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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m reading the new Nina LaCour book Meet Me in the Garden and it starts at the end of WWII and ends just after the Watts uprising and it’s about race and queerness and art and family and it’s so so so gorgeous.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Last week in Indianapolis someone took a whole pack of name tag stickers and wrote “Ryan“ on them and handed them out to the crowd. It was great.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Daedalus and Icarus (flipped), by Anthony van Dyck, 1615-25, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s a Mariah-worn dress, it couldn’t suck.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I accidentally pre-ordered the new Jasmine Guillory book twice (ebook and hard copy) and I’m not even mad about it because my physical tbr is going so much more slowly than my ebook one.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m listening to her new album because you mentioned it so thanks for making my week better!

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sorry for no more Kelsey Mitchell this season, but now I get at least 3 more A’ja Jackie Chelsea games.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did they get Nick Offerman to narrate that CC Nike ad?

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I started watching the WNBA this summer I didn’t calculate how much sleep I would lose once school started.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Update: I have only watched basketball.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

like literally what if this is all because a group chat of male staffers referred to *a women’s basketball game* as *a basketball game*, without appending “women’s” to it so you know it’s a special lesser category of the default version of the thing, and MAGA simply could not comprehend that

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have not yet figured out how I’m going to watch dancing with the stars and playoff basketball at the same time.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have decided to be a responsible adult and not buy a nosebleed ticket to tonight’s Fever game.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m so glad I started watching this season and this account is part of why.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Update: started a new book. Used an ancient graph paper Moleskine from my stash rather than buying a new dot-grid Leuchtturm. Gonna hope that feeling virtuous gets me past the centimeter less of width I’ll be working with.

Green book with “I cry a lot but I am so productive”and rainbow flag Village Yarn Company stickers, black book with stickers reading “romance reader” and “I see you have graph paper, you must be plotting something” stickers.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have 25 pages left in my journal. I’m averaging 22 pages a month, but also I’m not through September. Do I get a new book for October?

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wow, the Fever are struggling hard against the Mystics. They cannot shoot today.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Somehow every man in this book is predatory and I need to know how it ends.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My phone is trying to turn all the apps off for bedtime but my audiobook is just getting to the thrilling part of the thriller.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16/09/2026

Du Jour means solidarity.

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Alexa Philippou @alexaphilippou.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

USA has outscored France 56-26 since trailing by 14 in the second quarter

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Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Podcasts should go back to being audio only.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The way I covet that Klingon braiser….

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fucking with Romancelandia is the literary world equivalent of starting a land war in Asia. JUST DO NOT.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am new to women’s basketball, but this seems correct to me.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today is the day! Be Kind, Rewind sock yarn is up now! Also my socks are done (blocked, even!!) and they are beautiful 😍🧶🧦 #knitting #yarn #crochet measuredandslow.studio/shop/j56tkns...

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

bro all your borogoves are mimsy rn

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Grocery store sushi exists in Slapout?! We really live in the future, don’t we?

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I mean: Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen Pour myself a cup of ambition Unreal levels of writing just in those two lines. Give them a Booker a Pulitzer and a Nobel.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ok, done. Probably won’t finish the audiobook I’ve still got 2 hours left of, but that’s 41 books since may and all 8 challenges.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The campus library reading challenge ends tomorrow so I’ve spent today finishing my last two challenges: reading a book from the year I was born and reading an unfamiliar genre. I finished one at lunch and I have 20 pages left of the second and wow but this last bit was a slog.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is quite a document.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ok, so You, Me and Tuscany is While You Were Sleeping in Italy and I’m very here for it.

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Over the past couple years I‘ve tried to treat beef as a special occasion food, something to eat once a month or less.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Olivia Miles is running the offense for the best team in the WNBA while shooting 50-40-90 and leading the league in NBA Street Moves Per Game AND SHES A ROOKIE

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

my eyes just got wider and wider as this went on! Amazing!

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I have some thoughts about the new Spider-man that I will try to draw a comic about but for now here is this prescient comic from *2016*

comic in nine-panel grid. 1. Spider-man sits with coffee in a mug patterned like charlie brown's shirt. 2. He says, Hiya, Frank, as the Punisher walks in. Punisher grunts at him. 3. Spider-man turns to say, You punishin' hard or hardly punishin'? to Frank, off-panel.4. Eh? Spider-man says. Eh? 5. Spider-man sits up straighter, watching Frank off-panel. 6. Spider-man hunkers down, and speaks in black dialogue balloons with white writing, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, SPIDEY, I JUST PUNISHED THAT BATHROOM, HEH HEH 7. Spider-man's spider sense goes off, and he cocks his head. 8. BLAM! Spider-man's coffee cup is shot off the table. 9. Spider-man yells at the off-panel Frank, YOU ONLY PUNISH YOURSELF WITH AN ATTITUDE LIKE THAT

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Janet @canijustbejanet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I was not asking for this but yes I will not miss it.

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