Jess Conger-Henry

Jess Conger-Henry

@allybaster.bsky.social

New England based flibbertigibbet. Mostly posts about cats, baking, social justice, and how cute I am. BA in US History and MPA in American Government.

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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social

Replying to @juliusgoat.bsky.social

Maybe it is the abuses that create division, not report of the abuse, not consequence for the abuse. Maybe it is bullying that causes division, not fighting the bully on behalf of the bullied. Maybe it is lies that cause division, not the telling of truths. Maybe we need to change the frame.

Jess Conger-Henry
@allybaster.bsky.social

If you need multiple jobs while doing full time school, as I did, that counts you out of a TON of internships. I wasn't able to do one in undergrad and that severely affected my job prospects. In grad school I had to find my own paid internship to graduate. I have a mortgage in student loans.

Kate Tell-Tale Heartfield@kateheartfield.com

Financial precarity. Yes university students have always been living on their last 20 bucks, but the number of students I talk to now who have *multiple* jobs in addition to being fulltime students, some of whom are taking care of family members' survival needs as well as their own, is shocking. 5/

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Tal Lavin
@swordsjew.bsky.social

after watching the first 2 episodes of heated rivalry im incoherent conor storie's butt should be like. cast in plaster and displayed in the louvre maybe? but safely where thieves cant get it, it's a treasure of humankind

Jess Conger-Henry
@allybaster.bsky.social

I've lost 40-ish pounds and my joint pain is exactly the same. From everything every doctor and busy body has said I should be pain free. Weird. Maybe the weight gain was a symptom of the pain and not vice versa!

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com

I had a point where walking left me in enormous pain. I went to one doctor whose main answer was "stop being fat" and just...didn't ask anyone else about it for a long time. I tried so many things.

Jess Conger-Henry
@allybaster.bsky.social

Dear fellow middle aged white women, We're well known as cunts. And we deserve that title, as a whole. Let's fuck up ICE. Let's be cunty for good. Instead of calling the cops on your neighbors for having a party, film ICE.

Jess Conger-Henry
@allybaster.bsky.social

I've recreated the Entenmann's Devil's Food Cake.I've been trying to do this for years with a bunch of different marshmallow frosting recipes.The frosting was always a little off.Too fluffy and light and the flavor just wasn't there. Swiss merengue buttercream.Not traditional marshmallow frosting.

Jess Conger-Henry
@allybaster.bsky.social

No fucking shit

Institute for Policy Studies@ips-dc.org

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

bloomberg.comMillionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in MassachusettsA millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

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PinkyRocks
@pinkyrocks.bsky.social

Replying to @nickturse.bsky.social

Makes sense to me. Why stay in a country that will not allow you medical care, guaranteed maternity leave, affordable child care, decent schools, or bodily autonomy?

Jess Conger-Henry
@allybaster.bsky.social

If any country wanted middle aged, middle class Americans, I'd be there in a second.

Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups" Something tells me it's more than wanderlust

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Molly Knight
@mollyknight.bsky.social

It didn’t go far enough. It never went far enough.

Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Jess Conger-Henry
@allybaster.bsky.social

Part of my job is sending out emails every quarter to every project manager at work who has a federally funded project to remind them to do their MPRs and FFRs. This last quarter FEMA was inaccessible due to the shutdown. Their auto reminders sure do work, though!

Michael Baym@baym.lol

PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

Jess Conger-Henry
@allybaster.bsky.social

Oh, snap! The first radio show I performed in is up on the @pmrpboston.bsky.social podcast! www.buzzsprout.com/2245345/epis...

buzzsprout.comEpisode Ten : Lady Molly of Scotland Yard - The Ninescore Mystery - The PMRP Podcast - Post-Meridian Radio PlayersFrom our Summer Mysteries, 2014, it's the first episode of Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.You can purchase this performance (and support the PMRP) as part of our Super Sleuths package, available here:htt...