Jennifer
@jenwith1n.bsky.social
Urban planner, chronically & mysteriously ill, ✡️, plant lady, dog mom
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I so badly want to tell you not to read this whole thing because AAAAAAAAH (and also WHY) but if you too can’t look away from the trivial and terrible, this is for you.
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I so badly want to tell you not to read this whole thing because AAAAAAAAH (and also WHY) but if you too can’t look away from the trivial and terrible, this is for you.
I can’t eat dairy or eggs anymore but the closer we get to Thanksgiving the more I wish I could eat a huge slice of my grandma’s pumpkin chiffon pie. If anybody wants the recipe hit me up - so much better than traditional pumpkin pie (which is also good).
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I can’t eat dairy or eggs anymore but the closer we get to Thanksgiving the more I wish I could eat a huge slice of my grandma’s pumpkin chiffon pie. If anybody wants the recipe hit me up - so much better than traditional pumpkin pie (which is also good).
I have an unhealthy relationship with the NYTimes comment section because it is full of guys who are positive they’ve discovered the key to warding off everything due to their healthy lifestyles. “My headaches went away when I stopped drinking so that’s obviously the cure for migraines!”
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I have an unhealthy relationship with the NYTimes comment section because it is full of guys who are positive they’ve discovered the key to warding off everything due to their healthy lifestyles. “My headaches went away when I stopped drinking so that’s obviously the cure for migraines!”
I have had to tell desert towns in Oregon and Washington “‘maybe a data center isn’t a great idea here” more times than you might imagine. I’m glad I’m not the only one nervously watching what’s been happening.
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I have had to tell desert towns in Oregon and Washington “‘maybe a data center isn’t a great idea here” more times than you might imagine. I’m glad I’m not the only one nervously watching what’s been happening.
Before I turn right I look behind/next to me for cyclists and look at the crosswalk for pedestrians. It makes me so nervous when I’m out in a car that so many people don’t take 1-2 seconds to do this before turning.
This "driving concern" is actually a very rarely acknowledged major pedestrian safety concern. Drivers whipping around from behind you as you start crossing turning right on green is lethal
www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/cultur...
www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/cultur...
Is it illegal to stop before turning right at a green light?
When you’re turning right at a green light, it’s right to slow down or even stop to make sure it’s safe, expert says
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Before I turn right I look behind/next to me for cyclists and look at the crosswalk for pedestrians. It makes me so nervous when I’m out in a car that so many people don’t take 1-2 seconds to do this before turning.
I’m the slowest reader except apparently of fantasy books? I’m like 175 pages into a 320 page book I started reading yesterday.
Oh man I started another fantasy book today and while my instinct is always to cringe at the first couple of chapters that set up the world, I am also immediately hooked. My brain really wants me to think I’m cooler than this but I am absolutely not.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I’m the slowest reader except apparently of fantasy books? I’m like 175 pages into a 320 page book I started reading yesterday.
Turkey takes are tired - I want to know what your family’s Thanksgiving pasta course is/was and how your grandpa reacted the year your mom made butternut squash ravioli (or the year your family decided to *gasp* skip the pasta course).
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Turkey takes are tired - I want to know what your family’s Thanksgiving pasta course is/was and how your grandpa reacted the year your mom made butternut squash ravioli (or the year your family decided to *gasp* skip the pasta course).
Oh man I started another fantasy book today and while my instinct is always to cringe at the first couple of chapters that set up the world, I am also immediately hooked. My brain really wants me to think I’m cooler than this but I am absolutely not.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Oh man I started another fantasy book today and while my instinct is always to cringe at the first couple of chapters that set up the world, I am also immediately hooked. My brain really wants me to think I’m cooler than this but I am absolutely not.
Watching newsies for the first time in forever and crying because I love it so much and ALSO - solidarity means not leaving your disabled comrades behind when you’re running from the cops.
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Watching newsies for the first time in forever and crying because I love it so much and ALSO - solidarity means not leaving your disabled comrades behind when you’re running from the cops.
I didn’t see Wicked the movie but I’ve seen the Broadway play multiple times and I read the book, and I’m just now finding out they split it into two movies. Why?? Like I could see adapting the book into a series but the PLAY?? It’s not even that long!
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I didn’t see Wicked the movie but I’ve seen the Broadway play multiple times and I read the book, and I’m just now finding out they split it into two movies. Why?? Like I could see adapting the book into a series but the PLAY?? It’s not even that long!
Yesterday on my way to the gym I hit 500 miles on my ebike. Before I got it, I basically never biked, so almost all of those trips would have been by car. It was ~40 degrees out and I was on my way to swim when I hit 500 miles. Absolutely life changing.
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Yesterday on my way to the gym I hit 500 miles on my ebike. Before I got it, I basically never biked, so almost all of those trips would have been by car. It was ~40 degrees out and I was on my way to swim when I hit 500 miles. Absolutely life changing.
Can’t believe a couple years ago I got my husband a sun lamp for the long dark and somehow managed to never ask him if he’d tried taking vitamin d until today.
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can’t believe a couple years ago I got my husband a sun lamp for the long dark and somehow managed to never ask him if he’d tried taking vitamin d until today.
The song from Mario 2 is the perfect song to sing to yourself while biking. I can’t be the only person who’s realized this.
