sorenspicknall.bsky.social
Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
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Just gotta make sure they get connected with a good regular bike shop instead of the one whose owners went on Fox & Friends to do an overblown Crime In Chicago segment a few years back
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Usually I'm deeply jealous of north/northwest side scenes like this one, but the weird ice cream shop inside an industrial building / church in my neighborhood is open until 10 most days, so we're at least reasonably competitive with Margie's late night treat hours.
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Disagree, but I respect people who genuinely enjoy the extremes
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Especially when the buses are bunching
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Trying to find accessibility information for Concord has been a significantly worse experience than with other midsize venues around town.
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There's a ton of energy being poured into 50501-coordinated events right now. They're a huge center of gravity for big tent mobilization - Saturday's turnouts are proof positive. But organizing missteps can get people killed, and some of these chapters need to listen to more experienced organizers.
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The same goes for local chapters jumping into immigration rapid response without giving their followers guidance on what to *do* in the presence of immigration enforcement, or without arrest support.
Same with any organizing area - mobilizing without a grounded strategy can deeply endanger people.
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And the local chapter's self-contradictory public statements in the aftermath, some loaded with direct accusations and admissions that they're likely to regret later in court (not to mention the typos), suggest that the people who put together the SLC rally lack experience. That lack is dangerous.
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Some 50501 chapters have lots of shared members with other orgs who've mobilized large protests, created effective safety plans, etc. (and who know when to shut up for legal reasons). Others, less so.
This tragedy seems to be a dire result of a loose network that contains a lot of new organizers.
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I might have some of the details fuzzy (was it lot size or proposed development parcel size?, etc.), so I'd also be curious to hear from somebody who knows more of the specifics.
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I wonder how much of that is attributable to the enaction of huge minimum lot size requirements in much of rural Fayette County during the late '50s, which I understand was meant to prevent suburban redevelopment of horse farms. I haven't read much on this, but casually, it seems it reduced sprawl?
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Buc-ee's is supposed to be queer-coded, somebody needs to take that away from them
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I imagine that being in the exact location it's in, these blocks between downtown and UK's campus where there's been a whole lot of scattershot redevelopment but not a lot of consistent neighborhood fabric, is a value limiter. It'd probably fetch more in some of the city's other neighborhoods.
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Yes, via 25E
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Side note: somebody put a lot of love into Lexington's Wikipedia entry
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Thanks to my love @crayolapenguin.bsky.social for the instant camera shots
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If you're a robbery crew, what's more practical: a friend waiting in a car in the nearest alley, ready to peel away, or a train station six blocks away that you have to run to in full view of a busy street and then wait an indeterminate amount of time for the train to actually show?
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I don't know the contents of the bartender's heart, nor do I know whether they knew that the reported robberies involved an escape by car when they were interviewed, but the train station thing is very often a racialized shorthand among north siders living near the Red Line.
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I lived a couple blocks away for two years and always just took the 6 because it's cheaper, more frequent, and arrives downtown pretty much just as fast
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As far as I know, that station exists solely for the use of Megan's old therapist