Jenny Staff Johnson
@htownjenny.bsky.social
Ugh, fine.
Writer in Texas.
I curse on the internet now.
#HouSky
www.jennystaffjohnson.com
Writer in Texas.
I curse on the internet now.
#HouSky
www.jennystaffjohnson.com
Pinned
How can I be expected to watch anything new on Criterion Channel when they keep putting The Long Goodbye back on it
He directed my favorite film of all time.
December 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
He directed my favorite film of all time.
The “homemade pie” search tip is gold
Winter roadtrip across the country isn't exactly recommended, but we had to do it for a sick family reason - so making the best of it. I will tell you that if you just sort of continuously search the words "homemade pie" on the map as you go, things improve. Also, stopping in Nashville helps.
December 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The “homemade pie” search tip is gold
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
This is for sure my dicking around platform of choice but I have made a couple direct to camera videos on IG and I weirdly sort of liked it? I can see how people get hooked on that stuff.
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This is for sure my dicking around platform of choice but I have made a couple direct to camera videos on IG and I weirdly sort of liked it? I can see how people get hooked on that stuff.
Every time someone I know uses the phrase “I asked ChatGPT” an angel loses its wings
December 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Every time someone I know uses the phrase “I asked ChatGPT” an angel loses its wings
I'm pretty anti football on my best day, and then when there's a Texans game letting out when I'm trying to get to Hobby ☠️
December 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'm pretty anti football on my best day, and then when there's a Texans game letting out when I'm trying to get to Hobby ☠️
My favorite Wes A. Today is also what would’ve been my grandfather‘s 101st birthday, and he was an especially Gene-Hackman-like person.
On the New York-ness of Wes Anderson's 'The Royal Tenenbaums,' released on this day in 2001:
‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ at 20: When Wes Anderson Imagined New York (Published 2021)
The film’s vision of the city is at once entirely made up and very real seeming, both dated and contemporary. But the movie couldn’t outrun current events.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
My favorite Wes A. Today is also what would’ve been my grandfather‘s 101st birthday, and he was an especially Gene-Hackman-like person.
This is a triumphal arch for ants!
I regret to inform you that Trump isn't planning to stop at the ballroom.
Also, just for the record: Napoleon, who demanded the Arc de Triomphe be built at Place de l'Etoile in 1806, died in exile in 1821.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Also, just for the record: Napoleon, who demanded the Arc de Triomphe be built at Place de l'Etoile in 1806, died in exile in 1821.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
What to Know About Trump’s Plan for a Triumphal Arch in Washington
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is a triumphal arch for ants!
Getting to see Golden Smog on tour would fix me
December 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Getting to see Golden Smog on tour would fix me
All hail
Remembering Ray Eames on her birthday 🎂
📷 Peter Stackpole, 1950
"Whatever I can do, Ray can do better."
- Charles Eames
📷 Peter Stackpole, 1950
"Whatever I can do, Ray can do better."
- Charles Eames
December 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
All hail
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Reposting this thread in response to a mass shooting at my Alma mater, a shooting that took place in a building where I used to write papers in the computer lab back in the 80s.
Duke has an amazing repository of the nation's historical gun laws...hundreds of laws which, if today's 2nd Amendment fundamentalists are to be believed, were 100% unconstitutional...and yet, no one seemed to notice that until the last 50 years or so. firearmslaw.duke.edu/repository-o...
Repository of Historical Gun Laws | Duke Center for Firearms Law
firearmslaw.duke.edu
December 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Reposting this thread in response to a mass shooting at my Alma mater, a shooting that took place in a building where I used to write papers in the computer lab back in the 80s.
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My heart is broken once again by our gun culture and the senseless, avoidable loss of life and our right to live in peace and safety. I do believe we can change it.
December 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
My heart is broken once again by our gun culture and the senseless, avoidable loss of life and our right to live in peace and safety. I do believe we can change it.
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The problem is the guns. We don’t have to live this way. Overrule Heller.
🙏🙏for our members, students, first responders and the community right now… at Brown. Exams were ongoing when shooting happened. The problem is the guns… Live Updates: 2 Killed and Multiple Others Shot at Brown University www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: 2 Killed and Multiple Others Shot at Brown University
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The problem is the guns. We don’t have to live this way. Overrule Heller.
My heart is broken once again by our gun culture and the senseless, avoidable loss of life and our right to live in peace and safety. I do believe we can change it.
December 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
My heart is broken once again by our gun culture and the senseless, avoidable loss of life and our right to live in peace and safety. I do believe we can change it.
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Reading professors’ posts on how they would respond to a shooting in their classroom is… heartbreaking. 💔
With the intro class, I’ve accepted that there isn’t much that can be done because of the size of the auditorium and the locked doors. So we hope for the best.
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Reading professors’ posts on how they would respond to a shooting in their classroom is… heartbreaking. 💔
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AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
Longer statement from Brown University:
"We are very sorry to share that we have confirmed reports of multiple shooting victims, but we are not able to share their condition. They have been transported to local hospitals."
"We are very sorry to share that we have confirmed reports of multiple shooting victims, but we are not able to share their condition. They have been transported to local hospitals."
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
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Okay y’all my online writer’s group is doing a book exchange and I’m 99.9 percent sure the person I was assigned does not use this website, so I’m going to share what I’m sending. Whomst among y’all has read this fever dream of a mid-century Texas novel?
December 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Okay y’all my online writer’s group is doing a book exchange and I’m 99.9 percent sure the person I was assigned does not use this website, so I’m going to share what I’m sending. Whomst among y’all has read this fever dream of a mid-century Texas novel?
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Happy 100th birthday to the last living all-around entertainer
December 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Happy 100th birthday to the last living all-around entertainer
It’s December 12 and there’s a mosquito in my bedroom.
December 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
It’s December 12 and there’s a mosquito in my bedroom.
Yall my Bouie fandom was already at borderline embarrassing levels and now I learn he has a beagle, too???
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Yall my Bouie fandom was already at borderline embarrassing levels and now I learn he has a beagle, too???
Y’all the backhoe has arrived outside the cute mid-century house where my 101-year-old neighbor died earlier this year, and I am big sad.
December 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Y’all the backhoe has arrived outside the cute mid-century house where my 101-year-old neighbor died earlier this year, and I am big sad.
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The Democrats who routinely won in this state were a savage and uncivilized bunch
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The Democrats who routinely won in this state were a savage and uncivilized bunch
Niche post but why is Siphon on Montrose loudly playing Nashville country the vibes are way off
December 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Niche post but why is Siphon on Montrose loudly playing Nashville country the vibes are way off