Cassandra ✶
@wrennifer.on.bike
she/her, rooted to Chicago, Strida cyclist, lover of linotype. I watch the trains go by from my living room.
carbrains blocked on sight
Chicago Urbanists Union: https://discord.gg/BDpjWA98qg
carbrains blocked on sight
Chicago Urbanists Union: https://discord.gg/BDpjWA98qg
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🎉Hey Urbanism friends I've got something cool to share today! Starting now, we're offering three custom handles for free!
bancars .city
on .bike
carfree .life
Big thank you to @politicsofcars.thismachinekillsfascists.bike for the generous donation!
Want more handles? Reach out and...🧵
bancars .city
on .bike
carfree .life
Big thank you to @politicsofcars.thismachinekillsfascists.bike for the generous donation!
Want more handles? Reach out and...🧵
February 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
🎉Hey Urbanism friends I've got something cool to share today! Starting now, we're offering three custom handles for free!
bancars .city
on .bike
carfree .life
Big thank you to @politicsofcars.thismachinekillsfascists.bike for the generous donation!
Want more handles? Reach out and...🧵
bancars .city
on .bike
carfree .life
Big thank you to @politicsofcars.thismachinekillsfascists.bike for the generous donation!
Want more handles? Reach out and...🧵
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feels relevant in the context of the scale of epstein's atrocities and connections
January 31, 2026 at 2:09 PM
feels relevant in the context of the scale of epstein's atrocities and connections
Reading All The Way, and the impending implosion of Maxine's life is giving me so much anxiety that I have to put the book down every multiple times per chapter. The slow suspense and gut wrenching fear really is getting to me.
January 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Reading All The Way, and the impending implosion of Maxine's life is giving me so much anxiety that I have to put the book down every multiple times per chapter. The slow suspense and gut wrenching fear really is getting to me.
Pirate yakuza is fun
December 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Pirate yakuza is fun
tapping the (somewhat misspelled) sign
![Privitization [sic] backers call pirvate industry's inability to serve underpriveledged [sic] or otherwise expensive-to-serve communities and markets "efficiency"
I didn't clock how many misspellings there were until I typed the whole thing out.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rwytvjnan7ejweljldlemrqq/bafkreicvype5gfpii3iequgprz6nuvwpakzop3r7l2i4z5upt5i2xjf3vy@jpeg)
December 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
tapping the (somewhat misspelled) sign
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Ultimately most people just conflate comfort while speeding with a skill that conveys safety, and experience any suggestion that speeding is inherently dangerous as an attack on personal accomplishment. And that’s what makes speeding so dangerous
December 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Ultimately most people just conflate comfort while speeding with a skill that conveys safety, and experience any suggestion that speeding is inherently dangerous as an attack on personal accomplishment. And that’s what makes speeding so dangerous
Really hope Microsoft's shift to vibe coding isn't hitting Excel. I don't want to think about the downstream effects of Excel breaking, even for a short period of time.
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Really hope Microsoft's shift to vibe coding isn't hitting Excel. I don't want to think about the downstream effects of Excel breaking, even for a short period of time.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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“I rode my bike here.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
“I rode my bike here.”
$75m (2017) -> $180m (2021) -> $444m (2025)
All those cost estimate increases and still no direct transfer from the elevated station to the subway station. But we've got curved escalators ig
All those cost estimate increases and still no direct transfer from the elevated station to the subway station. But we've got curved escalators ig
The CTA State/Lake elevated station will close next month for demolition and construction of a new station that could take at least three years to complete.
CTA State/Lake station closing until 2029 for construction beginning next month
chicago.suntimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
$75m (2017) -> $180m (2021) -> $444m (2025)
All those cost estimate increases and still no direct transfer from the elevated station to the subway station. But we've got curved escalators ig
All those cost estimate increases and still no direct transfer from the elevated station to the subway station. But we've got curved escalators ig
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i don't get the love for waymo in certain urbanist circles. it's safer cars, at least it seems that way from available data, but it's more cars. more cars are bad! we should want less cars!
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
i don't get the love for waymo in certain urbanist circles. it's safer cars, at least it seems that way from available data, but it's more cars. more cars are bad! we should want less cars!
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Remember this? The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.
