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05.03.2026 20:20 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@heykellyjensen.bsky.social
Senior Editor at Book Riot. Editor/Author of BODY TALK, HERE WE ARE, + (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY. Former librarian. Anti-censorship advocate. Yoga teacher. Your favorite infernal witch. She/her. Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2024.
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05.03.2026 20:20 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I'm so fucking worried about Britney.
05.03.2026 20:10 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Kristi Noem's "Open to Work" LinkedIn Profile
05.03.2026 18:54 β π 4262 π 739 π¬ 79 π 102Sometimes it's worth remembering that Ben Franklin would lose his goddamn mind over using a radio, let alone a television or streaming or wifi or bluetooth or watching a video or, or, or...
05.03.2026 17:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The architecture we've built around all of it being key makes so much sense. I think this essay uses language so many of us hadn't quite been able to pin down.
05.03.2026 17:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"The choice isnβt between books and screens. The choice is between intentional design and profitable chaos. Between habitats that cultivate human potential and platforms that extract human attention."
05.03.2026 17:27 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"Your inability to focus isnβt a moral failing. Itβs a design problem. Youβre trying to think in environments built to prevent thinking. Youβre trying to sustain attention in spaces engineered to shatter it."
05.03.2026 17:26 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0"The fatalism, however beautifully expressed, serves the very interests it condemns. The technology companies would very much like us to believe that what theyβre doing to human attention is simply the inevitable result of technological progress rather than something theyβre doing to us"
05.03.2026 17:25 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0"We give them tools designed to fracture attention and blame them when their attention fractures. We built a world that profits from distraction and then pathologise the distracted."
05.03.2026 17:24 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0"The people who cannot sit through novels arenβt broken. Theyβre adapted to an environment we built. We hand them infinite information and wonder why they drown. "
05.03.2026 17:24 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0"Weβre not abandoning literacy. Weβre discovering what literacy meant all along: not just the ability to decode symbols on a page, but the capacity to move fluently between all the ways humans encode meaning."
05.03.2026 17:22 β π 21 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0"These arenβt concessions to declining attention spans. Theyβre recognitions that human understanding has always been richer than any single medium could contain."
05.03.2026 17:22 β π 35 π 14 π¬ 1 π 0This essay is GREAT!
05.03.2026 17:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"I used to believe, as I was taught, that literacy was primarily about decoding text. But watching how people actually learn and think has convinced me that literacy is about something deeper: the capacity to construct and navigate environments where understanding becomes possible."
05.03.2026 17:19 β π 17 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0Article screenshot: Others are drowning, attempting sustained thought in environments engineered to prevent it. They sit with laptops open, seven tabs competing for attention, notifications sliding in from three different apps, phones vibrating every few minutes. Theyβre trying to read serious material while fighting a losing battle against behavioural psychology weaponised at scale. They believe their inability to focus is a personal failure rather than a design problem. They donβt realise theyβre trying to think in a space optimised to prevent thinking.
I have worried about what I've seen as my own decreased ability to focus but this article has really shifted my thinking. It's so so interesting. aeon.co/essays/what-...
05.03.2026 16:56 β π 67 π 33 π¬ 4 π 4It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.
05.03.2026 14:00 β π 1682 π 485 π¬ 7 π 10i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need
05.03.2026 16:31 β π 1216 π 290 π¬ 23 π 0The Censored University Panel discussion Tuesday, March 10, 5:30pm Bass Lecture Hall LBJ School of Public Affairs
Austin area peeps: @penamerica.bsky.social is coming to UT next Tuesday, March 10th. Itβll be a great panel discussion, featuring @jonfreadom.bsky.social, SEAT representative Cameron Samuels, Professor Karma Chavez, and author/journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
05.03.2026 16:27 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Helluvan opening line for a horror or romance.
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I didn't have "get a polio booster because I'm traveling to Germany" on my 2026 Bingo Card.
people.com/travel-advis...
Late last year, I wrote about the new tactic to defund libraries, which is through state-level tax reforms (see here: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...).
Guess what libraries are worried about now in Ohio? Exactly that. State already changed their budgeting last year.
thecourier.com/news/799947/...
Pullman, Washington, may need to have shorter hours in their public library due to budget issues: www.lmtribune.com/local-news/p...
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"A lawsuit was filed on 19 February in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia concerning the closure of the NASA Goddard library and the disposition of records and research materials housed there."
nasawatch.com/trumpspace/l...
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (AK) is looking at totally eliminating library positions to solve a budget crisis: www.kdll.org/local-news/2...
05.03.2026 13:37 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Due to budget issues, Marblehead, Massachusetts, may defund their public library: marbleheadcurrent.org/2026/03/04/m...
05.03.2026 13:36 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0The Marshall Project is offering a workshop on investigating book bans on the 18th. If this is something you're interested in or want to learn more about, here's the info --> www.themarshallproject.org/events/works...
05.03.2026 13:21 β π 21 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0
Several rural states changed child labor laws beginning around 2021 so that they could force (Brown and Black) kids into jobs no one else would take.
Nebraska, just weeks ago, voted to cut minimum wage requirements for minors.
This party cares about child labor and exploitation, not children.
Yes it is because 1. it doesn't, and 2. AI hasn't rotted my brain. It did, however, STEAL MY ACTUAL WORK.
04.03.2026 23:43 β π 18 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Thinking about this in context of growing up in the era where child rapists were **creating** the thin-is-everything culture makes it even harder to rest. Those of us of a certain age have never been left alone about our bodies.
04.03.2026 23:31 β π 62 π 18 π¬ 1 π 1RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved posting a thread π§΅π§΅π§΅ (1/95)
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