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Design & cyanotype, Chicago history, textiles. Always looking around.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The problem with basketball is that only two teams play so no one can tie for fifth place.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 01/09/2026
Honestly “what if Ebenezer Scrooge was actually right” really does sound exactly like the sort of movie an abuser would make
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
They used to call this malware.
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ChatGPT just learned to watch everything you do on your Mac
ChatGPT Computer History tracks your Mac activity to build a searchable timeline, no screenshots involved.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
He Should Be Fired Immediately and Investigated…..
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 16/07/2026
Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
At this point, JK Rowling has spent more time and energy writing about how much she hates a vulnerable part of the human condition that never did one goddamned fucking thing to harm her than she ever did writing Harry Potter.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/07/2026
I'm not really worried that the backlash to Platner is going to endanger our ability to give folks second chances, because at no point did that man seem like he earnestly felt he was on his second chance. He made it pretty clear at every turn he thought he was still living large on his first one.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/07/2026
WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/06/2026
Homer makes an excellent point
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Genel Jumalon 🍉 @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)

Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.
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Diana @dianakdesign.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Chicago history & building people: Any ideas for where I could learn more about the business on this ticket? I think the (pretty, terra-cotta) building is still standing. It looks like an interesting piece of women's history & I'm wondering if there were more businesses like it.
Unused weekly "queen for a week" ticket for Ladies Livery and Coffee Shop, 5507 Prairie Ave. Chicago. 24 hour service. Telephone NORmal 6951-6952. Unfilled blanks for name, address, phone, and driver's name.Unused weekly "queen for a week" ticket for Ladies Livery and Coffee Shop, 5507 Prairie Ave. Unfilled blanks for name, address, and phone.Reverse side of ticket for Ladies Livery and Coffee Shop, 5507 Prairie Ave. Chicago. Listing destinations and prices, 25c each additional passenger. Locations include Illinois Central, Altgeld Gardens, Englewood Dist., Hyde Park Dist., Airport, B. & O. Grand Central, Union, LaSalle, West SideScreen shot of Google Maps street view, 5507 S Prairie Ave Chicago, a white terra-cotta building with green and tan decorations, recently renovated in good condition with parkway trees.
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Take a look inside Paper & Pencil’s new Andersonville stationery store: blockclubchi.co/3RoIeK8
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Diana @dianakdesign.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Earlier tonight at the book release event for Will Quam’s Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago. I think all of bricksky was there but I don’t know anybody’s face so if you were there, hi, fellow brick people!
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 02/05/2026
hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...
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How Scientists Use and Abuse Portraiture
Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 02/05/2026
Hey, there's a new Jay Moriarty out! If I have yet to shove this series of novelettes in your face while screaming, consider yourself shoved and screamed at. (ICYMI there is also a new Penric novella. And the new Murderbot is 5th May!)
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Moriarty & Moran's North Yorkshire Crime Spree ebook by Kit Walker - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Moriarty & Moran's North Yorkshire Crime Spree" by Kit Walker available from Rakuten Kobo. A brutal encounter with the horrors of his own past has left Sebastian Moran unmoored and exhausted — s...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026
I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...
A "wartime" poster that says: "Using Generative AI? You're Prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead! Don't surrender your creativity to the Tech Billionaires' control!"
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Diana @dianakdesign.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Congratulations to Wisconsin, the neighbor whose politics you sometimes question, but you can always rely on to borrow you a chainsaw.
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RESIST @resist4unow.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
“Better to die in Iran for your country and your pride, Then to live in a nation that would ask you to be kind.” Thank You Jesse Welles!
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✸ 𝕵𝖆𝖘𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖊 𝕱𝖑𝖔𝖞𝖉 ✸ @jasminefloyd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Just two cuties 🐡
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 09/03/2026
Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?
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the moon report 🌑 @seachanger.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
message from MN
From a Comrade
19h. C
One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin
Cities right now is that even the most long term
organizers who've been here for decades can't keep
track of all the resistance that is going on. There are
so many self-organized crews just doing work that in
any conversation with someone from another
neighborhood you might stumble over a whole
collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think
of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around
fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers
taking cars of detained people away for free. People
delivering food to families in hiding. So many local
rapid response groups that the number is uncertain
but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds-
especially when one considers that several
immigrant communities have their own non-English
rapid response networks usually uncounted in the
main English-language directories. People standing
watch outside daycares and schools.
This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative
and leadership, so many layers of self-organization,
that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to
repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or
movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of
course, that's built up through many years and
decades of organization, and not only through
explicitiv political campaigns or formations built
during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also
built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building,
workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic
relationship building among neighbors and
coworkers here.From a Comrade
19h. C
One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin
Cities right now is that even the most long term
organizers who've been here for decades can't keep
track of all the resistance that is going on. There are
so many self-organized crews just doing work that in
any conversation with someone from another
neighborhood you might stumble over a whole
collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think
of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around
fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers
taking cars of detained people away for free. People
delivering food to families in hiding. So many local
rapid response groups that the number is uncertain
but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds-
especially when one considers that several
immigrant communities have their own non-English
rapid response networks usually uncounted in the
main English-language directories. People standing
watch outside daycares and schools.
This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative
and leadership, so many layers of self-organization,
that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to
repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or
movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of
course, that's built up through many years and
decades of organization, and not only through
explicitiv political campaigns or formations built
during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also
built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building,
workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic
relationship building among neighbors and
coworkers here.
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics
A comic in black/white/blue.
Lucy rolls her bike through an alley, by a crew building a fence.
Narration: My neighbors hired a crew to rebuild their fence.
Crew member: "Do you need us to move our stuff out of the way?"
Lucy: "Oh! No, you're all good, thanks!"
Lucy: "Have a good one!"
Crew member: "You, too!"Narration: I was teaching when my phone started lighting up with alerts from the rapid response network and neighbor chat.
Lucy's back is to us as she shows a group of enthusiastic children something on a notebook. Behind her, her phone in her bag is buzzing.

