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Katie Risseeuw

@katierizz.bsky.social
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Will die on niche hills, windows always open. Libraries, archives, preservation, art, turtles, Chicago, bricks, the desert.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My mom just learned that furries exist and her reaction is along the lines of Andy Griffith "well, I'll be!" with a chuckle.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OH: "Just putting in a picture of a muddy hill doesn't help" - my sister, the landscape architect, in a zoom meeting.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nothing like airports to make me hate humanity.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
♥️♥️
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really digging this version of a Wanted poster. (Minus the cop part)
Paper flyer taped to a tree reading:
RECOGNIZE THIS BIGOT?
© 2:05 A.M. 9/7/2026 Arrived under the cloak of darkness. So brave.
~ Entered our private screened-in porch to rip down our LGBTQ+ Pride flag.
Couldn't overpower the flag on his first try. Tried again and, against all odds, conquered the fabric.
After this tremendous display of courage and strength, ran north leaving the property.
_ Appears to be a light/white-skinned male (Nothing oozes "privilege" quite like assuming his opinions outrank property lines. Such a tough guy.)
Wearing jeans, a shirt, and Adidas sneakers. (Breaking stereotypes clearly wasn't on his to-do list.)
His visit, including his face and actions, was captured on video.
This incident has been reported to the CHICAGO POLICE.
As soon as we identify him we will be pressing charges!!!
IF YOU SEE OR KNOW HIM PLEASE CALL the CHICAGO POLICE and give them the report number RD# JK403322
This happened on the first block of Neward Ave between Pratt and North Shore.
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 15/09/2026
I’ve noticed a big increase museum layoffs and closures. I suspect ARP money finally getting fully flushed out of state/local budgets, declining federal support, rising prices for everything, declining corporate/foundation support for non-Trump approved history are all contributing. A sad thread:
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 10/09/2026
The Chicago Public Library informs patrons of how much money they’ve saved borrowing from the library instead of buying. “You just saved $58.94 by using your library. You have saved $231.79 this past year and $1,107.24 since you began using the library!” [salon.com]
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My library card has saved me $1,330 — and I want more
Chicago Public Library tells patrons exactly what they’ve saved. I’ve become obsessed with running up the score.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Librarians purposefully eat Cheetos and microwave popcorn before handling books, little known fact.
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
finally someone is speaking out against Big Rare-Books-and-Manuscripts
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
you need to read the use of "woke" here with a hard R
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Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley (Gift Article)
The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Plz pray for Jen
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I've been worried about the guy who made fun of Trump right behind him during a speech. Anyone know if he's been unmolested by the DOJ?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you are 38 years old or older, I want you to start working on your foot strength and ankle mobility. Unless I hate you. Then I want you to rest for ten years and then suddenly try to hop off a step one day, cold.
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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Cleaning up inventory of custom commissions and found all 6 cards printed for @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social.
6 large postcards with various quotes from authors, commissioned by Pilsen Community Books.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I've never seen a librarian be so librariany. Blanche Cretini, at your service.
Black and white photograph of a woman leaning on a counter in a library. She has dark hair in a bun, dark-framed glasses, a string of pearls around her neck, and a woman's suit jacket with a big white collar.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 25/07/2026
Israel seizing West Bank heritage sites ‘piece by piece’ The army is expropriating thousands of dunams in Sebastia and Nabi Samwil, using archaeology as a pretext to further isolate Palestinian communities. Shatha Yaish reports www.972mag.com/israel-west-...
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Israel seizing West Bank heritage sites ‘piece by piece’
The army is expropriating thousands of dunams in Sebastia and Nabi Samwil, using archaeology as a pretext to further isolate Palestinian communities.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Additionally, the feedback form asks questions about how you feel about the loyola building, so a chance for input is there.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I live nearby, and even my upper-middle class neighbors all have support signs in their yards. It's a gorgeous building, too. Stupid loyola, tho.
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Uh, we already covered what happened "before he was Scrooge" and it's heartbreaking [entirely his fault] www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbaw...
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When Love Is Gone - The Muppet Christmas Carol - HD Widescreen
YouTube video by Shaun
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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fashioned a 7-color nod to the beloved Polaroid from modular metal type ornaments. Shipping now for the Print Club. #letterpress
Angled close up of a print on Kraft paper made with metal type ornaments to resemble a Polaroid camera. Says SMILE in rainbow colors at the top.
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🌈Maly🌙 @malytwotails.com · 19/07/2026
Incredible work
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Just a normal coaster at my parents' house.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
80°?!? Bright side: these are not the ACTUAL originals, but on loan from despicable person Ken Griffin, so I don't care if his chemically degrade into dust. He shouldn't have them. (There are 27 more). Yes I am a preservation professional oops.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/07/2026
CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The broom dog character from Alice in Wonderland, whose long "mustache" is similar to a current trending political candidate with unkempt facial hair.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Big if true
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Chicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Our access to historical records is directly affected by this closure. Thanks @chicagoarchivists.bsky.social for their attention to this. blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/06/c...
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Chicago National Archives Closure Will Be Loss For Historians, Researchers — Even Deep-Sea Divers
The closure of the South Side center will take place “over the next few years.” The records and documents will be relocated, but it’s unclear where and how many employees are affected.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Chicago, it's like you forget 1871 happened.
An all wood back porch in the back stairs of an apartment building, with a small grill, full of charcoal, unlit.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Curate" was already mis-used to death, but now it's turning over in its grave.
A sandwich board on the sidewalk for a fitness  studio that says "Success is a collection of well-curated failures" written by hand in marker.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
ok going to look at the great American state fair myself before it becomes a heatstroke death trap
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"I love you guys so much, nice to meet you!" I love public transit during Pride.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
My favorite sweater fell on the Red Line floor for over 5 sec so now I have to burn it like the velveteen rabbit.
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“AI in libraries” should be “what can you tell us about corporate profit-driven control of search and retrieval” instead of “when are librarians going to get on board.”
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My goal in life is to be the Johnny Appleseed of 'no gloves with book and paper materials' gospel. it's actually literally my job
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Worst Nancy Drew mystery ever
The cover of a book called The Casse of an Indeterminate Boundary: Algeria - Morocco.
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Last month two library workers reached out to Public Collectors to ask about making a booklet version of Fobazi Ettarh's essay "Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for a Celebration of Life event. We did, and it is now available for all: halfletterpress.com/vocational-a...
This booklet is a standalone print publication of Fobazi Ettarh’s essay, in which she defined vocational awe as the ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries are inherently good and sacred, and therefore beyond critique. Fobazi first presented on vocational awe at the Identity, Agency, and Culture in Academic Libraries Conference in 2017. Later on, she fleshed out the idea into this essay, which first appeared in the journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe on January 10, 2018. It sparked immediate rippling conversations about dynamics of systemic underresourcing, undercompensation, job creep, and exploitation across the library profession. It was cited more than 500 times in her lifetime, and she presented dozens of invited presentations and keynotes on it. In 2020, she was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker; true to her own values, she voluntarily revoked the award to protest Library Journal’s awarding of a Library of the Year that had been widely protested for hosting an event with a virulently anti-trans organization earlier in the year. In this time, public scholars and intellectuals in fields such as social work, teaching, nursing, and technology began to engage with vocational awe, including Cory Doctorow in Enshittification, Anne Helen Petersen in Culture Study, Simone Stolzoff in The Good Enough Job, and more. At the time of her passing in January 2026, Fobazi was a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, furthering her research on vocational awe across domains, with a specific focus on tech work. May her memory politicize us all.

