New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

Several babies on my plane home spent the whole flight randomly starting to cry when literally nothing happened (which, yes, very normal baby behavior) But just now, when we landed hard as fuck on the runway? Not a peep Yeah sure why not

Reviewing old meeting notes to refresh myself on something and ah yes, thank you past Alex, very cool

Even on vacation in Oregon, I can't escape the shadow of ✨city planning✨

currently on my annual "see family/attempt to turn brain off" vacation to oregon gonna go to Portland tomorrow thru saturday afternoon, drop recs for anything if you have them

As ICE has returned to swifter arrests across Chicagoland, internal alerts & stats collected by public defenders show courthouses have become a honeypot. Sightings near county property have continued this week, & feds abducted 1 person from Pullman court today. More from @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:

"have we been operating without a contract" with flock? "yes, we have," says maclean. this means flock has had unrestricted access to the county's license plate readers for nearly three years, since the initial emergency contract with flock expired in 2023.

happy tuesday WE'RE STILL HERE

Poking my head out of the long, hellish slog of Evanston's City Council working through a litany of amendments to the draft strategic housing plan: Councilmembers voted 5-4, along the usual lines, to keep a policy to explore a "just cause" law for lease non-renewals Alright back to the slog

*me reading any article about anything* you guys need to listen to more jazz fusion

of course it's an ad in my fuckass home district too, KY-04 as rancid as ever

Everything else aside, this bit is incorrect re: Evanston. The city charged everyone for both beach access and lakefront parking until 2022, when both were made free for Evanston residents. They still charge non-residents (outside Skevanston at least) for both, and the parking is $3.75/hr.

Got classmates currently negotiating pushing due dates back with professors in our class group chats because our end of semester projects are due this coming Monday and no one can access course materials It would be hilarious if it didn’t suck so bad

just heard him go by singing you are loved by defiance ohio. rogers park bike singer remains undefeated

always a strange moment to reach out to someone for comment about something that affects them, only to inadvertently become the person informing them about that thing for the first time

help i took an adderall and now i’m locked in but it’s not on the thing i should be doing

fuck it, new pfp time (this one courtesy of RT photographer Rich Cahan!)

New personal best for fastest FOIA response is 19 mins, that's gonna be tough to beat

Update: we were nosy and walked over lol Apparently someone lit a fire in the garbage can, firefighters came and put it out. Got this photo from the beach as we were walking as they were extinguishing it

Seen from a breakwater in Rogers Park: is someone lighting a fire on the lighthouse?

evanston city hall now has vending machines on the same floor as council chambers and one of them has red bull -- we've never been so back

new mustache got a compliment from the metra conductor, and that's the highest endorsement i could ask for tbh

Always happy to tap the sign 😌

Wait a minute... There's something bothering me about this place... I know! This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit! Enjoy your death trap, ladies!

Single frame. Two perfectly placed bolts. Thanks, Mother Nature! #ILwx #Chicago

NEW, FROM ME: The organizers with Community Solidarity Project, a local LA mutual aid group, organized from their main hub at Bernies Coffee Shop for years. Now, they've been asked to move, and are asking for the public's help. They've set up a online fundraiser and Goodbye Party tomorrow, April 19

At Lunt/Greenview in Rogers Park: massive CFD presence, two ladders extending to the roof of an apartment building, heavy smell of smoke. Neighbor says there was (is?) a fire in the bldg and they're cutting through the roof

THIS IS NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR WHEN I TOOK THE BUS HOME FROM DRAG BINGO WHAT THE FUCK

News from Evanston's City Council tonight: City Manager Luke Stowe just shared that yesterday marks three consecutive years without a homicide in Evanston. The last one was the shooting of 18yo Jacquis Irby at Clark Street Beach on April 12, 2023.

getting to the time of year when i can comfortably take the train to night meetings

NEW, from @domguan.bsky.social— Chicagoland joined other cities for a "Fuck ICE" day of protest at the Broadview ICE facility on Saturday. Activists said the cheeky theme was designed to help build community outside the building where they have faced constant police violence and arrests:

Fuck it, we Gaul.

whenever people announce they're taking a break from bluesky, it's usually because they're astronauts experiencing a mandatory communications blackout as they re-enter earth's atmosphere. that's why they always come back in six minutes

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇨🇦

happy immortality day, i found 17776 during the COVID lockdown year of college (aka precisely when i needed it the most) and it's been a load-bearing influence on me ever since

"Copy heart, copy bracelet" -- Mission Control letting one of the astronauts (Commander Reid Wiseman) know that his family in the viewing room saw his gestures intended for them 💕

OK. Space stuff always makes me cry, but now the whole crew is crying and given the long silence I think all of mission control are, too, after the crew asked to name a previously unnamed feature on the moon after Reid's deceased wife. They're all hugging in the capsule.

turned 25 to 100 horses by geese, life is good

I am where I need to be

only one option for birthday dinner

Frieren with the Malort, what will she do

🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯

DAVID BYRNE: Water dissolving! Water removing! ME: Oh yeah? DAVID BYRNE: There is water at the bottom of the ocean 🙂 ME: That’s so cool buddy. Did you learn that at school today? DAVID BYRNE: Remove the water 😡 carry the water 😡 ME: Hm how about we carry some juice in your sippy cup bud?

hairstylist told me today that she and her "boy best friend" i've been hearing tea about every few months for like 3 years are finally dating. love (and foreshadowing) wins

> "A couple hundred pissed-off homeowners in Evanston launched a tax revolt in 1977" and I could absolutely see a certain part of Evanston trying the same thing today

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