Jen the Tired RN
@jenthetiredrn.bsky.social
Science Nerd that swears a LOT w/degrees in biochem, nursing. Our home is a bit of a zoo, with the cats and dog. Mom of a grown adult & unsure how that happened. Raised in Northern WI, but now a proud Minnesotan who’s often too direct for the locals.
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it’s genuinely hurtful the way some of y’all talk about people with alcohol and substance use disorders. these ghouls in DC will not hear your stigmatizing words, nor do they care. but chances are your neighbors and coworkers and friends in your local AA & NA groups have heard those words
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
it’s genuinely hurtful the way some of y’all talk about people with alcohol and substance use disorders. these ghouls in DC will not hear your stigmatizing words, nor do they care. but chances are your neighbors and coworkers and friends in your local AA & NA groups have heard those words
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Lots of great suggestions already (thank you!) but so far my favourite is Let the Bodies Hit the Floor vs Teletubbies...
October 8, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Lots of great suggestions already (thank you!) but so far my favourite is Let the Bodies Hit the Floor vs Teletubbies...
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My rep. 💙
The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country.
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My rep. 💙
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"Read em and meep boys."
Beaker playing poker.
Beaker playing poker.
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Read em and meep boys."
Beaker playing poker.
Beaker playing poker.
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Paid Leave in MN starts Jan 1!
If you welcomed a baby in 2025 you can apply to take bonding leave in 2026! Check out www.paidleave.mn.gov
This huge win is thanks to DFLers and only DFLers. No Republicans voted for it and they spent the last two years trying to destroy it before it even started. 🫶🏼
If you welcomed a baby in 2025 you can apply to take bonding leave in 2026! Check out www.paidleave.mn.gov
This huge win is thanks to DFLers and only DFLers. No Republicans voted for it and they spent the last two years trying to destroy it before it even started. 🫶🏼
📢 New parents: You can start applying for Paid Leave NOW!
Paid Leave passed by DFLers in 2023 goes into effect January 1, 2026!
If you welcomed a baby in 2025, you can apply for up to 12 weeks of bonding leave in the new year. Learn more at paidleave.mn.gov.
Paid Leave passed by DFLers in 2023 goes into effect January 1, 2026!
If you welcomed a baby in 2025, you can apply for up to 12 weeks of bonding leave in the new year. Learn more at paidleave.mn.gov.
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Paid Leave in MN starts Jan 1!
If you welcomed a baby in 2025 you can apply to take bonding leave in 2026! Check out www.paidleave.mn.gov
This huge win is thanks to DFLers and only DFLers. No Republicans voted for it and they spent the last two years trying to destroy it before it even started. 🫶🏼
If you welcomed a baby in 2025 you can apply to take bonding leave in 2026! Check out www.paidleave.mn.gov
This huge win is thanks to DFLers and only DFLers. No Republicans voted for it and they spent the last two years trying to destroy it before it even started. 🫶🏼
With this really cold weather we’re having, I am seriously considering making some luminaries over the next few days. From a few years back:
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
With this really cold weather we’re having, I am seriously considering making some luminaries over the next few days. From a few years back:
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"When a private estate providing income to the crown becomes involved in a legal dispute over the ownership of an Asian word for veg, the legacy of the entitlement at the heart of British colonialism is laid bare."
I had vaguely followed the ridiculous legal threats over "sabzi" but learned from this op-ed that the DUCHY OF CORNWALL got involved?! Wild. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"When a private estate providing income to the crown becomes involved in a legal dispute over the ownership of an Asian word for veg, the legacy of the entitlement at the heart of British colonialism is laid bare."
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ooof
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
ooof
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Friends, vikings, countrymen: lend me your eyes. May I present what just happened an hour ago in Iceland?
It was an early, short substorm, but it was a good one. Literal space weather!
#northernlights #aurora
It was an early, short substorm, but it was a good one. Literal space weather!
#northernlights #aurora
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Friends, vikings, countrymen: lend me your eyes. May I present what just happened an hour ago in Iceland?
It was an early, short substorm, but it was a good one. Literal space weather!
#northernlights #aurora
It was an early, short substorm, but it was a good one. Literal space weather!
#northernlights #aurora
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Why the hell do they keep complaining about Minnesota and saying horrible things about our governor and our Somali friends?
