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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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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 1m

No urgency at all in that crew

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1h

New era of shanties has arrived @erinbiba.bsky.social

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

Yeah, I found a similar one stunned while out on a walk and couldn’t stay with it so I gently moved it to where a dog wouldn’t get it

Not ideal, but

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 48m

Call Chicago Bird Collision Monitors if you find an injured (or dead) bird: 773-988-1867. More info: www.birdmonitors.net/InjuredBird....

Injured Birds | Chicago Bird Collision Monitors

www.birdmonitors.net

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 7m

Snaaaaake

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Adorable (but very squeaky!)

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 9m

Yeah, my dad REALLY doesn’t want to have to buy a new system and port all his data

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17m

If it were in charge, I'd be posting up billboards and mobile bus signage and YouTube ads to that effect esp in swing districts.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2h

See also: "Why isn't anyone DOING ANYTHING"

Translation: "I'm not doing anything"

People are doing things. They are doing a LOT. It's up to you to plug in and participate.

The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 3d

"why is nobody talking abou--" EVERYONE is talkin about it BRO. You just never stick around to listen to ANYONE ELSE, you're just here to TALK

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 2h

Bags o' birds at the Kalamazoo bird banding station. That's what they put them in when they collect them from the mist nets in the field and bring them back to the station. Then they hang the bags from pegs until it's their turn to be weighed, measured, tagged, and the released.
October 09, 2022

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 39m

That’s frustrating

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 2h

Hello, beautiful

Color photo taken at night. Several buildings are only partially captured, but the Carbide and Carbon, the Art Deco-est of skyscrapers, rises to its full height in the center of the image.

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Penny Rosenberg @pennyrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

“When they try to describe this situation as ‘war-torn,’ it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.”

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 3h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Emily Hahn, MD @ehahnmd.bsky.social · 1h

Timeline cleanse: beavers eating fruit. youtu.be/w-E-Nufb1ZM?...

ASMR beaver snacking with a tiny mic

YouTube video by Holley Muraco

youtu.be

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becca | they/them @beccaisoutside.bsky.social · 3h

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1h

Chicago protestors took to Downtown streets Wednesday night to protest the deployment of National Guard troops to the area. blockclubchi.co/3WvWvnA

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 3d

Today in Lincoln Park.

A 1920’s apartment building vestibule with a tile floor, tile walls, and vintage doors.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 50m

Or all you get is the generic description and everything else is “unknown”

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 3h

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 52m

Oh that’s awful

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 15d

Shhhhhh, we're trying to take it all in. Glorious!

A vintage tile floor with a floral motif at the Chicago Athletic Association.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 2d

An enormous ball of entangled long Furbies rolled over me and I joined with them and their thoughts, and we spent about 2 hours rolling around town, warbling, collecting litter to throw away later, contemplating the cosmos. We had a blast. I eventually fell off near the gas station and walked home.

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 14d

We can’t go downtown without checking in on the Cultural Center.

A very colorful and detailed mosaic tile panel at the Chicago Cultural Center with the Chicago municipal symbol at the center surrounded by what we call lake creatures, but are probably dolphins.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1h

Thousands of people disappeared, ethnic pogroms in multiple cities, entire national security apparatus has been turned inside out, illegal murder campaign in the Caribbean, higher edu & science gutted, and the economy wobbling as trade has been devastated for a decade, but cracks are finally showing

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 10h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Shea Fontana @sheafontana.bsky.social · 13h

Life advice: download the file. You know that Google spreadsheet where you filled in all the important info and reference all the time? Well, one day, the owner of that spreadsheet might get laid off and all their links will break and no one will know how to find that file again. “But what about

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