jessica
@jessduit.bsky.social
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✊🏽 homeschool reform champion
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✊🏽 homeschool reform champion
💭 views are mine
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I could be wrong (I frequently am) but most people who call out racism, transphobia, ableism, and other prejudices, at least in my experience, aren't trying to cancel anyone.
They're asking for accountability. They want us to own our errors and be humble about them. And that's reasonable.
They're asking for accountability. They want us to own our errors and be humble about them. And that's reasonable.
December 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I could be wrong (I frequently am) but most people who call out racism, transphobia, ableism, and other prejudices, at least in my experience, aren't trying to cancel anyone.
They're asking for accountability. They want us to own our errors and be humble about them. And that's reasonable.
They're asking for accountability. They want us to own our errors and be humble about them. And that's reasonable.
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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The whole "actually food is cheap right now" line of thought reminds me of the last two years (and probably beyond) when some pundits kept talking about how great the job market was amid no one being able to find a job.
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The whole "actually food is cheap right now" line of thought reminds me of the last two years (and probably beyond) when some pundits kept talking about how great the job market was amid no one being able to find a job.
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Kamesha Mumford will be the new senator for Mississippi Senate District 26 after a special election runoff on Tuesday. Though the special election was nonpartisan, she is expected to serve as a Democrat in the Senate.
John Horhn, who is now the mayor of Jackson, had held the seat for 32 years.
John Horhn, who is now the mayor of Jackson, had held the seat for 32 years.
Kamesha Mumford Wins Mississippi Senate District 26 Runoff, Filling Seat John Horhn Vacated
Kamesha Mumford, a municipal court judge, won the Mississippi Senate District 26 special runoff election in Hinds and Madison counties.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Kamesha Mumford will be the new senator for Mississippi Senate District 26 after a special election runoff on Tuesday. Though the special election was nonpartisan, she is expected to serve as a Democrat in the Senate.
John Horhn, who is now the mayor of Jackson, had held the seat for 32 years.
John Horhn, who is now the mayor of Jackson, had held the seat for 32 years.
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some folks will do anything to sound well read except for reading any books
December 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
some folks will do anything to sound well read except for reading any books
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Hi, future 👋🏿
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hi, future 👋🏿
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Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
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The purpose of a system of is what it does.
OpenAI's Sora Is Letting Teens Generate Videos of School Shootings
OpenAI's Sora 2 easily allows teenagers to generate videos of school shootings and other harmful content, despite repeated claims of safety.
futurism.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The purpose of a system of is what it does.
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Boy oh boy do companies love to pollute Louisiana. Especially the places where all the Black folks live.
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Boy oh boy do companies love to pollute Louisiana. Especially the places where all the Black folks live.
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Watching my first article for Free Press Indiana evolve under the careful editing and tutelage of @lisarenze.bsky.social affirms my decision to do this work in this place. I hope you’ll check it out. I’m very proud of it 💜
Do yourself a favor and read this piece from @smashfizzle.bsky.social, her first for Free Press Indiana. How lucky we are to have her with us! mirrorindy.org/harmony-in-h...
At Harmony in Horses young women and wild mustangs help each other heal
How an equine therapy program in rural Indiana helps girls and wild mustangs learn to trust.
mirrorindy.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Watching my first article for Free Press Indiana evolve under the careful editing and tutelage of @lisarenze.bsky.social affirms my decision to do this work in this place. I hope you’ll check it out. I’m very proud of it 💜
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Good day to buy some books from your favorite independent bookstore. (Really always a good day to do this.)
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Good day to buy some books from your favorite independent bookstore. (Really always a good day to do this.)
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I’m just thinking of this because I’m watching football while not paying anybody a penny: Do Americans know that you can (still!) watch HD digital broadcasts of all the major networks over the air, for free, complete with programming guide data, just by hooking up an antenna to your TV?
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I’m just thinking of this because I’m watching football while not paying anybody a penny: Do Americans know that you can (still!) watch HD digital broadcasts of all the major networks over the air, for free, complete with programming guide data, just by hooking up an antenna to your TV?
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social
The Case for Child Liberation Through Children‘s Books
In troubling the idea of childhood, there is perhaps no better place to go than children’s literature. Children’s literature is where stories of childhood are produced, ostensibly, for children; it…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social
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I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
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one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
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it's not enough for me that trans people have always existed and will always exists. i need to know that my life isn't going to be cut short simply because i'm a trans woman.
May 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
it's not enough for me that trans people have always existed and will always exists. i need to know that my life isn't going to be cut short simply because i'm a trans woman.
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The return of extremely skeletal bodies for women as a norm is deeply concerning.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The return of extremely skeletal bodies for women as a norm is deeply concerning.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
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Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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Just saw this.
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Just saw this.
second the motion
I know it's hardly the top priority, but could is there any way we could add "mandatory headphone jack on every smartphone" to the Woke 2 agenda?
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
second the motion
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People laugh about these kiddie shows and movies, but I never trusted Ai because I’ve seen 'Smart House' several times. I been peeped game.
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
People laugh about these kiddie shows and movies, but I never trusted Ai because I’ve seen 'Smart House' several times. I been peeped game.
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A 20 year old woman in Minnesota was murdered at work by a coworker this week. Why? He didn't like the way she looked at him. And people are judging her gender presentation in an effort to justify her murder. America hates women. And children. It hates Black, Indigenous, Latine and Asian people too
November 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A 20 year old woman in Minnesota was murdered at work by a coworker this week. Why? He didn't like the way she looked at him. And people are judging her gender presentation in an effort to justify her murder. America hates women. And children. It hates Black, Indigenous, Latine and Asian people too
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr