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Paladin Jane
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SFF book blogger (on hiatus) and archivist. She/her. Blog: https://paladinjanereviews.wordpress.com/
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paladinjane.bsky.social
Mad Sisters of Esi was one of the best books I read this year! (And I've read over 300 books this year, so I really mean it when I say this was one of my favorites.) Gorgeous writing that takes you on a magical, surreal journey through time, space, and sisterly relationships.
tashanmehta.bsky.social Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social · 1d
MAD SISTERS OF ESI is one of The Washington Post’s 10 best SFF novels of 2025. In the sheer amount of what gets published each year and what gets lost, this feels like a small, precious miracle ❤️
The cover of MAD SISTERS OF ESI with "The Washington Post" written above it and "Best SFF Novel of 2025" written below it. A picture of The Washington Post article. Title reads "10 best sci-fi and fantasy novels of 2025" and the subtitle reads "From an indigenous vampire story to the tale of two sisters living in a cosmic whale, this year's books kept us guessing." The Washington Post review of MAD SISTERS OF ESI. It reads: "Two sisters live inside a cosmic whale, visiting the innumerable worlds within its body, until one of them escapes into the universe outside. There, she uncovers the whale's origin story, which lies with another pair of sisters who lived on a shape-shifting island where everyone goes mad once a century. A poetic, metaphysical epic, "Mad Sisters" feels like it's in conversation with other recent books about people in surreal, liminal spaces questioning what everything means - and it's my absolute favorite book of the year. (Book World review.)"
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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azalben.bsky.social
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:

- Right-click
- Unpin

Gone!
screenshot of the Gemini button in Google Chrome, below it is a prompt saying "unpin" if you right click
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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zanzjan.bsky.social
For anyone concerned there may be something to the Tylenol-autism BS, I present:
Graph showing that GMO use in corn in the US correlates to global pirate attacks, courtesy of Spurious Correlations, tylervigen.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
defector.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
paladinjane.bsky.social
Also not a bad idea to ask your doctor to check your MMR titers even if you are fully vaccinated, because immunity can wane on any of the three. I got mine checked earlier this year and discovered I was no longer immune to mumps. Sibling was no longer immune to measles. Find out the easy way!
July 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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evilhat.bsky.social
Explore and celebrate the queer experience with this special Pride deal from @bundleofholding.com !
For $9.95 pick up Star Crossed, Moonlight on Roseville Beach, and Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Level up to add Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast and more. Just three days left!
bundleofholding.com/presents/Pri...
The covers of Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Moonlight on Roseville Beach, Star Crossed, Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, and Advanced Lovers & Lesbians against a rainbow watercolor background. Caption: Bundle of PRIDE, www.bundleofholding.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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therisingtithes.bsky.social
Just about a day and a half left in this StoryBundle! Check it out before it's gone!
storybundle.bsky.social StoryBundle @storybundle.bsky.social · May 1
A titillating ensemble of short story collections and anthologies by multi-award-winning writers from Africa and the African diaspora. From time travel, space opera, AI, zombies, African spirituality, it's all here! storybundle.com/scifi
May 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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lynnemthomas.com
Just because I am not surprised does not mean I'm not angry. Carla Hayden, like every other *actually qualified federal worker* that has been shamefully treated in this unconscionable manner deserves better. www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
Hayden, who became the first woman and the first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress when she was appointed in 2016, was abruptly fired via email late Thursday.
www.npr.org
May 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
paladinjane.bsky.social
A TTRPG indie game bundle with Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast (which has been on my list to check out), and it supports a group that helps folks in my community? YES PLEASE
rufflejax.bsky.social You Will Not Survive Jax Romana Unchanged 😴💤 @rufflejax.bsky.social · Apr 7
We blew past 25% of 10k this morning, so while @luckoftheharbor.com convalesces from some v exciting surgery this week, I'll be highlighting a writer a day from our bundle!

Get it here: itch.io/b/2945/every...
April 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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katinalynn.bsky.social
My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.

#humanities #highered #neh

slate.com/news-and-pol...
Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts
The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.
slate.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
"There’s no local, American substitute for Heart, or Eat the Reich, or Honey Heist; you can’t just swap out one piece of art for another."
April 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
paladinjane.bsky.social
The Siege of Burning Grass and Sinophagia are excellent and I *highly* recommend this bundle!
storybundle.bsky.social StoryBundle @storybundle.bsky.social · Mar 20
The 2025 World SF Bundle - Curated by Lavie Tidhar: storybundle.com/scifi

Join me for a trip around the world, from China to Nigeria, Luxembourg to the outer reaches of space. Hello – and welcome to the eighth annual World SF bundle!
March 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Get ready to lose a shit-ton of library services.
amyephillips.bsky.social Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · Mar 20
With alt text:
Reddit post from r/fednews by u/ruskiytroll • 12h IMLS to be completely dismantled tomorrow - 3/19 Edit: Institute of Museum and Library Services 2nd edit: saveimls.org Tomorrow morning, Keith Sonderling - Deputy Secretary of Labor and somehow now Acting Director of IMLS - and DOGE are supposed to show up at IMLS and send all of the employees home. Employees have been told they'll be placed on admin leave, with no word on duration or actual RIF procedures. If someone, anyone in media sees this, please be there. Document how they've illegally put in an Acting Director when the current leadership refused to terminate their employees in an illegal manner - the statue says only the DD for Libraries or the DD for Museums can be Acting Director without confirmation. Document how this administration is shutting down the disbursement of federal formula and discretionary grants to libraries and museums across the country. IMLS's reauthorization is up in September. Professional associations have been lobbying congress for the last year and they have widely had bipartisan support - and now crickets. The Rs are understandable; they're complicit and/ or terrified to stand up for learning institutions. The Ds? Who the fuck knows. IMLS, VOA/RFE/RFA, the Wilson Center, and the other small agencies whose federal funds don't even add up to $1B were the sacrificial lamb that Schumer for whatever reason agreed to, and now the Ds don't want to see the consequences of their fecklessness. By the way, anybody who uses Libby or other e-reader programs through their libraries or has ever gotten and inter-library loan... guess where the money for those programs comes from. And basically zero media coverar Stay strong out there, hopefully people will say somethi v when they come for you. 个 2,293 127
March 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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subpress.bsky.social
If you missed this wonderful story by @wtalabi.bsky.social, grab your free ebook now: subterraneanpress.com/unquiet-on-t...
March 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
I propose a new rule:

