Jess ✡️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈
@jewisharchivist.bsky.social
Jewish. ✡ Pan. 🏳️🌈 Archivist. Geek. Philly expat. Generally enthusiastic about everything. She/They.
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happy new mayor 🥳
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 AM
happy new mayor 🥳
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"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell
Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
www.thebulwark.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
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You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check
December 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check
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And I think the lack of that inclusion in media has heavily contributed to people generally thinking that everyone who uses a wheelchair is unable to walk at all
December 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
And I think the lack of that inclusion in media has heavily contributed to people generally thinking that everyone who uses a wheelchair is unable to walk at all
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One thing I genuinely enjoyed in Wake Up Dead Man was the depiction of an ambulatory wheelchair user, which is like never how people in wheelchairs are depicted in media
December 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
One thing I genuinely enjoyed in Wake Up Dead Man was the depiction of an ambulatory wheelchair user, which is like never how people in wheelchairs are depicted in media
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tiktok what the absolute everloving shit is this
December 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
tiktok what the absolute everloving shit is this
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One of my roomies in Philly was an old school Piney and he once said "Living in the Pine Barrens is like, 'meet me at the haunted abandoned plane fuselage. No, not that one the other haunted abandoned plane fuselage'
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
One of my roomies in Philly was an old school Piney and he once said "Living in the Pine Barrens is like, 'meet me at the haunted abandoned plane fuselage. No, not that one the other haunted abandoned plane fuselage'
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The Atlantic truly out here like ACTUALLY SCREW EVERYONE ONLY THE MOST UPSETTING NEWS OPINIONS AND FACTS.
December 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The Atlantic truly out here like ACTUALLY SCREW EVERYONE ONLY THE MOST UPSETTING NEWS OPINIONS AND FACTS.
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when you're mean to Bothriolepis, this is who you're being mean to
December 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
when you're mean to Bothriolepis, this is who you're being mean to
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Everything alive in the Devonian period tried too hard. “Ooo, look at me, I’m a weird elongated pentagon” Shut up!
March 30, 2024 at 5:52 AM
Everything alive in the Devonian period tried too hard. “Ooo, look at me, I’m a weird elongated pentagon” Shut up!
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Every six months some guy says he’s figured out who the Zodiac Killer was and the answer is always the same: he was some guy
December 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Every six months some guy says he’s figured out who the Zodiac Killer was and the answer is always the same: he was some guy
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It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
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The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
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The news that AI was being trained on stolen works?
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
Addressing "Documentation Debt" in Machine Learning Research: A Retrospective Datasheet for BookCorpus
Recent literature has underscored the importance of dataset documentation work for machine learning, and part of this work involves addressing "documentation debt" for datasets that have been used wid...
arxiv.org
December 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The news that AI was being trained on stolen works?
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
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People like to shit on tradition, but I think it's a real time-saver. I glad I don't have to figure out what I'm supposed to do about God's birthday every year. Trees and candy, done. He loves it.
July 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
People like to shit on tradition, but I think it's a real time-saver. I glad I don't have to figure out what I'm supposed to do about God's birthday every year. Trees and candy, done. He loves it.
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He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
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The response to this feels somewhat akin to the response to Hillbilly Elegy— that certain liberals must read it and praise it so that they can properly and publicly perform humility to atone for their eliteness. This is despite both of these books being written by Ivy Leaguers.
December 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The response to this feels somewhat akin to the response to Hillbilly Elegy— that certain liberals must read it and praise it so that they can properly and publicly perform humility to atone for their eliteness. This is despite both of these books being written by Ivy Leaguers.
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The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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born to be merry, forced to know what a spreadsheet is
December 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
born to be merry, forced to know what a spreadsheet is
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Back home in Vermont after months in London. The river is melting. A friend asked me why I’m afraid to take pictures of the river. Haunted, obviously. Every river is.
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Back home in Vermont after months in London. The river is melting. A friend asked me why I’m afraid to take pictures of the river. Haunted, obviously. Every river is.
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(Calling home for the first time on night 5 of my business trip) and what of my portcullis? Holding fast, no doubt?
December 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
(Calling home for the first time on night 5 of my business trip) and what of my portcullis? Holding fast, no doubt?
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you need as many emergency buns as possible.
December 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
you need as many emergency buns as possible.
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14yo: the Catholic Church needs to get with the times. No one cares about shamrocks anymore
14yo: they should say that the Holy Trinity is like a 3-in-1 shampoo, conditioner, and body wash
14yo: it won’t be great, but it’ll get the job done
14yo: they should say that the Holy Trinity is like a 3-in-1 shampoo, conditioner, and body wash
14yo: it won’t be great, but it’ll get the job done
December 20, 2025 at 4:08 AM
14yo: the Catholic Church needs to get with the times. No one cares about shamrocks anymore
14yo: they should say that the Holy Trinity is like a 3-in-1 shampoo, conditioner, and body wash
14yo: it won’t be great, but it’ll get the job done
14yo: they should say that the Holy Trinity is like a 3-in-1 shampoo, conditioner, and body wash
14yo: it won’t be great, but it’ll get the job done