I went foraging for northern lights but the clouds were growing over the sky.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Join us online on Thursday 13 Nov for the 5th CERL Provenance Seminar! 16:00–16:30 Marina Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet (Univ. of Barcelona) 16:30–17:00 Mira Krall (Austrian National Library) 17:00 Discussion Register via [email protected] to receive link! #bookhistory

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

I already left a message but I’m here too to ask you to keep fighting, Senator @blumenthal.senate.gov! Do not make a deal with cruelty.

Also, Rhiannon has the best mandrake earrings!

Americans can’t afford this deal. Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan. A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.” That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now. Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...

“it’s become…” Girl.

Somebody wake up Sleepy Don!

I’m doing research for a project and found out about the “don’t buy where you can’t work” movement during the depression, where Black people boycotted and picketed places that wouldn’t hire us. Shout out to everyone who’s not going back to Target!

I can’t resist.

'Textured Stories’: The crêpe-paper books that brought Japanese culture to Western readers 📜 news.yale.edu/2025/11/06/t...

#OnThisDay in 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays and altered the course of medical history. Pictured: images from one of the 1st series of x-rays ever produced (just 2 weeks after Roentgen published his discovery). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e... #WorldRadiographyDay

That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating. And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.

​“I get emails from the New York State Democrats, and you look at the list of meetings, and all it is is fundraisers. There are no meetings. And who holds meetings? The Democratic Socialists of America holds meetings. The Working Families Party holds meetings. ”

Seriously. I did this a week or so ago - it shouldn't be automatically turned on. They appear to be applying it to people who they know haven't broken tos but who give them big hurty feels. Absolutely pathetic.

156 years ago #onthisday, Top the wombat died. He was the pet of the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti who, upon Top's passing, created this self-portrait in mourning. More on Rossetti and co’s curious but longstanding fixation with the #wombat here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o...

This is my new mantra. Thank you, Kat!

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

So happy for New York City. Show this country that another world is possible! Also delighted for Virginia and New Jersey!

Weird how laws mean nothing if they aren’t enforced.

If you happen to be in beautiful Edinburgh on 10 Dec, perhaps come to the Edinburgh Futures Institute to hear me talk about developing archival imaginary digital interactives! Maybe I will even explain what that means! Hopefully by then I'll know! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-users-...

Cities thrive not on fear but empathy, on cooperation not division. That's the NYC we know and love. It has found expression in this movement. And it is rising up at the ballot box today. Polls close at 9pm: zohranfornyc.com/vote

I’ve got municipal elections today and I’m grateful that I can vote for a few @workingfamilies.org candidates!

Go, New York City! Show this country there’s another way. ✨ @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Finally a spot of good news!

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

I’ve cultivated a practice of waving to fellow runners along my path. There are a lot of humans on my newish route but a pretty low wave-response rate. Today, I give a shoutout to Black runners. The four waves I got were all from Black runners (and a Black cyclist). 🤍

Charismatic microfauna report from a route without too many making themselves known includes a chipmunk scurrying across my path, a sonorous grey catbird, many songbird members of the unseen chorus, and about a hundred squirrels a-squirrelin’.

“A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure” by Nat Pyper: (h/t @ksmallgallery.bsky.social) ksmallgallery.com/products/a-q...

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

I knew that Virginia Woolf sometimes used a purple pen and this week I learned that George Eliot used one too!

Milk chocolate, an FDA regulated term, has become chocolate candy. Candy companies are quietly cutting back on chocolate as climate change pushes cocoa prices higher, and experts say it has triggered a wave of “reformulations.”

Individual justices may wobble but the Roberts' court as a whole is aiding and abetting the destruction of public health, biomedical research and healthcare in this country. This is John Roberts' legacy. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

In ALA's recent RIF, ACRL lost Tory Ondrla, the amazing conference manager behind RBMS' conferences for so long. Add to this kudoboard to let Tory know how much we appreciate her.

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

I was so focused on celebrating Tory that I left off the crucial bit: ACRL laid off about 25% of its staff, including Tory.

Thanks to @librarycolleen.bsky.social for this thank you board for ACRL’s Tory Ondrla. If, like me, you’ve attended or otherwise benefitted from an @rbmsinfo.bsky.social conference in the past 20+ years, we have Tory to thank. #RBMS Post a thank you here: www.kudoboard.com/boards/t07uc...

Far fewer charismatic microfauna on my current running route but today I spied a circling murder of crows and legions of scurrying squirrels.

Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.

Saturday-listening to KEXP morning shows I missed over the course of the week and it always fills me. You’re both gems, @djjohnrichards.bsky.social and @radioowen.bsky.social.

I love Oaktown Spice Shop and they’re selling their entire stock at 14% off today only (Oct. 19, until 11:59p Pacific) in honor of their 14th birthday: oaktownspiceshop.com

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way: I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win