Henderson the Purple Rain King

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E-bike hive member since 2020. Biked to all 81 Chicago Public Library branches as a shitpost. Pro-Chicago til the day I die.

Kermit riding a bicycle (with a helmet for all you “helmet truthers” out there) and saying, “I’m da king of da bike lane”
Text reads “e-bike summer” across a “brat green” background
The book “psychology of software teams” rests on a park bench in the foreground. A black bicycle is in the background .
A plastic green playground car fades directly towards the camera. A small child with a white hat (her identity obscured) sits at the steering wheel.
A collision between two vehicles. The tire on the smaller white vehicle appears to have fallen off. The tire on the second gray vehicle facing it is also not in good shape.
An image of a box delivery truck unloading Divvy-style tall bikes from the front (near the cab) rather than the rear than is ALWAYS done.
A temporary Sharrows “tattoo” in red (bicycle) and black (arrows) on a forearm
A maroon turtleneck sweater with the Chicago municipal device symbol eblazoned on the front
A multi-lane stroad with a paint only bike lane. A speed limit indicates 45 MPH which means people will regularly 55 unticketed.
The text reads “e-bike summer” over a green background that mirrors the design of Olivia Rodrgos’a Brat Summer
Ш 1st Ward Newsletter | June 16, 2026 To the teens of the 1st Ward (and everyone who cares about them), First off, thank you for everything you do to make our ward and the city great. From contributing to participatory budgeting to helping me draft legislation to your challenging letters and activism, you're invaluable to our community. My special gratitude to the Roberto Clemente Community Academy students who allowed me to be their commencement speaker last week and share an incredible and well-won celebration. Though I'll add, if "all" you're doing is getting through school and being yourself, that's also more than enough. Because a lot of the time, being a teen-to borrow teen slang from thirty years ago-sucks. Summer can feel like too much time on your hands and too little money to do anything with it. It can feel like your city, and particularly your government, holds 99.9% of teens accountable for the actions of 0.1% and generally regard you as a nuisance. Sometimes it seems like folks who haven't been a teenager for thirty years have the strongest opinions on who, what, where, and when you should be anywhere; often the answer is "preferably nowhere.' Please know that you're valuable exactly as you are. Please know that I'm not going to vote for legislation that criminalizes your lives even further or endeavors to bankrupt your parents for your choices. You have shown me in your emails and meetings that you have the vision to improve engagement and programming in our city, and I remain committed to working with you on that. I hope your summer is safe and productive and there are resources to help make that happen (e.g. After School Matters, the Chicage Public Library, and the Department of Public Health). And if you ever just need a listening ear, please come over for a ward night. Pardon a reverse John F. Kennedy, I'd love to better understand what your city can do for you and not just what you can do for your city. Sincerely, Reply Forward
A Pinterest board of various times Chicagoans protested the hell out of former mayor Rahm Emanuel. From top left: A woman on the CTA platform refuses to shake his hand. A photo of Hohn Lenon and Uoko Ono (probably?) holding a sign that says “Rahm is over”. Dr. eve Ewing turns her back on Rahm as she sits on stage to receive a literary award. A woman blows. Shofar (Ram’s horn) in his face as he leans away.
A picture of a blue Tern GSD parked in front of the Water Tower branch library
The Kirby frame from whet Moser: WRONG - negating their frame reinforces it - starts with what it isn't, instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument autism is bad FACT CHECK! autistic people are productive members of society autism is bad THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS RIGHT - you eat their frame - starts with what's actually happening - contains and explains what they're doing - your argument is shaped like kirby
A refrigerator with a TV on the right panel that shows a breaking news article about the death of Lindsey Graham
A Strava heatmap of Chicago. The east/west routes along Washington and Augusta show particularly heavily usage. But the heatmap also usage to the north, south, east, and west sides.
The coach for the Swiss men’s soccer team has charcoal colored hair and wears a black polo. He holds up two fingers.
