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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · Jan 20

“I am, as you say, relentlessly cheerful because it’s the best fuck you I can think of to this terrible world.” - Senior Chief Petty Officer Jenks Khan, from “And the Mighty Will Fall”

Thank you @kbwagers.com for another joyful read, and the perfect encapsulation of feels I’m holding close today❤️

Book cover titled “and the mighty will fall - a NEOG Novel” by K. B. Wagers with illustration of a space station in the foreground above the planet Mars.

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 5d

right? like no amount of being friendly is gonna keep the fascists from coming for them so why not just go fucking YOLO?

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 6d

related to prior post: does anyone else ever hit a point in their revise-and-resubmit grind where you feel like you're starting to literarily come kind of unhinged?

Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 6d

why isn't granularify a word though

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 6d

Heart of the Beast/May Day puppets let’s go!

Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 6d

Come on my vibrant Fringe-Festy MSP neighbors and friends - let’s bring Portland levels of absurdist performance art protest to these ICE fucks. Let’s fucking go!

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 7d

ooooh adding to my 2026 audiobook tbr omnomnom. it’s time.

Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 7d

exactly that!!! Corny as hell, and also you fucking go girl singing about your dude's cock! 😂

Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 7d

lol T.Swift aint need me to defend her, just anytime anyone comes for a woman musician's lyrics for being too [fill in the blank] I always enjoy (hate) instantly thinking of 5000 dude musicians of whatever genre doing same or more in spades but being lauded for artistry, depth or just a good time

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 7d

guarantee anyone (and by that I mean dudes obvs) throwing shade at T.Swift for "Wood" is also first to chime in with "Nice...." anytime 69 makes an appearance and has so many mixtapes/playlists full of cockrock faves that are nothing but packed-with-eye-roll-inducing-corny-innuendos fuck songs.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8d

we seem to have deprived them entirely of the footage they were obviously hoping for

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 8d

30s/40s ?

Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 8d

Like this is in the realm of what was happening, but ill-fitting and short sleeved. And, well - it was incredible.

A masc-presenting person with 70s's era hair style in a black leather/plether jumpsuit

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 8d

In the building I'm working late in on an all-women's campus, there's a guy who walking around unironically with Hardy-Boys x REO speedwagon hair wearing an ill-fitting 70's era black plether/vinyl short sleeved belted jumpsuit/romper and I feel like someone's punking me or that I'm in danger

a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat

Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat saying "ha ha I'm in danger"

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 8d

That (going back thru highlights from my twitter archive) is something I need to do at some point!

Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 8d

RIGHT?? These are the stupid things I most love the internets for gifting us 😭

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 8d

But hey here's to an all-timer Cheezburger (or CB-adjacent/inspired/tangential?) that's still to be found :)

Viking Kittens

YouTube video by HackStansbury

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 8d

We've checked & have yet to unearth it even in the wayback machine - iirc was removed by involved prof's request before the wayback existed? And I'm talking the original "searchin, seizin, surveillin - wit no warrants" post by the students (coworkers? postdocs?) not the subsequent cheezburger posts

Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 8d

💯! I remain bereft that the original full ceiling cat narrative is no longer (afaik) anymore to be found anywhere on the interwebs

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11d

It's an iron law of history: if a bunch of people try to convince you that the professors, queers, and immigrants are the "real" threat, buy a fucking gun, because authoritarianism is on the horizon. Every time.

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 12d

I literally thought this gif about an hour ago when I was adding a date to a code file. great brains on the same wavelength 🧠😄

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Meghan Lafferty @lafferty.bsky.social · 12d

a man in a cowboy hat is holding a cell phone in his hand and says `` 10-4-1 , good buddy ! ''

Alt: Burt Reynolds is wearing a cowboy hat, holding a CB radio in his hand, and yelling, "10-4 , good buddy! ''

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 12d

Happy Taylor-ing and cat'ing to y'all 🥰

Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 12d

it's Taylor while I'm working late. Not magical maybe cuz working but better for Taylor being the soundtrack 💜

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 12d

As a newish Swiftie (since the Eras tour), I can confirm that converts are the absolute worst.

Also happy Life of a Showgirl day to all who celebrate.

Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 13d

Get you a neighbor like me who runs around in the dense jungle of a backyard in the dark w/a head lamp or iphone light at 10:00 at night yelling and chasing one of her dogs who is chasing/trying to murder a [fill in the blank urban wildlife that this night happens to be a possum] instead of peeing

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