A few more tote bags for the makers market, for people who don’t want to be too flashy but still like to have a little fun. See you Nov. 16, 12:30-2:30, at the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago.

Hey @skelleyton.bsky.social check out what I made with your Great Lakes collection. @dyemadyarns.bsky.social

Chicagoland going for MVP: “This is beyond anyone’s wildest imagination in the best possible way,” Khan said. “It’s overwhelmingly amazing, and we just want to make sure we get food to people who need it the most.” www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/e...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Tiny pouches for the fall makers market fundraiser for the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago. See you November 16!

At the Evanston #NoKings rally with @airanw.bsky.social

Four new tote bags (two for the cool kids and two for the normals) for the holiday makers market to benefit the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago. November 16, 12:30-2:30 — see you there!

I just saw a close-up magic show in a club hidden behind a false laundromat. Every part of the evening was filled with wonder and delight. I want to live in a world with more joyful surprises like this.

This is not supposed to happen in September.

I started doing this thing where, when I yawn, I cover my eyes instead of my mouth. Why? Why do I do this? Why is this happening??

Another bag ready for the fundraiser. I love this one!

Three more finished tote bags for my fall maker’s market fundraiser for the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago.

Phase 2. Still don’t know what I’m doing with it.

Naptime

Not a bad night at Ravinia.

Made a new friend while walking the dogs today.

I started sewing together many strips of colorful fabric, and I still don’t really know why.

Preview of tonight’s nightmares

What if Democratic candidates used their enormous text messaging machine to mobilize, organize, inspire, explain, and build community instead of just asking for money all the time? Huge missed opportunity.

While I was harvesting this, some monstrous insect bit my foot, which is now swollen and throbbing. I’m never going outside again.

My playlist shuffle served up I’m Too Sexy, and suddenly I have the strongest urge to play King’s Quest V.

We may get real cane sugar in Coke and a warning against carrot cake, ISN’T THAT ENOUGH?

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Wtf, Tracy Bennet.

So, my AC is broken.

Oh my stars this project vexed me. It will be in the fall makers makers fundraiser, and I hope its eventual owner appreciates how many truly depraved curses went into its construction.

A really thoughtful essay on Murderbot: ‘Even If They Are My Favourite Human’: Murderbot Just Explained Boundaries countercurrents.org/2025/07/even...

Seen at @bristolrenfaire.bsky.social

There’s nothing quite like a big barrel of sun-warmed tartar sauce.

Maybe this isn’t the darkest timeline after all. deadline.com/2025/07/murd...

Julia Glass and Lev Grossman in conversation at Bookends & Beginnings

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Apparently I don’t smile much. I just smiled for the length of three parades, and now my cheeks are cramping.

I’m stockpiling handmade items for a fall makers market fundraiser to benefit the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago. Here’s my first round of tote bags for the sale. I’ll share the date and more info as we get closer. I hope to see you there!

I like how they call it an excessive heat warning, like omg Mother Nature is just being so extra right now, can you even believe her?

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

OK Go at Taste of Randolph

900.

This is where I’ll be Saturday morning. Where are you rallying? www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

This feels like a metaphor for something.

We spent some time canoeing at Skokie Lagoon with some friends from the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago today. Spotted two great blue herons, one red-tailed hawk, and countless turtles.

How will MAGAs decide which dad gets custody?

I am so obsessed with Murderbot right now that I desperately want to just sit and read System Collapse instead of, you know, doing my job, which is exactly what Murderbot would do.

My favorite thing to make: reusable market tote bags.

Community garden plot: how it started, how it’s going

First finished tote bag in my new workspace. I haven’t tried this pattern with a cork exterior before; it was an interesting challenge.

Caught a show with my fella: Paul Simon at Symphony Center. Phenomenal.

Solitary iris

It only took me two months to put together this wall hanging of fabric art from the Ethical Humanist Society’s Creativity Fair.