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Chicago. Theatre. Active transportation. Cats. I dunno. I’m tired.

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So, uh, @chicagocta.bsky.social , why does my August monthly pass expire August 30?!? Can we get an wall calendar in the budget for y’all next year?!?
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It's Monday. Why am I hearing jets already? Th/F/Weekend is unnecessary enough... 😡
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New form of manspreading unlocked: holding onto the pole with arm fully outstretched so you take up maximum aisle space.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I’m gonna need Tom Skilling to explain this one to me…
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
he was murdered for doing public health
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This somehow mashes up two significant parts of my high school experience and I love it.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
If you "don't worry, he's friendly!" #%^&$ people don't leash up your dang dogs.... blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/12/h...
blockclubchicago.org
How Did A Chicago Dog End Up With Rabies? PAWS Investigating After Alarming Discovery
The now-euthanized dog was the first to test positive for rabies in Cook County since before 1964 and the first in Illinois since 1994, according to public health officials.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 20/12/2025
What I want people to know about intelligence is that it is always made better by humility. To never think you have all the answers. To know when to listen to others. To not expect people to reconfirm what you already know & instead, tell you something different. We could have had that in America🧵
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 20/12/2025
The internet COULD have been a place where we become enlightened. The Age of Information. Instead, algorithms gave us feedback loops of our opinions. Telling us what we wanted to hear & giving us more confidence in disinformation than ever. Throwing us into a full-blown crisis of ignorance. 🧵
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Chicagoans: what are non-evil coffee places that have gift cards yo include in teacher/etc gifts?
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Once again begging @chicagocta.bsky.social to somehow differentiate != elevator at a distant station that’s been out for months from ! = major service disruption, GFL getting to work today on mobile and station comms
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
When *checks notes* Franklin The Turtle has to put out a statement condemning your literal war crimes 😅😅
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I have no idea if I’ve managed to buy five monthly @chicagocta.bsky.social passes this morning or zero, but thanks, Ventra, for the 18 emails about the update that I don’t need….
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Ugly Xmas sweatshirt time!
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This is such a worthwhile listen: how incompetent and undisciplined the ICE agents are, how scared they are of regular people. And her message that everyone can do something: the person with the whistle maybe alerts the person who is able to get in their faces, etc.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
"As a Christian conservative, it's very important to me that we starve Americans and withhold medicine to maximize the profits of our feudal kings so they can do child rapes on private islands and commit horrific genocides" This is how they sound to me
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
NGL given the oppositional defiant adolescent boy the-cruelty-is-the-point nature of these guys, it worries me they will ramp things up on purpose in response to this.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Dear, sweet Prudential building, that is a carrot, not a pumpkin…
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
While I totally agree with this statement and I understand what it's getting at.....gotta pop up from Chicago-in-the-last-month and say, "Welllllllllllllll....."
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Woooooooof. If this isn't the truth: annehelen.substack.com/p/the-friend...
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The Friendship Dip
The loneliest decades are not what you think they are
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Best parade in the city Between #NoKings and Arts in the Dark, the streets of the Loop were used for their highest purpose today. Protest and arts, arts and protest.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Usually, I wait until a little later in the Arts in the Dark parade to get teary-eyed at the beauty of all the art in our community. But starting this year off with the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, knowing what that neighborhood has been through these last few weeks? Immediate waterworks.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Everyone hold up--this is now the most important Chicago-related news story. www.yahoo.com/news/article... (Because it's bsky, let me clarify /s but also we can all take a doomscrolling break for some fun and frivolous science?)
yahoo.com
The viral 'Chicago Rat Hole' wasn't actually made by a rat, scientists claim
After researching the rodent indent, scientists are over 98% sure it came from a squirrel.
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 11/10/2025
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Do not. DO NOT, 2025.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Pray for Dolly
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Goodnight, you old war zone
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Looking for examples of cancer disinformation for a case study for my students. Tried Google & got useful articles about reasons for it, but no concrete examples. Googled for what our current head of HHS says causes cancer & got plenty for my project. This is surely fine & good & not a problem! 🙃
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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I can’t get over how crazy this is. They’re so indiscriminate and sloppy that they literally gassed dozens of cops. Nobody is safe.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Terror today in Logan Square. “There was a gentleman over there that was vomiting. There were people in the store nearby that were trying to get water in people’s eyes as soon as they can,” he said.”
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Masked federal agent throws chemical irritants outside Logan Square grocery store: 'My eyes are burning'
Video taken by several witnesses captured the moments where the agent can be seen dropping a canister from a white SUV.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I mean… 😍
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In Chicago, every time I’ve seen a reason to help someone on transit (left-behind wallet, carrying something big, etc) it’s turned into the Olympics of Who Can Help the Most amongst all the passengers. Real Hellhole, this place…
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Good night, you old hellhole… #chicago
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batski @babski.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
We already know how to do dibs, we can do this.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Good night, you old hellhole! #chicago
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Claymation-looking too-perfect clouds….
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Y’all can we please, please not “Ha ha, he tweets funny!” that unserious California governor into the nomination in 2028 (if there is such a thing) the same way we did Trump in 2016?
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
But I sAW a BikE Run a REd LIGHt ONCe! Meanwhile, seems like every crosswalk now looks like this lately
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Had my first in-person sighting of Tom Skilling yesterday, so there are no higher Chicago celebrity sightings left for me.....😎
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/08/2025
Republicans have tossed the rulebook out. Here in Illinois, we will do whatever it takes to preserve democracy.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The only thing that could ever make me move to TX. (j/k, I’d never move to TX but anyone in Chicago want to create this?!?) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
nytimes.com
11 Women, 9 Dogs, Not Much Drama (and No Guys)
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Oh, is Leana F-ing Wen back on the side of prevention now?!? So hard to keep track...
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Ornaments for what?!? ORNAMENTS FOR WHAT?!? You’re not fooling us with calling them “fall sweaters.” Also, IT IS JULY 31.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It’s July 19th.
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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Just gotta look west instead of east for the fireworks tonight
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