— Anastasia Chiu 

The proposal to publish this text as a booklet came from library workers Mimosa Shah and Jorge López-McKnight. With the cooperation of Fobazi’s widow Elena Maris, Public Collectors has designed, printed and published this essay for that celebration, as well as more widespread readership.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
🤞🏻 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/u...
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Arizona Democrat’s Tough Past Fuels Pitch for a Key House Seat
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16/06/2026
New: We've been tracking reports of ICE activity across Chicagoland for five weeks. In that time, rapid responders have seen an escalation as feds have abducted dozens, caused at least two car crashes, threatened community members with weapons and flouted state courthouse protections. Read more:
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“ICE never really left:” car crashes and courthouse arrests mark spring escalation
Videos show federal agents pointing weapons at bystanders and trying to access state property as rapid response groups have reported at least 80 detainments across Chicagoland in the last five weeks.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I only understand each of these words individually.
Headline saying: Megalibraries in pole position for autonomous discovery over self-driving labs
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
OFFICIALLY called denazification
The cover of a formerly classified government publication from 1945 called "Denazification." It's a monthly report from the Military Government of Germany, US Zone
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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Got a show Friday night at @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social. Come and support three small businesses at once! #letterpress
Small broadside sitting on top of type form that lists: dovetail brewery, Starshaped press and Midwest nice. Has date of June 5, 6-8 pm with address.
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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
CTA bus driver prints are back in stock. Inspired by an absolutely wild ride on a bendy bus a few years ago. #letterpress
Close up of print that says ‘today I shall have the confidence of a cta bus driver’. Meant to resemble cross stitch samplers with a small modular bus image.
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cam rodriguez 🔎 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
good morning 🌞📰☕️🏠 chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/...
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As Airbnbs explode around the Obama Center, housing advocates say affordable units are disappearing
While licenses for short-term rentals have declined citywide since 2019, they have increased by 46% in the 20th Ward, which includes most of the Woodlawn community just west of the Obama Presidential ...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/06/2026
Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check
Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
My disgust about the UFC arena at the White House must be how the far right felt about Michelle Obama's organic garden.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Does not! Especially British ones because they don't carry guns (generally). Also because I already feel bad about enough stuff, I need something guilt-free.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I’ve covered Chicago’s federal courthouse for 11 years and have never seen a hearing like this one.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I hate that I have to say "I have competing deadlines" instead of "completely fucking losing my goddamned mind" in professional settings.
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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The Onion making me miss my turtle...
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