Kati
@kadschmad.bsky.social
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📍 West Lakeview
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📍 West Lakeview
Just watched one of Chicago’s unhinged dog owners crash out in my local custard place when the employees politely informed her of health code and said they’d serve her through the walk up window outside. She’s never going there again!!
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Just watched one of Chicago’s unhinged dog owners crash out in my local custard place when the employees politely informed her of health code and said they’d serve her through the walk up window outside. She’s never going there again!!
This was me, and it’s the one thing I try to express if people ask for my thoughts:
For me it was realizing they would be my responsibility all the time except for short stretches of time, but during those times they could theoretically come back to me at any moment. Like obviously I knew this, but in reality it’s like oh wait, but I wanted to binge watch TV all day???
Before you have kids, you intellectually understand they need to eat dinner every day. But you do not understand what this means. You can't. They need to eat dinner EVERY day
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This was me, and it’s the one thing I try to express if people ask for my thoughts:
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Now's a good time for Illinois residents to take advantage of a unique right we have to be removed from Clearview's database. Scroll down to IL opt-out here: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Now's a good time for Illinois residents to take advantage of a unique right we have to be removed from Clearview's database. Scroll down to IL opt-out here: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...
Almost just hit in an all-way stop intersection, notably less than a block from my child’s school. The driver with the right of way was waiting for me to cross, and another driver decided to go—into me. Don’t worry, she didn’t notice bc she was staring at her phone while turning thru a crosswalk.
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Almost just hit in an all-way stop intersection, notably less than a block from my child’s school. The driver with the right of way was waiting for me to cross, and another driver decided to go—into me. Don’t worry, she didn’t notice bc she was staring at her phone while turning thru a crosswalk.
Proud of this! I credit a long Metra commute for 5 months of this year as well as deleting Instagram in February.
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Proud of this! I credit a long Metra commute for 5 months of this year as well as deleting Instagram in February.
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Not biking to work is really bumming me out
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Not biking to work is really bumming me out
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With the news of the repugnant Operation Charlotte's Web, I can't wait for Homeland Security to release their next programs, Operation Goodnight Moon (defunding NASA), Operation Green Eggs and Ham (defunding the FDA) and Operation Busytown (the worm in RFKJr's brain stages a coup against Mamdani)
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
With the news of the repugnant Operation Charlotte's Web, I can't wait for Homeland Security to release their next programs, Operation Goodnight Moon (defunding NASA), Operation Green Eggs and Ham (defunding the FDA) and Operation Busytown (the worm in RFKJr's brain stages a coup against Mamdani)
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Many folks in the advocacy community know that efforts to lower driving speeds save lives...so in most places we're left to grapple with this reality where we know that most people and institutions choose to accept a certain amount of preventable human suffering as unavoidable collateral damage.
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Many folks in the advocacy community know that efforts to lower driving speeds save lives...so in most places we're left to grapple with this reality where we know that most people and institutions choose to accept a certain amount of preventable human suffering as unavoidable collateral damage.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
UPS “verify you are human” holiday commercial is clever, sweet, and anti-AI. 👌🏼
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
UPS “verify you are human” holiday commercial is clever, sweet, and anti-AI. 👌🏼
It’s really just barely better than nothing, but I took a last-minute Amtrak to Michigan for less than $100 round trip. Imagine if we had a real, functioning train system in this country!!
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It’s really just barely better than nothing, but I took a last-minute Amtrak to Michigan for less than $100 round trip. Imagine if we had a real, functioning train system in this country!!
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When you leave in a car you’re thinking “what’s the fastest way to get there?”
When I leave on my bike I’m thinking “what’s the safest way to get there?”
We are not the same
When I leave on my bike I’m thinking “what’s the safest way to get there?”
We are not the same
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When you leave in a car you’re thinking “what’s the fastest way to get there?”
When I leave on my bike I’m thinking “what’s the safest way to get there?”
We are not the same
When I leave on my bike I’m thinking “what’s the safest way to get there?”
We are not the same
No great aurora photo yet tonight, but I just saw a shooting star!!!
November 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
No great aurora photo yet tonight, but I just saw a shooting star!!!
The worst Aurora photo you’ll see, taken from my alley 🩷
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The worst Aurora photo you’ll see, taken from my alley 🩷
I saw @petersagal.bsky.social getting lunch today. Too nervous to say hi. My first Chicago celebrity sighting!
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I saw @petersagal.bsky.social getting lunch today. Too nervous to say hi. My first Chicago celebrity sighting!
Chicago when?!
This is a small snow plow for sidewalks
If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.
If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Chicago when?!
This sucks! I know my RadWagon is far from the top of the line, but it allowed my family to replace car trips in suburban Detroit, and we love it so much.
NEW: Rad Power Bikes has told employees it will go out of business in January without new funding.
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
Rad Power Bikes faces shutdown in January without new funding | TechCrunch
The company is "still fighting to find ways to continue" according to an email viewed by TechCrunch.
techcrunch.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This sucks! I know my RadWagon is far from the top of the line, but it allowed my family to replace car trips in suburban Detroit, and we love it so much.
I call it “Snow Fall.”
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I call it “Snow Fall.”
Found a Lions bar (brewery) in a Chicago and everyone booed Tr*mp every time he was on the screen and the bar turned the game audio off until the extended presidential bit had ended 🙌🏻
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Found a Lions bar (brewery) in a Chicago and everyone booed Tr*mp every time he was on the screen and the bar turned the game audio off until the extended presidential bit had ended 🙌🏻
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These thugs have a lust for violence and they are slobbering at the opportunity to open fire on US residents.
Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
These thugs have a lust for violence and they are slobbering at the opportunity to open fire on US residents.
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The carnage caused by FAA cutbacks cast a spotlight on the massive public subsidies required to have air travel function in the US. People think spending money on bike lanes and rail is socialism while TRILLIONS have been spent to prop up the airline industry and to build and maintain roadways.
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The carnage caused by FAA cutbacks cast a spotlight on the massive public subsidies required to have air travel function in the US. People think spending money on bike lanes and rail is socialism while TRILLIONS have been spent to prop up the airline industry and to build and maintain roadways.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Opinion | Actually, don’t let them eat cake
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Opinion | Actually, don’t let them eat cake
I’m 5’11” and the hood of this truck comes up to the top of my ears (and is taller than the roof of the entire sedan in front).
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’m 5’11” and the hood of this truck comes up to the top of my ears (and is taller than the roof of the entire sedan in front).