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Jane
@janeenn.bsky.social
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She/her. I read a lot of books. I like books, animation, food, and social justice. Human/dog/cat mom.
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Me reading volumes 10-12 of Dungeon Meshi knowing she wrapped it up quick to play bg3 lol
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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September 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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And in America, they'll use your dead body as an incubator but okay. What fucking vile dudes.
September 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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He caught me trying to film him snoring lol worst dog in the world and yet i love him so
Rough Collie sable colored laying on laminate floor
September 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🎶look at this stuff, isn't it neat
Wouldn't you say my collection (is nearly) complete🎶🧜‍♀️
Collection of kj charles printed books on a white bookcase/shelf from left to right: The secret lives of country gentlemen The Nobleman's guide to seducing a scoundrel Think of england Band sinister Wanted, a gentleman Unfit to print The gentle art of fortune hunting The duke at hazard Slippery creatures Sugared game Subtle blood Copper script Flight of magpies The magpie lord A case of possession Rag and bone Jackdaw The secret casebook of simon feximal Spectered isle
September 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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August 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Been a while since I read KJ Charles and this was me when I finished it last night #booksky #📚🩵
July 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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My dumb dog hits this pose when he doesn't want to walk, despite being the one to whine until I take him outside.
Sable rough Collie on a leash making himself small on the sidewalk to protest going on a walk he asked for.
June 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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My dog is The Worst Dog so can't wait to meet his opposite lol
May 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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April 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Absolutely brutal.
That's not unexpected for stories about the child welfare system, of course; the point of the system is to protect children from that kind of harm. But the Hart family story complicates popular narratives about abuse and the role of CPS in protecting children from it. The children's birth families were not beating their children or starving them; they were clearly struggling with substance use and mental illness, but instead of receiving help, the parents were punished. On the other hand, authorities consistently projected a halo of goodness onto the adoptive mothers, throughout a decade of abuse allegations and even after the murder of their children, with cops and other officials bending over backward to interpret their actions in the kindest possible light.
April 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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But in the larger mainstream narrative of the case, it was as if Tammy and Sherry didn't exist at all. Many narratives focused on Jennifer as the ringleader, and cast Sarah as potentially another victim, although the evidence for this view is minimal. By hyper-individualizing the story-making it about one woman with dark psychological problems the media largely let the state systems that failed the birth mothers off the hook. It let listeners and readers off the hook, too-free to enjoy the wacky and bizarre tale without thinking of how it came to occur.
April 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Think im gonna need to join some kinda support group after reading this one (esp. with this current administration) 🥲💙📚
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian
April 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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His responses are not worth much.
March 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Thank god i was right lol
February 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Marinating with this weird little translated book. My only coherent thought is her husband has the same name as Charles Muntz's chef dog in Up and I just thought of it every time lmao
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February 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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How Do You Live? was super interesting in that it felt a little bit like reading The Alchemist except I didn't despise it lol. People should be reading this instead.

Uprooted was really good bc I just fucking love graphic memoirs!

Always Never was good, but omg the art is to die for
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February 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Really enjoyed this little tome, particularly the last essay on building and working for your community in a tangible way. Gonna have to seek out the rest in this series when I need to get some respite from the constant flood of terrible news 🥲
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A copy of In the Kitchen Essays on Food and Life
February 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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January reads. Le Guin continues to amaze, a slow and steady marinade to plunk my brain in.

Zen Cho never fails to delight and I loved the meat of this straight forward romance; the title is God awfully misleading lol. Intellectuals know friends to lovers is where it's at 😤

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February 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Scene from 'Hark Motors' episode of Detroiters with robot wife in focus.
January 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Molly Ostertag's newest was amazing, which is no surprise.

Followed it with Monstrous and hoo boy, I couldn't stop til I finished. Aside from just extremely fucking with graphic memoirs, I identified so much with a love with cartoons & comics that made them an outsider growing up.
January 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi had some choice passages. Definitely not an optimistic book, but not nearly as tragic as I anticipated. It's more defiantly matter of fact in it's depictions of (binary) gender, marriage, and sex work.
Cover of the book Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi The time had come for me to shed the last grain of virtue, the last drop of sanctity in my blood. Now I was aware of the reality, of the truth. Now I knew what I wanted. Now there was no room for illusions. A successful prostitute was better than a misled saint. All women are victims of deception. Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows. Now I realized that the least deluded of all women was the prostitute. That marriage was the system built on the most cruel suffering for women. I became aware of the fact that I hated men, but for long years had hidden this secret carefully. The men I hated most of all were those who tried to give me advice, or told me that they wanted to rescue me from the life I was leading. I used to hate them more than the others because they thought they were better than I was and could help me change my life. They saw themselves in some kind of chivalrous role - a role they had failed to play under other circumstances. They wanted to feel noble and elevated by reminding me of the fact that I was low. They were saying to themselves: 'See how wonderful I am. I'm trying to lift her out of the mud before it's too late, that slut of a woman.' I refused to give them a chance to play this role. None of them was there to rescue me when I was married to a man who beat me up and kicked me every day. And not one of them came to my help when my heart was broken because I had dared to fall in love. A woman's life is always miserable. A prostitute, however, is a little better off. I was able to convince myself that I had chosen this life of my own free will. The fact that I rejected their noble attempts to save me, my insistence on remaining a prostitute, proved to me this was my choice and that I had some freedom, at least the freedom to live in a situation better than that of other women.
January 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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There were funny moments that reminded me of the best of Niles and Daphne shenanigans, but unfortunately there wasn't really anywhere else for the plot to go. The arc of the first volume is pretty perfect.

The teacher stuff was also a bit 😵‍💫
December 30, 2024 at 4:39 AM
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An interesting read that I need to find some analysis on by someone way smarter than me.
December 29, 2024 at 4:43 AM