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Steven Lucy

@slucy.bsky.social
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I run a produce store, a florist, a wine shop, and mostly post about bike lanes. 📍Hyde Park, Chicago

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 1h
CTA sucking at running buses, and CDOT/IDOT doing basically fuck all to help make the CTA service consistent/reliable, is a slap in the face to riders and a waste of taxpayer money. The state needs to start handing over lanes to buses, the cash was great but give us speed and reliability too
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 2h
Zoning visible from the air.
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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 2h
Problems for now lake forever
Stone council circle, leaves, grey lake, grey sky, shadowy water intake station
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 4h
One of my favorites is Chicago vs Paris
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 18h
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never been to Giverny? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you in front of a Monet! [SMITH]: That is a Manet
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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 5h
lots of crashes here in the past year, 39 crashes on DLSD within a quarter mile hurt 22 people and killed 3. The police report codes Sunday's wrong-way driver as alcohol-impaired.
Map and bar chart of crashes on DuSable Lake Shore Drive within a quarter mile of the Oakwood Blvd. exit, Sept. 30, 2025 to Sept. 29, 2026. 39 crashes, all involving only vehicles; none hit a pedestrian or cyclist. 22 people were hurt and 3 were killed in 2 crashes, including the Sept. 27 wrong-way crash at 4001 S. Crashes per month ranged from 0 to 8, peaking at 8 in January 2026. Source: City of Chicago crash data.
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 5h
*rubbing the sleep out of my eyes* oh boy I can’t wait for a whole day of discourse on Israel, sexual assault, and women’s sports in blue sky dot com
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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 16h
A woman in her 20s just asked my husband to take a group pic, had a REAL, ACTUAL camera, and tried to explain to him, man from the 1900s, how to use it I loved literally every minute
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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 10h
they should add one more door
A double articulated trolley bus in Prague with five doors
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 15h
They did the xkcd license plate thing in real life.
License plate MWMWMWMXKCD 1105
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 19h
This is an astonishing self-own by the Internal Revenue Service that will keep scores of hardworking, tax-paying, non-refund-seeking immigrants from paying billions in federal taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/b...
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Trump Administration Prepares to Ask Tax Filers if They Are U.S. Citizens (Gift Article)
The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.
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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 22h
Glad for open response questions because I can suggest items like GTFS-Pathways (which RTA proposed). It's an accessibility upgrade that helps riders navigate large and complex train stations and can handle detours when, for ex. one of two elevators are inoperable. gtfs.org/getting-star...
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Pathways - General Transit Feed Specification
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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 29/09/2026
Tonight (9/29) at Clarendon Park from 5:30-7p. The Park District wants to create additional rules for e-bikes in its parks as allowed by the new micrmobility bill. I expect they may be tighter than the bill passed. Come tell them to leave e-bikes alone. www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/micromobilit...
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Micromobility in the Parks
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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 29/09/2026
He also told the CTA Citizens Advisory Board that CTA submits invoices for refunds when they see security guards on their phones and not performing their duties. Reader, you are probably not shocked that no such invoices were ever sent.
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Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org · 29/09/2026
"The Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) wants to hear from you! Your input will help shape how we invest in our transit system. Please take a few minutes to tell us what matters most to you for the 2027 Regional Transit Operating Budget" @nitachicago.bsky.social
polco.us
What Moves You? Help Shape the 2027 NITA Budget
Polco is a secure and reliable place to provide input directly to local and state leaders, as well as other socially minded organizations.
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Terrifying. I drove this section of DLSD shortly before and also shortly after this deadly crash. Highest risk of death in my daily life is this road.
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not sure how many more lives DLSD has to take before we get serious about what we actually want on our lakefront, but apparently the answer is always “at least one more”
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pretty nice side path in Woodridge. Would love to see more of this and less of the on-street death traps bike lanes along the suburban arterials. (Treatment at intersection could be improved....)
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Hugo von der Thüsen @hugovdthusen.com · 29/09/2026
The future Grand Paris Express station Villejuif - Gustave Roussy is a masterpiece. It connects metro line 14 (already operating) to the future line 15 in this massive station. I counted a total of 24 escalators. It was eerily quiet since it’s not yet an interchange station.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dada perfection
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes you have to drive out to the suburbs in the middle of the night to see some 70mm IMAX magic. They finally dropped the 2:45am screenings but I could only find tickets for 7:45am or 10:45pm, and the theater was packed.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
I still think splitting the atom is the more significant scientific achievement but it's a little odd inventing a protein bar that doesn't taste horrible is taking a lot longer
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👀
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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This year I returned to this Black, modernist enclave in Chatham to write about the late Jolyn Robichaux. After the death of her husband, she took over Baldwin Ice Cream, transforming that venerable, small operation into a major corporation, all the while keeping her community centered.
southsideweekly.com
Best Historical Home for Community Empowerment: Robichaux Home
Best of Chatham
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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A PhD dissertation in my personal library published by the U of Chicago Press in 1920. Its author, who died OTD in 1953, led the U of Chicago's basketball team to their first Big Ten Conference title in 1907. He later proved galaxies existed beyond the Milky Way & that the Universe is expanding. 📚
A large thin book with a title page on the front, Tbe University of Chicago
PHOTOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATIONS
OF FAINT NEBULAE
A DISSERTATION
SUBMITTED TO THE PACULTY
OF THE OGDEN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DECREE OF
DOCTOR OF PRILOSOPHY
DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY
BY
EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE
Publications of THe Yeaxes Onseavaroay, Vol. IV, Part II THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO, ILJINOIS
1920.”
It’s lying next to my copy of Mary Sommerville’s On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences published in 1837.

