Jen
@jenk3.bsky.social
Fat lady with glasses & curly hair near Seattle. Have inhaler will travel. She/her. Pushing 60.
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Beans, or green veggies! A cheese sauce on broccoli to get your kids to eat the broccoli doesn’t cancel out the broccoli-ness of it all.
December 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Beans, or green veggies! A cheese sauce on broccoli to get your kids to eat the broccoli doesn’t cancel out the broccoli-ness of it all.
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Great thread, of course, by @jessicavalenti.bsky.social on the malignancy of this frame..... "Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place."
Because it’s not just Bari Weiss’ CBS asking this question—in the last few months, I’ve been approached by half a dozen different shows looking to ‘debate’ the same topic.
I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”
NPR!
I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”
NPR!
December 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Great thread, of course, by @jessicavalenti.bsky.social on the malignancy of this frame..... "Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place."
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Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
December 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
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Today’s flower 🌱 #1289
Lily of the valley
Lily of the valley
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Today’s flower 🌱 #1289
Lily of the valley
Lily of the valley
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This is Willi and Rigatoni. They were saying not-so-nice things behind your back, but then you turned around. Super awkward. 13/10 for both (IG: wildwildwilli)
December 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is Willi and Rigatoni. They were saying not-so-nice things behind your back, but then you turned around. Super awkward. 13/10 for both (IG: wildwildwilli)
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Writing isn’t the best part! Writing is far from the best part! Handing your writing to your friends and having them scream at you for the carefully selected horror that only your brain could come up with is the best part!
December 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Writing isn’t the best part! Writing is far from the best part! Handing your writing to your friends and having them scream at you for the carefully selected horror that only your brain could come up with is the best part!
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"If Democrats want to win Texas, the work is not in chasing an imaginary rural wave. It’s in turning out the millions of voters who already live in urban and metro counties, shoring up suburban margins, and investing seriously in places where Democratic voters
Why chasing rural votes won’t flip Texas.
Where Are Texas Democrats?
Why chasing rural votes won’t flip Texas.
www.lonestarleft.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"If Democrats want to win Texas, the work is not in chasing an imaginary rural wave. It’s in turning out the millions of voters who already live in urban and metro counties, shoring up suburban margins, and investing seriously in places where Democratic voters
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DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three
December 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three
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Cover-up (noun): an attempt to prevent people's discovering the truth about a serious mistake or crime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...
Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Government Website, Including One of Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Cover-up (noun): an attempt to prevent people's discovering the truth about a serious mistake or crime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...
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In YouGov polling this week, less than half of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump. www.ms.now/opinion/poll...
December 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In YouGov polling this week, less than half of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump. www.ms.now/opinion/poll...
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There’s nothing *wrong* with that, but it tells us about as much about the state of mainstream LGBT acceptance as the popularity of lesbian pr0n among straight men
December 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
There’s nothing *wrong* with that, but it tells us about as much about the state of mainstream LGBT acceptance as the popularity of lesbian pr0n among straight men
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Trump take power
We live in the northeast. Our monthly gas and electric bill, thanks to our solar panels, hovered around the $250 mark for the last four years. January’s bill? $1257 thanks to…THE TARIFFS!! It seems Canada supplies our electricity.I expected a cardiac event over our insurance costs, but electricity??
December 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Trump take power
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Yeah, I told him I was just driving my car until it died, and he laughed and was like "Look, I can keep this car running forever. It's not going to die."
December 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yeah, I told him I was just driving my car until it died, and he laughed and was like "Look, I can keep this car running forever. It's not going to die."
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Anyway my '90s Toyota has outlasted every late year car my husband has had, and if you talk to my mechanic about it, an expert on Japanese vehicles, he explains that the Japanese vehicles made in the '90s were a kind onto themselves.
December 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Anyway my '90s Toyota has outlasted every late year car my husband has had, and if you talk to my mechanic about it, an expert on Japanese vehicles, he explains that the Japanese vehicles made in the '90s were a kind onto themselves.
