Lil
@lilsky.bsky.social
Urbanist ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
I love fast cars, cool buildings, good food, and all things Chicago!
Bulls 🏀
F1🏁
I love fast cars, cool buildings, good food, and all things Chicago!
Bulls 🏀
F1🏁
What she said!
who has time for all the podcasts, videos & clips? let me read transcripts please. i kinda cannot deal with the vanity aspect of all things needing to be on camera some days.
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
What she said!
Protecting my peace by muting “zz"
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Protecting my peace by muting “zz"
Oof! 😣
And there it is: Chicago O’Hare International Airport is under a ground stop due to snow and ice until 10 a.m. CST.
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Oof! 😣
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Pedestrians suffered highest number of hit-and-run crashes, 42% of them. In 64% of pedestrian fatality cases, the driver was piloting a larger vehicle such as an SUV, pickup truck, or van. IDOT-controlled roads remain among the most dangerous. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/11/25/k...
Key findings from CDOT's annual Chicago Traffic Crashes report - Streetsblog Chicago
The Chicago Department of Transportation’s recently released annual Chicago Traffic Crashes report looks at data from the past several years and discusses the agency’s plan of action to reduce prevent...
chi.streetsblog.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Pedestrians suffered highest number of hit-and-run crashes, 42% of them. In 64% of pedestrian fatality cases, the driver was piloting a larger vehicle such as an SUV, pickup truck, or van. IDOT-controlled roads remain among the most dangerous. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/11/25/k...
The juice, Bluesky's got it
What time do you get in?
Officially moving to Chicago tomorrow. I assume JB Pritzker will be waiting for me at the airport
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The juice, Bluesky's got it
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That tracks. If you own a single-family house, work remotely, and have access to delivery, leaving your house at all requires a proactive choice.
And if you have a car, you could go literally months without interacting with anyone who isn’t in your household or being paid to interact with you.
And if you have a car, you could go literally months without interacting with anyone who isn’t in your household or being paid to interact with you.
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
That tracks. If you own a single-family house, work remotely, and have access to delivery, leaving your house at all requires a proactive choice.
And if you have a car, you could go literally months without interacting with anyone who isn’t in your household or being paid to interact with you.
And if you have a car, you could go literally months without interacting with anyone who isn’t in your household or being paid to interact with you.
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Bears defense holds! Jaquan Brisker tips the pass
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Bears defense holds! Jaquan Brisker tips the pass
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There are also bots on Bluesky folks
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
There are also bots on Bluesky folks
Volvo's "safety" branding is so hard-wired in my brain I'm always slightly taken aback when I come across someone driving aggressively in one 😳
a woman is sitting in the driver 's seat of a car with her hands on the steering wheel .
ALT: a woman is sitting in the driver 's seat of a car with her hands on the steering wheel .
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Volvo's "safety" branding is so hard-wired in my brain I'm always slightly taken aback when I come across someone driving aggressively in one 😳
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Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
$100 million prize goes to dynamic duo aiming to stop next pandemic before it starts
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
n.pr
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
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Check out this 1923 transit plan commissioned by the Chicago City Council. We use to be insanely ambitious. A network like this would've supported Paris-level population densities.
It's never too late!
It's never too late!
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Check out this 1923 transit plan commissioned by the Chicago City Council. We use to be insanely ambitious. A network like this would've supported Paris-level population densities.
It's never too late!
It's never too late!
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Last night on LaSalle St.
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Last night on LaSalle St.
🎤🎶 Well we're moving on up... To the East siiide 🎶
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
🎤🎶 Well we're moving on up... To the East siiide 🎶
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For the 40th anniversary of “The Super Bowl Shuffle,” HBO and NFL Films partnered to produce the documentary “The Shuffle,” which gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at how the song and video came together, including Samauri Mike’s schooling.
HBO-NFL Films documentary takes Bears fans behind scenes for making of 'The Super Bowl Shuffle'
chicago.suntimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
For the 40th anniversary of “The Super Bowl Shuffle,” HBO and NFL Films partnered to produce the documentary “The Shuffle,” which gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at how the song and video came together, including Samauri Mike’s schooling.
Party like it's 2008!
::shudder::
::shudder::
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Party like it's 2008!
::shudder::
::shudder::
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Today's architecture column. “This is a unique little jewel box,” Chicago art historian and stained glass expert Rolf Achilles said of Ave Maria chapel in the West Lawn neighborhood. “[It’s] absolutely unique. There’s nothing like it in Chicago.
Endangered Southwest Side chapel designed by Lithuanian refugees could be headed toward salvation
"There's nothing like it in Chicago," historian Rolf Achilles said.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Today's architecture column. “This is a unique little jewel box,” Chicago art historian and stained glass expert Rolf Achilles said of Ave Maria chapel in the West Lawn neighborhood. “[It’s] absolutely unique. There’s nothing like it in Chicago.
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Anthropic will pay Microsoft to pay Nvidia so Microsoft and Nvidia can pay Anthropic
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/a...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/a...
Anthropic to buy $30 billion in Azure capacity in new deal with Microsoft, Nvidia
www.cnbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Anthropic will pay Microsoft to pay Nvidia so Microsoft and Nvidia can pay Anthropic
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/a...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/a...
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I never tire of seeing the amazing success of HPV vaccination. We are seeing the elimination of a leading oncogenic virus pathogen in real time
(Source: GAVI)
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
(Source: GAVI)
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I never tire of seeing the amazing success of HPV vaccination. We are seeing the elimination of a leading oncogenic virus pathogen in real time
(Source: GAVI)
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
(Source: GAVI)
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
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The Cloudflare outage has taken out chatGPT. Maybe AI did become sentient and decided the internet was horrible and it would rather just live in a data center in the woods away from all of this.
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Cloudflare outage has taken out chatGPT. Maybe AI did become sentient and decided the internet was horrible and it would rather just live in a data center in the woods away from all of this.
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New video out now! IDOT & CDOT seriously missed the mark with Redefine the Drive. Here’s how we can do better
youtu.be/aspdaCREwWI?...
youtu.be/aspdaCREwWI?...
What if Chicago's Lakefront Had Less Cars?
YouTube video by Car Free Keith
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New video out now! IDOT & CDOT seriously missed the mark with Redefine the Drive. Here’s how we can do better
youtu.be/aspdaCREwWI?...
youtu.be/aspdaCREwWI?...
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malort is chicago ayahuasca. it is to be enjoyed for emphasis, with reverence. i've seen many a compatriot scoff at its slyness; by the end of the night they had spilled their guts in every way possible.
it's simply not meant to be done with this frequency. this will turn you into the toxic avenger
it's simply not meant to be done with this frequency. this will turn you into the toxic avenger
"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
malort is chicago ayahuasca. it is to be enjoyed for emphasis, with reverence. i've seen many a compatriot scoff at its slyness; by the end of the night they had spilled their guts in every way possible.
it's simply not meant to be done with this frequency. this will turn you into the toxic avenger
it's simply not meant to be done with this frequency. this will turn you into the toxic avenger
Gorgeous 😍
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Gorgeous 😍
Last week, while riding in a friend's car, *two* cars overtook us to run the red light we were stopped at. 7:30-ish am on a weekday. It's bad.
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights
I can't believe we need to explain this one, but it seems that we really do
nygroove.nyc
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Last week, while riding in a friend's car, *two* cars overtook us to run the red light we were stopped at. 7:30-ish am on a weekday. It's bad.
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Here we go again, kids!
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Here we go again, kids!
📍Central MN
📍Central MN