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🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝

@jennnanigans.bsky.social

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Writer, cooker, maker, eater, do things-er. Former FL resident. Currently living in Covington GA. She/her BLM LGBTQ ally 46 year old white woman trying to do better If i don't know you, do *not* DM me.

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🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · Nov 11

I'm pleased to meet new folks here on BlueSky but

PLEASE

☠️Do 💥NOT💥 DM me. ☠️

Thanks! 😄

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🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 1d

Legends gonna legend.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 1d

This looks PERFECT. I'm so excited! A nice, grounded, man on the street counterpoint to all the nobility squabbles in HotD. Can't wait!

🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 1d

Just killing time until the Peacemaker finale tonight. That's it, really.

a man in a superhero costume is dancing on a stage with the name brooks in the corner

ALT: a man in a superhero costume is dancing on a stage with the name brooks in the corner

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🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 1d

In July I had to say goodbye to my beloved boy of 16 years, Herzog, who I raised from 8 wks old. It still hurts, now and then.

I'm so, so thankful Fergus was able to leave you happy and without pain, but I know it hurts. An early diagnosis is the cruelest blessing there is. 💔

🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 4d

Me too! I shall have to be content with 2/3 of your feline population & 100% of the canine. 😄

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🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 4d

She's so helpful. 🫶

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

Me: *pays 140 dollars*

Tim Meadows: get away Dewey! don’t eat that Panda Express Orange Chicken! you don’t want any of that shit! It’s delicious!

Me: *delighted* *pays 140 dollars*

Meadows: Dewey get out of here! Don’t eat the rangoons! You don’t want any of that shit!

Me: *delighted* *pays 140

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🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 7d

RIGHT?

That was a hero moment that made my heart soar. 🥹

🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 7d

As the country crumbles, I'm thankful for Peacemaker episodes.

Small consolation, but it means so much to see all those Yachtzees brutally slaughtered. 😌

Judomaster is the Goat.

a man in a green superhero costume eating a bag of cheetos

ALT: a man in a green superhero costume eating a bag of cheetos

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 8d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

open.substack.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 9d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 9d

Was productive right up to seeing this & now I'm done for the day. So ready for it.

How? How does Skarsgard know exactly what we need, exactly when we need it? 🤔

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 9d

The trailer for Harry Lighton’s ‘PILLION’ starring Harry Melling & Alexander Skarsgård.

In theaters February 2026.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 9d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 9d

Oh! I read about this or saw Skarsgard promoting it somewhere - i think Colbert? Idk good for them anyway! 👏👏

🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 9d

"What in the⁉️-oh, Cronenberg." - me, just now.

🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 9d

Omg YAY! 🙌🫶

🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 9d

Ugh, I'm so sorry about the furlough. That sucks.

Is there anything interesting near the dentist? Park to walk in, used book store, oddities shop with mystery door?

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🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 11d

Finding an exercise you enjoy and want to do helps - if running bores you (it bores me), maybe incorporating some bodyweight movements like push-ups or squat thrusts might help.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...