Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚
@jessicaljones.bsky.social
Librarian, history nerd, adoptee, probably practicing tatreez and lost in existential quandary (it’s okay, I like it here). Opinions are mine.
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For National Library Workers Day, this library worker is sharing some of my favorite notes that people have left in my libraries over the years.
This was returned inside a graphic novel we apparently had missed some graffiti in. It lives on my office wall in a frame now.
This was returned inside a graphic novel we apparently had missed some graffiti in. It lives on my office wall in a frame now.
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
I’m just imagining how many families could have been supported to remain intact with the money spent on this ad.
Adoption is a capitalistic enterprise. This isn’t about giving pregnant people options; it’s about the “domestic supply of infants” not currently meeting demand.
Adoption is a capitalistic enterprise. This isn’t about giving pregnant people options; it’s about the “domestic supply of infants” not currently meeting demand.
There’s a new adoption Super Bowl ad.
It’s not about helping pregnant people, it’s about shaping public opinion.
I wrote about why adoption is framed as a “choice” only when abortion is punished.
Read here ⬇️
buff.ly/yrFGUqm
#adopteesky
It’s not about helping pregnant people, it’s about shaping public opinion.
I wrote about why adoption is framed as a “choice” only when abortion is punished.
Read here ⬇️
buff.ly/yrFGUqm
#adopteesky
The Adoption Super Bowl Ad and the Lie of Choice
An adoption Super Bowl ad airs amid abortion bans. This piece examines how “choice” becomes coercion in a post Roe world.
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I’m just imagining how many families could have been supported to remain intact with the money spent on this ad.
Adoption is a capitalistic enterprise. This isn’t about giving pregnant people options; it’s about the “domestic supply of infants” not currently meeting demand.
Adoption is a capitalistic enterprise. This isn’t about giving pregnant people options; it’s about the “domestic supply of infants” not currently meeting demand.
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And here’s what a lot of folks aren’t ready to hear.
THIS is why the US is becoming a fascist state. There’s fascists in every country. But what allows them to take hold here is that we don’t have an opposition party.
If we don’t refuse to vote for these people anymore, this won’t end.
THIS is why the US is becoming a fascist state. There’s fascists in every country. But what allows them to take hold here is that we don’t have an opposition party.
If we don’t refuse to vote for these people anymore, this won’t end.
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
February 7, 2026 at 12:22 AM
And here’s what a lot of folks aren’t ready to hear.
THIS is why the US is becoming a fascist state. There’s fascists in every country. But what allows them to take hold here is that we don’t have an opposition party.
If we don’t refuse to vote for these people anymore, this won’t end.
THIS is why the US is becoming a fascist state. There’s fascists in every country. But what allows them to take hold here is that we don’t have an opposition party.
If we don’t refuse to vote for these people anymore, this won’t end.
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
I got my original birth certificate from Colorado in 2018 after years of being shut out by the agency that facilitated my adoption.
I don’t think many non-adopted people will ever be able to fully understand how surreal it is to see information **about yourself** that was hidden by the govt.
I don’t think many non-adopted people will ever be able to fully understand how surreal it is to see information **about yourself** that was hidden by the govt.
Virginia friends! Whether or not you’re adopted, please support the bill that gives VA adoptees access to their birth certificates. 👇
The right to identity and to see government records about us is fundamental.
My own life was saved by this knowledge (medical history). End adoption secrecy. 🥚
The right to identity and to see government records about us is fundamental.
My own life was saved by this knowledge (medical history). End adoption secrecy. 🥚
🚨🚨VA RESIDENTS: Want to do some advocacy from home this weekend?
HB301 will give VA-born adopted people the right to access their original birth certificates and will be heard by the full VA House **before Fri 1/30**.
More details and email templates below
HB301 will give VA-born adopted people the right to access their original birth certificates and will be heard by the full VA House **before Fri 1/30**.
More details and email templates below
January 26, 2026 at 3:24 PM
I got my original birth certificate from Colorado in 2018 after years of being shut out by the agency that facilitated my adoption.
I don’t think many non-adopted people will ever be able to fully understand how surreal it is to see information **about yourself** that was hidden by the govt.
I don’t think many non-adopted people will ever be able to fully understand how surreal it is to see information **about yourself** that was hidden by the govt.
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🚨🚨VA RESIDENTS: Want to do some advocacy from home this weekend?
HB301 will give VA-born adopted people the right to access their original birth certificates and will be heard by the full VA House **before Fri 1/30**.
More details and email templates below
HB301 will give VA-born adopted people the right to access their original birth certificates and will be heard by the full VA House **before Fri 1/30**.
More details and email templates below
January 25, 2026 at 3:33 PM
🚨🚨VA RESIDENTS: Want to do some advocacy from home this weekend?
