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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants

@j-jordan-poet.bsky.social

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Third-culture kid. Car enthusiast except for LS swaps. My mind is held together by garden dirt & JS Bach. Once and future dog owner. Poet. Words: https://elephantschild.substack.com/ Don't blame me; I voted against Leopards Eating People's Faces.

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 13h

A composite photo combing an image of America's current president standing near the very tall grey-black border wall structure on America's southern border and the words, "Mene, mene, tekel, parsin" (numbered, numbered, weighed, divided) a reference to the Biblical account in Daniel 5 regarding the fate of Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar's successor. It is the source of the idiom, "the writing on the wall."

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 6h

"Do Americans have kitchens?"

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 7h

My yard panther gave me a blep for the trail cameras last evening.

A large black tomcat "bleps" for the camera. He's sitting over a bowl of food outdoors in my garden, in front of a large white decorative garden folly, some bushes, and a log. You can see that one of his eyes is smaller than the other; this is how I tell him from the other black cats that come through my yard at times.

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 7h

Hahaha! I got the orchids all safely in yesterday! DO YOUR WORST FROST.

Oh, shoot, I better get that other tropical plant in, yikes.

A bamboo rod adorned with small patio lights holds four hanging baskets, each containing an orchid plant. They're strappy and stiff-leaved plants with their own ideas about everything.

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 7h

But the president himself agitates and irritates ME. Do I get to make him stop talking now? That'd be very nice.

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 12h

*blink*blink* What, another teleprompter issue. I can handle it many people say I can't but I have no problems with the stairs, you know they say don't do those stairs fast, there's no race. No race, they say. But I say let race be part of what our very smart, so smart DHS secretary is doing.

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 13h

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 13h

I think I love the dilute versions of cat colors most of all. (Although all kitties are beautiful.)

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 13h

This is not the article you expect it to be.

Highly recommended.

catprofiler.substack.com/p/conversati...

Conversations with an AR-15 Fan

...and what it feels like to be the only cat lady at the Rodeo.

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 13h

My mom volunteers with a local charity shop, sorting donated clothes. Stuff comes in having been washed with "Unstoppables" fragrance boosters and they have to sometimes stop everything, take items home home, and re-wash them because the intensity is throat-choking. 🙄

Jac @jaccarter.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's either because scent builds memories and brand loyalty or because these products don't get the stink out of clothes and cover it up instead

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 14h

I keep thinking of someone visiting from, oh, maybe Botswana or Estonia, wandering our store aisles and thinking, "What DO Americans do to their clothing that they need this much fragrance?!"

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker should just activate the Illinois Guard with the only task to swarm the Texas dorks at a 3:1 ratio. Ensure every Illinois patrol has like a ridiculously senior person with it to just fuck up E4s’ days with general military authority fuck-fuck games.

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

It goes to my suspicions that all this blathering on by this administration about being "Christian" really means "one very specific form of Christian and no other kinds are ok."

But this sort of nationalism has ever been thus.

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

Those of us who live on the Great Lakes would be happy to never, ever hear that song again...

That being said, never get on a boat on the Great Lakes in November.

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List of storms on the Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

Wow such flames. Very fire. Much war zone.

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

why is america like this

Store shelves display about thirty-five different high-intensity scent additives, often called "fragrance boosters," to scent your laundry and give your sensitive friends blinding headaches or asthma triggers, in addition to any detergent or fabric softener you might already be using.

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

It's going to take people dying *in numbers* due to a terrible, terrible mistake or hallucination used by someone in leadership or responsible for others' lives, believing what the AI told them... or a Butlerian J!had.

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

These two sparkling water brands used to be the same price. Trump take simple pleasures, too.

A store shelf with Pellegrino water and Saratoga water side by side. The green Pellegrino water is priced at $2.89; it used to be $1.99, like the Saratoga water in blue bottles to the right. Saratoga is bottled in the US; Pelegrino is bottled in Italy.

Trump take simple pleasures.

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

Scary. Hope everyone got out okay. 😱

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

Was about to knock off for the day when husband reminded me that it's supposed to be 42°F tonight, so I guess I'm doing the Great Transfer right this minute.

Ugh. As usual, doing it in a hurry & without enough time to truly make sure all the bugs are dead first. When will I plan ahead?

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

His spotted nose! I'm dying!

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

This is really, really good. Well worth your time. It's also funny and poignant. @racephoto.bsky.social Further to our recent discussions elsewhere about AI.

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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

I can already feel the pull, the "are there any notifications there?!" pull.

Leaving my account active until I sell off a few things that I just can't shift via Craigslist and I'm out. Again.

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

Finally dealing w/ the fact that Meta reactivated my FB account shortly after I deactivated it last year.

Deleted all notifications, attended to the piled-up DMs w/ a copy-pasta "please reach me another way from now on" and pinned a post that I'm permanently not around.

Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

At one point, we owned a Japanese car built in the US and an American car built in Canada.

3/4 ChryCo vans we owned were built in Canada. All three of our Panthers were, too.😂

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Jenny & Exhausted Elephants @j-jordan-poet.bsky.social · 1d

"You mean like Fords, Mr President?"

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