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Wild Onion Play @wildonionplay.org · Mar 20
Equinox, day of birth and death, sprouting and decay, time of rapid changes, an audible upheaval and release from the heaviness of winter. The soil breathes in and releases the rotting odors of all that was frozen and expired. Mud, mud, mud! and onion sprouts.
A clump of chive grass or wild chives emerge from the loosened till of the spring thaw. Leaf skeletons cover the ground, in the distance through the thicket of trees the gray sky turns blue.
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Current* conditions near St Joseph, MI:
View looking south over Silver Lake Beach as it meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-12 03:06:35 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in St Joseph: 49.26 F | 9.59 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: N at 0 mph | 0 kph // Humidity: 88%
October 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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chaseprairie.bsky.social
i still havent quite understood the difference between speciosa & rigidiuscula, not sure what I technically have

If you too want to join the goldenrod fanclub, please enjoy this handy-dandy little guide

www.inaturalist.org/journal/chas...
Goldenrods of Chicagoland
Even as your local goldenrod megafan, I have to admit that lot of goldenrods look alike. When I'm trying to ID them, it's hard to keep track of every trait. To keep track of them all, I put together t...
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July 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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emilyraboteau.bsky.social
Author convo. w/ kindred spirit Kate Zambreno on parenting and teaching in the pandemic. Check out her new book. THE LIGHT ROOM, out today.
Orion Magazine - Finding Community in Isolation
I STARTED READING Kate Zambreno’s incandescent new book The Light Room a month before its publication date during a camping trip with my ten year old at
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July 4, 2023 at 9:21 PM
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raquelwillis.com
For your Juneteenth reading pleasure. Here’s why 2025 is the Summer of Marsha P. Johnson for me. time.com/7295713/how-...
Marsha P. Johnson Taught Us How to Defy This Anti-Trans Wave
"Despite Trump’s attempts to erase trans people, I know he cannot because I know my community’s history."
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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mychal3ts.bsky.social
“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy, where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”
- Dr. Carla Hayden

We stand with Dr. Carla Hayden 💚

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Dr. Carla Hayden is hugged by a group of very, very excited library kids
May 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Happy June 19! This Juneteenth, remember to send some green 💸 to our Black kin and comrades. Reparations to those who's ancestors lived and died at the hand of chattel slavery. Collectively, we refuse a repetition of this history. We are in solidarity with the struggle for liberation and autonomy.
June 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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chicago.suntimes.com
Soon after Chonkosaurus, the city’s beloved celebrity snapping turtle, reemerged from the depths of the Chicago River last month, the giant reptile was seen snuggling with her long-term (and similarly proportioned) mate, Stagg.
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Is Chonkosaurus — Chicago's favorite snapping turtle — in a love triangle?
The famed reptile emerged with her longtime mate late last month in the Chicago River near Goose Island. But a new, unnamed turtle in the area has conservationists wondering if there is trouble in…
chicago.suntimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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arwynsays.bsky.social
Antifascist actions you can take *right now*:

-wear a mask (any mask! three layer cloth, n-95, kn-94, hell even surgical is better than nothing), in the grocery store, mass transit, and medical settings, at least.
May 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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kslivensky.bsky.social
Kids should be in charge of naming everything. Gosh.

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3yo: "We are playing shop!"

Me: "Oh, are you the shopkeeper?"

3yo: "No, I am the shop *giver*. That's what I call it. Because I don't keep the things in my shop. I give them to people."
May 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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robertloerzel.bsky.social
Video of the dust storm coming into Chicago this evening, as seen around Montrose Point — featuring birds, toad sounds, and people catching a fish.
May 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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blockclubchi.bsky.social
Hundreds of millions of birds are flying through Chicago this week — here's how to protect them: blockclubchi.co/4mhuADs
May 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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ajcousins.bsky.social
Lunch break bird photo! On Sunday at dawn, I was lying on the beach to get eye level with a Piping Plover. Picture me taking 100s of pics as Sea Rocket skittered closer & closer to where our group were all frozen in belly flops. Until this! You can see what she's eating! Sorry, ladybugs. #birds 🧵
Photo of a tiny Piping Plover bent over with her bill just an inch above the smooth wet sand of a dawn-lit beach as she picks at tiny red-orange things that turn out to be dozens of dead ladybugs littering the sand.
May 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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groomb.bsky.social
Wild in the City, 2012, by Janis Goodman, Leeds-based printmaker. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
May 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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kisikdarrell.bsky.social
Animated Indigenous series filled with friends of all kinds
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Animated Indigenous series filled with friends of all kinds
Before they became chums, they were strangers with little professional acting experience. Elise Armitage, 17, and James Siegers, 11, are two of the young local voice actors featured in Chums, an anima...
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May 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Welcome to the *stinky* side!

