Jess Schomberg (they/them)

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Librarian, spoonie, under the neurodivergent umbrella, aro-ace, union member

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This is easily the best series I've read this year

I can tell Betty is dealing with extra anxiety this week by the number of times I've found toys in the water bowl. (I was working on site more than usual.)

Well I can tell the humidity is back. Cleaning the litter boxes and floors is extra sweaty today🥵

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Meli

Ooh 👀

Deep sigh

US Supreme Court won't allow LGBT student protection in certain stateswww.reuters.com The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Friday to let President Joe Biden's administration enforce a key part of a new rule protecting LGBT students from discrimination in schools and colleges based on gender identity in 10 Republican-led states that had challenged it.

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Jess Schomberg (they/them)

Calling all authors—I'm taking new clients! Check out my site to see author testimonials, details about my services, and opportunities for discounts! www.maypetersonbooks.com/editorial/

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Matt

They didn't when I was a kid but that would have been so amazing!

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MommySJ

no, that's ok, I appreciate the offer though!

what I thought was OA turns out to be behind a paywall and would require ILL, so now I am a sad panda (I have time to read it today. That's going to change by the time it would arrive.)

Has anyone read Martin MacInnes and if so, which book should I start with?

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Meghan Lafferty

thank you!

Trad publisher's ebook pricing is very silly. You want me to spend that much to borrow this book until you decide to pull it for whatever reason, when I could instead get the print for basically the same price and also lend it to friends or sell it or read it 10 years from now? Please.

what is the demure thing going around?

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Jess Schomberg (they/them)

“The things that go viral about a community should come from that community” is such a straightforward, excellent, but against-the-grain idea

I am stumbling across the same meme about "the g word" (gypsy) from a person I like a great deal, actually, but they are NOT Roma/Sinti/Traveller and the meme about not using the G-Word oversimplifies things and makes me wish the things that went viral about communities CAME from those communities.

new Premee Mohamed! new Ann Leckie! new Bora Chung! the Kitasei and Chandrasekera and Older and MacInnes look amazing!

Round two of this year's best SF books is up at Esquire! I love these summer books for a lot of reasons, including how they stretch the bounds of science fiction in a lot of ways I think it needs stretching. (Covers are from the spring picks, but the summer books are at the top of the list!)

The Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 (So Far)www.esquire.com This year’s best sci-fi outings are full of questions about how we might live differently with each other, on our troubled planet or in the furthest reaches of space.

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N Sims

NJ drivers realize there are other cars on the road, which helps a lot

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There is a big part of me wondering if this is BN trying to navigate obscenity statutes like § 18.2-384 in Virginia. Which was found unconstitutional by one judge, but GOP run state legislatures are going to keep pushing. This voluntary compliance is so much BS and is going to hurt us.

This is going to side-swipe romance authors, especially self-pub romance authors. They call Colleen Hoover "erotica" in this, that is how skewed their idea of how much sex is too much sex to be on Barnes & Noble's site is! lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2024/08/bn-t...

B&N to Limit Erotica And Summary Titles On Their Site - Publishers Lunchlunch.publishersmarketplace.com Barnes & Noble is eliminating certain books from their online catalog. Some digital book distributors have been tasked with removing all of their erotica ISBNs from feeding onto the site, as well as p...

Lisa's music is so much cooler now she's left YG

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Steve Ammidown

For the longest time I thought it was two tractors playing tug-rope. I was so disappointed when I learned what it really is 😂

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When you're an LGBTQ+ kid growing up in America, one book in which you see your life reflected can save you from self-harm. This mountain of books thrown in the trash by the GOP ideologues who have ruined New College of Florida is bone-chilling to see. www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity librarywww.heraldtribune.com A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books from the Gender and Diversity Center.

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Jess Schomberg (they/them)

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Amanda

thanks!

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Jess Schomberg (they/them)

Gen X hasn't "become" reactionary. There were always plenty of reactionary gen xers. It's not aging that "turned them" into reactionaries. I grew up with a bunch of reactionaries of my generation. They are the same in middle age.

anyone have recs for articles about that sort of common, subtle gender bias that happens in liberal spaces (eg, academic libraries)? you know, where it's not sexual harassment, it's a subtle and ongoing pattern of demeaning or being paternalistic toward or not listening to women?

the only things I can find are about specifically librarians in formal leadership or instructional roles but I can't find anything at all about rank-and-file library workers including staff, so am now expanding my search to include all of higher ed

hierarchical microaggressions is such a great (new-to-me) term! doi.org/10.1037/a003...

APA PsycNetdoi.org

workplace dignity is also a new, interesting term onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Bobbi L. Newman

the Mars article is one I've been trying to find for a couple of years now, thank you! (I remembered the ideas from it and it has influenced my thinking but I forgot everything else about it)

I always forget to add the 📚📜

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Donna Lanclos

Hard do not like. If they have that much energy to put into Teams, why don't they work on making it not suck?