Katherine Hunnicutt
@kahunnicutt.bsky.social
I do reader's advisory (make book recommendations)in the western suburbs of Chicago. Public librarian, personal weirdo. Like most middle- aged women, I have lived many lives and know a lot about a lot of different things.
I'm a librarian and we played a game at our work holiday party of trying to match people to their self-declared favorite book of the year. I've been talking up The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social so much since I read it that everyone in the department got it right. 🦬
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I'm a librarian and we played a game at our work holiday party of trying to match people to their self-declared favorite book of the year. I've been talking up The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social so much since I read it that everyone in the department got it right. 🦬
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It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.
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it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools
My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
for what it’s worth I got roped into helping out with my sixth grader’s extracurricular thing so I’ve had more recent contact with middle schoolers who aren’t mine than I usually do, and biased sample/biased reviewer/etc but my verdict is that the kids are all right
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools
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Any best of movie list for 2025 that doesn't have Sinners on it at all is white supremacist
If Sinners isn't very close to the top, it is hella suspect
If Sinners isn't very close to the top, it is hella suspect
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Any best of movie list for 2025 that doesn't have Sinners on it at all is white supremacist
If Sinners isn't very close to the top, it is hella suspect
If Sinners isn't very close to the top, it is hella suspect
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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I would watch this movie
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I would watch this movie
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If a video has no captions, I don't watch
If a video has no captions I don't watch
I don't wanna have to listen
It's hard work but have you considered
That if your video has no captions I won't watch.
If a video has no captions I don't watch
I don't wanna have to listen
It's hard work but have you considered
That if your video has no captions I won't watch.
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If a video has no captions, I don't watch
If a video has no captions I don't watch
I don't wanna have to listen
It's hard work but have you considered
That if your video has no captions I won't watch.
If a video has no captions I don't watch
I don't wanna have to listen
It's hard work but have you considered
That if your video has no captions I won't watch.
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It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
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“Be realistic.”
I refuse to live in your limited notion of what kind of hope, justice and love is possible in this world. There is a key to let us all out of this cage but it cannot be found until we all agree it exists.
I refuse to live in your limited notion of what kind of hope, justice and love is possible in this world. There is a key to let us all out of this cage but it cannot be found until we all agree it exists.
November 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“Be realistic.”
I refuse to live in your limited notion of what kind of hope, justice and love is possible in this world. There is a key to let us all out of this cage but it cannot be found until we all agree it exists.
I refuse to live in your limited notion of what kind of hope, justice and love is possible in this world. There is a key to let us all out of this cage but it cannot be found until we all agree it exists.
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Information is "behind a paywall" for lots of reasons. Profit for sure, but also salaries and benefits and lights and heat and roof repair and on and on. Stuff costs money for now, revolution pending. Rather than yoink from a pirate site, why not boost usage stats at your local library instead?
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Information is "behind a paywall" for lots of reasons. Profit for sure, but also salaries and benefits and lights and heat and roof repair and on and on. Stuff costs money for now, revolution pending. Rather than yoink from a pirate site, why not boost usage stats at your local library instead?
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My wokest opinion is that every community deserves an extremely well-funded library that’s open to everyone and that librarians and teachers should make like ten times what they make now.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
My wokest opinion is that every community deserves an extremely well-funded library that’s open to everyone and that librarians and teachers should make like ten times what they make now.
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Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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aging is truly just accumulating an expanding list of small items and/or tasks without which the entire system will collapse. stardew valley but if you fuck up you can't move your neck the next day
okay: have you tried a split keyboard, and did it help your back?? i am speaking exclusively to the 35+ crowd here, do not answer if you still buy ibuprofen in the small bottles
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
aging is truly just accumulating an expanding list of small items and/or tasks without which the entire system will collapse. stardew valley but if you fuck up you can't move your neck the next day
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This is really good and worth the read - click through
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to write about Chicago, especially right now, and the late, great Tony Fitzpatrick gave me a perfect metaphor: Chicago is a boxer. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is really good and worth the read - click through
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
I've been reading these, kind of bemused, but this clarified it for me because it reminded me of my husband's accurate observation that I only think things are fun when there's a chance I might die.
Nature's job is to kill you. That's what it wakes up, every day, with #1 on the To Do list.
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I've been reading these, kind of bemused, but this clarified it for me because it reminded me of my husband's accurate observation that I only think things are fun when there's a chance I might die.
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VF rebuttal to the NYT. Joke’s on you, Times-ers, I’m ruining stuff and I’m not even in the workplace any more. 🥴😈
www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
Women of Vanity Fair Consider: Wait, Did We Ruin the Workplace?
Today, The New York Times published a conversation between the conservative columnist Ross Douthat and two writers about just how bad ladies have screwed up corporate culture with their presence. We f...
www.vanityfair.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
VF rebuttal to the NYT. Joke’s on you, Times-ers, I’m ruining stuff and I’m not even in the workplace any more. 🥴😈
www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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society if every company was required to run all ideas past a board consisting of a longtime message board mod, a history teacher, a cult deprogrammer, a queer science fiction author, a high school guidance counselor, and their ex's oldest and meanest sister
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
society if every company was required to run all ideas past a board consisting of a longtime message board mod, a history teacher, a cult deprogrammer, a queer science fiction author, a high school guidance counselor, and their ex's oldest and meanest sister
The Victorian era was actually a specific time and place. Frankenstein (the book) was published a year before Victoria was born, let alone reigned. It is not Victorian.
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The Victorian era was actually a specific time and place. Frankenstein (the book) was published a year before Victoria was born, let alone reigned. It is not Victorian.
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
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Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight
The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.
More from the scene
October 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight
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October 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle:
“Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”
“Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle:
“Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”
“Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”