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@captainmander

she/her, 30-something, Chicagoland librarian

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Less than a week to go! Could really use some financial support.

11.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€œI want yuri heated rivalry… hire me. I can fall in love with my costar please.”

Amber Glenn gets asked about Heated Rivalry!

πŸ”—: youtu.be/THOglbJl-Dk?...

06.03.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 359 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 20

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

06.03.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 5869 πŸ” 1721 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 75

So I guess it was either World War III or drag queens reading books to our children.

05.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 5329 πŸ” 981 πŸ’¬ 175 πŸ“Œ 41
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Others are drowning, attempting sustained thought in environments engineered to prevent it. They sit with laptops open, seven tabs competing for attention, notifications sliding in from three different apps, phones vibrating every few minutes. They’re trying to read serious material while fighting a losing battle against behavioural psychology weaponised at scale. They believe their inability to focus is a personal failure rather than a design problem. They don’t realise they’re trying to think in a space optimised to prevent thinking.

Article screenshot: Others are drowning, attempting sustained thought in environments engineered to prevent it. They sit with laptops open, seven tabs competing for attention, notifications sliding in from three different apps, phones vibrating every few minutes. They’re trying to read serious material while fighting a losing battle against behavioural psychology weaponised at scale. They believe their inability to focus is a personal failure rather than a design problem. They don’t realise they’re trying to think in a space optimised to prevent thinking.

I have worried about what I've seen as my own decreased ability to focus but this article has really shifted my thinking. It's so so interesting. aeon.co/essays/what-...

05.03.2026 16:56 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4

I’m crying, how does a senator from NEW JERSEY do this

04.03.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 240 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 1

Every trans person is like "I knew something was up before I had the words to describe it and had to fight for this for years" and every transphobe is like "one conversation with a doctor could have convinced me to get the walrus surgery from the movie 'The Walrus'"

03.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 1824 πŸ” 405 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3

This whole idea that someone could be peer-pressured into transitioning, and that this pressure would come from medical professionals, it just fails the smell test on so many levels.

04.03.2026 02:31 πŸ‘ 429 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Tonight’s #SmallGoodThing: my anti-AI zine is finally available! I hope folks check it out!

04.03.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

omg!! congratulations!!!

02.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent infographic!!! Will be saving for future use

02.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Infographic about how books are published, sold, and enter the school library. Available at: tinyurl.com/how-books-2026

Infographic about how books are published, sold, and enter the school library. Available at: tinyurl.com/how-books-2026

Remember my infographic about How Books Enter the Library? In this new version, I’ve added an annotated summary of Kelly Jensen’s β€œBooks Don’t Just Appear on the Shelves.” Use this mashup to help folks understand how the claim of porn in school libraries makes no sense. tinyurl.com/how-books-2026

02.03.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

The IMLS's new homepage encapsulates how much the regime has damaged this agency, and the propaganda truck project? Only criss-crossing the country to red states.

Here's what's been happening and what you can do about it.

02.03.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i’m so excited for peace in the Middle East. we’re only one war away.

28.02.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 3264 πŸ” 365 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 15

Fuck this

28.02.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today is a great day to donate to the ALCU of Kansas! www.aclukansas.org

27.02.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 401 πŸ” 315 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

26.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 9834 πŸ” 3494 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 89

Trans people: we would like to be recognized as human beings.

NY Times journalists: uuuuuuugh I always have to endure your unsparing criticism.

26.02.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trans Continental Pipeline-Donate to help queer relocation! At TCP, our mission is to help Queer and 2SLGBTQIA+ people move from unsafe environments to Colorado and provide connections and resources through our relocation program.Every Cent you donate will go ...

Another perfect morning to support tcpipeline.org

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But also…

26.02.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 6

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

26.02.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 6470 πŸ” 1761 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 36

Largely fears over cancel culture among elites are likely motivated by the fact that they truly believe that their status and wealth should shield them from certain moral or ethical standards. Pretending it is anything else is delusional at this point.

24.02.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 874 πŸ” 209 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 6
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a man in a tuxedo says " you know what? nevermind, man " Alt: Will Smith from Fresh Prince. He says "You know what? Never mind, man."

Me, watching Heated Rivalry: "Maybe I'll get into men's hockey."

Me, seeing the men's Olympic hockey team celebrate with a fascist:

23.02.2026 05:19 πŸ‘ 373 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5
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the concept of partying with the guy who went under oath to say that epstein didn’t do anything wrong

22.02.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 4236 πŸ” 620 πŸ’¬ 173 πŸ“Œ 84

he’s just admitting it lol

20.02.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 2206 πŸ” 294 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 0
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Substack announces a partnership with Polymarket. β€œJournalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.”

19.02.2026 04:34 πŸ‘ 286 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 146
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Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" πŸ—£οΈ

19.02.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 8698 πŸ” 1918 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 530

Isabeau skates like a ballerina, she is just so ridiculously graceful. I hope she's so proud of herself!!!

19.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amber did so good πŸ’œπŸ’œπŸ’œπŸ’œπŸ’œ

19.02.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

let's have a spirited international sporting event focused on "purging the billionaires and the fascists and salting the defiled earth from whence they sprang" - we can give out fun prizes

19.02.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 656 πŸ” 122 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 7

I also talked about figure skating in therapy today lmao

19.02.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0