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that's me, in a bar. I love the cold dark clutch of grey sullen Chicago winter

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Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social · 4h
Come to our party at the Clipper tonight! You won't regret it!
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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 4h
It's obvious at this point that late September and early October street fests are an untapped vein and until supply meets demand we're going to see festivals with small admission asks (right now the fall fests range from free to $5) get absolutely swamped with people even with little marketing.
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 7h
but the proper solution is to make sure every neighborhood is walkable, with tree lined streets, protected bike lanes, great public transit options, lots and lots of additional housing and other public amenities that make it so every neighborhood is as goddamn delightful
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 22h
This guy in the bar is playing his piano just like Dad
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Anyone got a not GIG guide to the school board races?
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think we should #BuildTheTunnel BuildTheTunnelChicago.org
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This #FirstTuesday is World James Bond Day. You know you want to wear your Bond girl boots.
The James Bond barrel thing from the title credits, but it's a flier for First Tuesday at Carol's Pub
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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sparkling water forever, seltzer for now
A glittering lake beneath a bright blue sky and a white-hot sun. The silhouette of the Obama Presidential Center and the Museum of Science and Industry are visible in the  background. The foreground is large limestone rocks A hand holding a glass of seltzer with condensation on the sides and bubbles throughout
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4. The Substance (body horror of the most grotesque & entertaining) (but like every other movie lately, it was not entertaining enough to go on that long, and it did not stick the landing)
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Checks out
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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My other ride is a camelsaurus
Color photo of panel of white speckled terra cotta in the shade, depicting a creature with a camel-like head and neck, but with a hump that takes up the rest of the body and squat legs. Also ridges along back and curled tail. Dude is hauling a flat transport sled.
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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TFW you and your boys run afoul of Circe
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
attempting to dox a gang rape survivor is like the final boss in loser behavior. a cloud of loserdom will surround you for the rest of your life. people on the street will see you and they probably won’t know your name but they’ll know you’re the fucking worst.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I love perfume. I wish it weren't such a nuisance to everyone around though.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Alternately, we could tear it down or close it to cars/make it CTA buses only.
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Scott @skh80.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every neighborhood adjacent to DLSD is overrun with traffic either getting on DLSD and/or getting off it.
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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Edgewater Beach. Or as I like to call it, New Ravenswood East
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sometimes I wish someone would give me an unlimited party budget. It's not like I'd throw lots of parties. Just that I want to be able to throw big parties whenever I want. And to be able to pay for the small celebrations whenever it seems like a good idea.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Starting a day late: #SpookySeason 1. Zombieland: Double Tap (fun) 2. Ruins (meh. I think I read it once) 3. Backrooms (did what it set out to do. unsettling)
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Got mine before we traveled! #SeasonalVaccinations #FluShot #CovidShot
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OH NO. Hope it does not have too much fun without you.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
it's quite frivolous. I recall watching it when it was broadcast on PBS decades ago.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
it's a bit of a niche cocktail.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The House of Elliot
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Following some droll banter in a costume drama I watched while being sick this week, and because we are the sort of people with apple brandy & yellow chartreuse in the house, I have made us a Widow's Kiss to kick off the weekend. imbibemagazine.com/recipe/widow...
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Widow's Kiss Cocktail
This adaptation by Jim Meehan of the Widow's Kiss cocktail adjusts the classic proportions for modern tastes.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two years after buying fabric for this project, I managed to get it cut today. AND picked buttons from the stash. I had to cut it flat to get all the pieces out of the yardage. And it was hard to find an appropriate underlining (everything I tried had stretch—the shell does not). #Halloween
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Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Early voting starts in Chicago TODAY and @injusticewatch.org is here to help you make she's of that long judicial portion of the ballot! Wondering what a "retention" election is anyway? Read @kellygarcia.bsky.social's explainer! www.injusticewatch.org/judges/judic...
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What are Cook County judicial retention elections?
Why we vote to retain judges and your other questions answered.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm going to a prix fixe at the jazz club with my dad (and mom) (and the sis & bro in law) this weekend and I am really happy about it. I haven't been out to their house much this summer, which I'm trying not to dwell on.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
These assholes running the country are not serious fucking people. They have quite literally no concept of how any adult thing or real responsibility functions.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was today years old when I realized that's a gun barrel, not a camera shutter, in the 007 opening credits sequences.
The opening sequence of the All My Circuits movie from Raging Bender. With a robot taking a swan dive off the barrel of a laser pistol.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
election law webinar! gonna do that election protection thing again.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026
I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(she does not get into how this story slams up against reproductive rights and freedoms, but you're smart, you'll see it)
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Caitlin Doughty's newest video is wonderful. And it sits at an interesting intersection of reproductive rights and grief autonomy which she talks about from her perspective of funerary advocacy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ-O...
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Who Yaasified this Mummified Victorian Toddler?
YouTube video by Caitlin Doughty
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
See? That lady who traveled only one stop took a seat!
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If there are empty seats on the bus and you stand in the ext doorway, I will judge you an asshole
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026
ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard
“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”
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Scott @skh80.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Get festivals out of parks. Rinse and repeat every single year: 1. Festival destroys park 2. City has to fix the park 3. Park never improves and citizens can't use the park for a month or more every summer.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I mean, yes mutual aid, bail funds, free stores. Yes! When we say you can't fix broken systems with individual changes, we're not telling folks not to make individual changes & not dismissing the impact of those choices. We're saying those are salves, not cures. We need both. We work for both.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The number of YT comments on this one: "But mutual aid!" My guy... slavery is de facto legal in this country. We ain't gonna fix that with food pantries & bail funds.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mom said the cats at her house were not interested, but our boys took to it immediately!
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Last week was emotionally taxing and this week I've been sick. And today is made for snuggling in bed with the cat. So now I'm two weeks behind in everything.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean, you've seen my living room.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Personalized music already exists. I have a tedious story about this which ends and begins with Tanya Donnelly singing: Ohahoh you gaaave me too much roooooooooom. So Iiii filled it up with chairs. You can sit on But if you want to stand there, STAND there.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the blood black as pitch / valves had gone stiff veins and scar tissue / four chambers just a standard issue but none had room / forgiveness is huge and you had two full of ice water one full of salt, one packed with coal eager and ready and willing to find fault
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mom sent the cats a present. I think they like it.
A large grey felt donut with an opening in the side. It is hollow. There is a black cat with alert ears sitting on top of the donut. There is a grey cat sitting inside the donut. In a few seconds, they will return to play-fighting.
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
sure does
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