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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jacob Lawrence, The Library, 1978. Lawrence loved libraries, where he did research for his paintings from early on in his career, most notably at Harlem's Schomburg Center. He made numerous pictures of libraries that celebrate the librarians & library workers who keep them running

Picture of a library, showing a figure pushing a cart in the foreground

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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"Los cuatro grandes poetas de Chile son tres: Alonso de Ercilla y Rubén Darío" - Nicanor Parra

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

How I Learned to Read Way, Way More

I had to rethink my relationship to attention

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cta @chicagocta.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

We asked our bus operators from the 77th garage which route takes the most skill to drive, and which route is their favorite. Here’s what they had to say 💬

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Meagan McNeal, one of our gallery board members, is making her Lyric Opera debut this weekend as the title character in "safronia", a new musical work by Chicago's inaugural Poet Laureate avery r. young. It looks like a really cool production, set for just a two-day run. Some tickets still left:

lyricopera.org

safronia

Triumph and tragedy converge in this universal yet personal Afro-surrealist tale of the Great Migration by Chicago’s first-ever poet laureate, avery r. young.

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Emilie Laperrière @emilielaperriere.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

J’aime beaucoup. J’ajoute les mots de Dany Laferrière, auxquels je pense chaque printemps.

Extrait de Chronique de la dérive douce: Il faut avoir traversé l’enfer de l’hiver pour connaître la fièvre du printemps. L’espace entre le printemps et l’été semble aussi mince qu’une feuille d’érable.

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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The best bus seat is the one reading this post

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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

אָרים איז מײן שטיבעלע, מיט אַן אַלטן דאַך, װאַקסן אין אים קינדערלעך קלײנינקע אַסך. גײט אין גאַס אַ רעגנדל, װערט אין שטיבל נאַס— לױפֿן מײנע קינדערלעך, שפּילן זיך אין גאַס. גײט אין גאַס אַ רעגנדל, גײט ער זײ אַנטקעגן— װאַקסן מײנע קינדערלעך, װי בלימעלעך אין רעגן. אײדע מאַזע

דער טאָװל פֿון ״װאקסן מײנע קינדערלעך״. דער סוף ״ך״ גײט אַראָפּ צו אַ צײכענונג פֿון קינדער מיט װײץ.

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Benoît Melançon @benoitmelancon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

«Casser le bécyk» (@lapresse.ca) ? À votre service : oreilletendue.com/2019/06/10/t... • #langueqc •

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I'm at the Field museum and I don't recall voting for any of these guys

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Kids on Archer Ave near 44th in 1971 on a bike parade to promote bike safety #bikeCHI

Grayscale image of kids riding bikes on a city street. Image by Duane Hall for Chicago Sun Times, from the Chicago History Museum digital archive

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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

איך װיל האָבן ײדישע פעדערפרײַנד. צי זײַנען דאָ מענטשן װאָס װילן שיקן בריװן אָדער פּאָסטקאַרטלעך מיט מיר? זײ דאַרף נישט זײַן קײן גרויסע בריװן מיט פּערפֿעקט ײדיש, נאָר אַן אופֿן אַ ביסל הנאה צו האָבן.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

“Help support local businesses and raise funds for the Southwest Side Rapid Response Team at the Chicago Bites Back Business Crawl from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, November 21, 2025, at neighborhood locations..”

mckinleypark.news

Chicago Bites Back Business Crawl

Help support local businesses and raise funds for the Southwest Side Rapid Response Team at the&nbsp;Chicago Bites Back Business Crawl from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, November 21, 2025, at neighb...

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Jacques Nacouzi @jacouzi.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

🚲🥰🚲 Le dimanche 16 novembre, on ira inaugurer le REV Henri-Bourassa! Pas juste qu'on ne cèdera pas un seul iota du 2% de la voirie, mais on en demandera partout! Venez nombreux en famille! #velomtl #polmtl ✊🚲✊🚲

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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Museo (2018) est vraiment magnifique. Drôle, touchant, beau.

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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

אָהאָ, פֿאַלנדיקע בלעטער! אָהאָ, פֿליִענדיקע טעג! אָהאָ, װי װעל איך איצטער בלאָנדזשען װען ס'ליגט געדיכטער נעפּל אױף מײַן װעג

בײמער מיט גרינע, געלע, אראנזשע, און רויטע בלעטער אויף א בארג

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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

פּאָפּאָ מאַקעראָנדל! הײַנט בין איך געגאַנגען צו אַ פֿעסטיװאַל פֿון פּאָפּאָ און איך האָב געהאַט אַ סך הנאה. פּאָפּאָ ביר, קאַװע מיט פּאָפּאָ מילך, און אַ סך מער װונדערלעכע זאַכן!

