Soren Spicknall
@sorenspicknall.bsky.social
Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
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Turning all my new cat friend posts into a thread that I can update as I add new cat friends
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826 North Leamington Avenue
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
826 North Leamington Avenue
We said goodbye to Bula today. Her disease progression made her frail and took away her mobility, but she remained happy and content every single day, all the way to the end. She was so incredibly important to us, and losing her feels awful. We loved her, and she loved us.
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We said goodbye to Bula today. Her disease progression made her frail and took away her mobility, but she remained happy and content every single day, all the way to the end. She was so incredibly important to us, and losing her feels awful. We loved her, and she loved us.
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El Anatsui, Bleeding Takari II, 2007
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137175
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137175
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
El Anatsui, Bleeding Takari II, 2007
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137175
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137175
Pedestal lacking object
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Pedestal lacking object
My parents gave me one of those really intense flashlights for my birthday
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My parents gave me one of those really intense flashlights for my birthday
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Woah, 71st Street got a road diet and protected bike lanes from Cottage Grove to Dorchester! The terrifying drag strip along the southern edge of Oak Woods Cemetery is no more. This is so awesome!
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Woah, 71st Street got a road diet and protected bike lanes from Cottage Grove to Dorchester! The terrifying drag strip along the southern edge of Oak Woods Cemetery is no more. This is so awesome!
Today's fit: 43 year old filmmaker who fronted a mid-tier indie rock group for a couple album cycles in his early to mid 20s and self-consciously clings to the little bit of microcelebrity that still affords him down at the neighborhood coffee shop
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Today's fit: 43 year old filmmaker who fronted a mid-tier indie rock group for a couple album cycles in his early to mid 20s and self-consciously clings to the little bit of microcelebrity that still affords him down at the neighborhood coffee shop
Car big. Car too big. Too big. Car too. Too big. Car. Big. Too car.
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Car big. Car too big. Too big. Car too. Too big. Car. Big. Too car.
The quality of work published in The Atlantic is like an inverse bell curve
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The quality of work published in The Atlantic is like an inverse bell curve
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TRIDELL: 10333 N 8000 E, TRIDELL UT 84076-8001
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
TRIDELL: 10333 N 8000 E, TRIDELL UT 84076-8001
New Mountain Goats album has:
- an instrumental overture
- very lush strings, horns, and woodwinds
- some phat synths
- a couple rollicking guitar solos
- bass guitar from Tommy Stinson
- backing vox from lin-manuel miranda???
It's an honest to God rock opera with a linear plot and three narrators
- an instrumental overture
- very lush strings, horns, and woodwinds
- some phat synths
- a couple rollicking guitar solos
- bass guitar from Tommy Stinson
- backing vox from lin-manuel miranda???
It's an honest to God rock opera with a linear plot and three narrators
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
New Mountain Goats album has:
- an instrumental overture
- very lush strings, horns, and woodwinds
- some phat synths
- a couple rollicking guitar solos
- bass guitar from Tommy Stinson
- backing vox from lin-manuel miranda???
It's an honest to God rock opera with a linear plot and three narrators
- an instrumental overture
- very lush strings, horns, and woodwinds
- some phat synths
- a couple rollicking guitar solos
- bass guitar from Tommy Stinson
- backing vox from lin-manuel miranda???
It's an honest to God rock opera with a linear plot and three narrators
James Watson, like many publicly celebrated academics, was a horrible racist who bought into his own genius and consequently spent a great deal of time and energy trying to intellectualize his racism
November 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
James Watson, like many publicly celebrated academics, was a horrible racist who bought into his own genius and consequently spent a great deal of time and energy trying to intellectualize his racism
A beautiful 63 degrees out right now and it's apparently gonna be below freezing by Sunday
November 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A beautiful 63 degrees out right now and it's apparently gonna be below freezing by Sunday
There's a group of four men outside my house trying collectively to parallel park a UHaul truck with one of those little enclosed UHaul trailers attached to it, and it's just been 20 minutes of shouting conflicting directions at each other with no clear plan or strategy or source of authority
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
There's a group of four men outside my house trying collectively to parallel park a UHaul truck with one of those little enclosed UHaul trailers attached to it, and it's just been 20 minutes of shouting conflicting directions at each other with no clear plan or strategy or source of authority
Just saw Ricky Willis on his bike for the first time in quite awhile. I'm glad to have run across him, since I knew he had health issues prevent him from riding a few years ago and I never found out whether he got back on the bike.