HB301 will give VA-born adopted people the right to access their original birth certificates and will be heard by the full VA House **before Fri 1/30**.
More details and email templates below
HB301 will give VA-born adopted people the right to access their original birth certificates and will be heard by the full VA House **before Fri 1/30**.
More details and email templates below
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by maintaining the belief that the victims of state terror must have somehow deserved or caused what they got, we do our part to help sustain the terror regime’s existence.
January 25, 2026 at 6:09 PM
by maintaining the belief that the victims of state terror must have somehow deserved or caused what they got, we do our part to help sustain the terror regime’s existence.
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This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
January 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
If his main site is still down with all the traffic, DreamHaven is also on Abebooks, which is linked in the thread.
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:04 PM
If his main site is still down with all the traffic, DreamHaven is also on Abebooks, which is linked in the thread.
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
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This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com
The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia
The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia.
emwmlibrary.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com
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Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social
The Case for Child Liberation Through Children‘s Books
In troubling the idea of childhood, there is perhaps no better place to go than children’s literature. Children’s literature is where stories of childhood are produced, ostensibly, for children; it…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social
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A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.
This is updated regularly!
This is updated regularly!
November 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM
A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.
This is updated regularly!
This is updated regularly!
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So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
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props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
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i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
Every time someone’s t-shirt campaign gives my neurodivergent, sensory-spicy brain a v-neck option that keeps fabric from touching my throat — I bless them, and my odds of supporting go up about 75%.
October 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Every time someone’s t-shirt campaign gives my neurodivergent, sensory-spicy brain a v-neck option that keeps fabric from touching my throat — I bless them, and my odds of supporting go up about 75%.
*sigh* that feeling when I’m both glad we can help and also despondent that we market ourselves in line with upholding oppressive capitalistic norms. An all-too-familiar feeling in public libraries, unfortunately.
Libraries are an office away from the office. That means library users have an office they can use anywhere they go!
Planning a Working Vacation? The Library Can Help!
Public libraries are your office away from the office.
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August 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
*sigh* that feeling when I’m both glad we can help and also despondent that we market ourselves in line with upholding oppressive capitalistic norms. An all-too-familiar feeling in public libraries, unfortunately.
This is the proudest I have felt to be a Texan in years.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is the proudest I have felt to be a Texan in years.
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Free plums and propaganda.
July 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Free plums and propaganda.
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Imagine if a student can pay $20/month to be able to say to their computer, "Please log in to Canvas for me and complete all the assignments due today."
That might be the case as of today if OpenAI's agent is allowed to access learning management systems.
Yet we can't abandon online learning.
That might be the case as of today if OpenAI's agent is allowed to access learning management systems.
Yet we can't abandon online learning.
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
One employee uses it to automate his weekly parking requests at OpenAI’s San Francisco office.
buff.ly
July 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Imagine if a student can pay $20/month to be able to say to their computer, "Please log in to Canvas for me and complete all the assignments due today."
That might be the case as of today if OpenAI's agent is allowed to access learning management systems.
Yet we can't abandon online learning.
That might be the case as of today if OpenAI's agent is allowed to access learning management systems.
Yet we can't abandon online learning.
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#tdih 1969 Stonewall Riots in NYC.
Police attack patrons at gay bar who resist.
Often called spark that launched the gay rights mov't, the history is longer.
See @nyhistory.bsky.social & Throughline ⬇️
Defend right to teach this history.
Poster via @justseeds.bsky.social of Sylvia Ray Rivera
Police attack patrons at gay bar who resist.
Often called spark that launched the gay rights mov't, the history is longer.
See @nyhistory.bsky.social & Throughline ⬇️
Defend right to teach this history.
Poster via @justseeds.bsky.social of Sylvia Ray Rivera
June 28, 1969: Stonewall Riots
Police arrived at the Stonewall Inn and arrested anyone found to be cross-dressing, resulting in mayhem and what are now referred to as the Stonewall Riots. This was a milestone in a long history of L...
www.zinnedproject.org
June 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
#tdih 1969 Stonewall Riots in NYC.
Police attack patrons at gay bar who resist.
Often called spark that launched the gay rights mov't, the history is longer.
See @nyhistory.bsky.social & Throughline ⬇️
Defend right to teach this history.
Poster via @justseeds.bsky.social of Sylvia Ray Rivera
Police attack patrons at gay bar who resist.
Often called spark that launched the gay rights mov't, the history is longer.
See @nyhistory.bsky.social & Throughline ⬇️
Defend right to teach this history.
Poster via @justseeds.bsky.social of Sylvia Ray Rivera
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good morning to everyone but especially to those public librarians who have survived the launch of Summer Reading 2025 📚
June 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
good morning to everyone but especially to those public librarians who have survived the launch of Summer Reading 2025 📚
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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting