A white shirt with black text that reads “BDSM”. Underneath it the outline of a road bike with the text “Bines do so much…for the environment”
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A white shirt with black text that reads “BDSM”. Underneath it the outline of a road bike with the text “Bines do so much…for the environment”
A berm of grass separates eastbound and westbound traffic on ChicGo’s Midway Park. Flowers are visible in the foreground and background. A flowering tree acts as the focal point.
I celebrated Chicago’s birthday (Happy 189 you old beaut!) by joining our company’s AllCompany Show-and-Share from my bicycle.
Most people decided to show off their pets, but I decided to show one of my favorite streets in Chicago (Midway Park in the Austin neighborhood).
Also don’t sleep on the fact that her trespass was not uncommon for that era.
Claudette Colvin was arrested earlier that year.
Paula Clark, the first Black woman elected as an Episcopal Bishop, was arrested for a similar offense.
I even think Ella Baker may have been (but my memory is fuzzier).
If memory serves, the American Girls doll book about her life tells a more radical story than most modern histories.
IIRC it recalls a childhood story where she recalls her dad sitting in a tree with a gun as the watchman for a radical community meeting.
americangirl.fandom.com/wiki/A_Girl_...
Also, Rosa Parks had been “about that life” for years before the boycott.
For example, she was at the Highland Folk School for a two-week training on school desegregation months before a “tired lady sat down”
www.loc.gov/exhibitions/...
The Jeanne Theoharris book about Rosa Parks really illuminated this for me.
IIRC it was really more or a sustained, city-wide mutual aid project over the course of the year.
Non-Amazon buy link here (or use a library!): bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
I shared this image in a work chat and a co-worker used it as an opportunity to tease the fact they are considering getting an Urban arrow for the daycare drop-off/work commute.
I STAY WINNING.
If you thought playing org politics in a tech company was hard (my day job), I invite you to play on hard…
Unclear ownership across multiple orgs that all have a voice in the conversation:
* local govt
* public works
* school staff
* district staff
* PTO
* state DOT (depends on the road)
I WON! The “powers that be” FINALLY agreed to put in interim safety measures for a dangerous crosswalk near my kids school.
I saw a child almost killed in this intersection and still took almost 2-years of sustained public comment, emailing elected officials, school principal and district.
Ahh thank you! All the references to Bryn Mawr I could find were all about the north side historic district (or the road).
‘Bryn Mawr settlement’ was the search query term I didn’t know I needed.
This overlay of a technologist and bike-shitposter that I both follow is blowing my mind frfr.
The facade for the George C Hall branch library.
It took me 600+ days and 1700 miles to bike to every Chicago Public Library branch…and they just tweeted it out (one of my favorite library facades…and one of the oldest)
Underrated Chicago Municipal Device on the Hall branch facade…
Can confirm…any branch is cool.
I’ll be honest…that no one can articulate your thesis seems like a you problem.
I’ve chosen weakness and convenience over a future for society? Lmao.
no gate-keeping for me. I put 4000 miles on my e-bike Class I e-bike last year. I biked zero miles in the 5 years years prior to buying an e-bike. Whatever motivates folks to replace car trips with more earth-friendly ones.
Was also hoping someone with a slightly better set of Chicago history (maybe @dmercer.bsky.social or @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social?) can explain where there's Bryn Mawr pockets all over the city.
A bike route from the Bryn Mawr Metra station (South Chicago) to the Bryn Mawr Breakfast Club (NW Chicago) to the western-most point on Bryn Mawr Ave (8800 W Bryn Mawr). The route is 27.2 miles one way.
(whispering) a stupid bike ride would fix me (the terminus is the western-most point on Bryn Mawr ave in Chicago city limits).
They’re allowed to remove them at the dealership if the purchaser saw a bike run a stop sign in the recent weeks.
Why would a bike lane block emergency response vehicles like that?
Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.
A sign for Melissa Conyers-Ervin (candidate for the open IL-7 seat) has been modified with a "For Sale" sign.
I haven't seen such a brutal alteration of a candidate sign since...the "For Sale" stickers started popping up on signs for IL-7 candidate Melissa Conyears-Ervin in the Austin neighborhood.
Time to let my partner know that we need a Carla trailer for the bike.
Don’t forget that small children will point and laugh.
Have a 2006 Camry with 155K miles and can confirm it does, as the kids say, slap.
Oof. For having biked to all 81 CPL branches and working out of this one multiple times, I definitely memory-holed this entrance.
This would go so hard as latte art.
Do any good thing you can, no matter how small. No good thing is ever insignificant.
RIP. First Blommers chocolate and then the neon sign. Milwaukee Ave losing some ICONS.
💯 the wrath drivers have for the bicycle in front of them when a car parallel parking bottlenecks the road is UNHINGED…
Oak Park mentioned.