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Radical punk-ass book jockey, ally, mom. She/her. Posts about books, mostly. Fizz habit. Union household. ✊🏽 #Postcrossing 📮💙

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's finally here! Are you ready to join us in kicking off #BannedBooksWeek?! This year's event is too big for just one piece of art, so we have THREE! #LetBooksBe bannedbooksweek.org
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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 26/09/2026
Our judicial election guide has information about professional history and notable cases for every single Cook County judge on your ballot this fall. No endorsements, just the facts you need to make an informed decision. buff.ly/jpBxfAa
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Cook County November 2026 Judicial Election Guide
Injustice Watch's guide to the November 2026 Cook County judicial elections.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
Ahmed Soliman has been missing for a week.
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We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘Batman: The Animated Series’ premiered on this day 34 years ago! (September 5, 1992) 🦇 Created by Bruce Timm & Eric Radomski. Voice cast: Kevin Conroy, Arleen Sorkin, Mark Hamill, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Loren Lester, Bob Hastings, Robert Costanzo, Richard Moll, Mari Devon, & more. #OnThisDay #BTAS
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John M. Jackson @johnxlibris.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Rowan University Libraries is hosting a workshop on avoiding and opting out of unwanted AI rowan.libcal.com/event/17302644 📚
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Beverly Tweetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Have you noticed there are way more lawyer billboards and TV ads lately? Did you know that private equity—the people making the über-rich even richer while ruining everything for the rest of us—is behind it? Probably not, and that's how they want it. But we've got a chance to stop it. 🧵 (1/x)
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It’s such a shit time to be a librarian because you spend so much time talking about stuff like censorship and equity and critical information literacy and then you go to meetings about untested AI tools with a multinational monopoly vendor whose headquarters is built on stolen Palestinian land
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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This site lets you scan barcodes to see if they’re part of Taylor Farms: www.taylordetector.com
taylordetector.com
Taylor Detector — Scan for Taylor Farms brands
Wondering if a product is made by Taylor Farms? Scan any barcode to instantly check brand ownership and affiliations. Free, no signup required.
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Rocking Reader @rockingreader.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My brother makes fun of me for covering up saying we have enough melanin to protect us. Screw that noise. Get a UPF 50+ hoodie that covers your hands (ones with thumb holes) and wear gloves when you drive.
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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
since people are talking about lead pipes in Chicago, a reminder of this project from WBEZ that can help you check if your home has a lead service line www.wbez.org/environment/...
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Does my home have lead pipes? Check our map
Enter your address to find out whether any part of your water service line needs replacing and how your neighborhood compares to others.
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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: President Trump’s administration installed overnight a new exhibit at the site of George Washington’s Philadelphia home instead of the memorial to the 9 people kept in bondage at the nation’s first White House. National Park Service dismantled the original slavery exhibit in January. 🎁 🔗
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Slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been swapped for the Trump administration’s version
The change at the President's House happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.
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Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · 14/07/2026
We're turning 21 today, if you can believe it!! 😱🥳🎊 Come join us on the Postcard Lounge and write postcards together with postcrossers all around the world! #postcrossing #postcards
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Happy 21st birthday, Postcrossing!
Postcrossing turns 21 today, and we’re celebrating with the return of the Postcard Lounge. Come write postcards with us!
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE murdered two people in less than a week. Claimed they were “ramming their vehicle”. They said the same about Marimar Martinez who they shot FIVE times. She survived. Went to court to get the body cam footage released. Proved them wrong. Every shooting since they’ve left no survivors:
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The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, wi...
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Rocking Reader @rockingreader.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🚨Deadline to comment is today!!! There's still time. I just submitted my comment.
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Rocking Reader @rockingreader.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I’m from Chicago. Greatest city in the world. It’s storming and my neighbors are still setting off fireworks. 😆
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...
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Rocking Reader @rockingreader.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I hate AI. Our dean loves it. Department head and supervisor keep testing AI in our cataloging workflows. How can I avoid it if they insist I use it?! All the AI sessions at #alaac26 :(
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The piping plovers this morning at Montrose Beach
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
#alaac26 attendees, take a minute to demand your electeds say no to ID verification requirements for the internet www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online
Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about p...
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Alison Macrina @flexlibris.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
we heard you hate AI, so at LFP we've been making resources for turning off AI features across the web. but we also don't think AI problems can be solved at an individual level, so we included some of our fav tools for community resistance as well. more to download free at libraryfreedom.org
LFP avoiding AI flyer. Screen readable PDF at https://libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/lfp-avoiding-ai-popular-websites.pdfLFP avoiding AI flyer. Screen readable PDF at https://libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/lfp-avoiding-ai-popular-websites.pdf
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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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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Every history book about this government will have a subtitle that's some variation of They Should've Just Left That Alone
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Rocking Reader @rockingreader.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We lost power. Other departments closed. We stayed until power was restored and are keeping regular hours even though our director said we could close early. There are students in study rooms, and a parent who leaves his kids here while he's in class dropped them off. The library is open!❤️
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 05/06/2026
"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.
Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.
