Reposted by JessJess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 31/12/2024So, I purposefully stayed away from BlueSky for a month. My hope was that in the time intervening, the site would shrug off the thick and vile mantle of hate and return to a busy hive of thoughtful discourse. No such luck. People here are stewing in boiling hatred. 011 1
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 31/12/2024So, I purposefully stayed away from BlueSky for a month. My hope was that in the time intervening, the site would shrug off the thick and vile mantle of hate and return to a busy hive of thoughtful discourse. No such luck. People here are stewing in boiling hatred. 011 1
Reposted by JessJess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Why are people here so obsessed, I mean unhealthily obsessed with X ? It’s like a girl who is dumped by a guy and then sets about trying to destroy him…cannot stop shit talking him, even to people who never met him. Some of you are that scary. 141 4
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 05/12/2024“ @mcuban.bsky.social could run [for President] with Jesus and still couldn’t win”! 😂😂😂. 👆🏼 000 0
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 05/12/2024music.apple.com/us/album/we-... Banger.music.apple.comWe Are One by Tom Hillock on Apple MusicSong · 2010 · Duration 2:59 000 0
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Evidently, the French do not take kindly to governments that seek to control and devalue the hoi polloi at the expense of the elite. Coming soon to a U.K. channel near you, I suppose (hope).... 110 1
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 04/12/2024pagesix.com/2024/12/03/e... Well, this would explain why they are such a group of tetchy sour-pusses.pagesix.comExclusive | ABC News staffers working in near-decrepit building with ‘no Wi-Fi, no heat’ as ‘GMA’ ratings tankSources told Page Six the heat is off at the building and everyone will move to Hudson Square by Feb. 000 0
Reposted by JessAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 01/12/2024Bluesky has done a remarkable job of dealing with the post election explosion of new users, but if it wants to take the next step as a trusted platform, a reliable verification system is absolutely necessary. 2536593487 6.6K
Reposted by JessJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/12/2024I still see people cutting and pasting from the Bad Place to dunk on it here, and I hope you all get that out of your system real soon now 36611034879 11K
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 02/12/2024As antecedent, I’m not native to here. Your general experience may differ from mine. However, I have been an avid student of the US Government since my naturalization experience 40 years ago. That said, this pardon is the single-most likely event to trigger a constitutional crisis in my lifetime 200 2
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Let’s look forward: if I were AOC and Fetterman, I would come out against this action is the strongest possible language and accompany it with the announcement of a Center-Left People’s Movement (avoid the word “party”) divorced from the DNC. MAGA is a movement. Both parties are dead. 000 0
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 02/12/2024And….with that, the two American political parties are officially declared dead. Sure, the life-support machine will pump and wheeze for a bit, but the pen is poised to sign the certification. 020 2
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 02/12/2024If you think this all a bit unfair on Gregg, then find your wife/GF/Sister/Mum and ask if they think it’s acceptable for you/their partner to make a comment about your bedroom activities to a woman you/they have just met at work….even if the work girl is a middle class woman of a certain age. 000 0
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Goodnight to my friends. Especially Nobody who makes me think about things from uncomfortable angles. 010 1
Reposted by JessThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 01/12/2024When you’ve told your client not to make things any worse when they speak to Probation for their Pre-Sentence Report. 592013240 2K
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024From a group who rage against men cos playing as women, not a peep when their women surgically cos play as men. 010 1
Reposted by JessSTEM RIDDLE 🧠 @globaldiplomat.bsky.social · 01/12/20241/ 🛡Bulletproof vest was invented by a woman chemist called Stephanie Kwolek. #science #invention #scientist 1111 11
Reposted by JessKevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Beautifully carved figure of the Virgin Mary from Winchester Cathedral. Dating to the late 15th century, it was once part of the cathedral’s Great Screen. Now part of the Cathedral’s ‘Kings and Scribes’ Exhibition. 📸 My own. #SundayStonework #Winchester #Archaeology 2409 40
Reposted by JessSupertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 01/12/2024“Women of a certain age” are who misogynists fear the most, that’s why they claim women over 30 have “hit the wall” and all try to bang twenty year old women who are less empowered to call out bad behaviour and too inexperienced to know that they’re a pitiful shag. I see you, Gregg. 1893736401 3.7K
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Tune in live today as Brayden sings his rendition of “I’ll be Home for Christmas” 🎶 000 0
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 01/12/202412/01/2024. Last month spent not in jail for this smarmy dude. 100 1
