Jessica
@scifibrarian.bsky.social
Library person, MLIS student, raccoon enthusiast, hedonist.
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dear local business owners, nobody is going to tell you they’re bailing on your business because of the AI ads. they’ll just stop going. in a year you’ll have run out of customers and you’ll be totally mystified as to the reason
August 7, 2026 at 9:02 AM
dear local business owners, nobody is going to tell you they’re bailing on your business because of the AI ads. they’ll just stop going. in a year you’ll have run out of customers and you’ll be totally mystified as to the reason
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Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
May 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
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Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong
One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
May 30, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong
“I want a savory Pop Tart” is a cursed thought I just had
May 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
“I want a savory Pop Tart” is a cursed thought I just had
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Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.
May 5, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.
Existential Night Thoughts Ramen
May 3, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Existential Night Thoughts Ramen
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Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”
April 26, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”
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I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine
April 7, 2026 at 10:48 PM
I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine
washing down xanax with a red bull because I’m sad but also need to get shit done
April 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM
washing down xanax with a red bull because I’m sad but also need to get shit done
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March 30, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended
March 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended
I don’t think I like computers anymore
March 17, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I don’t think I like computers anymore
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How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
February 15, 2026 at 3:57 AM
How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
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You Must Read - Other Strangeness — merritt k
You gotta
www.otherstrangeness.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
You Must Read www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/02/12/y...
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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Few people have captured what it's like to live as a childless chronically ill woman, but Mantel does it beautifully.
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Hilary Mantel—On Disability, Psychics, and Princess Diana
Here, the bestselling author of WOLF HALL writes about everything from the Royal Family to the struggles of being chronically ill.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Few people have captured what it's like to live as a childless chronically ill woman, but Mantel does it beautifully.
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bookriot.com/hilary-mante...
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2026’s refresh rate is wild I go do some chores and like 14 major world events have happened
January 12, 2026 at 1:15 AM
2026’s refresh rate is wild I go do some chores and like 14 major world events have happened
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i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
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My Own Inner Elba
Let me start by saying that the news is incredibly awful. I’m very aware of this, in the way you’re aware of, say, a ninety-seven degree day with one hundred...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
stop giving guns to men who got all Cs in high school
January 7, 2026 at 7:54 PM
stop giving guns to men who got all Cs in high school
read an Andrea Gibson poem so beautiful I may never recover
January 7, 2026 at 4:25 AM
read an Andrea Gibson poem so beautiful I may never recover
didn’t reach my reading goal this year, but in my defense I had to read 3100 pages worth of textbook and also ball x pit exists
January 1, 2026 at 3:44 AM
didn’t reach my reading goal this year, but in my defense I had to read 3100 pages worth of textbook and also ball x pit exists
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December 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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From Ted Chiang's fb
October 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
From Ted Chiang's fb
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Oddly, everything I need to know I learned from a restroom, not Roald Dahl
December 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Oddly, everything I need to know I learned from a restroom, not Roald Dahl