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babski
@babski.bsky.social
· Feb 20
no king but biking
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We need a moral panic over car bloat
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We need a moral panic over car bloat
in my mind Thelonious Monk is the king of hats. absolute legend at the hat game.
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
in my mind Thelonious Monk is the king of hats. absolute legend at the hat game.
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“Merriam-Webster clearly has a pro-dictionary bias that’s preventing it from considering all words equally,” lexicographer Alison Nielsen wrote in a widely shared social media post that lambasted the Merriam-Webster editorial team
Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year
SPRINGFIELD, MA—Facing intense backlash and scrutiny from critics who say the reference book publisher had failed to take all words into consideration, Merriam-Webster was accused of bias Monday after...
theonion.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Merriam-Webster clearly has a pro-dictionary bias that’s preventing it from considering all words equally,” lexicographer Alison Nielsen wrote in a widely shared social media post that lambasted the Merriam-Webster editorial team
Chicago could be an amazing city to live car-free but the deference to the privileged makes it more challenging than need be, especially in the winter
It feels that winter and snow in Chicago helps widen existing inequities because those without cars are less able to move around safely on transit and on foot. Mobility justice is hampered with the city management and policies around snow clearance.
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Chicago could be an amazing city to live car-free but the deference to the privileged makes it more challenging than need be, especially in the winter
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Chicago is a winter city & I think residents pride themselves in navigating the brutal winters. As much as the cold and winter is part of our identity, the city itself doesn’t manage winter & snow well. Right now, our sidewalks are intermittently icy w/ many alleys looking like ice rinks.
December 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Chicago is a winter city & I think residents pride themselves in navigating the brutal winters. As much as the cold and winter is part of our identity, the city itself doesn’t manage winter & snow well. Right now, our sidewalks are intermittently icy w/ many alleys looking like ice rinks.
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@chicagocta.bsky.social You gotta figure out the bus bunching. Please.
December 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
@chicagocta.bsky.social You gotta figure out the bus bunching. Please.
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Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
Nativity smashed, Mary figure ‘beaten’ at Evanston church: ‘God’s on the side of the vulnerable’
Vandals destroyed Lake Street Church of Evanston’s Nativity. It replaced Mary with a sign saying she’s in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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The sun will rise in #Chicago #Illinois tomorrow at 7:12, 40 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:20, 15 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:20, 15 seconds later than the day before.
December 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The sun will rise in #Chicago #Illinois tomorrow at 7:12, 40 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:20, 15 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:20, 15 seconds later than the day before.
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
"I'm a piece of shit and the state agrees it's not a big deal"
I love when drivers brag about avoiding accountability for their dangerous driving. Maybe they should have learned their lesson from the *two* prior warnings and not driven 90 on Route 1.
www.reddit.com/r/massachuse...
www.reddit.com/r/massachuse...
December 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"I'm a piece of shit and the state agrees it's not a big deal"
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The car and oil industries have convinced us that this is normal! School pick-up lines are an environmental and healthcare catastrophe. Drivers circle the loop until they see their kiddo, they exit the loop, then one of the 20+ car drivers idling in the line down the block enters the loop. #Exhaust
December 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The car and oil industries have convinced us that this is normal! School pick-up lines are an environmental and healthcare catastrophe. Drivers circle the loop until they see their kiddo, they exit the loop, then one of the 20+ car drivers idling in the line down the block enters the loop. #Exhaust
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"A woman was seen on the ground screaming and wailing as two other women tried to comfort her."
This is 100% my biggest nightmare. It is increasingly dangerous to just *walk* around our cities, and our electeds are mostly asleep at the wheel while kids die.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
This is 100% my biggest nightmare. It is increasingly dangerous to just *walk* around our cities, and our electeds are mostly asleep at the wheel while kids die.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
4-year-old boy dies after being run over in S.F., police report says
The driver remained on the scene after the Sunday morning collision in Hayes Valley, police said.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"A woman was seen on the ground screaming and wailing as two other women tried to comfort her."
This is 100% my biggest nightmare. It is increasingly dangerous to just *walk* around our cities, and our electeds are mostly asleep at the wheel while kids die.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
This is 100% my biggest nightmare. It is increasingly dangerous to just *walk* around our cities, and our electeds are mostly asleep at the wheel while kids die.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
I estimated I was one of 4,000 or so cyclists in Chicago yesterday but maybe that's low if these are the Divvy numbers alone
Shout out to winter Divvy riders who’ve been braving extreme cold across Chicago:
12/13 (low 4°F): 3,242 rides
12/14 (low -1°F): 2,333 rides
On my ride in this morning, it was 10°F but felt like -5°F and people were still out riding. Protected bike lanes on Grand Ave made it possible and safe!
12/13 (low 4°F): 3,242 rides
12/14 (low -1°F): 2,333 rides
On my ride in this morning, it was 10°F but felt like -5°F and people were still out riding. Protected bike lanes on Grand Ave made it possible and safe!
December 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I estimated I was one of 4,000 or so cyclists in Chicago yesterday but maybe that's low if these are the Divvy numbers alone
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Nice night for a skate in Minneapolis
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Nice night for a skate in Minneapolis
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The vast vast majority of ethnic Somalis in Minneapolis are American citizens, having either arrived as refugees in the 1980s and 1990s with the fall of Siad Barre, or been born in America. The number who are undocumented is almost certainly vanishingly small. There's no immigration enforcement here
December 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The vast vast majority of ethnic Somalis in Minneapolis are American citizens, having either arrived as refugees in the 1980s and 1990s with the fall of Siad Barre, or been born in America. The number who are undocumented is almost certainly vanishingly small. There's no immigration enforcement here
booty had me like
Twin Peaks: Deputy Andy Brennan at Lucy's desk, in a stunned moment of realisation.
December 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
booty had me like
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SNL used AI art tonight, multiple times.
Booooooo.
Booooooo.
December 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
SNL used AI art tonight, multiple times.
Booooooo.
Booooooo.
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At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
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New flyer promoting the Monday 12/15 rally in support of the Archer Avenue traffic safety project, 3868 S. Archer Ave. in Brighton Park. The car activists are showing up around 4:30 PM, but it looks like Safe Streets booster are assembling at 4 PM.
@chicritmass.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
@chicritmass.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New flyer promoting the Monday 12/15 rally in support of the Archer Avenue traffic safety project, 3868 S. Archer Ave. in Brighton Park. The car activists are showing up around 4:30 PM, but it looks like Safe Streets booster are assembling at 4 PM.
@chicritmass.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
@chicritmass.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
I'm at my limit with this guy's name
Max Mohr (1938)
Source: Hennepin County Library
Mohr from St. Paul is a member of the University of Minnesota Gophers basketball team, forward position.
Source: Hennepin County Library
Mohr from St. Paul is a member of the University of Minnesota Gophers basketball team, forward position.
December 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'm at my limit with this guy's name