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Jesse Jardim
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I am a bicycle mechanic and blogger living in Chicago, IL.
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I hate spending money on a Moleskine or similar paper notebook planner each year, but I can’t function in my life without one. And they never have the space and layout that I actually want.
So I made my own.
Photograph of a self-made paper planner cover on a desk. Photograph of a self-made paper planner month view on a desk. Photograph of a self-made paper planner week view on a desk.
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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classic @dril tweet, corrected to read: and another thing: I'm stupid. please put in the newspaper that i am stupid
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Love getting to work early from the train and sitting in the window drinking my coffee.
A photograph from the inside of a storefront window, looking outside at a blue sky and autumn-colored trees, with a bicycle frame on display in the window.
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Yes! Please! Call in the troops. Michigan Ave is overrun with armed violent gangs!
A line of Chicago Police officers lined up on a Michigan Ave sidewalk, doing absolutely nothing, and wasting city budget.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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ah
Founded in 2007 by Mike Radenbaugh and Ty Collins, Rad Power emerged from the DIY e-bike movement and rode the pandemic boom to rarefied air: more than $300 million in venture funding, a billion-plus valuation, and the kind of mainstream brand recognition most legacy bike companies could only envy. Rad's bright orange step-throughs and cargo bikes became ubiquitous across the US.
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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And for all you Bird Guys out there. I saw this hawk (don’t correct me) harassing some smaller birds at the Welles Park field house.
Hawk sitting on an air conditioning unit outside a the Welles Park field house. Hawk jumping into the air. Hawk starting to take flight. Hawk flapping its wings.
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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First snowfall walk around the neighborhood. I don’t remember ever before seeing this combination of snowfall in the ground and green still in the leaves.
The Welles Park baseball fields, covered in snow, with Sulzer Library in the background. Trees with green leaves, with a blanket of white snow in the ground. The North Branch River with Horner Park riverbank and trees, with the late afternoon sun in the background.
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Seen walking to the train in a park in Wilmette:
It’s hard to see but the snow writing says “PROTECT TRANS KIDS”.
Hell yeah.
Photograph of public park with big letters written in the snow that says “PROTECT TRANS kids”.
February 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Anyway, RIP to my Trek Emonda, Commencal Meta, and Surly Midnight special.
Photograph of a grey road bicycle against a brick wall. Photograph of a grey mountain bike in a grassy field. Photograph of a black steel gravel bike on a sandy beach.
February 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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lol
Photograph of a newly constructed apartment building.
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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pretty funny that this sign is still up
Photo of the exterior of a Chicago bar with a sign that reads: “WE NEED OUR PARKING 4715 N. WESTERN City Hall may turn over this parking lot for a 6-story building”
February 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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ominous
February 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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We will beg forgiveness before God’s judgement.
A package of black and white, Oreo branded and flavored candy canes.
December 5, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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the two genders
Photograph showing two train passenger’s books: “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez and “Confessions” by Saint Augustine.
November 29, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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Picked up these three books from the library today. This'll probably take me a few months to get through.
photo of three books: "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck, "Milton Poems" by John Milton, and "The Honourable Schoolboy" by John Le Carré
November 25, 2024 at 8:48 PM