Jen Watson
@jwatson.bsky.social
I’m just here so I don’t get fined.
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Jen Watson
@jwatson.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Hi, Bluesky! If you already have a dressing recipe that’s your “if I don’t have my grandma’s dressing I’ll die” thanksgiving requirement, you should make that one and have a great Thursday.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
I assure you I'm in the middle of researching something entirely different, but man what I wouldn't give to know what was in Dr. Liebig's Wonderful German Invigorator as advertised in the San Francisco Call in 1892.
![An 1892 newspaper advertisement reading:
"MEN: Dr. Liebig & Co., [German I don't know how to translate sorry I'm typing this manually from a screenshot]
400 Geary Str., San Francisco
The Oldest and Most Reliable Specialists.
THE REASON THOUSANDS CANNOT GET cured of Special, Private, Chronic Diseases, Weakness, Loss of Manhoow, Gleet [sp?], Varicocele and results of abuse or excesses which unfit men for marriage or life's duties, is owing to complications. Most successful treatment for diseases of men. Qualification and responsibility unequaled. Being known, testimonials or photographs never put in newspapers. Everything sacredly confidential.
Dr. Liebig's Wonderful German Invigorator, the greatest remedy for above complaints. To prove its power trial bottles given free.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I assure you I'm in the middle of researching something entirely different, but man what I wouldn't give to know what was in Dr. Liebig's Wonderful German Invigorator as advertised in the San Francisco Call in 1892.
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I hope every transit agency doesn't shut up about this for months
out there every day putting signs in front of drivers telling them transit just got cheaper so why not take the bus and enjoy not being stuck in traffic
this is one of the largest non-capital project changes to transit in decades
out there every day putting signs in front of drivers telling them transit just got cheaper so why not take the bus and enjoy not being stuck in traffic
this is one of the largest non-capital project changes to transit in decades
Starting next week, riding this bus and most other buses to BART will be FREE!
Clipper 2 rolls out on December 10, including free and low cost transfers between all transit agencies.
Riders will automatically receive discounts up to $2.85 when transferring within a two hour window.
Clipper 2 rolls out on December 10, including free and low cost transfers between all transit agencies.
Riders will automatically receive discounts up to $2.85 when transferring within a two hour window.
December 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I hope every transit agency doesn't shut up about this for months
out there every day putting signs in front of drivers telling them transit just got cheaper so why not take the bus and enjoy not being stuck in traffic
this is one of the largest non-capital project changes to transit in decades
out there every day putting signs in front of drivers telling them transit just got cheaper so why not take the bus and enjoy not being stuck in traffic
this is one of the largest non-capital project changes to transit in decades
Man this RULES. Back when I was a daily commuter it absolutely would’ve made more sense time-wise for me to combine multiple transit agencies but because it cost more I’d take a way longer route instead. I would’ve saved literal hours a week! Even as a non-commuter this is a huge game changer.
Starting next week, riding this bus and most other buses to BART will be FREE!
Clipper 2 rolls out on December 10, including free and low cost transfers between all transit agencies.
Riders will automatically receive discounts up to $2.85 when transferring within a two hour window.
Clipper 2 rolls out on December 10, including free and low cost transfers between all transit agencies.
Riders will automatically receive discounts up to $2.85 when transferring within a two hour window.
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Man this RULES. Back when I was a daily commuter it absolutely would’ve made more sense time-wise for me to combine multiple transit agencies but because it cost more I’d take a way longer route instead. I would’ve saved literal hours a week! Even as a non-commuter this is a huge game changer.
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If this sounds like a fabulated child dialogue story, I invite you to come do the gingerbread house decorating activity with my kids while they fuck with each other by saying "bro sounds so AI" "bros house looks AI" etc until the icing runs out.
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
If this sounds like a fabulated child dialogue story, I invite you to come do the gingerbread house decorating activity with my kids while they fuck with each other by saying "bro sounds so AI" "bros house looks AI" etc until the icing runs out.
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Tom Stoppard has died, and with him my hopes that he would someday write a companion to the Phantom of the Opera, the concurrent events as witnessed by the stage hands working in the opera house. RIP.
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Tom Stoppard has died, and with him my hopes that he would someday write a companion to the Phantom of the Opera, the concurrent events as witnessed by the stage hands working in the opera house. RIP.
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män whœ jáçked øff ïn frǒnt ōf wœmęn gĩveñ 100000th cħāńcè tő attempt to prødųce sőmėtħınġ wōrþwħiļe
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
män whœ jáçked øff ïn frǒnt ōf wœmęn gĩveñ 100000th cħāńcè tő attempt to prødųce sőmėtħınġ wōrþwħiļe
If you go into the kitchen right now and make some rice it’ll be good and dried out by Friday which means you can have turkey fried rice, is all I’m saying.
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If you go into the kitchen right now and make some rice it’ll be good and dried out by Friday which means you can have turkey fried rice, is all I’m saying.
When we, heavy drinkers, started hosting post-COVID I made two major changes to my behavior: always have some sort of interesting NA thing to drink available AND offer that interesting thing as part of the welcome spiel. Beer, wine, cocktail? I just made this gorgeous mint iced tea?
