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Jenn Campbell

@piefuchs.bsky.social
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Reader, scientist, Bruins fan, feminist, lover of all things mass spec, Nova Scotian expat. I log the books I read in my feed. 🇨🇦🇺🇸

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why can no one actually not take their phones out for pictures when the artist (Pat Metheny no less) request you not take pictures???
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: You Decide www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/be....
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My Top Shows — the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century
Silo, Succession, Mad Men and 7 more.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I loved the Jakarta Method so much I subscribed to the author’s Substack - where he was generously giving out free books and I got this one. A thoughtful analysis of how the large protests of the 2010s did not lead to lasting change.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The cultural connections between Nova Scotia and actual Scotland mean that this reads like it took place in the Maritimes.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI will not destroy humanity - failure to acknowledge that AI models need proper testing will. Going from research to product too quickly in many industries would lead to disaster and the fact it is the norm in AI is their failing, not something magical about the technology.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trade war isn’t stopping Rush from amazing a sold out crowd at TD Garden.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I am judging a high school debate about colonizing space and everyone can imagine a world where humans/humanoid robots are living on orbiting planets or asteroids and no one can imagine that the resources are not owned by billionaires.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I loved this author’s book on the life of ordinary citizens in GDR - and she uses the same formula here for a group of citizens in Weimar as the Nazi’s come to power. Thoughtfully done.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Another quick weekend read. This one was a collection of connected short stories loosely themed around the struggles of aging. Not her best - but I always find her worth reading.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On Labour Day I think of my grandfather and my mother - long time members of the UMWA and NSTU respectively.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I read Strout’s novels (which I love) so fast I will only buy on Kindle. A new character - and between the New England setting, the main character being my age, the the 2023/4 time frame of the novel - this one did hit me harder than others.
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 05/09/2026
Feminist writer, poet, activist and longtime Ms. editor Robin Morgan died on Sept. 5. She was 85.
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Rest in Power, Robin Morgan—Ms. Editor, Poet, Feminist and Architect of the Women’s Movement
Longtime <em>Ms.</em> editor and "architect of the contemporary women's movement," Robin Morgan died peacefully in her sleep on Sept. 5, 2026, just days after her friend and feminist partner Gloria St...
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Another of my feminist idols is gone. Poet, author, activist. Reading the Demon Lover in my early 20’s solidified my feminism. Rest in Power Robin Morgan. Robin Morgan, Voice of Radical Feminism, Dies at 85 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Robin Morgan, Voice of Radical Feminism, Dies at 85 (Gift Article)
She edited the landmark 1970 anthology “Sisterhood Is Powerful,” led Ms. magazine and helped build the institutions of the modern feminist movement.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Half way through this book I was ready to be a digital Luddite. Anyone who has a romantic view of Musk’s intelligence should read how is inability to get the basic message in SciFi books. The chapter discussing how changes in science alter government was particularly thought provoking.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This this this!!! And more of this!!!
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Great thread reminding people how much things have changed for women in Gloria Steinem’s lifetime. By the always wonderful Rebecca Solnit
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh to live a life where spreadsheet functions are a purple category…#Connections
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Great story telling makes for a fast read. Good not great.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Both the outrageous acts and the everyday rebellions were inspirational. Ms was great in day. RIP Gloria Steinem.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/09/2026
Breaking News: Senator Ed Markey, an 80-year-old progressive, held off Representative Seth Moulton to win the Democratic primary in Massachusetts.
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Senator Ed Markey, 80, Turns Back Younger Challenger in Massachusetts
The oldest senator in Massachusetts history used a progressive message to beat Representative Seth Moulton, 47, defying calls for generational change.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Voted today - proudly #StickingWithEd and trying to dump Clark too…
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A gag gift from the people who I kept telling to stay away from the edge!! The surprising thing honestly is that more people do not die!!!
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A little Vacationland time before the new school year starts.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My dog asking for a treat. Tonight as my daughter and I were ending his walk - the unleashed puppy from across the street ran across the street to greet him and the puppy was killed by a car. If you have a dog - please keep the dog on a leash.