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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Listen in on scientists finding (and falling for) a new species of octopus now called Microeledone galapagensis. Read more here www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Hello I am the president of a country whose economy depends on consumer spending. My two major initiatives so far have been a sales tax on everything and then a war that sent all prices skyrocketing
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...
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Paramount is apparently trying to suppress copies of "Only in Monroe" from appearing on other social platforms by filing frivolous copyright notices, even though the show was produced by a public access TV channel and doesn't use their intellectual property...
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Happened to us at The Mayday Network as well — this is insanity.
https://x.com/MichelleKinney/status/2058596263004721436
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Rocking Reader @rockingreader.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Not only do I not want to use AI, I get to pay more for my electricity because companies need to find more uses for AI. Whee...
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 13/05/2026
So this made my day!
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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
✨ Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor swept the 2026 Libby Award for Best Sci-Fi + NAACP Image Award. Both. Get it at sistahscifi.com 📚 #SistahScifi #NnediOkorafor #LibbyAward
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
update x2: the cook county sheriff’s office has decided to defer consideration of his proposal for the ai camera system briefcam from tomorrow’s technology committee hearing, according to an email sent by jason hernandez, the sheriff’s intergovernmental affairs chief, to county commissioners.
Dear Commissioner,
An item in tomorrow's Technology Committee (#26-0816
BriefCam) is being deferred from Board consideration to allow the County and the Sheriff's Office additional time to further refine the terms and conditions of the respective End-User License Agreements (EULAs).
We have been in communication with the administration
and Chairman Kevin Morrison and informed them that we
look forward to presenting this item in June.
We will continue to engage with you and your staff on the importance of these lawful, responsible, and widely adopted technologies in advancing our highest obligations
- the protection of life and pursuing justice for victims of crime throughout Cook County.
Thank you for the thoughtful discussions and our team will be contacting you next week to setup additional meetings.
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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 12/05/2026
something to look forward to— there’s a new USPS Global Forever stamp happening, and it’s a collaboration with Postcrossing! the art director, Antonio Alcalá, has worked on many of my favorite stamp issues in recent years. illustrated by Jackson Gibbs interview: www.postcrossing.com/blog/2026/05...
four brightly illustrated triangular forever stamps forming a. square
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
1) Find your Cook County commissioner by clicking below, then 2) let them know you oppose Dart's covert expansion of automated surveillance
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Cook County: Find My Commissioner
If you live in Chicago, Click Here.If you live in the Suburbs, Click Here.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 09/05/2026
Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🦅🦅🦅🦅
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It’s an Eaglet! Chicago Celebrates First Bald Eagle Born in City in More Than 100 Years
For the first time in more than 100 years, a bald eagle has been born inside the city’s limits, the Chicago Park District announced Wednesday.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Megatron, hunter of minnows, destroyer of food pellets, absolute drama queen, is 144 grams today. 42 days until she is released back to her native waters in the Chesapeake Bay.
A juvenile Diamondback Terrapin, being held in a two handed hamburger style hold, twists her head up to look at the camera. She's hoping for snacks. A juvenile Diamondback Terrapin flails her legs about making it much harder to measure her shell height with digital calipers than is strictly necessary.A juvenile Diamondback Terrapin, held about six inches above a countertop, positioned like an upright biped, wondering if the indignities will ever cease.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 02/05/2026
Tidied up my ancient Flickr group for photos of the Chicago Municipal Device, a Y-shaped symbol that's hiding in plain sight all over our fair city. www.flickr.com/groups/chica...
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Rocking Reader @rockingreader.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Always repost this classic @kenjennings.bsky.social He's a good egg.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/05/2026
This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.
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Capitol Fax @capitolfax.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Never let the facts get in the way of a made-for-TV news attack line
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Never let the facts get in the way of a made-for-TV news attack line
* From an Illinois House Republican press release earlier this week… According to the Chicago Police Department, Alphanso Talley has now been charged in the heinous murder of a Chicago police officer and the attempted murder of another officer, along with a long list of additional felony charges. At the time of this horrific attack, Talley [...]
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Honest to god if you do not live in Chicago you are missing out and I feel bad for you
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Kavita @brittexkavi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Eugenics. Also, keep in mind that wealthy always has options in vaccination elsewhere. Like wealthy women used to fly to Europe for abortions. In its prime, the US Eugenics movement often aligned economic status w/biological worth. Poverty was deemed hereditary. It’s a tool of class warfare.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 15/04/2026
Despicable fucking government.
After placing her in handcuffs, she said, two of those four agents at the airport drove Batra to ICE's field office in Harlingen in an unmarked van. She had been there many times over the years to renew her work permit and to help attorneys with translation. Office staff recognized her as she was being processed. Agents posed for photos with her handcuffed, which they said for
"social media," according to the habeas filing.
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Rocking Reader @rockingreader.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If you weren't already boycotting Target, here's another reason! cwbchicago.com/2024/04/targ...
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Target's anti-shoplifting camera program is illegal, attorneys claim, seeking $1K to $5K damages per visit for Illinois customers - CWB Chicago
A class action suit accuses Target of violating Illinois' strict biometrics data law by using facial recognition to identify shoplifters without getting their permission first.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I've been singing this song for thirty years now. It's still hard to know.
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