We’re freakin’ Minnesota.
Everyone else should think about us once or twice a year, tops.
Leave us alone.
We have a quarterback situation to worry about.
We’re freakin’ Minnesota.
Everyone else should think about us once or twice a year, tops.
Leave us alone.
We have a quarterback situation to worry about.
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Why the hell do they keep complaining about Minnesota and saying horrible things about our governor and our Somali friends?
We’re freakin’ Minnesota.
Everyone else should think about us once or twice a year, tops.
Leave us alone.
We have a quarterback situation to worry about.
We’re freakin’ Minnesota.
Everyone else should think about us once or twice a year, tops.
Leave us alone.
We have a quarterback situation to worry about.
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It's everyone. Equipment issues, the TPT website says.
So much for watching the horsey show tonight.
So much for watching the horsey show tonight.
Our public teevee channels have been dark for awhile. Is this happening to anyone else?
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It's everyone. Equipment issues, the TPT website says.
So much for watching the horsey show tonight.
So much for watching the horsey show tonight.
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11am temperatures. Savor the double digits (above zero) while we have them 🫡
There are a lot of single digit and negative temperatures headed our way later today and tomorrow
There are a lot of single digit and negative temperatures headed our way later today and tomorrow
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
11am temperatures. Savor the double digits (above zero) while we have them 🫡
There are a lot of single digit and negative temperatures headed our way later today and tomorrow
There are a lot of single digit and negative temperatures headed our way later today and tomorrow
Ahhhhh. In my Happy Place.
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ahhhhh. In my Happy Place.
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
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*Halloween Blizzard Voice*
"Did I ever tell you about the night Cities97 played two bars of one song on a loop for hours?"
"Did I ever tell you about the night Cities97 played two bars of one song on a loop for hours?"
Cities97 has been playing the last two bars of the @maxmcnown01.bsky.social song “A Lot More Free” for over 7 minutes. lol methinks this is in error
December 3, 2025 at 3:38 AM
*Halloween Blizzard Voice*
"Did I ever tell you about the night Cities97 played two bars of one song on a loop for hours?"
"Did I ever tell you about the night Cities97 played two bars of one song on a loop for hours?"
I was getting down from a shelf above my head in my kitchen, a large bag of potato starch. I dropped it. It exploded and this is basically what I looked like. It got alllll over my countertops, stovetop, floors. It was so bad. 😭
I’ve had to take a gummy to chill out.
I’ve had to take a gummy to chill out.
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I was getting down from a shelf above my head in my kitchen, a large bag of potato starch. I dropped it. It exploded and this is basically what I looked like. It got alllll over my countertops, stovetop, floors. It was so bad. 😭
I’ve had to take a gummy to chill out.
I’ve had to take a gummy to chill out.
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This practice is so confusing to me. We don’t have a garage for the first time in 20 years in which to park our one car—and I only have the engine warming and defroster running for around 5 minutes at most while I scrape and brush off the car.
I don't get the obsession with warming up the car before driving in the winter. We all know that with modern fuel injection we don't need to do that for the vehicle, right? People complain how 2 minutes of congestion increases air pollution but think nothing of idling for 10-30 minutes.
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This practice is so confusing to me. We don’t have a garage for the first time in 20 years in which to park our one car—and I only have the engine warming and defroster running for around 5 minutes at most while I scrape and brush off the car.
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Penzeys fucking rules. Season liberally.
It’s my favorite part. Basically the sections are: spices, trial bags, gift boxes, & choke on our spices, you f*ckin traitors.
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Penzeys fucking rules. Season liberally.
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The real Turing test is that AI will stop using em dashes if you ask; humans will make you pry their favorite punctuation out of their cold, dead hands.
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The real Turing test is that AI will stop using em dashes if you ask; humans will make you pry their favorite punctuation out of their cold, dead hands.
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I have not laughed this hard at anything written in a very long time
(RACHEL walks past children playing. Her biological clock ticks. She’s thirty, almost dead.)
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
Scenes from a Hallmark Hanukkah Movie Written by Someone Who Has Definitely Met a Jew
EXT. SMALL TOWN BUS STOP – DAY (A beautiful woman with slightly wavy brown hair steps off a bus. She’s RACHEL, a corporate lawyer from The Big Cit...
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I have not laughed this hard at anything written in a very long time