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SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’re not in the habit of recognizing celebrity deaths here at 925. That said, Dolly Parton is a national treasure and some folks here joke that Dolly is our Locals patron saint. After all her song “9 to 5” is our anthem. Today we remember all the love and kindness Dolly brought the world.
Tribute-style portrait of a Dolly Parton performing in a ruffled light purple blouse, arm raised and singing into a microphone, overlaid with the lyric: "You're just a step on the bossman's ladder / But you've got dreams he'll never take away."
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Quick read, fun and well written. Captures the feeling of the transition of your early 20s well - while simultaneously being a little “how-the-other-half-lives -ish”
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This one was really good and frankly even if you have never heard of Bob Rae it is worthy reading for the discussions on how to govern (or not) during periods of intense deindustrialization.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The junk emails i get from colleges trying to recruit my daughter is insane - and many email her alone! Sadly the first thing I do for the ones who are emailing so frequently it is insane is google “XYZ College financial trouble”.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Resurrecting a life story from Albanian archives is not an easy task - who better than Lea Ypi to do it. My love of the history of bit players in WW2 continues. I had no idea Albania the only place in Europe that the German’s occupied and had a higher Jewish population after the war than before.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What a lovely book for old women like me! I inhaled it. It also reminded me that in undergrad we would all sit by the mail boxes to see who got a letter that day! And they were long and substantial!
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
When almost everyone dies in the end it feels awkward to say you enjoyed it - perhaps saying it was inspiring to read of those who continued to fight it the worst of circumstances.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
CanLit with all my fave themes!
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Part of my Canada haul! Can Lit at its finest.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Returning from Canada and just drove up to the border - no wait to get into the states on a Canadian long weekend. Canadians do not take their boycotts lightly - they dig in…
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Canadiana time
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Why are there so many fake obituary sites? A child in our town passed away, the school sent an email - and now there are 10s of fake obituaries with multiple factual errors (linking date of death to date of email was universal - some were worse) and written as very generic AI slop. Just cruel.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I love here writing style so I read as much as I can.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I did not mean to read back to back stories about mothers and daughters, but somehow I did, and there were - in relationships and perhaps rigid was of society some parallels - otherwise India is very far from Newport. Worthy of the accolades it received.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A gift from my daughter after a trip to Newport. What started as a story of disposable levels of wealth, moved to a story of societal changes and feminism. Fast, engrossing read.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Women of a certain (old) age all share this experience - and love this song. As an aside whatever happened to women have different hairstyles. That style short hairdo was the rage- I had it myself! www.newyorker.com/culture/song...
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The Summer I Surrendered to Wilson Phillips
In 1990, three daughters of rock royalty—nepo babies before the term was invented—released “Hold On,” a song so wholesome and unguarded that it could disarm even the angstiest teen.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So happy to see that in Philly they still partake in that great tradition of free matches in restaurants.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I wanted to end my ignorance of the story Haiti and its revolutionaries so I started with the classic. I wish historians never stopped writing in this style.
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Five living writers that you've read five books by each: Rachel Cusk Margaret Atwood Haruki Murakami Margaret Drabble Elizabeth Strout
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How did I not know Dark Winds season 4 was on Netflix!!??
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
open.spotify.com/track/7wuJGg... RIP Bonnie Tyler - the longest song at the Junior High Dance - and I still know all the words.
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Total Eclipse of the Heart
Bonnie Tyler · The Very Best of Bonnie Tyler · Song · 2009
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Go-Go’s release their debut LP “Beauty and the Beat” 45 yrs ago today. “It all happened so quickly,” said Jane Wiedlin. “One minute we were playing clubs and sleeping on people’s floors, and the next minute we were the No. 1 album in America. We didn’t really have time to stop and think about it.”
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Jenn Campbell @piefuchs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Loosely based on the Shafia murders and written with a novel multiple voice structure.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/07/2026
We commemorate the 250th anniversary of this nation by carrying on the American tradition of dissent. Challenging those in power is woven into the very fabric of our nation.
Blue graphic with white text reading "dissent is patriotic" and red columns with white stars on the right and left sides
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