booksky science 🧪 astronomy
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I find it unlikely that Anthropic trained its model on a user chat because if it did that would open it up to EXTREME security issues. It is not surprising that an AI model and a human made the next logical leap around the same time. This happens with human researchers all the time.
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chicago's transportation policy was captured perfectly in the following vignette I saw this morning: Woman in business casual on a Lime scooter going at 10mph in the middle of the lane, a full CTA bus patiently driving behind her, and an entire line of cars aggressively tailgating behind the bus.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 28/09/2026
new eve ewing dropped. also the photography book looks amazing
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Convenient place to get sick if we’re being honest
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Heads up Hyde Park chicago.apparmor.com/notification...
chicago.apparmor.com
NotifyChicago: On Mon, 9/28 & Tues, 9/29 from 7am-5pm, smoke special effects may be visible due to filming in the area of U of C, Obama Center & Griffin Museum.
Chicago OEMC
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Carrie @cooler-by-the-lake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Went kayaking on the river today and I captured a bucket list Chicago-y sight
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Same
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t really use AI in my businesses but I think this is missing the point if they AI will actually help business owners with which is like data analysis, scheduling, automating stupid shit, reminding you of meeting or emails, helping with taxes, etc
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chisquaredtransit.bsky.social @chisquaredtransit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's a map of the number of rides per 1,000 residents. (Population data is from the last decennial census in 2020.)
Areas are shaded to show the the number of divvy rides per capita
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it actually doesn't rain very often in the pacific northwest. i visited seattle for a couple days one time and it didn't rain the entire time i was there
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Linden, in Wilmette, is closer to downtown than the new 130th RLE station will be.
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Textbook example of a modal filter. Bikes and pedestrians breeze through. Cars, not so much.
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll take Misleading Graphs for $1.5 trillion, Alex. ($10b drop in private construction is <1%, totally normal fluctuation and probably completely unrelated to the small $4b increase in data centers)
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A significant portion of microplastics in our water come from automobile tire wear Picture totally unrelated
DLSD
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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“He just wanted to ride his bike to school.” Taking part in this protest was powerful. A reminder that activism can take many shapes but foremost it is a communal occupation of space that reconfigures our imagination for what could be. Thank you @bikepride_torino for the invitation.
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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interesting seating arrangement
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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 27/09/2026
One of the things that again struck me at Innotrans was how very few exhibitors showcased solutions and examples from the Americas. And the few that were on display just look like s—t compared to their international peers. Look at these bus displays, same hardware, very different info quality!
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram
Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street
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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 27/09/2026
I wanna find an aerial video of all the tram traffic outside the main station There are four platforms and I think there was always a tram at one of them when I was walking around here for ten minutes
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exit, pursued by a fucking bear.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Come to think of it, Bluesky is like the Chicago or Philly or Pittsburgh of social media. Clout chasers don't tend to seek it out, and they don't fit in when they try, but that's primarily because we're not all that relevant to a wide audience, which we must make peace with
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026
I can’t believe we used to have airlines specifically for trans and pan americans. this country has really regressed on queer rights.
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh look they moved the curb
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