iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Divest sports from the dream of individual wealth, betting, & the control of ultrawealthy owners... Fewer national and internationally televised games and more filling local parks and stadiums to cheer on our neighbors.

000

You know what would let a lot more people play/focus on sports intensively as a post-high school and even post-college career into their 30s? Universal basic income.

a lot of churches, even ones that are "thriving" by typical diocesan standards of financial sustainability and community investment hang on to staleness because they are in survival mode afraid of losing their charism they avoid small risks imagining them to be larger than they are

000

to train our desire to want more than either contemporary or traditional music divisions suggest is sufficient Because I think a lot of what we should be doing in worship is inviting and encouraging and forming people's desire to be active participants in a plurality of goods across infinite forms

Coming back around to the top,... I think most people are more omnivorous in their musical intake than debates about traditional v contemporary suggest and that most churches would do well to cultivate a passionate diversity AND

I think many progressive churches under-support their music staff which makes getting someone who can put enough education and intention to work in this is asking for sacrifice.

I think I regret not that so many people who lead progressive churches are committed to traditional music, but that they are elitist in their appreciation and attempts to form appreciation/participation in the congregation. Virtuosity should be neither enemy nor our common end.

(3) we should treat our musicians as worship leaders not merely technical facilitation and we should train them not as "additional pastors" but as music educators who think deeply about music as communally & morally formative as well as musically formative

MMM. A bit of a tangent. But (1) style of music is not what makes music inclusive or not (2) contemporary music which doesn't build congregational musical involvement is pretty common

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reposted by jks (she/they)

the end of Lula's speech is hopeful and pointed. citing MLK's Nobel prize speech, he says, what self-centered men break, other-centered men may rebuild, & that the UN was born under a sign of hope by people who refused to accept war, colonialism, poverty, that it should be again a tentpole of peace

18917

It's worth noting that a lot of those layers of admin are also people. Sometimes effective, sometimes not. But good administrators are as valuable for educational institutions as good teachers. (Should experienced admin they be paid more than expereinced instructors? No, but I digress.)

120

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

People are also more likely to use it because they don't trust their potential human interlocutors, ...they shouldn't trust the chatbots either, but their gut risk evaluation is mis-aligned.

020

Reposted by jks (she/they)

A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations

inquirer.com

A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown

Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.

223125312871

Reposted by jks (she/they)

Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My friend Joshua is doing some great reporting on immigration in CT.

072

Reposted by jks (she/they)

Greylock Together INDIVISIBLE Berkshire County Ma @gtindivisible.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's National Voter Registration Day, and we're getting #VoteReady! If you’re not registered at all, get registered. And if you have any trouble or need more help, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE. #NationalVoterRegistrationDay share.indvs.org/s/ctv55nHu

share.indvs.org

Check Your Voter Registration: Select Your State

042

jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

pepper... cross polination? sorry anout your marigold, mine have been going strong since July when in rains they look enameled

000

jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

to be fair... my help consists in sitting next to child (now taller than me) and pointing at eaxh successive question... now this one now this one I am substitute executive function

010

jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Homework... I hates it. (Reader this is my 15 year old's AP human geography homework. I cant remember my parents helping me with any homework after 6th grade... except big projects. is this just me?)

210

Reposted by jks (she/they)

Librarian by Day 🏳️‍🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can't wait to listen to this limited Podcast series from @heykellyjensen.bsky.social Learn how Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson started tracking & documenting book bans, what inspires her advocacy, what she's most proud of, & how she continues showing up every day. www.liberatinglit.com/episodes/epi...

liberatinglit.com

Episode One: Tasslyn Magnusson — Liberating Lit

Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson has been tracking book bans since 2021. But her work is much more than simply counting–it’s helping motivate other people nationwide to get to work protecting the right to read. ...

01510

Reposted by jks (she/they)

The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Found it! Ratified by the USA (and China, Russia, etc.), so it's on the same level as constitutional amendments, above US federal law. "states shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner"

en.wikipedia.org

Outer Space Treaty - Wikipedia

2133

jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Even though I haven't found any of the tools to be particularly helpful personally given my existing level of research skill it's hard not to conclude from this chart in the Katina article that EBSCO has a much better development strategy that ProQuest... katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Chart from article shows 6 AI tools developed for different tasks by EBSCO and a unification of tasks across a smaller number of Proquest/Clarivate research assistants. Combining tasks may not make them inherently worse at each task but it seems to have done so in fact?

000

💯 no soft cops 💯 no saviors but at least in this ruralish-bit of Massachusetts I live in, the library is often the least-siloed community center and there is work to be done here beyond the reference interview especially for patrons who aren't doing a lot of self-advocacy for one reason or another

040

For many communities the conversation is about un or under-housed individuals in poverty.... or subtance use and misuse... But other communities may also benefit from social work foci such as aging or interpersonal violence.

140

"What kind of social work practice would benefit patrons & the library mission & is that best met by staff training, community consultation, in house social worker, or something else?"

121

The article is well-positioned to move the conversation forward from "A social worker in the library will increase social inclusion" to...

100

BUT (1) mostly ignores trauma-informed and abolitionist movements within social work (see NAASW) & (2) never defines what social workers *do* that isn't soft policing which seems to imply that is all they do

120

Important critical lacuna in the dialogue about SWs in libraries NAMELY (1) we don't have evidence it decreases social exclusion or increases inclusion (2) its not a solution which arises from patron demand/interest (3) it introduces new privacy concerns and risks reinforcing marginalizing policies

182

The article point to improving the training for front-life staff as essential... and its something that needs to happen even if you have a SW on staff because the SW is not there during all open hours. But I think there is something to be said for SW librarians as one who organizes such training.

000