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Steven Lucy
@slucy.bsky.social
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I run a produce store, a florist, a wine shop, and mostly post about bike lanes.

📍Hyde Park, Chicago
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rmartincole.bsky.social
Text “AEROFLOT'70 PRESS BULLETIN AVIAREKLAMA” and abstracted design based on Osaka EXPO ‘70 logo
March 20, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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brooklynspoke.bsky.social
In 2014, New York City lowered its citywide default speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph. In the year that followed:

- Traffic fatalities fell by more than 22 percent

- Pedestrian fatalities fell by more than 25 percent

transalt.org/reports-list...
anubisthejackal.bsky.social One Who Walks Among the Dead @anubisthejackal.bsky.social · 3h
Also, most car crashes occur at intersections, and not because a car was exceeding the speed.

My bet is that even if you made it so no one could speed anywhere, it would only marginally lower traffic fatalities.
February 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
slucy.bsky.social
The three genders.
February 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This technology already exists and is widely used. It doesn't involve 'government surveillance' and would not allow ICE or any other government agency to stop individual cars.

Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed!
www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...
Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars
Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA) isn't an ironclad speeding prevention system, but could be just annoying enough to spark a backlash.
www.autoweek.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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theonion.com
Non-Biathlon Skier Would Also Like Gun
Non-Biathlon Skier Would Also Like Gun
February 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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chittimarco.bsky.social
From a Diab & El-Geneidy 2015 paper:

Just moving stops far-side and removing the right-turn/stop conflict could save up to 8.7% of running times on line 165 in Montréal, equivalent to adding 7-9 trips per weekday per direction for free

We leave so much on the table.

tram.mcgill.ca/Research/Pub...
stop times located at the near side of an intersection are between 4.2 to 5 seconds slower than far-side stops, with no impact on stop time variation. This is without accounting for the existence of right-turn lane, which consistently adds 2.1 to 3 seconds of delay. Therefore, allocation of bus stops at the near side of intersection that includes a right-turn lane for cars is not recommended in order to avoid time wasted without serving any passengers. In other words, if we considered Route 165, one route with the median number of near-side stops among the STM’s studied routes, the total number of near-side stops is 23 stops per direction (without the layovers). Therefore, moving these stops from near-side to far-side of the same intersection would save about 96 to 115 seconds (1.6 to 1.9 minutes) on total routedirection travel time. This means that, hypothetically, we can achieve about 5.2% to 6.1% saving in running time per direction due to the use of far-side stops along this route. This represents about 17% to 20% of Route 165 average total stop time per trip (which is about 30% of total travel time). However, this still does not account for savings that will be gained due to the absence of turning right lanes at the route far-side stops. That would achieve additional 29 to 42 seconds of saving (14 intersections have right-turn lane per route-direction), increasing the total saving to 6.7% to 8.4% in running time per route-direction. Hence, STM operates around 110 trips along Route 165 on a single weekday per direction; this means that shifting from near-side to far-side stops can increase the bus frequency along this route by 7 to 9 trips for every weekday per direction. Furthermore, this does not include the benefits that could be achieved due to the implementation of bus signal priority with extended green, in order to decrease the impact of signalized intersections on the service operational time while improving the service reliability (3).
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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lakebiglake.bsky.social
Our letter to the editor today in the Chicago Sun-Times.
#Metra #SouthChicago #QuantumCampus
chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...
Beef up Metra Electric South Chicago Branch to facilitate quantum campus access
Frequent transit access would boost the campus and neighborhood. Also, letters about Silverio Villegas González, ICE and hypocritical anti-socialist Republicans.
chicago.suntimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social
In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
joenoonan.bsky.social Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14h
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.

Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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shengokai.blacksky.app
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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dansinker.com
For those that don't know Chicago, this spans Division Street in Humboldt Park.
An enormous sculptural Puerto Rican flag so large it acts as an arch across the entire street
February 9, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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lookitup.baby
Bless
Raphal de la Ghetto @ilovesmick All these white people mad about Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl performance... I hope next year they get Bad Bunny performing the whole set in Spanish. 5:32 PM • 2/11/25 • 6.7M Views
October 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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milleryoho.bsky.social
What a moment.
Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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abionsky.bsky.social
Thr way the clouds and pancakes mimicked each other today was pretty amazing
The Chicago skyline and a strip of blue sky separates giant grayish white pancake ice from overlapping layers of grayish white clouds A strip of blue sky separates chunky pancake ice and chunky clouds
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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tracyseneca.bsky.social
SuperbOwl, Majestic Theater, Monroe St.
February 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
slucy.bsky.social
(Observing the players) “wow, so this is a huge event for them. It’s like their Super Bowl!”
February 9, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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mikhailbazharov.bsky.social
I was really excited to share this image of a particularly superb owl, given that today is #superbowl Sunday, but unfortunately, it soared away with its bedtime snack before I could get the photo...
February 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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dollspace.gay
Marx isn't just mildly disagreeing with the Luddites, he's saying their machine-breaking actively gave reactionary governments a pretext for repression. It was strategically counterproductive on top of being analytically wrong.
February 8, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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nikhunder.com
I'm rating all of the national anthems I hear at the 2026 Winter Olympics 🥇🥈🥉

1. Italy - Il Canto degli Italiani
Light, royal march-esque, proper use of dynamics. Fails to evolve into something exceedingly grand.

3/5
February 7, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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laurie-merrell.bsky.social
lake forever problems for now
A photo of Lake Michigan, the lake surface is covered with circles of snow and ice. The sky above is blue with dramatic swirls of white clouds
February 8, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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laurie-merrell.bsky.social
Chicago forever problems for now

(left today, right yesterday)
A photo of the very distant Chicago skyline from the north beyond a stretch of water that's covered in circles of ice ringed with little ridges of snow. The sky is blue with bits and bobs of white clouds A photo of the distant Chicago skyline beyond a stretch of open gray water with a rolling wave going from left to right. There are a couple small chunks of ice floating in the water. The sky is blue with a couple white clouds
February 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
“.. This is a 37 point shift left.”
February 8, 2026 at 4:29 AM
slucy.bsky.social
They say the police department is “underfunded” but could spare eight (8) police cars to follow about 30 people doing a one mile parade, who were not causing any problems and not having any conflict with motorists.
dwarmstr.bsky.social Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 1d
Hyde Park was a scene of cold Carnival Cheers as a group of unknown celebrities and protesters brought their "Snoo Krewe" energy across the neighborhood. Trailed by five police cars who just ran the patented "annoying sound", the ragtag group brought the New Orleans energy to a frozen Saturday.
February 8, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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dwarmstr.bsky.social
Dateline: Chicago
Wild Cat Mardi Gras Parade Amuses Locals, Annoys Cops
February 7, 2026 at 10:32 PM