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Jessica Gentile

@volumeknobjess.bsky.social
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Youth Services Librarian/ pop culture writer/ minions expert

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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
True life: I brought my toddler to a music festival
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Toy Story 6 villain just dropped www.kcbd.com/2026/09/10/l...
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Little Tikes iconic children’s toys go colorless for ‘contemporary feel’
Little Tikes is launching its Cloud Collection of neutral-colored Cozy Coupe, Cozy Truck and other popular toys exclusively on Amazon Sept. 15.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Toy Story 6 villain just dropped www.kcbd.com/2026/09/10/l...
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Little Tikes iconic children’s toys go colorless for ‘contemporary feel’
Little Tikes is launching its Cloud Collection of neutral-colored Cozy Coupe, Cozy Truck and other popular toys exclusively on Amazon Sept. 15.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Preschooler nailed her first homework assignment
Lucy’s favorite songs - I knew I knew you Taylor swift, we are the robots kraftwerk, mamma Mia, abba
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh my god, this exists?!
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
WHY IS SHE SO SAD? - my 3 yr old’s review of the new phoebe bridgers album
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I wrote a tribute to wordle dad gravesite.media/p/how-a-game...
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A Game of Words: How Wordle Connected Us Through Grief
For four years, my dad and I never missed a Wordle. When he stopped sending scores, I knew he was dying. Now I keep our streak alive to keep him close.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
not sure what’s worse: that I wore two different shoes to work today or that it took me an hour to notice
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I used to hate Fourth of July weekends because fireworks (thanks autism!) but now I love Fourth of July weekends because new minions (thanks autism!)
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
BELLO! I am VERY available to write about minions. Just putting that out into the universe hoping to manifest a dream assignment!
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
seeing geordie greep perform in his natural habitat tonight — a bowling alley
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Cinema is back, baby!
Minions and monsters features  aa 15 minute section spoken entirely inminionese.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I wrote an ode to TV Guide for @opensecretsmag.bsky.social
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Object-ives #36: TV Guide Ruled My Childhood
The magazine was a comfort and a liferaft for my autistic mind
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
celebrating my dad’s life with his favorite math riddle.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
RIP wordle dad. You’re the best www.lloydmaxcy.com/obituaries/C...
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Obituary information for Carmine J. Gentile
View Carmine J. Gentile's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I wrote about how Mister Rogers addressed war and geopolitical paranoia and why it matters now:
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How Mister Rogers tackled Cold War fears and why it still resonates
Removed from distribution since the '90s, the Reagan-era "Conflict" series examined the dangers of geopolitical paranoia.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
My dad kept asking why the song was skipping when it wasn’t. It was just Devo.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I wrote about how Mister Rogers addressed war and geopolitical paranoia and why it matters now:
current.org
How Mister Rogers tackled Cold War fears and why it still resonates
Removed from distribution since the '90s, the Reagan-era "Conflict" series examined the dangers of geopolitical paranoia.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
if I didn’t already know my dad was in hospice, I could tell because he hasn’t sent me a wordle score in four days
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
fueled entirely by cadbury creme eggs & klonopin
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It’s probably the most personal thing I ever wrote and now it’s on your local newsstand! My experience as an autistic mom in Newsweek:
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It’s probably the most personal thing I ever wrote and now it’s on your local newsstand! My experience as an autistic mom in Newsweek:
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
someone give me something to feel good about, thanks
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
and let’s not kid ourselves, it gets really, really bad
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Heimlich, of maneuver fame
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Distraught as it is and then Catherine O’Hara dies!
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
watching Wednesday music videos with my 3 year old - when mj lendermsn pops up she screams ‘WRISTWATCH’ proud parenting moment, right there
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
merry xmas from my wordle dad
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
my favorite genre of Xmas song is remake of non-Xmas song to be about Xmas. MUST made by the ORIGINAL ARTIST to qualify . Who are we forgetting? open.spotify.com/playlist/3Tm...
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Christmas Remakes
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
how developmentally appropriate is it for my toddler to ask if a mazzy star song (pre-vocals) is by the cranberries? Is it concerning enough to bring it up to the pediatrician at her next doctor appointment? she turns 3 next week if that helps.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Yes I’m writing about minions again
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The Joy and Envy of Commercial Kid Lit
How Minions taught me to embrace bad books and good imagination
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Yes I’m writing about minions again
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The Joy and Envy of Commercial Kid Lit
How Minions taught me to embrace bad books and good imagination
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
At Home Depot next to a xmas minion and Olaf there was an inflatable nativity scene, which prompted my toddler to ask “WHAT SHOW IS THAT FROM??”
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The hardest part of making anything, art especially, is trying, trying and trying until something comes to fruition. If a book, a song, a film etc reaches your heart, reach out and tell the creator. Sometimes a small acknowledgement of effort is enough to keep going open.substack.com/pub/jessicag...
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On Trying to Try
Some people always write everything down.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I’m trying to try, ok
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On Trying to Try
Some people always write everything down.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
in case anyone’s wondering where my mental state’s at right now I just made a quackpell roan
Quackpell roan
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
helluva day to start reading the new george saunders, 30 pages in and it reads like a climate change, christmas carol dystopia
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
that’s moi espresso
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Seth Rogen Revives ‘The Muppet Show’ as a Disney+ Special Starring Sabrina Carpenter
The 2026 event is meant to serve as a backdoor pilot.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
shout out to the lady at the Labor Day food truck festival who karaoked “hopelessly devoted to you” in broad afternoon daylight
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
How did i not know that James Patterson wrote the Toys R Us kids jingle?!?!? Hanging my head in shame because that’s the most on-brand piece of trivia I didn’t know until today.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Everything I know about New Age music, I learned from the Nickelodeon commercial breaks of my childhood
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
the only instance where I’m pro-ska
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
had I not given birth to my child I would know her as my own simply because she got the most excited over seeing a tertiary (at best) character at sesame place
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
had I not given birth to my child I would know her as my own simply because she got the most excited over seeing a tertiary (at best) character at sesame place
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
KETCHUP SMOOTHIE TIME!
Heinz ketchup smoothie
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Spoiler alert: it’s not just the screens
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The Other Reasons Gen Z Parents Aren't Reading to their Kids
How free pizza, talking dogs and celebrity posters helped me love books as a child.
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
wordle dad update
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Would anyone read an essay about the the polarities of masculinity and fatherhood as viewed through the timely lens of early 2000s reality tv staples “the osbournes” and “hogan knows best”???
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I am VERY available to write this piece!
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Jessica Gentile @volumeknobjess.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Would anyone read an essay about the the polarities of masculinity and fatherhood as viewed through the timely lens of early 2000s reality tv staples “the osbournes” and “hogan knows best”???
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