Kirsten Lambert
@kslambert.bsky.social
Wordsmith. Gadfly. Shower singer. (Same as on Xitter.)
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 17, 2025 at 6:13 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
Wise advice.
If you're in Chicago and you live in an old house or apartment, tonight is one of those nights where you should drip your faucets
December 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Wise advice.
Bowling! Drinks! Magic! 🤹♂️
Join us Dec. 4 at Avondale Bowl to celebrate Injustice Watch's 10th birthday. Tickets include food, cocktails, bowling, magic, and more — and will help fuel the next decade of judicial election guides and impactful investigative journalism. buff.ly/T0E1oy8
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Bowling! Drinks! Magic! 🤹♂️
Reposted by Kirsten Lambert
We’re hiring!
The TRiiBE is currently experiencing an exciting period of audience growth, which requires a leader to capture new readers and pipeline them into our membership program.
Come work with our independent and Black-owned newsroom ✊🏾✨
thetriibe.com/jobs
The TRiiBE is currently experiencing an exciting period of audience growth, which requires a leader to capture new readers and pipeline them into our membership program.
Come work with our independent and Black-owned newsroom ✊🏾✨
thetriibe.com/jobs
We're hiring!
The TRiiBE is hiring! Take a look at our Chicago-based employment opportunities and apply today!
thetriibe.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
We’re hiring!
The TRiiBE is currently experiencing an exciting period of audience growth, which requires a leader to capture new readers and pipeline them into our membership program.
Come work with our independent and Black-owned newsroom ✊🏾✨
thetriibe.com/jobs
The TRiiBE is currently experiencing an exciting period of audience growth, which requires a leader to capture new readers and pipeline them into our membership program.
Come work with our independent and Black-owned newsroom ✊🏾✨
thetriibe.com/jobs
Need a laugh? Here 🤣🤣🤣
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Need a laugh? Here 🤣🤣🤣
Quite possibly the best costume ever. Definitely the best this year. 🎃🎃🎃
so my friend asked me to help him get to the Halloween parade
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Quite possibly the best costume ever. Definitely the best this year. 🎃🎃🎃
Reposted by Kirsten Lambert
microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
Cool! 🎷🎷🎷
The Empty Bottle Jazz & Improvised Music Series—a key driver of Chicago's ongoing creative-music renaissance—ended 20 years ago. But on Saturday it returns to celebrate a new live box set with performances by Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Dorothy Carlos, and more!
chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
The Bottle gets a free (jazz) refill - Chicago Reader
The Empty Bottle Jazz & Improvised Music Series ended 20 years ago, but it returns for one night to roll out a new retrospective box set.
chicagoreader.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Cool! 🎷🎷🎷
In case anyone needs a quick hit of feel-good hormones. 🥰
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
In case anyone needs a quick hit of feel-good hormones. 🥰
Writers everywhere rn
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Writers everywhere rn
11 seconds of glee 🐥
Bathtime zoomies with the ducklings!! This never gets old…
#Ducklings #bathtime #FarmLife #LittleFarm
#Ducklings #bathtime #FarmLife #LittleFarm
October 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
11 seconds of glee 🐥
🎃🎃🎃
It’s #SpookySeason! 👻🕸️
The Internet Archive is serving frights all week. Today’s treat: a 1928 Saturday Evening Post cover by Frederic Stanley of a woman carving a pumpkin 🎃
97 years later & still haunting! 🖤
More ⤵️
archive.org/details/@ste...
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The Internet Archive is serving frights all week. Today’s treat: a 1928 Saturday Evening Post cover by Frederic Stanley of a woman carving a pumpkin 🎃
97 years later & still haunting! 🖤
More ⤵️
archive.org/details/@ste...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🎃🎃🎃
Mark your calendars, Chicagoans!
A drop in the bucket but I guess now is the time to share that Soup & Bread, the Chicago community meal project I founded in 2009, returns to the Hideout Dec. 3. Over 17 years we've raised more than $100K for local food pantries, through YOUR donations of money & soup. Mark yr calendars; more soon.
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Mark your calendars, Chicagoans!
Reposted by Kirsten Lambert
You have just 12 hours to get your Best of Chicago nominations in! We can’t make the ballot for our biggest issue of the year without your help. Make your voice heard by visiting chicagoreader.com/best before it’s too late!
October 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
You have just 12 hours to get your Best of Chicago nominations in! We can’t make the ballot for our biggest issue of the year without your help. Make your voice heard by visiting chicagoreader.com/best before it’s too late!
