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Emily @allweeksend.com · 24/09/2026

Your regular reminder that most of the fuel a car burns is wasted and the vast majority of what is actually used to move, goes to moving the giant mass of the car, rather than passengers or cargo. bsky.app/profile/bren...

An infographic about how wasteful car transportation is.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 14/09/2026

Is that really your experience or are you just so accustomed to bad behavior from drivers it doesn’t even register?

A pavement/sidewalk almost completely blocked by cars parking on it.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 03/09/2026

There are so many great parks and imo their distribution and diversity is part of what makes them great, but it’s really hard to beat Big Marsh.

Blazing sunset behind a bike rider and picnic table

A person. Riding a bike up a short steep dirt hill and under a big painted rainbow sign

Bike racers weaving through tall grass with a bright orange sunset in the background

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 30/08/2026

This bottle is a 1933 Owens Illinois generic medicine bottle, produced on mold #10. The symbol that looks like a 3 is a stylized “oz” symbol, the bottle is 4 oz and has ounce markings on the left, ccs on the right. This style is known as the Owen’s Oval.

The front of a glass bottle with graduations indicating ccs on the right and at the top is says [oz symbol] iv meaning 4 oz.

The left edge of the front showing ounce graduations

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 28/08/2026

In the top 1% of global scores! (Actually top .01%)

A screenshot of the global leaderboards for Threes showing me ranked #294 of 3,589,264 global players

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 28/08/2026

I just beat my high score!

A scorecard from the game threes (ThreesGame.com)

The score is 738,886

The final board:
1, 6144, 24,6
3072, 96, 768, 12
1, 1, 3, 2

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 26/08/2026

We all learned about the various models of safety precautions with Covid, right? Swiss cheese, prevention hierarchy? Helmets (ppe) can’t be the only form of protection, but they are effective in certain situations to mitigate injury.

Title: Prevention Hierarchy
An inverted pyramid from top (most effective) to bottom (least effective)

Elimination
Substitution
CPE
PPE
Damage control measures
Signalisation

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 22/08/2026

Lake forever, problems for now.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 22/08/2026

Spent a day on Alaskan Way in Seattle last weekend and … what are we doing with our lakefront?

Bike path on Seattle waterfront. It’s wide, marked like a street, and separated from the car street by a curb, garden, and a stretch of pavement (there’s a wide walking path on the other side.)

Seattle waterfront pedestrian and bike facilities. Looking north along the waterfront, water on the left. The walking path is light colored cement with a light texture, a tactile strip runs along the right edge, followed by a pebble texture, another tactile strip, and then a dark asphalt two-way bike path. Between the bike path and the road is a tall cement barrier which lowers to a (1’?) wide curb planted with low plants. In between the walking and bike paths are signposts with neighborhood/event signs. You can see condos on the far side of the street and an enormous cruise ship in the middle distance to the left.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 11/08/2026

Weird. I heard other people in the building’s phones go off.

iOS settings panel showing amber alerts, emergency alerts, and public safety alerts toggled on with test alerts set to off.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 02/08/2026

From my moms cousin earlier today.

A screenshot of a text message saying “Bob’s house” under a photo of a smoky hillside with a house standing in the middle and circled with phone markup told

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 25/07/2026

Occurrence of pedestrians on the bike path is way more frequent and worse (imo) here because where are they supposed to be?

Looking southeast toward Logan square from the north entrance to the blue line. There is a green bike “lane” and very little space on either side for pedestrians.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 25/07/2026

So far I’ve seen 100% of pedestrians walking on the bike path (~15 people?), one bike riding north along the sidewalk. 3 bikes going correctly south on the bike path, and one person on a bike riding south on the road looking uncertainly at the options available. @chi.streetsblog.org

A picture looking south from the west side sidewalk at Kedzie and Emmett

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 19/07/2026

Oh wow, are you in my pic? 😆

Ganser the band on stage on Ravenswood Ave.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 17/07/2026

Ah yes, Chicago famously didn’t exist before the car

A b/w photo of Chicago in the late 1800s packed with horses and carriages and streetcar tracks.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 13/07/2026

bsky.app/profile/sage...

