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middle-aged-momcore. very california.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17h
Night mayors are pretty common in Europe and catching on in States. But nowhere is there a better case for the need of one than SF. Which in some ways still runs like a village(s) www.voanews.com/a/why-us-cit...
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Why US Cities Are Hiring Night Mayors to Govern After Dark
More American urban centers view nightlife as an economic asset rather than a nuisance
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 17h
Ben Shapiro is just such a piece of shit.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 18h
This chart in this morning's NYT is awfully misleading. Suggested edits in red to avoid any confusion.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Has no one seen a movie about, like, diamond cartels?
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Disappointed in Jennifer.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet
Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Have you read devil in the White City?
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
All I got is “Oy vey.”
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Good use of futzing.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Our media climate is too fractured.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Anyone who has to use Oracle knows you could probably vibe code better these days…
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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 11/10/2026
When you add alt text to your images, it provides a service for everybody. I'm sighted but rely on it all the time for various reasons.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/10/2026
just saw that today was mental health awareness day. i would like to say thank you very much to therapy and lexapro and go away forever very much to rfk jr.
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He also hates women and Jews.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Sam’s Club American Psycho is one for the ages.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
A new US indictment alleges an American co-conspirator helped fuel a school shooter’s attack in Canada. So did OpenAI's ChatGPT, according to our exclusive investigation
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love 36 hours, which was filmed at the Wawona Hotel in Yosemite.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People too young to remember but the day after Obergefell, the gays invaded our Churches and forced them to close, as they remain today. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...
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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pour one out for fact checking.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
She used an awful lot of words to say “I hate transwomen because men don’t want to have sex with me.”
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Kristin @kehf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think this is a great way to think about LLMs & A.I. — even well thought out machine learning tool being used in medicine are designed with very specific goals in mind driven by their programmers.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our laws are way too far behind this.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is fucked.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)
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Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools
According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That is … special.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There’s another roadkill guy?
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah. It turns out humans are pretty shitty.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When you say “wealth tax debate” you mean an effort to avoid paying taxes, yes?
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why is there not more Valkyries in my timeline? Is everyone still at the game?
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I didn’t really understand this until recently, when I started to learn more about the Mitfords etc. it’s not taught.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The new Valkyries slogan should be whatever translates as “fuck yeah” in old Norse.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s scary as fuck.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Throw in Vance and Rubio
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We sure do.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And in between we stayed home and watched Stabler protect women.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My late mother, a devout Christian and socialist, opposed the death penalty. Mom said the commandment was very plain and clear. I used to ask her — what if someone killed me? Mom said: the commandment is very clear. Mom was right.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They should reprint that kids book about Louis Pasteur…
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lotta folks in the comments yelling that they should punish the parents with the implication “and not the dairy.” Is it a hard concept that more than one party can have liability for harm done to another at the same time???
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Where did he even crawl back out from?
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pretty great: 6-year-old yelling “cannonball!” when the Valkyries score
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But also this heroine: "Cereese Qusba, 22, a senior and reporter for The Sun, couldn’t shake her concerned curiosity about the case. This month...Ms. Qusba was ready to hit publish on her investigation, which was 23 months in the making."
nytimes.com
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This should be on billboards.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump: "Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion" (actual quote!) Zohran Mamdani:
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
"The US has grown used to the swift and dramatic erosion of women’s health and status that has followed Dobbs," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social, "to the horror stories and upward ticking body counts, grown into ease, and even a kind of compliant boredom, with women’s death and indignity."
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Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The road to recovery srarts with a good kvetch.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Rape culture is structured by the incident of rape and other forms of sexual assault, yes. But it is also structured by the assaulter’s impression of what the consequences might be. Structured by the unfettered harassment anti-assault advocates face. Given shape by bad behavior being given a pass.
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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Valkyries branding is the actual best. (Yes, the basketball too.) the whole Balhalla thing kicks ass. Pity the Warriors who have to play in the boring old Chase Center.
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