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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I feel like physically pedaling and making the core decisions I need to make to get to where I’m going (making the next left for example) are SO far down the list of what I’m focused on. I’m much busier trying to accurately predict the actions of every single car in my immediate vicinity.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just this morning… There is a fence and guardrail surrounding most of the parking lot in the direction they presumably would have had to come from to end there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
SUV half inside a local lavanderia. Insert TikTok meme ‘you can’t park there!’.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Much regulation! So trustworthy! These are all within 30 minutes. Near guaranteed that no one ticketed them and they face zero consequences.
Car parked in the bike laneCar parked in the bike lane (and a bus stop)Car parked in the bike lane
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a great reminder that, yes, I should accessorize my cafe lock key ring!
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Amazing! Well done @pablo.show and team! 👏🏼
Executive Summary of the Wachtell NBA investigation of the Clippers that begins…

“On September 3, 2025, the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out produced the first in a…”
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As a cyclist who sits pretty high up and has quite a vantage point into cars traveling besides me, yeah, people be texting like crazy. Some are even watching shit! We need some repercussion to drive rates of phone usage while driving down.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In fairness to my young children, they are as passionate about bike lanes as scolding adults who are not wearing helmets. They have zero filter. 😂
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Figure this is already on your radar @joshuafmask.bsky.social?
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Cishet here. My wardrobe is as dadcore as it gets with the exception of a collection of legit designer glasses. I get compliments on them all the time and I love it! Not the reason I started my collection, just a happy accident! 👓
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As clinic escorts you’re not to engage like this (even if we’re all thinking it) so when folks like this walk through it’s really quite a warm fuzzy feeling. Especially when it’s someone like the Nini’s guy. Love it!
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
At a previous company they started posting ‘blogs’ like this. Prior to gen-ai but they were all corporate puffery with folks responding to higher ups in glowing and embarrassing ways. Technology eventually comes around to making a post and it’s themed on a recent sports championship.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Can’t imagine why people don’t like this guy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If that’s basic, I’d say the best snickerdoodles hands down are from noodles and company. Always seem to be just the perfect level of gooey/soft. 🤤
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I was JUST looking into Buildkite pricing and then open my feed to this. Does Bluesky have creepy algorithms now‽‽ (Just kidding, I know that’s not how it works. I just follow @wiredferret.bsky.social 😊 ) Currently on years old legacy pricing. Curious what they tweak on the pricing side now. 🤔
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
No one tell Ed that they used to use AI to auto identify (to ok effect in my experience) birds but then decided to put it back in our hands. AI blowback? Maybe? But my money is on the cost of tokens needed to do that… 😬 www.reddit.com/r/BirdBuddy/...
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From the BirdBuddy community on Reddit: Bye Bye Auto Identification
Explore this post and more from the BirdBuddy community
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Related discourse on this city declining a train station on a line that goes to downtown Chicago. Lot of people worried that folks from ‘the city’ would take the train out to the far suburbs and crime would increase. 🙄 www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2025/10/04/h...
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Huntley backs out of planned Metra station for new passenger train service between Rockford and Chicago
Huntley has officially backed out of obtaining a Metra train stop on the planned Chicago-to-Rockford passenger line, village officials confirmed Friday.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Forgot I was following him. Worth an unfollow and block. 👋🏼
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The flag outside our house is either Chicago or Pride.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 30/06/2026
virtue signaling is good, actually
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Dang. I sold Hunter fans as a high school/college student working at Menards. Regarded them as some of the best. Years later bought non-originals (that weren’t cheap) and 2/3 are technically irreparable less than 3 years after install. Meh, indeed! 😞
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I could not find evidence of the exact skeet that tipped me off, but I know it was @joshuajfriedman.com who tipped me off to Bean Club. A few years (only 1.5 on the actual list) later and her we are! We were bean people yesterday, but we’re heirloom bean people today! 🫘
A photo of a box filled with Rando Gordo beans!
