Jenessa
@jcdubs.bsky.social
semi-functioning human and story artist (she/her)
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Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.
A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.
Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.
A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.
Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.
October 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.
A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.
Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.
A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.
Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.
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Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.
These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.
AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.
AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.
These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.
AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.
AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
In 2011, after CalArts, I took a semester at a local university while looking for an animation job. While I was there, I submitted artwork to the university literary/art magazine.
In 2023, while at WDAS, after working in animation for 12 years, I received an email rejecting my art from the magazine.
In 2023, while at WDAS, after working in animation for 12 years, I received an email rejecting my art from the magazine.
October 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
In 2011, after CalArts, I took a semester at a local university while looking for an animation job. While I was there, I submitted artwork to the university literary/art magazine.
In 2023, while at WDAS, after working in animation for 12 years, I received an email rejecting my art from the magazine.
In 2023, while at WDAS, after working in animation for 12 years, I received an email rejecting my art from the magazine.
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Trump has signed an Executive Order officially approving the sale of TikTok to a group of U.S. companies.
That includes Oracle, owned by billionaire and Trump donor Larry Ellison, whose media company now oversees CBS News and may soon control CNN.
What could go wrong?
That includes Oracle, owned by billionaire and Trump donor Larry Ellison, whose media company now oversees CBS News and may soon control CNN.
What could go wrong?
September 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Trump has signed an Executive Order officially approving the sale of TikTok to a group of U.S. companies.
That includes Oracle, owned by billionaire and Trump donor Larry Ellison, whose media company now oversees CBS News and may soon control CNN.
What could go wrong?
That includes Oracle, owned by billionaire and Trump donor Larry Ellison, whose media company now oversees CBS News and may soon control CNN.
What could go wrong?
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Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
September 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
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Trans rights are human rights.
September 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Trans rights are human rights.
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If you claim to care about marginalized people, but don’t wear a mask in public, you don’t care ab ALL marginalized ppl
The irony is u could become immunocompromised / chronically ill at any time
You’re 1 COVID infection away from being 1 of us
Research shows that COVID damages your immune system
The irony is u could become immunocompromised / chronically ill at any time
You’re 1 COVID infection away from being 1 of us
Research shows that COVID damages your immune system
“I stopped wearing a mask for my mental health”
COVID informed people: I wear a mask for my mental health as it’s mentally healthy to live according to my values (caring ab marginalized ppl) & COVID infection has been shown to exacerbate MH conditions, including depression, anxiety & ND conditions
COVID informed people: I wear a mask for my mental health as it’s mentally healthy to live according to my values (caring ab marginalized ppl) & COVID infection has been shown to exacerbate MH conditions, including depression, anxiety & ND conditions
August 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
If you claim to care about marginalized people, but don’t wear a mask in public, you don’t care ab ALL marginalized ppl
The irony is u could become immunocompromised / chronically ill at any time
You’re 1 COVID infection away from being 1 of us
Research shows that COVID damages your immune system
The irony is u could become immunocompromised / chronically ill at any time
You’re 1 COVID infection away from being 1 of us
Research shows that COVID damages your immune system
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Covid is airborne: there's no evidence of fomite transmission (i.e. from surfaces). Covid hangs in the air like smoke & lingers in rooms with bad ventilation, hours after infected people have left.
Those baggy blue surgical masks are pretty useless anyway - we've been gaslit from the outset by govt.
Those baggy blue surgical masks are pretty useless anyway - we've been gaslit from the outset by govt.
August 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Covid is airborne: there's no evidence of fomite transmission (i.e. from surfaces). Covid hangs in the air like smoke & lingers in rooms with bad ventilation, hours after infected people have left.
Those baggy blue surgical masks are pretty useless anyway - we've been gaslit from the outset by govt.
Those baggy blue surgical masks are pretty useless anyway - we've been gaslit from the outset by govt.
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Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
August 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have revealed a synthetic glycosystem -a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle- that can BLOCK SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells, REDUCING infection rates by NEARLY 99%. Acting as a decoy, the molecule BINDS to the spike protein, PREVENTING it from attaching to real cells.
August 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have revealed a synthetic glycosystem -a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle- that can BLOCK SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells, REDUCING infection rates by NEARLY 99%. Acting as a decoy, the molecule BINDS to the spike protein, PREVENTING it from attaching to real cells.
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they are murdering the people who tell the truth.
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
aje.io
August 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
they are murdering the people who tell the truth.
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“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
August 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
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This is why billionaires love AI
July 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is why billionaires love AI
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It should never be controversial to speak up about mass starvation. Having regular access to safe and nutritious food is a human right.
July 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It should never be controversial to speak up about mass starvation. Having regular access to safe and nutritious food is a human right.
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when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
July 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
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“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner.
But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"
But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner.
But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"
But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"
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“Superman is too woke!”
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
July 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Superman is too woke!”
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
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This organza dress from Iris Van Herpen’s couture show yesterday is amazing
Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)
Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)
July 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This organza dress from Iris Van Herpen’s couture show yesterday is amazing
Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)
Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)
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Pandemics and mass disabling events have historically given rise to fascism.
Why? People are terrified of the disabled.
They don’t want to see or think about it.
Pandemics force them to consider their own mortality.
So when governments start labeling us as “expendable”, folks jump on board.
Why? People are terrified of the disabled.
They don’t want to see or think about it.
Pandemics force them to consider their own mortality.
So when governments start labeling us as “expendable”, folks jump on board.
July 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Pandemics and mass disabling events have historically given rise to fascism.
Why? People are terrified of the disabled.
They don’t want to see or think about it.
Pandemics force them to consider their own mortality.
So when governments start labeling us as “expendable”, folks jump on board.
Why? People are terrified of the disabled.
They don’t want to see or think about it.
Pandemics force them to consider their own mortality.
So when governments start labeling us as “expendable”, folks jump on board.
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I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.
July 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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They vowed to “Make America Healthy Again.”
Instead, they:
Kicked millions of people off health insurance
Closed hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, and reproductive health clinics
Cut billions of dollars from science research
Fired government scientists and replaced them with antivaxxers
Instead, they:
Kicked millions of people off health insurance
Closed hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, and reproductive health clinics
Cut billions of dollars from science research
Fired government scientists and replaced them with antivaxxers
July 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
They vowed to “Make America Healthy Again.”
Instead, they:
Kicked millions of people off health insurance
Closed hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, and reproductive health clinics
Cut billions of dollars from science research
Fired government scientists and replaced them with antivaxxers
Instead, they:
Kicked millions of people off health insurance
Closed hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, and reproductive health clinics
Cut billions of dollars from science research
Fired government scientists and replaced them with antivaxxers
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BREAKING: The House just passed the massive budget bill.
This legislation will gut health care, food assistance, clean energy and more to fund massive tax cuts for the super-rich.
It now goes to Trump's desk.
This legislation will gut health care, food assistance, clean energy and more to fund massive tax cuts for the super-rich.
It now goes to Trump's desk.
July 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
BREAKING: The House just passed the massive budget bill.
This legislation will gut health care, food assistance, clean energy and more to fund massive tax cuts for the super-rich.
It now goes to Trump's desk.
This legislation will gut health care, food assistance, clean energy and more to fund massive tax cuts for the super-rich.
It now goes to Trump's desk.
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BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
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Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.
June 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.