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Sarah J. Jackson

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Prof and researcher. Race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social Preorder my latest: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-second-sight-sarah-j-jackson Opinions definitely my own

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Gender-based online harassment is one of the most persistent threats facing women journalists. CPJ Chief Emergencies Officer Lucy Westcott offers tips for protecting yourself online. πŸ“±

More safety resources: cpj.org/issue/intern...

#InternationalWomensDay

05.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Importantly they are planning to hire these people on 2 year contracts so what actually happened is they fired everyone so they could rehire them with worse working conditions and an easy revolving door with industry 🫩 πŸ”­

06.03.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 485 πŸ” 156 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the β€œnarco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

06.03.2026 13:31 πŸ‘ 732 πŸ” 250 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Lying liars and the liar who hires and then fires them

06.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

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Why Target is the Center of an ICE-Out Campaign in Minnesota - Workday Magazine ICE Out of MN, a coalition of unions, worker centers, and community organizations, is putting pressure on Minnesota’s corporations that stayed silent as thousands of federal immigration agents wreaked...

Target has allowed ICE to abduct its workers and use its property for staging. Now Minnesota organizers are building a pressure campaign against the company. "There is no neutral here," says labor organizer Veronica Mendez Moore. Vital reporting by Isabela Escalona.

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Men think they're doing their share of housework. They're not. The gender gap is taking a toll on women's mental health and is not showing signs of getting better.

related to the previous post.

"New research from the university suggests that women who carried the bulk of the housework load at age 25 still bear the same heavy burdens decades later as they move into middle age β€” and that "women's domestic workload only increased during the child-rearing years."

05.03.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 266 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

100 girls are dead because of generative AI

05.03.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 371 πŸ” 198 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 13

perfectly a strangeness

05.03.2026 12:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Three or four of these despicable group chats have become public, but here's the thing: It's absolutely certain that there are HUNDREDS of group chats just like them that we'll never learn about. There's an entire generation of groyper Republicans, and in a few years they'll be running the party.

05.03.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 879 πŸ” 306 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 13

and make you angry.

05.03.2026 04:03 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I went to a screening of all five 2026 Oscar nominated short documentaries and what can I say. There is a sweet one about donkeys and the rest will rip your heart out.

05.03.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Starter pack full of obvious bots and it's description is inaccurate of me/my account/my work, in cases like that it is likely to drive more bots and unwanted followers to me. Not to mention making the pack's creator, who has never interacted w/ me here, intentions and authenticity seem suspect.

05.03.2026 03:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is very funny

04.03.2026 22:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Mr. Mayor :) so, sure, but they didn’t ask to add me so labor becomes mine+opens me to hostility from a stranger via the interaction. Some of us manage more of that than others already. It’s a nicer interpersonal solution if we knew for sure everyone was a good actor, but not a fair one. (IKYK)

04.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I agree completely

04.03.2026 22:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Soft blocks don’t work for lists or follows here, one of the regular gripes about the design, so I imagine they don’t work for starter packs either sadly

04.03.2026 22:25 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

As always consent (or lack there of) is one of the biggest inbuilt issues with tech infrastructure, even the well-intentioned

04.03.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We’ve been over how lists get abused nefariously and that the solution is blocking which makes sense because it’s about bad actors but I think sometimes folks mean well with starter packs and are completely naive as to why someone wouldn’t want to be included.

04.03.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it sucks that as far as I know the only way to get off a starter pack you don’t want to be on here is to block its creator but here we are. If anyone knows a more graceful way to exit a starter pack please lmk.

04.03.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

That paper has a very special place in my heart too. I tell the origin story whenever I can which means some people have heard it many times! And thanks for saying this, so glad to have been part of your journey.

04.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

04.03.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 7155 πŸ” 2600 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 36

As always

04.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 3075 πŸ” 431 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 30

This is unbearable

04.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Again and again when one was too many

04.03.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 116 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

The airplane flying the University of Wisconsin men's hockey to Penn State right now, N459AW, was used to fly shackled ICE detainees from Michigan to Louisiana on Sunday.

04.03.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 141 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

What a creep

04.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was telling an acquaintance that I've been trying to lift more weight doing glutes at the gym b/c I want a bigger butt (I mean I'm just trying to outlive the assholes, but that too) and she laughed and said "I never heard of someone wanting a bigger butt." Like wow we live in different universes.

04.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

A personal note for the junior scholars reading this: we were three untenured women scholars trained in different areas when we started the research for this book around 2016. People advised us not to. Well...they were super wrong, and it hardly took any time at all to prove it.

04.03.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Twitter postmortems are many, I am part of some. Back then we warned in the conclusion - yes, ordinary people and activists can and always do carve out spaces to be heard - we chose to document that. But ownership, infrastructure, regulation, moderation all matter. A lot. Openings can close.

04.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0