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.

Take a look inside Paper & Pencil’s new Andersonville stationery store: blockclubchi.co/3RoIeK8

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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!

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

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...

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!)

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.

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...

Congratulations to Wisconsin, the neighbor whose politics you sometimes question, but you can always rely on to borrow you a chainsaw.

“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!

Just two cuties 🐡

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?

message from MN

"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics

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 🌊🌊

fear not the those without papers, but those without conscience.

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.

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

Chicago’s all-girls baseball team, which is full of barrier-breaking high school stars, is heading to nationals. blockclubchi.co/4lZpPxx

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.