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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 15/10/2026

Mechanics are an under explored front in the war on cars (The meeple from car park capital (good game!) is only there for alt text reasons)

Your hate comes from aesthetics and personal biases. Your hate comes from the abstract. You see a guy in a jacked up truck and hate him because he listens to some dumb shit Kill Tony and pop country instead of The Dig and some terrible noise band. You hate cars because you read the statistics on their effect on the environment. You hate cars because a guy cut you off on your bicycle. You hate cars as a societal concept and social signifier.

You don't understand what it truly fucking means to hate an automobile. To look at every single shit designed function, to see literally under the hood and awe at the utter waste and depravity of their modern design. To see specifically where and how the manufacturer decided to cut a corner, save a dime, and make a dollar selling parts. To see the tons of cheap plastic, cheaper and cheaper connectors, the waste — the waste the waste the fucking waste. The waste of energy. The design by committee CAFE regulated bean counted fucking garbage that eeks out some statistically insignificant improvement in fuel mileage of a sedan so the fucking 2500 trucks can gain another 50 pounds in screens and plastics.

You don't know what it's like to replace lifters and cams, mechanisms that have been fundamental to the operation of any internal combustion engine since their creation, because of the apple sauce thin fucking oil the manufacturers recommend now and the cheaper and cheaper metallurgy they use to pump out this absolute junk garbage dog shit.

(From prev) You cannot fucking comprehend how many thousands of pounds of plastic l, just me personally have personally seen destroyed, cracked, broken, wasted, sent back to the earth to poison it forever to replace some cheap fucking design. To replace cheap plastic with cheap plastic. Watching literal petroleum deteriorate into your hands, probably into my fucking lungs and blood stream too through every little gash and cut on my fucking hands working on these absolute steaming shit piles. It's like they are shooting a big cancer gun at the road, at the water, at the soil, and at every poor bastard who has to contort himself in some horrific way to to diagnose and fix some dogshit design that got some middle manager the fucking corner office and $50,000 bonus that year. (The image is the thumbs up pose the NPCs do in Car Park Capital.)

You cannot even imagine how many gallons of fuel have burned just for me, one single fucking mechanic, by delivery drivers to the shop delivering parts. Of how much waste of plastic and diagnostics
But, you might say, come on dude that's just a q37, those aren't even bad to work on. BY MODERN STANDARDS no this isn't even that bad. This horrific monstrosity of engine packaging pales in comparison to the type of shit they are cooking up in 2026 at Mechanic Torture and Earth Poison Industries.

And it's only getting worse. Wet belts, no dipsticks anywhere on 10k recommended oil change intervals that stress already shitty weak lifter designs. I cannot even put into words how depraved and grotesque it is. The marvels of human engineering, advanced in metallurgy and plastics, in bearing designs and hydraulics, all to be absolutely thrown by the wayside for planned to fail designed to destroy $50,000 ubrepairable (sic) unserviceable unsustainable garbage.

FUCK CARS

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 15/10/2026

Alt text (the second image was all I had on hand)

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 12/10/2026

Sorry boss, my inbox is swamped. Mondays amirite?

A photo of a post it note stuck to the wall of a cubicle with a diet Pepsi nearby. Nothing else is visible.

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/10/2026

Not to worry, I've found a bench with a view

A wide angle photo of Printer's Row Park with the Farmer's Market running, obscured by two parked cars and a van. One of the cars has a ticket under the windshield wiper (the driver crumpled up the ticket before driving away mere minutes after I took this photo).

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/10/2026

Really hope this guy didn't pay for parking

A photo of a blue Subaru parallel parked between two No Parking: Tow Zone signs at 600 S Dearborn

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 29/09/2026

My fatal flaw is believing that most of Chicago's problems are downstream of this one.

A Prius with its hazard indicators on, parked next to a fire hydrant. A sign directly next to the Prius indicates that this is a tow zone with the text "No Stopping No Standing Tow Zone"

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 12/09/2026

̶B̶u̶s̶ ̶l̶a̶n̶e̶ cop parking :)

A bunch of cop cars parked in the Dearborn bus lane (there are a bunch more behind that bus)

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 12/09/2026

The Park District needs to update their path light timings, every light in Grant Park came on at 7:48

A photo of a light in Grant Park at 7:47

A photo of a light in Grant Park at 7:48

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 12/09/2026

Sure, it's this section. I can provide a photo of the bike lane if necessary.

