Jen McGowan
@iamjenmcg.bsky.social
DGA Director KELLY & CAL, RUST CREEK, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek:Discovery, Titans
https://www.jenmcgowan.com
I boop snoots
Ally to all except jerks, jerks you're on your own
#RESIST she/her
https://www.jenmcgowan.com
I boop snoots
Ally to all except jerks, jerks you're on your own
#RESIST she/her
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Man Getting High And Eating Taco Bell Thousands Of Miles Away From Family Having Best Thanksgiving Of Life https://theonion.com/man-getting-high-and-eating-taco-bell-thousands-of-mile-1845721340/
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Man Getting High And Eating Taco Bell Thousands Of Miles Away From Family Having Best Thanksgiving Of Life https://theonion.com/man-getting-high-and-eating-taco-bell-thousands-of-mile-1845721340/
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Are you fucking kidding me?! Indigenous badass Elaine Miles?! Fuck these people indeed.
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Are you fucking kidding me?! Indigenous badass Elaine Miles?! Fuck these people indeed.
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good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
Arizona pair celebrates decade of friendship that started with wrong text
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
www.azfamily.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
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I would like to watch this entire stand-up special, please and thank you.
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I would like to watch this entire stand-up special, please and thank you.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Whaaaa?!?
Immunocompromised people have long known tattoos f w/yr immune system. Now science is catching up:
Study on “immune responses to tattoo ink accumulating in the lymph nodes… tattoo ink commonly reaches & persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Study on “immune responses to tattoo ink accumulating in the lymph nodes… tattoo ink commonly reaches & persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS
Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported
the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...
www.pnas.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Whaaaa?!?
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National Guard members who were shot in DC yesterday have been identified:
They are 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe
Both were sworn in less than 24 hours before the shooting
And Muriel Bowser is right
Home is the only place they should have been
They are 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe
Both were sworn in less than 24 hours before the shooting
And Muriel Bowser is right
Home is the only place they should have been
Bowser on injured National Guard members: "These young people should be at home in West Virginia with their families"
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
National Guard members who were shot in DC yesterday have been identified:
They are 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe
Both were sworn in less than 24 hours before the shooting
And Muriel Bowser is right
Home is the only place they should have been
They are 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe
Both were sworn in less than 24 hours before the shooting
And Muriel Bowser is right
Home is the only place they should have been
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday
But like most American things, it’s complicated
I want to acknowledge the brutal history that lead to this holiday, reflect on the unfairness of hunger and loneliness,
But like most American things, it’s complicated
I want to acknowledge the brutal history that lead to this holiday, reflect on the unfairness of hunger and loneliness,
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday
But like most American things, it’s complicated
I want to acknowledge the brutal history that lead to this holiday, reflect on the unfairness of hunger and loneliness,
But like most American things, it’s complicated
I want to acknowledge the brutal history that lead to this holiday, reflect on the unfairness of hunger and loneliness,
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This is Bolt. He just learned how to speak. Thinks it works best when he uses his whole body. 12/10 (TT: gavi_570)
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is Bolt. He just learned how to speak. Thinks it works best when he uses his whole body. 12/10 (TT: gavi_570)
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Furnando, the grey fox, getting a good drink before heading home.
Grey foxes, at least here, are very skittish, I don't often get them drinking at the water bowl. I provide clean, fresh water year round but don't feed the wildlife (so many reasons not to feed even though it sounds mean).
#mammals
Grey foxes, at least here, are very skittish, I don't often get them drinking at the water bowl. I provide clean, fresh water year round but don't feed the wildlife (so many reasons not to feed even though it sounds mean).
#mammals
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Furnando, the grey fox, getting a good drink before heading home.
Grey foxes, at least here, are very skittish, I don't often get them drinking at the water bowl. I provide clean, fresh water year round but don't feed the wildlife (so many reasons not to feed even though it sounds mean).
