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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New for Bandcamp Friday: a Beatles cover, in celebration of the new Rubber Soul box set. I played all the instruments my damn self!

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I'm Looking Through You, by Julie Jurgens

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gavin Newsom and Rahm Emanuel can go crawl off into the same hole never to be heard of again. They ain’t it and they ain’t shit.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For the love of fuck let people sit. Who cares????

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I desperately want a prestige series of Stranger in a Strange Land (minus the anti gay and racist parts of course). It could be so good!!! Each part could be a long season.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

Press release I woke up to, on Christa Pike’s condition (sent 9/30 at 11:36pm ET)

Statement from Christa Pike’s attorney Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN Office of the Post Conviction Defender, and Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee

Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution. We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms. Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy.

Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital. We have not been informed as to her condition.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

hi abolish the death penalty the state should never have the power to murder (yes this includes indirectly, I see you, ICE)

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We’re a terrible country.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Illinois folks – The Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities is convening a diverse group of individuals to help guide the development of a statewide awareness campaign focused on teaching disability history in K–12 classrooms. forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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Microsoft Forms

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Men are afraid of being laughed at. Women are afraid of being killed.

Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine. - - So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. "I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power." "They are afraid women will laugh at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

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Margaret Atwood's famous quote ("Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them") in its original form.

Source: 'Writing The Male Character' (1982), p. 413 in "Second Words – Selected Critical Prose 1960-1982" (2018)
Margaret Atwood

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I asked a man I love and trust what he’d do if he got a text like the one sent to the Cornell fraternity. He was unable to come up with “What the fuck is wrong with you all I’m calling the police.” It is all men. Men who don’t speak up/push back on other men are complicit and part of the problem.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This piece highlights that despite the success of those of us pushing back on AI mania, some bad experiments are being performed on children with AI tools. Superintendent and administrators appear especially vulnerable to industry talking points.

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Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them

Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Oh my God Taskmaster has hit Hulu. I repeat all seasons of Taskmaster are on Hulu. If you've never watched Taskmaster go start watching it literally right now

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I miss when criticism was more than just sick burns and actually involved evaluating a work on its merits and considering what the creator was trying to accomplish.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The people long for art that’s not based on existing intellectual property.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine having the hubris to argue with a Black woman on the internet.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Old man yelling at people who haven’t heard a song

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This country really really really hates women and girls.

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MikeyT00 @devilmikey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's so cool that we've turned job interviews into weird little humiliation rituals.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also, crucially, these rules are *completely unspoken*

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The iced coffee at a job interview discourse is less interesting than talking about how the entire job interview process is a byzantine mind fuck that only tests how well you can play a game with ever changing nonsensical rules. You’re playing Calvinball through the looking glass. Every workplace

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Coyote vs Acme was a delight and boy I hate living in a world where art can potentially be lost forever because old white guys want a tax write off so they can be even more obscenely wealthy.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy birthday to F Scott Fitzgerald whose best writing was probably stolen from his wife Zelda. F Scott indeed.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They should have been starving him of attention for the last ten years.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One For The Morning Glory by John Barnes. It’s The Princess Bride meets The Once and Future King while also being wholly itself. Utterly enchanting.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

on this day in 1937 Zora Neale Hurston first published her masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God. "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." "There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m a contributor to this amazing book and it’s honestly one of the hardest things I’ve done and some of my best writing, thanks to my amazing editor. So honored to be a part of this. www.routledge.com/Lived-Experi...

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Lived Experiences in Librarianship: Voices from an Inhospitable Profession

This book presents the lived experiences of library workers in evocative and vulnerable accounts of the inhospitable norms within librarianship in the globalized 21st century. Rigorously researched, t...

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Convinced Jane Eyre was audhd.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Maybe Ed Sheeran will understand it via song: neutrality is bullshit. It simply means inaction, and it always puts you on the side of the oppressor. juliejurgens.bandcamp.com/album/neutra...

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Neutral / Swing The Statue, by Julie& / Liz + The Baguettes

2 track album

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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I just listened to @heykellyjensen.bsky.social first episode of Liberating Lit podcast with @tasslyn.bsky.social and immediately shared it with local Freadom Fighters who are under fire. It’s a great conversation that inspires, motivates, and builds community. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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Liberating Lit

Books Podcast · Weekly Series · A podcast about literary and library advocacy. Be inspired to fight book bans, champion libraries, defend the First Amendment, and meet incredible people across the U.S...

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Library friends: you absolutely do not have to become AI users. Anyone telling you that you have to is either trying to sell you something or is preaching from a place of fear.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m wondering why in the hell the ambulance was called when I had an allergic reaction in a hospital with an emergency department that hospital staff could take me to.

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Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To round out the week: Becky Explaining RA on the @railslibraries.bsky.social Can't Shelve This Podcast-- raforall.blogspot.com/2026/09/beck...

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wish Uncle Steve hadn’t rushed to finish the Dark Tower books.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What a time to be alive, with thousand dollar flip phones

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Elon Musk is bankrolling an ad campaign to get you to check your voter registration through an innocent-sounding website. But his real goal is to collect and sell your personal data to advertising companies, Big Tech, and other Republican PACs.

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Insisting you need video to go with podcasts is wrong. End transmission.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The chips are not going to cheese themselves is my new mantra

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you teach #MLIS classes, consider bringing me in to talk to your classes about the job search. Too many LIS professionals out here giving advice that worked for them 20 years ago, but it's a different world now. 📚

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For years one of my favorite treats was thank you brand pudding in a can. Years ago it disappeared from stores and was only available in the food service market. They have it at the café at the hospital where I get my chemo, and tasting that pudding again almost makes having cancer worth it.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Managing cancer treatment is like having the worst part time job ever.

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