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024@greggawallace.bsky.social seen here chatting it up with a middle-class, middle-aged woman for whom he has contempt and disdain. I love this site. I’m never leaving. 020 2
Reposted by JessShanti Das @shantidas.bsky.social · 30/11/2024New: the true scale of 'dark money' flowing into UK politics Cash from firms that have never made a profit, from unincorporated associations that don't declare their funders & banned donations from abroad are all entering the system www.theguardian.com/politics/202... @transparencyuk.bsky.socialtheguardian.comRevealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sourcesCash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes 1221892 218
Reposted by JessBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024BREAKING: Trump names Kash Patel as FBI director 7482581435 2.6K
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024The chance that this man is going to emigrate to Ukraine before January just went up 100%. 000 0
Reposted by JessPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/11/2024UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’. Cash from dictatorships, shell companies, companies that never made profit, unincorporated associations with secret funders. Rewards for corruption - govt contracts, lax laws, favours. Must ban all political donations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comRevealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sourcesCash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes 1252833847 2.8K
Reposted by JessNobody @nervestapler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Wow it's amazing how many sex preverts were able to hide their vices from Trump 011 1
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Day 5 BlueSky Observation. No other social media site would allow a post like this. Angry, raging, and designed to hurt another human being. You don’t want to be like X? Okay. You can do that without permitting this kind of small-minded ad hominem and dangerous rage. 411 4
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Amanda Ba. Post-humanism in a very constructive, human way. 000 0
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Day 5 on BlueSky: Elon and Maye Musk have an Oedipal relationship. The U.S. is “oligarchic, you know, like Soviet Russia”. And Barron Trump has a lisp. This is not a serious site. It will not survive this sort of idiocy. 100 1
Reposted by JessDavid Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Look who came to the fourth of my Opera in Depth classes on Smetana's 'Libuše' - none other than Royal Opera Music Director in waiting Jakub Hrůša. I find it increasingly difficult not to have tears in my eyes talking about this masterpiece, and he expressed his feelings about it so eloquently. 041 4
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 29/11/2024A portrait by #Gainsborough has been discovered & dates back to 1742 telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/2… 020 2
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I have this thought experiment where I imagine two people sitting down together for coffee. Today’s episode was a meeting between Michelangelo and Jago. Is the latter the former of today? What would they think about the work of the other? 010 1
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 29/11/2024tipitinas.com/e/13646454/a... There is a reason that Nee Orleans is a place unlike any other…a tribute to a woman who was unlike any other. A shoe so good the walls might have come down…but they stood for her as well.tipitinas.comA Tribute To The Queen - Irma ThomasWith performances by Irma Thomas, Galactic, Ani DiFranco, Marcia Ball, Jelly Joseph, Erica Falls, Leyla McCalla, Joy Clark, Susan Cowsill, Gabrielle Cavassa, Sierra Green, Jolynda “Kiki” Chapman and m... 000 0
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 29/11/2024www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new... Wait, I thought TdA was under control in Aurora? Has Mike Coffman been asked for comment? @cbscolorado.bsky.socialcbsnews.comSuspect injured in Colorado shooting with Aurora police officersOne suspect was injured in a shooting with police officers in Aurora on Thanksgiving night in the 900 block of South Dawson Way. 000 0
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Imagine waking up after such a nice holiday to find tens of vile, ascerbic posts from strangers. Imagine having to spend the time reporting and blocking these malicious mooncalves. Say all you want about “X”, this obscenity does not happen there. It is not tolerated. @support.bsky.team do better 300 3
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 29/11/2024@nervestapler.bsky.social I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. 100 1
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Day Three Observation. Being on X feels big. Like being on a Viking River Cruise through the heart of Austria-Hungary. BlueSky is like a Carnival Cruise to Cancun and getting body checked by rude, angry blue-bracelets to get to the fried shrimp buffet. 300 3
Jess @jessrabid.bsky.social · 28/11/2024The DNC needs to issue the following statement, known by tens of millions of repentant people worldwide: “oh my fellow Americans, we are heartily sorry for having offended you. We detest all our sins not only because of the ballot box punishment you have inflicted on us, but because we have offended 200 2