32° of winter biking #17: 7° cable snappin’ oats #chiLFT still closed at the curve

what's the tag @streicher.io? #32degreesofbiking 4°! ✅🥶🚴🏼

32° of winter biking #16: 17° zone 4 pajama pants

32° of winter biking, 13-15: 27° you’ve gotta take these knives to bridgeport 30° took the knives to bridgeport 23° workout / are these the knives you wanted? Photo from a bike ride I can't post about because I already had 19°. 📸🦷 @peter.chicagobikesox.com

Be careful whether you are a child or not, it’s bad out there!

32° of winter biking #12: 21° we don’t carry these knives

Very amusing to watch dads losing their shit at a trampoline park when their kids say 6 7. Why are you feeling so threatened by children's culture my man

So close

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

Mark my words, everyone who voted for this budget will simultaneously run on it (taking credit for opposing Brandon Johnson) and against it (blaming him for all of its consequences)

32° of winter biking #11: 24° christkindlmarket

32° of winter biking, nine and ten: 22° juicy 25° cold

When are we going to crack down on adults whining about 6 7?

32° of winter biking #8: 16° book rescue

“Hoosier football team?” “We don’t have one!”

You're a Frank in the year 814 when you learn that your beloved emperor Charlemagne has died. You're so distraught that you grab your bicycle and just start riding. You finally stop in 2025 after 1,211 years. You still have a decade of riding left before you've done the damage of one pickup truck.

Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Shout out to winter Divvy riders who’ve been braving extreme cold across Chicago: 12/13 (low 4°F): 3,242 rides 12/14 (low -1°F): 2,333 rides On my ride in this morning, it was 10°F but felt like -5°F and people were still out riding. Protected bike lanes on Grand Ave made it possible and safe!

#FixedMyToilet 🔊

32° of winter biking, seven: 9° all new gaskets

32° of winter biking, five and six: 11° big wrench 10° gallon o’ broth

Settings > Apps > Safari > Tabs. Choose Bottom, get your buttons back.

They should make an app like Strava but for biking instead of video games

32° of winter biking, three and four: 18° cousin’ 19° bean schlep

32° of winter biking day two: 28°. Still sandal weather

Fixed the @lakefronttrail.bsky.social bug that was breaking leading hashtags on crossposts from twitter.

i chose to start my thanksgiving day the way my forefathers intended: by making this video, for some reason try my product 🥺

If cops can’t do their jobs anymore why is there still so much work product?

Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody. Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org). And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.

For all your winter storm lakefront trail status needs, follow the @lakefronttrail.bsky.social status bot. Help out by using #chiLFT to report trail conditions and remember that the Park District tends not to post trail closures or block unsafe trail sections until after the morning commute

32° of winter biking day one: 32°

Healow is an electronic health record system that someone hired their nephew to build in order to avoid paying for MyChart and one thing that nephew has done is introduce the letter T as an abbreviation for “Thursday”

Fuuuuuuuuck ICE. We bought out 5 vendors this morning in Little Village and ICE is out there terrorizing the community. We also pass out whistles thanks to a supporter who 3D printed a ton for us. We keep us safe. ✊🏽

Cross is really fun. Signed, a guy who doesn’t even like racing

This app has unfollowed @nikhunder.com for me twice in the last 24 hours, why does Bluesky not want me to know what is happening? (Thank you for your service Nik)

a facebook video recorded around 9:45 am shows federal agents detaining at least one person near lawrence/kedzie. video shows multiple chicago police on scene to help ~10 feds clear a path through community members who had gathered. after the feds leave, a person in an elmo onesie berates a cop.

And we've got CPD clearing the way for federal agents to abduct people. And state police protecting their federal facilities in the suburbs. City 🤝 feds 🤝 state

A fall morning in Chicago now: biking down Lawrence through Albany Park, which looks like a relative ghost town compared to its usual foot traffic, watching as street vendors scramble to pack up and flee because ICE just grabbed someone. Folks screaming and whistling at every intersection.

Our neighborhood org leadership also internally agrees on the group’s position regardless of what happens in meetings and lies about it to electeds and in the newsletter. Yours probably does to.

I got so excited when a thing I read moved from substack to patreon because I assumed it’d be something other than an enshitiffied blog over there but it’s just another enshitiffied blog

Patreon really doesn’t have RSS for posts?

It's fucking wild. Everyday on reddit there is a video that just defies any kind of I have no idea but the NYT is like "very normal president is flying to China, and here are some renderings of the Epstein Ballroom"

Agree 100%. Especially since Chicago media—local TV affiliates, Sun-Times/Tribune, local NPR, Block Club, Triibe, college newspapers like Loyola, independent journalists, even some Chicago bureaus of national media outlets—have done terrific work We’re under assault, & it should matter to everyone

Have you ever had an entire discharge room full of people who “love you” yell at you after surgery because you asked one little question about riding your bike? (I’m fine!)

Brave

hey meta I can’t read either screen right in front of me

Seeing a lot of “what about cars” dunks on this, which of course mentions cars first among “bigger culprits,” but actually it’s story about a promising intervention to reduce our climate impact that our shitty healthcare system largely does not cover. Europe, and our VA, are already making the shift

@1password.bsky.social @beeper.com figure it out @signal.org you're cool