Jessica Erin Bennett

JUSTICE IS BEST SERVED LIGHTLY TOASTED

Some of y’all don’t listen to Story Corps on NPR and it shows

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

I am feeling the most vague wisp of hope. I am a pessimist at heart but just maybe, we do value our small communities

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Sex offenders & harassers should not be public leaders

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I also want to *toot toot* my own horn. I should have a resume of shows & features I have coordinated with very small children (spoiler: every show billed from 2020 until at least 2027)

Or is it floor bed time and allow her to get as bored as possible. Granted she has severe separation anxiety… so not sure that’ll work too well. I am also apparently very entertaining even when I ignore her to she will rest

Any other parents with extremely finicky nappers on here? My nearly 1 year old just cannot rally for a nap and by 4:30 she is distraught after an entire day (not an exaggeration) to get her to rest.

She doesn’t even find a time to give up a scream. It’s actually impressive.

#parenting

It never ceases to shock me that when you are doing basic care for a very small person, how the day VANISHES. You feel like you did nothing but poof

The world is having a hard time and Kim Kardash makes bush undies like we can afford bush razors in times like this. Fascinating

In other news, I sent my spouse a link to a pair and he was convinced it was for a work thing. So I also suppose being an Intimacy Professional is also kinda weird

100%.

I have started referring to American Evangelicalism as Pyramid Scheme Theology

They don't care what Jesus did or said. They think their only job is recruiting their downline.

These costs are sucking chest wounds to the average American, and will be impossible to weather. This, alongside the AI bubble, the housing market bubble, the loss of jobs, encroaching inflation, and every other batshit thing Trump does, will lend itself to a cataclysmic cascading failure.

In case no one told you today, you are made of stardust

The headline alone is too heartbreaking.

Generative Ai is so harmful…

The Flytrap refuses to beholden itself to Big Tech, advertisers, or the algorithm. We are intentionally a worker-owned, intersectional, and people-driven publication that doesn't shy away from cultural criticism that pushes the needle.

this is what the fear litany means when it says you have to face your fear and let it wash over and through you so that when you turn to face the path the fear laid, only you remain

I have an arm one, in between my knees one as I sit like a Victorian lady, and one for my lower back

Fellow parents: how do we feel about the self-driving taxis like Waymo?

Would you take with your kids? How do we feel about having them in our neighborhoods?

Saving my opine. I have one. Am curious about others

When you sit on a couch, how many pillows does it take for you to get comfy?

I’ll go first.

3 pillows

I think this allll the time

I’ve been really racking my brain in where to go when the fascism settles in. My small children just aren’t safe in America. Starting over in a right wing world (not just here) feels really awful

Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.

It's even worse than we thought

"(Energy use doesn't scale linearly), for instance, a six-second AI video clip consumes four times as much energy as a three-second clip."

Repeat after me: the little cartoon character the llm made is not an “actress”.

L’Shanah Tovah.

Watching Good Morning America, and the demonization of friggin Tylenol by RFK Jr. I rolled my eyes. Family said oh, that’s social media. I pointed to a news show that I don’t like and shouted THAT IS NOT SOCIAL MEDIA. HE SAID IT TO THE PRESS.

Where is this disconnect?? He said it. Period.