Jenny Beatty
@jennybeatty.bsky.social
airline captain ~ advocate ~ author ~ memeista ~ तान्त्रिक ~ oxford comma-nist
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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Stunning work, honoring history.
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
June 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Stunning work, honoring history.
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And that's why LLMs often present "NATO expansion" as a reasonable, even leading explanation of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Not because it's right or consistent with the facts, but because a ton of accounts are parroting Mearsheimer's contrarian/light-on-facts take and Ru propaganda.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
And that's why LLMs often present "NATO expansion" as a reasonable, even leading explanation of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Not because it's right or consistent with the facts, but because a ton of accounts are parroting Mearsheimer's contrarian/light-on-facts take and Ru propaganda.
CRONINESS: noun. The quality of being a co-conspiratorial buddy to a corrupt tyrant. Used in a sentence: “Overlooking obvious signs of untreated alcoholism and other troubling behaviors, Hegseth’s did not meet any of the qualifications for the job of secretary of defense, other than croniness.”
April 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
CRONINESS: noun. The quality of being a co-conspiratorial buddy to a corrupt tyrant. Used in a sentence: “Overlooking obvious signs of untreated alcoholism and other troubling behaviors, Hegseth’s did not meet any of the qualifications for the job of secretary of defense, other than croniness.”
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The United States is Disappearing Human Beings.
Disappeared People Tracker:
1402 and growing.
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Disappeared People Tracker:
1402 and growing.
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
April 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM
The United States is Disappearing Human Beings.
Disappeared People Tracker:
1402 and growing.
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Disappeared People Tracker:
1402 and growing.
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.
April 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.
There are are no "exceptions" to the requirements for the FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate; there are multiple ways to qualify. The ATP with restricted privileges, commonly called the “R-ATP”, is not a lesser pilot certificate. It is an ATP certificate with restrictions on privileges.
March 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
There are are no "exceptions" to the requirements for the FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate; there are multiple ways to qualify. The ATP with restricted privileges, commonly called the “R-ATP”, is not a lesser pilot certificate. It is an ATP certificate with restrictions on privileges.
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People keep asking me if Dems are divided between left and center of party. Nope. We are divided over old and new ways of fighting. That 20th Century playbook ain’t stopping a dictator.
March 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
People keep asking me if Dems are divided between left and center of party. Nope. We are divided over old and new ways of fighting. That 20th Century playbook ain’t stopping a dictator.
A disinformation campaign falsely links “DEI” to airline accidents. Does airline safety correlate with diversity? Let’s check the facts. ⤵️
February 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A disinformation campaign falsely links “DEI” to airline accidents. Does airline safety correlate with diversity? Let’s check the facts. ⤵️
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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
February 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
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-The Question: How the hell did we get here?
-The Answer: Citizens United.
-The Answer: Citizens United.
February 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
-The Question: How the hell did we get here?
-The Answer: Citizens United.
-The Answer: Citizens United.
The U.S. reputation as a leader in aviation safety may become tarnished — and not for the reason you think.
Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.
February 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The U.S. reputation as a leader in aviation safety may become tarnished — and not for the reason you think.
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Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
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I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
February 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
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I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
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February 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
We know what that’s really about, and it’s absolutely unacceptable.
February 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
We know what that’s really about, and it’s absolutely unacceptable.
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"Meanwhile the difference between reducing and eliminating all the leased space seems more or less like the difference between a haircut and the guillotine." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/maybe-you-sh...
February 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
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Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
February 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"