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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 5h

This looks great!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 5h

Yay! This looks so valuable!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 5h

I absolutely do! Congratulations!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 6h

(I may not get to all of them in time because I am one human and I have many responsibilities but I do like to know about them.)

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 6h

I was a bookseller in my youth. One of my favorite things to do is boost awesome books by awesome people. If you've published a book in 2025, please let me know so I can read it in time for my annual Weirdly Specific Book Recommendations, shared each December for all your holiday shopping needs.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 6h

No worries, and thanks for letting me know. <3

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11h

I agree. There’s zero need for this. Materials abound, many of them free, to reach this. I understand that teachers are under a lot of stress but there are other options, including communities and clearinghouses of shared teaching materials.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly—I’m all for informed consent. I just think the best person to provide that is the medical team prescribing medication and managing my conditions, who have the full picture and know what I need.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11h

Hooray for equal opportunity! My husband has never been asked, here in the US.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11h

That’s horrible. I’m so sorry.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 12h

This also has me curious: are men ever asked about whether they’ll be contributing sperm to a pregnancy any time soon when they’re prescribed teratogenic or spermicidal medication?

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 12h

Abortion should be accessible to anyone who wants one, and restrictions on healthcare and bodily autonomy are bad enough. But there’s also this extra blast radius of harm. As abortion restrictions have spread, I have increasingly been made to feel like a pre-pregnant incubator, even in a blue state.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve refilled my RA medication monthly for 2+ years without issue. This month, I was repeatedly pressed about pregnancy, which has never happened (I also cannot get pregnant as I lack the required organs). Apparently, this has been a thing since Roe fell:

www.everydayhealth.com/rheumatoid-a...

What Women Can Do if RA Medication Methotrexate Is Denied

Methotrexate treats rheumatoid arthritis, but it can also end a pregnancy. In anti-abortion states, some women can't access this RA medication. Learn more.

www.everydayhealth.com

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2d

Grateful, as always, for Actual Historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social, whose newsletter I've shared every time someone starts being ridiculous about Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2d

On Columbus: "Rejecting an honest account of the past makes it impossible to see accurate patterns. The lessons we learn...will be false, and the decisions we make based on those false patterns will not be grounded in reality. And a society grounded in fiction, rather than reality, cannot function."

October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2d

As a kid playing Sim City on Super Nintendo, I once built a city with only trains to "solve" air pollution. Despite it being well-connected and with ample green space, my citizens complained relentlessly about the lack of roads. I was forced to resign. I was just too ahead of my time, I guess.

Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 3d

walkable cities

The videogame simcity 2000 showing the giant robot monster trampling the city

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 3d

(We’ve spent a lot of time talking about how to prevent student AI use, but lately, I’m seeing students reacting viscerally against AI, while some of my colleagues and admin go on about how much work LLM’s save them and it’s gross.)

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 3d

This shit enrages me. We do not have the latitude to be fucking up this badly, by choice, in this moment. One lazy grifter’s decisions can be used as an indictment against all of higher education.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4d

Recently my deodorant stopped working. Nothing I tried as a replacement worked. So I did the normal thing: I went to Reddit. I learned this is common. I tried a recommended bodywash that targets bacteria. It worked. I moved on. I did not write a defiant essay about making it everyone else’s problem.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4d

This feels reminiscent of “skid marks are totally normal and manly” TikTok. I don’t understand why some people have a problem, and instead of researching and addressing the problem, or normalizing talking about how you addressed the problem, they just lean into “this isn’t a problem, actually.”

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 4d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d

"When these capabilities are delegated to machines, we create a population that consumes and regurgitates information without actually processing or understanding it.” collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

collectivefutures.blog

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4d

The new AI system creates an initial assessment report for fit so that may be what happened! 🙃

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: It looks like the number of federal layoffs -- so far -- is over 4,000, we've learned from court documents

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

White House Signals Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5d

When Fox News lies, people die | We explain on PBS Newshour how the antiscience disinformation spread by the Murdoch media empire and especially Fox News, likely lead to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. And that's just COVID-19. Their fossil fuel disinformation is as deadly.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 7d

"Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science" | My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I spoke with @wbrangham.bsky.social of the @pbs.org #Newshour:
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells with...

www.pbs.org

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