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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 12h

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

suckin on a chili do-og suckin on a dog, suckin on a chili dog (chili dog)

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Three of the ones for my wallet name are actually me (I assumed it would be zero). Nearly all of the others share so many similarities with something I might have written that in one case I had to open the link and read several paragraphs to prove to myself I hadn't.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I was trying to think of any frequently-winning MH teams that would do a decent job and the best I could come up with is Setec, because they'd know for a fact they don't want to do it.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just sitting here waiting for the bear.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is the worst news I have heard in a very long time - what a tragic loss. @helenbranswell.bsky.social was, unquestionably, _the_ best in the field and just a wonderful person. Condolences to her family and colleagues - she'll be sorely missed. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h...

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Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme #LookingDown here's a young 'apapane practicing bird yoga while sipping pukiawe flowers #birds 📷🌿🦉

A young 'apapane (red and white honeycreeper with a curved black beak) balances upside-down while sipping nectar from tiny tiny pukiawe flowers while clinging to the evergreen-like leaves

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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, the nation's largest domestic-focused progressive Jewish advocacy organization, is proud to endorse @abdulelsayed.bsky.social for U.S. Senate! 🎉

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action Endorses Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate. There is a photo of Dr. El-Sayed and a big checkmark.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I live in a part of the US without HOAs. The parks, community pool, playing fields, bike paths, and woods are maintained by the state and municipalities, paid for with our taxes. And are open to the public. Like a normal place.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The plague had mad effects on tectonic activity, extending the Holyoke Range east and giving new height and sharpness to a 200 million year old retiree of a geologic feature?

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

(It also had 70-story buildings and a beacon hill mansion with a long curving driveway through a yard behind a gate, so I don’t think it was a science fail so much as a larger “complete ignorance about my book’s setting” issue.)

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I read a romance novel once where it had a big snowstorm in Boston when the temperature was something like -7°F.

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I FEEL a lot of doom but I try not to let that drive my posting. When I feel worst, I try to remember Theoden. youtu.be/_AHxBb75O8M?...

youtu.be

Theoden - But we will meet them in battle nonetheless

YouTube video by PixiePX

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

ha! I went to go look for pictures of those covers because I don't remember them, and the only source I could easily find was a tumblr post by @tablesaw.bsky.social. But yes, totally wrong.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is like one of those eye tests except instead of a number in the middle there’s a bird. Impressive camo! (Willet) #birds 🌿

A brown shorebird stands on a gravel road which provides excellent cover. At a quick glance the bird blends in butter a closer look it is clear to see in the center.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

None of the Stranger Things prop people were Waldenbooks Otherworlds Club members in 1984 and it shows.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wrong cover of A Wizard of Earthsea shown in Stranger Things. It's the 1991 purple John Jude Palencar cover, not the 1984 Yvonne Gilbert cover. Yes I know there are many sources on the web that say the 1991 cover is from 1984. Those sources are wrong.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Before we lived in a world of easily monetizable low-effort content creation, it used to require a fair amount of work for almost no gain (Bit of Earth notwithstanding). IIRC most of the tinhatteries (SPN especially?) had upsetting con interactions. But that's high effort, low reward.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

oh man *yes*. And the cloudiness effect of the background, so the shading made inherent by the binding seems to just add more texture.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I had to stop myself from going on and on. I've never understood why people think it would be difficult to filibuster, when Sendak's use of the limitations of binding and four-color printing is RIGHT THERE.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I don’t know “both” but the rest feels right to me! (Also one of those great moments when I am sounding out yiddish to see if I know the word and realize that oh, yeah, “fahr vass” would mean “why”, wouldn’t it? Germanic language descendant powers activate.)

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ooh! “Maurice Sendak: king of the gutter press”

Detail from one of the two page spreads in the middle of Where The Wild Things Are. The art bleeds across the gutter and Max, wearing a wolf suit and a crown, hangs gleefully from a tree that’s perfectly parallel to the gutter but just far enough to its left that no reasonably binding error could cause problems. The tree’s leaves cut across the page break, as do the branches of another tree to the right, creating an illusion of perfect continuity.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This interview will now turn into my lecture entitled “Maurice Sendak: grumpiest gay zaide or absolute master of whitespace in picture books?”

