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Katie Risseeuw
@katierizz.bsky.social
Will die on niche hills, windows always open.
Libraries, archives, preservation, art, turtles, Chicago, bricks, the desert.
1. THIS IS NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, it's sensors that have been around for decades.

2. Good job, Phoenix airport.
December 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending":

1. Action Against Hunger
2. ActionAid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine
5. CARE
6. DanChurchAid
7. Danish Refugee Council
8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
(cont)
December 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This has very different meaning depending if you print or hunt.
December 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
😍🤩😍
my sister sent me maybe the best ornament i've ever seen in my life
December 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"Let's see if anyone died." - my mom reading the newspaper, gleefully turning to the obits
December 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Northwestern claimed its deal with the Trump administration placed “no restrictions” on its trans community. But students worry it’s set to exclude trans students across multiple programs and facilities, possibly violating state law.

Reported by @ryaninevanston.bsky.social
Northwestern students worry federal deal will hurt trans community
Following Northwestern’s Nov. 28 agreement with the Trump administration to restore at least $790 million in federal funding, NU claimed that “no restrictions” had been placed on its transgender commu...
dailynorthwestern.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Reposted by Katie Risseeuw
Rogers Park resistance to ICE (along with LA, NYC, Maryland) in international news again. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Whistles, Signal and school patrols: how ordinary Americans are fighting back against ICE
As Trump carries out his mass deportation operation, residents are banding together to block raids and distribute groceries
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You know you've had successful library preservation workshop when people want to look closer at your saved pest traps before heading to lunch.
December 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Reposted by Katie Risseeuw
This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Northwestern University law profs argue that NU's "deal" with the Trump admin violates the First Amendment and federal antidiscrimination law.

Moreover, the grant freeze Trump imposed on NU was unlawful and should have been challenged in court.

www.theuniversityunderthreat.org/updates?fbcl...
Updates
2025.12.08 | Northwestern Law Professors Detail Legal Violations in Northwestern/Trump “Deal” For Immediate Release December 8, 2025 Download this document as a PDF here Northwestern Pritzker School...
www.theuniversityunderthreat.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Katie Risseeuw
Join us for our annual open house tonight! Presses are running, prints and cards are for sale, and we’ve got snacks. The metal type shown here (reversed) is Pastel, designed and cast in Chicago and made popular by silent film intertitles. #letterpress
December 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Tips on cradling precious archival books at home if you don't own fancy foam wedges! (Katie is my archives guru)
It's my time to shine! My lo-fi solution is to use towels or similar and roll up. Another towel can be put down to protect the spine.
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It's my time to shine! My lo-fi solution is to use towels or similar and roll up. Another towel can be put down to protect the spine.
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reposted by Katie Risseeuw
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Very grateful for all the tips and products surrounding pencil smells I didn't know existed!

Now do New Box of Crayons smell.
It smells like a newly sharpened pencil on this train and I want to ask my seatmate if it's a fragrance I can buy is that weird.
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It smells like a newly sharpened pencil on this train and I want to ask my seatmate if it's a fragrance I can buy is that weird.
December 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
BAHAAHAHAHA I'M DYING*

"Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,” Mr. Rubio said.

*or threw my phone at the wall
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Oh ok "but no works of art were affected" just papers. Have fun with your "art" when there's no provenance documentation.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Managing up, managing sideways, managing down - but what about that invisible middle manager and how she might just lay down in her cubicle and groan like Marge Simpson for a year or two.
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
accidentally finding out a coworker's salary is such a rush
December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Wait, now you have 4. Save one for me. :)
Down to the last 5 library prints, made with old, gummed slips given to me by library pal @katierizz.bsky.social. #letterpress
www.starshaped.com/stationery-e...
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Our 2025 letterpress holiday cards printed by the talented @starshapedpress.bsky.social featuring an excerpt from Assata Shakur's "Affirmation" are here! We're handing them out free with every in-store and online purchase until they're gone. It's our favorite tradition of the holiday season.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My conspiracy theory is that the board of trustees forced Schill to resign in order to install an 87-year-old former NU president as interim in order to capitulate.
Bienen is living in fantasy land if he believes that a deal dictating a bunch of rules about admissions and hiring that go well beyond what the law actually requires amounts to preserving control over admission and hiring. Or he thinks the faculty are illiterate
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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When Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern send material asking for donations, do they include links to a Trump SuperPAC so donors don't have to bother with a middle man?
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM