I kid you not this corner was torn up for a week to install this beg button, they “finished” it two days ago, then yesterday a different crew came and did this 🤣 this city is BEYOND PARODY man

Travis R. Eby@travis-robert.bsky.social · yesterday

Street work in NYC is so unbelievably chaotic man, crews have been out demolishing and rebuilding a corner near me for weeks — finished it a few days ago — and today I STG there’s an even bigger backhoe out there tearing it all up again 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 What the helllllllll

Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 3h ago

we should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something

Which version of the street do you like better? Montreal’s Wellington Street with cars vs. without cars.

for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

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Illinois Department of Transportation@illinoisdot.bsky.social · 2w ago

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bluesky is an esoteric millennial cult centered around the messianic promise of returning to Forums

Who would have guessed that providing separate but nominally equal facilities to two binary points on what is in reality a spectrum would cause problems?

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 9h ago

Efforts to police bathrooms are evil and will impact peoples' health. Segregated bathrooms themselves must be done away with, it's the only solution. I reported this question out, years ago for @99pi.org 99percentinvisible.org/episode/wher...

Typing this on my old rotary phone because phones have not improved in 40 years.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 17h ago

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

Anyways, here's a look at what a dedicated Racine-Kenosha light rail DMU line could look like, using the existing (but rarely utilized) UP-N rail ROW to provide not just decent service b/w the two cities, but also within them.

honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 21h ago

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

Woman in her mid-50s suddenly discovers all the women in the social cohort around her are perimenopausal. Many such cases.

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterday

Cat Power is antivax

Starting in 2028, most businesses in Illinois will have to accept cash.

Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · 20h ago

Pritzker signs new laws requiring businesses to accept cash and pay employees for jury duty. @capitolnewsil.bsky.social reports: blockclubchi.co/45HkIfg

The idea that there is a standard for accessibility that requires close stop spacing is one that was made up to oppose stop consolidation. Nobody ever analyzes transit based on this metric outside of this discussion. You would come to bizarre conclusions if you tried to quantify it, since transit…

Judge Mehta's J6 Requiem "That book is now closed. Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and ... officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy ... to buckle."

The divvy station at 55th and Lake Park could be expanded a bit I think.

1065. In one year, a succession crisis will throw England into chaos, with rival claimants going to war over the crown. Amid the chaos, the Duke of Normandy will invade, toppling the weakened Anglo-Saxon elite and forever changing English culture and history. It is the Year Of The Linux Desktop.

Linuxiac@linuxiac.bsky.social · 4d ago

Statcounter reports Linux at 10.65% of desktop usage in North America, with Cloudflare data lending further support to the milestone. linuxiac.com/linux-deskto... #Linux #OpenSource

It's simple math: Archer had four lanes, so we added six more lanes about a mile away, and if now we can't swap out one of the original lanes for bikes because Archer is still congested, what did a 125% increase in capacity actually get us?

On this date in 1830, surveyor James Thompson submitted his map platting what would become Chicago to the Canal Commissioners. So, it's the Grid's Birthday! Legend has it he was offered several parcels of land as payment, but took a horse instead.

This is true at the level of individual institutions (they should pay more and get lifeguards) but can be false at the industry-wide level, especially for trades that have long training periods. E.g. we have a doctor shortage and it's not related to us underpaying doctors.

Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · yesterday

Every “labor shortage” is really a “ability to pay the market clearing price for labor” shortage.

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE

We're mad at the trivia game host for playing word games?

120,000 BTUs of heat pump, anyone?

This is still one of my favourite photos, mainly because he told the government "you'll have to arrest me" and FDR went "fine" and literally told the press where and when he was going to arrest him

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 4mo ago

FDR literally had the president of Montgomery Ward arrested and the company seized for not negotiating with his workers

Choose an optimal spot and you can just change the hardware as needed

The last time Alexi Giannoulias was on the ballot in a truly contested election was the 2022 Democratic primary for Secretary of State. He beat Anna Valencia by 8 points in Chicago, but the precinct-level results suggest he'll have trouble winning over the N/NW Side progressives.

It's interesting that baseball took so long, since soccer and basketball have been a big deal for a while. Is it because softball traditionally absorbed a lot of the interested female athletes?

CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦@corrina.sheshed.rocks · 2d ago

For the first time in more than 70 years, women took the field in a professional baseball game. Dreams that generations fought for are finally becoming reality. Here’s to every girl who has ever been told, “Baseball isn’t for you.” Keep proving them wrong💪 #WomensSports #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

It’s both true that there are a lot of inefficiencies, and that they manifest in money, time, and quality of services; and that it’s not really the case that there’s a big meaningful chunk of the budget that can just be cut without affecting services.

Crime is down pretty much everywhere.

Jared Rutecki@jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 2d ago

There were 37 homicides in the city last month, the lowest total for any such month dating back to at least 1970. That total is down 18% compared to July 2025, and is less than half the totals of July 2020 and 2021, which each saw more than 100 killings.