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just saw Ricky Willis on his bike for the first time in quite awhile. I'm glad to have run across him, since I knew he had health issues prevent him from riding a few years ago and I never found out whether he got back on the bike.
New Mountain Goats album, new Pigeon Pit album, AND Don Hertzfeldt just dropped a cool T-shirt on the same day? All these late birthday gifts for me specifically - thanks, notable artists who don't know me.
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
New Mountain Goats album, new Pigeon Pit album, AND Don Hertzfeldt just dropped a cool T-shirt on the same day? All these late birthday gifts for me specifically - thanks, notable artists who don't know me.
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📷 A westward view of the bridge at Burr Oak Avenue (now 127th) over the Cal-Sag Channel in what is now Crestwood, Illinois, on February 14, 1922.
📣 Join our virtual tour on Tuesday, November 18, at 2 p.m. ⬇️
mwrd.org/education/to...
📣 Join our virtual tour on Tuesday, November 18, at 2 p.m. ⬇️
mwrd.org/education/to...
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
📷 A westward view of the bridge at Burr Oak Avenue (now 127th) over the Cal-Sag Channel in what is now Crestwood, Illinois, on February 14, 1922.
📣 Join our virtual tour on Tuesday, November 18, at 2 p.m. ⬇️
mwrd.org/education/to...
📣 Join our virtual tour on Tuesday, November 18, at 2 p.m. ⬇️
mwrd.org/education/to...
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small talk makes the world go round and it is in fact incumbent upon you to at least make an *effort* to be pleasant to other people in your community
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
small talk makes the world go round and it is in fact incumbent upon you to at least make an *effort* to be pleasant to other people in your community
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About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com
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I will say what’s interesting about these buildings is that they are aping prewar industrial architecture more than residential—there actually really aren’t many multifamily buildings that look like this from the early 20th century in Chicago
Imo Chicago infill architects are getting pretty good at these historicist brick facades
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I will say what’s interesting about these buildings is that they are aping prewar industrial architecture more than residential—there actually really aren’t many multifamily buildings that look like this from the early 20th century in Chicago
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Hey folks. DIA workers are working to unionize! Sign the letter of support below + follow IG DIAworkersunited.
My Grandpa did one of the jobs in the Riviera mural, my Dad would always point it out. I get how it's inspirational. Good on em and let's get their back.
www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-d...
My Grandpa did one of the jobs in the Riviera mural, my Dad would always point it out. I get how it's inspirational. Good on em and let's get their back.
www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-d...
DIA workers say museum’s Diego Rivera murals inspired them to form a union - Detroit Metro Times
Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals stand tall and proud inside the Detroit Institute of Arts, a monument to the power of workers and a city long associated with organized labor. Tho...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Hey folks. DIA workers are working to unionize! Sign the letter of support below + follow IG DIAworkersunited.
My Grandpa did one of the jobs in the Riviera mural, my Dad would always point it out. I get how it's inspirational. Good on em and let's get their back.
www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-d...
My Grandpa did one of the jobs in the Riviera mural, my Dad would always point it out. I get how it's inspirational. Good on em and let's get their back.
www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-d...
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TIL that tomorrow is the last day to vote for a new the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. There are fixed set of names to choose from, alas.
www.boldpastbrightfuture.org/naming-commi...
www.boldpastbrightfuture.org/naming-commi...
VOTE HERE! | CSSC
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November 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
TIL that tomorrow is the last day to vote for a new the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. There are fixed set of names to choose from, alas.
www.boldpastbrightfuture.org/naming-commi...
www.boldpastbrightfuture.org/naming-commi...
Bula is no longer regularly cleaning her own face as she gets closer to the end of her life, so she gets covered in wet food when she eats, but she's still very happy and very cute despite being kind of gross
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Bula is no longer regularly cleaning her own face as she gets closer to the end of her life, so she gets covered in wet food when she eats, but she's still very happy and very cute despite being kind of gross
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flew into Detroit this morning for my connection to California and captured a picture of a Big Boat
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
flew into Detroit this morning for my connection to California and captured a picture of a Big Boat