Jill McCabe Johnson
@jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social
Writing about nature, science, history, & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief. TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems) last year. LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir) next year. EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press. Here for lit community & Caturday.
Y’all, we have to resist knee-jerk reactions. I’m seeing a lot of good accounts reposting misinformation, and everyone getting worked up.
Please check before reposting and adding to everyone’s fears, stress, and anger. Thx!
Please check before reposting and adding to everyone’s fears, stress, and anger. Thx!
January 16, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Y’all, we have to resist knee-jerk reactions. I’m seeing a lot of good accounts reposting misinformation, and everyone getting worked up.
Please check before reposting and adding to everyone’s fears, stress, and anger. Thx!
Please check before reposting and adding to everyone’s fears, stress, and anger. Thx!
How many states, Congressional seats, and electoral votes do they propose Greenland will get?
January 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
How many states, Congressional seats, and electoral votes do they propose Greenland will get?
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Today, we are presenting a decisive €90 billion support package combining military assistance and budget support.
It will fund the military support Ukraine needs to defend itself against Russia’s invasion, while keeping Ukrainian hospitals, schools, and public services running. (1/2)
It will fund the military support Ukraine needs to defend itself against Russia’s invasion, while keeping Ukrainian hospitals, schools, and public services running. (1/2)
January 14, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Today, we are presenting a decisive €90 billion support package combining military assistance and budget support.
It will fund the military support Ukraine needs to defend itself against Russia’s invasion, while keeping Ukrainian hospitals, schools, and public services running. (1/2)
It will fund the military support Ukraine needs to defend itself against Russia’s invasion, while keeping Ukrainian hospitals, schools, and public services running. (1/2)
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Someone out there want to write up an open-source replacement for Libby and OverDrive that all public libraries could use for free?
"Both Libby and OverDrive are owned by private equity firm KKR."
well.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_(...
well.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_(...
January 13, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Someone out there want to write up an open-source replacement for Libby and OverDrive that all public libraries could use for free?
“Revision … is a way for the poet to learn what is important.”
Gary Thompson, “Moonsheen and Porchlight: Revision as Illumination”
Gary Thompson, “Moonsheen and Porchlight: Revision as Illumination”
January 12, 2026 at 10:46 PM
“Revision … is a way for the poet to learn what is important.”
Gary Thompson, “Moonsheen and Porchlight: Revision as Illumination”
Gary Thompson, “Moonsheen and Porchlight: Revision as Illumination”
Hey, fellow American frogs, does the water seem warmer to you or is that just my imagination?
January 12, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Hey, fellow American frogs, does the water seem warmer to you or is that just my imagination?
Car malfunction in Utah. Here’s the waiting room reading material.
January 10, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Car malfunction in Utah. Here’s the waiting room reading material.
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✨Submissions are open NOW!
✨Submit your creative nonfiction work via Submittable to
River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and
Beautiful Things: A Weekly Online Magazine of Micro-essays.
✨Submissions will be open from January 1 to April 1.
#GetPublished #Submit #Publishing #Writing
✨Submit your creative nonfiction work via Submittable to
River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and
Beautiful Things: A Weekly Online Magazine of Micro-essays.
✨Submissions will be open from January 1 to April 1.
#GetPublished #Submit #Publishing #Writing
January 8, 2026 at 3:01 PM
✨Submissions are open NOW!
✨Submit your creative nonfiction work via Submittable to
River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and
Beautiful Things: A Weekly Online Magazine of Micro-essays.
✨Submissions will be open from January 1 to April 1.
#GetPublished #Submit #Publishing #Writing
✨Submit your creative nonfiction work via Submittable to
River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and
Beautiful Things: A Weekly Online Magazine of Micro-essays.
✨Submissions will be open from January 1 to April 1.
#GetPublished #Submit #Publishing #Writing
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Writers, will you have a go at writing a story for our annual anthology? www.bridgehousepublishing.co.uk/index.php/ca...
Our Annual Anthology
Independent publishing house that specialises in fiction which is a little bit different
www.bridgehousepublishing.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Writers, will you have a go at writing a story for our annual anthology? www.bridgehousepublishing.co.uk/index.php/ca...
Is this the empire they want to restore?
January 6, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Is this the empire they want to restore?
10/10. No notes.
This gentleman's analogy encapsulates the pedophile president's blithering idiocy in Venezuela to perfection. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
January 4, 2026 at 9:10 PM
10/10. No notes.
Just spent five weeks in Europe, too. Can confirm…
many Americans will concede that imperialism is the price we all pay to maintain a certain quality of life but I just spent 5 weeks in Europe using public transport and eating food that doesn’t taste like shit so I dunno man.
January 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Just spent five weeks in Europe, too. Can confirm…
I love when a color photo looks almost black and white like these trees just photographed while crossing Snoqualmie Pass.
January 1, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I love when a color photo looks almost black and white like these trees just photographed while crossing Snoqualmie Pass.
Thank goodness for booksellers like @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social who protect authors and indie presses by not returning books. We have to pay full price plus shipping on returns. It’s our biggest expense and affects whether authors get royalties.
I love you for this. Thank you!!!
I love you for this. Thank you!!!
Little Ghosts Books will be 4 in March and we have never returned a single book to distribution/ a publisher. Returns lead to costs accrued by indie publishers, royalties lost, & books being pulped. Every year we do the NO RETURNS SALE, offering 45-65% off titles to get them in the hands of readers.
January 1, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Thank goodness for booksellers like @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social who protect authors and indie presses by not returning books. We have to pay full price plus shipping on returns. It’s our biggest expense and affects whether authors get royalties.
I love you for this. Thank you!!!
I love you for this. Thank you!!!
As 2025 comes to a close, instead of listing writing accomplishments (though I was honored to be published in some dream journals this year), I thought I’d share a few photo highlights just for fun…
January 1, 2026 at 7:30 AM
As 2025 comes to a close, instead of listing writing accomplishments (though I was honored to be published in some dream journals this year), I thought I’d share a few photo highlights just for fun…
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"There is no condition in which the humanities are under attack in which the whole university is not under attack. There is no condition in which the university is under attack that the whole of U.S. educational infrastructure, public and private, from pre-K up, is not under attack."
Everybody's going to be reposting this. As they should.
"Privately funded educational technology is a threat to the very idea of public education."
"Privately funded educational technology is a threat to the very idea of public education."
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"There is no condition in which the humanities are under attack in which the whole university is not under attack. There is no condition in which the university is under attack that the whole of U.S. educational infrastructure, public and private, from pre-K up, is not under attack."
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Episode two of In Three Poems comes out tomorrow! @mitchnobis.bsky.social He and I will each read a poem from his book The Size of the Horizon: Or I told Everything to the Trees, and then Mitchell will read a poem by Gary Snyder.
Find it on your favorite podcast app or at inthreepoems.com.
Find it on your favorite podcast app or at inthreepoems.com.
In Three Poems
Each episode features a different guest poet and a lively conversation that explores how poems connect us and how they talk among themselves. We'll read two poems by our guest poet and one by a poet w...
inthreepoems.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Episode two of In Three Poems comes out tomorrow! @mitchnobis.bsky.social He and I will each read a poem from his book The Size of the Horizon: Or I told Everything to the Trees, and then Mitchell will read a poem by Gary Snyder.
Find it on your favorite podcast app or at inthreepoems.com.
Find it on your favorite podcast app or at inthreepoems.com.
Look at these pretty mosses…
December 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Look at these pretty mosses…
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The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.
December 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.
From today’s hike…
December 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
From today’s hike…
From today’s hike…
December 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
From today’s hike…
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It’s not too late to get your subs in before the final date on January 8th! We’re especially looking for some more CNF or personal essays (please anonymize any real people’s names). Looking forward to reading!
#amwriting #writingcommunity #monswritersclub
#amwriting #writingcommunity #monswritersclub
December 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It’s not too late to get your subs in before the final date on January 8th! We’re especially looking for some more CNF or personal essays (please anonymize any real people’s names). Looking forward to reading!
#amwriting #writingcommunity #monswritersclub
#amwriting #writingcommunity #monswritersclub
I'm looking forward to getting some new work written in this write-in that starts in a few minutes and runs through the 31st. Not too late to join!
Just sent out info to everyone who's going to Imagine Cabins this week! If you registered but didn't get an invite, please DM us.
(And if going to a make-believe cabin in the woods to get some writing done sounds awesome, there's still time to sign up here: www.barrelhousemag.com/writeins )
(And if going to a make-believe cabin in the woods to get some writing done sounds awesome, there's still time to sign up here: www.barrelhousemag.com/writeins )
December 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm looking forward to getting some new work written in this write-in that starts in a few minutes and runs through the 31st. Not too late to join!
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Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
Read about Commonsense Guardrails for Using Advanced Technology in Schools aiinstruction.org/sites/defaul...
aiinstruction.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...