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Soren Spicknall

@sorenspicknall.bsky.social

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Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him "We know this world is good enough because it has to be."

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · Nov 16

Turning all my new cat friend posts into a thread that I can update as I add new cat friends

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · Jul 27

new friend alert

A photo of a cat lying down calmly on the sidewalk just outside the door to a store

A photo of the same cat, a shorthair tortie with a fluffy tail, walking up to the camera lens

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 9h

My favorite thing is they're very, very straightforward.

I went to buy an SD card and it was priced higher on the shelf than it was online. But at checkout, they charged the lower online price without me needing to ask and without making a show out of it. Just charged the lower of the two prices.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 9h

They're the best. They've got good prosumer brands (for instance, Audio-Technica and Beyerdynamic feature heavily in their headphone lineup rather than Beats and Bose), their staff know what they're talking about, and they have my email but they don't spam it - they just send me my receipts.

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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 10h

wiebolt's department stores (RIP) first store was at 1832 w grand and i was surprised to see that it's still there

sketch of an italianate two flat with three windows on the second floor and a sign that says W.A. Wieboldt from wieboldt's annual shareholders report

2019 streetview of a brick italiante two story building

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 10h

Worth it, though

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 10h

@whetmoser.com was technically first to the punch, but I also give @toneloaf.bsky.social credit - it's the side of the Micro Center on Elston, facing the entrance to the adjacent Five Below!

A screenshot of Bluesky replies from whet moser and Pumpkinloaf both saying "Micro Center"

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 10h

Hint 6 (practically giving it away now):

If you were to make a trinity of teenage computer geek power locations in Chicago, it would consist of Northside College Prep, the old American Science & Surplus in Jefferson Park, and this place.