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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 7d

Why (in the sense of an actual question) is the extremely vast majority of dental hygiene products some kind of mint?

Related: did you know mint toothpaste isn’t supposed to burn like fire for a couple of hours after you brush? I didn’t until this summer

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 7d

As part of @everylibrary.bsky.social's roster of events for Banned Book Week (buy a banned book @bookshop.org), Jessica Stoya and I talked about Fanny Hill, criminal and civil book bans, and the US Supreme Court:

Why Fanny Hill Still Turns Heads with Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya

YouTube video by EveryLibrary

www.youtube.com

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 9d

It's Banned Book Week, and I'm delighted to be part of @everylibrary.bsky.social's calendar of events by chatting with @stoya.bsky.social about Fanny Hill (aka Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure), a Very Banned book. I mean, it was banned in two countries, at least five times.

EveryLibrary Live! Banned Books 2025 Calendar

Join EveryLibrary Live! for Banned Books Week Fest 2025, a free online celebration featuring 25+ authors, editors, and advocates in bold conversations about storytelling, censorship, and the freedom t...

www.everylibrary.org

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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 11d

This half drunk man was about to tell me why, for the past several months, he has been confidently assuming I am Russian despite my complete inability to roll an r

And then he got distracted

As tipsy people tend to

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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 11d

It is dumb! It is ignorant! And it also works in one of several ways when it is inescapable for prolonged periods of time.

Ruz-El @ruz-el.bsky.social · 11d

I'm so used to seeing their politics as dumb and ignorant that I miss how insidious the intent behind statements like Vance's are.

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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 11d

My completely flaming hot take on “Wayward” is that, as much as it drastically underplays the reality of teen reprogramming camps, it serves as a palatable-to-the-blissfully-uninitiated primer on some of the mind warping tactics

Which are often used by the current US administration

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 14d

… they please replace it with one that is actually representative of how I tend to look?

Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 14d

So, now that the US government is shutting down nonessential operations, is it a good time to tell the consulate that I really dislike my passport photo because I got too close to the old one expiring when I was still recalibrating from a deeply regrettable (and failed) hormone treatment so could…

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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 14d

So, now that the US government is shutting down nonessential operations, is it a good time to tell the consulate that I really dislike my passport photo because I got too close to the old one expiring when I was still recalibrating from a deeply regrettable (and failed) hormone treatment so could…

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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 18d

Bonded pairs are wonderful

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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 18d

You and @logandria.bsky.social together is so delightful

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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 21d

“Allowed to focus on… where we feel our voices will be effective” 💕

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21d

Yes and also we all aren't outrage jukeboxes, you can't just press a button and have us be outraged on request. We're all allowed to focus on what we want and where we feel our voices will be effective right now, and trust that others will fight the other fights worth fighting. It's a group effort.

Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 21d

Them: Where was your outrage for [awful thing unrelated to the post they're replying to]??!

Me: ... Clearly you don't actually follow me on social media where I've been ranting for years. 🙄

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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 25d

I stay in my own lane and I avoid a lot of pain

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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 25d

In which Rich Juzwiak really knocks it out of the park on sexualized labor, and I am that much more proud to be his colleague

slate.com/advice/2025/...

For @slate.com’s How To Do It column

My Wife Told Me She Got a “Promotion” at Work. Then I Found Out What She’s Really Been Doing.

This isn't exactly how I want her to support our family.

slate.com

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