Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian)
@comicslibrarian.com
Librarian specializing in comics.
Reviewer of books and comics for library publications.
Married to @mathewcasper.bsky.social
🇺🇸 living in 🇨🇦
My book
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/maximizing-the-impact-of-comics-in-your-library-9781440868856/
Reviewer of books and comics for library publications.
Married to @mathewcasper.bsky.social
🇺🇸 living in 🇨🇦
My book
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/maximizing-the-impact-of-comics-in-your-library-9781440868856/
Fandoms are trying to engage with activism that can make a difference, and your library is a great place to find those opportunities. @comicslibrarian.com breaks down all the ways libraries are standing up to ICE.
How Libraries Are Standing Up to ICE
Fandoms are trying to engage with activism that can make a difference, and your library is a great place to find those opportunities.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 11:41 PM
I’m digging the use of “Epstein Class,” yes this
This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I’m digging the use of “Epstein Class,” yes this
You bastards, not a single one of you told me there was a Sonic ripoff starring Speedy Gonzales
February 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
You bastards, not a single one of you told me there was a Sonic ripoff starring Speedy Gonzales
Despite D.A.R.E.’s promises
No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.
February 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Despite D.A.R.E.’s promises
So, which of the Skarsgård siblings is gay?
With that many kids at least one is gay, them’s the rules.
With that many kids at least one is gay, them’s the rules.
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
So, which of the Skarsgård siblings is gay?
With that many kids at least one is gay, them’s the rules.
With that many kids at least one is gay, them’s the rules.
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If THE LIBRARIANS on PBS Independent Lens airs past your bedtime tonight, don’t worry. You can also stream it via the PBS app and on the PBS Independent Lens YouTube channel starting at noon EST Monday. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens
The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.
www.pbs.org
February 9, 2026 at 12:53 PM
If THE LIBRARIANS on PBS Independent Lens airs past your bedtime tonight, don’t worry. You can also stream it via the PBS app and on the PBS Independent Lens YouTube channel starting at noon EST Monday. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
Skipping church tonight.
I’m just not in a very “inherent worth and dignity of every person” place right now when a group of people rape children and another group of people protect the child rapists while calling librarians and educators “pedophiles” and “groomers.”
📚 #unitarianuniversalist
I’m just not in a very “inherent worth and dignity of every person” place right now when a group of people rape children and another group of people protect the child rapists while calling librarians and educators “pedophiles” and “groomers.”
📚 #unitarianuniversalist
February 9, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Skipping church tonight.
I’m just not in a very “inherent worth and dignity of every person” place right now when a group of people rape children and another group of people protect the child rapists while calling librarians and educators “pedophiles” and “groomers.”
📚 #unitarianuniversalist
I’m just not in a very “inherent worth and dignity of every person” place right now when a group of people rape children and another group of people protect the child rapists while calling librarians and educators “pedophiles” and “groomers.”
📚 #unitarianuniversalist
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The movie they make about Tulsi Gabbard's infiltration of US intelligence is going to simultaneously be a haunting look at the most damaging intelligence failure in US history and a hilarious romp about the stupidest fucking people alive
February 8, 2026 at 4:40 AM
The movie they make about Tulsi Gabbard's infiltration of US intelligence is going to simultaneously be a haunting look at the most damaging intelligence failure in US history and a hilarious romp about the stupidest fucking people alive
Disney and the Muppets make a great partnership, but that's all it should be. I wish the Muppets were still owned and controlled by Jim Henson Studios with Disney as a distribution partner.
February 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Disney and the Muppets make a great partnership, but that's all it should be. I wish the Muppets were still owned and controlled by Jim Henson Studios with Disney as a distribution partner.
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Set up a page of fundraisers for victims of ICE in NYC. Please do check it out! comixaction.com/nyc-fundrais...
NYC fundraisers for ICE victims - Comix Action
To donate to a group that’s providing a range of direct aid and services to immigrants targeted by ICE, check out Mi Tlalli. And here are some GoFundMes for families with members abducted by ICE, most...
comixaction.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Set up a page of fundraisers for victims of ICE in NYC. Please do check it out! comixaction.com/nyc-fundrais...
Like all gay men, I stay at home on a Friday night and play with my action figures.
February 7, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Like all gay men, I stay at home on a Friday night and play with my action figures.
This movie that’s supposed to take place in Portland but has a Shoppers Drug Mart clearly visible in the background, YOU AIN’T FOOLING ME 🇨🇦
February 7, 2026 at 4:07 AM
This movie that’s supposed to take place in Portland but has a Shoppers Drug Mart clearly visible in the background, YOU AIN’T FOOLING ME 🇨🇦
Let the cute, nerdy, cub nurse have more lines in THE PITT.
- signed, my husband (and me)
- signed, my husband (and me)
February 7, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Let the cute, nerdy, cub nurse have more lines in THE PITT.
- signed, my husband (and me)
- signed, my husband (and me)
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The secret to IP Team Building is... #ipcoach #batmanlevelmanagement #illuminousideas
February 6, 2026 at 11:56 PM
The secret to IP Team Building is... #ipcoach #batmanlevelmanagement #illuminousideas
The thing I love about Fraction and Mora’s current BATMAN run, besides the stand-alone nature of each issue, is it shows how Batman can be fun again. So many Batman stories are all about being as grim and grisly as possible. These stories are still thrilling, but brighter. #comicsky
February 6, 2026 at 5:06 PM
The thing I love about Fraction and Mora’s current BATMAN run, besides the stand-alone nature of each issue, is it shows how Batman can be fun again. So many Batman stories are all about being as grim and grisly as possible. These stories are still thrilling, but brighter. #comicsky
I will defend The Muppets mockumentary show from 2016 till I’m in the ground.
It was funny. It made me laugh many times. It deserved more seasons and not the hate.
It was funny. It made me laugh many times. It deserved more seasons and not the hate.
kermit the frog is standing next to a teddy bear that says i love you :)
Alt: kermit the frog is standing next to a teddy bear that says i love you :)
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I will defend The Muppets mockumentary show from 2016 till I’m in the ground.
It was funny. It made me laugh many times. It deserved more seasons and not the hate.
It was funny. It made me laugh many times. It deserved more seasons and not the hate.
February 5, 2026 at 3:22 AM
I’m starting to get used to the new Kermit voice. Slowly but surely.
February 5, 2026 at 1:37 AM
I’m starting to get used to the new Kermit voice. Slowly but surely.
I hopped on to Facebook to do my weekly check, and holy shit - nothing but AI generated caricatures with folks saying “jumping on the bandwagon.”
Shameful.
Shameful.
February 4, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I hopped on to Facebook to do my weekly check, and holy shit - nothing but AI generated caricatures with folks saying “jumping on the bandwagon.”
Shameful.
Shameful.
“The #epsteinfiles discourse is all about vilifying age-gap relationships.”
February 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM
“The #epsteinfiles discourse is all about vilifying age-gap relationships.”
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one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
February 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
“…and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
If you have a billion dollars or more, you are evil. You don't start out as evil, so it's not like only evil people ever get a billion dollars; it's just that being a billionaire forced you to make a choice, be evil or change how you do things and stop being a billionaire. Billionaires choose evil.
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity
February 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
“…and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”