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Molly Jean

@mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social
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Poet, software engineer, sewist, sunscreen power user, reader, running idiot, clown academia fashion person, queer Catholic, golden hour enjoyer, parent, partner, in love with the world www.mollyjeanbennett.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
SAME @marisamorby.com
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US
Finally, some good news
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I loved this piece! totally delightful
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh hey I went to Colby! Lack of Greek life was one of the reasons I picked it. Same for many of my friends. some of whom are now, to your point, significant donors
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Also looking up the publication dates of Muse Magazine just now I learned I must have been a very early subscriber. Neat!
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tired: Muse, meta’s surveillance charm that is not not being marketed to kids Wire: Muse, a delightful art and science magazine for children
A hand holding the new meta muse charm, with a red x scribbled over it along with the text “eww”The cover of muse magazine, with a circle of insects and text that says “curious collections”
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026
don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit
Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is really deeply my attitude towards clothing: mutual flourishing! When I say I’m into fashion it’s in a “I love all the ways people express themselves through garments!” way and never ever in a “ew that’s so last season” way
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh yes, another point for the smooth rocks! Also: pill organizer at toddler level and nest of cords easily accessible behind the tv
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
All of a sudden we're not talking about the widely popular bipartisan opposition to massive data center buildouts. I wonder why 🤔
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 09/09/2026
Abolition Teapot by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, 1760-80. www.flickr.com/photos/birmi...
Teapot
Health to the Sick Honour to the Brave
Success to the Lover Freedom to the Slave
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of most acclaimed American painters of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. Fitting that today is Labor Day since work & labor were among his most enduring themes. First up: Home Chores, 1945, painted soon after he returned from military service in WWII
Painting of a Black woman in house dress, apron, & slippers, washing dishes at a sink
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My coworking space has these decorative stacks of books in different colors and this is perhaps the most cursed collection of titles
A stack of yellow books with the following titles on the spines:

-Fantastic Food with Splenda
-The Happiness Advantage 
-The Sign
-A Public Faith
-Taking Back the Good Book
-The Art of Her Deal
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
The grim reaper is just shooting at the wall blindfolded
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP to one of the smartest, kindest, most talented members of our species
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
yes yes yes
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has paused a lower court’s ruling that blocked key parts of President Trump’s order to restrict mail-in voting for this fall’s midterms in 23 states and Washington, D.C. U.S. Postal Service work on Trump’s order remains blocked nationwide
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26A124, 26A139 Order
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Pleased with how the colors for this little wall-hanging scrap project are shaping up
Striped and solid brown, red-orange, and blue fabric pieces laid out. There is an embroidered image of St. Brigid of Kildare on one piece and an embroidered can of beans on another
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Need a yard sign that says “All are welcome here EXCEPT OWLS”
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My 4yo yesterday morning, while unlocking the front door: “Everyone locks their doors at night. Because we don’t want any owls to come in!”
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Cheez-it box color story today. Everything homemade or secondhand. #DaughterJudy #AdamsPant in gold upholstery jacquard sewed by me, and the jacket is from a trade with another IG sewist.
A mirror selfie of me in a yellow jacket, red top, gold pants, and white converse shoes CHEEZ-IT Baked Snack Crackers box
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Rooting for her
Screenshotted text: Python named Jodie Foster first snake to receive pioneering cancer treatment
Chester zoo resident, 23, ‘back to her usual feisty self’ after electrochemotherapy for tumour in her jaw
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ooh just listened to this too and it’s like nothing else I’ve ever read
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Dolly Parton immediately comes to mind. icon, legend, super savvy businessperson, and she has given so much of her time and her wealth to philanthropic causes. Reportedly has non- fancy taste IRL too and feels uncomfortable buying splashy spendy stuff because it feels like a betrayal of her roots
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A wild story that sums up so much about this moment. Rare books bought up by a hyperscaler, driven across the country by truck, scanned and fed into the woodchipper by low wage workers so the rich can build and own systems that squeeze, surveil, and automate labor and control knowledge generation.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM
Two side-by-side black-and-white photographs of pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936). The left panel features a mature, close-up portrait where Hamilton gazes directly at the viewer with a serene, confident, and reflective expression, framed by her long, dark, slightly silvering hair. The right panel is a famous archival photograph showing a younger Hamilton standing indoors next to a towering stack of bound paper binders containing the Apollo Guidance Computer source code, which she led the development of at MIT. She is smiling broadly and wears a striped, long-sleeved mini dress with dark Mary Jane shoes and glasses, resting her hand proudly on top of the massive column of printed code. The overall composition contrasts her youthful triumph with her enduring legacy, capturing an optimistic, intellectually rigorous mood that highlights her monumental contributions to space exploration.
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hanging out with a 4-year-old really shows you how many ways there are to take off a sock
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
YES! my great aunt spent time away from her family in a tuberculosis sanitarium as a young child and it did LIFELONG emotional damage
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/08/2026
'The outright exploitation of the disability community as a means of normalizing intrusive technologies has not often been named.'
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Agree! I frequently send other new parents who have flunked out of breastfeeding a PDF of that chapter from Cribsheet, because it truly was so helpful in easing my raging guilt. not a fan of all her work (and had to unfollow her newsletter) but the way she shifted the conversation def matters
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12/08/2026
back in the real world—today is the ninth anniversary of the death of Heather Heyer, murdered by a white nationalist. from the AP live reporting that day: apnews.com/general-news...
12:55 p.m.
A friend of the woman killed when a car rammed into a group of protesters in Charlottesville says she's no different than a casualty of war.
Felicia Correa said Sunday that her friend Heather Heyer died standing up for people of color.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026
what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you focus on the way that Trump is adding administrative burdens on most Americans, while exempting an inner circle from regulation, you would learn a lot about the second Trump term
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Oh yes Leafblower, along with their siblings Dustbuster and Slapchop, sounds like quite a handful
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Out: nature names. In: household appliances
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I must have misheard, but it sounded like someone at my coworking space just said their child’s name is Washer-Dryer
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is exactly the kind of insider detail I crave
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Branding inspo: these off-brand recycled printer cartridges are by RETCH
A black cardboard box with the text: RETCH INK CARTRIDGE
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Beep beep here’s my @cascadiajs.com talk from June!
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The men’s World Cup is cool and all but GO THORNS @thornsfc.com
Providence Park stadium, with a soccer game in progress on the field
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Are cherries on your #July4 menu? They come thanks to workers like "Julia" who shared this pic from where she was harvesting cherries in WA state. She works piece rate, which means she rushes to pick as much as possible while getting the quality growers require. #WeFeedYou
A worker standing in front of a box full of cherries the crew has just picked
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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The official launch event for The AI Resist List is finally here, and you can join in person or online! The airesistlist.org has met a seemingly urgent public need for examples of ways communities around the world are moving against extractive AI and exploring more equitable technology futures.
airesistlist.org
The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Fascists marching in the capital, assured of protection from their President and indifference from much the plutocratic media, marking the 250th anniversary of the American experience.
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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Anyway, happy birthday to the USA of whimsical yard decorations & good neighbors & dissenters & questioners & weirdos & dreamers & ice cream eaters
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