#mammals
Grey foxes, at least here, are very skittish, I don't often get them drinking at the water bowl. I provide clean, fresh water year round but don't feed the wildlife (so many reasons not to feed even though it sounds mean).
#mammals
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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Another story in four parts. This polar bear mom went from seemingly sound asleep to full meerkat mode in seconds. Her nose is always on the alert for potential danger to her and her 11-month-old cubs. #Mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Another story in four parts. This polar bear mom went from seemingly sound asleep to full meerkat mode in seconds. Her nose is always on the alert for potential danger to her and her 11-month-old cubs. #Mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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People in the U.S. need to be paying attention to what’s happening in the U.K., because it’s going hand in hand with what is happening in the U.S., the agitators at work on both sides of the pond are working hand in hand with each other, and both have similar goals of ethnic cleansing.
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
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It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
This sounds great!
Time to give thanks that I’m not a teenager anymore.
THE PLAGUE is the most coolly vicious American horror film in years; it gets under your skin like a mystery infection.
If you like Haneke, Hadzihalilovic, Ducournau, Larry Clark or Charles Burns, be sure to see Charlie Polinger’s superb debut!★★★★
THE PLAGUE is the most coolly vicious American horror film in years; it gets under your skin like a mystery infection.
If you like Haneke, Hadzihalilovic, Ducournau, Larry Clark or Charles Burns, be sure to see Charlie Polinger’s superb debut!★★★★
The Plague – Review
Charlie Polinger’s The Plague follows a boys’ water-polo camp where a rumour about illness reshapes the group into insiders and outsiders. A cool, unsettling study of othering, built from sharp obs…
whitlockandpope.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This sounds great!
US crew rates will always be higher than Canadian or European bc regardless of tax incentives or exchange rates US crews are paying off their own student loans, saving for their kids’ education and paying for health insurance & care
All costs their competitors don’t have or have significantly less
All costs their competitors don’t have or have significantly less
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
US crew rates will always be higher than Canadian or European bc regardless of tax incentives or exchange rates US crews are paying off their own student loans, saving for their kids’ education and paying for health insurance & care
All costs their competitors don’t have or have significantly less
All costs their competitors don’t have or have significantly less
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the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
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this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I keep thinking about all the horrible spelling & grammar in the Epstein emails
It’s like doctor’s handwriting
The person who has the most power and must be accommodated can afford to be least clear
Everyone else will effort to decipher
It’s like doctor’s handwriting
The person who has the most power and must be accommodated can afford to be least clear
Everyone else will effort to decipher
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I keep thinking about all the horrible spelling & grammar in the Epstein emails
It’s like doctor’s handwriting
The person who has the most power and must be accommodated can afford to be least clear
Everyone else will effort to decipher
It’s like doctor’s handwriting
The person who has the most power and must be accommodated can afford to be least clear
Everyone else will effort to decipher
I somehow don’t recall Pelosi giving any similar whiny interviews
Must be a gender thing
Must be a gender thing
Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I somehow don’t recall Pelosi giving any similar whiny interviews
Must be a gender thing
Must be a gender thing
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I just feel awful for the National Guard troopers caught up in this. They’re just standing around looking bored all the time, but they have been made into a deliberate symbol by the Trump admin and that may have made them a target for this gunman.
BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Trump administration would send hundreds of additional National Guard soldiers to the nation’s capital after two soldiers were shot in the city Wednesday.
Trump Admin to Escalate D.C. Military Takeover After Two National Guard Members Shot
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I just feel awful for the National Guard troopers caught up in this. They’re just standing around looking bored all the time, but they have been made into a deliberate symbol by the Trump admin and that may have made them a target for this gunman.
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A big problem in urbanism: getting enough family-sized apartments built in dense areas. Without them, people come when they're young & then flee to the suburbs when they have a family.
Cities made a bet on millennials — but forgot one key thing
Can cities learn to love kids again?
www.vox.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A big problem in urbanism: getting enough family-sized apartments built in dense areas. Without them, people come when they're young & then flee to the suburbs when they have a family.