Every spring, I feel the bone deep desire to run. It feels like something I should do and be good at. I get restless, if I don't. This has been the case since I started running in college, in ROTC. Anyhow. I'm really bad at running and hate it in the moment, but it gives my brain the good feels.

If you believe you see ICE at any Chicago area airports this week (🚬), please message us anonymously on Signal at unraveled.66

There was a hit and run in front of my house, ~30 minutes ago, that I heard from inside. I rushed out to make sure everyone was okay and waited with my neighbors for ~5 minutes. My spouse shared, when I came back inside, that he was afraid it was I.C.E. and that I wasn't okay. Love this for us.

My undergrad alma mater managed to find me in Illinois.

The Postmaster General's announcement that #USPS would be insolvent by Feb shocked many. Decades of policy blunders have left the USPS weighed down by federal restrictions no private business would be expected to bare. Read about how we got here & what we need to do next. #SaveThePostOffice

Just watched Wag the Dog for the first time and it just seemed so wholesome almost compared to all the shit happening now.

If you weren't aware, libraries currently pay significantly more for digital resources than the average consumer, which devastates the budgets of libraries trying to meet their community's needs. Sign a witness slip in support of the Digital Library Protection Act (House Bill 5236). More info:

Yeah... Chicago turnout: 25.6% of registered voters (results.chicagoelections.gov/results/Summ... ) Suburban Cook turnout: 22.1% of registered voters (electionnight.cookcountyclerkil.gov/StaticSummar... ) Voting isn't going to get us out of this mess but it can help. We need these rates higher.

I'm looking forward to giving this a read/listen this weekend. I took references to my profession out of my bio before I even made it to BlueSky, because my profession is not my personality, but I believe wholeheartedly in the goal of libraries, as I understand it.

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One of my part time staff members left (for good reasons), so my latest job posting is up on the train site (IYKYK). :)

Some real bummer results from voting tonight (Villa and Kaegi losing, as examples). Glad for Senate Dem candidate; Raja was not the one.

7.5 hours into the election, 5.5 hours to go. 64 voters at my precinct today (not counting early voters or vote by mail). 1400+ registered voters in my precinct.

I finished The Ministry of Time by Bradley last night, and serious question that may expose my lack of comprehension (also, spoilers): The Brigadier, Salese, Simellia, and Quentin all seemed to be the characters we should have been rooting for. Were the narrator/Adela, Gore, the Ministry, etc.

Had a small fall on my stairs this morning and exactly 3 people would understand why I found it hilarious today of all days.

So long, Arizona. It's always so strange for me to leave the home I grew up in for the home I've chosen for myself. I have strong, negative feelings about my hometown but won't suffer anyone from outside of it talking shit about it.

Madera Canyon, AZ My home state is beautiful.

Get one of these original paintings on thick, postcard watercolor paper if you’d like to help w/ some very behind bills or groceries! www.paypal.com/paypalme/sol...

On my way to AZ and O'Hare made it easy peasy to opt out of facial recognition screening, sharing info on the tablet taking the pictures that it was optional.

It is impossible to not see how, when, and why others become radicalized against us unless you choose not to.

The stormy sky to the east and the sun shining on trees from the west in the late afternoon. I thought this looked beautiful in person. It was such lovely contrast.

This is why I will not carry proof of citizenship. They. Do. Not. Care. If you look like the type of person they would ask/believe (white), you don't actually need them on you. Because they will either believe you or they won't, and it won't change anything.

My baby. We're looking at quarterly x-rays and ultrasounds for the next year, trimestral x-rays and ultrasounds for the second year, and biannual x-rays and ultrasounds for the third year. Chemo (injection or oral) is also an option, in addition to the above. She's doing/feeling fine.

Somewhere in Maine there is a moose better equipped to run for office than Platner. Please stop defending this shit stain people.

My art from @solexposure.bsky.social arrived today and try as I might, I couldn't get a picture that does them justice. They are gorgeous and soothing. Like falling into a pool of warmth and calm.

I have multiple (working) family members on SNAP, who had to go through the process of reapplying but did not receive assistance after they did. I give to food banks regularly, in IL and AZ (where my family is), because I know they can help more people than I can with the same amount of money.

Hey Chicago I will be signing books at the new Hyde Park Barnes & Noble this Saturday! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

This. This. This. Doing otherwise is so incomprehensible to me.

This. This. This. Doing otherwise is so incomprehensible to me.

Seconded.

I have a 20+ mile commute (each way), which puts me on the road long enough to see plenty of reckless driving. Like the person -speeding on the 290 while it was lightly drizzling- who spun out into a ditch, narrowly missing a light pole, when they couldn't brake quickly behind other, slower traffic.

IL Library Association - do you see why we shouldn't entertain cutesy AI presentations for "both sides" representation? It *harms* people. Not hypothetically "could"; actually does.

*sigh* I'm not really surprised.

I have mixed feelings about ALA but I still want my profession's national association to succeed and I want the people running it to be centered in that success. I hope this helps with that.

I got 9 hours of sleep last night (as opposed to my more typical interrupted 6) and I had a very productive day. Strange how that works.

Yep. We're disposable to the ruling class. Not even human, to many.

Fuck Trump, fuck Netanyahu, and fuck all the Americans in and out of government enabling and/or supporting them both.

If you're in the market for art/photography, you should take a peek at Sol's work and see if anything strikes your fancy. I picked up some gorgeous painted color blocks.

Just showed my spouse Chances Are (1989, Cybill Shepherd, RDJ) and now we can't agree on who was prettier in the 80s: Rob Lowe or RDJ.

I love my team at work. Genuinely grateful. I had them watch The Librarians documentary and gave them some accompanying articles: vocational awe (of course and rest in peace, Fobazi) and Kelly Jensen's Book Riot library worker mental health article. Their discussion today on all 3 made me proud.

Our household did not vote for this man and I'm hoping all the IL folks I know don't, either. Stratton is going to need all the help she can get to pull ahead.

Ask me if I care about choosing rock artists.

Results in: cancer. Moderately aggressive but they think we caught it early enough to have removed it/prevented spread. Regardless, they gave a ~15% chance of it returning. Stitches out 3/3, oncology consult after that.

Hmm, where to start? White people came to Turtle Island. Indigenous genocide; no accountability. Chattel slavery; no accountability. Civil War; no accountability. KKK, Jim Crow; no accountability. Rise of the police and carceral state + social war; no accountability. Hope that helps.

Cars are still incredibly dangerous and we should be doing everything in our power to reduce societal dependence on them. Generative AI is fully unnecessary and dangerous, and we should be doing everything in our power to eliminate its use. So perfect comparison, I guess.

Abolish ICE and do not start over/again. Why the fuck would you open any door for anything similar to come back when they were an unnecessary invention of the post-9/11 landscape? Abolish ICE, full stop.

Filling out my ballot as early as possible because of new USPS postmark practices. I may just drop it off at a drop box to be extra safe.

Saved By the Bell warned us about these types of addictions.

Is the man in the sauna with us now?