallery on Saturday, June 14th! Please consider making this event part of your day that day - we've got a group of K-12 artists who are excited to show off their work, and they need an audience.

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I admire the audacity of somebody who's getting ready to open a business, and when they find out that [THEIR DESIRED BUSINESS NAME] is already taken by another place across town they decide to call their completely unaffiliated business [THEIR DESIRED BUSINESS NAME] 2.

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It's really unfortunate that this sharp, no-nonsense general audience distillation of the limitations of LLMs is immediately undermined when somebody returns to the publication's homepage and sees a top-billed article that breathlessly talks about "OpenAI’s Skynet moment"

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