Saturn Ion commercial
YouTube video by Eliyahu Biton
youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Remember this? The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.
I'm sitting through a law firm's risk management session and the fact that the GenAI section isn't just a slide with the text "Don't use it" is the Apollo dodgeball of a partner getting sanctioned for GenAI slop next year.
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I'm sitting through a law firm's risk management session and the fact that the GenAI section isn't just a slide with the text "Don't use it" is the Apollo dodgeball of a partner getting sanctioned for GenAI slop next year.
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
Guys, the President has the authority to classify and declassify documents at will.
He’s just going to classify all documents that mention him and/or other Republicans.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
He’s just going to classify all documents that mention him and/or other Republicans.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
Anyone seriously saying "we should build more social/public housing in the US instead of market rate housing" should have the text of the Faircloth Amendment stapled to their forehead.
Public housing has been capped since Oct 1, 1999, and municipalities can only build more by removing old stock.
Public housing has been capped since Oct 1, 1999, and municipalities can only build more by removing old stock.
November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Anyone seriously saying "we should build more social/public housing in the US instead of market rate housing" should have the text of the Faircloth Amendment stapled to their forehead.
Public housing has been capped since Oct 1, 1999, and municipalities can only build more by removing old stock.
Public housing has been capped since Oct 1, 1999, and municipalities can only build more by removing old stock.
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"6-7"?! Boy I say boy you gen alpha kids cant be doin' that! Your signifiers need signs boy! You've laid a rhetorical claim to an empty space son! You're creatin' a nihilistic dialectic! Your broccoli hairs obfuscatin' some much needed communication! Find some MEANIN', kid!
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"6-7"?! Boy I say boy you gen alpha kids cant be doin' that! Your signifiers need signs boy! You've laid a rhetorical claim to an empty space son! You're creatin' a nihilistic dialectic! Your broccoli hairs obfuscatin' some much needed communication! Find some MEANIN', kid!
Attribute not to stupidity what can be equally attributed to malice
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Attribute not to stupidity what can be equally attributed to malice
Probably the funniest inclusion in SB2111 is the Transit to Trails Grant Program, as it specifically allows for grants to projects providing transit access to hunting areas.
It's illegal to carry or transport firearms on public transit vehicles in the state of Illinois.
It's illegal to carry or transport firearms on public transit vehicles in the state of Illinois.
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Probably the funniest inclusion in SB2111 is the Transit to Trails Grant Program, as it specifically allows for grants to projects providing transit access to hunting areas.
It's illegal to carry or transport firearms on public transit vehicles in the state of Illinois.
It's illegal to carry or transport firearms on public transit vehicles in the state of Illinois.
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"do you honestly expect me to ride the bus to get food"
yes
yes
October 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"do you honestly expect me to ride the bus to get food"
yes
yes
Hell yeah
Aldi is setting up shop in a South Loop retail complex, according to a permit filed by the grocery chain.
Aldi planning a South Loop location, records show
The popular grocery chain plans to move into a space at the Roosevelt Collection mall, according to a building permit.
trib.al
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Hell yeah
It would be interesting to see what kind of leverage in tax policy the City of Chicago could use to try and decrease congestion. For instance, offering an exemption to the personal property lease transaction tax for companies that have >50% WFH participation, measured in hours.
“Congestion is a fact of life in thriving regions. This year’s numbers challenge us to think differently about travel. Why are people on the road? Can we shift some of that demand, or give travelers more reliable options?” www.traffictechnologytoday.com/news/congest...
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It would be interesting to see what kind of leverage in tax policy the City of Chicago could use to try and decrease congestion. For instance, offering an exemption to the personal property lease transaction tax for companies that have >50% WFH participation, measured in hours.
150 parking spaces and 400 indoor bike spaces for 397 apartments isn't a bad mix, but we should really have fewer parking spaces and more bike parking in such a walkable neighborhood.
Developers are pitching plans for a 29-story residential high-rise with 400 apartments on a vacant Fulton Market lot. blockclubchi.co/4neqKug
October 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
150 parking spaces and 400 indoor bike spaces for 397 apartments isn't a bad mix, but we should really have fewer parking spaces and more bike parking in such a walkable neighborhood.