Jessie Blount
@jessiedetroit.bsky.social
Genderqueer Black weirdo
Podcast host @ Hashtag Ruthless
Never bending the knee
🚀There are Black trans people in the future💫
Hashtagruthless.com
They/she
Podcast host @ Hashtag Ruthless
Never bending the knee
🚀There are Black trans people in the future💫
Hashtagruthless.com
They/she
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Not only can the country absolutely afford to do a lot more good things that help people– in housing, healthcare, infrastructure, and environment– there is no reason not to do it. Pretty simple: We should do big things that help people and not do things that hurt people. bsky.app/profile/cost...
How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.
December 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Not only can the country absolutely afford to do a lot more good things that help people– in housing, healthcare, infrastructure, and environment– there is no reason not to do it. Pretty simple: We should do big things that help people and not do things that hurt people. bsky.app/profile/cost...
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Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The problem with Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship
Critics have accused the company of being technofascist.
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I think Sinners should win Best Picture because I liked it better than One Battle and I haven't seen Hamnet yet. Alternately, inject a mysterious toxin into the spine of The Substance, making it dewy & youthful enough to win THIS year
December 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I think Sinners should win Best Picture because I liked it better than One Battle and I haven't seen Hamnet yet. Alternately, inject a mysterious toxin into the spine of The Substance, making it dewy & youthful enough to win THIS year
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A male Wood Duck flying past overhead after taking off from the lake.
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A male Wood Duck flying past overhead after taking off from the lake.
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one of the best shows ever made honestly and absolutely full of bangers. bashir with the good beard??? classic. lady parts' cover of toxic??? incredible. villain era??? i am constantly tempted to make that song my OOO
We Are Lady Parts is just a blast and every single person on planet Earth should watch it, the end.
We Are Lady Parts makes me so happy
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
one of the best shows ever made honestly and absolutely full of bangers. bashir with the good beard??? classic. lady parts' cover of toxic??? incredible. villain era??? i am constantly tempted to make that song my OOO
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We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it.
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
October 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it.
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
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If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.
4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.
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reminder... activistchecklist.org/links/
Why we need to remove everything after the
Plain language steps for digital security, because protecting yourself helps keep your whole community safer. Built by activists, for activists with field-tested, community-verified guides.
activistchecklist.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
reminder... activistchecklist.org/links/
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it's weird when both left and right can't seem to agree that nazis are bad and nazi symbolism is bad and hanging out with nazis is bad and revenue sharing with nazis is bad and
October 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
it's weird when both left and right can't seem to agree that nazis are bad and nazi symbolism is bad and hanging out with nazis is bad and revenue sharing with nazis is bad and
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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
It’s Ursula Le Guin’s birthday.
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
October 22, 2023 at 1:37 AM
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
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I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.
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I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
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the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster
this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster
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Writers: Ok so the heist team will include someone to get close to the curator's son and seduce him into revealing the whereabouts of the key that we will then briefly steal and make a copy of and return without anyone noticing via second to second precision and thats how we get in
Real thieves:
Real thieves:
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Writers: Ok so the heist team will include someone to get close to the curator's son and seduce him into revealing the whereabouts of the key that we will then briefly steal and make a copy of and return without anyone noticing via second to second precision and thats how we get in
Real thieves:
Real thieves:
As a big fan of CI, and someone who wonders a lot about the kind of freaks (complementary) who work there, this thread is a delight.
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
October 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
As a big fan of CI, and someone who wonders a lot about the kind of freaks (complementary) who work there, this thread is a delight.
As a longtime CI reader, this lowstakes drama is a delight.
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
As a longtime CI reader, this lowstakes drama is a delight.
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replacing video store burnouts who had an exhaustive knowledge of obscure films with an algorithm calibrated by Jeff Bezoes to advertise mediocrity was a terrible loss for society
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
replacing video store burnouts who had an exhaustive knowledge of obscure films with an algorithm calibrated by Jeff Bezoes to advertise mediocrity was a terrible loss for society
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I will probably be saying this for the rest of my life but I can’t imagine growing up now in a world where you have no idea if the information you encounter everywhere through photo and video is even real
October 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I will probably be saying this for the rest of my life but I can’t imagine growing up now in a world where you have no idea if the information you encounter everywhere through photo and video is even real
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you don't beat fascism by having zero standards and letting fascism lite into the tent
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
you don't beat fascism by having zero standards and letting fascism lite into the tent
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It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"
October 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"
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the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change
October 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change
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billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
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It's Black Speculative Fiction month!
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It's Black Speculative Fiction month!
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2