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
As someone who lives in a major city that seems to be doing bike infra more piece meal than not (Chicago), I appreciate that there are indeed people that understand this stuff.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@joshuafmask.bsky.social - too late to move my shit international? 😂 I assume there’s a more modest take on this, but maybe it’s all just an Elon scam through and through and we’re all along for the ride because he helped is big dumb friend become president? 😬
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
One downside I realized this weekend. A friend asked if we listened to any kids podcasts and…we don’t really. Because listening to podcasts is something we do in the car and we’re rarely toting the kids around in the car. 😂
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Told a dude yelling in traffic that he needed to ‘pick a different word, asshole’. Shared that story and some adults seemed miffed that I would be ok with my kids hearing the word asshole but not the r word and I think my five year old better understands different words are different.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I remember meeting with my alder after moving to talk about people zipping through our residential street and he was like ‘well what are some ideas you have?’. Uhh, what? I’m not a traffic engineer, I don’t know what options are technically available given the circumstances.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
There was a community meeting in Chicago where some folks were hostile to some extra paint on the road. 🙄 One of those folks seemed genuinely shocked to find that 1. people bike through his neighborhood and 2. that parents with children have had their lives threatened just for doing so.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My go to for most egregious, besides the NCIS clip that makes the rounds, is actually Source Code. I can suspend a lot of disbelief, but a commuter car with a Dunkin and bathroom doors from the future and nope, that train station isn’t two stops from downtown it’s clearly Vancouver. 😂
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Just saw a car covered in infowars stickers and I do wonder the half life of those once Tim Onion gets the Cloudflare credentials. 😂
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ahh, damn. From the headline I assumed it was a cutesy name but ultimately meant removing the larger restriction. Of course it doesn’t. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I do not personally know Norm but, based on everything he’s done, he’s a damn good egg.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I had Where’s Waldo?! Love how this thread is full of replies of lunch boxes pulled from eBay. 😂
Where’s Waldo plastic Thermos brand lunch box and thermos. Circa 1980s.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It sucks so much that we aren’t pushing as many people as we can to e-bikes (with $$$ incentives). In fairness I don’t commute, but the kiddos need to go too and fro and groceries, and social events, etc. Opening that door for many would for sure be a game changer.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is awesome! It’s such a great combo. Add in the smugness that comes with largely zipping around traffic. Even if it’s a crummy day, but if the weather is nice, oh boy you will not get passed by anyone more smug than me biking my kids in the open air, music playing, smiling away. 😂
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I wasn’t thrilled about using Outlook sitting in an Aeron chair in a comfy downtown office with snacks. To be strapped to a big ass rocket with not just one Outlook, but two? Wild!
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Not to take away from this level of nonsense, but the only protestor I encountered yesterday in Chicago was a dude that gave one weak ass ‘boo’ as he drove by and then rolled up his window. Real loser shit all around.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
But for real, @pablo.show has introduced me to folks from primarily the sports world I may not have heard of otherwise. Current favorite podcast! @minakimes.bsky.social @michaelfflorio.bsky.social @dkthomp.bsky.social @katienolan.bsky.social @msjpauly.bsky.social, Amin, Dan, David, Kawhi, et al.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
There’s a father at my son’s school that walks with a weighted vest but it looks oddly tactical from afar. I assume he doesn’t want that attention and so he has several patches affixed that make it very clear he’s not associated with any of that. Pride flag, fuck ice, etc. He’s doing his part!
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I remember reading about this at, I believe, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum ages ago and being so saddened and so enraged that this happened. Would be a tragedy to repeat that history.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Feels like when your manager/director (who have not been ICs for ages) hops into a conversation about a problem offering a solution. Used to be they’d have to code it, now they hop into their LLM of choice and vibe. Either way they assure you the problem is easy and nearly solved. But it isn’t.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Related. I’ve been skeptical of Scouting America (fka the Boy Scouts) for many reasons, even as friends involve their kids. But until this week I didn’t realize just how large and successful the scouts to military pipeline was. 😳
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I'm going to share a very good story about the internet. I won't tell it well because I apparently have the flu, but I think we all need a good story about the internet. It starts in 2021, when I took a sabbatical and got a little workspace to write a design book.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Worked in a hardware store in HS. Every year around the holidays a few people would come up and ask for an ‘adapter’ because they mounted their lights backwards. Had to explain to them why that doesn’t exist. One coworker absolutely made one for a customer which was wildly dangerous.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
On the contrary, I have little interest in sports, but this balance and approach to a, in his words, ‘technically a sports podcast’, are what have made me a regular listener. Came for Team Ballmer drama and have enjoyed everything else even though at the end of the day there’s a sports connection!
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This is wholesome AF. Worth the watch. 😊
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Do we have a shot of the Gerald Ford plaque from the White House? Wonder what it says about this. 😂
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Imagining this as… “Learning about prediction markets.” [spongebobafewmomentslater.jpeg] “I think American had a gambling problem.” I’ve not read as much in sure, but that industry is WILD. 😂
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Welp. Saw @ed3d.net roasting people for their skills issues regarding the Jira MCP server and my very first pretty basic ask quickly showed how powerful that can be!
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Similarly. Was looking for an appliance repair company. Came across one that referred the region the service as ‘the Valley’ when it very much isn’t and their about page uses VERY obvious genAI. Hard pass on that for sure.
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John Kelly @johnkelly.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
There was a few months post iOS update where AirPrint refused to work and I wanted to Office Space the thing, but it’s been fine for a while now. Soooo much less annoying than going to print and finding out your barely used ink cartridge is all dried up causing it to refuse to print. 😡
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