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Also if you come up with a list, I’m happy to make an ask on the neighborhood Buy Nothing group. People could drop supplies on my porch and I could deliver to you.

Was coming here to say the same thing

Not to mention that for a tourist, there being two separate fares just seems more confusing. At O’Hare, you just hop on the CTA blue line. In DC, you just hop on the Metro.

I think the frustrating part is the doom loop it creates. I’ve shifted my habits in recent years and try to buy fewer, higher quality clothes but it’s become very hard to find them in person in my size. So then I buy online and contribute to the cycle. 😭

I have to say, it’s just a really weird experience to live in a country that you know is the bad guy.

Some of us have strict production metrics and don’t get to do light days. 😭

Per the reporting, this project has also already had a lot of public input. It really sounds like Keller won’t be satisfied until the project is exactly what he wants. Does the whole town get to decide what goes on his menu? It’s ridiculous. He’s not king of the town.

“I support affordable housing, just not THIS affordable housing” is a classic NIMBY trope at this point.

Also to own a restaurant that charges that much and then complain about how much is being spent on it? Get a grip, my dude.

“The letter called for the town to conduct a six- to eight-week survey of local workers that would include questions on housing design, rent levels and commute patterns.”

Housing delayed is housing denied.

Does anyone remember when Anthony Bourdain ate at Bobby Flay’s restaurant in Vegas and wanted to hate it and then got angry at how much he liked it? That’s me every time I do yoga.

My most charitable interpretation of this guy is that he’s just really fucking dumb. Which is not what we should want in a senator!

I also cannot stand this shit because white men are given SO MANY passes that women and people of color absolutely do not get.

Yesterday at PT, the therapist told me to avoid overhead pushing exercises for a while but said pulling exercises were fine. He assured me it’s fine to do pull ups. Honestly I was just flattered that he thought I might be able to do a pull up. A real confidence booster!

I’m sorry I do not think you understand the state of my brain. The only time I am zen is when I am too tired to think.

I have not. Maybe I’ll check them out. I also don’t do flip turns (and am not interested in starting), which i know cuts down time.

I can swim for a long time - yesterday I did an hour! - I’m just slow. Not unlike my biking!

girls i think i have pinkeye again i am losing my mind

I was gonna make a joke but I just can’t. It’s all so fucking bleak.

Figured out that Olympic swimmers are about 3 to 4 times faster than me and to be honest, I cannot even comprehend being able to swim that fast.

Not me, biking down Wells Street, only to hear, “Hi Brooke!” from a passing car window. It was someone I know from the cargo bike community. (Never beating the allegations that every cargo bike owner in MKE knows each other.)

People also blame teachers unions for outcomes in districts like Milwaukee but then don’t credit them for outcomes in districts like Fox Point. IDK, something tells me the unions might not be the driver of educational outcomes…

When we were in Copenhagen, I swear that rolling our suitcases on the walk from the train station to the hotel was SO LOUD because the street was otherwise so quiet.

Write an earnest post without a typo. Challenge level: impossible.

You know why my mom rocks? She doesn’t bike or lift weights or swim, but any time I tell her about some accomplishment I’ve reached on the bike or in the gym or in the pool, she tells me she’s proud of me my hard work. Gets me every time. 🫶🏻

Reading this for absolutely no reason at all today.

Proud urbanist parent moment: my kid was reading a book this morning and told me the character was making a big deal out of something being a one-mile walk. “That’s not that far!”

I got to use the tiny little one-pound baby plates at the gym this morning to top off my bench press. The cutest.

I've never really had radiating pain. I can basically feel where in my right upper back region that this all starts, right by my scapula. I do have upper extremity symptoms, but best I can tell, those are separate nerve compression issues. I probably do need an updated EMG to figure out how severe.

Honestly I’ve only recently been grappling with how severe my pain is and it’s a credit to my self control that I haven’t murdered anyone. YOU ARE WELCOME.

I think it’s just my spine being wonky + increased activity. But I do have longstanding carpal and cubital tunnel symptoms so I will monitor if PT doesn’t fix me and seek out an MRI.