Professional Chicagoland suburban transportation planner by day. Cargo ebike suburban dad by night. Enjoys birds and cute art. 🏳️🌈 He/him.
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National Weather Service has upgraded us to a Moderate Risk of severe weather today (Level 4 out of 5), with all three severe modes (tornadoes, winds, hail) possible. Keep an eye on the skies. www.spc.noaa.gov/products/out...
Erin Allen @wbez.org highlights Chicago’s gay beach in the 48th ward and Jerry Marcoccia who built this welcoming community for all. Loved hearing familiar voices @byadamrhodes.bsky.social @rebeccakling.bsky.social
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A Lighthouse Map of Great Britain & Ireland
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originally built with 42-45 homes, which is 30% more housing than allowed at the same location today!
Counterintuitive Comparison Of Relative Population Latitudes Of US, Canada & Europe
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E-bikes are just ridiculously efficient.
We've been riding for 3 months and have put a little over 600 miles on it.
The bike has a range of ~120 miles and battery capacity of 1.2kWh.
So, we've used about 6kWh of electricity. In CA a kWh costs $0.35, so that is a total cost of...$2.10
Let’s also remember Republicans packed the supreme courts of two states in the last decade, Arizona and Utah.
There's a lot to think about in this map of which US states require front license plates, by @brilliantmaps.bsky.social. Link in thread below.
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Finding an affordable home near the Brown Line in Ravenswood is hard. Not having enough homes to rent or buy creates cutthroat competition and drives up prices — wait lists for apartments, offers o…
Curious City on @wbez.org hitting another homerun. I didn’t know why Hollywood Beach became Chicago’s unofficial gay beach but always knew it as that.
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“Court packing is never ever something you should do” is not a tenable position. It’s trivial to imagine a court so extremely anti-constitutional (and yet 34 senators won’t convict) where court packing would be the necessary lesser evil. The only question is if the Roberts Court is that bad. (it is)
