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Pedestrian birder in Chicago. Click on #birds tag to see just my bird photos without the whinging. I'm also sharing bird links using the #BirdLinks tag. I'm embarrassed by my typos but usually not enough to delete them. Gear: OM1 & OM 150-400 & 100-400

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a man trying to fix a flat bicycle tire in the street today, a teenage boy stopped in front of him and sang a note perfect rendition of Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up” and this is probably the best thing I’ll witness this week.

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 12h

Saw another delivery robot (remote controlled cooler on wheels actually ) on Broadway. They stop if there are any oncoming pedestrians so I am really not sure how effective they will be at any time other than early in the morning.

Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 15h

I took a picture of some doorway tile this morning at Broadway and Belmont while people on the opposite corner were holding up signs and cars were honking.
#Chicago

A red post in front in front of a old door with some white tile on the doorway floor. There seems to be a sticker on the post.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

in my heraclitus era, refusing to believe in anything but flux. in my parmenides era, refusing to believe change exists and insisting the entire world is an illusion. in my diogenes era. sleeping in a jar, throwing chickens at people unprovoked, wandering around with a lamp.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

in 2020 I discovered I had not really given enough respect to the existentialists because up until that point I had not suffered enough. it is now 2025 and I wish we had the writings of the weird-as-shit ancient greek guys because I think I am coming to understand insanity as a philosophical program

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 19h

Said on the local weather this morning: “It went from 80 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 5d

The early morning light provides gold tones to the buildings along the Chicago River earlier this week.

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 5d

a reminder for Chicago folks that picking up or throwing back a tear gas canister will badly burn you unless you're wearing welding gloves which can be purchased for very reasonable prices at Menards

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Go Cobalt Corvids!

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 1d

It’s gonna be wild when they start arresting people for being part of an organization that they cannot prove exists

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 1d

Dialup 0-3day warez on PCBoard. All files in 1.4MB segments and ZModem protocol for downloading. GIFs render one line at a time. Messages downloaded in a packet for offline reading. Response uploaded in a packet when back online. 3:1 warez dl/ul ratio to remain in good standing. Also ANSI ART!

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 1d

Come to Chicago in the summer. There's usually 10-15 in the area with several known nest sites on specific buildings. Even one in the downtown Loop!

Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 1d

A heron at North Pond, Chicago.
#birds

A heron perched on top of a log in the middle of a pond at night. It is in the middle of a reflected beam of light from pathlamp

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 1d

When I lived in England they would treat American friends who needed care when they visited and did it for free because dealing with American health insurance, even the travel insurance, was more hassle than it was worth for them.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 2d

National Guard deploying in Chicago need to take a long hard look in The Bean

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago skyline from Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary after the Tuesday morning rains. It was very birdy!
10.7.2025

Residual storm clouds over downtown Chicago's skyline viewed from Montrose Point with the natural meadows in the foreground.

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 2d

here it is, my medically necessary daily dose of good news www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what the market for Michael Jackson memorabilia is like now.

Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 1d

We're having trouble finding agricultural workers so the Trump admin issued a rule to pay them less?

These are spectacularly dumb and dangerous people.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 1d

Peregrine Falcon in flight over Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary, Chicago.
10.07.2025
#Birds #BirdsOfPrey

Peregrine Falcon in flight from left to right banked showing its top while it's head remains focused down and ahead.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 1d

Why you rabble rousers!

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Belmont Harbor yacht people saw they were accidentally on the Lakefront Trail and just decided to floor it half a mile up to Recreation Drive. As one does when one is high on automotive clout. #Chicago

An SUV driving north on the Lakefront Trail pedestrian and cycling path at Belmont.

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