💀💀💀
Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Willem Dafoe
Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Willem Dafoe
ATLANTA—Saying the novelty decoration would add the perfect touch to Halloween yard displays, the Home Depot announced Friday it had begun selling a new 12-foot-tall Willem Dafoe in stores nationwide....
theonion.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Note the hat. 🤣
Dad Shushes Family While Focused On Jumbotron Hat Shuffle https://theonion.com/dad-shushes-family-while-focused-on-jumbotron-hat-shuffle/
October 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Note the hat. 🤣
Reposted by Kirsten Lambert
This art installation memorializes the places we’ve lost forever, in Chicago and beyond: blockclubchi.co/4o30ILv
October 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This art installation memorializes the places we’ve lost forever, in Chicago and beyond: blockclubchi.co/4o30ILv
Reposted by Kirsten Lambert
Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq
You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq
PERIPLUS: An FAQ
PERIPLUS: AN FAQ Updated August 2025 Hi! Thanks for your interest in Periplus, a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. We're glad you’re here. Rea...
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August 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq
You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq
Reposted by Kirsten Lambert
We’re looking for a developer-journalist to join @propublica.org’s News Applications team. You would write code, analyze data, build interactives — all in the service of public interest journalism.
Check it out: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
Check it out: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
News Applications Developer
Remote, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
September 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We’re looking for a developer-journalist to join @propublica.org’s News Applications team. You would write code, analyze data, build interactives — all in the service of public interest journalism.
Check it out: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
Check it out: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
Reposted by Kirsten Lambert
Our TRiiBE team is small but mighty. We only have 3 full-time reporters.
As we work to deliver you important journalism on the state of our democracy, we hope you’ll support our on-the-ground Chicago coverage by giving a contribution.
Click the link to give: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...
As we work to deliver you important journalism on the state of our democracy, we hope you’ll support our on-the-ground Chicago coverage by giving a contribution.
Click the link to give: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...
September 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Our TRiiBE team is small but mighty. We only have 3 full-time reporters.
As we work to deliver you important journalism on the state of our democracy, we hope you’ll support our on-the-ground Chicago coverage by giving a contribution.
Click the link to give: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...
As we work to deliver you important journalism on the state of our democracy, we hope you’ll support our on-the-ground Chicago coverage by giving a contribution.
Click the link to give: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...
No. 1 🏆
Despite the stigma that Chicago is a crime-ridden and dangerous place, Chicago’s tourism is up.
For eight years in a row, Chicago has been voted the “Best Big City in the U.S” by Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards.
thetriibe.com/2025/08/trum...
For eight years in a row, Chicago has been voted the “Best Big City in the U.S” by Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards.
thetriibe.com/2025/08/trum...
Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming • The TRiiBE
Crime is down. Tourism is up. And the city’s population is growing. Don’t let the media, or Trump, fool you.
thetriibe.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
No. 1 🏆
Reposted by Kirsten Lambert
Hey y’all! We’re doing some strategic planning and thinking through how to build the next era of The TRiiBE. Can you share your feedback? We need 20 more responses to reach our goal.
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September 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hey y’all! We’re doing some strategic planning and thinking through how to build the next era of The TRiiBE. Can you share your feedback? We need 20 more responses to reach our goal.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/32CMJGL
www.surveymonkey.com/r/32CMJGL
Reposted by Kirsten Lambert
We need your help.
We’re about 50 responses away from completing our 2025 TRiiBE Audience Survey.
If you’d like to see us grow and become a more sustainable newsroom, please take a minute or two to fill out of survey ✨
Link below ⬇️
www.surveymonkey.com/r/WLH5L8D
We’re about 50 responses away from completing our 2025 TRiiBE Audience Survey.
If you’d like to see us grow and become a more sustainable newsroom, please take a minute or two to fill out of survey ✨
Link below ⬇️
www.surveymonkey.com/r/WLH5L8D
September 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
We need your help.
We’re about 50 responses away from completing our 2025 TRiiBE Audience Survey.
If you’d like to see us grow and become a more sustainable newsroom, please take a minute or two to fill out of survey ✨
Link below ⬇️
www.surveymonkey.com/r/WLH5L8D
We’re about 50 responses away from completing our 2025 TRiiBE Audience Survey.
If you’d like to see us grow and become a more sustainable newsroom, please take a minute or two to fill out of survey ✨
Link below ⬇️
www.surveymonkey.com/r/WLH5L8D
This sounds amazing @hollohulo.bsky.social !
Aheuvo proves that an all-vegan breakfast burrito is not only possible, but delicious. Salem Collo-Julin expresses their love for the restaurant's El Vurrito breakfast treat. https://bit.ly/3JACDww
Reader Bites: El Vurrito at Ahuevo - Chicago Reader
Ahuevo has succeeded in convincing me that an all-vegan breakfast burrito is not only possible, but delicious.
bit.ly
August 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This sounds amazing @hollohulo.bsky.social !