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Picture Book scholar: A gap between art & page boundary is a product of mechanical reproduction or binding processes. Creators skilled in the form can overcome or lean into the limitations to create something greater.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Alien? Bird assembled incorrectly? Beeker’s cousin? Nope, just a young Green Heron from an awkward angle. What a (delightful) weirdo #SpookyNature 🌿 #birds 👽

A bird viewed from below so that its eyes look like they’re a little below the beak on either side. Which looks kind of freaky.

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

First sighting of the merry dancers since last winter. Birsay, #Orkney

An aurora in the northern sky. Pillars of soft light in pinks and greens with some low clouds and the silhouette of a bush in the foreground. Taken from just outside my house.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is the most Mormon thing I’ve ever seen, and I’m comparing it to both The Book of Mormon and YA fantasy from the oughts.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Also because its facial expression is very dorky.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You all have to appreciate this minoan octopus flask because I can’t send it to Ny.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Age yourself with a childhood crush.

Derek Wildstar, an anime space adventurer with dreamy 1970s hair, stares into your eyes looking like a beautiful sad lonely boy who can only be rescued by you, viewer. I mean, seriously, there's no better way to describe the glistening lens flare in his plaintive eyes.

Jo Polniaczek, wearing her maroon school sleeveless top over a popped-collar shirt, gives incredibly bitchy side-eye to someone off camera, somehow making her dorkass school uniform look like it's just a costume she's wearing before she slips into a leather jacket and brass knuckles.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

10/10 Stuck the landing. With grace. (Red-tailed Hawk) #birds 🌿

A brown hawk has just landed on the very top of an evergreen tree. Its wings are spread and it looks down at its landing spot. It looks very graceful and also powerful.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it really sucks how you can't just look up old Boston Globe articles using the library anymore thanks to all the Trump administration funding cuts

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Economics, but racistly. You can get a generation that’s smaller than the one before, and you can’t pay for the medical care of your seniors. cf. Japan. Very easy to solve if you allow immigration. It’s also just a meme tho. Radcens pick up whatever vibe they see on Twitter.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How (not) to Write about Health Equity-- an excellent satirical article published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org 🧪 An encapsulation of the feel-good, do-nothing approach to health equity; the lived experience paragraphs resonated most. Read the whole article here: journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Praise “intersectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration” as the panacea. Everyone can collaborate: ministries, health professionals, researchers, civil society, philanthropic foundations, and commercial actors whose business models actively harm public health. Do not discuss conflicts of interest. Do not ask who has power in the room. Oppression disappears once everyone is brought to the table – provided no one asks who owns it, who paid for it, or who keeps poisoning the food.

Once the table is set, invite “lived experience” into the conversation. Invite structurally marginalised people to share their stories. Thank them for their courage. But do not let them decide what should change. Lived experience should move the room, not move resources or authority.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

thread is great. Images are just a pic of each kinda boat. I’m too ignorant to describe them visually so let’s just say one’s a duck sized horse and the other is a horse-sized duck.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

that's what AskAManager would say, I think. Them having competence issues is nunya business, professionally, but the impact is something you can talk about. "We discussed the requirement for only giving results from the district of massachusetts, but they fetched a MA thesis from finland."

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Molly Bangles @mollybangles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🪶Double trouble 🪶 Marbled Godwits in San Simeon CA, September 2026 #birds #shorebirds

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

who ever thought I'd miss the nice, simple "are honor code juries inherently racist" drama of the 90s.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the thing that sucks so hard is that this guy is an obvious monster if the allegations are true, but a lot of the accusations of "this is antisemitism" from a small number of 'fords over the last few years have been obvious bad faith. I want to throw them all in the trash.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I thought maybe the catbirds had moved south already but I just saw one yesterday! #birds 🌿

A gray bird stands in a green plant with pink stems and a few dark purple berries. The bird has a berry in its beak.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"It is not your duty to incrementally begin the work, but neither are you at liberty to act the until you have a complete deliverable that's guaranteed to summon the mashiach." Pirkei Nimby 11:2026

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

when my town was fighting over the MBTA communities act and a neighbor came to try to convince me to oppose, she was like "but what if your neighbor turned her house into an apartment?!?" & my response was basically "then more of my friends could afford to live closer to me? Win for everyone."

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