Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social
Researcher, therapist, heavily caffeinated. Frequently described as a bit of a handful. 🖤 (She/her) 🏳️⚧️ jessk.org/blog
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Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.
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I've been a victim of the messed up PREA policy but as a trans woman in a men's facility it was my only protection at times. I have contact with over 20 trans girls in PA State Prisons as part of an advocate org. They are scared for their lives at this latest BS! Sending you Strength in Unity, Sis.
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I've been a victim of the messed up PREA policy but as a trans woman in a men's facility it was my only protection at times. I have contact with over 20 trans girls in PA State Prisons as part of an advocate org. They are scared for their lives at this latest BS! Sending you Strength in Unity, Sis.
Spend five minutes talking to someone who has survived what these policies were designed to stop and you’ll never be the same again. PREA is imperfect and often weaponized, but it’s often the only protection trans/intersex prisoners have. Everyone involved in this should never know a moment’s peace.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Spend five minutes talking to someone who has survived what these policies were designed to stop and you’ll never be the same again. PREA is imperfect and often weaponized, but it’s often the only protection trans/intersex prisoners have. Everyone involved in this should never know a moment’s peace.
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Every time ACIP meets, Bill Cassidy (R, Coward City) makes pathetic mewling sounds about how bad the committee is.
It is Bill Cassidy’s fault that ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body.
Sir, you are a fucking U.S. Senator. Impeach RFK Jr or STFU.
It is Bill Cassidy’s fault that ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body.
Sir, you are a fucking U.S. Senator. Impeach RFK Jr or STFU.
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Every time ACIP meets, Bill Cassidy (R, Coward City) makes pathetic mewling sounds about how bad the committee is.
It is Bill Cassidy’s fault that ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body.
Sir, you are a fucking U.S. Senator. Impeach RFK Jr or STFU.
It is Bill Cassidy’s fault that ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body.
Sir, you are a fucking U.S. Senator. Impeach RFK Jr or STFU.
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OU alumni here. She didn’t do the assignment and this is def a coordinated effort to try and get the trans grad student fired. I can’t believe OU is “investigating” this, and they have already said the 0 won’t count against her. This sets a dangerous precedent. Boomer Sooner??
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
OU alumni here. She didn’t do the assignment and this is def a coordinated effort to try and get the trans grad student fired. I can’t believe OU is “investigating” this, and they have already said the 0 won’t count against her. This sets a dangerous precedent. Boomer Sooner??
Parker nails it, as always.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Parker nails it, as always.
Just directly to The Hague at this point.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Just directly to The Hague at this point.
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wow they duct taped the Tylenol scarecrow together
The new “journal” launched by RFK jr and his merry band of human carcinogens where they declare not only is a link definitive or even that it’s causal, but that it causes “many if not most” cases of autism.
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
wow they duct taped the Tylenol scarecrow together
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The grievance blog masquerading as a "journal" founded by Trump HHS appointees (The "Journal" of the "Academy" of Public Health) is now publishing lengthy screeds about how HHS secretary RFK Jr is being treated unfairly by the BMJ and calling it a literature synthesis...
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The grievance blog masquerading as a "journal" founded by Trump HHS appointees (The "Journal" of the "Academy" of Public Health) is now publishing lengthy screeds about how HHS secretary RFK Jr is being treated unfairly by the BMJ and calling it a literature synthesis...
No for real, I really wish science had responded to the usurpation of scientific language to push dangerous fiction with a little more gusto than we saw in retrospect
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
No for real, I really wish science had responded to the usurpation of scientific language to push dangerous fiction with a little more gusto than we saw in retrospect
I don’t want to come off unnecessarily grim when I say we’re going back some fifty years, but this is from 1976. That’s how far back the clock has rolled on this.
Almost fifty years since Renee Richards fought for the right to play. The New York Times covered the controversy closely, running this collection of responses from their readers that sounds like it could be run today
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I don’t want to come off unnecessarily grim when I say we’re going back some fifty years, but this is from 1976. That’s how far back the clock has rolled on this.
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CIDRAP’s Vaccine Integrity Project has released a major evidence review: 400+ studies/reports, 40 years of data—and the conclusion is unmistakable.
There is no evidence supporting a delay in the hepatitis B birth dose.
Full report: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
There is no evidence supporting a delay in the hepatitis B birth dose.
Full report: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
Vaccine Integrity Project - Hepatitis B
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
CIDRAP’s Vaccine Integrity Project has released a major evidence review: 400+ studies/reports, 40 years of data—and the conclusion is unmistakable.
