JS
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
👩🏼🏫Instructor, Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Research: Libraries, Archives, Material Media Studies, Pedagogy
⚛️Teach: Writing, Design, Games, Gender studies
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
📜Research: Libraries, Archives, Material Media Studies, Pedagogy
⚛️Teach: Writing, Design, Games, Gender studies
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
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Your brain is not a computer.
Your thoughts are not algorithmic.
Don’t let Silicon Valley limit your understanding of your own mind with inaccurate metaphors.
Your thoughts are not algorithmic.
Don’t let Silicon Valley limit your understanding of your own mind with inaccurate metaphors.
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We’re watching Joyce Carol Oates slowly torture a Boer to death in real-time
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
We’re watching Joyce Carol Oates slowly torture a Boer to death in real-time
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I resent that Silicon Valley took the joy out of Cognitive Science.
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I resent that Silicon Valley took the joy out of Cognitive Science.
Dad: can you believe the [university system] asked the legislature for $XX million MORE this year?
Me: probably to help make up for all the national research funding we’ve lost
Dad: <glitches>
Me: probably to help make up for all the national research funding we’ve lost
Dad: <glitches>
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Dad: can you believe the [university system] asked the legislature for $XX million MORE this year?
Me: probably to help make up for all the national research funding we’ve lost
Dad: <glitches>
Me: probably to help make up for all the national research funding we’ve lost
Dad: <glitches>
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A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
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Yup, pretty much sums it up
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yup, pretty much sums it up
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If you have any questions about this open position for a TT Fiction Writer at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, please let me know. We're 1 hour from BHM and ~1.5 from ATL. www.higheredjobs.com/search/detai...
Assistant Professor of English, Creative Writing - HigherEdJobs
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November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If you have any questions about this open position for a TT Fiction Writer at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, please let me know. We're 1 hour from BHM and ~1.5 from ATL. www.higheredjobs.com/search/detai...
I'm grading my Games students' papers on some aspect of race, class, gender, ability, etc. in a video game of their choosing. The papers are fun to read! Lots of games I didn't know about.
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I'm grading my Games students' papers on some aspect of race, class, gender, ability, etc. in a video game of their choosing. The papers are fun to read! Lots of games I didn't know about.
I finished The Moonstone but I didn’t like it, sorry. I can’t deal with the wordiness, and the story didn’t affect me as much as The woman in white.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I finished The Moonstone but I didn’t like it, sorry. I can’t deal with the wordiness, and the story didn’t affect me as much as The woman in white.
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Oh hey these also came in the mail today (I do seem to be channeling feelings into sticker design)
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Oh hey these also came in the mail today (I do seem to be channeling feelings into sticker design)
I think it’s important to point out that, like #BillsMafia, JCO is from WNY.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I think it’s important to point out that, like #BillsMafia, JCO is from WNY.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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The Joyce Carol Oates Twitter situation is bringing so much dopamine to my current shitty health times.
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Joyce Carol Oates Twitter situation is bringing so much dopamine to my current shitty health times.
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May I live my life such that I cannot be roasted like a pig on a spit by Joyce Carol Oates
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
May I live my life such that I cannot be roasted like a pig on a spit by Joyce Carol Oates
I was grading and chose to come on Bluesky to procrastinate, but given the state of things, I think I’d rather be grading!
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I was grading and chose to come on Bluesky to procrastinate, but given the state of things, I think I’d rather be grading!
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Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”
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"FBI says people dressed as ICE agents are committing a string of crimes" we know, they're ICE agents, we're all watching it too
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"FBI says people dressed as ICE agents are committing a string of crimes" we know, they're ICE agents, we're all watching it too
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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The Democratic Party needs a reckoning, not another press release. Schumer needs to go, and so do every one of the centrists who voted to open the government while closing the door on the people who put them there.
We deserve a party that fights for us, not one that apologizes for doing so
We deserve a party that fights for us, not one that apologizes for doing so
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Democratic Party needs a reckoning, not another press release. Schumer needs to go, and so do every one of the centrists who voted to open the government while closing the door on the people who put them there.
We deserve a party that fights for us, not one that apologizes for doing so
We deserve a party that fights for us, not one that apologizes for doing so
I have a German Shepherd mutt, and she sheds periodically; if you have a GSD you know what I mean. It’s like they turn over their whole coat in 2 weeks. I got one of those dog vacuums where the brush is attached to a quiet vacuum and it’s amazing. She doesn’t mind the noise, either.
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I have a German Shepherd mutt, and she sheds periodically; if you have a GSD you know what I mean. It’s like they turn over their whole coat in 2 weeks. I got one of those dog vacuums where the brush is attached to a quiet vacuum and it’s amazing. She doesn’t mind the noise, either.
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social did you hex me? I’m seeing the Edmund Fitzgerald everywhere now.
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social did you hex me? I’m seeing the Edmund Fitzgerald everywhere now.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
I cannot deal with temperatures below 60° 🥶 I’m gonna have to move further south
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I cannot deal with temperatures below 60° 🥶 I’m gonna have to move further south
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Chuck Schumer 202-224-6542
Chuck Schumer is definitely going to lose his job if the Dems cave on the first counter to their compromise. With nothing on health care.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/s...
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/s...
Deal to end government shutdown in reach
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Chuck Schumer 202-224-6542
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Chuck Schumer and the corporate Dems aren’t just not up for this fight, they have no intention whatsoever of doing anything that will actually address the material conditions that gave rise to fascism.
More people are waking up to this and that’s hopeful, but that recognition is everything.
More people are waking up to this and that’s hopeful, but that recognition is everything.
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Chuck Schumer and the corporate Dems aren’t just not up for this fight, they have no intention whatsoever of doing anything that will actually address the material conditions that gave rise to fascism.
More people are waking up to this and that’s hopeful, but that recognition is everything.
More people are waking up to this and that’s hopeful, but that recognition is everything.
Wait the guy who told us to inject bleach and take ivermectin and then hired someone to tell us not to take vaccines, who ran a child sex trafficking ring, who is willy-nilly shooting boats off the Venezuelan coast and taking kids from their parents, is withholding money to feed his citizens?
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Wait the guy who told us to inject bleach and take ivermectin and then hired someone to tell us not to take vaccines, who ran a child sex trafficking ring, who is willy-nilly shooting boats off the Venezuelan coast and taking kids from their parents, is withholding money to feed his citizens?