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The song from Mario 2 is the perfect song to sing to yourself while biking. I can’t be the only person who’s realized this.
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The continuing irony that Christians think Channukah (a holiday about public resistance to assimilation) is just Jewish Christmas. And that if they paint a Christmas tradition blue and white, that makes it fully a Channukah thing.
And, for me personally, the insistance that all of this is totally secular, totally *unconnected* to the celebration of Jesus' birth, that only a grump wouldn't participate, is one of the most uncomfortable things about it.
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The continuing irony that Christians think Channukah (a holiday about public resistance to assimilation) is just Jewish Christmas. And that if they paint a Christmas tradition blue and white, that makes it fully a Channukah thing.
Keep doing the thing where even though we aren’t going to look for a dog until January I sneak and look at dogs and inevitably find a perfect baby who then gets adopted the next day. What I’m trying to take away from this is, they’re all good dogs.
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Keep doing the thing where even though we aren’t going to look for a dog until January I sneak and look at dogs and inevitably find a perfect baby who then gets adopted the next day. What I’m trying to take away from this is, they’re all good dogs.
Reminds me of when I was in high school in a room where there were just old nails sticking out of walls randomly and I leaned against a piano and felt something sharp stab me in the stomach. Looked down and it was a bee. Big phew!
got into the car and my lower back exploded in pain. cactus needles jabbing my skin; subcutaneous sparklers of fire. I opened the door and called to my son — “get your mom. something’s wrong.” and that’s when the wasp flew out of my shirt. anyway. happy Friday.
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Reminds me of when I was in high school in a room where there were just old nails sticking out of walls randomly and I leaned against a piano and felt something sharp stab me in the stomach. Looked down and it was a bee. Big phew!
“Portland’s homelessness crisis is a direct result of an inadequate housing supply and siloed single-focus thinking...With the rapidly eroding social safety net, Portland’s homelessness crisis is likely to worsen.”
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Portland housing director resigns after being placed on leave by mayor
Helmi Hisserich, the head of Portland’s housing department, has resigned after abruptly being placed on leave by Mayor Keith Wilson.
www.opb.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“Portland’s homelessness crisis is a direct result of an inadequate housing supply and siloed single-focus thinking...With the rapidly eroding social safety net, Portland’s homelessness crisis is likely to worsen.”
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
This is such an incredible detail-
“Also, the investigation revealed that, two days prior to the alleged attack, the cellphone of Greene’s co-conspirator had been used to search ‘zip ties near me.’”
“Also, the investigation revealed that, two days prior to the alleged attack, the cellphone of Greene’s co-conspirator had been used to search ‘zip ties near me.’”
SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement
A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.
www.justice.gov
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This is such an incredible detail-
“Also, the investigation revealed that, two days prior to the alleged attack, the cellphone of Greene’s co-conspirator had been used to search ‘zip ties near me.’”
“Also, the investigation revealed that, two days prior to the alleged attack, the cellphone of Greene’s co-conspirator had been used to search ‘zip ties near me.’”
I know it’s my own fault for fucking around on my discover feed, but the number of cartoons I’ve seen on this site today that boil down to “no TRUMP is the pig, because he’s FAT” is really disgusting. I need you fatphobic freaks to knock it the fuck off.
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I know it’s my own fault for fucking around on my discover feed, but the number of cartoons I’ve seen on this site today that boil down to “no TRUMP is the pig, because he’s FAT” is really disgusting. I need you fatphobic freaks to knock it the fuck off.
Every month my nutritionist is like “hey - eat less fiber” and then every day I sit here chomping a kale salad like
a woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant eating food and asking is butter a carb ?
Alt: A gif of Regina George from Mean Girls asking, “is butter a carb?”
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Every month my nutritionist is like “hey - eat less fiber” and then every day I sit here chomping a kale salad like
Absolutely love having to eat dinner at 4:30 because I have to drive to the inner ring burbs at rush hour because we don’t have a real fucking rail network!!!!!!
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Absolutely love having to eat dinner at 4:30 because I have to drive to the inner ring burbs at rush hour because we don’t have a real fucking rail network!!!!!!
I think my skin is just dry but I’m very itchy and in a hotel room and my brain is not helping me stay calm so I can go to sleep
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I think my skin is just dry but I’m very itchy and in a hotel room and my brain is not helping me stay calm so I can go to sleep
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just imagining waiting a year to publicly drop an atomic warhead on an ex but being like “gotta get that big bamboo metaphor up in there”
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
just imagining waiting a year to publicly drop an atomic warhead on an ex but being like “gotta get that big bamboo metaphor up in there”
Look I tell you what this is not the point but as someone who has spent YEARS battling a bamboo infestation in my tiny garden I feel seen lol
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Look I tell you what this is not the point but as someone who has spent YEARS battling a bamboo infestation in my tiny garden I feel seen lol
I think we can all learn something from the shitty excerpt going around from the ridiculous tell all nobody wanted: being blonde (real or fake) does not in and of itself make you interesting. You’re not a femme fatale because you got a dye job. You’re not mysterious bc you wear sunglasses.
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I think we can all learn something from the shitty excerpt going around from the ridiculous tell all nobody wanted: being blonde (real or fake) does not in and of itself make you interesting. You’re not a femme fatale because you got a dye job. You’re not mysterious bc you wear sunglasses.