Jess Phoenix 🌋

Our unserious president is freaking out about Artificial Intelligence, so here's the design I made (100% genuine human-created) to convey antipathy for our wannabe corporate overlords & their enshittified products. TL;DR - If you hate AI slop, then AI;DR it is. 🙃 planet-phoenix-shop.fourthwall.com

The difference between you and the billionaire class is greed. It's not hard work. It's not intelligence. It's not skill. It's not good ideas. It's just greed. Even if you had incredible luck, you would need greed at a level that is unfathomable to most of us to make it stick.

I know many people here will appreciate this

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

"All of this is a huge diversion of resources and deflection from the task at hand. As one of us likes to say, when you’re in a climate hole, stop digging … and burning fossil fuels. It really is, at some level, that simple."

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

If you don't believe the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Rights Amendment are necessary and just, I don't have anything to talk to you about.

The companies and rich people who are extracting every last penny from you aren't even hiding how much they hate you anymore.

NONE OF OUR RIGHTS ARE SAFE UNTIL ALL OF OUR RIGHTS ARE SAFE.

this is very rapidly becoming the standard American opinion, and our lawmakers have absolutely not figured this out yet

And look at what's happened to the NSF/NIH, etc. in the months since Mark wrote this post. Our universities are in absolute fucking peril.

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

The difference between you and the billionaire class is greed. It's not hard work. It's not intelligence. It's not skill. It's not good ideas. It's just greed. Even if you had incredible luck, you would need greed at a level that is unfathomable to most of us to make it stick.

U.S. grid-battery production has gone from 0 in 2024 to 145 GWh/year by the end of 2026, enough to provide batteries to support all wind and solar in the U.S. www.electronicdesign.com/technologies...

Y'all, come to this @thecomedyresistance.com benefit show in San Diego on 4/24! We're raising $ to fight fascism via voter registration. @heathergtv.bsky.social is headlining! The night is co-hosted by Hera Hub & the Smith College Club of San Diego. 💥💪🎤 🎟️ www.thecomedyresistance.com/events/femin...

No one is owed the right to profit off of someone else's labor.

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

When it happens there will be more drunk people in the streets at 10am than there were in Boston in 2004 after the Sox won the World Series.

Just wanted to note that certain small talk is made exponentially more difficult by my profession. Yes, dental hygienist, I am a volcanologist. No, I cannot answer all of the volcano questions you bottled and stored for a lifetime with my jaw practically unhinged while you abrade my mouth stones.

obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

The death penalty is one of our society's most egregious failings, but this instance is one of the worst of the worst. Sonny Burton should not be killed.

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

The proletariat is in our "Fuck you, make me" Era and I love that for us.

NEW: As we've seen the raids & ICE surges, everyone has had so many questions. 'what can states do?' 'what can cities do?' 'what can one ask a sheriff, governor, zoning board, to do?!' you sent us a lot of your questions. we just answered 9 of them. i learned a ton myself, i think you will to.

Wag. The. Dog.

Disapproval isn't disloyalty, it's democracy at work. CC: Stephen Miller and MAGA cultists.

So apparently he didn't actually post this, but he has wanted to bomb hurricanes with nukes in the past so...🤷 Just thought I should clarify (and yes, both are extremely BAD ideas).

Every day I think we've plumbed the absolute depths of human stupidity, and somehow every day this sentient slime mold manages to move the bar closer to the planet'd nickel-iron core. 🤦 Volcanoes with plugs in the vent are how you get MOUNT ST. HELENS, you ignoramus.

Cinnabar is red Apatite is blue Science needs champions So I'll fight fascism with you. #ScienceValentines 2026 edition

The FAFOcene.

As an air pollution guy this is straight up false. EPA called them "stationary sources" and you cannot operate one without a permit. It couldn't be more simple

The Trump Administration believes they can reject science and damn the consequences. This period in US history will now be known as the FAFO Era. Signed, A Scientist

After leaving her Ph.D. program, @volcanojess.com built a science consulting career. “Geology is literally everywhere...With the skill set you gain, even if you haven’t done the most terminal degree possible, you still have a very solid core of skill sets—pun intended.” eos.org/features/jes...

As we say in @thecomedyresistance.com: JUST FUCKING VOTE! apnews.com/article/texa...

Mobilizing voters at this scale is how real change is built. Grassroots organizing, participation, and collective effort matter—wishing strength and success to everyone working to turn engagement into impact.

We’re gonna register 50,000 new voters — and mobilize more than 500,000 voters — in crucial battlegrounds for the 2026 midterms, and we need you onboard! It's gonna be all hands on deck, with @volcanojess.com so join us, chip in and help us unfuck the USA. #fightthegoodfight #unionstrong #fuckICE

The people in power are completely, utterly, & abjectly terrified of facts. They fear journalism, science, data, & general powers of observation. By making entire swathes of the population question objective reality, they are poisoning the well & trying to shield themselves. Do not let them.

They arrested 4 Black people for doing journalism...apparently under the Ku Klux Klan Act. @donlemonofficial.bsky.social

The DOJ has arrested Don Lemon, a well-known journalist, for using his Constitutionally protected right to observe & document our government peacefully. Today is a nationwide general strike. Do not buy things. Do not work. Get angry.

Some things to understand about people from Minnesota on here right now, a short thread:

It's a war and the American people are the enemy. Can't do the fake "no they're just after the bad guys" after you shot two people for no good reason. bsky.app/profile/ndre...

2/3 of the homicides in Minneapolis this year were committed by federal agents.

Hey, if you want another way to help...here ya go. We're going to turn the tide in 6 critical purple districts by getting out the vote. Meet people where they are, get them registered, and make connections that matter. 👀

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

It may just be me, but the number of people I know who have never before spoken out about anything remotely political who are now making their voices heard FEELS like a tipping point. I may be overly optimistic by nature, & I think we have miles to go before we sleep...but I. Have. Hope.

The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)

“What’s that money for?” a reporter asked, and the president completely ignored it. trib.al/gXra3f6 Is the membership fee for a chunk of real estate in Jared Kushner’s “New Gaza” plan? Or is it going to Trump’s pocket via some offshore bank account based in Qatar? We may never know.