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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 48m

The post refers to when the Senate adopted the amendment to a defense bill for FY26. As of a minute ago, they passed it. www.dailypress.senate.gov
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1h

Subsidize industrial design. Product design is getting sloppy

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 8h

I watch this bot every day and if we added just one more reactor, we'd be on a fully nuclear grid 95+% of the time...

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 8h

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Excursions

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 8h

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Excursions

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 8h

See below open.spotify.com/track/3F3J1p...

Excursions into "Oh, A-Oh"

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 8h

If you name a song "excursions" or "impressions," there's no way I'm not going to listen to that.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 11h

I find it more likely that City dwellers are more familiar with suburban town names than suburbans are with city neighborhood names mostly because everyone has to take a trip to the suburbs every so often, but not everyone has to take a trip to the city

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 11h

One would think

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 11h

Denise lives in the suburbs. City geography is hard

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

The midwest way to name a town is two nouns stuck together — they don't have to be related.

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 2d

This is how professional sport divisions should be grouped

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 2d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

NEW DATE: Let's walk all of Halsted Street! Come for the whole thing or drop by for a few miles. I'll be posting updates in this thread to find us on the day of.

⏰ October 25th, 9:20am
📍 Halsted St. Bridge at 119th/Halsted (eastern side)

Walking All of Halsted St. October 18th 25th

Schedule:
Tip: Take the Red Line to 95th and transfer to the Pace 352 (Bay J) departing at 9:09a.
9:30a: Begin on the Halsted Street Bridge (Halsted south of 129th)
Walk 7.6 miles
12p: Bio break at Hamilton Park Fieldhouse (72nd/Normal)
Walk: 2 miles
12:55p-1:30p: Lunch at Baba’s (Halsted/59th)
Walk 3.8 miles
2:50p Snack break at Runaway Cow (31st/Wallace)
Walk: .6 mile
3:30p: Bio break at McGuane Park (Halsted/29th)
Walk 5.8 miles
5:30p: Bio break at DePaul School of Music (Halsted/Lincoln/Fullerton)
Walk: 1.8 miles
6:30p: Finish line! (Halsted/Broadway/Broadway)

Total walk: 21.5mi/9hr

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

Wanderu does this

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

Needing to look at the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a recession indicator

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 1d

Journalists need to stop presenting DBE as a local initiative, it was a federal requirement for grant funding until quite literally hours before the government shutdown

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

The CTA is “fully and entirely committed” to building the Red Line Extension on the city’s Far South Side, the agency’s acting president said, days after President Donald Trump’s White House froze $2.1 billion in federal funding for the extension.

CTA ‘committed’ to Red Line Extension despite federal funding freeze, acting president says

Advocates for the Red Line Extension, discussed for 50 years, describe it as an overdue promise to the people of the city’s Far South Side.

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

I'm always interested in the MacArthur Fellows.

This year: a chemical engineer studying how to reclaim chemicals from wastewater, a Wabanaki basket maker, a researcher studying what forms of civic engagement are durable, and a nuclear security specialist www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Thinkers, dreamers, doers: Here's who made the 2025 MacArthur Fellow list

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

Yeah I knew something seemed wrong. I also gotta get to some OHC sites

Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

NEW DATE: Let's walk all of Halsted Street! Come for the whole thing or drop by for a few miles. I'll be posting updates in this thread to find us on the day of.

⏰ October 25th, 9:20am
📍 Halsted St. Bridge at 119th/Halsted (eastern side)

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

They are, strange...

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

Enticing offer

Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 1d

Ok FOIA folks, has anyone heard of/been to this "comedy bluegrass" show called FOIA Comedy that was just advertised to me on Instagram?
Playing 10/9 @ the Goodnan, 10/13 at the Den

www.foialove.com

FOIA Comedy

www.foialove.com

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

Maybe some teams should move. We don't need all sports in all areas of the country. bsky.app/profile/nikh...

Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 2d

This is how professional sport divisions should be grouped

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 2d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

The NFL got it right twice. MLB sort of understands this.

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 1d

We could have Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Chicago as a division

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