jessbess
@jessicabess.bsky.social
middle-aged-momcore. very california.
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cats on demand here for new subscribers. sale is 40% off, $30/yr. purchase cats and also scribbling! www.everythingishorrible.net/subscribe
December 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
cats on demand here for new subscribers. sale is 40% off, $30/yr. purchase cats and also scribbling! www.everythingishorrible.net/subscribe
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every time I forget to do -ai to my search I get the most hideous bullshit possible
for instance, here is what happens when I search to see if there is such a thing as a 2-quart ziplock bag
for instance, here is what happens when I search to see if there is such a thing as a 2-quart ziplock bag
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
every time I forget to do -ai to my search I get the most hideous bullshit possible
for instance, here is what happens when I search to see if there is such a thing as a 2-quart ziplock bag
for instance, here is what happens when I search to see if there is such a thing as a 2-quart ziplock bag
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
Congrats on the book launch, friend! Excited to order it.
It's my turn.
I quote from these two books in my new book out this week.
The first (from 2005) was too optimistic about Europe. The second (from 2013) was too pessimistic.
I've endeavoured to give a realistic assessment of the promise and peril of where the EU is in 2025.
www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
I quote from these two books in my new book out this week.
The first (from 2005) was too optimistic about Europe. The second (from 2013) was too pessimistic.
I've endeavoured to give a realistic assessment of the promise and peril of where the EU is in 2025.
www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
December 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Congrats on the book launch, friend! Excited to order it.
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We grow up in #Europe thinking of the #USA as our trusty and benevolent partner and friend. We are addicted to its popular culture and reliant on its financial tech. Is it time to recognize it as an adversary and respond accordingly? @davekeating.substack.com - author of The Owned Continent says yes
December 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We grow up in #Europe thinking of the #USA as our trusty and benevolent partner and friend. We are addicted to its popular culture and reliant on its financial tech. Is it time to recognize it as an adversary and respond accordingly? @davekeating.substack.com - author of The Owned Continent says yes
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On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves. https://capitalbnews.org/north-carolina-black-farmer-regenerative-farming/
In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves. https://capitalbnews.org/north-carolina-black-farmer-regenerative-farming/
@tanglenews.bsky.social I finally subscribed in order to read today's post, and I'll need Isaac to issue a correction: The correct temperature for a thermostat is 68. -Jewish mom
December 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
@tanglenews.bsky.social I finally subscribed in order to read today's post, and I'll need Isaac to issue a correction: The correct temperature for a thermostat is 68. -Jewish mom
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FINALLY GOT IT!
I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000.
Over 20,000 the past month alone.
Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away"
In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare:
Fish success story.
🪶
I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000.
Over 20,000 the past month alone.
Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away"
In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare:
Fish success story.
🪶
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
FINALLY GOT IT!
I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000.
Over 20,000 the past month alone.
Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away"
In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare:
Fish success story.
🪶
I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000.
Over 20,000 the past month alone.
Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away"
In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare:
Fish success story.
🪶
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kind of funny that "you are not allowed to criticize the democrats for any reason" isn't seen as the highest expression of "purity politics."
December 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
kind of funny that "you are not allowed to criticize the democrats for any reason" isn't seen as the highest expression of "purity politics."
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Indiana state republicans showing more backbone in opposing trump than d leadership tonight.
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Indiana state republicans showing more backbone in opposing trump than d leadership tonight.
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BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.
NEW: A federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. and sent to El Salvador without due process by the Trump administration — to be released from an ICE detention center, ruling his detention unlawful.
Judge Orders Abrego Garcia's Immediate Release from Immigration Custody
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.
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Significant and somewhat unexpected Congressional pushback here to respond to Trump's gutting of union rights
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
December 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Significant and somewhat unexpected Congressional pushback here to respond to Trump's gutting of union rights
Failed bigly!
Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map.
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
December 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Failed bigly!
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Simultaneously dangerous and pathetic.
SCOOP: The Trump administration may revoke the visas of critics of Elon Musk's Twitter.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
SCOOP: Trump Admin Is Preparing to Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Trump officials are considering revoking the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
zeteo.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Simultaneously dangerous and pathetic.
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Well, this is an extremely gross secondary effect of scraping the internet for content to feed the gaping maw of 'AI' training models.
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.
www.404media.co
December 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Well, this is an extremely gross secondary effect of scraping the internet for content to feed the gaping maw of 'AI' training models.
Hardcore ADHD spiral: sooooo many things that need doing with real deadlines for today
🧠: let’s figure out how to clean the grease trap on the range hood
🧠: let’s figure out how to clean the grease trap on the range hood
December 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hardcore ADHD spiral: sooooo many things that need doing with real deadlines for today
🧠: let’s figure out how to clean the grease trap on the range hood
🧠: let’s figure out how to clean the grease trap on the range hood
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The harder it is for people with criminal records to get jobs, the easier it is to recruit them for jobs like this.
So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The harder it is for people with criminal records to get jobs, the easier it is to recruit them for jobs like this.
Carpool scene:
6 year old: I want to learn to juggle!
Me: Great!
6 year old: I want to summon a demon!
10 year old: I can help!
6 year old: I want to learn to juggle!
Me: Great!
6 year old: I want to summon a demon!
10 year old: I can help!
December 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Carpool scene:
6 year old: I want to learn to juggle!
Me: Great!
6 year old: I want to summon a demon!
10 year old: I can help!
6 year old: I want to learn to juggle!
Me: Great!
6 year old: I want to summon a demon!
10 year old: I can help!
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Eileen Higgins blows it out in Miami, wins 59%-40%!!!! In the last 2 years Dems have flipped Florida’s two largest cities, Jacksonville and Miami. Great work everyone!
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/eileen-hig...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/eileen-hig...
Eileen Higgins Blows It Out In Miami, Wins 59%-40%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great work everyone!
www.hopiumchronicles.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Eileen Higgins blows it out in Miami, wins 59%-40%!!!! In the last 2 years Dems have flipped Florida’s two largest cities, Jacksonville and Miami. Great work everyone!
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/eileen-hig...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/eileen-hig...
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Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
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Per some suggestions received here: rice paddy farmer hat, witch hat, Aretha Franklin Obama inaugural hat
December 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Per some suggestions received here: rice paddy farmer hat, witch hat, Aretha Franklin Obama inaugural hat
Imagine if he was interacting with the laughing child instead of obsessively tapping on his phone.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Imagine if he was interacting with the laughing child instead of obsessively tapping on his phone.
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This month all stories at @coyotemedia.org have their paywalls removed, so everyone can enjoy their excellent Bay Area reporting (that we used to have back in the day!). I’m a subscriber because I miss these stories and want to keep funding them. Please do check it out and sample some! #SanFrancisco
An incredible new series launched in @coyotemedia.org: Homeless to Housed www.coyotemedia.org/homeless-to-...
Homeless to Housed: Larry's Story
Housing can offer more stability than many realize — to get sober, save money, find a purpose, and fall in love.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This month all stories at @coyotemedia.org have their paywalls removed, so everyone can enjoy their excellent Bay Area reporting (that we used to have back in the day!). I’m a subscriber because I miss these stories and want to keep funding them. Please do check it out and sample some! #SanFrancisco
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After I had my daughter, one of the qualities I looked for in infant formula was existence, which was an aspect my breast milk lacked
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
After I had my daughter, one of the qualities I looked for in infant formula was existence, which was an aspect my breast milk lacked
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This is about forcing women out of the workforce
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This is about forcing women out of the workforce