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Soren Spicknall@sorenspicknall.bsky.social |
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Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him "We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
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Soren Spicknall
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One day I'll have a phone that's better at dealing with the super contrasty lighting of nighttime alleys, and maybe post more threads like this, but at the moment you have to catch me in the right mood since I find the results I get from my phone at night to be lackluster.
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In addition to the bee boxes behind his home, Mark also has a second site where he keeps more hives outside city limits. He makes his living cultivating and selling honey.
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Soren Spicknall
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alleywalk ambient light progression 6
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alleywalk ambient light progression 3
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alleywalk ambient light progression 1
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love to drive above 15 miles per hour and watch all my carefully positioned flags fall off
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Jonathan Cohn
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ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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Soren Spicknall
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I am the Don Bradman of running into people I know whenever I leave the house
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Also notable in the article is the claim from CPD that they've significantly reduced traffic stops so far in 2024. Cherone caveats that the only source for that claim is CPD themselves - the department has long habitually played with operational stats for PR, so it's hard to evaluate the claim yet.
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Soren Spicknall
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Heather's coverage here is full of important context for what comes next. We're likely to see more future conflict between Judge Pallmeyer and the CCPSA about who should have structural purview over different areas of CPD policy and practice. This previous coverage focuses directly on that conflict:
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Soren Spicknall
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Chinatown Square
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Soren Spicknall
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As I told Dave tonight, I'm generally trying to get more enmeshed in the south suburbs lately. I didn't grow up where I live now, so I was initially blind to how deeply interlinked the south side and south suburbs are - families, churches, businesses, organizations. A city-limits view is incomplete.
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Soren Spicknall
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I've visited Park Forest several times because it's notable from a planning perspective - one of the most elaborate postwar planned communities in the country, exemplifying the planning ideals of the time (for better or for worse) - but I haven't spent enough time here to get to know locals before.
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Soren Spicknall
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I also got to talk to Dave for longer, and got to meet some other Park Forest locals who help plan these events for the village. Dave's been in Park Forest since the mid-70s, and it turns out he taught one of my neighbors when he was still on faculty at South Suburban College.
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I went to the car show that Dave organizes as part of a weekly "Main Street Nights" event in Park Forest, and it was a lovely time. Downtown Park Forest has struggled in recent decades due to e-commerce and nearby population loss, but the village throws a chill, well attended party with live music.
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Soren Spicknall
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^ all of the above references specific Chicago ordinances and their enforcement mechanisms, so the path would look different in different places
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There are mechanisms. Uncut weeds can result in fines, but enforcement is largely report-based and not super thorough. The property in question has several years of delinquent back taxes, indicating possible true abandonment, so things may not change until after the multi-year tax sale process.
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Soren Spicknall
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Just trusted this elevator with my life
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POKEY THE PENGUIN
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POKEY AND THE BIG SURPRISE yellow5.com/pokey
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mature camry no. 103
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Somebody hung big letters from an overpass on the Kennedy that spell out "TOPLESS RAMASWAMY" and at first I thought it was a non sequitur on the route to the GOP convention in Milwaukee, but it turns out Randy Sax is back at it
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Soren Spicknall
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From the brief reading I did, he seems just barely old enough to be on his own (wide open eyes, fur becoming fluffy, ears perking up), but if he's still relying on his mother for food, I didn't want to move him somewhere far from the nest.
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The littlest guy, probably fresh out of the nest, hopped into the middle of the road and froze with zero survival instincts to his name. I moved him back into the closest patch of greenery, with a little bit of buffer zone away from the sidewalk.
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mature camry no. 102
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Sometimes nall forgets to renew the domain or a configuration breaks or something - usually it comes back up within a few weeks when he gets time. Rest assured that somebody he knows will eventually end up asking him about it.
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Have you heard the news?
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I take photos of buildings and write about them! @SorenSpicknall
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One thing I often call back to WRT disinvestment is the cumulative effect of the small additional daily burdens it places on people. Like with sidewalk snow clearance - blocks with high land vacancy force neighbors to clear larger stretches so that people with strollers and mobility aids can get out
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Disinvestment means that I'm out here cutting down the six foot tall weeds that cause a visibility hazard on a busy street corner because the north sider who owned a gas station here in the '70s abandoned it after white flight and then his family seemingly forgot they owned the land after he died
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city hall (then first national bank), main street, waitsburg, washington, 1987
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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I wrote for More Perfect Union about the Biden administrations proposal to implement new protections for workers who are agonizing under extreme heat.
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Soren Spicknall
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This is petty whining but why has seemingly every car in Chicago with a deafening exhaust leak driven past my house in the last 20 minutes
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Chris Steller
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5 TIPS TO STOP THE MEETING BULLDOZER
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Soren Spicknall
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For sure, I did the same thing. Don't want to fall victim to confirmation bias about filings that I'm not prepared to fully interpret.
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Would be morbidly funny if this one turned out to be real and everybody had to post about it again after deleting, though
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This coverage is from a week ago; it seems like somebody might have just tried the same ruse a second time. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/p...
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Soren Spicknall
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I found the same. Reminder to myself about confirmation bias.
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I deleted - I have doubts about whether I was interpreting the filing correctly. It's blowing up right now, but not from anybody I trust to know whether it's the real deal. Saw some discussion about reasons there could be multiple filings for multiple possible picks, for instance. Not my area.
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☀️ Starshine
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they have these gatherings of annoying people called city council meetings and if you bring a couple other annoying people regularly you can actually accomplish a lot
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Robinson Meyer
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democracy in the 24/7 online news cycle era has a real 'twitch plays pokemon' feel
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John Pfaff
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New post up, on how there was never an actual bipartisan push for decarceration. It's true that red and blue states alike saw prison populations decline. But within those red states, the work was done by the blue counties. The politics of punishment are local, not state, not federal.
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Jim Lindstrom
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Chicago to Detroit, Day 5: I made it! Ran out of gas on a few hills yesterday, but I crossed city limits today around 10am. I'm having a blast just biking around sight-seeing and talking to people. More photos to come later tonight probably. #cycling #michigan #detroit
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Soren Spicknall
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Congrats! As somebody who's propped my phone on trees and walls and random objects a million times over to document something under non-ideal video conditions, I'd bet Chamasi was relieved that a volunteer videographer came along.
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Only one district, District 1, has no challenges filed against submitted school board candidates.
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Soren Spicknall
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Once more for the morning crowd. Please help if you can.
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Soren Spicknall
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Very concise distillation of the problem by Matt Tinoco here in conversation with k.e. harloe: "In the past, the journalism industry could be rude and hostile to power because it printed its own money. Today, the journalism industry doesn't print money: and it needs power to allocate money."
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