Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her)
@nefariousnautilus.bsky.social
Librarian, scientist (seabirds for LIFE), dancer, community theater performer
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“We usually do that in response to media requests once they hit that threshold.”
I’d be really interested in hearing what that threshold is. Bluesky hasn’t responded to the last three emails I’ve sent in recent months asking about various topics, including today’s email about Sarah Kendzior.
I’d be really interested in hearing what that threshold is. Bluesky hasn’t responded to the last three emails I’ve sent in recent months asking about various topics, including today’s email about Sarah Kendzior.
We usually do that in response to media requests once they hit that threshold. I’ll try not to weigh in here, since that’s still details of an individual case. An interesting topic for a separate write up though, without discussing case specifics.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
“We usually do that in response to media requests once they hit that threshold.”
I’d be really interested in hearing what that threshold is. Bluesky hasn’t responded to the last three emails I’ve sent in recent months asking about various topics, including today’s email about Sarah Kendzior.
I’d be really interested in hearing what that threshold is. Bluesky hasn’t responded to the last three emails I’ve sent in recent months asking about various topics, including today’s email about Sarah Kendzior.
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HELL YES
DEADLOCH 2 !!!!!!!
(btw, if you never got around to Deadloch 1, please, please, DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR.)
(btw, if you never got around to Deadloch 1, please, please, DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR.)
🚨Deadloch heads: S2 of the Aussie crime satire/drama (it's good!) arrives on Amazon Prime March 20. Many chaotic Aussie weirdos return/debut. But HEADS UP they have added a Hemsworth (Luke)! This is not a drill! Kudos to the hair & costume team for this whole deal. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
HELL YES
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, as close as possible, preferably deep inside you, writhing in ecstasy so divine that they’re unable to scheme or plot.
April 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, as close as possible, preferably deep inside you, writhing in ecstasy so divine that they’re unable to scheme or plot.
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I almost never comment on mod decisions bc quick-turn analysis is not my ministry. But bc I posted about Sarah Kendzior's suspension—last night by asking how to learn if it was in error, today by saying I find it baffling—people are ascribing positions to me that I haven't taken. To clarify:
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I almost never comment on mod decisions bc quick-turn analysis is not my ministry. But bc I posted about Sarah Kendzior's suspension—last night by asking how to learn if it was in error, today by saying I find it baffling—people are ascribing positions to me that I haven't taken. To clarify:
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Massachusetts folks!!!! Anti-book ban bill call to action.
An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Massachusetts folks!!!! Anti-book ban bill call to action.
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The bare minimum for any Dem presidential candidate has to be canceling all of his federal contracts and being serious about regulating tech.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The bare minimum for any Dem presidential candidate has to be canceling all of his federal contracts and being serious about regulating tech.
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Musk: i reada da frankenstein
Mary Shelley: motherfucker
Shelley: you better not get this one wrong
Shelley: i literally could not spell it out any more obviously
Mus: itsa about how meddling in da domain ova god is good!
Shelley: MOTHER
Shelley: FUCKER
Mary Shelley: motherfucker
Shelley: you better not get this one wrong
Shelley: i literally could not spell it out any more obviously
Mus: itsa about how meddling in da domain ova god is good!
Shelley: MOTHER
Shelley: FUCKER
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Musk: i reada da frankenstein
Mary Shelley: motherfucker
Shelley: you better not get this one wrong
Shelley: i literally could not spell it out any more obviously
Mus: itsa about how meddling in da domain ova god is good!
Shelley: MOTHER
Shelley: FUCKER
Mary Shelley: motherfucker
Shelley: you better not get this one wrong
Shelley: i literally could not spell it out any more obviously
Mus: itsa about how meddling in da domain ova god is good!
Shelley: MOTHER
Shelley: FUCKER
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re: Kendzior's suspension & Bluesky's moderation tooling:
If I HAD to use tools that I KNEW could/would lead to bad outcomes, I'd take the time to add an explanation for people being banned/suspended about exactly WHY they were banned/suspended. Bsky not doing this suggests lack of care.
If I HAD to use tools that I KNEW could/would lead to bad outcomes, I'd take the time to add an explanation for people being banned/suspended about exactly WHY they were banned/suspended. Bsky not doing this suggests lack of care.
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
re: Kendzior's suspension & Bluesky's moderation tooling:
If I HAD to use tools that I KNEW could/would lead to bad outcomes, I'd take the time to add an explanation for people being banned/suspended about exactly WHY they were banned/suspended. Bsky not doing this suggests lack of care.
If I HAD to use tools that I KNEW could/would lead to bad outcomes, I'd take the time to add an explanation for people being banned/suspended about exactly WHY they were banned/suspended. Bsky not doing this suggests lack of care.
Hey @support.bsky.team, where is @golikehellmachine.bsky.social?
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Hey @support.bsky.team, where is @golikehellmachine.bsky.social?
