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Jess Schomberg

@schomj.bsky.social
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Librarian, disability, union member 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them)

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404 Media @404media.co · 15h
The idea is that, since USPS trucks are constantly traveling anyway, they can be used as a way to collect data, eventually potentially across the nation.
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm really looking forward to the Mathilda Zeller!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/09/2026
This is the country that four decades of "personal responsibility" politics have wrought.
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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For anyone who is missing JJ and wants to take comfort/remember him through what he left behind, here is one of my favorite interviews he did, with his friend Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan. -js cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...
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Interview with Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan on Nearly Roadkill: Queer Love on the Run
JJ Pionke interviews Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan about their new book, the Nearly Roadkill Reboot, how their writing process has changed since they wrote the original in the mid-1990s, their t...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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Windspeaker.com @windspeaker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“There are still people who think about equity in terms of lowering standards for everybody. That's absolutely not the case. This is about creating systems that support everybody, hold everybody up…” #Indigenous #education #learning
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Small changes in the classroom can create supportive environments for individual student success
By implementing new assessment practices that emphasize Indigenous knowledge systems and perspectives, educators “can reclaim humanity…for all learners,” write co-editors Jo Chrona and Brooke Moore in...
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are
I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I also really appreciate the critical analysis jks is offering
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I found @gossippractice.bsky.social's argument here really compelling and it has already started me thinking about some things we could adopt at my own (academic) library. It would also be a good buddy read with Gina Schlesselman-Tarango's Lady Bountiful article www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/97371
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The legacy of Lady Bountiful: White women in the library | IDEALS
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In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"How can we move away from coercion and control, and towards ensuring that everyone in our communities has the resources and support they need? ... from our present moment and within our individual lives, what choices can we make that move us closer to freedom?"
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No Soft Cops, No Saviours: Abolitionist Notes Against Social Work in Libraries – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
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In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No Soft Cops, No Saviours: Abolitionist Notes Against Social Work in Libraries by @gossippractice.bsky.social
In this article, I look at the idea of hiring social workers into public libraries through the lens of abolitionist librarianship. Often presented as an obvious answer to make libraries more inclusive, there is little evidence within the published literature that this model is more effective than others. I argue that rather than expanding care and support for patrons, this model replicates dynamics of soft carcerality and saviourism within our organizations. Using principles of police abolition as my theoretical grounding, I offer alternative models and fields that we can instead draw on as we work toward more inclusive and liberatory public libraries.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Schools are not a business and a student is not a customer and this is the framing that encapsulates everything wrong with higher education. The “solution” of running universities like businesses rather than a public good was always the problem.
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I like GoodReads. I've found it super helpful for keeping track of what I read and my general impressions over the years. And it's been interesting to see shifts in my reading during that time, as well as keep up with what's coming out (I am not a "bestseller" reader) But all this tracking...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We're going to have a better understanding of the 19th century than of the 21st century. I don't think people are fully appreciating this.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
I dunno i guess i just think it's bad that, instead of rebuilding cultures of trust & shared consensus knowledgemaking which are fundamental to our society, we're just increasingly handing over decision- & sense-making authority to tools which a) we can't trust & b) further degrade trust foundations
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Libraries being bad for capitalism is good for society, actually. #SorryNotSorry 📚 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Study Says Library E-book Lending Hurts Industry Sales
Amid new attempts by states to legislate e-book agreements between publishers and libraries, a new report from the AAP and Authors Guild found that increased e-book lending at libraries is threatening...
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
the way people like to post "argh food recall again" screenshots without linking to the actual recall, and then you go find the actual recall and it's like - "this is still safe under these specific circumstances but abundance of caution" or "only sold at specific food store in another time zone"
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I feel like it's a good sign that so many authors who've worked with Lead Pipe in the past are submitting new proposals to us. It tells me that we're providing a good publishing experience for the folks who do work in our area.
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
💯 Knowledge isn't an objective thing out there in the world, the brain is an organ for taking information it perceives as important enough to pay attention to and tries to make sense of it, to give it *meaning*. In being meaning makers, humans are by definition knowledge builders!
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If I wanted to read Iain M. Banks (SF), where would you recommend starting?
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
99% of assigned reading in high school
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#ScholComm folks, this is maybe of interest
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In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We are still down and our web host is redirecting traffic to their site while they work to fix things. If you or someone you know is trying to access the submission form, here is a direct link to it
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In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here is a direct link to the most current submission form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Submissions open (August 2026)
Thank you for your interest in submitting an article to In the Library with the Lead Pipe. Please refer to our submissions guidelines for a full overview of what we publish, as well as our processes ...
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In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Our website is down again and we are waiting for our service provider to restore it. For anyone working to put together a proposal for the August submission window, here is the most recently archived version of our submission guidelines, which includes a link to the submission form
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/08/2026
And yet, most people aren't aware of this (and think of "bloat" only in personnel terms) because public universities don't typically (and sometimes can't*) disclose how much they spend on tech contracts, while salaries have to be publicly shown. *because tech contracts are treated as proprietary
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night
As the flight neared final boarding, another ICE officer accused Laurie of interfering with the operation and pressed her to help locate the passenger. Laurie declined to say whether the woman was on the flight's passenger list and told the officer he would need to contact the airline's corporate security department for information. "You're going to need a subpoena," she said. No arrests were made at the gate that day.