#wildonion #zhigaagoon #sikakoonki #wetlands #skunkcabbage #natureplay
nature.com Nature @nature.com · May 11
The results show that blooms that reek of faeces, rotting meat and other things that humans find off-putting are surprisingly popular in the plant kingdom

https://go.nature.com/3SuF5po
How skunk cabbages and other smelly plants brew their foul odour
Nature - A small tweak to a common enzyme gives plants the ability to make smelly sulfurous molecules.
go.nature.com
May 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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niemah.bsky.social
Happy mothers day 💐 to all mommies out there, the bio moms, adoptive moms, rainbow moms, moms who are doing their best, soon to be moms, moms who are only mothers through acts of taking care of other peoples children. Thank you to the women who contribute to raising society with their best efforts 💟
May 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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meassociation.org.uk
A Dr from University College, Dublin, speaks of how children with Long Covid are more likely to be disbelieved and told to 'push through' than adults. 

Read more: https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/parenting/arid-41622136.html 

#LongCovid #PostCovid #PostViralFatigue
'Paediatricians, GPs, and schools don’t understand childhood long covid'
Parents can find it difficult to get the right medical support, as it is not widely known that young people can develop the condition
www.irishexaminer.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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covingtonedu.bsky.social
"How many students, for example, were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?...How many came to associate the learning process with ennui and boredom?... How many came to associate books with dull drudgery...?"
It is a great mistake to suppose, even tacitly, that the traditional schoolroom is not a place in which peoples had experiences. Yet this is tacitly assumed when progressive education as a plan of learning by experience is placed in sharp opposition to the old. The proper line of attack is that the experiences which were had, by pupils and teachers alike, were largely of a wrong kind. How many students, for example, were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them? How many acquired special skills by means of automatic drill so that their power of judgment and capacity to act intelligently in new situations is limited? How many came to associate the learning process with ennui and boredom? How many found what they did learn so foreign to the situations of life outside the school as to give them no power of control over the latter? How many came to associate books with dull drudgery, so that they were conditioned to all but flashy reading matter?
April 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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theatlantic.com
Americans are in a new phase of grandparenthood, in which many seniors aren’t just disciplinarians or playmates but co-parents. Faith Hill on the new age of intensive grandparenting:
Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit
Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.
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April 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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evangreer.bsky.social
Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘
April 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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janetjm.bsky.social
An Indigenous Perspective on Frida Kahlo hyperallergic.com/660471/indig...
An Indigenous Perspective on Frida Kahlo
Kahlo’s aesthetic reflects the vogue of her time: the mythologizing of a homogenized Indigenous past afforded by her proximity to whiteness and wealth.
hyperallergic.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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zinnedproject.bsky.social
Share a teaching story about any of our reparations or climate change lessons, and we'll send you new edition of "Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice & Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery & Colonialism" via @haymarketbooks.org ⬇️
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Free Book for Your Teaching Story
Book offers for educators who share stories about teaching any of the lessons at the Zinn Education Project.
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April 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Looking forward to future activations in this space again! If you are in the area and interested in learning more feel free to reach out.
Entrance to a Nature Play area at a forest preserve in the Wild Onion City. A living archway of willow boughs welcomes children and kinfolk down a flagstone path. Beyond the handcrafted fence a whimsical play-space can be made out through the bare trees surrounding the yard. A sign beside the entrance gives tips on mindful uses of the space with the word “Welcome” legible from this distance, and two people one tall and one small illustrated on said sign. Another view from inside the Nature Play-space Stumps and things for climbing on, beams and boulders fill the space. One path is paved for wheelchair access and goes through another willow tunnel. The willows are budding out in golden green but otherwise the Forest in the background is bare, save for an oak holding on to last years brown leaves.
April 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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drjoepajak.bsky.social
Stuffy, crowded classrooms mean children are breathing in viruses and pollution.
Parents trying to make the air safer often find it impossible to achieve the basic changes needed.
Solutions exist, but mean spending money to 'make the air safer'.
That's the bottom line, it's not science, it's money!
Stuffy, crowded classrooms mean children are breathing in viruses and pollution. Parents trying to make the air safer often find it impossible to achieve the basic changes needed. Solutions exist, but mean spending money to make the air safer. That's the bottom line, it's not science, it's money!
April 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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“The future of the field is hanging in the balance [and] it’s going to be important for us to be very wise in how we respond.”
— Shirin Vossoughi

dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/09/c...
NU faculty respond to pressure on speech and research
Amid political crackdowns on research mentioning diversity and other flagged terms, Northwestern faculty are grappling with the federal government’s challenges to academic freedom and free speech. Bef...
dailynorthwestern.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM