Skunk Cabbage Books
@skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social
An indie bookstore and community workshop space in Chicago focused on building our connections to the natural world. https://linktr.ee/skunkcabbagebooks
Here's a lil sample of what's on our staff picks shelf right now. 📚️ + Daughter of the Mountains by Fatimah Asghar + Forest Euphoria (now in paperback!) by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian + Score by Kennedy Ryan + Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle + Helm by Sarah Hall + Restless by Joseph Kai
We are adjusting our hours starting August 1st! Our new regular hours are: Mondays: Closed Tuesdays + Wednesdays: 11 - 6 Thursdays + Fridays: 11 - 7 Saturdays + Sundays: 10 - 6 Come see us soon 🍄
The @chicagoreader.com is and has been consistently excellent. I really hope that they get the resources they need to continue for 50 more years. Why are rich progressives not funding local independent media? This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.
The Cook County jail’s new $7 million visitation center
Cook County wants to create an oasis inside the infamous jail. But the renovation will do little to address the harm of incarceration itself
chicagoreader.com
Join our With Feathers book club on August 19th at 6:00 to discuss Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.
Heard it said once that the percent of energy lost to heat from computing comparatively is kind of like if you were detonating nuclear bombs to power your house. Obviously trying to create a human mind-like computer program could never exist with this extreme energy disparity. And what do you know
Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴@kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW DATE: August 14th @ 6:30. RSVP online! 🗓️ We're so excited to have Emily Grandy and Eiren Caffall in conversation in the store to celebrate the release of Emily's new book, Cupido Cupido.
“Climate breakdown is not a natural disaster. It is a business model that privatises profit and socialises cost”
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3w ago“Europe is struggling through climate breakdown. France’s heatwave shut schools and stretched hospitals past their limits, with so many people dying in their apartments that morgues have run out of space. Outdoor workers have faced conditions beyond what the human body can safely withstand.”
What's the deal with the potential proposed transfer of ownership of Chicago's parking meter system to Stonepeak, a company profiting from Omni Air International ICE deportation flights? @djbyrnes1.bsky.social breaks down the latest. Finance committee meets again on Monday, July 13:
Thanks skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social for inviting me to speak to your wonderful community about my work in #paleoart #sciconm ! It was a fun evening with lots of great questions and discussion. An awesome selection of curated books too!
Meet our guests from last night's Ask A Scientist event - paleoartist Tyler Keillor and Herrerasaurus! 🦖 A big thanks to Tyler for coming out and teaching us about how he uses science and fossil evidence to bring prehistoric creatures to life. 🦕
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.
Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.
IL Gov. Pritzker Signs Law Protecting Trans Patients By Removing Testosterone from Govt. Monitoring Program
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) could be exploited to carry out anti-trans attacks. Illinois just made it harder to do.
erininthemorning.com
BIG NEWS! New podcast coming out THIS MONTH! Native people have been left out of the story of America—but without us you don’t know what happened. FIRST AMERICA tells the true story of how this country started and how we got here. Subscribe now, wherever you listen to podcasts.
quantum campus officials have been vocal that the iqmp—the first phase of the 440-acre quantum shore megadevelopment—is not a data center. but it turns out the developer is planning a massive, 1+ gw data center in a future phase.
Inside the Pritzkers’ ‘Quantum Prairie’ - Chicago Reader
How J.B. and Penny Pritzker helped transform Chicago into a global hub for quantum computing—and the massive data center that comes with it.
chicagoreader.com
We're running some modified hours this weekend. We'll be opening at noon on Friday, July 3rd to accommodate an all staff meeting. We will be closed on Saturday, July 4th. America is fake but jumping in the lake is very real. See you Sunday. ☀️
I had fun writing this piece for the summer issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social about Moby-Dick, Star Trek, and #scicomm! ‘Viewers are forced to reckon with the possibility, vocalized by Spock, that “only human arrogance would assume [an alien] signal must be meant for mankind.”‘ 🐳🐋🧪
Planetary Kin - Orion Magazine
Learning from Star Trek’s space whales
orionmagazine.org
“Well, we’re all workers…These aren’t just things happening on TV. They’re happening at SEA-TAC, at our work. It’s our home, man, and we can do something about it. We have to do something about it.” “If we’re not taking care of our neighbors, then who is going to take care of us?”
How to Halt a Deportation Flight
A network of rank-and-file union members and immigrant solidarity activists in Washington State banded together to stop a deportation in process.
progressive.org
Our subscription box for literature in translation, is back in July! Airplane Mode members get two books originally published in a language other than English every other month with a 15% discount. Find more details on our website and read around the world with us. This month - France and Kenya.
When you're definitely just a normal, chill bee going about their bee business and absolutely not a preschooler's doodle that a wizard brought to life. 📷 Cecile Roux, iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org/photos/67170...
Someone made an atlas of data centers in case this is interesting / useful to any of you. district.myhamlet.com/atlas
The Data Center Atlas
Every data center we can source, on one interactive world map — with the evidence behind every claim.
district.myhamlet.com
Hi, I’m selling these stickers and will donate 100% of sales to legal fees and bail funds for the Prairieland defendents. I will be sure to post reciepts! $4 each, DM to order, and please help me spread the word!
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
theguardian.com
A bit of what our booksellers have been reading lately. 🌞 - There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib - Another Country by James Baldwin - Bless the Blood by Walela Nehanda - No God But Us by Bobuq Sayed - The Children by Melissa Albert - Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden
We'll be closed Friday, June 19th in observation of Juneteenth. 🌻 See you this weekend when we'll be back to our normal hours.
