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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It also affects your ADHD and depression meds.
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Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com · 06/09/2026
Twenty-five years after I photographed Ground Zero, The Philadelphia Inquirer gave my images, and my new essay about living with the trauma, extraordinary space in today’s Sunday paper. I’m enormously grateful for their care and attention, @inquirer.com. | Online: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It would be hilarious if this was a specifically Anaheim thing
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
YES
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, the American writer, lecturer, activist and organizer who fought for gender equality and women’s civil and reproductive rights for more than five decades, has died, her foundation said. She was 92 years old. 🔗 Read more here: bit.ly/3VbkZoE
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Welcome to the club! J’s parents are about to drive us around the bend 😡😡😡
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Same. I thought I had depression but it was just extreme self loathing bc I thought I couldn’t do anything right. My brain is a much nicer place these days now that I’ve gotten the proper treatment.
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
So delicious though. And you can make arancini with the leftovers.
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Watergate 🫠
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
No no no no
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I stopped being annoyed after about 5 years or so. You find your favorite liquor stores and form relationships with them. Or be like J and form a business to distill your own 😉
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Cat sounds are Awesome
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby—a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist—to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It’s so good, an absolute classic
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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Me to myself: This is annoying. This conversation is annoying, this person is annoying. I hope I'm hiding it well. My face:
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
😂😂😂 I still love it, but it’s definitely not Pinot except in name only
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🦋𝘙𝘩ₒ𝒏∂𝔞 @rhondasrealm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Happy Sunday, June 14th #ObamaAppreciationDay! 💕💙💙💙💕
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I do miss a Syrah that can kick your teeth in
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Part of the calculated desecration here isn't just symbolic. It's that there a dozen ways this is already explicitly illegal, black letter no-question unambiguous statutory prohibition, but he can flaunt how nobody's going to tell him no or do anything about it.
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Kelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it
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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer
A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Every day of Trump 2.0 I think “it can’t get more outrageous than this,” and I am wrong. This slush fund thing is so fucking rancid and unacceptable and I hate the feeling and reality that no politician is going to stop it, or call in Batman or something. This is not a country.
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Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.
Rep. Justin Pearson D- Memphis attempts to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is denied entry by the Sergeant at Arms on the second day of special session concerning redistricting at Cordell Hull State Office Building in Nashville on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵
Someone on Threads writes: "The Met Gala feels like real dystopian shit.

People can’t afford groceries or gas. But we’re going to celebrate this event which is nothing more than wealth porn."
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Feeling very called out rn #ow
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I had mice build a nest in the car filter. J had a nest in the glove compartment, and they ate through the wiring harness. Ah, country livin!
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.
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a woman with orange hair is wearing a white sweater
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I do love a good workshopping session
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I realized that I haven’t watched a live launch since Challenger in 1985 😬😬😬 Some guy posted that he was confused why Gen X is still traumatized since there have been so many successful launches since, and I was like, “Yeah, and I didn’t watch those, either!”
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I was a religion major in college, and was on the path to becoming a Methodist pastor. Once I started seeing the behind the scenes stuff, I changed my mind. The campaigns in the 90s to keep gay people from being ministers is what finally broke me.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/03/2026
This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I grew up West Coast Methodist, and the Southern Methodists were the ones telling me I was going to hell! Verrrry eye opening for me in college.
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Mat Oxley @matoxley.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
At times like these it always helps to read some William Butler Yeats
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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Happy #TwinPeaksDay!
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a woman in a suit and tie and says well well well how the turntables
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
America has lost a titan in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice. From his days at the side of Dr. King, to his moral leadership in this century, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. spent his life pushing our nation closer to its own ideal.
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
J and I started dating in 1991, lol. We’re celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary this year!
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deehellcat @deehellcat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
super helpful deep dive into the context and subtext of last night's awesome performance. :)
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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Jean @slfrtsbabe.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Am I interested in wrestling now? 👀
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Ranch Devereaux @thejacko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Still thinking about how Representative Omar was about to clock the man that charged her.
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Kelly Therese @feministkelly.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The US has been flawed and violent and racist from its very inception. This *is* who we are, but it doesn't have to be. Let this moment be an inflection point.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
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