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Michael McLean

@mclean.bsky.social

Ideal city: βš›οΈ nuclear-powered, πŸ™οΈ dense housing, πŸ’° affordable, πŸš‡ transit. Aka Chicago. Posting about those things here, and trying to make them better IRL.

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Claude Agent Teams are going to push me from the $100/mo plan to the $200/mo plan I fear

10.02.2026 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love how they have ADUs in the courtyards @stevevance.net

10.02.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Literally: vibes

10.02.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every time an architect is born, the gods flip a coin

10.02.2026 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The city of small shoulders

10.02.2026 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: This Fulton Market high-rise proposal could reshape downtown development A proposed apartment high-rise would open the door to Loop skyscraper-scale buildings in the Fulton Market District through a zoning change with major implications for development in Chicago.

We can’t afford to scale down investment into our city. But DPD, and the CEO of the Chicago Architecture Center, are trying to do that in West Loop. Here they are arguing against DX zoning! Wtf

www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-r...

10.02.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3
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✨THIS FRIDAY (2/13)✨Coach Sam Balto will be in Chicago to ride with us! We will be riding on the ✨NORTH ROUTE ONLY✨ for this special ride.
South bike bus friends are welcome to meet us at Roscoe & Broadway at 7:40a, or anywhere along the route!

All are welcome to join! Hope to see you there!🚲🚲

10.02.2026 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds bad

10.02.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you query to find the top parcels in a neighborhood by the volume inside the zoning envelope?

Like mine is 62,671 cubic feet. How does that compare to the rest of the neighborhood?

Is there a β€œfloor plan sq ft” metric for that too?

10.02.2026 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great things are happening in Chicago, Illinois.

10.02.2026 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In your example have you chained together 2 parcels?

10.02.2026 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you put some people biking and walking on the street

10.02.2026 04:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm looking for feedback on this

you need to have a property's PIN to start (this link goes directly to the property PIN shown)

10.02.2026 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1

Would be a real shame if suddenly the roads leading to these warehouses were removed by the city.

10.02.2026 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

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we're going to win btw

10.02.2026 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unreal

10.02.2026 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will do

10.02.2026 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fun fact: With the seats folded into the floor, you can fit an entire Urban Arrow into a minivan, where a crew cab pickup truck will fail to accommodate one.

09.02.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ₯Œ 🧹 HARRRD

10.02.2026 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

✊

09.02.2026 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cityscape these days: 🏎️

09.02.2026 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Would your platform include More Rocks?

09.02.2026 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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here's a little demo of our forthcoming 3D Building Visualizer

09.02.2026 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@stevevance.net show us this plz

bsky.app/profile/mnol...

09.02.2026 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - microsoft/GlobalMLBuildingFootprints: Worldwide building footprints derived from satellite imagery Worldwide building footprints derived from satellite imagery - GitHub - microsoft/GlobalMLBuildingFootprints: Worldwide building footprints derived from satellite imagery

Using this?

github.com/microsoft/Gl...

09.02.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ₯ΉπŸ₯ΉπŸ₯Ή

09.02.2026 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Every poll that's come out recently has shown Kelly in a distant third. Time to rally round Stratton.

09.02.2026 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

Here's the Trib editorial board saying that ICE requiring a warrant signed by a judge before arresting someone is "going through the bureaucratic hoops"

09.02.2026 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
An excerpt from Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac:

β€œ>>> THE FOLLOWING DAY, Musk was sitting, despondent, in a suite at a cavernous football stadium in Glendale, Arizona. It was Super Bowl LVII between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, and despite having one of the poshest seats as a guest of Rupert Murdoch, the media tycoon whose Fox network was broadcasting the game, Twitter's owner simply could not look away from his phone. During the first quarter of the football game, he had tweeted, "Go @Eagles!!!," a harmless show of support for the team from Philly, where Musk had spent time as an undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania.”

An excerpt from Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac: β€œ>>> THE FOLLOWING DAY, Musk was sitting, despondent, in a suite at a cavernous football stadium in Glendale, Arizona. It was Super Bowl LVII between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, and despite having one of the poshest seats as a guest of Rupert Murdoch, the media tycoon whose Fox network was broadcasting the game, Twitter's owner simply could not look away from his phone. During the first quarter of the football game, he had tweeted, "Go @Eagles!!!," a harmless show of support for the team from Philly, where Musk had spent time as an undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania.”

β€œAbout forty minutes after Musk's tweet, President Joe Biden used the official @POTUS Twitter account to broadcast his own Super Bowl message. "As your presi-dent, I'm not picking favorites," he wrote, including a video of the First Lady in a custom Philadelphia jersey. "But as Jill Biden's husband, fly Eagles, fly."

The president's tweet rocketed across the platform. Despite the account having less than a fourth of Musk's followers, the @POTUS post quickly surpassed Musk's own pro-Eagles proclamation, eventually racking up 29 million views to Musk's 8.4 million.
As an enthralling game played out in front of him, Musk ignored the cheers and the bone-crunching tackles, and kept comparing his tweet against Biden's, before deleting his post in anger. He fired off an email to Twitter's product engineers, demanding they immediately find the cause, and then began making arrangements for people to meet him back at Twitter's office that night. Musk left the game early and was already back on his private jet flying to San Francisco before the red and white confetti fell for the Chiefs' victory.”

β€œAbout forty minutes after Musk's tweet, President Joe Biden used the official @POTUS Twitter account to broadcast his own Super Bowl message. "As your presi-dent, I'm not picking favorites," he wrote, including a video of the First Lady in a custom Philadelphia jersey. "But as Jill Biden's husband, fly Eagles, fly." The president's tweet rocketed across the platform. Despite the account having less than a fourth of Musk's followers, the @POTUS post quickly surpassed Musk's own pro-Eagles proclamation, eventually racking up 29 million views to Musk's 8.4 million. As an enthralling game played out in front of him, Musk ignored the cheers and the bone-crunching tackles, and kept comparing his tweet against Biden's, before deleting his post in anger. He fired off an email to Twitter's product engineers, demanding they immediately find the cause, and then began making arrangements for people to meet him back at Twitter's office that night. Musk left the game early and was already back on his private jet flying to San Francisco before the red and white confetti fell for the Chiefs' victory.”

What a pathetic loser. How empty he is inside. The reason no one was interested in his tweet was that it was boring and bad!

10.10.2024 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 278    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

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