Library vendors don't get to call themselves our partners if they aid in the censorship of material

Christ almighty, what are we even doing 📚

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Reed noticed abundant searches for information on current events. “In the early days of Covid 19, ‘coronavirus’ was one of the top searches, and there were a lot more for ‘online education,’ ” she said. “Some of the searches will break your heart too: seeing ‘gun control’ as a top search, ‘depression,’ ‘anxiety.’ But it’s important children have that access. And the way organizations are implementing stopwords, so much access is restricted.” Jennie Rose Halperin, executive director of Library Futures, agreed that digital censorship obscures data without leaving a literal gap on the bookshelf. Until recently, she said, “no one knew what a database was, so they came for the books.” But, Halperin noted, once so-called parents’ rights groups and conservative organizations focused on data providers such as EBSCO, ProQuest, Sage, Cengage Group, and Follett Content Solutions, they took steps to scare entire organizations into compliance. According to the Neo-Censorship report, this resulted in content providers implementing “local controls” on databases, particularly related to health and race. “Under even the smallest of threats, the companies have provided the tools or have secretly put on the tools—we don’t know—that apply the content blocking on these systems,” Halperin said. “It’s more wide-reaching than banning a list of books” because a stopword may be assigned to an entire database and restrict every student from that term.
March 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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mattlibrarian.bsky.social
Librarianship won't love you back! @fobettarh.bsky.social's Vocation Awe should be required reading!
Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
March 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
paladinjane.bsky.social
I am going to preorder this the instant it's available, because wow does this premise perfectly appeal to me in every way.
wiswell.bsky.social John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Mar 6
ANNOUNCEMENT: I am writing more books! THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS is follows a grumpy three-headed dragon posing as tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon riding academy. Unfortunately, his new rider is… *a lot*.

From @dawbooks.bsky.social in Spring 2026!
A Publishers Marketplace listing: THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS by John Wiswell, sold to the imprint DAW. The text "Nebula Award winner and author of SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN John Wiswell's THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS, about a dragon whose three heads bear three mismatched personalities--one who wants to rain fire upon humanity, one who wants to be petted and/or bite things, one under the delicate delusion that he's human--and the dragon rider trying to befriend all three heads in time for them to save the world together, to Aranya Jain at DAW, in a two-book deal, for publication in Spring 2026, by Hannah Bowman at Liza Dawson Associates (world). Rights: hello@2seasagency.com. Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy. March 5, 2025."
March 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
everything is so shitty, read this story about a genuinely good man who saw he had an opportunity to save millions of lives and threw himself into doing so. the world is full of heroes like him.
March 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
If George Dale in Muncie, Indiana could risk his life - and spend regular time in jail - to constantly make fun of the KKK in his newspaper in the 1920s, we can take no shit from MAGAs today.

dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
We know this in part because George Dale printed their names in his newspaper, part of his unrelenting, unceasing, and unflinching attack on the Muncie Klan. It nearly got him killed, when hooded men broke into his house and tried to shoot him. Dale said that he wrestled the gun away and killed one of them instead. And hating the Klan sent him to jail repeatedly, rounded up by the Klan cops and put in front of a Klan judge with a Klan-packed jury. It was reported at the time that he was sent to the Muncie jail so often that inmates would applaud when he'd return.
February 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Turning the national archives into a propaganda machine is the literal antithesis of what an archives should be.
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Feb 17
NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history.

The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists.

Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?
February 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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smartbitches.bsky.social
Maryland friends: Gov Moore has some new resources if you're a fed affected by *gestures wildly*
govwesmoore.bsky.social Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · Feb 15
Today, we're launching our Maryland Public Servant Resource website.

We encourage impacted federal workers to visit this new website and see what resources are available.
youtu.be/7joZcuzp-g4?...
Launching Our Maryland Public Servants Resource Website
YouTube video by Governor Wes Moore
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February 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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evilhat.bsky.social
In partnership with @drivethrurpg.com and four other publishers, we are proud to support the Queer Love Bundle.
All proceeds benefit @outrightintl.bsky.social to help strengthen the LGBTIQ human rights movement.
Five great games for a worthy cause. Get it here:
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
The covers of five games: Thirsty Sword Lesbians, The Romance Trilogy, Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands, Honey & Hot Wax, and Star Crossed. Caption: Queer Love Bundle at DriveThruRPG. Great games from your favorite designers. Proceeds support Outright International. Two illustrations adorn the image. On the left an medusa type warrior woman with seashell armor and octopus tentacles for hair. On the right, two gentlemen in elegant 18th century wardrobe lean over a wooden table, playing Jenga.
February 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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poparchives.bsky.social
From my archival heart and soul: FUCK!
February 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
paladinjane.bsky.social
In light of RFK's nomination, I asked my doctor to check my MMR titers, since @rahaeli.bsky.social mentioned that immunity can wear off. Turns out that even with the full 2-dose series in childhood, I'm no longer immune to mumps, so MMR booster, here I come!
January 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM