Erin Tinsman
@erinjoy.bsky.social
Just an Erin married to an Aaron (@atinsman) with a beautiful blended family across 2 states. Follow if you like nerdery, emotional honesty, parenting stories, thoughts on co-parenting long distance after divorce, politics, and exvangelical takes. 🪴
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Erin Tinsman
@erinjoy.bsky.social
· Sep 19
If being against fascism - "anti-fascist", or "antifa" if ya nasty - is wrong, I don't ever want to be right.
Watching Revenge of the Sith and- this movie is terrible. It's so cringey and bad.
I've only seen it once, and it was at midnight opening night with my not great college boyfriend.
George Lucas should not have been allowed to use CGI.
I've only seen it once, and it was at midnight opening night with my not great college boyfriend.
George Lucas should not have been allowed to use CGI.
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Watching Revenge of the Sith and- this movie is terrible. It's so cringey and bad.
I've only seen it once, and it was at midnight opening night with my not great college boyfriend.
George Lucas should not have been allowed to use CGI.
I've only seen it once, and it was at midnight opening night with my not great college boyfriend.
George Lucas should not have been allowed to use CGI.
I commented on this just today as I barely slid the card into the reader at the drive through window. Probably great for my brain, but yikes! At least it's less messy than brushing my teeth with my non-dominant hand.
I still think it’s funny that almost all of us have one hand that’s just like yeah I don’t really know how to do anything 🤷♂️
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I commented on this just today as I barely slid the card into the reader at the drive through window. Probably great for my brain, but yikes! At least it's less messy than brushing my teeth with my non-dominant hand.
I said it before and I'll say it again: it's amazing what a roll of ConTact paper will do for a (cracked, in one spot) cheap cube cubby. 😍
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I said it before and I'll say it again: it's amazing what a roll of ConTact paper will do for a (cracked, in one spot) cheap cube cubby. 😍
How much did I pay at the thrift store today? (Stickers not indicative of the actual price!)
The haul:
The haul:
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How much did I pay at the thrift store today? (Stickers not indicative of the actual price!)
The haul:
The haul:
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ella Fitzgerald was and remains in a class of her own. 😍
Currently listening to her version of Blue Skies and I'm just especially blown away this morning at how nimbly she jumps from note to note.
Currently listening to her version of Blue Skies and I'm just especially blown away this morning at how nimbly she jumps from note to note.
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Ella Fitzgerald was and remains in a class of her own. 😍
Currently listening to her version of Blue Skies and I'm just especially blown away this morning at how nimbly she jumps from note to note.
Currently listening to her version of Blue Skies and I'm just especially blown away this morning at how nimbly she jumps from note to note.
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Also pretty sure we've identified the problem here as the NIMBYs, investment companies, and flippers, so it is also just ridiculous. My neighbors are not the problem - greed is. What an ass on every level.
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Also pretty sure we've identified the problem here as the NIMBYs, investment companies, and flippers, so it is also just ridiculous. My neighbors are not the problem - greed is. What an ass on every level.
No country, and if it's 90s - 00s CCM you can trust that I'm familiar.
Otherwise - I'd love to echo Courtney's question!
Otherwise - I'd love to echo Courtney's question!
What’s a Christmas album I probably haven’t heard of that’s a MUST listen?
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
No country, and if it's 90s - 00s CCM you can trust that I'm familiar.
Otherwise - I'd love to echo Courtney's question!
Otherwise - I'd love to echo Courtney's question!
Massie? More like BADASSie 🤘🏻🤘🏻
REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: “I vote with my party 91% of the time… But when they're protecting pedophiles, blowing our budget, starting wars overseas — I'm sorry, I can't go along with that.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Massie? More like BADASSie 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Conservatives trying to find anti-Christian / pro LGBTQ coded designs on the new Starbucks Red Cup today
a man in a red shirt is holding a piece of paper in front of a chalkboard .
ALT: a man in a red shirt is holding a piece of paper in front of a chalkboard .
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Conservatives trying to find anti-Christian / pro LGBTQ coded designs on the new Starbucks Red Cup today
You know that viral video trend where women pull out book titles that describe them?
If we're doing that but with songs, my starter pack has Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl, Shakira's Hips Don't Lie, and Randy Newman's Short People.
What about you?
If we're doing that but with songs, my starter pack has Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl, Shakira's Hips Don't Lie, and Randy Newman's Short People.
What about you?
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You know that viral video trend where women pull out book titles that describe them?
If we're doing that but with songs, my starter pack has Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl, Shakira's Hips Don't Lie, and Randy Newman's Short People.
What about you?
If we're doing that but with songs, my starter pack has Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl, Shakira's Hips Don't Lie, and Randy Newman's Short People.
What about you?
If I want to hurt my own feelings I listen to She's a Rainbow by the Rolling Stones and my brain spontaneously makes a montage of my daughter's life so far. The musical interlude is especially poignant 😭
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If I want to hurt my own feelings I listen to She's a Rainbow by the Rolling Stones and my brain spontaneously makes a montage of my daughter's life so far. The musical interlude is especially poignant 😭
Thursday mornings are for fuzzy toddler bedhead and nearby dogs
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Thursday mornings are for fuzzy toddler bedhead and nearby dogs
Me, 5:30am - I will wake up and get some work done before the baby wakes up!
