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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I commute via train to work in the suburbs and am the odd one out for not driving. The number of times people ask me how I got to work today because it's raining?!? Same way as always, just with an umbrella and boots?!? 🤷‍♀️

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something so satisfying about plowing right through puddles with the right footwear!

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My kid goes to a neighborhood school where most kids can walk to school--and do in good weather. It's mindblowing to note the difference in traffic around the school on rainy days. The tiniest sprinkle and people bring out the 4000 lb metal raincoat instead of an umbrella and some rain boots. 🤯

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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 · 08/08/2026

As the realtor who showed me an apartment in the similar Lakeshore East Neighborhood told me: that’s for a reason. (I did not move there because of his advice)

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I live in the Loop and am sheltering in place! Why was there a line of kids dressed for the club outside my building when I went to take my kid to summer day camp at 8:30 AM? 💀

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We had someone setting them off from 4-5 am today. Who doesn’t love a good sunrise fireworks show?!?

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hivemind continues, because that was my first thought, too!

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Honestly, January & February don’t even bother me. I’m immune & ready for the cold. What does get to me is May. You can’t put your heavy coat away b/c half the time it is summertime & half is snowing. But I remember that that all of that precip is what makes summer so beautiful.

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It’s a long drive here from my parents’ place in TN…going north through West Virginia then hooking a left.

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

If you men insist on making this a thing you WILL find yourself with a middle-aged-lady little spoon because we are fitting! people! on this train!!

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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 · 11/04/2026

That was possibly the lowest I’ve ever seen it fly by

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Literally two people in that car are talking to each other… But also, what exactly else are they supposed to be doing? Salivating over him? People quietly entertaining themselves is generally my hoped-for train environment!

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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 · 16/02/2026

This is in Chicago and for the last couple of weeks our sidewalks have made more narrow than they already are by ice/snow. I’ve seen people with strollers have to lift them over ice piles to get past these. Get them off the sidewalk if they must exist at all.

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Oh I see you putting River City and Marina City against each other in the first round!

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

During early COVID I felt journalists were doing more public health than a lot of the official public health institutions

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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 · 25/01/2026

Probably need to go visit my parents in TN over spring break—dad having health problems – but I had the same thought about not wanting to end up trapped on the wrong side. (Our original spring break plans back I fall had, ironically enough, been to go to Minneapolis, but like for tourist reasons!)

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Yep. All it’s doing is reminding me to unsubscribe from a bunch of retailer mailing lists that I had lazily been letting go to my promotions box instead (where every now and then when one did tempt me to buy). AI—great for business!

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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 · 11/01/2026

Plain savory steel-cut. A dollop of XO sauce is also awesome on top.

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I usually skip it but last week (not a holiday day) was walking, on my phone, making a decision on the fly about what order to run a couple errands in on based on store closing times, so I just went with it. Turns out it couldn't even tell me what time the Uniqlo at the mall closed correctly. 🫠

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I used this with my students this semester as their final project. Not all of them got the concept, but a lot of them did and it was a really helpful tool to explain the difference between a simple rebuttal (which is what they were all inclined to do) and actually changing the framing!

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Was just thinking this last week taking the bus around Quebec City, my first time visiting. Even took it out to Wendake at night in freezing weather. But btw their excellent service/signage, real-time tracking app & map app it was no worries. Very different than 20 yrs ago even taking buses I knew

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

*on. “Of” would be a bad idea. Otherwise, my grand plans include laundry and watching something good!

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Cheat code cause I just get to step out of my balcony and see the fireworks. But I do have an alarm set for 11:45 because of the high likelihood of my falling asleep prior to that!

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Where do the M&M cookie and Greek salad go on this one?

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My baby’s 1st Xmas Eve (almost a decade ago). She always says she finds the sound of me typing on my laptop comforting. I wonder why…🤣

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I think some have been defaced and replaced. At least at Fullerton it appears so.

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Ha! You just saved me from having to double-check if the Opus card I pulled out of my closet was the right thing for the STM. Also PSA that weekly passes start on Mondays. So don't buy one of those if you arrive on the weekend and think it's gonna last you until the next one...

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My mom would insist that's a waste of $ when they have cars I can borrow! But, of course, if I ask to borrow it it's either "Oh, we have [spare whatever I pretended to need to go buy just to get out of the house] in the basement!" or they want to come with...

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Same with my parents’ place in TN (except warmer). There’s nowhere to walk to and no sidewalks even if there were. I could go pace around the backyard to get out I guess… It makes me feel so childish and trapped. Have managed to avoid it for 6 years now, but I’ll probably have to go back this year.

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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 · 21/12/2025

“Standing *near* a sidewalk”. JFC.

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Yes! I am car-free, but on the occasions I've done a Zipcar for a specific errand I've found myself thinking "Oh, there's [place that's a pain to access via transit]! I should stop there!" But then I think about finding parking or getting in and out of the parking lot with traffic and don't.

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

TRUTH. I say this as a former ballet dancer so there are a lot of them….

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Also, to be fair my mom was a teacher who did not drink coffee, but she just used it to buy coffee to gift to other people (which was a huge gift to me when I was a coffee drinking college student). Was better than the endless apple shaped Christmas ornaments anyway….

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Walking NPR @walkingnpr.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Fair. Do you have other gift card suggestions? We’ve just emerged from Public Montessori for three years where we knew what they liked to the world of only having a teacher for one year so we just don’t know them as well. My default used to be target but now that’s iffy.

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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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