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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 6h

Law of Attraction and all that

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 6h

Hey, you never know

Chicago Transportation Alerts @ctaalerts.bsky.social · 7h

🚆 Metra UP-W: Union Pacific West inbound and outbound trains are stopped due to an Amtrak derailment. The duration of this delay is unknown. Updates will be provided as information becomes available.

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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 6h

A million historical markers and statues and monuments to Casimir Pulaksi yet only one dares mention his most important attribute:

Pulaski runs on Dunkin’ — sign at the Dunkin’ near Midway Airport on Pulaski Avenue in Chicago.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 6h

This is where I admit that in middle school I had a group of friends who called ourselves CENE (pronounced like "scene"), which stood for Coalition of Eccentric Nerds Everywhere

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 6h

Metadata from a heel turn

Oregon Plates @plat.es · 6h

The Custom Oregon Plate DOGOOD was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #DOGOOD

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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 6h

looks like the inbound hiawatha derailed at tower A2

Chicago Transportation Alerts @ctaalerts.bsky.social · 7h

🚆 Metra UP-W: Union Pacific West inbound and outbound trains are stopped due to an Amtrak derailment. The duration of this delay is unknown. Updates will be provided as information becomes available.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 6h

Weird to think about how we lived through a time just 15 years ago when The Cheezburger Network, which began as a blog based on the "I can has cheezburger?" image macro, was one of the most lucrative media companies of its age, operated over 50 websites, and was run by a guy who was allergic to cats

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 7h

The only reason this organization is financially viable is because we rent out our space for events as a side gig

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 7h

I've learned the hard way that one of the major challenges of running an art gallery is that people will purchase, say, $1500 of art at your opening reception while drinking $2000 of booze

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe not my best acronym work

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, I'm punk

Pouringasmoothie
Under
Nineteendollar
Konditions

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 1d

🧵Just got some records back today on the NIPAS deployment to Broadview last Friday, including two interesting letters dated that very same day which shed some light on the decision-making behind the "Unified Command" deployment vis-à-vis the IL TRUST Act. See below ⬇️

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8d

Cops with NIPAS—Northern IL Police Alarm System—just arrived to switch out with state troopers.

This is our first time seeing them out here; they're cop "mutual aid," assorted officers from other suburban departments called up specifically to assist Broadview PD.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

Which gives rise to a less individualistic framing than I came in with. That maybe it's not so much something to welcome or refuse, but something that can afflict you. Something that seems perfectly rational from within, without realizing how out of sorts you've become. That needs deep care to heal.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

I sometimes wonder whether the thing I'm talking about, that I've struggled with in people I care about, is maybe best described as a form of depression since it functions much that way. It is fundamentally separated from the contents of any given day, a pall over everything that can't be dismissed.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

A healthy amount of cynicism can be clarifying, protective, even empowering. But letting it form the core of yourself endangers making it a calcifying force instead, rendering you unable to interpret people and experiences beyond an intrinsic impulse for distrust and preemptive dismissal.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

I am not trying to describe you, just reflecting on some recent personal experiences. But if you think that some of the patterns I'm talking about might apply to you, I hope you have trusted people to provide comfort and joy and relief from everything that's happening, and to help navigate it all.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

I've known a couple people who've fallen into a pit like this, and it hurts to see them go through it. So jaded that they come to view almost anyone else as beneath them simply for not being in the same pit, and just sink further and further by rejecting anyone who names or challenges that pattern.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

I refuse to become a person who drowns in such deep cynicism that they lose all ability to discern anything useful about what's happening around them. Defenses formed from harm can protect our energy and prevent future harm, but they can easily tip into deeply unhealthy, isolating conspiracism.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

Don't ask me why the hell they did the living room window of the one house like that when they replaced it

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

A newly possible view, previously obscured by a big old tree that fell apart during a storm earlier this year and was ground down to a stump this week.

A photo of a set of two story 1880s red brick rowhouses, each about 15 feet wide with a door on one side of the main floor facade and a wide double window on the other side. Above, on the top floor, is a big mansard roof with two small dormer windows poking out.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely true. I have qualms with PSL, but a group of their members are rooted in immigration justice work and have done a great job of focusing the org on response actions that can actually help people instead of just posturing.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 1d

Y’all need to see this sign.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

Opening tomorrow night! Come see some impressive art and artifacts from the studio of a man who deeply influenced the visual vernacular of Chicago during the early 20th century.

The annual Historic Pullman House Tour is also happening this weekend, so you can make a full day of it on Saturday.

A photo of an art gallery whose walls are filled with framed design documents for Art Deco figurines and buildings, with additional objects shown in display cases.

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metal dot txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking at more photos of this place and it does sort of resemble mexican food and also lol this looks like about 20lbs of food

What appears to be two giant burritos on top of a rice bowl

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

Tacticool is the kind of guy who wishes he was Tentacruel, but in reality he's just Tentacool with a bunch of gear he bought on Amazon

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