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Chicago Piping Plovers @chicagopiping.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you for your consideration to support this effort! takeaction.greatlakes.org/page/96945/a...

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Tell Your Senators: Great Lakes Restoration Must Continue

I just contacted my U.S. senators. Join me!

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 20h

Due to personal reasons, I will be screaming into the void

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks

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some local urchin @layneybug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“We need a mascot for our weather news…a chicken?” “No, it’s a monster who resembles a chicken.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026

It's just after 1pm on another picture perfect fall day in Chicago. So far today, masked federal agents have taken people from Brighton Park and suburban Aurora. ~1 year after the "Blitz" began, the alerts haven't subsided. ICE is still breaking windows and destroying worlds.

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026

It's really comin down out there (civilization)

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

avenge Bob’s Burgers

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b. wolo @bwolo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If anyone wants a gigantic microwave there’s one in the Clark and Lake tunnel right now

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Chicago White Sox @notwhitesox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The Tamale Guy" delivered tonight's game ball in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Night!

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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remembering Jim Henson, born on this day, 1936.

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some local urchin @layneybug.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my most delusional belief is that I could get a big cat to love me

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Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Remember when the City Council banned counter-flow bus lanes in 1990 bc they were being their usual racist selves even though a single counter-flow bus lane could carry more people than every other lane combined? With the price and shortages of diesel now is the time to repeal this ordinance

CONTRAFLOW BUS LANES IN CHICAGO: SAFETY AND TRAFFIC IMPACTS
Contraflow bus lanes were installed on the downtown portions of four Chicago streets in 1980 and 1981. They were installed as a part of a federally mandated air quality improvement program and also to increase bus patronage by improving east-west bus service reliability across the central business district. Since their installation there has been public concern about the pedestrian safety aspects of the bus lane operation as well as increased traffic congestion on the remaining lane street space. Regarding vehicular congestion, it was found that nonbus traffic did travel somewhat more slowly with the installation of the lanes. However, in terms of bus operations, there was a significant improvement both in average travel speeds (22 percent increase) and in service reliability, which resulted in annual cost savings to the Chicago Transit Authority of about $400,000. Patronage studies indicate that during peak periods the contraflow lanes move more people in one lane per street than are moved on the remaining through traffic lanes, and in only one-tenth of the number of vehicles. Concerning the safety of the bus lane operation, the actual accident data indicate that although there was an initial jump in bus-pedestrian accidents, these accidents have now returned to less than one additional accident per month on each street, and that there has been a 19 percent overall decrease in all pedestrian accidents and a 52 percent decrease in all bus accidents. The primary conclusion is that the bus lanes are operating in a safe and effective manner, and it is recommended that they be retained.

9-20-020 Reversible lanes and contra-flow bus lanes.
(a) The commissioner of transportation, subject to the review and approval of the executive director of emergency management and communications, is hereby authorized to determine and designate streets, parts of streets, or specific lanes thereon upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction during one period and the opposite direction during another period of the day, and he shall place and maintain appropriate markings, signs, barriers or other devices to give notice thereof and to divide traffic traveling in opposite directions in shifting lanes. Contra-flow bus lanes shall only be established upon the approval of the city council.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle in violation of such markings, signs, barriers or other devices so placed in accordance with this section.
(Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18634; Amend Coun. J. 12-11-91, p. 10832; Amend Coun. J. 12-7-05, p. 64870, § 1.9)

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026

update: if you are in the Chicago area and want a small gray tabby kitten maybe 8-10 weeks old, dm me (don't congratulate me on our new cat, we have four cats already, we are not keeping this one)

a gray tabby kitten in a cat climbing tree

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But then again, what has the whale to say?

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some local urchin @layneybug.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

also the teen is so pissed we made her go shopping and is dragging her feet. it took 15 minutes to pick 2 crew neck t-shirts, one white, one gray.

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some local urchin @layneybug.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I forgot how exhausting shopping is to my body but all the deals are definitely in store

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Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pikachu shares his apple with meowth 🥺

Screenshot of the pokemon anime showing pikachu breaking an apple in half for him and meowth to share

Screenshot of the pokemon anime showing pikachu and meowth sitting down in a grassy field enjoying an apple

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some local urchin @layneybug.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

due to hip surgery nonsense this is my first time wearing “hard pants” in 2026. which is a real shame when you consider what a baddie I am in them.

an over the sink mirror selfie of a white person with pink hair and glasses wearing a green t-shirt and black jeans with a western tooled belt. they look curvaceous.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again.

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Robocop (1987) @robocop1987.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I fucked up.

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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some local urchin @layneybug.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

according to the alt-text the artist uses they/them pronouns and is coincidentally my actual ideal gender presentation

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some local urchin @layneybug.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

wife and I have a few ducks we wanted to get in a row before having a baby but I didn’t realize becoming professional soccer players was on that list

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.

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Leo leventhot @leoleventhal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Keep seeing bus stop ads that say “DEATH IS NOT THE END THIS BODY IS NOT YOU” which is the worst pitch I’ve ever heard. I’m kinda banking on this sitch being a one and done type deal, an eternal soul twist would fuck all my shit up

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Tired of being a bird?” (September 14, 2026, Argyle Street, Chicago)

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If I ever told you “I know what you mean,” I was lying. I have no idea what anybody means

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bossk baby @bonnnt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time

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some local urchin @layneybug.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

technically I don’t meet the diagnostic criteria for hEDS bc the joints I have laxity in aren’t the “right ones,” but every time I look up a weird problem my body is having it says “common in people with EDS

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

If the only thing you have to note about the rising tide of fascism is that we have to let it rise far enough to be over someone else's head in order to stop it, I don't think your strategy is particularly good.

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some local urchin @layneybug.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

for today’s movie I picked Nine to Five. wife picked Seven. inside my apartment are two wolves and they both gravitate towards movies with numbers for titles.

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some local urchin @layneybug.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

walked from one end of my apartment & back w/o my cane and put all my weight on my bent surgical leg for ~30 secs so now my body is completely breaking down

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some local urchin @layneybug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

~2 weeks ago I requested ADA accommodations at work through email. I haven’t heard anything back so I decided to call instead. “this mailbox is full.”