@jlnwrites.bsky.social
Present: Creative writing teacher, working on my memior. Past: Journalist for The Verge, Gizmodo, PC Gamer, and elsewhere. joannanelius.com
TY 🖤
27.10.2025 01:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did THE thing 🖤
26.10.2025 23:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Fun Fact: Al Capone ran a soup kitchen during the Great Depression; a rich mobster had more humanity in him than Trump.
25.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Less than 2 weeks until publication. I’m still busy as hell working in concert with my community to respond to a federal invasion and regular attacks on our neighbors and their defenders. Any help getting the word out about this book, which I believe can help us all right now, is deeply appreciated.
22.10.2025 16:27 — 👍 122 🔁 52 💬 1 📌 3
The cover for my next novel, DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP, lives! Book due out on 6/30/26.
people.com/paul-trembla...
I'm just a simple country doctor, but maybe it was a bad idea to outsource so much of higher ed's infrastructure to private companies' proprietary technologies with single points of failure.
21.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 277 🔁 72 💬 12 📌 2
On October 22, audiences in 45 cities will come together for Education & Democracy Night.
This is a one-night nationwide event featuring screenings of The Last Class and discussions about the vital connection between education and democracy. Learn more below.
Who's solving the Louvre robery?
Right answers only.
Schools should invest in e-ink tablets and ereaders instead of Chromebooks and AI.
19.10.2025 23:26 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Leon Black being, for my fellow news industry nerds, the man who financed Gannett's merger with GateHouse Media, creating by far the largest U.S. newspaper chain.
19.10.2025 23:00 — 👍 54 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 0
Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?
Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.
Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...
For visual context, here's the part of the freeway that's closed (in blue). Anyone traveling to/from OC/SD would need to travel via any of the red lines. PCH merges with the I-5 in Dana Point, and the Old Pacific Highway starts at Basilone Rd. The green void in the middle is Camp Pendleton.
18.10.2025 17:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"[L]ibraries pay much more for books and digital materials than regular buyers do, and right now, there’s no way around this."
You know this. We know this. But we're working to change it. You're with us, right?
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/16/l...
#FairUseFriday 🤓 Fair use plays a critical role in advancing research and scholarship! Fair use has been key in building online databases, previewing research materials before purchasing, and gaining access to archival content. Re:Create member @arl.org has more: www.arl.org/know-your-co...
17.10.2025 17:33 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2Education is so important in Korea that they will backtrack very quickly if a new idea or technology doesn't improve outcomes. In the US we'll let kids suffer for years if not decades just to not admit we were wrong.
17.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 76 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 1Never would have thought Jackass would be relevant in 2025; Knoxville is nervous for a reason!
17.10.2025 19:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lovely interview with @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social of
Ars Technica about Dead Ends!, the kids' book that @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social and I laboured over:
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
@arstechnica.com
Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.
This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...
I get the feeling the cybertruck was the final straw and not the actual reason 😬
16.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New, creative thinking is needed to address the tech policy challenges of the coming decade, writes José Marichal. In an increasingly irrational environment, tech policymakers need to broaden their views of policymaking, moving away from pure rationality towards storytelling, he says.
16.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3The 15 and 74 are gonna be packed with people forced to drive inland just to get back into the OC 😭
16.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wait, the concentration of knowledge in a tool, and the devaluation of knowledge are... two sides of the same coin, and also a horrible dead end? Who would have thought
(Not that we wrote a book about it or anything)
WHAT DID I SAY share.google/hs8zxetfL1Ww...
16.10.2025 06:10 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I have lived in So Cal my whole life and I've never heard of an idea like this proposed. Not only is it batshit, but I would imagine that portion of the I-5 would have to be shut down... and that's the ONLY freeway that gets you into Oceanside directly from the OC!
16.10.2025 06:03 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I feel the same way! I want to be a kid playing Banjo Kazooie on the N64 for the first time again!
15.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me, traveling back to 2011:
"Now, Joanna, I know 14 years is a long time to wait, but you might want to stay in Ireland..."
According to records I found on Ancestey dot com, there was another Joanna Nelius who existed. She was born in 1877, and was living in Boston, MA when she was 83 years old in 1960. Her occupation was "housewife".
I must know more...
Maslow definitely didn't include this on his hierarchy of human needs.
15.10.2025 01:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0...
Gonna write a sci-fi horror story about this. Will post a link to it if/when it gets published.
