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Jenny Staff Johnson

@htownjenny.bsky.social

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Ugh, fine. Writer in Texas. I curse on the internet now. #HouSky www.jennystaffjohnson.com

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · May 13

How can I be expected to watch anything new on Criterion Channel when they keep putting The Long Goodbye back on it

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 35m

So to summarize before I log off and read something real: dogs and difficult books and trans rights, the end.

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 39m

Faulkner forever and ever, amen

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4h

Pick one! Once and for all!

Joyce
Faulkner

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 23h

Fort Worth, Texas.

#WeAreEverywhere

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 59m

It really is a skill issue, people with little imagination and less courage can’t see how it can be done — clearly it can be.

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 6h

Fuck ups in ‘the groups’: We have to sacrifice trans people

Mamdani: really?? sounds like a skill issue…

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1h

Context ⬆️

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1h

Nine PM on the dot, I swear this dog swallowed a clock

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1h

Nine PM on the dot, I swear this dog swallowed a clock

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Why are quarterback names always so quarterback-y

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Okay this has been rectified, thank you for your prompt attention to this matter

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton is not trending on here and I for one object

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

lol amazing

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

We’re going to the opera because I don’t like Halloween and we have no kids at home anymore but now I want to do this.

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

This information is mind-expanding

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Right?!?!

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry she did what

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton directed this banger music video on top of all her other achievements, RIP to a legend

youtu.be/NOGEyBeoBGM

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by BelindaCarlisleVEVO

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

It really is. I totally associate it with my dad, and now Merle is gone and my dad is 81 and Willie is 92, and…it’s fine, I’m fine.

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway I’m listening to the Merle and Willie Pancho & Lefty

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Mine is too but she’s not in the trending topics section — or wasn’t when I posted this

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Jared Leto? Kid Rock? GTFO.

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton is not trending on here and I for one object

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 2d

So much.

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 2d

He kept building bad and gross stuff all these years.

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 2d

Improbably tho I’d met this cute guy, a graduate student in German, there. It took a minute and a bit of a process but soon enough we were like this sucks let’s hit da bricks and we did, nearly 30 years later we’re still a thing, guess Doug Wilson is too, glad we have nothing to do with him anymore.

Blurry picture of me and former German graduate student husband at a bar tonight

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve said this on here before but my “reformed” church brining this guy (Wilson) to speak in 1997 was the first massive red flag telling me I’d gotten myself into a situation I needed to get out of.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 2d

Okay I have spontaneously run the test of "do I still know nearly all the lyrics to Robbie Fulks' 1996 debut album ‘Country Love Songs’ after not hearing it for decades” and the answer is absolutely yes.