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Jenica Rogers
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Academic administrator, recovering library director, anti-fascist gamer nerd, serial hobbyist & dilettante artist.
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Are you an audio storytelling human? I am. Audiobooks and podcasts make me extra special happy. And the best I've found yet is Midnight Burger.

www.weopenatsix.com
Midnight Burger
When Gloria took a waitressing job at a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, dimension-spannin…
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I cannot even. He's detaining and disappearing political prisoners.
March 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The US government is being methodically hunted, and the calls are coming from inside the house. We've been trained over generations to be passive viewers/consumers instead of active participants in our government.

So what do we DO now?
February 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Giddy to be writing for this again.
January 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days.
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge
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Book 1/20: Sheepfarmer's Daughter
January 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My kid's 5th grade class is reading The Westing Game, and my Gen X reader heart is singing. I loved that book. I had the cover pictured here, and it was a library binding. That means it was one of the books my aunt Betsy sent me.
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January 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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This is publication day for the new trade paperback compilation editions of The Murderbot Diaries! Cover art by Jaime Jones, published by @tordotcom.bsky.social, edited by @leeharris.xyz, cover design by Shreya Gupta. Note the "Coming to Apple+" sticker for All Systems Red. 👀
January 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Are you an audio storytelling human? I am. Audiobooks and podcasts make me extra special happy. And the best I've found yet is Midnight Burger.

www.weopenatsix.com
Midnight Burger
When Gloria took a waitressing job at a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, dimension-spannin…
www.weopenatsix.com
January 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Starting 2025 by submitting a claim appeal to UHC for Gwyn's scoli brace, which I shouldn't have to do, as they are a fully covered expense. Wheeeeee!
January 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Extremely subtle naming.
January 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The 10yo just pointed out that The Fifth Element starts in a desert, qualifying it for membership in my Shitty Sand Planet Theory of sci-fi tropes. I hereby posit two things: 1) Earth counts as a Shitty Sand Planet, and 2) I have taught my child well.
January 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Thanks, Cleveland, you made me LOL.
December 24, 2024 at 4:07 PM
New employee is AFAB with he/they pronouns. Know whose problem it is if staff are uncomfortable with that? NOT HIS.

Just reminding myself, and anyone who needs to hear it, that our job as compassionate humans is to reduce harm to the vulnerable, not to reduce discomfort for the majority.
December 9, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Few lyrics are as satisfying to sing as "Initiatives are taken up
By the middle, there ain't gonna be any middle any more"

Thanks, Pearl Jam. You've been living rent free in my head since 1991.
December 8, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Love this process image!
These are huge issues that Isaac Asimov deals with in his novel THE ROBOTS OF DAWN, but of course the extraordinary author also tells a great story! 2/6
December 7, 2024 at 3:15 PM
A decade after I closed them because the campus froze the vacant archivist position, we're in the baby steps phase of reopening them. First step: an intern and our mentored student research coordinator looking at the holdings to identify prime digital humanities collections.
December 6, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Posting without further context
December 3, 2024 at 3:02 AM
I keep listening for his collar, or his toenails on the stairs, and he's just gone. 💔
December 3, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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This is a great article about the Murderbot series by @marthawells.com

If you like science fiction (and maybe even if you don’t) read these books. Probably great for nerdy young adults too.

www.wonkette.com/p/science-fi...
Science Fiction's Best Character Is A Deadly Rogue Cyborg Who'd Rather Be Watching TV
Martha Wells's 'Murderbot Diaries' are a great escape.
www.wonkette.com
December 1, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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Preservation has to make everything complicated. And that’s not a metaphor for my experience here. Okay, yes, it is a metaphor.
December 1, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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stardew valley puts a wizard in your rural farming town and he sometimes does magic but his main thing is he had a messy divorce
December 1, 2024 at 4:20 PM
One of my many winter craft projects: Paint The Tavern
November 30, 2024 at 6:02 PM
At 🦃, G bonded with an adult step-cousin who also plays flute. They had an impromptu flute practice session. I thanked Tessa for being so kind to G and she replied "Kind? She was kind to ME. She's cool. When you write your parenting book I'll read it." The kid baffles and delights me.
November 30, 2024 at 12:11 AM
This guy is clearing the leaves from the snowblower path so we can leave and not worry about the snow blocking his shed. His progeny, to whom he gave his autistic brain tendencies, is melting the fuck down because she wanted to leave at noon. I'm quietly folding laundry. As one does.
November 27, 2024 at 7:20 PM
The moment when you check the weather on the route you're taking to Thanksgiving, and discover that your own house is going to get 4" of snow and you left a whole project's worth of equipment in the back yard... so you postpone departure and stand back while the kid struggles not to explode.
November 27, 2024 at 5:58 PM