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Affordable Care Act subsidies are about to expire leaving millions unable to afford health insurance.
This is an excellent time to start wearing a mask.
Keeping yourself and your community healthy is an act of resistance.
Millions of people literally can’t afford to get sick.
This is an excellent time to start wearing a mask.
Keeping yourself and your community healthy is an act of resistance.
Millions of people literally can’t afford to get sick.
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Affordable Care Act subsidies are about to expire leaving millions unable to afford health insurance.
This is an excellent time to start wearing a mask.
Keeping yourself and your community healthy is an act of resistance.
Millions of people literally can’t afford to get sick.
This is an excellent time to start wearing a mask.
Keeping yourself and your community healthy is an act of resistance.
Millions of people literally can’t afford to get sick.
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the King of Christmas awaits your tribute
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
the King of Christmas awaits your tribute
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Remember that brief shining moment when Medicare told hospitals it wouldn't reimburse them for the extended stay due to hospital acquired infections? Because something like a third of hospital stays ended up with new infections. And they literally cleaned up their act?
December 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Remember that brief shining moment when Medicare told hospitals it wouldn't reimburse them for the extended stay due to hospital acquired infections? Because something like a third of hospital stays ended up with new infections. And they literally cleaned up their act?
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Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI.
I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.
I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.
I would struggle to trust an academic who doesn‘t know how to
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
December 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI.
I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.
I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.
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There is no trend or epidemic of kids being trans or non-binary.
December 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
There is no trend or epidemic of kids being trans or non-binary.
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If someone had walked up to Logan in the street and lamped him, I’d be against it. But given that he begged, pleaded, BESEECHED the boxing world to let him get punched in the face by extremely serious people who punch people in the face for a living and for the love of punching then I’m all for it.
I’m not the biggest fan of boxing as a concept, but I do think we’re at the point where the only thing that’s going to prove to some people that they aren’t the main character with pro level skills at anything they want is to be punched in the face repeatedly.
December 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If someone had walked up to Logan in the street and lamped him, I’d be against it. But given that he begged, pleaded, BESEECHED the boxing world to let him get punched in the face by extremely serious people who punch people in the face for a living and for the love of punching then I’m all for it.
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Disabled people tried to warn you
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist
'God is merciful': Gov. Hochul to sign bill allowing medically assisted death in NY
She says she's requested some changes from state lawmakers before she signs off on the measure.
gothamist.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Disabled people tried to warn you
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist
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I honestly still can’t believe they did this
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
December 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I honestly still can’t believe they did this
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
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We have a houseguest this weekend: Chumbles the cat, a longtime friend of the family, is here while his person recovers from surgery.
Chumbles is, I must say, a *fine* fellow, quite polite and distinguished.
Chumbles is, I must say, a *fine* fellow, quite polite and distinguished.
December 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We have a houseguest this weekend: Chumbles the cat, a longtime friend of the family, is here while his person recovers from surgery.
Chumbles is, I must say, a *fine* fellow, quite polite and distinguished.
Chumbles is, I must say, a *fine* fellow, quite polite and distinguished.
Seems useful today:
All the President's Men (1976)
Ben Bradlee: All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...
All the President's Men (1976)
Ben Bradlee: All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...
All the President's Men (1976) - Quotes - IMDb
All the President's Men (1976) -
* Ben Bradlee: All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate.
www.imdb.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Seems useful today:
All the President's Men (1976)
Ben Bradlee: All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...
All the President's Men (1976)
Ben Bradlee: All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...
If the US provides housing for troops, that housing should be up to code and have working AC in the South.
A federal watchdog found that soldiers serving on the U.S.-Mexico border were living with leaking sewage, broken AC, and other issues. trib.al/Q3r92A7
Soldiers at border lived with ‘leaking raw sewage,’ broken toilets, no AC, watchdog finds
A federal watchdog found that soldiers serving on the U.S.-Mexico border were living with leaking sewage, broken AC, and other issues.
trib.al
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If the US provides housing for troops, that housing should be up to code and have working AC in the South.