Lucas Filipiak 🕊️

I went to buy the coffee I usually get. A fair trade bag from Aldi that was 5 dollars before. It was 7 a couple months ago. Yesterday it was 8.50! It hurts.

Someone should check on the Giant Spider that's taken over Liberty Grove.

This feels as sacrilegious as people who drink pumpkin spice in August.

It's hard to beat Silica. Glass, sand, concrete, yummy packets found in beef jerky.

Y’all need to see this sign.

Bees resting on a wet stone corner.

Bees resting on a wet stone corner.

Just some bees enjoying the flowing water on the Riverwalk.

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

The other founder, Bill Montgomery, died of complications from COVID-19.

It's weird finally seeing one of these that I recognize in real life.

It was an awesome show!

Photo of Beach Bunny playing at The Salt Shed. Purple lighting

I see someone with a Heineken cruiser parked by me in Rogers Park every now and then.

We Might Egret This

I just checked. There's lights there. If you can't see, wait until its green! #BanRightOnRed

End SUVS
* Tax them by weight
* Insist that pass pedestrian impact tests
* Impose fines for exceeding allocated parking spaces
* Charge them higher for ULEZ entry
* Charge them higher for residential parking permits
* Stop them from entering narrow roads
* Ban them from outside schools

Road with orange construction barrels on it and a large variable message sign that says BAN CARS in digital letters.

Road with orange construction barrels on it and a large variable message sign that says BAN CARS in digital letters. A silver mustang is parked in the foreground.

Someone hacked a variable message sign to say "BAN CARS" on Green Bay Road in Wilmette, IL.

This might be a post related to the Damen Silos, but another example I can think of is the Chicago Tribune Publishing Center. It would basically be impossible to make either of these buildings into anything useful. On the other hand I'm not sure that a casino and asphalt plant are much better.

Love that place, got my current journal and pen from them!

There's a link to the zoning hearing on Monday, August 4th @5:30 pm. Make your voice heard, I'll try and make it show my approval!

CDOT survey to improve bus stops/shelters! tell all your transit friends to fill it out @ctaction.org, @chicagocta.bsky.social

research.net/r/busstops22

A Monarch Butterfly resting on Milkweed (I'm pretty sure), in the middle of a wildflower garden. Brick buildings in the background.

I've been seeing a lot of Monarchs around lately! (And probably some viceroy that I didn't notice.)

Car tires are a major contributor to micro plastics, more so with larger tires and heavier vehicles! Take a train.

The color palette of the flooring is incredible.

A dug out median with traffic cones. Inside the median, old brickwork and streetcar rails.

A closeup of a rusty streetcar rail sticking out of old brick.

Had to go pay my respects to the exposed streetcar rails on Clark and Granville. RIP

#chicago #transit

When I first saw these I thought "Huh what's this large bug on this milkweed called?"

They really nailed it with 'Large Milkweed Bug'.

Shot of a jousting field, where two knights are holding swords.

Acrobat on a stage holding a cat.

Man climbing in mud on a small stage while another stands above him.

A bridge crossing a small pond covered in lilipads.

Fun day at the Bristol Ren Fair!

#RenFair

I love Eau Claire. I grew up in the area and lived there for about 5 years. The bike path network is one of the best parts of the city!

I walk by this building all the time. One of my favorites in the area!

We are sending our signatures first thing in the morning so today is the LAST DAY to sign on!

A flier taped to a streetlight pole that reads: “I also have access to a printer, And I say Upzoning is cool and good and it is my friend Let ‘em build some housing! What're you worried about, people with jobs and homes using the Red Line? Atraid of density? then why did you move to the big city my good friend [emoji making a ‘this guy’s nuts!’ gesture] ‘But I wanna drive my car!’ The bus is better because you can read a book on the bus Dear ‘Save Edgewater’: If I ever see you again claming that increasing supply increases prices I will spank your bottom and enroll you in an econ class at Loyola Say YES to proposed Upzoning in Edgewater Email: Leni@the48thward.org Call: (773) 784-5277

God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more