A map of CTA slow zones. They’re bad, especially among the forest park branch of the blue line.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 09/07/2026

from @heatmap.news Thank goodness I barely drive and am almost never compelled to. Can't imagine this is good for our transit budget though.

Text: Researchers at Brown University estimate that Americans have paid $60 billion — or roughly $500 per household — more for gasoline and diesel than they would have had the conflict never happened.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 08/07/2026

I can’t make it tonight, but I did mock up this suggestion. Feel free to steal it, haha.

A diagram drawn over the current Edgebrook road structure showing north Caldwell realigned to a right-angle 3-way intersection with Devon, closure of the segment of Caldwell between Devon and Lehigh as well as the segment of Lehigh between Caldwell and Central. Lehigh then connects directly to Caldwell. So six 4-way intersections become three 4-way and one 3-way intersection, eliminating the intersections at the most acute angles and the slip lane at Caldwell and Devon.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 18/06/2026

Lmao literally what I said to Jason yesterday 😂

A screenshot of iMessage showing a link to the video in the prior message and my response below “this is some michel gondry shit”.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 10/06/2026

I don’t think we’ll be able to keep the window AC on eco mode in the bedroom overnight … (Monte came to bed late and closed the door for light reasons)

A screenshot showing indoor CO2 reading of 2373 ppm. Below is a 24h time graph with an extremely sharp rise in CO2 levels starting at 5am.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 02/06/2026

This was my office last week 😅

A photo showing an angle of a mixed seating communal office space, in a high rise on a middle floor. Wood floors and whitewashed industrial ceiling space with a wall of external windows. The windows are filthy and somehow have handprints. Outside the windows are hazy viewer of additional high tide buildings.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 27/05/2026

FYI, status update from the 35th ward office.

A screenshot of an email from the 35th ward office: “Re: Fw: Logan Square Farmers Market Bike Routing
Hi Emily,
Thanks for reaching out and flagging this for us. We discussed this with the Chamber, which organizes the Farmers Market, as the closure is outside the scope of their permit. They understand this and will not replicate this in future markets.
They are working on different advisory signs to encourage all multi-use path users to exercise caution given the high volume of pedestrians and cyclists in the area. We are meeting with them tomorrow to discuss this further.
Thank you for reaching out!”

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 24/05/2026

Omfg the city’s plan for bikes tough the new square on market days is “don’t”

Another sign prohibiting bikes, scooters, and skateboards on the inner Logan Square path.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 12/05/2026

Sure, but that doesn’t mean that their statements are categorically untrue. Here’s an alternate source. Still waiting on any source that says that speed doesn’t make crashes more likely. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A screenshot of text: “Abstract
Driving speed is an important factor in road safety. Speed not only affects the severity of a crash, but is also related to the risk of being involved in a crash. This paper discusses the …”

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 12/05/2026

I can’t disagree that we should have far more rigorous driver training and licensing requirements. Lots of sources will tell you that speed makes crashes more likely (I think it’s also pretty intuitive that higher speed = less chance to react). Here’s an example. www.iihs.org/research-are...

A screenshot of text: “Almost 12,000 deaths - 29% of all crash fatalities — occurred in speed-related crashes in 2023. High speeds make a crash more likely because drivers have less time to react and because it requires a longer distance to stop or slow down. They also make collisions more deadly because modest increases in speed cause large increases in crash energy.”

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 04/05/2026

I wonder how my markers & paper will fare over time.

A colorful hand-drawn whole year 2026 calendar poster hanging on a door

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 20/04/2026

After you’re done, swing by Calumet Park for some amateur racing. It’ll be fun! Racing starts at 11am and wraps up about 3:15 pm each day @halfacrecycling.bsky.social

A poster for Half Acre Cycling’s Skyway Crit series. Calumet Park, Saturday 4/25 and Sunday 4/26 2026.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 19/04/2026

Lmao I got blocked for this tepid take.