A screenshot of the bike lane map showing a protected bike lane between Washington and Randolph (circled), which is not protected.

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 11/09/2026

@ilsecofstate.bsky.social 1,500 more phone watching, settlement generating troglodytes? We should throw you in the river.

A crowd of CPD dipshits standing around outside a 7-Eleven in South Loop, doing fuck all.

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/09/2026

Anyone know what this parking sign is about? I've seen them on the Jones School and South Loop Elementary, but I can't find any information about them online.

A photo of the Jones School parking entrance with a sign saying:
P5362
Park
Here.

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/09/2026

Microdosing shibari by wearing one of those rope scrunchy backpacks

A marketing photo of a rope scrunchy backpack

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 16/08/2026

They really buried the lede in this article. This sort of bikeable collider infrastructure is illegal or impossible to build these days.

A man rides his bicycle along the underground Large Hadron Collider during its hiatus in 2020

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 05/08/2026

Oh hey, I walked past there back in June. Hope this courtesy parking meter makes it, if only for historical preservation purposes (because it's certainly not useful).

A photo of an old, non-functional Chicago parking meter with the text "meter remains as a courtesy to cyclists"

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/08/2026

According to a traffic study of Washington Street, 1,000-1,200 cars use the street per hour during the morning and evening rush. If the cops were out there for an hour, that's 7.4% of drivers receiving a citation for phone use. I see way more people on their phones while driving where I live.

A traffic study of Washington Street indicating 493 cars southbound, 602 cars northbound during the morning rush per hour, and 630 cars southbound and 668 cars northbound during the evening rush per hour

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 16/07/2026

The world we'd be living in if the railroads had vertically integrated their land grants instead of immediately selling the land:

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 24/06/2026

I'm about halfway through part 2 (I think), and the farmers are not adjusting well to being a cog in a capitalist enterprise

Rick and Morty "What is my purpose" meme
Panel 1: What is my purpose?
Panel 2: You produce 1,000 bushels of #1 grade wheat
Panel 3: Oh my god

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 08/06/2026

The Riley O'Neil memorial Divvy bike dock (please ignore the second photo, I don't know how to remove it)

A photo of the Riley O'Neil memorial Divvy bike dock located at Washington and LaSalle

A photo of the Washington Street bike lane on the western side of State. The bike lane ends and is replaced by a sharrow.

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 12/05/2026

If anyone wants the economic impact data as tables (data also available in alt text):

PBL Milwaukee Armitage Diff
Sales Tax Rev 66% 111% -45%
Employment 37% 9% 28%
Comm Vacancy 17% 19% -2%
Comm Property Values 49% 43% 6%
Crash Costs -44% -59% 15%
Divvy Starts 66% 115% -49%

Curb, Parking, BL Clark Broadway Diff
Sales Tax Rev 0% -10% 10%
Employment 14% 15% -1%
Comm Vacancy -18% -14% -4%
Comm Property Values 18% 13% 5%
Crash Costs -26% 26% -52%
Divvy Starts 86% 72% 14%

Buffered BL Clybourn North Diff
Sales Tax Rev -28% -10% -18%
Employment -21% -16% -5%
Comm Vacancy 25% 26% -1%
Comm Property Values 21% 38% -17%
Crash Costs -56% 98% -154%
Divvy Starts 26% 4% 22%

Curb, Parking, BL North Fullerton Diff
Sales Tax Rev -3% -27% 24%
Employment -2% -14% 12%
Comm Vacancy -20% 12% -32%
Comm Property Values 9% 16% -7%
Crash Costs 6% -65% 71%
Divvy Starts 69% 51% 18%

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 05/05/2026

And yet we've fallen so far from our peak

A system map of the Chicago Surface Lines circa 1947

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 30/03/2026

Or they just collect the signature cards.

A screenshot of the Ventra app. 19 Ventra cards are showing.

A photo of a selection of signature ventra cards

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 30/03/2026

Lake forever, cars for now

A photo of Lake Michigan, across Lake Shore Drive. Cars are zooming past in the foreground.

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 09/03/2026

They did design LA for cars. Streetcars, that is.

A map of the Los Angeles Railway and Bus system

A modern imagining of the Pacific Electric Railway System at its height

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 01/03/2026

"By 1930, all three Van Buren stations had been lengthened to the point of being continuous from State to LaSalle (but, at the same time, Dearborn seems to have also regained its individual identity as a separate station stop)." www.chicago-l.org/stations/dea...

