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@lizzyisi.bsky.social
that's me, in the late 90s.
I love the cold dark clutch of grey sullen Chicago winter
I love the cold dark clutch of grey sullen Chicago winter
My adventures at the real ID supercemter were most tame
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My adventures at the real ID supercemter were most tame
Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration.
Once upon a time, we spoke to each other in Oscar Wilde
Once upon a time, we spoke to each other in Oscar Wilde
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration.
Once upon a time, we spoke to each other in Oscar Wilde
Once upon a time, we spoke to each other in Oscar Wilde
Apparently, we're in the top 0.5% of listeners to #Dessa on Spotify which means I really ought to be able to sing Warsaw at karaoke.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Tp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Tp...
Dessa - "Warsaw"
YouTube video by Doomtree
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Apparently, we're in the top 0.5% of listeners to #Dessa on Spotify which means I really ought to be able to sing Warsaw at karaoke.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Tp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Tp...
A critical thing to understand about "legal financial obligations" & "financial sentencing orders" (2 entirely cursed phrases BTW) is that the goal is not to punish or recoup costs from defendants. It's to extract resources from under resourced & neglected communities.
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A critical thing to understand about "legal financial obligations" & "financial sentencing orders" (2 entirely cursed phrases BTW) is that the goal is not to punish or recoup costs from defendants. It's to extract resources from under resourced & neglected communities.
Anyone got a link to a good "talking points for contacting the Mayor & City Council about the budget"? from a nice progressive "CPD is stealing money from civilization, fund our fucking libraries" perspective?
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Anyone got a link to a good "talking points for contacting the Mayor & City Council about the budget"? from a nice progressive "CPD is stealing money from civilization, fund our fucking libraries" perspective?
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If you want public health breakthroughs for cities, you need other traffic calming elements, too, like lots of bumpouts and raised crosswalks. Hoboken, NJ, went all in on this and HAS NOT HAD A TRAFFIC CRASH DEATH IN LIKE NINE YEARS. THERE'S YOUR PUBLIC HEALTH BREAKTHROUGH, BUDDY.
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If you want public health breakthroughs for cities, you need other traffic calming elements, too, like lots of bumpouts and raised crosswalks. Hoboken, NJ, went all in on this and HAS NOT HAD A TRAFFIC CRASH DEATH IN LIKE NINE YEARS. THERE'S YOUR PUBLIC HEALTH BREAKTHROUGH, BUDDY.
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Budgets are a moral document, and right now the City of Chicago is showing it values surveillance over libraries.
The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.
December 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Budgets are a moral document, and right now the City of Chicago is showing it values surveillance over libraries.
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A haunting, urgent piece about a woman who counts the number of women murdered by men in the US and how profound an exercise it is.
magazine.atavist.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A haunting, urgent piece about a woman who counts the number of women murdered by men in the US and how profound an exercise it is.
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My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
An organization that I have not given to in close to 30 years sent me an EOY/GT solicitation last week. I did not mind, but I did not renew my giving.
They have sent 2-4 more every day since. So I have blocked the sender.
Don't do that.
They have sent 2-4 more every day since. So I have blocked the sender.
Don't do that.
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
An organization that I have not given to in close to 30 years sent me an EOY/GT solicitation last week. I did not mind, but I did not renew my giving.
They have sent 2-4 more every day since. So I have blocked the sender.
Don't do that.
They have sent 2-4 more every day since. So I have blocked the sender.
Don't do that.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/books-...
Haymarket is committed to making their books available for free to people who are incarcerated. They are raising funds for Books Not Bars, to send free books inside to incarcerated readers. Help them donate at least 2,000 books in the next year!
Haymarket is committed to making their books available for free to people who are incarcerated. They are raising funds for Books Not Bars, to send free books inside to incarcerated readers. Help them donate at least 2,000 books in the next year!
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/books-...
Haymarket is committed to making their books available for free to people who are incarcerated. They are raising funds for Books Not Bars, to send free books inside to incarcerated readers. Help them donate at least 2,000 books in the next year!
Haymarket is committed to making their books available for free to people who are incarcerated. They are raising funds for Books Not Bars, to send free books inside to incarcerated readers. Help them donate at least 2,000 books in the next year!
Today is World AIDS Day. Designated in 1988. it's a day to remember & honor the 32 million people who have died worldwide from AIDS to remain united in the fight against HIV.
The first Visual AIDS / Day Without Art in 1989 may not have radicalized me, but it was my first protest.
The first Visual AIDS / Day Without Art in 1989 may not have radicalized me, but it was my first protest.
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today is World AIDS Day. Designated in 1988. it's a day to remember & honor the 32 million people who have died worldwide from AIDS to remain united in the fight against HIV.