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
When we, heavy drinkers, started hosting post-COVID I made two major changes to my behavior: always have some sort of interesting NA thing to drink available AND offer that interesting thing as part of the welcome spiel. Beer, wine, cocktail? I just made this gorgeous mint iced tea?
“We wanted it very badly in the moment. More than anything. So that nothing would ever end. Not just borrowing happiness from tomorrow to spend today but borrowing happiness from the rest of our lives.”
An absolutely devastating, beautiful, you-get-it-if-you-get-it exploration of grief.
An absolutely devastating, beautiful, you-get-it-if-you-get-it exploration of grief.
It is such a disorienting feeling when someone you care about but hadn't talked to that much in a couple of years dies suddenly because there is now a freshly dug hole inside of you and yet the day to day routine of your life has not been altered one bit. www.welcometohellworld.com/watertown-ma...
Watertown, Massachusetts
This piece appears in my book We Had It Coming.
I am sitting in a waiting room right now none of us ever want to be inside of crying about an old friend I'm not entirely sure is even gone yet. The te...
www.welcometohellworld.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
“We wanted it very badly in the moment. More than anything. So that nothing would ever end. Not just borrowing happiness from tomorrow to spend today but borrowing happiness from the rest of our lives.”
An absolutely devastating, beautiful, you-get-it-if-you-get-it exploration of grief.
An absolutely devastating, beautiful, you-get-it-if-you-get-it exploration of grief.
We have a family of two and we run the goddamn dishwasher nearly every day of our lives. Maybe it isn’t full! But I promise you it is so much more efficient than me being like “oh it’s only a couple of glasses” and running the water for four straight minutes.
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
We have a family of two and we run the goddamn dishwasher nearly every day of our lives. Maybe it isn’t full! But I promise you it is so much more efficient than me being like “oh it’s only a couple of glasses” and running the water for four straight minutes.
Yes, I just reposted my own pinned dressing recipe, but I tell you - it’s the best thing I ever make. You have eight days until Thanksgiving. You can make your focaccia days in advance. We’re doing a teeny tiny two person party this year and I’m making an entire 9x13 of it anyway.
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Yes, I just reposted my own pinned dressing recipe, but I tell you - it’s the best thing I ever make. You have eight days until Thanksgiving. You can make your focaccia days in advance. We’re doing a teeny tiny two person party this year and I’m making an entire 9x13 of it anyway.
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Hi, Bluesky! If you already have a dressing recipe that’s your “if I don’t have my grandma’s dressing I’ll die” thanksgiving requirement, you should make that one and have a great Thursday.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
November 20, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Hi, Bluesky! If you already have a dressing recipe that’s your “if I don’t have my grandma’s dressing I’ll die” thanksgiving requirement, you should make that one and have a great Thursday.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
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This is great. I've been hoping a "Grab Your Wallet" type movement would take hold. Make the enablers feel it, indeed! Shop small instead.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is great. I've been hoping a "Grab Your Wallet" type movement would take hold. Make the enablers feel it, indeed! Shop small instead.
Shameless promotion: I make delicious confections at my one-man chocolate company (noshthis.com) and am offering free shipping through 2025 on orders over $75.
Shameless promotion: I make delicious confections at my one-man chocolate company (noshthis.com) and am offering free shipping through 2025 on orders over $75.
hey fellow women who were ever told we were mature for our age
how we feeling this week
how we feeling this week
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
hey fellow women who were ever told we were mature for our age
how we feeling this week
how we feeling this week
just heard someone on the street say “ooh should we take a zoox” and I think it’s the most very real curtains for zoosha moment I’ve had all year
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
just heard someone on the street say “ooh should we take a zoox” and I think it’s the most very real curtains for zoosha moment I’ve had all year
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The first dog tries to pay with a toy.
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The first dog tries to pay with a toy.
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If we were doing best Nelly videos BATTER UP would be top 3 and it ain’t 3
Batter Up gets a shout only for having a Sherman Hemsley cameo in the video.
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If we were doing best Nelly videos BATTER UP would be top 3 and it ain’t 3
oskar isaac
Every day someone new learns that Oscar Isaac was in a late 90s Christian ska band. Who will today’s person be.
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
oskar isaac
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Please don't reply to my posts with facts I am trying to be an idiot
December 1, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Please don't reply to my posts with facts I am trying to be an idiot
“I WISH”?!
Would you believe me if I told you it got so much worse from there
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
“I WISH”?!
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My short personal extremely mild nightmare is over
YouTube TV and Disney have reached a deal that will restore ESPN, ABC and other channels to the platform’s 10 million subscribers after nearly a two-week hiatus, the companies announced.
November 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My short personal extremely mild nightmare is over
hey regarding recent news I feel like I should remind everyone that making jokes about the young people who have been sexually assaulted by the worst people in the world isn’t as cute or funny as you think it is, maybe sit this one out
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
hey regarding recent news I feel like I should remind everyone that making jokes about the young people who have been sexually assaulted by the worst people in the world isn’t as cute or funny as you think it is, maybe sit this one out
I really have to stop doing the New Yorker crossword puzzle because those people are trying to convince you that anyone has ever once used the word QUIDNUNC and I can no longer abide by it
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I really have to stop doing the New Yorker crossword puzzle because those people are trying to convince you that anyone has ever once used the word QUIDNUNC and I can no longer abide by it