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Steven @stevevance.net · 3h

What lens did you use?

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sevedge @sevedge.bsky.social · 11h

photo of a Do Not Enter traffic sign on a Chicago street, but someone has altered it to say Do Not -Let ICE- Enter

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Steven @stevevance.net · 5h

How do you know that?

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 5h

This rally was brought to you by the excellent intersection redesign from 2017 that bent Racine to meet Broadway at a right angle, creating a huge pedestrian plaza in the process. Would love to see more of these along Chicago’s diagonal streets.

Two side-by-side images of the same intersection before and after it was reconstructed to create a large plaza

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Steven @stevevance.net · 11h

SB79 that

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Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 14h

Manifesting new housing here 😌

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Steven @stevevance.net · 17h

I.C.E. OUT OF CHICAGO www.flickr.com/photos/james... creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 19h

I get that we all get had here and there. It happens to even the most careful people. That said, when it comes to AI generated slop - please don't make it, share it, or amplify it. Not only are you helping to poison the water supply of whole communities, but you're helping to destroy our brains.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 21h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Steven @stevevance.net · 19h

Jackson, the video maker, usually posts videos of Chongqing

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Steven @stevevance.net · 19h

I think many PSDs in Tokyo are shorter than the ones in the photo

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Steven @stevevance.net · 19h

I don’t know if it’s a big ass fan

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Steven @stevevance.net · 19h

Big fan over a Singapore metro platform www.flickr.com/photos/james... creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...

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Steven @stevevance.net · 1d

Has Stadler started building the BEMUs for Metra?

Steven @stevevance.net · May 6

this is the train Metra says they’re going to buy except instead of a diesel engine in the middle segment there will be a big battery

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Steven @stevevance.net · 1d

I’ve no idea why UIC still has neighborhood zoning

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Steven @stevevance.net · 1d

We should send all of the burrito taxi robots to this spot and see how they maneuver around each other

Steven @stevevance.net · 1d

What this area looks like from the opposite direction

Vacant lot and vacant concrete area along Milwaukee Avenue

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Steven @stevevance.net · 1d

Is that how you spell in Australian?

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Steven @stevevance.net · 1d

this is a cool idea and a cool account

Every Sydney Station @sydneystations.bsky.social · 1d

LEURA, 108km from Central, is another charming station - everything is so charming up in the Blue Mountains - serving retail strip of cute cafes and shops popular with tourists. It has two platforms cut into the sandstone, accessed from an overhead concourse on a road bridge, with a lift. (1/3)