The next day, the passenger called her.
She had made it home. And she was with her child.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@sparklebeam.bsky.social was this the series you enthused about 20 years ago or am I confusing it with CS Friedman?
Foreigner by CJ Cherryh
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"longevity literacy"
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In this season of ACRL proposal acceptances and rejections: regular reminder that it is an incredibly competitive conference. I have been rejected at least as many times as I've been accepted. If you didn't get accepted, it doesn't mean you/your ideas are not valuable.
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Misa on Wheels @misaonwheels.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Society: “Disabled people should work.” Also Society: -Gets rid of remote work -Makes workplace accommodations extremely difficult to obtain -Little to no accessible public transportation -Takes away benefits and support disabled people need to work in the first place if they earn income
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The "hidden switch" post in this thread is exactly the information I was looking for a couple weeks ago, because I kept running across stealth features I didn't want mstdn.ca/@dbattistell...
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DB 🌱💦 (@dbattistella@mstdn.ca)
Attached: 1 image @Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account: Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by defaul...
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I can't remember what day the Last of the Mohicans discourse. I read it in 8th grade. I only really remember how richly described the trees are and how the settlers had really yikes social structures. It was a lot easier to get through than Ivanhoe (I found that one so tedious).
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Until there are real, actual, physical consequences, this regime will continue to destroy lives unabated. Screaming "but it's a crime" doesn't matter to criminals. They know. They also know no one has stopped them yet.
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Agreed. I've only had good interactions with the ACRLog folks.
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The folks at ACRLog are terrific, and this is a great way for new academic librarians to share their reflections and experiences. Consider applying! 📚
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
see 90% of science fiction published in the 1970s if you want examples
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Reposting screenshot with alt-text
screenshot of Nathan Cofnas quote tweeting JK Rowling.

Cofnas says: Rowling, who is smeared for sex realism, calls me a bad word for applying the same logic to race.

This is in response to Rowling, who said: More than one thing can be true. Nathan Cofnas is a racist. No argument there. Also true: Arday claimed to have been non-verbal until the age of [end of screenshot]
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This makes me sad for the burden put on the people doing this work, but also happy that I'm supporting an organization that tries to take care of its people
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I always find it weird when some of the major voices in public health don't add alt-text or any sort of image description to their posts
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.
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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Lots of new interviews coming! Starting with @jjpionke.bsky.social interviewing @boum.bsky.social about the book The Jellyfish, being a graphic novelist with a vision disability, the process of having their work translated into English and how translation impacts meaning. #CripLib #GraphicMedicine
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Interview with Boum on The Jellyfish
JJ Pionke interviews Boum about the book The Jellyfish, being a graphic novelist with a vision disability, the process of having their work translated into English and how translation impacts meaning.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Professor Jason Arday's former students want to "gather everything good about Jason Arday, in the words of the people who were there" to make their contribution to the public record about him (rather than to debate events + controversies of recent months) leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...
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Everything Good About Jason Arday
First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
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Rob Whelan 🌱 @robw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It's funny ("funny") to look from the POV of the companies making these apps. Everyone who nopes out entirely, doesn't install the app, buys their lunch some other way: invisible. Frustration & anger: invisible. Devs work on what's easily measured, esp what changes result in higher revenue.
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am so excited for this one to come out! Just 3 more weeks and I will be exchanging money for book goodness.
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