Steven Lucy
@slucy.bsky.social
I run a produce store, a florist, a wine shop, and mostly post about bike lanes.
📍Hyde Park, Chicago
📍Hyde Park, Chicago
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Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
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Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
You're overthrown
You're overthrown
they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.
January 9, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
You're overthrown
You're overthrown
Hyde Park now has a ride hail congestion charge.
Zone 2 (Hyde Park)
This one also may not consider DLSD accurately until I check the ordinance text
This one also may not consider DLSD accurately until I check the ordinance text
Chicago Cityscape - Map of building projects, properties, and businesses in the Chicago Ride Hail Congestion Fee Area - Zone 2 (Hyde Park) - Custom Place
Chicago Cityscape has a map of Chicago Ride Hail Congestion Fee Area - Zone 2 (Hyde Park) and details all of the building projects, new construction, demolitions, new businesses, and helps you find pr...
www.chicagocityscape.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Hyde Park now has a ride hail congestion charge.
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“We had whistles. They had guns.” is the line that broke me today
January 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“We had whistles. They had guns.” is the line that broke me today
A lot of people seem to be like "well he's not going to be convicted, so it's north worth charging him".
Sorry, you gotta put him in front of a jury. Arrest him, arraign him, try him. I don't care if it lowers your conviction rate or whatever.
Not even charging him sends a VERY wrong signal.
Sorry, you gotta put him in front of a jury. Arrest him, arraign him, try him. I don't care if it lowers your conviction rate or whatever.
Not even charging him sends a VERY wrong signal.
January 9, 2026 at 7:06 PM
A lot of people seem to be like "well he's not going to be convicted, so it's north worth charging him".
Sorry, you gotta put him in front of a jury. Arrest him, arraign him, try him. I don't care if it lowers your conviction rate or whatever.
Not even charging him sends a VERY wrong signal.
Sorry, you gotta put him in front of a jury. Arrest him, arraign him, try him. I don't care if it lowers your conviction rate or whatever.
Not even charging him sends a VERY wrong signal.
Imagine showing this tweet to someone in 2010.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Imagine showing this tweet to someone in 2010.
Tread on thee, not on me.
January 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Tread on thee, not on me.
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Them: “Paris is only nice because it was built before cars and they protected all of the beautiful historic architecture.“
Paris:
Paris:
August 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Them: “Paris is only nice because it was built before cars and they protected all of the beautiful historic architecture.“
Paris:
Paris:
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Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of.
ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed an unarmed civilian, flew a don't-tread-on-me Gadsden flag at his house, per the Daily Mail.
January 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of.
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I first saw LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and GONE WITH THE WIND and BLADE RUNNER and, later, TITANIC (opening night!) on the enormous single screen of the Ciné Capri. Probably doomed to be a movie lover from there.
January 9, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I first saw LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and GONE WITH THE WIND and BLADE RUNNER and, later, TITANIC (opening night!) on the enormous single screen of the Ciné Capri. Probably doomed to be a movie lover from there.
Hey Minnesota peeps, my friend Sebastian is running for state house!
He’s great and thoughtful and considerate and compassionate and thinks through policy issues with his head. I would love it if he represented me.
Give him a follow and click the link to read more.
He’s great and thoughtful and considerate and compassionate and thinks through policy issues with his head. I would love it if he represented me.
Give him a follow and click the link to read more.
I’m honored to announce that I’m running for the Minnesota State House in District 65B. I’m a legal aid attorney committed to housing stability, fairness, and dignity for working families. I’m ready to bridge community and government as your representative.
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West Side’s Sebastian Ellefson Running for State House
West Side attorney Sebastian Ellefson launched a campaign for state house in district 65B, representing the northern half of West St. Paul.
weststpaulreader.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Hey Minnesota peeps, my friend Sebastian is running for state house!
He’s great and thoughtful and considerate and compassionate and thinks through policy issues with his head. I would love it if he represented me.
Give him a follow and click the link to read more.
He’s great and thoughtful and considerate and compassionate and thinks through policy issues with his head. I would love it if he represented me.
Give him a follow and click the link to read more.
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Road builders in Brazil dismantle ancient coastal middens in the 1940s-'50s. Random bones and artifacts sent to local museum, boxes stored for decades without being studied. Now, researchers finally look and discover oldest-known whale harpoons, pointing to Indigenous open-sea whaling 5000 yrs ago!
