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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 1h

Silly question, possibly, but do you ever need paint donations? I have some fun colors from getting parts of my house (interior) painted, so it may not be ideal but wanted to ask anyway. :)

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 4h

On this World Mental Health Day, I feel like the only (temporary) cure for all the stress I'm feeling at the moment is buying my dogs hoodies.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 5h

It really couldn't be any clearer as a test of one's morals. The unhoused are people, period. The shame, guilt, and/or disgust felt by housed people from just being in their vicinity results in a lot of active and passive hostility and cruelty that lights the way for worse.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 18h

The anniversary cake, because I'm an Oreo fiend who had a cookies n cream wedding cake (not quite like this one).

A round, 2 layer cookies n cream cake with thin Oreos on top.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 20h

What better says "Happy 5th anniversary!" than watching The Zone of Interest? Thanks to the person who doesn't realize they recommended it to me.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kat partnering with CPL for Banned Books Week (Freedom to Read Week is the better name) when?

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Here's a picture of one of my dog's toes as an apology for unintentionally cursing the White Sox. If I pay teams any attention, they start to lose, and I asked Zeek if he was a White Sox fan given the foot situation. That was apparently enough attention to start the losses. Sorry!

A dog's two hind legs, showing white fur on the toes and black fur everywhere else.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My husband has been an active part of my life for 18 years. As a friend for 3, a boyfriend for 10, and a husband for 5. We got married on the most perfect October Chicago day, right on the Lake, with the city behind us. (He is not on social media, smart man, so his face is blocked out of respect.)

A tall white man, with an emoji covering his actual face, wearing a charcoal gray suit, holding a bouquet of artificial flowers, holding the hand of a shorter Latina in a wedding dress. A tree and the field house at Promontory Point are behind them.

A brown, woman's left hand with a floral themed Alexandrite wedding ring and band rests on top of a florescent white, man's right hand wearing a chrome wedding ring.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is it too much to ask that people be safe while doing their job (and at all other times)? My heart goes out to the family of the CTA worker, Julian Mobley, who was killed this afternoon. Reports had said a train conductor was maced just prior. If true, I hope they're okay, physically and mentally.

nbcchicago.com

Chicago Transit Authority worker killed in stabbing at Damen/Lake station

A Chicago Transit Authority worker was killed in a stabbing attack on Thursday afternoon at a Green Line station in West Town.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I say all of this as someone who had ALA water down, or outright change, my words in a statement about police murdering George Floyd when I was president of a Round Table. Like, I'm sorry the facts of the matter are too hard to face, so you call it political so you can dismiss it.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thanks for speaking out, Carolyn. I've always looked up to you and respect the shit out of you.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

need to step up. All of us. I'm rather sick of our professional organizations trying to hide behind their fear, a fear that lets awful things continue in the name of being "proper." The unfortunate reality is that the systems we are a part of will fight tooth and nail to protect the status quo.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

their inability to escape them and/or their desire to address them. The times we live in demand, if not professionally then absolutely morally, that we not turn a blind eye and keep silent. Tax statuses be damned. This moment calls for action, for acknowledgement and acceptance that we all

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

neutrality. We've all heard those; some of us actually believe that's honorable and achievable - not me, to be clear, on either point. When you live the type of life where it is easy for you to avoid direct confrontation with day to day politics, you forfeit the right to lecture others about

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

denying reality will not save or protect this profession from the ongoing attacks and efforts to dismantle us. I've heard arguments of tax status being lost if our state and national associations get political. I've heard arguments about not making political statements because of the need for

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

libraries are a part of that life. Our flight for funding is political. Our collection work is political. Our programming is political. I need the leaders of this profession to remove their white supremacist glasses and acknowledge that Carolyn was right to address this head on, because

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was spending weekends and time off patrolling my neighborhood and making plans for what to do if I got abducted or worse. I have a kit of protective gear still ready to go because ICE is still here. Mentioning this reality at an ILA event IS political but I have to say: LIFE is political, and

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

white supremacy problem, I announced to the room that I was handing out whistles. I was handing them out because, just like Carolyn experienced (IS experiencing), I was aware of the fact that ICE was abducting and disappearing my neighbors. My phone was blowing up with alerts about sightings.

