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MJ Weissenberger
@mjweissen.bsky.social
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Thinker, poet, friend. Often sitting at the intersection of ethics, faith, power, and grief. 🖤🩶🤍💜 she/her
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all hail my cat
a brown and grey tabby cat, poised upright on a bathroom sink counter. she has a light cream belly, with her striped front legs fully propping her up in a seated upright position. her stripes are dark brown, her main fur color elsewhere is tan and grey. she has green and blue mixed color eyes, and the bathroom lighting illuminates her from below like a goddess.
January 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Nails

My nails have always been brittle and I could never grow them very long. I didn't realize until I started getting them done just how much longer nails help me feel confident. I get my nails done every 3-4 weeks. These are acrylic fills from this year.
A hand posed in front of a steering wheel, showing glittery gold nails Two hands posed on top each other in front of a Christmas tree, showing blue nails with accents of glitter and snowflakes. A hand posed in front of a steering wheel showing nails with Fall leaves accents
January 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Makeup + Hair

Here's my face again from this morning, with a bit of makeup and my hair touched up.

I get my hair dyed professionally every 14 weeks.

I do my own makeup just for fun but also because it helps me with that inner sense of femininity that I'm looking for sometimes.
a selfie of M.J., a brunette woman with blue highlights, wearing a grey shirt with her hair hanging down over her shoulders and showing a confident closed-lip smile
January 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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hello trans, enby, genderfluid and all other girlies! this is my annual post about gender affirming care as a cis woman.

I started doing this a few years ago — now I do it annually after my first dermaplaning (which was yesterday).

Here's my face this morning, post-skincare. A thread 🧵
a selfie of M.J., a mid-30s brunette woman, standing in a grey shirt with her hair pulled back and a confident closed-lip smile on her face
January 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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a fire dancer on a Subaru as seen in the wild yesterday — we are SO back
A blue Subaru with a red Dave Matthews Band fire dancer bumper sticker
December 10, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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this quote on Al Jazeera sums up the celebration I saw in downtown Raleigh yesterday, too — so much to celebrate right now even if there's still a road ahead for rebuilding and figuring out the future
a screenshot from Al Jazeera quoting a conversation between two men in Lebanon, the quote reads: ...a vendor shouted over: "Who will rule you now? The Americans? The Israelis?" "I don't know, but it's been 13 years," Mahmoud shouted back. "Khakis [enough]!" The three young men were beaming the morning after the end of the al-Assad dynasty's rule in Syria after 53 years."
December 9, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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genuinely so much of that night felt like a literal dream, they curated the space so well with lighting and art
the entrance to an arboretum with a metallic arch and brick gate A brick pathway lined with luminaries leading through the trees of an arboretum at night A brightly lit tree in the foreground and clusters of lights in the grass in the background 2 stone dragons on the sides of an archway, through which a stone path is lined by luminaries
December 9, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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I went to a fundraiser event at a local arboretum where they allow the community to visit after dark (usually it's closed at dusk), and they also had these incredible art installations. I was totally at peace.
M.J. (brunette woman) paused beneath a hanging wooden lamp sculpture, with her left hand clasping the sculpture's bottom most point and the light from the sculpture illuminating her face and casting shadows through the wood carvings.
December 9, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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yes, these are the e ranges I receive when I'm tested. that high end of the range is really only for ovulation, the rest of the time (90% of the year) cis women are below 250
screenshot of estradiol testing ranges
December 7, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#18

#booksky
#books
#reading
The cover of James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time"
December 5, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#17

#booksky
#books
#reading
a copy of Barbara Brown Taylor's "Learning to Walk in the Dark"
December 5, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#16

#booksky
#books
#reading
A copy of Shelley Parker-Chan's "She Who Became the Sun" on a wood background
December 4, 2024 at 4:43 AM
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LINDSAY — my dentist office had the most over the top aesthetic tree today and I thought of you
A flocked Christmas tree with aesthetic gold and velvet decorations
December 3, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#15

#booksky
#books
#reading
A photo of Kevin Miguel Garcia's "What Makes You Bloom: Cultivating a Practice for Connecting with Your Divine Self" on a bookshelf
December 2, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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y'all know what time it is ☃️
a screenshot of Spotify playing Relient K's "Let It Snow Baby... let It Reindeer" album
December 2, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#14

