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Jocelyn Codner

@forgottencorners.bsky.social

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Academic librarian and metalhead gushing about dark genre fiction, metal 🤘🏼, and libraries. Chair of the HWA Library Advisory Council, HWA Pittsburgh chapter member 🕯️🕸️🖤 (she/her)

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Jocelyn Codner @forgottencorners.bsky.social · Jan 13

It's more important, actually.

marb @marb.bsky.social · Jan 13

"I just wish pasta was as healthy as vegetables, because I feel like, to me, it's as important of a food item" - a slight paraphrasing of @forgottencorners.bsky.social

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

News organizations, including Hegseth's former employer Fox, reject new Pentagon reporting rules

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 2d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 2d

Today's a great day to celebrate the work of Indigenous explorers!
I recently learned about Gadiel Sánchez Rivera, a Peruvian environmental activist who joined expeditions that included walking the full length of the Amazon River and kayaking Lake Titicaca to survey for endangered frogs.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 4d

If we ever take this country back from madmen we will need to prosecute crimes like this. Otherwise we’ll only set up something worse down the line. If they know they can get away with it they will try again.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 4d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 5d

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark

Horror & Disability. Help us write disabled takes on horror movies for a free zine. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Please feel free to reach out for more information. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

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Matt Brandenburg @brandenburgdm.bsky.social · 5d

Continuing my yearly Halloween tradition of reading @spookhouse.bsky.social The Crypt of Blood and The Mausoleum of Gore. I keep finding new moments, new hauntings, new questions of what is real.

You should pick them up: www.muzzlelandpress.com

Two books leaning against a tombstone. The Mausoleum of Gore and the Crypt of Blood, both by Jonathan Raab.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Democrats are ramping up the pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat who won a special election last month to succeed her late father.

Who is Adelita Grijalva and what is the controversy over her being sworn in to Congress?

Democrats are ramping up pressure on Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in the newest member of Congress.

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 6d

Claim and celebrate ALL the victories

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 6d

hi hello unpaywalled

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

www.wired.com

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6d

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, known for philosophical and bleakly funny novels, has won the Nobel Prize in literature.

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in literature for what the Nobel committee called his compelling and visionary work.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 7d

You either defend trans people and people of color now, or you go out alone when it's your turn. Just like Niemoller thought the Nazis would leave him alone if he was a good German. You're as wrong as he was. You'll find out.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12d

A litel bit of goode newes for the humanityes
www.wesa.fm/arts-culture...

University of Pittsburgh launches world's first center to study horror genre

The University of Pittsburgh is doubling down on its longstanding commitment to studying the horror genre with the launch of its new Horror Studies Center.

www.wesa.fm

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 8d

Tomorrow (Oct 8th)!! Come join me, along with the inimitable @almakatsu.bsky.social and @kristinaten.bsky.social, at the @fallforthebook.bsky.social Festival in Fairfax, VA, while we talk all things monstrous!

Then, hop a flight to NM for this stacked, all-star horror event on the 10th!

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Jocelyn Codner @forgottencorners.bsky.social · 9d

Deeply excited for this!

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Chris Panatier @scribeofhades.bsky.social · 9d

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: DAYTIDE

“Black metal Wizard of Oz”

RAPTURE PUBLISHING 2/26/26

Limited to 350 deluxe, hardcover, illustrated (by me) editions.

Order now before they’re gone.

www.rapturepublishing.com/product/dayt...

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Jocelyn Codner @forgottencorners.bsky.social · 11d

Oh I know! It's absolutely doing it for me. Love some evolution!

Jocelyn Codner @forgottencorners.bsky.social · 11d

I'm losing my shit over this new AFI album. This is for the goth girls. I'm obsessed.

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 11d

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes."

—Anne Frank

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11d

“All of this feels ridiculous because that’s exactly what it is. But the larger goal is to inure you to the strangeness of it all so that when these products — be they movies, shows, or TikToks — finally come to market, your reaction is ‘Sure, why not?’”

Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop

The point is to normalize generative AI in your mind.

www.theverge.com

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