My elderly MacBook: What if I updated for 15 minutes ☺️
My elderly MacBook: What if I updated for 15 minutes ☺️
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Me, 5:30am - I will wake up and get some work done before the baby wakes up!
My elderly MacBook: What if I updated for 15 minutes ☺️
My elderly MacBook: What if I updated for 15 minutes ☺️
I wasn't raised Catholic, but I was brought up in fundamentalist / conservative evangelical churches (Baptist & non-denom, so - essentially all Baptist-y). I was taught that menstrual cramps & pain with childbirth were because of The Fall / Eve's sin, too. Mostly at home, but heard it at church too.
This is one of the weirder bits of fundamentalist rhetoric. There's an school of thought in several churches including some old Catholic ones that women are supposed to suffer because of Eve. I am not telling you it makes sense. I am telling you he's parroting a line that is a giant warning sign
JD Vance is working for Big Menstrual Cramps and maybe that's not even a joke
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I wasn't raised Catholic, but I was brought up in fundamentalist / conservative evangelical churches (Baptist & non-denom, so - essentially all Baptist-y). I was taught that menstrual cramps & pain with childbirth were because of The Fall / Eve's sin, too. Mostly at home, but heard it at church too.
Has anyone ever made scrambled eggs with cottage cheese?
Listen.
Listen.
The texture was unreal and I am so going to make them that way again.
1/2 cup cottage cheese over medium-low heat for 5-6 minutes (til melted), then add in beaten eggs. Cook through, sprinkle with some cheddar.
Listen.
Listen.
The texture was unreal and I am so going to make them that way again.
1/2 cup cottage cheese over medium-low heat for 5-6 minutes (til melted), then add in beaten eggs. Cook through, sprinkle with some cheddar.
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Has anyone ever made scrambled eggs with cottage cheese?
Listen.
Listen.
The texture was unreal and I am so going to make them that way again.
1/2 cup cottage cheese over medium-low heat for 5-6 minutes (til melted), then add in beaten eggs. Cook through, sprinkle with some cheddar.
Listen.
Listen.
The texture was unreal and I am so going to make them that way again.
1/2 cup cottage cheese over medium-low heat for 5-6 minutes (til melted), then add in beaten eggs. Cook through, sprinkle with some cheddar.
As overheard at the grocery store self checkout:
Small child: Mama, did you pay 'tention in school?
Mom, absentmindedly scanning items: Yes, I paid attention in school.
Small child: THEN WHY YOU DON'T PAY 'TENTION TO ME? Is very RUDE, mama.
Small child: Mama, did you pay 'tention in school?
Mom, absentmindedly scanning items: Yes, I paid attention in school.
Small child: THEN WHY YOU DON'T PAY 'TENTION TO ME? Is very RUDE, mama.
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
As overheard at the grocery store self checkout:
Small child: Mama, did you pay 'tention in school?
Mom, absentmindedly scanning items: Yes, I paid attention in school.
Small child: THEN WHY YOU DON'T PAY 'TENTION TO ME? Is very RUDE, mama.
Small child: Mama, did you pay 'tention in school?
Mom, absentmindedly scanning items: Yes, I paid attention in school.
Small child: THEN WHY YOU DON'T PAY 'TENTION TO ME? Is very RUDE, mama.
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If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.
Me but with instructions on boxes.
Every. Damn. Time.
Every. Damn. Time.
He's making a list. He's checking it twice. He's throwing it away because he's sure he's retained it all this time. Wait, Now he's rifling through the trash because he just needs to double check real quick. Deep breath. Okay he’s fine now. He’s got it. Wait, now he's back at the trash can again and…
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Me but with instructions on boxes.
Every. Damn. Time.
Every. Damn. Time.
Truly delicious 🤌🏻🤌🏻
[sic] is such a fantastic passive aggressive burn
Like, I may not be published like you, but in quoting you I can tell the world you spelled that word wrong.
Like, I may not be published like you, but in quoting you I can tell the world you spelled that word wrong.
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Truly delicious 🤌🏻🤌🏻
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I always think about my favorite poet on Veteran’s Day—Wilfred Owen, a soldier who died in combat, who saw terrible things & transformed them into urgent, horrific, & beautiful words.
because it is not “sweet & beautiful” to die for your country.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
because it is not “sweet & beautiful” to die for your country.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I always think about my favorite poet on Veteran’s Day—Wilfred Owen, a soldier who died in combat, who saw terrible things & transformed them into urgent, horrific, & beautiful words.
because it is not “sweet & beautiful” to die for your country.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
because it is not “sweet & beautiful” to die for your country.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
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McGovern: Republicans are literally subsidizing an entirely different country instead of keeping families in North Carolina or Minnesota or Texas or Indiana from going bankrupt if they face emergency hospital bills.
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
McGovern: Republicans are literally subsidizing an entirely different country instead of keeping families in North Carolina or Minnesota or Texas or Indiana from going bankrupt if they face emergency hospital bills.
Bumper stickers on a rust bucket of a truck: NOT A LIBERAL and "Guns save lives".
a man in a blue shirt and tie is looking at the camera
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is looking at the camera
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Bumper stickers on a rust bucket of a truck: NOT A LIBERAL and "Guns save lives".
Now THIS is what I call nice weather
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Now THIS is what I call nice weather
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I’m so sick of evil people winning
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I’m so sick of evil people winning