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@panarmstrong.bsky.social

"Ravenswood" is a Dungeons & Dragons sounding name for a neighborhood.

Chicago based individual, but still New Orleans related.
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Touching grass is not enough. Sometimes you have to get your feet in the sand.
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If you have an air quality tracker, today is one of those days you can get rather dramatic before & after readings. (Not exactly sure what's going on over in Edgewater right now but I can guess.)
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Let's check in on Chicago's north side air quality at midnight.
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My first thought was they're filming Spaceballs 2 in Chicago.
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4th of July vibes this year coming in like
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Lord have mercy. Hurricane Beryl went from Tropical Depression to Category 3 in 39 hours (4PM Eastern on Friday to 7AM Eastern on Sunday), and is expected to be a Cat 4 by Monday. This is what they mean by "rapid intensification."
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Had occasion to visit Pittsburg recently and got to see a ghost bridge.
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Judicial appointments are why I will crawl over broken glass to vote *against* Republicans in November and every election. Doesn't matter to me how the Dem candidate performs in a "debate 🙄."
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Turns out, Chicago has a lot of environmental initiatives & climate change mitigations going at the local, regional, & municipal levels.
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Anybody else on the Northside going to the Chicago Department of Environment meet & greet this evening? (From Alderman Matt Martin's IG:)
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"I went stumblin through the fog tryin to find a reason for the things I told her."
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For context, this is what it looks like when rain is coming down at about half that rate. (New Orleans August 5, 2017)
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From the CCPSA 20th District Council IG. Public meeting Monday June 10 in #Ravenswood #Chicago. (www.instagram.com/our20thdistr...)
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Finally saw a cicada in Ravenswood, y'all! She was on her way to Winnemac Park.
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The only cicada I've seen so far in Ravenswood.
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Got snuck by this young lady's jealous man.
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Recovering from being sick all week so today
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"I don't think so, Scooter." -Ron White
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Also important: if your "half the city up-zoning" permits short term rentals by right, you're going to lose more housing than you create.
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This MF just lakeside of the courthouse on Tulane Ave. Circa 2018-19. Trying to imagine how many apartments could have been there.
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I was just about to cite Campanella's white teapot map.
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If any y'all around Lawrence & Damen in #Ravenswood on Saturday from 10-11AM, come say hello. I'll be out in the streets picking up litter.
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Sic semper quisquilIae. (Thus always to garbage.) Many hands make light work. Andy from #Ravenswood Neighbors & Monet from our building helped out. George from Salsas gave us all some water on our walk.
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Back in New Orleans, a Mid-City business replaced a non-intrusive yellow parking lot light with an LED powerful enough to ruin the evening front porch routine for every neighbor on two blocks.
The light pollution thing has gotten dramatically worse in my lifetime, by the way, as we've replaced yellow-ish incandescents and sodium vapor lamps with blue-ish LEDs that ruin our ability to see the stars much more efficiently.
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The forested park space deep within the city limits of Chicago is not something they included in the propaganda I heard while growing up down South.
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Just got my save the date for the next CCPSA 20th District Council meeting in Chicago. Monday May 13, 6-730 pm. Here's a map of Chicago Police 20th District.