A mailbox covered in snow, with a sign taped to it reading "ICE abducted our community member here"

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm grateful Carolyn shared. I want to add my two cents, as I also got political at an ILA event (albeit from a very different position). In the moments leading up to a panel at Annual I was sitting on with two fierce women, in which we called out the profession for still failing to address its

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Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#CZF2026 is on Saturday, and we'll be there with our masks on! There'll be free KN95 masks available at the entrance (find us on the 9th floor of the Harold Washington Library Center). We'll also have a few air purifiers running. Thanks for helping keep the fest illness-free!

A fun comic book style flyer with text reading "Chicago Zine Fest is coming up! Masks provided and encouraged. Help keep us all safe and comfortable".

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Many of the challenges were brought on by state or national groups just trying to target as many libraries as possible. There are still local taxpayers who feel a certain way about materials they disagree with but I feel like that is much less common where I've worked. This is not an invitation.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The more organized groups try to get around that by splitting the work and sharing. At one library I worked at, we received 3 identical reconsideration forms with the same page numbers and supposed offensive passages/panels, verbatim. Limiting these challenges to cardholders can help a little.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I got a lot of parallel parking practice 😅

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And 3 hours later, all done! 🎉

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

and I don't have to move out of the state if I want to stay in my profession but have genuine options in the administration I work for.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Have I responded to this before? A benefit of this for me, a library worker, is that I'm not limited to one employer (CPL) if we're not a work culture match with all the independently run libraries in the suburbs. That means I don't have to pivot to a different type of library (school, academic)

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes. Anything that is not mindless or mostly mindless means I probably can't do it on my phone absent a threat to life. I've actually tried thinking through what becomes too much vs what is okay. Haven't landed on a real set of parameters, just instinctively know what I can and can't do.

A screenshot of two posts.

Post one, from @slucy.bsky.social Steven Lucy: Uh I'm too millennial to do this on my phone, will have to check when I'm on computer

Post two, from @scott.birbs.biz Scott: This is definitely a task for the medium or large glowing rectangle. Not for the small glowing rectangle.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh no! I'm genuinely so embarrassed to admit I never thought to look for CPL here (learning I shouldn't assume the cool kids aren't here) and I've been missing out.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well, well, well. If it isn't me being stubborn and figuring it out. Well played, WeVideo, but I'm still the victor.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am so mentally old, phones are mostly for play, but I'll keep this in my back pocket. Thanks!

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Beverly Tweetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey Chicago friends... this is probably a longshot but I have a friend who found a cat that had just given birth to kittens and he's been able to find homes for the kittens but he's looking for somebody to adopt the mom who is fairly aggressive. If you'd be willing to take on a project hit me up.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks. I'll check it out when I get home from work; not able to download anything on work computers. No mobile is fine. I'm set in my desktop ways for anything more than browsing.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it's treating all video that was split as one clip and only allowing me to apply speeds to the whole thing or one smaller range.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My reach is probably too small for this question but let's try anyway! Does anyone know of a free video editor that doesn't watermark and, most importantly, allows video speed editing on more than one range of a clip? Even with splitting video and placing on different tracks in WeVideo,

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My husband is packing my lunch for work while I enjoy my breakfast. How spoiled am I?

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

✅ Annual COVID shot ✅ Annual flu shot Let's see how I feel later. 😅

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Perfect porch/stoop sitting weather this morning. Absolutely gorgeous.

A green chair to the left of a yellow table and a purple chair to the right of the table. All three are on a bungalow porch, underneath a stained glass window.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do you know what would create a more amiable airport environment for me? Not having to figure out all the ways and places where I can and should opt out of security theater and excessive surveillance.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm going to ask the silly question: what song is "the other one"?

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is such happy news! Thank you for your time in finding and sharing an update. :)

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mid-February is the earliest I could get an appointment for a mammogram. That is just so mind-boggling to me. Getting these actually once a year means I need to be asking for my referral about 6 months post-appointment.

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I lost a pin I got at the National Public Housing Museum. It came off my jean jacket without me noticing. The only correct response is to go back and buy a new one, right?

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Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*to the Wheel of Fortune cadence* Build. The. Tunnel! Couldn't be that, could it. :)

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