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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈
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Library & Info Sci Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo '22 Lynd Ward ’25 Ignatz Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham & lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
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Goodnight, friends.

Fuck ICE.

I love you.
A black and white poster of Godzilla smashing. It says Protect Your Neighbors. Abolish ICE. Art is by Alternate Histories, Pittsburgh, PA.
January 25, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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FUCK ICE in ascii art
January 24, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Goodnight, friends.

There's so much that's fucked up right now, but there's also a lot of beautiful stuff. Including you.

I love you.
A closeup photo of a capybara's face. The caption reads, This capybara only stares at beautiful people.
January 22, 2026 at 1:50 AM
anuncivilphd.bsky.social
Goodnight, friends.

Doing laundry. Delivering meals and groceries. Escorting folks to appts. Getting kids to/from school. Making music. Watching neighborhoods. Supporting rent relief. Donating dashcams. Showing up.

Building community and fighting for justice is honoring Dr. King.

I love you.
A quote from MLK's A Letter from the Birmingham Jail: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
January 20, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Goodnight, friends.

Resistance, love, and community > intimidation, fear, and division.

I love you.
A block print style graphic, blue background with white text that reads, Abolish ICE (repeated X 6).
January 18, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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As today is the 60th anniversary of the #Batman tv show, I thought I’d share this image from Jules Feiffer’s papers at Library of Congress: an invite to the premiere party!

#comics
A photograph of an invitation: The ABC Television Network cordially invites you to attend the World Premier of “Batman” on Wednesdays, the twelth of January Nineteen hundred and sixty-six at seven-fifteen o’clock. The York Theatre First Avenue at Sixty-fourth STreet. New York City.” A personal note says, “Seeing as you are the man who generated the whole thing - we hope you will join us.” A small illustration of the Bat signal is attached at the bottom right. It opens to share cocktail party information.
January 12, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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The perfect pinback came into my life this weekend.
A white pinback with images of Snoopy and Woodstock marching while carrying flags that reads, Fuck ICE.
January 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Goodnight, friends.

I've been radicalized by things I've read and heard and witnessed. Human decency is at the core of most of the examples.

I love you.
A blue t-shirt with white lettering from Raygun that reads, Radicized by basic decency.
January 11, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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Timeline cleanse. My handsome old Catman, curled up next to me on the couch this morning.

#cats
A brown and white tabby is curled into a ball, atop a purple blanket.
January 6, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Goodnight, friends.

Resolutions are over-rated. Be you. Play to your strengths.

I love you.
3 panel comic, Calvin and Hobbes, 12/30/1995. They are outside in the snow. Panel 1: Hobbes say, Are you making any resolutions for the New Year? Panel 2: Calvin responds, yeah, I'm resolving to just wing it and see what happens. Panel 3: Hobbes replies, So, you're staying the course? Calvin says, I stick to my strengths.
January 3, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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Just finished this wooden puzzle (164 pieces) gifted to me a couple of Christmases ago. It ended up being easier than I expected.
A wooden puzzle -green agate - with irregular sides. Photographed on a maple tabletop.
January 2, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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That's a lot of rain.

#bombcyclone
A photo of heavy rain on my patio. The trees in my yard appear shrouded.
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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She found one of the chrome cocktail balls in its original box for my birthday earlier this month.
A Chase chrome ball from the 1930s sits atop its original box. It is spiked with colorful toothpicks and I te ded to hold appetizers.
December 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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My beloved gifted me this beautiful 1930s Russel Wright-designed art deco Chase chrome syrup pitcher and charger (with cobalt glass).

I have an unnatural love of all things Wright.
A small art deco-style chrome pitcher with a bulbous vessel, swooping handle, and elongated spout.
December 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Catman is sleeping off a catnip high.
A closeup of a brown and white tabby head, his nose on a gray couch.
December 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Goodnight, friends.

Tomorrow the light begins returning.

I love you.
A white floral wreath on a dark blue background. In the center, the text reads Happy Winter Solstice.
December 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Goodnight, friends.

I'll keep this brief tonight because Catman says it's sleepy time.

I love you.
A brown and white tabby makes eyes at the camera, willing viewers to sleep.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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It is! I have a cat, too!
Catman, a brown and white tabby, stands on the couch near a purple plush blanket.
December 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Gotta finish my grading today.
A blue teapot filled with Irish tea, a Linus mug, a chartreuse plate with a tick slice of German bread topped with a sunnyside-up egg, and a bowl with a whole orange that's been sliced.
December 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Goodnight, friends.

I already miss Clementine's stompy-stomp cat feet, her growly purrs, her nighttime snortles, and her fierce affection. She was a sui generis cat, and I loved her.

I love you, too.
My beautiful Clementine, an orange tabby, lies on her side on blue and white floral sheets. She died suddenly today, age 10.
December 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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My spicy, feisty, and beloved Clementine unexpectedly left this world today.

She was less than 2 months old when she came into our lives 10 years ago.

She loved being brushed, playing with her ball tower, terrorizing her brothers, and eating snacks. She had the best primordial pouch.

#cats
An orange tabby prowls through the grass. An orange tabby lies atop a pile of laundry in a basket.
December 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation
A screenshot of a raclette-style sandwich with potatoes, garlicky-Camembert, cornichons, and crispy pancetta.
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Two more of my favorite panels featuring The Eye!
#comics
A panel from Keen Detective Comics: a shlubby man in a yellow sweater and red hat looks over his shoulder toward a disembodied eye. A caption reads SUDDENLY. The Eye says, “This is Your Day of Reckoning, Pickles!” Pickles responds, “WHAT TH- ! - THE EYE!" A panel from Keen Detective Comics: a glamourous and largely noseless blonde woman looks surprised as a disembodied eye floats menacing to her left. The Eye says, “You CAN Do Something!"
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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The Eye is one of my top weird characters from the comics. It starred in a few stories in various Centaur publications in the late 30s / early 40s.

(Malibu brought The Eye back in the early 90s.)
From Detective Eye Comics, the Eye tells a shocked man in a blue suit: I am THE EYE! I am going to set you free to exonerate yourself! Now listen carefully!
December 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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A perfectly Swiftian conclusion.
A tweet from @darkliterata that reads, "holy infant so tender and mild implies the existence of a cursed infant so chewy and spicy"
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM