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Library & Info Sci Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo '22 Lynd Ward β25 Ignatz Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham & lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
βAmong the 53 schools making the commitment are NYU Grossman School of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and Dartmouthβs Geisel School of Medicine. The American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) are also on boardβ
05.03.2026 12:38 β π 3 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Does your library have a copy of Punk Taco Adventures v.1 from @papercutzgn.bsky.social? If not you can order a copy from @simonandschuster.bsky.social at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Punk-T...
05.03.2026 12:30 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
05.03.2026 07:15 β π 15191 π 5403 π¬ 473 π 454The entire controversy that ended last Friday at 5 pm ESTβ hours before the US launched a war against Iran βbetween Hegseth and the head of Anthropic β was about ethical limits on the use of AI to kill people
05.03.2026 10:41 β π 70 π 28 π¬ 6 π 1This is the Republican Party now.
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Goodnight, friends.
My beloved is in Chicago for an evening out with our oldest son. I'm home snuggling with two lovely cat boys and getting ready to turn on some old time radio shows.
I love you.
Goodnight, friends.
My beloved is in Chicago for an evening out with our oldest son. I'm home snuggling with two lovely cat boys and getting ready to turn on some old time radio shows.
I love you.
Why? Elsa's Chessboard War The Journey The Day War Came Stepping Stones Silent Music Yellow Butterfly The Whispering Town
If you have children asking difficult questions about war and conflict then this selection of picturebooks may help begin answering them in ways they can understand. ππ #readersadvisory
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And I need a nap because he wasnβt a lithographer, he was a linotype operator. I cannot be trusted today.
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The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers.
If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.
JANUARY is a postcard-writing game about two artists living ordinary lives over five decades, in a world besieged by giant kaiju.
By Indiecade-winning, Ennie-nommed game designer and artist Shing Yin Khor, in collaboration w/ illustrator Jared Andrew Schorr.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
Maternal side sounds infinitely better.
05.03.2026 00:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Also, I never knew my paternal grandfather (1894 - 1945).
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1. Maternal side: drove a dump truck for a gravel quarry
2. Paternal side: lithographer and then menβs clothing store owner
Support The Troops! (Unless they speak against the Empire)
04.03.2026 23:40 β π 19 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0Idaho β a deeply Republican state β has become the latest to refuse the Trump Justice Departmentβs demand for unredacted statewide voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
04.03.2026 23:42 β π 2560 π 677 π¬ 56 π 30Tennessee wants to ban undocumented children from access to a free public education, and turn school administrators into immigration informants. The Heritage Foundation wants to take that plan national. Read my latest for @theintercept.com:
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I would love to sell out of my first print run before I start my next run of shows (and it helps pay for the second print run order I just made!) - there are just about 10 copies left.
I really loved making it and I think you'll feel inspired to make all sorts of things when you read it!
βThanks for the explanation.β = If you had told me this last week, you wouldβve saved me a lot of time.
βPerhaps there was a misunderstanding.β = You didnβt fucking listen to me.
βI suppose thatβs one way to go about it.β = Stop improvising and just do what I asked you to do.
a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair
David Attenborough [whispering]:
βAs the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not manβs role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.β
Nice pull and an important reminder that, no, things haven't always been like this.
04.03.2026 17:51 β π 976 π 204 π¬ 13 π 1I Murder Hate Robert Burns I murder hate by flood or field, Thoβ gloryβs name may screen us; In wars at home Iβll spend my bloodβ Life-giving wars of Venus. The deities that I adore Are social Peace and Plenty; Iβm better pleasβd to make one more, Than be the death of twenty. I would not die like Socrates, For all the fuss of Plato; Nor would I with Leonidas, Nor yet would I with Cato: The zealots of the Church and State Shall neβer my mortal foes be; But let me have bold Zimriβs fate, Within the arms of Cozbi!
In 1787, Robert Burns acquired a diamond-tipped pen which he used to inscribe poems on windows & chimney-pieces across Scotland. βI Murder Hateβ is Burnsβs version of βmake love, not warβ #graffiti, & was etched into a window at the Globe Tavern, Dumfries
#WyrdWednesday #C18 #poem #poetry
Iβve been notified about another death in ICE custody.
This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration.
This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.
4 pages from Oracles by Olivia Sullivan featuring various beautiful scenes from nature
Oracles by @zebko.bsky.social is now available for pre-order through our store!
Itβs one of the most beautiful and moving books weβve ever made. Honestly, I love it so much.
Get it here! averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/orac...
βThe press only wants to make the president look bad.β
Hegseth complains that reporting on dead troops is bad PR for Trump
This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com
20.02.2026 01:10 β π 1180 π 859 π¬ 0 π 14If youβre ever feeling like youβre shit at your job, just take a look at how few fucks Picasso gave when painting this dog. Sometimes done is good enough.
30.01.2026 15:35 β π 41 π 13 π¬ 2 π 1Never enjoyed it.
04.03.2026 16:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks so much to everyone who continues to support my GFM. Tikes are absolutely awful out here, but I'm grateful for having a community filled with compassion and empathy. Please continue to share my campaign and donate if possible ππΎπ gofund.me/a3c178560
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