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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I like to think there was a big fight at headquarters about whose song to use, and in the end they had to just use both.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I hope that’s what @nikhunder.com did after helping with our bike bus this morning!

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I only got 3 hours of sleep, but the bike bus was fine. Barely controlled, exuberantly joyful chaos.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The corker map we’ve been working on this week is borderline Charlie Day murderboard if you know what I mean

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Second bike bus tomorrow so naturally I’m spiraling. It’s fine, I’m fine, it will be fine. But also AHHHHHHH.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Stop the Child Murder” absolutely whips as branding compared to its more polite US variant, “Vision Zero.”

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So good. I saw these on my aforementioned paper hunt for my husband, but I don’t think he’d appreciate them as much as I do.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

1000 guesses and I wouldn’t have guessed it

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wow thank you for looking this up so I don’t have to (I always see them and immediately forget)

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Lurie Garden in Millennium Park is finally mostly open! The water feature is functional again and lots of people were enjoying it.

A wooden boardwalk in a native plant garden that steps down to a shallow, narrow water feature. Several people sit along the edge. In the background is the Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing with a newly installed artwork by Tony Cokes visible. The yellow installation on windows with red type reads “Let yourself be free” (from Aretha Franklin’s 1968 recording “Think”). Further is the southern side of the Chicago skyline along Michigan Ave. It’s a sunny, blue sky day with a few wispy clouds.

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batski @babski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So great! Wish my bike bus had a police escort 😅

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know! That’s why I said today ☺️ I just don’t trust drivers at all

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So this was a first: A woman on a classic Divvy asked me to stay with her as I announced my pass near Ohio St beach. A guy on a bike was sexually harassing her, and she didn’t feel comfortable because she couldn’t go very fast. I rode with her to her exit. Just unbelievable.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh yeah I know, just without the red paint it could look like a parking lane (the same way a painted bike lane does)

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Will people park in it today?

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pleeeeeease my child loves sports but is so easily scared

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They did take photos of the car and license plate and said they were going to report it after the fact

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s protected by a concrete curb and flexi posts. It was right outside Baby Gym in the southbound bike lane.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s easily the best lane I’ve personally ridden in all of the city too

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The rider really didn’t want to do that, but if it was me I 100% would have.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I came upon a bicyclist who was doored in the Clark protected lane just north of Lawrence yesterday. They were shaken up but physically OK. The upsetting part was that the person who did the dooring immediately closed the door and would not come out the entire time we were there tending to rider.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is! I live right here but haven’t been in. I’ve heard it mostly caters to the college set (god bless).

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

they also want to be able to drink a beer outside in the sunshine with their friends. something that could be possible if we changed open container laws

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just had friends over tonight!

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Run these streets” = have 36 inches that a driver can block at any second from either side

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean I’d be mad if I was driving on a glorious day like today. But it’s impossible to live in Chicago without a car due to our 8 months of snow, so I completely get it.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I emailed the principal of my kid’s CPS about an AI tshirt design the PTO was selling. She was actually really receptive!

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s an absolutely gorgeous day for a bike ride. Too bad the drivers are psychotic!!!

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year our block didn’t use our annual block party permit so they used it on Halloween. It was SO FUN. When I recommended doing it again this year (especially since Halloween is on a weekend) people laughed at me.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you don’t have kids or haven’t been to one, I can totally see how it might seem like an effort to make trick-or-treating more “safe.” But it’s usually just a way for people who know each other but don’t make it to each other’s blocks on Halloween to have some costumed fun.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Source: I lived in the Detroit burbs for most of my childhood and again for 3 years with my own small child.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I hate the car centrality of trunk-or-treat as much as the next urbanist, but I’m begging people to understand that they aren’t substitutes for trick-or-treating. A church, school, or other org might host one as a Halloween-adjacent gathering.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone is walking behind me on the sidewalk whistling. I feel like I’m in the beginning of a horror movie. They are a good whistler, I just hate whistling.

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

…but specifically not to the location pictured

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh no! (I’ve been in a cargo bike recall before, it was hell. Hope Gazelle handles this better than Rad did [way before the battery thing].)

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is awesome—thank you!

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Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Definitely going to check Crane out! Sounds dreamy.

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