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STFU about Chicago: you don’t live here! I do, thankfully.

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Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 4d

Sunrise as seen from the Sangamon Valley Trail, northwest of Springfield, IL, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 7:10 am CDT.

Sunrise over the Sangamon Valley Trail on 10/8/25.

Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 12h

*await my friends. Yikes…

Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 12h

Here comes the 5:15! I’m parked on the deck for the duration (of the evening).

Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 13h

Elginizing while I wait my friends.

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Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 15h

FINALLY on the Fox, after a train accident and a “chain accident.” Trail was relatively dry after the recent rain, and McHenry County has a kickass trail sweeping vehicle, so it was mostly free of leaves.

First to arrive gets to choose the best room, right?

Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 17h

UPDATE: my Uber driver just took us past the scene of the accident in Fox River Grove

Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 17h

Am hoping it’s free and we can just show up and be admitted, as per this other announcement:

Lia Kohl, Dave Rempis, and Katinka Kleijn at Horatio N. May Chapel at Rosehill Cemetery (19 Oct 2025)

Buy tickets to see Lia Kohl, Dave Rempis, and Katinka Kleijn live in Chicago. Track your favorite artists on Songkick and never miss another concert.

www.songkick.com

Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 18h

Ugh! Of course, this is the train directly in front of mine….so we’re sitting at Palatine. 🥴

Chicago Transportation Alerts @ctaalerts.bsky.social · 18h

🚆 Metra UP-NW: Inbound and outbound train movement halted near Fox River Grove due to train 646 striking a vehicle. Extensive delays anticipated. Metra will provide updates as information becomes available.

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Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks! I’ve been inside once before for a memorial service, but that was about 20 years ago.

Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 18h

I had RSVP’d a while ago for Katinka Kleijn (Dutch cellist) at May Chapel this Sunday, 10/19 at 2 pm but don’t see a response in my email re tix. Maybe it’s gratis? 🤔

Katinka Kleijn

www.katinkakleijn.com

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Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 18h

Off to the Fox for a 3-day escape with some old (but good) MSP besties)! 🚴‍♂️

Panniers, gloves, Ottoman cap and bike helmet propped on the seat next to me on a Metra train en route to Crystal Lake. Oh, an iPhone charger, too.

Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 22h

Four years ago today, Nürnberg. “Eckfigur” (corner figure, literally) near Egidienplatz. Photo by me.

Statute of a priest, or possibly a saint/biblical figure, holding a staff, with a dog, mounted in a corner niche of a building in Nürnberg‘s Altstadt, or Old City.

Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 23h

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 23h

UK has to disenfranchise the terves or they’re going to get exactly what we’ve got here

Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, good: helicopter. Again. 😩

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23h

Given the abject horror that has taken place you'd think, for once that Trump wouldn't make it all about himself. But like a stuck record, there he is... going on about himself

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Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely NCT, possibly Legion Park?

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"soft wood" bitch mahogany™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 1d

im not patriotic for America at large because like, look at it, but you'd better fucking believe I'm jingoistic as fuck about chicago, the cold weeds out the people who don't deserve it

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Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Same here, stemming from my college years when I had a Munich “base” for that kind of exploration. Towns and villages in rural Bavaria and Austria especially were places of marvel for me during that era. Those are times when I prefer to leave the bike locked up and take to the streets by feet.

Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 1d

Born and raised on the grid of Grand Rapids, Michigan, my 20 years in non-gridded (is that a word?) SF were frustrating on a daily basis. Love Chicago first and NYC second, and their grids are significant to my admiration and appreciation. Urban life is so much easier when it’s logically ordered.

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Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 1d

My office view for nearly 20 years. ‘Twas a banger! Alcatraz not quite visible to the upper left. Much happier to be in Chicago, though.

Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 2d

I'm watching Mr. Klein on The Criterion Channel

Mr. Klein

Directed by Joseph Losey • 1976 • France Starring Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé Neglected for decades, this chilling existentialist mystery has reemerged as one of director Joseph Losey’...

www.criterionchannel.com

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d

Concord is well known as the home of Walden Pond, made famous by the writer Henry David Throreau, but the small town’s wider geography was crucial to the origins of the American Revolution, Robert A. Gross and Robert M. Thorson argue: https://theatln.tc/7IM93J1s

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Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 2d

Making a proper Jägerschnitzel (Bairischer Art) when I finally get home tomorrow. May even put on my good Lederhosen.

We only live once!

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Deutsch-Nederlander @denholt.bsky.social · 2d

Germania on the Potomac

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”