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Hey @support.bsky.team What is going on with Sarah Kendzior? Why was she suspended with no explanation? Are you doing this to lesser-known people that we’re never going to find out about?
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hey @support.bsky.team What is going on with Sarah Kendzior? Why was she suspended with no explanation? Are you doing this to lesser-known people that we’re never going to find out about?
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yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
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I slightly disagree with Cooper in that 'Dan Brown on the Louvre heist' has the potential to be a fun, tongue in cheek *written feature in a magazine*, done right. I find it mindbreaking that she doesn't understand that what it would also be is an absolutely dreadful bit of TV.
She only has bad news ideas in a place that needs good news ideas
Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I slightly disagree with Cooper in that 'Dan Brown on the Louvre heist' has the potential to be a fun, tongue in cheek *written feature in a magazine*, done right. I find it mindbreaking that she doesn't understand that what it would also be is an absolutely dreadful bit of TV.
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This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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It seems almost quaint at this point to say it but why not repeat it: if you’re ill and you must be in public please do wear a mask. It may be a small ailment to you but you have no idea what’s going on with the people around you, and they don’t always have the option of removing themselves either.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It seems almost quaint at this point to say it but why not repeat it: if you’re ill and you must be in public please do wear a mask. It may be a small ailment to you but you have no idea what’s going on with the people around you, and they don’t always have the option of removing themselves either.
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When you actually think about how many issues are tied to disability you never think about, it’s intentional.
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Capitalists Were Never Going To Protect Your Healthcare When Your Disablement Is For Profit
When I first began my career in disability advocacy as a professional, I was bright-eyed, believing that I would be working with the most vocal supporters of DEI and who rallied behind diversity as…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When you actually think about how many issues are tied to disability you never think about, it’s intentional.
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I realize there are so many fights going on right now and it's so, so hard to find the spoons to do shit like this
But censoring people, removing them from public life, is a massive step towards genocide, and we MUST fight it
But censoring people, removing them from public life, is a massive step towards genocide, and we MUST fight it
Not seeing much on my timeline about it anymore, so here's a reminder: payment processors are still trying to censor NSFW content of all kinds, and are in fact getting more aggressive about it; I'm seeing stories of folks losing access every day
Call them & tell them THIS IS BULLSHIT
Call them & tell them THIS IS BULLSHIT
Stop payment processors from censoring games!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I realize there are so many fights going on right now and it's so, so hard to find the spoons to do shit like this
But censoring people, removing them from public life, is a massive step towards genocide, and we MUST fight it
But censoring people, removing them from public life, is a massive step towards genocide, and we MUST fight it
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Fig has some good suggestions here, which work in our current two party system. I can understand not liking the system but if your solution is to destroy rather than transform the non-Trump party then all you are left with is the Trump party.
Be mad. Support primary challenges. Volunteer. Protest. Get involved. That’s good. Posting on the internet about how Bernie Sanders is complicit in helping Chuck Schumer hand January 6 protections to Ted Cruz on behalf of AIPAC is the opposite of any of that.
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Fig has some good suggestions here, which work in our current two party system. I can understand not liking the system but if your solution is to destroy rather than transform the non-Trump party then all you are left with is the Trump party.
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Look there are a lot of reasons to despise the Dems right now, but this strategy is just how we get President Vance and untold suffering for millions of Americans.
This is now the most important thing in America: Democrats must lose completely.
They brought this on themselves. They forced this on all of us.
They brought this on themselves. They forced this on all of us.
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Look there are a lot of reasons to despise the Dems right now, but this strategy is just how we get President Vance and untold suffering for millions of Americans.
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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It’s disturbing and discomforting to examine but there are several anti-phone and anti-social media initiatives weaponizing murders and suicides of teens, leveraging grieving parents, and exaggerating or inventing causation to try and limit speech online and restrict tech freedoms
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It’s disturbing and discomforting to examine but there are several anti-phone and anti-social media initiatives weaponizing murders and suicides of teens, leveraging grieving parents, and exaggerating or inventing causation to try and limit speech online and restrict tech freedoms
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I'm desperate for experts again. For actual journalist and critics. Simply having a phone and access to social media doesn't make you knowledgable on certain topics.
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm desperate for experts again. For actual journalist and critics. Simply having a phone and access to social media doesn't make you knowledgable on certain topics.
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In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
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@sarahkendzior.bsky.social is an expert on extremism and a widely read author. @suppersky.team , are you trying to tank BlueSky, or are you just incredibly lucky in that regard?
Also, bring back Łink.
I check Mastodon daily. It would be nothing to use it exclusively.
Also, bring back Łink.
I check Mastodon daily. It would be nothing to use it exclusively.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social is an expert on extremism and a widely read author. @suppersky.team , are you trying to tank BlueSky, or are you just incredibly lucky in that regard?
Also, bring back Łink.
I check Mastodon daily. It would be nothing to use it exclusively.
Also, bring back Łink.
I check Mastodon daily. It would be nothing to use it exclusively.