Joel A. Nichols
@jaynick.bsky.social
Librarian, sff writer, queer dad, Vermonter in Philadelphia, author of OUT OF THIS WORLD LIBRARY PROGRAMS: USING SPECULATIVE FICTION TO PROMOTE READING & "Come Back Yesterday: Paradoxes of Library Progress" in LIBRARY 2035 (ed. Hirsh)
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I'm Thomas Chatterton Williams, and as the reality of our entire political and cultural elite's deep enmeshment with pedophilia and sex trafficking goes from obvious to undeniable, I will be writing about how it's bad to have principles.
I love writing one single article over and over again every month
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I'm Thomas Chatterton Williams, and as the reality of our entire political and cultural elite's deep enmeshment with pedophilia and sex trafficking goes from obvious to undeniable, I will be writing about how it's bad to have principles.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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I was going to wait on selling these, because I feel weird about making money on glass while I still owe commissions, but I'm out of solder and just paid a $550 bill for that, so they're available now! Six stained Glass succulents in little ~3.5"x3" hexagonal pots. Pics/prices below, DM to claim:
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I was going to wait on selling these, because I feel weird about making money on glass while I still owe commissions, but I'm out of solder and just paid a $550 bill for that, so they're available now! Six stained Glass succulents in little ~3.5"x3" hexagonal pots. Pics/prices below, DM to claim:
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I already had ffs (facial feminization surgery), but the proliferation of surveillance tech is making me think i need ffs (facial foucaultization surgery)
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I already had ffs (facial feminization surgery), but the proliferation of surveillance tech is making me think i need ffs (facial foucaultization surgery)
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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If you're hoping to read a "cozy romantasy like House on Cerulean Sea or Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping", try Secret of the Moon Conch by @davidbowles.us. #AskALibrarian
Secret of the Moon Conch — Multnomah County Library
Secret of the Moon Conch — Bowles, David (David O.), — In modern Mexico, Sitlali is all alone after the death of her beloved abuela. Targeted by a dangerous gang member, she flees to the United States...
multcolib.bibliocommons.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you're hoping to read a "cozy romantasy like House on Cerulean Sea or Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping", try Secret of the Moon Conch by @davidbowles.us. #AskALibrarian
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This book is such an effective combo of body horror and also sweet compassion. No spice.
Yooo! Someone You Can Build A Nest In was picked as a Kindle Gold Box Deal! For today only, get it for just $4.99.
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Amazon.com: Someone You Can Build a Nest In eBook : Wiswell, John: Kindle Store
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November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This book is such an effective combo of body horror and also sweet compassion. No spice.
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In the third shift years, I wrote 85% of the unpublished novel on the clock.
Thats.... way more money than selling an actual book gets you. And that was in 2010 dollars.
Thats.... way more money than selling an actual book gets you. And that was in 2010 dollars.
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In the third shift years, I wrote 85% of the unpublished novel on the clock.
Thats.... way more money than selling an actual book gets you. And that was in 2010 dollars.
Thats.... way more money than selling an actual book gets you. And that was in 2010 dollars.
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Remember: Trump tried to make this guy Attorney General
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Remember: Trump tried to make this guy Attorney General
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15 year olds are not adults, 16 year olds are not adult, 17 year olds are not adults. Have you ever had a conversation with them?
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
15 year olds are not adults, 16 year olds are not adult, 17 year olds are not adults. Have you ever had a conversation with them?
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*pounds table*
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November 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I’ve said this before, but a huge function of our carceral system is resource extraction from exploited communities, and that includes the fees, commissary, and essentials people send to their loved ones, not to mention the time, attention, energy, etc.
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/r...
FCC allows prisons, jails to charge more for phone and video calls • Ohio Capital Journal
The Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’ve said this before, but a huge function of our carceral system is resource extraction from exploited communities, and that includes the fees, commissary, and essentials people send to their loved ones, not to mention the time, attention, energy, etc.
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I think it does depend on how stringent the entry criteria were. A lot of queer anthos have low pay or no pay and the editor is a peer who happened to take on the work of putting the antho together. That's a different animal than a big traditional or more established magazine antho
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I think it does depend on how stringent the entry criteria were. A lot of queer anthos have low pay or no pay and the editor is a peer who happened to take on the work of putting the antho together. That's a different animal than a big traditional or more established magazine antho
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands
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Social norms are unwritten rules backed by social sanctions. If child sexual abuse isn’t met with strong, collective consequences, we don’t have a social norm against it.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Social norms are unwritten rules backed by social sanctions. If child sexual abuse isn’t met with strong, collective consequences, we don’t have a social norm against it.
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so glad the child sexual abuse panic was squarely pointed at folks like me by the people actually doing it & the public was like “yeah, seems right—freaks did it. not the men with all the money & fighting to keep child marriage legal, the women that are legal to kill in 30 states if you’re nervous.”
What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
so glad the child sexual abuse panic was squarely pointed at folks like me by the people actually doing it & the public was like “yeah, seems right—freaks did it. not the men with all the money & fighting to keep child marriage legal, the women that are legal to kill in 30 states if you’re nervous.”
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Yooo! Someone You Can Build A Nest In was picked as a Kindle Gold Box Deal! For today only, get it for just $4.99.
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Amazon.com: Someone You Can Build a Nest In eBook : Wiswell, John: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Yooo! Someone You Can Build A Nest In was picked as a Kindle Gold Box Deal! For today only, get it for just $4.99.
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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Guys, this author series for the South End branch of the Boston Public Library has got amazing snacks
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Guys, this author series for the South End branch of the Boston Public Library has got amazing snacks
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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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This is a live cam of the sky in Iceland. If you’re in the US, it could give you a few hours heads up on what kind of night it might be!
And if you live somewhere cloudy, well, it’s also useful then
lavacentre.is/live/norther...
And if you live somewhere cloudy, well, it’s also useful then
lavacentre.is/live/norther...
Northern Lights at Lava Centre, live aurora borealis web cam
LAVA Centre's Live Aurora Borealis Webcam. The best way to Experience the Northern Lights in Iceland is by staying outside Reykjavík.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is a live cam of the sky in Iceland. If you’re in the US, it could give you a few hours heads up on what kind of night it might be!
And if you live somewhere cloudy, well, it’s also useful then
lavacentre.is/live/norther...
And if you live somewhere cloudy, well, it’s also useful then
lavacentre.is/live/norther...
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As several people pointed out, the verb 'to brief' and its derivative 'briefing' are related too: briefing someone is giving them a short summary of a situation.
The English word ‘brief’ means “short”, while German ‘Brief’ and Dutch ‘brief’ mean “letter” – and yet they have the same origin.
These words all stem from Latin ‘brevis’, meaning “short”.
Zoom in on my new infographic to learn how it came to mean “letter” in many Germanic languages:
These words all stem from Latin ‘brevis’, meaning “short”.
Zoom in on my new infographic to learn how it came to mean “letter” in many Germanic languages:
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
As several people pointed out, the verb 'to brief' and its derivative 'briefing' are related too: briefing someone is giving them a short summary of a situation.