Fern G
@writing-under-fern.bsky.social
Wanna-be poet
Youth Services Librarian
Cat mama
Neurodiverse, fairly boring, walking cliche, and worried about everything
Youth Services Librarian
Cat mama
Neurodiverse, fairly boring, walking cliche, and worried about everything
“Imagine losing our democracy” scrawled in the bike trail tunnel near Phoenix Park.
I don’t think we have to imagine very hard.
I don’t think we have to imagine very hard.
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“Imagine losing our democracy” scrawled in the bike trail tunnel near Phoenix Park.
I don’t think we have to imagine very hard.
I don’t think we have to imagine very hard.
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this interview made me feel nice
In MN Cookbook 'Back of House,' Immigrants and Community Caretakers Share Family Recipes, Traditions - Racket
A new collection of ancestral recipes celebrates working and at-home chefs—the folks who 'don’t get their flowers,' as one co-author explains.
racketmn.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
this interview made me feel nice
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One fact I didn't know until just now is that Michael Bloomberg's net worth increased from $55.5 billion in 2019 to $106 billion in 2025. Doubled.
Bloomberg has dropped $5 million against Zohran in these last days of the race, making him the single largest donor. Personally I wish he'd just settle for having successfully bought a 3rd term and do something else with his money www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
One fact I didn't know until just now is that Michael Bloomberg's net worth increased from $55.5 billion in 2019 to $106 billion in 2025. Doubled.
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Judging political parties by how they treat trans people doesn’t make you a single issue voter.
It means you recognise the litmus test for how those seeking power treat one of the most vulnerable groups in society who are also currently the easiest to target. It’s a show of values and a gut check.
It means you recognise the litmus test for how those seeking power treat one of the most vulnerable groups in society who are also currently the easiest to target. It’s a show of values and a gut check.
October 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Judging political parties by how they treat trans people doesn’t make you a single issue voter.
It means you recognise the litmus test for how those seeking power treat one of the most vulnerable groups in society who are also currently the easiest to target. It’s a show of values and a gut check.
It means you recognise the litmus test for how those seeking power treat one of the most vulnerable groups in society who are also currently the easiest to target. It’s a show of values and a gut check.
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Check out the latest post on GameRT's blog: "Making D&D Inclusive for those with ADHD" by Tylar and Haley games.ala.org/october-is-a...
October is ADHD Awareness Month! – ALA Games and Gaming Round Table
games.ala.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Check out the latest post on GameRT's blog: "Making D&D Inclusive for those with ADHD" by Tylar and Haley games.ala.org/october-is-a...
@lizpelly.bsky.social and Siri Undlin discuss “Mood Machine” during #ChippewaValleyBookFestival in #EauClaire today. Check out Liz’s book and her podcast, Critical Listening.
October 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
@lizpelly.bsky.social and Siri Undlin discuss “Mood Machine” during #ChippewaValleyBookFestival in #EauClaire today. Check out Liz’s book and her podcast, Critical Listening.
Marcie Rendon at #ChippewaValleyBookFestival - her Cash Blackbear novels, children’s books, and poetry are fantastic. So grateful we could have her here today.
#CrimeNovel #MMIW #EauClaire #NativeWriters #CashBlackbear #AuthorTalk #MinnesotaAuthors
#CrimeNovel #MMIW #EauClaire #NativeWriters #CashBlackbear #AuthorTalk #MinnesotaAuthors
October 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Marcie Rendon at #ChippewaValleyBookFestival - her Cash Blackbear novels, children’s books, and poetry are fantastic. So grateful we could have her here today.
#CrimeNovel #MMIW #EauClaire #NativeWriters #CashBlackbear #AuthorTalk #MinnesotaAuthors
#CrimeNovel #MMIW #EauClaire #NativeWriters #CashBlackbear #AuthorTalk #MinnesotaAuthors
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Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Digitized and Free to View Online www.openculture.com/2025/10/1100...
Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Digitized and Free to View Online
Lake George Reflection (circa 1921) via Wikimedia Commons
What comes to mind when you think of Georgia O’Keeffe?
Bleached skulls in the desert?
Aerial views of clouds, almost cartoonish in their puf...
www.openculture.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Digitized and Free to View Online www.openculture.com/2025/10/1100...
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This little Gríma Wormtongue motherfucker should be running more press conferences. He is universally, loathed, and the American people need to understand who is puppeteering this nightmare. The more we see of him, the more the resistance grows.
Q: Would the administration consider putting troops on the ground in any capacity in Venezuela?
STEPHEN MILLER: These are terrorists and they're gonna be killed
STEPHEN MILLER: These are terrorists and they're gonna be killed
October 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This little Gríma Wormtongue motherfucker should be running more press conferences. He is universally, loathed, and the American people need to understand who is puppeteering this nightmare. The more we see of him, the more the resistance grows.
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We are fighting this level of pearl-clutching stupidity in TX.
Have people who question why a school librarian would want to purchase a nature book about animal butts ever met a child?!
www.fayettecountyrecord.com/news/animal-...
Have people who question why a school librarian would want to purchase a nature book about animal butts ever met a child?!
www.fayettecountyrecord.com/news/animal-...
Animal Camouflage Book “Butt or Face” Sparks School Board Debate | The Fayette County Record
The La Grange School Board was once again talking about books. A concern was raised by board member Calvin Mersiovsky as to the name of one of the books – “Butt or Face? Vol.
www.fayettecountyrecord.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We are fighting this level of pearl-clutching stupidity in TX.
Have people who question why a school librarian would want to purchase a nature book about animal butts ever met a child?!
www.fayettecountyrecord.com/news/animal-...
Have people who question why a school librarian would want to purchase a nature book about animal butts ever met a child?!
www.fayettecountyrecord.com/news/animal-...
The current state of the White House is a Visual and visceral representation of what we’ve lost to tyranny, what will be lost and destroyed, and - most terrifyingly - the fact he’s just getting away with it and it continues. Both the building and what it represents going going gone.
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The current state of the White House is a Visual and visceral representation of what we’ve lost to tyranny, what will be lost and destroyed, and - most terrifyingly - the fact he’s just getting away with it and it continues. Both the building and what it represents going going gone.
Chippewa Valley Book Festival author Christine Virnig’s hilarious and educational presentation based on her book, Waist Deep in Dung, was one of the best author talks I’ve been to.
#AuthorTalk #EauClaire #BookFestival #ChippewaValley #BooksIRecommend #WisconsinAuthor #WhatImReading #NonfictionBook
#AuthorTalk #EauClaire #BookFestival #ChippewaValley #BooksIRecommend #WisconsinAuthor #WhatImReading #NonfictionBook
October 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Chippewa Valley Book Festival author Christine Virnig’s hilarious and educational presentation based on her book, Waist Deep in Dung, was one of the best author talks I’ve been to.
#AuthorTalk #EauClaire #BookFestival #ChippewaValley #BooksIRecommend #WisconsinAuthor #WhatImReading #NonfictionBook
#AuthorTalk #EauClaire #BookFestival #ChippewaValley #BooksIRecommend #WisconsinAuthor #WhatImReading #NonfictionBook
We are already seeing the effects of slashing budgets and personnel when it comes to quality control, health and safety, and holding companies accountable.
Regulations work, y’all, when funding and staffing are at proper and effective levels.
Regulations work, y’all, when funding and staffing are at proper and effective levels.
October 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We are already seeing the effects of slashing budgets and personnel when it comes to quality control, health and safety, and holding companies accountable.
Regulations work, y’all, when funding and staffing are at proper and effective levels.
Regulations work, y’all, when funding and staffing are at proper and effective levels.
We are underway! Lots of amazing events this week - fiction, memoir, graphic novels, youth, poetry, non-fiction! www.cvbookfest.org
Chippewa Valley Book Festival
The Chippewa Valley Book Festival celebrates the written word through author readings and book signings, school visits, meals with authors, and includes workshops and programs for writers of all ages.
www.cvbookfest.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We are underway! Lots of amazing events this week - fiction, memoir, graphic novels, youth, poetry, non-fiction! www.cvbookfest.org
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Trump originally furloughed Farm Services Agency, but given the catastrophe his trade war with China caused he's reopening it.
WSJ may be overly credulous here abt source of funding--we shall see.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
WSJ may be overly credulous here abt source of funding--we shall see.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Trump Administration to Release Farm Aid Frozen by Shutdown
The Trump administration is planning to release more than $3 billion in aid to U.S. farmers that had been frozen as a result of the government shutdown, as the agriculture sector grapples with the fal...
www.wsj.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Trump originally furloughed Farm Services Agency, but given the catastrophe his trade war with China caused he's reopening it.
WSJ may be overly credulous here abt source of funding--we shall see.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
WSJ may be overly credulous here abt source of funding--we shall see.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Also Oct. 21, the local Head Start notified parents they would be closing Oct. 31. They don’t have the federal funding to continue. This is on top of the state cutting daycare vouchers because of federal cuts.
October 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Also Oct. 21, the local Head Start notified parents they would be closing Oct. 31. They don’t have the federal funding to continue. This is on top of the state cutting daycare vouchers because of federal cuts.
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This is so gross.
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
This is so gross.
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BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
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My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂
Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons
Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.
www.chronicle.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂
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If you ban Calvin and Hobbes you’re a straight up fascist son of a bitch and that’s that
How profoundly sad. The kids deprived of reading Calvin and Hobbes are the kids who need them the most. My brother put it best: "We know we’re fucked when they come for your cartoon stuffed tigers."
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America
The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.
pen.org
June 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
If you ban Calvin and Hobbes you’re a straight up fascist son of a bitch and that’s that
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Are you paying attention to the words they are saying?
Lawmakers are telling you these bills like SB267 and SB412 intend to make it easier to prosecute educators/librarians over… BOOKS.
Lawmakers are telling you these bills like SB267 and SB412 intend to make it easier to prosecute educators/librarians over… BOOKS.
March 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Are you paying attention to the words they are saying?
Lawmakers are telling you these bills like SB267 and SB412 intend to make it easier to prosecute educators/librarians over… BOOKS.
Lawmakers are telling you these bills like SB267 and SB412 intend to make it easier to prosecute educators/librarians over… BOOKS.
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I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
March 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
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Book bans aren’t just about content—they’re about erasing identities.
Censorship silences stories that deserve to be told. Let’s fight for a rich variety of voices and the freedom to read.
#LetBooksBeBooks #StopBookBans #RepresentationMatters #FreedomToRead
Censorship silences stories that deserve to be told. Let’s fight for a rich variety of voices and the freedom to read.
#LetBooksBeBooks #StopBookBans #RepresentationMatters #FreedomToRead
March 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Book bans aren’t just about content—they’re about erasing identities.
Censorship silences stories that deserve to be told. Let’s fight for a rich variety of voices and the freedom to read.
#LetBooksBeBooks #StopBookBans #RepresentationMatters #FreedomToRead
Censorship silences stories that deserve to be told. Let’s fight for a rich variety of voices and the freedom to read.
#LetBooksBeBooks #StopBookBans #RepresentationMatters #FreedomToRead