Joel A. Nichols
jaynick.bsky.social
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)
Proust Face Killah Books & Coffee would have been very good!
December 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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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
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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
Would love to help
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I also got, "So you get to sit and read all day?"
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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For a librarian, it's "Does anyone even go to libraries anymore?"
December 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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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?
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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.
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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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