Jen
@libroloverjen.bsky.social
Book and coffee lover ☕️, Owned by a sassy cat 🐈, Libraries bring me joy 📚
It’s not the people.
December 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It’s not the people.
Yep. People incorrectly think it increases sales when it actually harms most writers’ incomes. It’s especially bad for children’s and YA authors when school visits get cancelled too. That’s often how they make enough money to support themselves 😔
You have no idea what it is to have your book banned if you're excited or asking for it. Take it from someone who has. All you're doing is encouraging dismantling of our freedoms in America. Knock this useless shit off and show up to a board meeting and fight.
honestly, fuckin ban my shit bro
i quit smoking cigarettes in 2020 and i need a new way to feel badass while i’m whittling away the minutes
it would also give me a reading list
i quit smoking cigarettes in 2020 and i need a new way to feel badass while i’m whittling away the minutes
it would also give me a reading list
December 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Yep. People incorrectly think it increases sales when it actually harms most writers’ incomes. It’s especially bad for children’s and YA authors when school visits get cancelled too. That’s often how they make enough money to support themselves 😔
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What a powerful video!
Words matter.
The R word blinds people from seeing capabilities.
Its use degrades and dehumanizes people with disabilities. When it's hurtful and wounds millions of people, their families and friends.
Via Grace Strobel on IG
#Pinks
Words matter.
The R word blinds people from seeing capabilities.
Its use degrades and dehumanizes people with disabilities. When it's hurtful and wounds millions of people, their families and friends.
Via Grace Strobel on IG
#Pinks
December 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
What a powerful video!
Words matter.
The R word blinds people from seeing capabilities.
Its use degrades and dehumanizes people with disabilities. When it's hurtful and wounds millions of people, their families and friends.
Via Grace Strobel on IG
#Pinks
Words matter.
The R word blinds people from seeing capabilities.
Its use degrades and dehumanizes people with disabilities. When it's hurtful and wounds millions of people, their families and friends.
Via Grace Strobel on IG
#Pinks
For fans of YA and Jane Austen!
In anticipation of Jane Austen's 250th birthday, here's a list of new YA riffs and retellings I put together for Publishers Weekly!
Jane Austen at 250: A YA Book List
As the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth on December 16 draws near, we’ve compiled a selection of new and forthcoming YA novels that pay homage to the author’s wise and witty works.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
For fans of YA and Jane Austen!
Don’t forget if the Institute of Museum and Library Services doesn’t get funded next year, many public libraries won’t be able to fund ILL anymore. Write your legislators to support IMLS funding, please!
A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Don’t forget if the Institute of Museum and Library Services doesn’t get funded next year, many public libraries won’t be able to fund ILL anymore. Write your legislators to support IMLS funding, please!
So happy educators are being pushed HARD to use LLMs with students. 😳 There is no way to teach someone how to use a tool ethically when it is unsafe and biased at its core.
You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
So happy educators are being pushed HARD to use LLMs with students. 😳 There is no way to teach someone how to use a tool ethically when it is unsafe and biased at its core.
So, one of the main reasons they let girls in was because of their dire financial situation due to lawsuits over sexual abuse. It wasn’t some spirit of inclusivity that suddenly overtook the organization. This move hurt the Girl Scouts which is a very inclusive organization.
Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
So, one of the main reasons they let girls in was because of their dire financial situation due to lawsuits over sexual abuse. It wasn’t some spirit of inclusivity that suddenly overtook the organization. This move hurt the Girl Scouts which is a very inclusive organization.
Features to opt out of!
Under the radar, Google has added features that allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models.
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Features to opt out of!
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For decades, scientists have studied the potential causes of autism, and have repeatedly found no credible link between childhood vaccines and autism. Read our full fact-check: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For decades, scientists have studied the potential causes of autism, and have repeatedly found no credible link between childhood vaccines and autism. Read our full fact-check: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
An excellent visual depiction of extreme wealth versus everyone else.
Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
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www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
An excellent visual depiction of extreme wealth versus everyone else.
Unconscionable.
Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files.
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Unconscionable.
So many great locations for coffee. Choose another provider.
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
So many great locations for coffee. Choose another provider.
I can’t comprehend how people can be so cruel.
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...
www.propublica.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I can’t comprehend how people can be so cruel.
Why are we acting like students MUST have access to these tools!
Not interested in arguing about the toxicology of caffeine so here are the ChatGPT numbers:
Over 1 million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly, new OpenAI data reveals
An estimated 1.2 million users reportedly talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly, according to a newly released report from the A.I. giant. This latest revelation comes as the company races to strength...
abc7news.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Why are we acting like students MUST have access to these tools!
Really good news for students and educators. Perhaps people are tired of chaos agents running school boards.
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Really good news for students and educators. Perhaps people are tired of chaos agents running school boards.
They had excellent reporting. This is depressing.
They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
They had excellent reporting. This is depressing.
Hope people are checking the portal to see what’s happened to their premiums 😔
It’s kinda fitting to wake up the morning after Halloween to find my health insurance premium doubled.
November 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Hope people are checking the portal to see what’s happened to their premiums 😔
Some heroes wear capes. Some wear pajama pants.
Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.
And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
October 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Some heroes wear capes. Some wear pajama pants.
Influencers are now spreading misinformation about mammograms. 😡
Some of the mammogram myths we keep hearing:
❌ "Mammogram radiation causes breast cancer"
❌ "The compression can make cancer burst and spread"
❌ "The radiation is dangerous"
None of this is true!
❌ "Mammogram radiation causes breast cancer"
❌ "The compression can make cancer burst and spread"
❌ "The radiation is dangerous"
None of this is true!
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Influencers are now spreading misinformation about mammograms. 😡
If you wrote this as fiction, an editor would reject it as too unbelievable.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you wrote this as fiction, an editor would reject it as too unbelievable.
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Plus, students don’t need plain language summaries. They need to start grappling with the vocabulary and discourse in their intended fields.
I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Plus, students don’t need plain language summaries. They need to start grappling with the vocabulary and discourse in their intended fields.
Herman Wells and Ernie Pyle would be distraught.
UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Herman Wells and Ernie Pyle would be distraught.
I don’t have adequate adjectives to describe the horror.
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I don’t have adequate adjectives to describe the horror.
If they’re going to collect tariff money, it should be used to help our citizens. Maybe fund healthcare by extending the premium subsidies that made ACA plans affordable?
The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.
Let that sink in
Let that sink in
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If they’re going to collect tariff money, it should be used to help our citizens. Maybe fund healthcare by extending the premium subsidies that made ACA plans affordable?
Truly excellent news for the educators and students of OK.
BREAKING: Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters says he is resigning. (Of course, he announced this on Fox News.)
www.koco.com/article/ryan...
www.koco.com/article/ryan...
September 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Truly excellent news for the educators and students of OK.