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Jessica Yang 🍊

@jamteayang.bsky.social

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kidlit editor and speculative fiction writer with a taste for scallion pancakes 🌿 taiwanese american 💪 views are my own, so don't even try it

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Jessica Yang 🍊 @jamteayang.bsky.social · 16d

please enjoy this relic of the 90s i found in a drawer: a pokemon watch with a flip cover that i'd pasted a picture of my guinea pig on

a faded pokemon watch featuring ash ketchum and a pokeball on the band. the watch cover has a picture of a beige guinea pig pasted on it

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 14h

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 50m

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

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Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 17h

My book about gay vampires solving crime comes out NEXT WEEK ahhhhhh

Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 4d

Got my finished copies of Dead & Breakfast!! They are so cute and I’m obsessed with the spine!

Have you pre-ordered yet? Remember you can grab a signed copy with preorder goodies (stickers) from Always Here Bookstore!

www.alwaysherebooks.com/product/dead...

Paperback copies of Dead & Breakfast next to a teal tea pot and black tea cup. The cover shows two men holding hands. On the left, a white man with graying hair wearing a suit and tie holds a cup of coffee. On the right, a shorter man with long dark hair, pale skin, and a ruffly cravat holds a goblet of blood with a silly straw. They both have vampire fangs. Behind them is a field of flowers and a large house with a cat perched on a sign that says “welcome. Over the top is the title “DEAD & BREAKFAST” the tagline “come for the vampires stay for the scones” and the byline “kat Hillis & Rosiee Thor.” The spine shows the title text in blue and the byline in red with a black cat curled around a goblet of blood with a silly straw.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 13h

non euclidean ass cat

Bampy contorting herself and looking at the camera while Pishi minds her business behind her

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 21h

Research is a skill! Here is a great guide from Bookriot on how to become well informed about your local elections. Maybe the way you help protect the right to read is by taking these skills & making a voting guide or candidate scorecards to distribute to your neighbors.

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

How to be an informed, pro-library, anti-book ban voter in upcoming fall elections (if you have them) and well into the future.

Don't just celebrate banned books. Don't just read banned books. VOTE to support the democratic institutions creating access to them.

bookriot.com/library-elec...

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

bookriot.com

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Jessica Yang 🍊 @jamteayang.bsky.social · 1d

Also: AI is going to negatively impact kids' reading skills. AI slop picture books are already here, and chatGPT is fucking with learning and critical thinking. We've got to support kidlit that's accessible, engaging, and original.

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Jessica Yang 🍊 @jamteayang.bsky.social · 1d

Was told this year that children's books weren't profitable enough and should be deprioritized, which is just a load of horsecrap:

1) Kidlit is recession-proof bc parents will always buy books for their kids.

2) With all these book bans happening, it's more important than ever to support kidlit.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 3d

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

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Gabriel San Román @gsanroman2.bsky.social · 1d

My union—the LA Times Guild—has authorized a strike with the support of 85% of our membership.

This comes after years of brutal layoffs and no cost-of-living raises since 2021.

Next up: we bargain. But if we have to strike, we will 🪧
laist.com/news/la-time...

LA Times union votes to authorize strike for first time ever

The L.A. Times Guild has been negotiating over their contract with management for three years.

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jona @babynapa.bsky.social · 1d

harrianthe making out commission. thank you.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Anica Mrose Rissi @anicarissi.bsky.social · 1d

Soft censorship--in which overworked teachers and librarians don't order books they anticipate as likely to be challenged (which are predominantly books by LGBTQ+ authors and writers of color)--is an enormous problem these days.

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Jessica Yang 🍊 @jamteayang.bsky.social · 1d

Rooting for you!! ♥️♥️♥️

Jessica Yang 🍊 @jamteayang.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 I'm really sorry.

Jessica Yang 🍊 @jamteayang.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no! I'm sorry this was how you found out. They really should have notified you by now 😵‍💫 I'm baffled.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 4d

Librarians, booksellers, & educators— when you talk about banned books, please focus on the thousands of CONTEMPORARY books that are being banned right now.

For example….
#BannedBooksWeek

Book cover: last night at the telegraph club

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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Jessica Yang 🍊 @jamteayang.bsky.social · 2d

Unclear how the Quirk Books imprint under Andrews McMeel proposes to publish 20-25 books per year when every acquiring editor resigned or was laid off over the summer, shortly after unionizing.

Andrews McMeel Acquires Quirk Books
By Jim Milliot | Oct 07, 2025

In an agreement with Quirk Productions, Inc., Andrews McMeel Universal has acquired all of Quirk Books' titles and IP. Under the deal, Quirk has become an imprint of Andrews McMeel Publishing, and as of October 1, AMP has assumed publication of all of Quirk's frontlist and backlist titles.

Quirk founder and publisher Dave Borgenicht has been named publisher of the Quirk Books imprint at AMP, reporting to AMU president and CEO Kirsty Melville. Sales and distribution of all Quirk titles remain with Penguin Random House Publisher Services. AMP expects to publish 20 to 25 titles annually under the Quirk imprint.

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iasmin omar ata | delta 🌟 vtuber comms open! @deltahead.bsky.social · 3d

my hands are shaking with rage and grief. i shouldn't have to do this. the edited text on this image should not exist. this should not still be happening in 2025

a panel from my entry in Samidoon. it is sepia tone of a palestinan family walking. the caption reads "in 2024, the images from inside Gaza echo my family's storie from Palestine. the walk away from our tattered homes looks the same as 50 years ago." the 2024 is crossed out witht 2025 written next to it. my hands are shaking with rage and grief as i type

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · 3d

Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine is back in limited stock! All funds go to the Palestine Red Crescent Society! Currently there are 20 regular physical editions, 20 phys/digital combo editions, and 4 of the bundle packs available. A fantastic anthology and one I'm glad to have orderable again!

SAMIDOON: COMICS FOR A FREE PALESTINE

www.samidoonanthology.com

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 2d

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2d

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 2d

hey cool, bookshop has free shipping today! an incredible, auspicious time to purchase your copy of SIMPLICITY simplicitybook.xyz

Simplicity: A Novel

A Novel

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