Narration: By the time the lesson was over, they were already gone.
Lucy is reading messages on her phone.
Messages: 
Alert: black SUV
Sighting: be on alert for...
Confirmed abductionL alley between ----- and ----. SUV plates...
We tried to get them inside, but it was too...
...Contacting an I.R. lawyer. Heading to Broadview later today.Lucy is riding her bike home.
Narration: On the ride home, I kept thinking "If I'd been there, could I have warned them? Would my ICIRR* training have helped?"
*Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Get trained and know your rights at ICIRR.org.

Narration: I'd taken the training after Halloween, when the violent ICE raids had locked down our schools and driven our neighbors indoors.

(Image of a halloween bucket in the shape of a jack-o-lantern)

Narration: Halloween is fun here-- The community filling the streets and opening our doors to one another. But this year's was tense, frightened and subdued. Haunted.
Lucy is standing in the alley, staring at the newly built fence.
Narration: When I got home, it was all done. The other two guys who had gotten inside in time stayed and finished the build.

The new fence is superimposed with the brief exchange from earlier in the comic ("Have a good one" You, too")
Narration: I see it every day and think about how those guys built this in the spot where strangers in masks took their friend.

Narration: How many other places in our communities are similarly haunted?
(Drawings of sidewalks, buildings, streets and windows)
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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This one goes out to the family and friends of Alex Pretti - a son of the watershed. Words can not express the horror of what ICE did on Saturday. May his memory guide all in changing the US federal government to be truthful, transparent & for the people #MinnesotaStrong 🌊🌊
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robbie ⋅⁺⁎ @twnky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
fear not the those without papers, but those without conscience.
a poem titled "for alex jeffrey pretti" by amanda gorman
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Diana @dianakdesign.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I don’t know when this was added to our library receipts, but I first noticed it this year. By chance I picked up holds on the 31st, so I got this nice year-end summary! Putting a pin in it for next year. Love your libraries, friends! They will love you back.
Receipt from a public library with text “you just saved $87.00 by using your library. You have saved $4,960.86 this past year and $16,754.98 since you began using the library!”
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Chicago’s all-girls baseball team, which is full of barrier-breaking high school stars, is heading to nationals. blockclubchi.co/4lZpPxx
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Diana @dianakdesign.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Ran into Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany chilling at a gas station in the White Mountains, waiting for someone to change the flat tire on their Range Rover. They had kids with them so we didn't interact, except to brake politely when she walked in front of our car.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." William Lloyd Garrison
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