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/10/2025

My favorite coffee roaster (which also sells vinyl) is having a PRINE Day sale www.tandemcoffee.com/collections/...

Graphic with an old cutout black-and-white photo of a young John Prine with bushy hair and a mustache sitting on a chair playing guitar and the following text:

Tandem Presents: OCTOBER 10, 2025
PRINE DAY
ONE-DAY SALE
ONLINE ONLY
20% OFF
COFFEE & VINYL
USE CODE: PRINEDAY

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

We are back! And running g out of books! Come quick

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I think it's partly...who would I recommend to someone who liked him other than 'listen again'? I think singular artists tend to be underdiscussed for this reason.

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Orange Line

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a matt @thrillhowse.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Furthest I've been: N: western (brown line) E: western (pink line) S: western (orange line) W: western (blue line, no the other one) dont need to get some travelling in! i’m fine!

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Tony Coppoletta @tonycoppoletta.com · 24/07/2025

This year I wanted to do more. I consulted with a historian and educator friend to come up with some history notes—just 3 cards to be added to the set, including one covering an aspect of Black, queer, Chicago history. It is on the Red Line, after all and I want to make sure more are represented.

A history card from the CTA pride train reads:

Historical notes
Finding community across the city

Some of Chicago’s earliest queer community formed around the bohemian Towertown area (near Water Tower), the downtown Levee district and at South Side drag balls and cabarets.

Notably, Finnie’s Halloween Ball, a legendary multiracial drag competition, began in the 1930s on the South Side and thrived for decades, gaining wide attention through publications who wrote about the event, such as Ebony.

While North Side neighborhoods like Lakeview and Andersonville are now prominent LGBTQ+ hubs, people have connected and shared culture, art and ideas across the city.

(Then, a pull-quote from Ebony Magazine reads:)

“More than 1,500 spectators milled around outside Chicago’s Pershing Ballroom to get a glimpse of the bejeweled impersonators who arrived in limousines, taxis, Fords and even by streetcar.”
–Ebony, 1953, regarding a Finnie’s Halloween Ball in transit-friendly Woodlawn

A history card from the CTA pride train reads:

Historical notes
Finding community across the city

Nationwide, LGBTQ+ individuals faced widespread scrutiny, harassment, discrimination and even raids on social spaces. New York's Stonewall uprising in 1969 became a flashpoint that ignited a national era of activism and was emblematic of the struggles the community faced across the country.

Chicago has a strong activist tradition. Notably, it was home to America’s first gay rights organization, The Society for Human Rights, founded by Henry Gerber in 1924, but it was at the turn of the 1970s where a critical mass of activism for liberation gelled.

Groups like Chicago Gay Liberation (which included Women's and Black caucuses) formed and worked with other groups like Mattachine Midwest and countless others, and the city's first Pride march occurred in 1970.

A history card from the CTA pride train reads:

Historical notes
Chicago’s First Pride

One year after the Stonewall uprising in New York, Chicago's first Pride event began 1970 and with a 150-200 person rally at Bughouse Square, known for public debate, followed by a march to the Civic Center (Daley Plaza). Within a few years, it had grown into to an annual event attended by thousands marching for freedom.

Reflecting significant progress, the modern Pride Parade is a large celebration, widely supported by the city, elected officials and, of course, friends, family and allies of the diverse LGBTQ+ community and has become one of Chicago’s most attended annual events.

We’re proud to welcome you aboard–no matter who you are, who you love, how you identify or where you’re from. When we say “All aboard,” we mean all!

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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

שהחיינו אויף בלאנקיטנע ציגנבלעטער (האַסקאַפּ)

בריאש מיט קרעם און דריי לאנגע בלויע יאגדעס

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chigeek.bsky.social @chigeek.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Let’s remember architect Harry Weese, born on this day 110 years ago, and why he was so awesome. He was at the forefront of Chicago’s historic preservation movement. In 1963, he offered his services free of charge to restore Adler & Sullivan’s Auditorium Theatre to its original 1889 appearance.

Historic photo of Harry Weese and one his associates working at the Auditorium in the mid-1960s. (auditorium theatre.org)

Photo by John Vinci taken inside Adler & Sullivan’s Auditorium Theatre at its official reopening in 1967.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 27/06/2025

A thread of recent klezmer albums worth checking out – Zoë Aqua's "In a Sea of Stars" recorded in two Romanian synagogues during a recent tour. Like a fusion of klezmer and Transylvanian fiddle music, the logical result of her several years of field work in the region.

zoeaqua.bandcamp.com

In a Sea of Stars, by Zoë Aqua

11 track album

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 01/06/2025

My friend Seb Schulman is teaching a class in Yiddish about the history of the language in Quebec.😁 "In this course, we'll take a deep dive into the history, literature, music, theatre, and culture of this unique centre of Yiddish creativity."

circle.org

Advanced with Sebastian Schulman: Yiddish in Quebec, Quebec in YIddish: Monday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28 — The Workers Circle

Monday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28 Montréal and its environs have long been an important point on the map of global Yiddish culture. In this course, we'll take a deep dive into th...