#booksky
#books
#reading
A copy of Kaitlin B. Curtice's "Native: Identity, Belonging and Rediscovering God"
December 2, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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bsky, meet my shrimp
M.J.'s tabby cat, curled up with her legs straight out
December 1, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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I don't feel roasted, but I do feel seen

blueskyroast.com
A screenshot of blueskyroast.com reviewing M.J.'s bluesky feed. It captures profile stats at the top, provides a short summary of the profile: "MJ Weissenberger's feed is a literary buffet mixed with deep thoughts on ethics and a sprinkle or sarcasm. Imagine a cozy library filled with poetry and the faint echo of witty comebacks — this is where MJ thrives." At the bottom, there are 4 rankings: Authenticity - 90%, Thought Leader - 88%, Books - 75%, Grief & Mourning - 85% Screenshot of blueskyroast.com describing M.J.'s feed "Grief & Mourning - 85%" listed with further explanation "Community Support - 90% listed with further explanation "Writing Style: MJ blends poetic expressions with punchy anecdotes, crafting posts that read like a modern novel full of quirky characters and unexpected plot twists. It's like Shakespeare and TikTok had a brilliant baby — call it ShakeTok!" "Thought Leader Score - 88%' A screenshot of blueskyroast.com's description of MJ's feed, this section listed as "The Real You". It reads: Your Vibe: The Thoughtful Comedian Keeping it Real Score - 90% Main Character Energy: - Thought Provoking insights - Sarcastic Humor - Literary flair Secret Powers - Mastering the art of humility - Engaging community activism - Creating memes from tragedy
December 1, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#13

#booksky
#books
#reading
a copy of Soren Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death: a Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening"
December 1, 2024 at 1:31 AM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#12

#booksky
#books
#reading
A copy of Lyndsey Medford's "My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That is Sick" on a wood background
November 29, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#11

#booksky
#books
#reading
A copy of Dominique DuBois Gilliard's "Rethinking Incarceration" on a wood background.
November 28, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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I also have time today — get to know me, if you like.
A meme inviting users to "Get to know me better" the meme reads: "1 like = 1 answer" and then had 50 questions that the OP can answer
November 27, 2024 at 3:43 PM
mjweissen.bsky.social
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#10

#booksky
#books
#reading
a copy of Laurie Halse Anderson's "Speak" on a wood background
November 26, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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Some food for thought: when we share images of the U.S. that paint the South and Midwest as insular, it's important to pause and think. Trends are across the U.S. generally, and often a reflection of wealth (and racism both historic and systematic). Tread carefully 🩷

Link, and thoughts in next post
A screenshot of a map of the U.S. titled "The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom" from an article by Quoctrung Bui and Claire Cain Miller published on Dec 23, 2015. The map shows the far West of the U.S. generally lives 26 miles, the Plains region 44 miles, the Midwest 25 miles, the Upper Midwest 14 miles, the Texas/Louisiana/Oklahoma/Arkansas region 21 miles, the Southern Appalachia region 6 miles, the Southern East Coast & Mid-Atlantic region 23 miles, Pennsylvania/New Jersey/New York 8 miles, New England 12 miles, Alaska 24 miles, and Hawaii generally lives 24 miles "from Mom". A screenshot of an article from the NY Times, which reads: Married people live farther from their parents than singles, and women are slightly likelier than men to leave their hometowns. Blacks are more likely to live near their parents than whites, while Latinos are no more likely to live near their parents, according to data from Janice Compton, an economist at the University of Manitoba, and Mr. Pollak. In these family dynamics, a key change is the role of women, who have typically been the nation's unpaid caregivers. Now that most women also have jobs, if the family doesn't have extra income to pay for child care or elder care, the financials and time strain become intense . A screenshot of a NY Times article which reads: Wealthier people can afford to pay for services like child and elder care, while low-income families are more likely to rely on nearby relatives. It seems likely that the more education someone has, the farther from home they go, said Robert A. Pollak, an economist at Washington University's Olin Business School in St Louis, who studies the economics of family. Middle-class, educated two-income couples — say, a school teacher and a nurse — seem to be more likely to live near parents than those with higher-earning careers. "It speaks to a class divide in the population," Mr. Pollak said. "Particularly as you go further down the socioeconomic scale, people are living pretty close to their parents, and this means they're able to provide help."
November 26, 2024 at 3:45 PM
mjweissen.bsky.social
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#9

#booksky
#books
#reading
A copy of James Rachela and Stuart Rachels 8th Edition "The Elements of Moral Philosophy" on a wooden background
November 25, 2024 at 10:21 PM