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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve had a lot of conversations lately about the intersection of language, power, and intent, and this is an infuriatingly concise example of all three themes being tied together in the interest of inaction.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

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Data Driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every time IG gives me a prompt to summarize messages ***from my friends*** it radicalizes me a little bit more. They don’t even want us having meaningful interactions with each other. It is legitimately crazy making.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Timely, as I’ve spent the morning thinking about the ever widening gap between what the majority of Americans consider literacy (word recognition) and actual literacy (word recognition, comprehension, creating meaning, drawing conclusions, extrapolating and applying the information as necessary).

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I, personally, would never want Ms. Rachel to be disappointed in me.

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As a librarian that teaches information literacy, I am also repelled by those prompts. Also, can we talk about how much MORE work AI makes for people who don’t want to use it? Some of the AI-generated material to which I’m forced to respond feels straight up dystopian, & it’s a massive time suck.

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Following an incredibly hot, and deadly, summer in New York City and the country as a whole, we are releasing a new storymap on extreme heat that talks to New Yorkers about how these increasingly deadly heatwaves are affecting their lives.

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Concrete Heat: Environmental Justice in a Warming World

The impacts of increasingly common extreme heat waves are worsened by climate change, poverty, and racism - but we can fight back

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I managed the public library in College Station for years and am 0% surprised. It’s the climate that many “locals” fought before the university really had to, only now it’s actually making the news because many academics have a platform to which unelected public servants rarely have access.

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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

“And what I think is so amazing about that is not only do you start to feel like you you are welcome in and belong in this place, the public library, but also you start to learn what it means to be part of a community. Because, let’s say you love Curious Georgebooks and you take out a Curious George book. You get the generosity of your society because it’s like “Here, take this Curious George book home, it’s free. Just bring it back and keep it in good shape. Don’t tear out the pages. Don’t write in it.” And you learn that you want to do that—not only because they tell you—but also because when you return it, you want to get the next Curious George book. And you realize that if the other kids in the community don’t return the book, or don’t take care of their books, you won’t be able to take it out. So, you learn mutual obligation and reciprocity from an early stage.”

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I’m just imagining how many families could have been supported to remain intact with the money spent on this ad. Adoption is a capitalistic enterprise. This isn’t about giving pregnant people options; it’s about the “domestic supply of infants” not currently meeting demand.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

And here’s what a lot of folks aren’t ready to hear. THIS is why the US is becoming a fascist state. There’s fascists in every country. But what allows them to take hold here is that we don’t have an opposition party. If we don’t refuse to vote for these people anymore, this won’t end.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I got my original birth certificate from Colorado in 2018 after years of being shut out by the agency that facilitated my adoption. I don’t think many non-adopted people will ever be able to fully understand how surreal it is to see information **about yourself** that was hidden by the govt.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 25/01/2026

🚨🚨VA RESIDENTS: Want to do some advocacy from home this weekend? HB301 will give VA-born adopted people the right to access their original birth certificates and will be heard by the full VA House **before Fri 1/30**. More details and email templates below

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 25/01/2026

by maintaining the belief that the victims of state terror must have somehow deserved or caused what they got, we do our part to help sustain the terror regime’s existence.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/01/2026

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If his main site is still down with all the traffic, DreamHaven is also on Abebooks, which is linked in the thread.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

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The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia

The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!

Image of the tops of books in a herringbone pattern. They are in a rainbow gradient. The center of the image has a green textbox with the words "Resources for fighting book censorship, library challenges, and more."

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.

Photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American disabled woman in a power chair. She is wearing an orange and black tiger-striped sweater, black pants, a bold red lip color, and a trach at her neck. In the background is a gray cement wall with greenery. (Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography)

This is Alice’s friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice’s wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.

Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody

narrative of hosting an admin party for everyone to sit together with snacks, be merry, pay bills and make doctors appointments and manage life

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Every time someone’s t-shirt campaign gives my neurodivergent, sensory-spicy brain a v-neck option that keeps fabric from touching my throat — I bless them, and my odds of supporting go up about 75%.

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

*sigh* that feeling when I’m both glad we can help and also despondent that we market ourselves in line with upholding oppressive capitalistic norms. An all-too-familiar feeling in public libraries, unfortunately.

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

This is the proudest I have felt to be a Texan in years.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Free plums and propaganda.

Cardboard box on a rock in a garden that says free plums & propaganda. Inside the box are French plums and postcards by Marc Fischer that say Losers Attack Our Libraries, Fight for Librarians

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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Imagine if a student can pay $20/month to be able to say to their computer, "Please log in to Canvas for me and complete all the assignments due today." That might be the case as of today if OpenAI's agent is allowed to access learning management systems. Yet we can't abandon online learning.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

#tdih 1969 Stonewall Riots in NYC. Police attack patrons at gay bar who resist. Often called spark that launched the gay rights mov't, the history is longer. See @nyhistory.bsky.social & Throughline ⬇️ Defend right to teach this history. Poster via @justseeds.bsky.social of Sylvia Ray Rivera

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June 28, 1969: Stonewall Riots

Police arrived at the Stonewall Inn and arrested anyone found to be cross-dressing, resulting in mayhem and what are now referred to as the Stonewall Riots. This was a milestone in a long history of L...

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 24/06/2025

good morning to everyone but especially to those public librarians who have survived the launch of Summer Reading 2025 📚

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I just keep looking at my phone and saying “oh my God” like Bob from Bob’s Burgers.

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

12 shared posts deep into the chat with my cousin and realized that this is the modern version of "catching up on correspondence."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My voice cracked and i wasn’t eloquent but i try to always be the person who says, “fighting fascism is not violence.”

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Avoid the violence/nonviolence debate. It’s a trap. The only thing that matters is what actions lead to more justice and less harm. Inaction and complicity in the face of brutal oppression is the worst form of violence. Never forget it.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

That’s it.

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Many librarians are not lawyers, but we are great at getting into the weeds; and, despite our public reputation, we are actually bad at being quiet about almost anything.

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This is so bad for so, so many reasons. And good luck explaining those reasons without any of the vocabulary that’s now verboten in federal research — words like climate, bias, equity, inclusion, and climate (included twice because !!).

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I think it’s been a long time since library workers felt “safe” — this act is sending a message that we have already internalized.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I’m been saying this is all a war of imagination and perception. He’s going after the narrative. You control imagination and you don’t even have to try anymore. That’s what this push to insert AI in creative spaces is about, too. White supremacy and American imperialism is at work. on.ft.com/4jXhppq

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Donald Trump says he will impose 100% tariff on movies made abroad

US president expands trade war to film industry in pledge to prevent ‘death of Hollywood’

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I would throw money at the screen but I don’t have to because this conference is free! Consider attending if you’re working in libraries through an inclusive and critical lens. I love these people, and this conference program looks so good!

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Registration - Critical Pedagogy Symposium

Free registration is OPEN!Register here **We have a LARGE Zoom capacity! Please register and tell a friend!** The Critical Pedagogy Symposium will be held online on zoom.Tuesday, June 10th – Thursday,...

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm not over the Righteous Gemstones ending. If the world is going to be completely unhinged, then I need more similarly unhinged content to process living in this timeline. It is weirdly validating.

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

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