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Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

“Monolingualism is the carbon monoxide of culture; multilingualism is its oxygen." Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87

The Kenyan author sent shockwaves through African literature by refusing to write in English.

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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 26/05/2025

Let's play a game! How fast can you (or a team) reach 250 points by riding CTA bus routes? 📍 Kedzie Orange Line - Bus Terminal ⏰ June 21st, 10am meetup. 10:15-ish start. Rules: shorturl.at/tXsmV

Fast Transit (hosted by Nik @nikhunder.coim on Bluesky
The game: Don;t fuss just take the bus!
June 21st at 10am
Start: Kedzie Orangle Line - Bus Terminal
Objective: Ride buses until you get a 250 points
Earn points by riding 20% of a bus routes
Rules: shorturl.at/XsmV

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Anne Abeillé @anneabeille.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Une belle victoire! les possessifs (mon,ton,son), les démonstratifs (ce,cette) sont bien des déterminants (et pas des adjectifs) dans LeRobert 2026 et @wiktionnaire.bsky.social merci @gmoinard.bsky.social @lyokoi.bsky.social je vous explique

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Alicia Ostriker, "Passover During the Bombing of Kosovo"

"Passover During the Bombing of Kosovo by Alicia Ostriker
Hevel may be translated vanity
or mist or vapor
the name of the first man
whose brother was not his keeper
It is evening it is morning one day
like mist from ten thousand feet
above the hills bombs fall
like vapor the thin air
is full of them
roads crawl with tanks soldiers
like mist tens of thousands
of refugees cross the border
like vapor from morning to dusk
unmanned families
like mist women in slippers
children in bare feet
like vapor carrying blankets
suitcases of clothes
like mist money
ripped off by border guards
Not new under the sun
not new on throbbing bluelit screen
but the eye tires of seeing
the ear of hearing
oh we still prepare our feast
of liberty and memory
we remain your children
And you, you--
father of rain
what are you thinking"

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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

גוט קאזימיר פולאסקי טאג, אלעמען!

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Æthelred the UnPreddy @ready4preddy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

bar is playing Silver Jews American Water side to side. there is much pain in the world but not in this room

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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Acabo de leer “Limpia” de Alia Trabucco Zerán y me encantó. Una historia cautivadora.

En los veranos mi mamá y yo cosechábamos moras. No se crean que es otro desvío, las moras son importantes. Ella me enseñó cómo agarrarlas, cómo arrancarlas sin pincharme, cómo esquivarles las espinas. El secreto está en los ojos, decía, que no se te adelanten. Porque si estás mirando la siguiente mora, ¡zas!, te agarra la espina. A mí me atrapaban la ropa, los brazos, el pelo.
Nunca pude controlar mis ojos. Se me iban a la mora siguiente, a su tinta negra en mi boca, mientras mi mano quedaba atrás, enganchada en la enredadera. Una vez agarré un ramillete completo y lo metí tal cual al canasto.
¿Y esto?, dijo mi mamá cuando vio los frutos todavía verdes.
Codiciosa, dijo, las moras no maduran todas juntas para que nadie, nunca, deje la rama pelada. Nosotras sacamos las de hoy,

mañana otros sacan las de mañana. Si te llevas la rama completa
otros se quedan sin, Lita.
Las moras verdes no maduraron. Se pudrieron y las boté. Las demás, las negras, las comimos hasta el invierno: mermelada de mora, queque de mora, kuchen de mora, leche de mora. Pero me fui por las ramas, o por las espinas, tal vez.

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Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference @farbindungen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

#Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish is in just two weeks! Take a look at the full schedule below to learn more about this year's panels, workshops, and keynote. The conference runs February 2-3. Register here - bit.ly/registerfarbindungen25 Full-text schedule - bit.ly/Farbindungen...

Graphic of schedule for Farbindungen 2025, day 1. A text-only schedule is included in the post above, which includes one line of Yiddish text in Panel 1, but is otherwise written in Roman characters.

Graphic of schedule for Farbindungen 2025, day 2.

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Locally our expressway network is backwards: we toll people bypassing the city on routes with no good transit alternatives (e.g. 294/355), while letting folks drive right into the heart of downtown for free: in many cases right next to frequent, 24-hour ‘L’ service.

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