The Dearborn/Van Buren station is seen looking north circa the 1940s. The Old Colony Building is on the right, and the Monadnock Building is seen in the left background behind the station. The Dearborn/Van Buren station is little-altered by the time of this photo, with the exception of the corners of the buildings being enclosed and the stairs to street-level moved further out to allow the street to be widened. The Surface Line streetcar approaching on Dearborn after passing under the station was built in the CSL shops in 1913-14 and was out of service by 1949. (Photo from Scott Greig Collection)

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 22/02/2026

Tech doesn't have a messaging problem, it has a rot problem. Most of the technological "innovations" of the last 2 decades have been the result of rent seekers attempting to alienate human existence or re-engineer a crisis in pursuit of profit.

A poll posted by Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko

What's your favorite tech innovation?
Illegal cab company - 16%
Illegal hotel chain - 17%
Fake money for criminals - 32%
Plagiarism machine - 35%

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 19/12/2025

tapping the (somewhat misspelled) sign

Privitization [sic] backers call pirvate industry's inability to serve underpriveledged [sic] or otherwise expensive-to-serve communities and markets "efficiency"

I didn't clock how many misspellings there were until I typed the whole thing out.

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/12/2025

Nope, Flocks look like this:

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 21/11/2025

They keep each other in shape

a photo of a tabby cat loafing on the headrest of a blue recliner

A photo of a black cat loafing on a grey sofa

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 06/11/2025

I think it's fake, the Flag Honors are recorded here: www.illinois.gov/about/flag-h... and there hasn't been one since mid September. Also, the formatting is off compared to the most recent one honoring a deceased Governor. Flag lowerings don't usually start until sunrise the next day.

A screenshot of a Flag Honor bulletin stating:
The Department of Central Management Services has received notice from Governor JB Pritzker that all persons or entities covered by the Illinois Flag Display Act are to fly the flags at half-staff in honor of:

Governor Jim Edgar

Please lower the United States flags and the State flags at all buildings occupied by your agency's personnel from:

Sunrise, Monday, September 15, 2025 until the day of Governor Jim Edgar's interment

More information is available at https://www.illinois.gov/about/flag-honors.html

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 04/11/2025

Engineer's Club of Chicago

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 31/10/2025

There's a pretty restrictive definition of zero-emission vehicle and an escape hatch clause that allows the Authority to continue purchasing diesel vehicles as long as no zero-emission vehicle meets the standard set by the definition.

The bill text of SB2111 as enrolled 10/31/25:
"Zero-emission vehicle" means a fuel cell or electric vehicle that:
(1) is a motor vehicle;
(2) is made by a commercial manufacturer;
(3) is manufactured primarily for use on public streets, roads, and highways;
(4) has a maximum speed of at least 55 miles per hour;
(5) is powered entirely by electricity or powered by combining hydrogen and oxygen, which runs the motor;
(6) has an operating range of at least 100 miles; and
(7) produces only water vapor and heat as byproducts.
(b) The Authority may not enter a new contract to purchase a bus that is not a zero-emission bus for the purposes of a Service Board's transit bus fleet.
(c) For the purposes of determining compliance with this Section, the Authority shall not be deemed to be in violation of this Section when failure to comply is due to:
(1) the unavailability of zero-emission buses from a manufacturer or funding to purchase zero-emission buses;
(2) the lack of necessary charging, fueling, or storage facilities or funding to procure charging, fueling, or storage facilities; or
(3) the inability of a third party to enter into a contractual or commercial relationship with the Authority that is necessary to carry out the purposes of this Section.

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 29/10/2025

per page 201, any tax collected under this provision will be deposited into NITA if the individual resides in the NITA service area, and the Downstate Public Transportation fund if not.

A section of SB2111's text reading:

Article 3

Section 3-1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Extremely High Wealth Mark-to-Market Tax Act. References in this Article to "this Act" mean this Article.

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trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 15/10/2025

The pilot was supposed to start in 2023, but there were vendor issues with getting the cameras installed on buses. As a stopgap, 4 Dept of Finance vehicles were fitted with the cameras and have collected over $700k in fines so far.

A photo of a department of finance vehicle used for the smart street program taken at the northeastern corner of Ida B Wells and Dearborn looking west.

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