Jessica
@thund3rh4wk.bsky.social
InfoSec professional, geek, gamer, gardener, avid reader, amateur photographer, occasional world traveler, crochet and houseplant enthusiast, cyborg.
Formerly on the dumpster fire site as @Thund3r_H4wk, @jlbuckridge on Instagram.
Formerly on the dumpster fire site as @Thund3r_H4wk, @jlbuckridge on Instagram.
She is hanging in my dining room and I love her.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
She is hanging in my dining room and I love her.
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The Crow Witch
Acrylic on paper
Acrylic on paper
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The Crow Witch
Acrylic on paper
Acrylic on paper
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I love this kind of arc for artists. They put out a small volume of impactful work, then they retire from demands on their output & live the rest of life as they want. A lot of novelists are like this. I think of myself as wanting to write novels as long as I live but that's a respectable way.
lots of snark about Andre 3000's jazz flute era but it's like Herbie Hancock's robot voice lectures: when you've given this much to music you get to do what you want. that's just the rules
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I love this kind of arc for artists. They put out a small volume of impactful work, then they retire from demands on their output & live the rest of life as they want. A lot of novelists are like this. I think of myself as wanting to write novels as long as I live but that's a respectable way.
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
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On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
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I feel like "we've made an app that gives people psychosis and here's how many people we've sent insane" is past late-stage capitalism. It's some new stage of previously unforeseen horrors beyond human imagination.
by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I feel like "we've made an app that gives people psychosis and here's how many people we've sent insane" is past late-stage capitalism. It's some new stage of previously unforeseen horrors beyond human imagination.
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So Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout from our tax dollars but devastated small towns here at home — nothing.
October 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout from our tax dollars but devastated small towns here at home — nothing.
Having admitted I do not know how to cook a turkey I do feel like I have to defend myself a tiny bit and say you should still invite me to Thanksgiving because I will absolutely crush my assigned side dish. Proof in last night's Instagram story. 😂
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Having admitted I do not know how to cook a turkey I do feel like I have to defend myself a tiny bit and say you should still invite me to Thanksgiving because I will absolutely crush my assigned side dish. Proof in last night's Instagram story. 😂
I am a vegetarian who has never had to host Thanksgiving, so I wouldn't know what to do with a turkey if I had one, and therefore always forego the free supermarket turkey - I am sure I am not the only person in such a situation, and this is an opportunity for it to go somewhere it is needed.
In light of the govt shutdown and SNAP getting cut for a ton of folks, I have had a fun idea for how to help. I call it "Operation Turkey Heist (legal)."
Allow me to explain...
A lot of grocery stories are doing a "free turkey with X dollar purchase" and food banks very much want those turkeys.
Allow me to explain...
A lot of grocery stories are doing a "free turkey with X dollar purchase" and food banks very much want those turkeys.
October 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I am a vegetarian who has never had to host Thanksgiving, so I wouldn't know what to do with a turkey if I had one, and therefore always forego the free supermarket turkey - I am sure I am not the only person in such a situation, and this is an opportunity for it to go somewhere it is needed.
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In light of the govt shutdown and SNAP getting cut for a ton of folks, I have had a fun idea for how to help. I call it "Operation Turkey Heist (legal)."
Allow me to explain...
A lot of grocery stories are doing a "free turkey with X dollar purchase" and food banks very much want those turkeys.
Allow me to explain...
A lot of grocery stories are doing a "free turkey with X dollar purchase" and food banks very much want those turkeys.
October 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In light of the govt shutdown and SNAP getting cut for a ton of folks, I have had a fun idea for how to help. I call it "Operation Turkey Heist (legal)."
Allow me to explain...
A lot of grocery stories are doing a "free turkey with X dollar purchase" and food banks very much want those turkeys.
Allow me to explain...
A lot of grocery stories are doing a "free turkey with X dollar purchase" and food banks very much want those turkeys.
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There are so many leading indicators that an avalanche of shit is currently racing downhill, and too many people are ignoring them.
Staffing shortages. Brain drains. Investment pull-backs. Cratering tourism. Expiring benefits. Continuing shutdowns.
It's about to get really bad. Are you prepared?
Staffing shortages. Brain drains. Investment pull-backs. Cratering tourism. Expiring benefits. Continuing shutdowns.
It's about to get really bad. Are you prepared?
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
There are so many leading indicators that an avalanche of shit is currently racing downhill, and too many people are ignoring them.
Staffing shortages. Brain drains. Investment pull-backs. Cratering tourism. Expiring benefits. Continuing shutdowns.
It's about to get really bad. Are you prepared?
Staffing shortages. Brain drains. Investment pull-backs. Cratering tourism. Expiring benefits. Continuing shutdowns.
It's about to get really bad. Are you prepared?
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.
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200 billion dollar valuation btw💀💀💀
October 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
200 billion dollar valuation btw💀💀💀
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Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
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My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
On behalf of my husband, who refuses to use social media: "If I had a Twitter, and I refuse to call it anything but Twitter, that would be a thing I would tweet: Strange New Worlds uses the transport buffer like the prison from Ghostbusters."
😂
😂
October 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
On behalf of my husband, who refuses to use social media: "If I had a Twitter, and I refuse to call it anything but Twitter, that would be a thing I would tweet: Strange New Worlds uses the transport buffer like the prison from Ghostbusters."
😂
😂
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WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Heist movies are going to be so different now, no more elaborate plans concocted by a team of highly skilled specialists in a series of stylish montage sequences, just a bunch of guys with a ladder
October 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Heist movies are going to be so different now, no more elaborate plans concocted by a team of highly skilled specialists in a series of stylish montage sequences, just a bunch of guys with a ladder
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my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract