Joel A. Nichols
@jaynick.bsky.social
Librarian, sff writer, queer dad, Vermonter in Philadelphia, author of OUT OF THIS WORLD LIBRARY PROGRAMS: USING SPECULATIVE FICTION TO PROMOTE READING & "Come Back Yesterday: Paradoxes of Library Progress" in LIBRARY 2035 (ed. Hirsh)
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He lowered Pennsylvania’s flags for 3 days when Charlie Kirk died and for 0 days when Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed.
Josh Shapiro believes he is uniquely suited to win over Trump voters—but he’ll need to overcome distrust among some in his own party first, Tim Alberta reports: theatln.tc/mR9AHSG4
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
He lowered Pennsylvania’s flags for 3 days when Charlie Kirk died and for 0 days when Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed.
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Great moments in Star Trek: Weyoun comes out as transmasc to his boss
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Great moments in Star Trek: Weyoun comes out as transmasc to his boss
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tapping the sign
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
tapping the sign
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Picture a lesbian Data and a cybernetically enhanced butch lesbian Tasha Yar exploring a planet with strange life forms that begin to look eerily familiar the farther they go
"There was so much to learn about women, and so little time."
🪐Terra Flux🪐
A mechanical lesbian sci-fi novella about the exploration of planets & women
🤖Robofuckers need apply 🤖
MURDERBOT
X
THE MACHINE MANDATE
X
PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT
danifinn.itch.io/terra-flux
books2read.com/b/boQL2L
🪐Terra Flux🪐
A mechanical lesbian sci-fi novella about the exploration of planets & women
🤖Robofuckers need apply 🤖
MURDERBOT
X
THE MACHINE MANDATE
X
PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT
danifinn.itch.io/terra-flux
books2read.com/b/boQL2L
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Picture a lesbian Data and a cybernetically enhanced butch lesbian Tasha Yar exploring a planet with strange life forms that begin to look eerily familiar the farther they go
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Writers, especially women/femmes/nbs:
If you have a partner who does this, DUMP THEM. This isn't "uwu I was worried about you, baby🥺" This is a scheming asshole move to control you. He wants you to be a good tradwife and take care of babies and make dinner, not write YOUR stories. REMOVE HIM
If you have a partner who does this, DUMP THEM. This isn't "uwu I was worried about you, baby🥺" This is a scheming asshole move to control you. He wants you to be a good tradwife and take care of babies and make dinner, not write YOUR stories. REMOVE HIM
December 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Writers, especially women/femmes/nbs:
If you have a partner who does this, DUMP THEM. This isn't "uwu I was worried about you, baby🥺" This is a scheming asshole move to control you. He wants you to be a good tradwife and take care of babies and make dinner, not write YOUR stories. REMOVE HIM
If you have a partner who does this, DUMP THEM. This isn't "uwu I was worried about you, baby🥺" This is a scheming asshole move to control you. He wants you to be a good tradwife and take care of babies and make dinner, not write YOUR stories. REMOVE HIM
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"I don't wanna wait
For our LIIIIIIIIIIVES to be over-rerrrrr!"
For our LIIIIIIIIIIVES to be over-rerrrrr!"
why is this poster debuting on just jared in 2025, why is it colored like a comic from 2000, what is happening.
December 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"I don't wanna wait
For our LIIIIIIIIIIVES to be over-rerrrrr!"
For our LIIIIIIIIIIVES to be over-rerrrrr!"
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hey, Santa helper here—if you love weird & heart-warming, check out this stocking-ready paperback 🎄
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December 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
hey, Santa helper here—if you love weird & heart-warming, check out this stocking-ready paperback 🎄
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the more I think about it, the clearer it gets that the whole "genetically engineer babies to have higher IQ" is absolute cis transhumanism and that is yet *another* reason to hate it
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
the more I think about it, the clearer it gets that the whole "genetically engineer babies to have higher IQ" is absolute cis transhumanism and that is yet *another* reason to hate it
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Books about autism or with Autistic main characters, written by Autistic authors — published November 2025!
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#AutismBooks #AutisticAuthor #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #BookSky
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#AutismBooks #AutisticAuthor #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #BookSky
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Books about autism or with Autistic main characters, written by Autistic authors — published November 2025!