A screenshot of the quoted post including the post it was quoting: “Tressie McMillan Cottom • @tressie...
If there are roads, road deaths are a fact of life.
That's kind of...yeah.
You can reduce them. You cannot eradicate them. What are we talking about here?”

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 17/04/2026

I too this photo in Ogilvie. The cloud looked wild (might have to zoom in to really see).

A view out a set of windows with blue sky toward the top and lower, a dense cloud among the buildings in the middle distance.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 03/04/2026

New signage installed recently on Milwaukee north of Augusta! The right lane is for turns to Augusta and toward the highway on ramp!

A photo looking across Milwaukee southbound toward a white advisory sign showing the right lane makes both sharp and less sharp turns.

A wider shot looking across Milwaukee southbound toward a white advisory sign showing the right lane makes both sharp and less sharp turns.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 01/04/2026

It’s so cool and helpful to have a 25°+ temperature swing between morning and evening commutes.

An hourly forecast for Thursday showing 46° at 8 am and 70° at 6pm

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 21/03/2026

Chase, what’s the goal here writing your scam warning email as if it’s phishing? Do you get a lesson on not clicking links in emails if you click through?

An email purportedly from chase bank saying “! Action requested: Review the latest scams.
You won’t believe how convincing scammers can sound.” Below is a big green button that says “review scams>>”

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 15/03/2026

A band of lightning from nearly Houston to Chicago.

a screen capture of lightningmaps.org showing an overlay of lightning strikes in the last hour over a satellite map of the USA. There's an arc of dark orange (older) to yellow (more recent) points stretching from just north of Houston to Lake Michigan.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 02/03/2026

We can’t adopt Rosie because we don’t have a sunny spot inside the house and she can’t be trusted outside by herself.

Rosie the 63 lb red brindle greyhound sunbathing in a small grass yard.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 02/03/2026

I join you in honoring the legacy.

Catimir Pulaski stretching and lounging on a couch

Catimir Pulaski on my back in a selfie as I’m laying down.

Casimir Pulaski walking out of a cabinet of a chicago built-in with a leaded glass door.

Catimir Pulaski’s face as he rubbed his teeth on my book.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 28/01/2026

FYI #bikechi. I haven’t ridden but did walk today and this is Milwaukee north of Belmont.

A photo of a cleared protected bike lane next to a snow-covered sidewalk.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 27/01/2026

The money was spent, the lanes drastically increased bike ridership and didn’t cause congestion and they’re going to spend more money now removing the protection because drivers are so coddled their “confusion” is more important than the safety of non-drivers.

A screenshot of the article which reads, “Counts of bicycle traffic since the bike lanes were installed showed that traffic increased sixfold. Engineers also didn't find any major congestion issues with automobiles after the revamp.
Some council members said some residents told them the layout was confusing and hard to navigate. The city has been discussing a change almost since the bike lanes were added, designing alternatives and doing outreach.”

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 22/01/2026

I can see why they don’t want folks dropping their kids off at school at 8am tomorrow.

A screenshot of a weather app showing a “feels like” temperature of -37° at 8am tomorrow

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 09/01/2026

There’s a new one in Avondale too, but not in a daylight zone unfortunately.

An on-street bike parking corral on Milwaukee avenue in Chicago.

An on-street bike parking corral on Milwaukee Ave in Chicago

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 31/12/2025

This isn’t so bad, and I think I can feel proud of the comparisons to 2024. The real challenge will be improving next year. Though I suppose if I’m being honest, there were plenty of challenges to get this. Sitting on a sidewalk 8 miles from home in the blazing heat wishing for some salvation.

Strava year in sport 2025 card:
177 total days active (up 12%)
2069 miles total distance (up 26%)
201 total hours (up 38%)
74068 total feet of elevation (up 7%)

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