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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 14h

this is true. I should not complain…

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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 15h

Not thrilled with this development. UNC’s School of Information and Library Science to be merged w/ the School of Data Science and Society.

#librarysky #libraries

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 16h

mmm 😵‍💫

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill

The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...

www.unc.edu

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 15h

I will admit, I failed to fully consider the possibility that @skeuomorphpress.org would build up a sufficient community of wonderful & enthusiastic students that it would become harder to use it as my office anymore

Cut to me sitting sadly in my sterile, corporate-coded *real* office

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16h

“The order also requires federal agents to wear badges or other “visible identification” so the public can know who they are, with exceptions for those officers who work undercover.
The order applies to all DHS agents — including ICE and Border Patrol — across the Northern District of Illinois.”

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16h

Chicagoans won a temporary restraining order today that prevents federal agents from using tear gas, pepper spray and other weapons against journalists and peaceful protesters.
We’re fighting back peacefully in Chicago because — unlike Trump — we believe in the rule of law.

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

If you work with historical newspaper data, check out @matthewkollmer.com’s tutorial for generating image clippings—sections of the full page—based on text & coordinate data. Matthew’s been doing yeoman’s work figuring this in for a forthcoming exhibit for our Virality of Racial Terror project

Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 1d

If you, like me, sometimes need to generate thousands of clipping images from Chronicling America, then you may find this post helpful.

It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.

How to Create Newspaper Clipping Images in Chronicling America, Programmatically – Matthew Johannes Kollmer

matthewkollmer.com

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

If you work with historical newspaper data, check out @matthewkollmer.com’s tutorial for generating image clippings—sections of the full page—based on text & coordinate data. Matthew’s been doing yeoman’s work figuring this in for a forthcoming exhibit for our Virality of Racial Terror project

Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 1d

If you, like me, sometimes need to generate thousands of clipping images from Chronicling America, then you may find this post helpful.

It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.

How to Create Newspaper Clipping Images in Chronicling America, Programmatically – Matthew Johannes Kollmer

matthewkollmer.com

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

Y’all I went back & reread the 1st Amendment & wouldn’t you know it reads:

Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, unless, you know, it agitates & irritates crowds, in which case crack their skulls or whatever

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

Today @skeuomorphpress.org is out tabling & live printing at the Banned Books Week popup sponsored by the cultural houses on campus!

A letterpress poster reading

read &
RESIST!

with a linocut of a hand holding an open book

A table with various prints, wood type and printing cuts

Type and a linocut inked on a printing press

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

Making copies

A set of prints made from wood type and linoleum. The linocut is an early-modern style woodcut rendition of a protester in a frog costume facing off against two ICE officers in riot gear. The text reads

STAND UP
TO
FASCISM!

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

Hey @queermedieval.bsky.social your illustration prints *beautifully*!!

Anti-fascist frogs hot off the press

A print made from wood type and linoleum. The linocut is an early-modern style woodcut rendition of a protester in a frog costume facing off against two ICE officers in riot gear. The text reads

STAND UP
TO
FASCISM!

The ink is green on an off white paper.

wood type and linoleum set for printing in a proofing press. The linocut is an early-modern style woodcut rendition of a protester in a frog costume facing off against two ICE officers in riot gear. The text reads

STAND UP
TO
FASCISM!

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

"It’s true that in previous shutdowns, legislators acted like human beings with some small degree of empathy and compassion, but we are ideological assholes who get off on causing as much pain as possible to other people so fuck all y’all"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

The cut is carving! Now I just need to figure out the right text

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 3d

You could be that someone…

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 3d

The internet remains undefeated.

We can work with this.

Amazing thank you @queermedieval.bsky.social more coming soon

Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 3d

your wish, my command, etc., etc.

a woodcut-style black and white illustration of the face-off between ICE and that guy in the inflatable frog costume

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 3d

I will add that if some talented illustrator wanted to create a line art/woodcut version of the ICE-Wizard Frog standoff & share it with me, I could probably be convinced to print news broadsides early-modern style @skeuomorphpress.org

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 3d

Oh I am on it. Printing this template out and bringing my loom to afternoon craft time at the library to get started.

Two SWAT team icon dudes, one with shield and one with gun, facing a screenshot of the frog wiggling his hands at them

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 3d

the world needs this, Quinn

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3d

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 3d

rapture-3-final-edit-finalfinal-reedit-revision-reallyreallyfinal-forrealthistimefinal-4.docx

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 5d

Two pictures with the same energy from the CU Folk & Roots Festival

Willi Carlisle’s crew brought the whimsy to match our festival artwork

folkandroots.org

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 5d

Today @skeuomorphpress.org is tabling & live printing at the Humanities Research Institute’s 1st Humanities Open House

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 6d

It’s Bandcamp Friday again, so if you felt inclined to buy the Anxious Bench’s “Exhalation” EP in the next 8 hours or so, 100% of the proceeds would go to letting us get back into the studio soon theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com/album/exhala...

Exhalation EP, by The Anxious Bench

3 track album

theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 6d

Every year the influencer drive for a millennial autumn reads as more & more divorced from reality

It’s 90° in Illinois in October. I can’t walk 2 blocks in a T-shirt & shorts without sweating. The wide-brimmed hats & chunky scarves & pumpkin spice whatever look fucking *demented*

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 7d

I wasn’t sure how she would react, but Millie’s little sister Margo knows something is wrong. She’s normally a ball of energy but tonight she’s just laying there. Hard not to think she’s sad too

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