In a new study, researchers from @uab.cat claim people have been whaling for almost 5,000 years – and that the earliest evidence comes from the warm coastal waters of Brazil, not the Arctic. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
World’s oldest whale harpoons discovered in Brazil
Far from the icy Arctic, ancient South Americans hunted whales using whalebone tools
www.science.org
January 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Road builders in Brazil dismantle ancient coastal middens in the 1940s-'50s. Random bones and artifacts sent to local museum, boxes stored for decades without being studied. Now, researchers finally look and discover oldest-known whale harpoons, pointing to Indigenous open-sea whaling 5000 yrs ago!
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berlin (l): single stair buildings, moderate FAR to height, courtyard minimum lot/width, narrow floor plates, limitations on lot coverage
seattle (r): dual stair, high FAR for height, no limit on building depth, no requirements for light and air, effectively no limit on lot coverage
seattle (r): dual stair, high FAR for height, no limit on building depth, no requirements for light and air, effectively no limit on lot coverage
January 9, 2026 at 4:10 AM
berlin (l): single stair buildings, moderate FAR to height, courtyard minimum lot/width, narrow floor plates, limitations on lot coverage
seattle (r): dual stair, high FAR for height, no limit on building depth, no requirements for light and air, effectively no limit on lot coverage
seattle (r): dual stair, high FAR for height, no limit on building depth, no requirements for light and air, effectively no limit on lot coverage
Stay tuned to Chris and other outlets tomorrow morning 👀
SUPREME COURT OPINIONS INFO
General reminders:
- The Supreme Court does not announce in advance which decisions are coming down on any given opinion day.
- Opinions come down at 10 a.m. on an opinion day.
- Anyone who tells you they know is almost certainly lying or uninformed.
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General reminders:
- The Supreme Court does not announce in advance which decisions are coming down on any given opinion day.
- Opinions come down at 10 a.m. on an opinion day.
- Anyone who tells you they know is almost certainly lying or uninformed.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Stay tuned to Chris and other outlets tomorrow morning 👀
Raised crosswalks now.
January 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Raised crosswalks now.
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As an aside, this is the worst flooding I've ever seen in Chicago.
January 9, 2026 at 4:04 AM
As an aside, this is the worst flooding I've ever seen in Chicago.
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I got a small sampling back of the record that were tied up in my lawsuit and all I got say is jesus fucking christ no wonder they didn't want anyone see. I cannot put into words how bad this is looking in retrospect. I genuinely do not know how we are going to be able to rebuild the Forest Park BL.
New from me! The hidden costs of CTA's $5.75B Red Line Extension. A story of forgotten finances, risk, and opportunity costs.
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citythatworks.substack.com/p/the-red-li...
The Red Line Extension's hidden costs
Missing line items, rising debt, and long-term risk
citythatworks.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:33 AM
I got a small sampling back of the record that were tied up in my lawsuit and all I got say is jesus fucking christ no wonder they didn't want anyone see. I cannot put into words how bad this is looking in retrospect. I genuinely do not know how we are going to be able to rebuild the Forest Park BL.
So the protester should have shot the driver of the red car in the face?
🚨BREAKING: A car just ran over a protester in Minneapolis as protesters march in the rain against ICE after an ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good.
January 9, 2026 at 1:19 AM
So the protester should have shot the driver of the red car in the face?
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The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
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indict Bovino for assault based on this video
Tense scene earlier this afternoon as protesters follow Border Control Commander Greg Bovino and his caravan around in Minneapolis. At one point, Commander Bovino tussled with a protester, both slipping in the snow.
January 8, 2026 at 11:39 PM
indict Bovino for assault based on this video
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It turns out that transit ridership increases when service is faster and more frequent 🤯
January 8, 2026 at 9:44 PM
It turns out that transit ridership increases when service is faster and more frequent 🤯
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"What the state attorney general, what the city of Chicago has done in lots of ways has been remarkable in standing up for people" Futterman said. "But one of the ways in which they've fallen short so far, one of the tools they haven't used that they have, is actually the power to arrest people."
January 8, 2026 at 11:16 PM
"What the state attorney general, what the city of Chicago has done in lots of ways has been remarkable in standing up for people" Futterman said. "But one of the ways in which they've fallen short so far, one of the tools they haven't used that they have, is actually the power to arrest people."