I always step on my headphones when I’m getting ready for bed and my phone initiates a FaceTime call with like a coworker who left 5 years ago or whatever. Does anyone know how to disable this feature? iOS 26.

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wait lol @minakimes.bsky.social

A new CDOT report finds that while bike lanes improved safety, they didn’t harm businesses, and they may help make corridors more economically resilient. 🚲 🛴 💵 👍 @atalliance.bsky.social @rideillinois.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @bikegridnow.org @chicritmass.bsky.social

Had to make an email for my child (needed to make a portal login that couldn't be shared with parent) and turns out there's a whole world of children's accounts that have kid-oriented instructions

Allowing riders to tap any credit/debit card to ride is a no brainer that welcomes new riders, occasional riders, and visitors.

This is insane.

American style democracy is a joke. at the national level your vote is increasingly literally meaningless because of the Electoral College and gerrymandering. at the local level you’re supposed to vote for random party functionary offices you’ve got to be 9 levels deep to know what they even do

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 I’m hiring a website content manager for MTA.info! Looking for someone who has Feelings about making good websites and smart content. Knowing how the MTA works is helpful, but this is also a great opportunity for a generalist. More info: careers.mta.org/jobs/1775830...

Tickets for cell phone use while driving fell from 14,000 per year to 2,500 per year. Do we think people stopped looking at their phones? Or the cops have effectively annulled this safety law?

Unsurprising that the Mayor's Office and CDOT do not coordinate on a bikeway strategy, even to check in and see what it is for the year

Unfathomable levels of corruption.

Lake forever, problems for now

Since this needs approval from Council, this is an opportunity for the City to extract some minor concessions.

Compare the bollards we use to protect pedestrians from cars (left) Vs. The bollards we use to protect government buildings from terrorists (right)

I'm surprised NYC is leading the way on bike ridership levels and quality of bike infrastructure: 1. Their neighborhoods are VERY walkable 2. Their inter-neighborhood trips VERY well served by transit 3. Their commute distances to jobs centers a little too long for most people to do by bike

Four doors on a North American bus? And it's a trolleybus!? 😍🦊

This Wednesday, May 20, please consider joining us for a silent, slow-paced bike ride to honor those who have been killed or injured while riding. events.activetrans.org/7ec37a7d0f44...

I don't care about the Bears but I do hope publicly-owned Solider Field doesn't fall into neglect since both the Bears and the Fire are planning to leave. Hard to imagine the international soccer matches staying there if there's a custom-built soccer stadium available. So...concerts only?

The placement of the bollards suggests that pedestrians on the sidewalk are expendable but the building needs protection from terrorists.

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Gang...said she first encountered Shakespeare when her elementary school put on a production of Romeo and Juliet. “I was Juliet...I had to come out of my shell” -from Will Pavia's great report in the Times of London on the opening of Jeanne Gang's new Scripps Theater www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Honest question, can the DOJ just do a $2b settlement with no Congressional appropriation?

Calling all of my Beer, Bike, and Building enjoyers. Join me June 13th 10AM to ride in memory of Schlitz. We'll ride 35 miles across Chicago, hitting 13 Schlitz tied houses and paying our respects in front of the iconic globes. #bikeCHI

it's the same picture

These hours are illegal here on safety grounds. But American unionized workers love giving themselves unsafe hours for the overtime and reject the rotation system we use to give train crews comfortable hours. They prefer a hierarchy ranking by seniority to haze junior workers.

Very excited that Malik is moving to become publisher of the Reader! Though I'll miss his involvement in SSW.

This is the future for small markets in 1-4 hour driving distance to big hubs (e.g. near Chicago: Champaign, Springfield, Peoria, Rockford, South Bend). Removing all the small regional feeder jets is good for the environment and for airport congestion; fewer delays on long-haul.

Inventing the air conditioner Make it a 100 fucking pounds. No, no center mass to it at all somehow. Throw some fuckin…accordion arms on it that flap out and catch on everything when you’re carrying it up from the basement. And let me get 50 razor blades on the back of it too.

I dunno, looks pretty safe to me. Probably a freak accident.

Let's shut down the Ike until we can figure out what exactly is going on

Sounds like they need improved working conditions but I don't know that paying them $250k instead of $150k will achieve that. I propose keeping their pay at $150k and providing bathroom breaks.

Shoulda been a tram.

#ManholeCoverMonday Camden Market, London

Un après-midi de dimanche sur la Pointe du Promontoire

Don't take transit, it's too dangerous. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

I was a safe streets advocate prior to becoming a father 3 months ago, but holy shit has my fear and anger towards the threat of cars grown to a tremendous energy ever since. If vehicular violence claimed my daughter from me, I have no words for what I'd do.

"Why is bike mode-share stuck at 3% in Seattle, it's such a mystery!"

Bike parking at Amsterdam's train station versus Seattle's

Chicago summer has arrived

Bringing my pixel family to the beach

By the way, this is how a Park District employee feels about city residents using the public park when it might interfere with sight lines for wedding photography. "Would not like to encourage more use of it."

My main motivation for buying an e-cargo bike was knee injuries and surgeries. I wanted to make it easier again to shop by bike and carry stuff for trail workdays. Magical transformation.

here's a great view of Viking's Polaris ship

Chicago re-invents the plaza

Ok this is one of the weirdest buildings I’ve ever seen

Long walk day for Nik!

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Stars are just Explosions in the Sky.