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RDS (formerly shawphd)

@rds773.bsky.social

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Former historian, current indexer. She/her, cis. Cats, nature, crafts, sci fi/fantasy. Covid aware. Chicago parent. GenX. West Coast ex-pat. I block & mute freely. [email protected] Need an index for your book in the humanities or social sciences? DM me.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · Sep 3

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

Indexes in books are written by actual humans and cannot be done automatically by computers

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Oct 16

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

More than half the CO₂ emissions of the Industrial Age have been pumped into the atmosphere since 1990.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Oct 16

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Literally nothing is 'carbon neutral'. It is a physical impossibility. If someone's telling you their product has zero climate impact, they're actively deciding to lie to you.

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Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 11h

@wyden.senate.gov @muellershewrote.com @aoc.bsky.social Please use your platforms to tell what is happening in Chicago. Feds are deliberately causing car crashes and creating scenes so they can tear gas and terrorize our communities. We are fighting back but the nation needs to be with us.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

www.instagram.com

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 5h

The order takes affect Wednesday and bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to, remaining at or returning from court proceedings inside the courthouse or its parking lots, sidewalks or entryways.

Judicial warrants can still be served.

Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect

The Cook County public defender’s office and legal aid organizations had sought the move, saying they had clients who were avoiding court out of fear of being detained by federal immigration authoriti...

chicago.suntimes.com

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 4h

This city makes us fierce with love

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4h

You may have noticed that folks who are from Chicago love this city. There's a reason for that. I walked to the lake with friends yesterday, and when I saw the waves rolling in, I felt something shift back into place inside of me. So many parts of this city are part of me. We will defend this place.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 4h

Oh gosh yes

Between kiddo’s birthday and fall medical stuff and the academic publishing calendar, this is one of the most exhausting and expensive months of the year

Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 4h

October is so frustrating bc I want to spend it being spooky and festive and autumnal, but it always ends up the busiest and most hectic month somehow, such that I’m lucky if I even manage time to cobble a costume together by the end of it 😢 🦇

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Mary Gemignani @marygemignani.bsky.social · 8h

I also saw this beautiful Wild Turkey on Saturday as well.
#birds #WildTurkey

A Wild Turkey is foraging at a sports field. Big thick dark body feathers and blue and red skin on the head and neck. The bump on their nose is called a snood. The red skin flap under the chin is called a wattle.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 4h

It’s not a protest

ICE is terrorizing people in their own neighborhoods

RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 4h

This isn’t a protest

This is ICE terrorizing people in their own neighborhood

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 4h

That’s how we do it here

I love my city

RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 4h

Speaking from Chicago, making connections with your neighbors is the most important thing

We have each other’s backs

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago judges: absolutely NO gassing and beating people, especially press

Ice: ok

(5 minutes pass)

Chicago judges: did I just see you beat and teargas everyone including the police

Ice: no must have been somebody else, probably immigrants

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: Federal immigration agents’ use of Naval Station Great Lakes will continue through “at least December,” according to an email to leaders at Naval Station Great Lakes obtained by the Sun-Times.

Feds have been using offices there as a command center for operations and parking for 140 vehicles.

Federal immigration agents to continue to use Naval Station Great Lakes until at least December

Leadership at Naval Station Great Lakes have been informed that agents will be on base through "at least December," according to an email obtained by the Sun-Times.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Krs @agadugu.bsky.social · 12h

Katze mit Freunden #küchenkritzelei 25/283 #kleineKunstklasse #sketch #skizze #aquarell #watercolor #watercolour

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 7h

If you're protesting this weekend: Prep a burner phone, learn to move in crowds and what to do if things get violent, understand how you'll be surveilled, and find resources for storing media and remotely locking or erasing your phone: www.digitapub.com/collections/...

How To Be A Digital Revolutionary Mini Zine Vol. 1

This mini 'zine is a 7-page collection of the most essential personal and digital security advice for those attending protests, rallies, marches, or other events where there's an element of risk. Lock...

www.digitapub.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6h

Alt text has context:
"Frame from a video of the ICE goons tear gassing a whole block near 105th St and Ave N.

It shows 2 people pulling a baby in a carseat from a car and running away from the area...

...left you can see someone ducking as another tear gas canister is launched over their head.

Peter Peter 🎃 Eater @peter.dev · 7h

Yeah the chemical warfare and violent kidnappings of innocent people is so fucking crazy, arrest the paramilitary thugs.

Frame from a video of the ICE goons tear gassing a whole block near 105th St and Ave N. It shows two people pulling a baby in a carseat from a car and running away from the area that ICE just deployed teargas in. On the left you can see someone ducking as another tear gas cannister is launched over their head.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Grendraws IS LOOKING FOR WORK @grendraws.bsky.social · Aug 3

Hi, I'm Gren! (they/them)
Artist, Purveyor of the odd, lovely, and bizarrely monstrous. I specialize in creatures, characters with a heart of gold, and gentle monsters.
🔮Portfolio: Grendraws.com
🌕Patreon: Patreon.com/Grendraws
🪴Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/grendraws
🪦Commission Trello: trello.com/b/N0CzkEsG

a grey satyr with with tarot cards and various occult paraphernalia around her.

An undead, mummified lion-folk striding forward across a windy desert. A storm brews in the background. Her skin is blackened and taut to her bones, golden eyes gleaming as bright green magic dances between her skeletal hands. Intricate decorated linen wrappings coil her limbs, torso, and up her throat. She is clad in a red silk dress that dances in the wind. A turquoise belt wreaths her thin waist. Bronze jewelry adorns her forearms, rings on her fingers. She exudes confidence.

a pale, gaunt werewolf-like creature. Its teeth are long and sharp and jagged. It breathes fungal spores.

a white werewolf kneels in a dense forest, fungi growing all over its body. It holds a staff and stares forlornly off camera.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 6h

400 Rogers Park neighbors rallied after ICE arrested 4 people, including a tamale vendor. Neighbors lined Clark Street on Saturday as a show of support.

“We’ve seen that when we have large numbers of volunteers out here, they target us less." blockclubchi.co/4haiWbC

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James F. Love IV @jamesfloveiv.bsky.social · 7h

Breaking:
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
abcnews.go.com/US/los-angel...

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 8h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 8h

Not long after my kid was born, we were harassed by a creep at a bus stop who followed me onto the bus

I will never forget how an entire bus load of Chicagoans spontaneously took on the tasks of surrounding him, making sure I was okay, and ensuring he got off at the next stop

THAT’S the energy

Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h

Dedicated cadres of small-d democrat, small-r republican people working extremely hard, in their neighborhoods, with history-making passion, to resist tyranny on the most basic, body-on-the-line level, the most important component being: MANY of the participants never having been activists before.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h

This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:

A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 9h

This evening’s reminder that you can be a part of a movement of people rising up and caring for each other.

It doesn’t take any particular skill or bravery and nobody will ask you where you were yesterday, they’ll just press work into your hands that badly needs doing.

Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h

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