1. THIS IS NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, it's sensors that have been around for decades. 2. Good job, Phoenix airport.

"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending": 1. Action Against Hunger 2. ActionAid 3. Alianza por la Solidaridad 4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine 5. CARE 6. DanChurchAid 7. Danish Refugee Council 8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion (cont)

This has very different meaning depending if you print or hunt.

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"Let's see if anyone died." - my mom reading the newspaper, gleefully turning to the obits

Northwestern claimed its deal with the Trump administration placed “no restrictions” on its trans community. But students worry it’s set to exclude trans students across multiple programs and facilities, possibly violating state law. — Reported by @ryaninevanston.bsky.social

Rogers Park resistance to ICE (along with LA, NYC, Maryland) in international news again. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You know you've had successful library preservation workshop when people want to look closer at your saved pest traps before heading to lunch.

This entire weekend

Northwestern University law profs argue that NU's "deal" with the Trump admin violates the First Amendment and federal antidiscrimination law. Moreover, the grant freeze Trump imposed on NU was unlawful and should have been challenged in court. www.theuniversityunderthreat.org/updates?fbcl...

Join us for our annual open house tonight! Presses are running, prints and cards are for sale, and we’ve got snacks. The metal type shown here (reversed) is Pastel, designed and cast in Chicago and made popular by silent film intertitles. #letterpress

Tips on cradling precious archival books at home if you don't own fancy foam wedges! (Katie is my archives guru)

It's my time to shine! My lo-fi solution is to use towels or similar and roll up. Another towel can be put down to protect the spine. @bakerdphd.bsky.social

This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.

Very grateful for all the tips and products surrounding pencil smells I didn't know existed! Now do New Box of Crayons smell.

It smells like a newly sharpened pencil on this train and I want to ask my seatmate if it's a fragrance I can buy is that weird.

BAHAAHAHAHA I'M DYING* "Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,” Mr. Rubio said. *or threw my phone at the wall www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Oh ok "but no works of art were affected" just papers. Have fun with your "art" when there's no provenance documentation.

Managing up, managing sideways, managing down - but what about that invisible middle manager and how she might just lay down in her cubicle and groan like Marge Simpson for a year or two.

accidentally finding out a coworker's salary is such a rush

Wait, now you have 4. Save one for me. :)

Our 2025 letterpress holiday cards printed by the talented @starshapedpress.bsky.social featuring an excerpt from Assata Shakur's "Affirmation" are here! We're handing them out free with every in-store and online purchase until they're gone. It's our favorite tradition of the holiday season.

My conspiracy theory is that the board of trustees forced Schill to resign in order to install an 87-year-old former NU president as interim in order to capitulate.

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

When Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern send material asking for donations, do they include links to a Trump SuperPAC so donors don't have to bother with a middle man?

Fuck. This. Noise. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!

I’m howling.

70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish! There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I'm old enough to remember when we bombed Iran.

The federal blitz moved to Charlotte, but the trauma and damage in Chicago are still with us—and DHS says 1,000 agents will hit our streets in March. I wrote about what this moment demands of us: care, clarity, and preparation.

outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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A ~3 hour timelapse of this morning's plume of lake effect snow totally obscuring the city before blue skies appear. #chicago

24.3 million Americans enrolled in ACA (kkf.org) I don't know how many people fly but it's less than that. #StrongArgument

Illinois peeps: Durbin's DC phone number won't let you leave a message. But the Chicago one will! 312-353-4952

Did someone speed up the weather app

Health insurance open enrollment time!* The salary tiers for monthly premiums means I am paying as much as someone making $50k more than me. *exTREMely thankful I have coverage, just another example of all the fuckedupness

New print in honor of Studs and my neighbors standing up to protect our communities. #letterpress www.starshaped.com/8x10prints/o...

Today’s World Digital Preservation Day 2025 brings the release of the new Global Bit List of Endangered Digital Materials from the @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy 🌍 It’s a snapshot of the digital materials most at risk of being lost forever. #WDPD2025 -> www.dpconline.org/digipres/cha...

Cool that a court has to order food, water, and cots for human beings.

who does this. what kind of monster must you be.

Thousands of volunteers are racing to preserve America’s history — photographing museum exhibits they fear the Trump administration could erase.

I worry my cube neighbor could make a compilations like this of me cursing under my breath all day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2Z...

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Folks in the US, send us your stories of your experiences with your public library systems! Are you part of your library board/ raised funds/organised to keep your library open/part of your friends group? We want to hear it all!: librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/for-the-pe...

As I navigate financially crippling ‘choices’ for health insurance to cover a disabled child, I’m reminded of this print I made earlier in the year satirizing how our mighty leaders feel about disabled kids. Full text and context here: www.starshaped.com/postersprint...

In Albany Park, they fired pepper-spray balls to disperse an angry crowd and arrested two U.S. citizens. In Evanston, one repeatedly pointed his weapon at protesters while another knelt on a man’s back and punched him in the head.