jeanmistfox.bsky.social
@jeanmistfox.bsky.social
Retired children's librarian who likes cats, chocolate, and fantasy books.
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💔This is Kostyantynivka.

The city, where 78,179 people lived until 2022, but today the Russians are destroying every street

📷: Khyzhak Brigade
December 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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What do you call it when a foreign power’s agents target and damage your transportation infrastructure, drinking water and food safety?
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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'bat shit' is definitely a good phrase for this administration.
Bat shit crazy.

US plans to start checking tourists social media.

It will be "mandatory" to hand over the social media info, including email addresses & phone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the names, addresses, numbers, & birthdays of family members.

news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Started / Going
December 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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So I heard the advertisement world gave us another “oh no, he’s cute” wolf.

(I needed to add the subtitles myself because *holy appropriate song*, Batman!)
December 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Three weeks after the russian attack on Ternopil, rescuers found the body of 4yo Sofiyka, murdered along with seven other children and 30 adults.

At the same time, Ukraine is under immense pressure to capitulate.

Two different universes.

Source: 20 khvylyn media.
December 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I’ll be honest, ADHD was not where I saw TERFs headed next. I mean, I knew they were always gonna go after somebody, trans people were always the thin end of the wedge, but of all the bigotry available to choose from, we’re awfully niche.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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I worked at a university where the five highest paid employees were the men’s basketball coach, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired before that one, the former president who had been fired, and the current president. In that order.
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Holiday sales make up 20% of corporate profits. From now through Cyber Monday, we’re taking a 5% bite back by boycotting Target, Home Depot, and Amazon for unsafe working conditions, cutting DEI, and letting ICE target our neighbors. Join us in saying #WeAintBuyingIt!
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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“ICE is about to have a bigger budget than the entire military of Israel. It’s an insane way for us to be spending our resources as a country.” - @timmiller.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The magnitude of the change over time is striking.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I was worried this was AI but it's real! www.walmart.com/ip/Playmobil...
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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This.

Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?"

We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!"

Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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BREAKING: RealPage is suing New York, challenging a new state law that bans landlords from using algorithms to set rents.

RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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this is absolutely horrific and it's why I won't travel back to the US right now. I'm already going to be missing a memorial service and a week-long work meeting and I know there will be more to come, but I am chronically ill. I need my medication and I don't know what detention would do to me.
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Over on Whatever today I confirm that, indeed, all those emails authors and other writers are getting promising access to readers and book clubs and such are 100% scams, share all the scam emails I got just this morning, and note why they are all awful and bad:

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/y...
Yes, All Those Author Services and Book Club Emails Are Fake, and No, Don’t Send Them Any Money
If you’re an author, or honestly if you just happen to be standing near an author these days, then you have probably seen a flood of emails in the past couple of months promising you that who…
whatever.scalzi.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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And then she starts posting Russian propaganda every single day. What a coincidence.
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Half a dozen members of Congress who previously served in the military or intelligence community are urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Democratic lawmakers urge troops to disobey illegal orders | CNN Politics
Half a dozen members of Congress who previously served in the military or intelligence community are urging servicemembers and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by ...
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"

bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.

This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM