Jessica
@scifibrarian.bsky.social
Library person, MLIS student, raccoon enthusiast, hedonist.
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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Few people have captured what it's like to live as a childless chronically ill woman, but Mantel does it beautifully.
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Hilary Mantel—On Disability, Psychics, and Princess Diana
Here, the bestselling author of WOLF HALL writes about everything from the Royal Family to the struggles of being chronically ill.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Few people have captured what it's like to live as a childless chronically ill woman, but Mantel does it beautifully.
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bookriot.com/hilary-mante...
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2026’s refresh rate is wild I go do some chores and like 14 major world events have happened
January 12, 2026 at 1:15 AM
2026’s refresh rate is wild I go do some chores and like 14 major world events have happened
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i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
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My Own Inner Elba
Let me start by saying that the news is incredibly awful. I’m very aware of this, in the way you’re aware of, say, a ninety-seven degree day with one hundred...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
stop giving guns to men who got all Cs in high school
January 7, 2026 at 7:54 PM
stop giving guns to men who got all Cs in high school
read an Andrea Gibson poem so beautiful I may never recover
January 7, 2026 at 4:25 AM
read an Andrea Gibson poem so beautiful I may never recover
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didn’t reach my reading goal this year, but in my defense I had to read 3100 pages worth of textbook and also ball x pit exists
January 1, 2026 at 3:44 AM
didn’t reach my reading goal this year, but in my defense I had to read 3100 pages worth of textbook and also ball x pit exists
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December 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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From Ted Chiang's fb
October 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
From Ted Chiang's fb
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Oddly, everything I need to know I learned from a restroom, not Roald Dahl
December 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Oddly, everything I need to know I learned from a restroom, not Roald Dahl
when you text your dad that you love him and he replies back “thanks”
December 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
when you text your dad that you love him and he replies back “thanks”
Sad! At The Gynecologist
December 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Sad! At The Gynecologist
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It’s bad for your mental health to know stuff
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It’s bad for your mental health to know stuff
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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you aren’t ‘making’ ‘art’ when you plug nonsense into AI and it spits out an ugly little picture fyi. that’s called ‘going on the computer’
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
you aren’t ‘making’ ‘art’ when you plug nonsense into AI and it spits out an ugly little picture fyi. that’s called ‘going on the computer’
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have you considered lying down in the woods and giving up about it
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
have you considered lying down in the woods and giving up about it
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I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries
Hope over big money and small ideas
November 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Hope over big money and small ideas
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please, we are all 30 or 40 years old and we need to go to bed
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
please, we are all 30 or 40 years old and we need to go to bed
I still managed to be surprised by the pure hatefulness of this administration. I shouldn’t be. And yet there seem to be new lows reached every day.
Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.
It’s… shocking
It’s… shocking
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
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October 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I still managed to be surprised by the pure hatefulness of this administration. I shouldn’t be. And yet there seem to be new lows reached every day.
need suggestions of the best music/videos/audiobooks to listen to while falling asleep to drown out Thoughts™
October 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
need suggestions of the best music/videos/audiobooks to listen to while falling asleep to drown out Thoughts™
spending my day coughing and sipping soup like a sickly victorian child, thanks covid
October 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
spending my day coughing and sipping soup like a sickly victorian child, thanks covid
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happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you
October 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you