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I wish I had checked them out when I was capable of long meandering walks, but I guess I could do a couple short walks over time! This isn’t all that far from me

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I find these tight little midcentury commercial districts along The Lodge so interesting. They are relatively occupied, maintained, and less demolished than some other commercial streets in the city have been

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Perfect car and house combo in the first pic

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Second pic would make a decent cover for a Midwest emo seven inch

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We got the weed, cars, and apples!!

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Werewolf bar mitzvah…. And skeleton quince?!?

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A couple months ago I set down the enjoyable but slow-moving memoir I was reading for a cozy romance. I was really stressed and I needed it, and it was a good choice

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Jenn Hill @jmhill926.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have tried to replace it with reading. I’m not always great about it but when I manage to do so, it helps

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This is insane. To lose these trees for replaceable computers

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Also a sleep problems haver so I understand! Glad you got some sleep

ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Good Morning BlueSky, user #600,771 reporting for duty.

The corner section of a vintage tile floor circa 1920, with a border of red and green squares trimmed in black and a center of blue, black and browns in a repeating pattern.

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you, that sounds good as hell

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I would also be interested in this info if you feel like sharing, as an occasional Windsor visitor who likes a lil snack

Orange Roofs Golden Arches is an older but good book on fast food architecture. I think the other one I read on this was Hamburger Heaven by Jeffrey Tennyson

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But yeah the whole white and steel thing was supposed to convey cleanliness and standardization, and convince people that eating outside of home was clean and safe.

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There have been experiments by others to adapt it to residential use—the Armco-Ferro House at the Century of Progress exposition was the prototype, and post WW2 Lustrons were briefly mass manufactured (there are a couple around Detroit still)

When they first invented those buildings it was such a new material they didn’t know if it would be any good. They set one out in a field and it survived a Chicago winter, so they set barrels of tar on fire around it and it did okay with that too. They shrugged and started making that their thing

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Idk about the lawsuits but White Castle invented the enameled steel building. The others copied them, I wanna say White Tower (it was one of them) went so far as to steal their architectural plans back in the day

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Love to write a bunch of info repeatedly for them and the medical team only for nobody to have read it

A good friend of mine is blind, and something that helps me with alt text is thinking “what would I need to say to convey why this is cool/funny/etc” if I quickly texted it to her

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Tracy @poppyphlox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A few years ago at a craft fair I bought a microwaveable heating pad shaped like a jacket collar. I hurt my neck and upper back today somehow and MAN is that thing helping

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Ha believe it when I see it! Even if he stops he still broke the law and should be tried and removed!

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nic... ... @antagonic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

not to lib out but it sure is crazymaking in our current bipartisan rat trap system that for any given race on one side you have people with experience and professional credentials in a relevant area of expertise and on the other you have... Christian financial managers from the Grosse Pointes

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YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s at least interesting that this is not just an American thing, or even an anglophone North American thing

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the president of the United States cheering on the mass murder of Americans.

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I also feel frustrated trying to find info on them. Once somebody I knew from the WSU community was running and I felt good about that. And I tried to keep posted on how the regents reacted to student protests. But yeah idk usually it’s a “this person seems fine, I guess”

Curious about this as well, this isn’t something I’ve voted on in the other states I’ve lived in

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A guy waiting in his car at the bridge crossing took a video while he sat there and ended up capturing what happened, that’s how the info has gotten out thus far

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I don’t know yet, there haven’t been any news stories on it. I assume we would have heard if something truly awful happened but I don’t know for sure. It damaged a fair amount of things on top of one end of the ship but it didn’t like split it half or anything, it was still floating and in 1 piece

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A similar type of incident was how the historic Fort Street Bridge in Detroit was destroyed. That’s why there is that new one, in that case somebody was drunk driving the drawbridge

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Apparently a bridge operator in Cleveland closed the bridge on top of the ship American Courage, damaging the ship

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Aaron Mondry @amondry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I feel like Hamtramck landlords just assume that’s free money for them. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten one back in Hamtramck

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Have you or someone you know struggled to reclaim a security deposit following a move? If so, please reach out or pass along my email (aaron@outliermedia.org). I'd like to talk to you for a story I'm working on.

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

lol they're carting the toxic ash from the incinerator in open dump trucks through the city streets

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Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It grinds my gears when we start rewriting history. It’s even little things, like letting a PR justification become the narrative when those who lived it know what really happened. That applies to even local things, like alley recycling ending. For years the city couldn’t maintain pickups.

Spencer halted alley pickup, which served the vast majority of city neighborhoods, because too much trash was getting into recycling dumpsters, contaminating truckloads and requiring the city to pay its processor extra to send them to the landfill.

fee. Her operations chief, Ben Jonsson, said an outside contractor might be needed at first to handle the extra routes
because the city was short on trucks and drivers.

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I notice it the most when we do our designated “go all the way up to Rogers Park and do Rogers Park things” day. It is far from where we stay, and it would be so nice to just quickly grab coney food to refuel without it being complicated

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I miss the coneys when I’m in Chicago! Like ah let me just casually grab a grilled cheese in any neighborhood while we’re out running around… oh wait

Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Here in DMV, folks are starting to see chimney swifts swirling around high points. Look up!

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I used to see this mural with that quote here in Detroit, it was near a spot that’s sentimental to me

Color photo of a mural on a bright orange wall with two spooky jester masks surrounded by roses and a scroll that reads “laugh now, cry later.” Both of the faces are grimacing and one of them is smoking a blunt. They have clown noses.

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