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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes I think I’m watching pasta videos but it turns out to be pottery. This world is confusing but not as confusing as the world that the people who had to sort edible mushrooms out so I guess I’m doing okay.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey yeah, friendly reminder that men denying or minimizing the work of women and taking credit for it themselves happens so much we have a NAME for it. (It’s the Matilda Effect.) 2nd fun fact: I’ve written many bios of women in STEM at this point and this is *always a factor in their history*

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My dogs have been so angry that it rained all day and they know it’s somehow my fault.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 03/09/2024

the three genders

three squeeze bottles of sauce labeled
special, Halloween & Mild

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Changed my mind. Rewatching Backrooms. The pitch is “What if furniture makes you feel awful?” I love it.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey horror peeps, has someone made an October calendar for horror movies by day? I’m scrambling and watching The Witch 2 tonight.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.” - Karl Rove

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even odds that he wants to call it Super because he can’t spell Artificial.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every book its reader Every reader their book Ranganathan got this right back in the 1930s

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Glass, Like Glass. Sunday's sunrise at the entrance to the Chicago River.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another view of Tuesday's glorious Chicago sunset

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today's Chicagohenge. This morning's start on the day of the Autumnal Equinox in Chicago.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm at the Triumphal Arch. I'm at the snipers nest. I'm at the combination Triumphal Arch and snipers nest.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Using this rainy weekend to race my way through two incredible books: DAYTIDE by @scribeofhades.bsky.social and THE CALAMATIES by @chuckwendig.bsky.social. Loving this angels and demons pairing. #BookSky

Audiobook of Daytide by Chris Panatier. An angel in white looking very innocent. They are not.

The Calamaties by Chuck Wendig. A faceless moody figure sitting on a leather couch. They look threatening. They are.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Reminder: AI isn’t “out of control.” It’s doing what these companies programmed it to do.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this week has gone on long enough tbh

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dear Dems and libs: Stop helping Republicans muddy differences between the parties on AI and data centers by acquiescing to the "bipartisan opposition" frame. Rs are laughing at you while polls show Rs now leading Ds on these issues. Instead, tie Rs directly to Trump's AI/data center malevolence.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Guy who can do *computer* will surely be able to make mere potato!" is a load-bearing brick in the "baking the earth for AI is fine, we'll just terraform Mars using computer" delusion

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Enjoying, in a cathartic sense, FURIOUS on Hulu. And @steveway.bsky.social steals every scene he is in.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I got a light hoodie out of my closet today. I’m gonna make it.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

we all joined up our minds together and within a single generation we have driven our species completely fucking insane

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ anything 🕯️ good 🕯️ at all 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s fall (shut up it is because I said so). Windows are open and I hear clapping. Why must football things be so loud?

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Puffins fly underwater

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Y’all aren’t going to believe that an AG had a brief tarmac meeting with a president.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Protect trans kids.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hate that I scheduled an annual eye appointment to refill my contacts and their email confirmation says, “Jean, see you soon!”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

we are taking all of your money and giving it to a couple dumb assholes, why dont you see how revolutionary that is

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m tired of AI developers saying AI could destroy humanity. No. Someone could use their product to destroy banking, start nuclear war, wipe out the electrical grid, crash satellites, and so on. They are developing a product and need to be accountable for it. Hence the sentience bullshit.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s the best time of the year 🐦‍⬛

Stone fireplace decorated with ravens and a framed script of Poe’s The Raven because it’s corvid time of year.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sunday in the City. This morning in Old Town to start the day in Chicago.

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Proving Mitch McConnell is alive would be the easiest thing in the world if he were alive.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m of an age where converting a vague plan for dinner into brunch reservations is a solid achievement.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We wrote this really handy step-by-step guide for all the book banners who are mad about a book at the library. Feel free to share it for any book banners who are confused about the process. action.everylibrary.org/what_do_i_do...