The first Visual AIDS / Day Without Art in 1989 may not have radicalized me, but it was my first protest.
The first Visual AIDS / Day Without Art in 1989 may not have radicalized me, but it was my first protest.
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Wards should be geographic local subdivisions for city services with no legislative function and aldermen should represent population-based districts with no executive function
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Wards should be geographic local subdivisions for city services with no legislative function and aldermen should represent population-based districts with no executive function
one THOUSAND percent.
I mean, I know we're all masses of contradictions, but not fucking trying to claim a piece of the public road is a very low bar to clear to demonstrate you understand you live in a neighborhood, with other human beings, in a society.
I mean, I know we're all masses of contradictions, but not fucking trying to claim a piece of the public road is a very low bar to clear to demonstrate you understand you live in a neighborhood, with other human beings, in a society.
Dibs is antisocial behavior and I find posts characterizing it as a cute regional traditional both annoying and disappointing.
I know Chicago as a city that shows up for each other so why y'all refusing to help out when we're all going through this weather together
I know Chicago as a city that shows up for each other so why y'all refusing to help out when we're all going through this weather together
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
one THOUSAND percent.
I mean, I know we're all masses of contradictions, but not fucking trying to claim a piece of the public road is a very low bar to clear to demonstrate you understand you live in a neighborhood, with other human beings, in a society.
I mean, I know we're all masses of contradictions, but not fucking trying to claim a piece of the public road is a very low bar to clear to demonstrate you understand you live in a neighborhood, with other human beings, in a society.
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i’m being radicalized by peacock charging $10.99 per month and having A MILLION COMMERCIALS
November 30, 2025 at 4:14 AM
i’m being radicalized by peacock charging $10.99 per month and having A MILLION COMMERCIALS
All my traits are charming—they live beyond their means.
#SundayMusic
#SundayMusic
November 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
All my traits are charming—they live beyond their means.
#SundayMusic
#SundayMusic
November 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Why the hell aren’t they shoveling the sidewalks
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Why the hell aren’t they shoveling the sidewalks
Stopped into our lovely neighborhood wine shop. The everyday bubbles (a cava) we buy there, as well as our beloved Noilly Prat Original Dry, are victims of the MAGA trade war.
I know that the GOP cultists don't actually care about small businesses like hers, but I hate having it confirmed.
I know that the GOP cultists don't actually care about small businesses like hers, but I hate having it confirmed.
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Stopped into our lovely neighborhood wine shop. The everyday bubbles (a cava) we buy there, as well as our beloved Noilly Prat Original Dry, are victims of the MAGA trade war.
I know that the GOP cultists don't actually care about small businesses like hers, but I hate having it confirmed.
I know that the GOP cultists don't actually care about small businesses like hers, but I hate having it confirmed.
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BLACKOUT BLACK FRIDAY. Workers, teachers, advocates, community members turn out on Michigan Ave to say don't spend $ at Target, Amazon, Home Depot, At&T! @icirr.bsky.social @caarprnow.bsky.social @chicago-cata.bsky.social @peopleslobbyusa.bsky.social @ctulocal1.bsky.social @ocadchicago.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
BLACKOUT BLACK FRIDAY. Workers, teachers, advocates, community members turn out on Michigan Ave to say don't spend $ at Target, Amazon, Home Depot, At&T! @icirr.bsky.social @caarprnow.bsky.social @chicago-cata.bsky.social @peopleslobbyusa.bsky.social @ctulocal1.bsky.social @ocadchicago.bsky.social
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Today's architecture column. In an ironic twist, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks next month will weigh granting preliminary landmark status for 30 N. LaSalle St., the nondescript building for which Louis Sullivan’s masterpiece, the Chicago Stock Exchange Building, was sacrificed in 1972.
Loop skyscraper that replaced Louis Sullivan masterpiece heads toward landmark protection
In an ironic twist, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks next month will weigh granting preliminary landmark status for 30 N. LaSalle St. for which Sullivan's masterpiece was sacrificed.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Today's architecture column. In an ironic twist, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks next month will weigh granting preliminary landmark status for 30 N. LaSalle St., the nondescript building for which Louis Sullivan’s masterpiece, the Chicago Stock Exchange Building, was sacrificed in 1972.
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Really need Chicago legal community to come through with TIPS and info about these people running for judge!! The survey is confidential!
Most people running for Cook County judge seats in March are currently attorneys. Do you have experience working with them? Inform our next judicial election guide by sending your tips!
As we work on our next judicial election guide, we want to hear from you: What should voters know about these attorneys and judges? If you recognize any of these names, send us your tips. buff.ly/DlOqYRA
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Really need Chicago legal community to come through with TIPS and info about these people running for judge!! The survey is confidential!