There is no evidence supporting a delay in the hepatitis B birth dose.
Full report: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
There is no evidence supporting a delay in the hepatitis B birth dose.
Full report: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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All of the UK is pretending that the UK secretly passed the equality act in 2010 that required a national bathroom ban along with a full ban of trans people from society and it was only discovered fifteen years later. It's obscene.
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
All of the UK is pretending that the UK secretly passed the equality act in 2010 that required a national bathroom ban along with a full ban of trans people from society and it was only discovered fifteen years later. It's obscene.
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“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust
Is this clear enough or are we still doing that whole thing where we pretend it’s about “crime”?
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Is this clear enough or are we still doing that whole thing where we pretend it’s about “crime”?
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Is this clear enough or are we still doing that whole thing where we pretend it’s about “crime”?
One of the reasons right-wing impact litigation is so successful is that it’s so rarely seen for what it is, and when it’s properly reported as such, people lose their minds about it.
the question is not “will this happen everywhere” right now. rather the questions are “why is oklahoma university doing this, why this student and why turning point”
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
One of the reasons right-wing impact litigation is so successful is that it’s so rarely seen for what it is, and when it’s properly reported as such, people lose their minds about it.
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This from @parkermolloy.com is a must read about why the situation at OU is about far more than one school or a debate over grades — it is part of a campaign to drive trans folks from public life.
A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This from @parkermolloy.com is a must read about why the situation at OU is about far more than one school or a debate over grades — it is part of a campaign to drive trans folks from public life.
Sabrina Carpenter is currently showing more of a spine than Hakeem Jeffries
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Sabrina Carpenter is currently showing more of a spine than Hakeem Jeffries
I’m not at all sold on this depiction of agriculture as a monolith but I am however capable of blaming multiple parties at once. Not to brag, but I’m doing it as we speak, actually.
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I’m not at all sold on this depiction of agriculture as a monolith but I am however capable of blaming multiple parties at once. Not to brag, but I’m doing it as we speak, actually.
“This is exacerbated when Amazon then pulls this contaminated water, which is already over federal legal limits for nitrates, up to cool its data centers”
Areas in which centers are built are often high contamination drought areas. This process makes it much worse.
www.theverge.com/news/834151/...
Areas in which centers are built are often high contamination drought areas. This process makes it much worse.
www.theverge.com/news/834151/...
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“This is exacerbated when Amazon then pulls this contaminated water, which is already over federal legal limits for nitrates, up to cool its data centers”
Areas in which centers are built are often high contamination drought areas. This process makes it much worse.
www.theverge.com/news/834151/...
Areas in which centers are built are often high contamination drought areas. This process makes it much worse.
www.theverge.com/news/834151/...
Reddit is crawling with ads for CBP lately, and they’re a striking departure from the over the top fascist iconography on other platforms with doors kicked in and grainy nighttime raids. Three takeaways: they’re getting who they’re marketing to elsewhere, they’re unimpressed, time to delete Reddit.
December 2, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Reddit is crawling with ads for CBP lately, and they’re a striking departure from the over the top fascist iconography on other platforms with doors kicked in and grainy nighttime raids. Three takeaways: they’re getting who they’re marketing to elsewhere, they’re unimpressed, time to delete Reddit.
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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It has now been a year since I stopped posting on X. For @spitfirenews.com, I wrote about watching the platform I loved become a conduit for the worst extremism I've ever witnessed. I don't regret leaving. In fact, I wish I'd left even earlier.
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I'm glad I stopped posting on X
A year ago, I abandoned my account. It was the right thing to do.
spitfirenews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It has now been a year since I stopped posting on X. For @spitfirenews.com, I wrote about watching the platform I loved become a conduit for the worst extremism I've ever witnessed. I don't regret leaving. In fact, I wish I'd left even earlier.
spitfirenews.com/p/x-bluesky-...
spitfirenews.com/p/x-bluesky-...
As much as I’m heartened even the GOP knows Hegseth has gone much too far, we don’t actually need an investigation to know that these were extrajudicial murders. “No quarter” or not, it was a war crime the moment the strike was ordered. He should be stripped of command and prosecuted as such.
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As much as I’m heartened even the GOP knows Hegseth has gone much too far, we don’t actually need an investigation to know that these were extrajudicial murders. “No quarter” or not, it was a war crime the moment the strike was ordered. He should be stripped of command and prosecuted as such.