The Finnish hockey coach in Mighty Ducks 2 with a severe look on his face
Tim Robinson from I think you should leave sits at a table in a short-sleeve collared shirt with his hands spread open over a white plain as he explains his “Nacho rules” to a date who violated them
A soccer play with bleached blonde hair and a “Leopard print” pattern dyed in
The inside collar of the jersey for the Belgian Men’s National team that reads, “Ceci n’est pas un maillat”
The promo photo for the Belgian National Men’s team in the style of a Rene Magritte painting. An apple is in front of the face of a man who is wearing a bowler hat.
Three consecutive tweets about the Mexico England red card that read “holllyyyy shiiiit”, “oh shit 🟥”, and “oh yeah he’s got to go”
Wolf Stansson from Mighty Ducks II.
A custom build, mid-90s era Specialized bike with silver fenders and a from basket. Many are calling it a “perfect bike”
The Portland ME metro transportation site describes the procedure for loading a bike onto the bus
A Lyft bike covered in snow from an excursion during a conference in Denver, CO during February 2023 (Learning From Incidents Conf.)
Google street view of a road along the route that shows one car lane + one bike lane in each direction.
A Strava heatmap of the downtown Portland ME area showing cycle routes.
A Strava ride map for the Tour de Illinois. The ride outlines a route through Chicago that creates a map of the Illinois.
A picture of the Dickens Greenway. A cyclist proceeds through the intersection along the green bike lane. Vertical white flex posts define the foreground. The sun gently sets in the background.
A blue Tern GSD carries a 8-foot Christmas Tree to drop-off at the Garfield Park field house.
A bluesky profile that says “e-bike hive member since 2020. Bikes to all 81 Chicago Public Library branches as a shitpost. Pro-Chicago til the day I die”
An image of Peter Crouch in a red Jersey standing a head taller than a player from the opposing team in a blue jersey.
An image of BlueSky tweets with skeets about the Telemundo announcer speaking minion. One says, “Telemundo guy just became a minion for a second”
Apartment building in Schiller Park with a vertical frieze of vibrant, colorful tiles around windows
A filter at Maplewood and 68th that doesn’t allow bike traffic
Still from Bojack Horseman or Vincent Adultman (two kids inside a trench coat) saying, “good. I went to stock market today. I did a business.”
An SUV-sized wagon for carrying children around
Two dolls looking at each other
Kermit riding a bicycle (with a helmet for all you “helmet truthers” out there) and saying, “I’m da king of da bike lane”
T-shirt with text that reads “I just wanted to bike my kids to school…now I spend more time at city hall than at home”
A truck pulls uses the wall of a car wash as an exit. The adjacent door is left unused
An early 1990s vintage Specialized Rockhopper with a purple to pink ombré effect
Three gleeful kids locally at a pile of metallic tokens next to a Chuck E Cheese token cup.
A delivery truck unloading bicycles. Inexplicably, the bikes are being unloaded through the front of the truck (rather than the loading door as any sane human would do). The final message in the Copilot message prompt asks, “do you even understand how trucks work?”
The model response says, “you pushed on exactly the right constraint (“the truck has two cabs”) and that’s what finally forced the model into a physically coherent result. That kind of precise, structural feedback…
The same box truck now has a front and rear cab. Unloading still inexplicably happens from the front cab. The user text says, “that’s better. But the truck still obviously has two clubs. Please remove one”
The same truck after the user responds, “yes please try again”
A box truck full of bicycles that somehow unloads from the front (instead of the back). The user message in response asks, “do you understand how trucks work?”
Job posting for a seasonal backpack/bike technician at a mosquito management company.
A still image from a video depicting the blind spots on a Chevy Silverado truck. They include mirror blind spots to the left and right, A-pillar blind zones to the left and right and a hood blind zone directly in front. It’s a lot of blind zones!
Man in window with black shirt that says Sickos saying “yes ha ha ha yes”
A white Waymo stopped at the light at Augusta and california(ish)
A blue Gen I Divvy bike (not electric) serves as the background image for a local media post about new e-bike rules going into effect on July 1