🧵
#AutismBooks #AutisticAuthor #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #BookSky
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#AutismBooks #AutisticAuthor #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #BookSky
also f that given she is literally "able to" and will also one day.
apparently saying that "JK Rowling can die" (not even a threat) is a bannable offense now under bluesky's "respectful discourse" policy
respectfully, fuck that
she spends millions on genociding trans people *civilly* and legislatively while smearing us as threats to women
she can burn in hell 🔥
respectfully, fuck that
she spends millions on genociding trans people *civilly* and legislatively while smearing us as threats to women
she can burn in hell 🔥
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
also f that given she is literally "able to" and will also one day.
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this really isn’t an exaggeration
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
this really isn’t an exaggeration
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I would love a still photo with the names of all of every single pathetic, sycophantic jackasses standing behind Trump and going along with this
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I would love a still photo with the names of all of every single pathetic, sycophantic jackasses standing behind Trump and going along with this
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the current wave of fascist romance having its roots in the wizard kidlit franchise as a sort of palatable skin to drape over the act of thirsting after Nazis and Confederates is... morbidly apt
it's kind of a moral obligation to bully harry potter fans into making them feel insecure with themselves. you don't even have to mention rowling being a snivelling fascist. you can just point out every harry potter fan is a 12 year old who never grew up with poorly developed taste
December 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the current wave of fascist romance having its roots in the wizard kidlit franchise as a sort of palatable skin to drape over the act of thirsting after Nazis and Confederates is... morbidly apt
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By contrast, Patel favors a tactical jacket that says "FBI." Sam Stein at The Bulwark reports that Patel allegedly wouldn't disembark the plane in the aftermath of the Kirk assassination without wearing an FBI raid jacket, which he borrowed from an agent.
December 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM
By contrast, Patel favors a tactical jacket that says "FBI." Sam Stein at The Bulwark reports that Patel allegedly wouldn't disembark the plane in the aftermath of the Kirk assassination without wearing an FBI raid jacket, which he borrowed from an agent.
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Here is my 2025 award eligibility list, but it's not going to be entirely complete (for now), because I have a story coming out on... Dec 31.
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Here is my 2025 award eligibility list, but it's not going to be entirely complete (for now), because I have a story coming out on... Dec 31.
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
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I also got, "So you get to sit and read all day?"
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I also got, "So you get to sit and read all day?"
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For a librarian, it's "Does anyone even go to libraries anymore?"
December 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
For a librarian, it's "Does anyone even go to libraries anymore?"
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New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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Thread.
A quick thread on the academic freedom angle to the OU situation:
First, grading is part of academic freedom b/c it involves instructors applying their disciplinary expertise - both when they set assignments, and when they grade student work
First, grading is part of academic freedom b/c it involves instructors applying their disciplinary expertise - both when they set assignments, and when they grade student work
December 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thread.
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The student called her instructor “demonic.”
Should we bin demonic into personal experience or source citations?
And why is the instructor expected to tolerate such verbal abuse in an academic paper?
Should we bin demonic into personal experience or source citations?
And why is the instructor expected to tolerate such verbal abuse in an academic paper?
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The student called her instructor “demonic.”
Should we bin demonic into personal experience or source citations?
And why is the instructor expected to tolerate such verbal abuse in an academic paper?
Should we bin demonic into personal experience or source citations?
And why is the instructor expected to tolerate such verbal abuse in an academic paper?
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Sometimes, opinions are unpopular because they are -- checks notes -- wrong.
And your "hey, this will be unpopular, heh heh" disclaimer screams bad faith and a refusal to engage, rather than honest self-appraisal.
And your "hey, this will be unpopular, heh heh" disclaimer screams bad faith and a refusal to engage, rather than honest self-appraisal.
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Sometimes, opinions are unpopular because they are -- checks notes -- wrong.
And your "hey, this will be unpopular, heh heh" disclaimer screams bad faith and a refusal to engage, rather than honest self-appraisal.
And your "hey, this will be unpopular, heh heh" disclaimer screams bad faith and a refusal to engage, rather than honest self-appraisal.
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I'm learning how many people on here are assholes who refuse to dig deeper because it would upset their priors. Anthony is one of them.
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm learning how many people on here are assholes who refuse to dig deeper because it would upset their priors. Anthony is one of them.
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Your take is unpopular because you are advocatingly plausible deniability in a transparently transphobic event and blaming the target. Sit with your biases here.
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Your take is unpopular because you are advocatingly plausible deniability in a transparently transphobic event and blaming the target. Sit with your biases here.
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RIP writer James Baldwin, died this day 1987.
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain".
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain".
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
RIP writer James Baldwin, died this day 1987.
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain".
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain".
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”