Jen needs a Wishing Well
jenmindelen.bsky.social
Jen needs a Wishing Well
@jenmindelen.bsky.social
Humanist, Book Dealer, Cat Witch, Live-in Caretaker. Autistic. Brain injured. Happily partnered. Scribe of @breakmyfall.

Housing, living wages & universal healthcare for all. Spread kindness, repel bigotry. #StopTheCoup. NO DMs. 💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️😷🐾🐾🐾
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I can be a lot

Me: cats, crows, cake, books, tv, forests, true crime

An Old, a Poor, a hermit, dark humor, long winded oversharer, currently terrified & hopeless

Pro: inclusion, UBI, science, learning, kindness

I'm rehabbing a brain injury using the music of #TheAirborneToxicEvent
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The raw database from the House is here:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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It’s time for one staffer with nothing to lose to just dump everything online. You will be a hero forever. We will put up statues. Someone will write folk songs about you.
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Every single one of their accusations is a confession
“But her emails” was just another confession disguised as an accusation, it’s so incredibly obvious now.
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Let's talk about books and the public trust.

📚🧵

Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping:

Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
One of my local Safeways just went No Cash Payments For Anything and I'm really pissed off about it

And I don't understand how this is legal
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Victorious after a 4 hour battle with my industrial label printer, please clap, my melted brain needs sustenance 🫠
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Kudos to the kid picking up his mom's meds while absolutely rocking Sonic Hedgehog "pajama" pants

It's so funny when people grouse about pajama pants. They're no different than sweat or yoga pants & they are often fun

They cover everything they are supposed to, they aren't just for sleeping
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
№WhatImWatching

The Institute, S1, E2

Um, that playground is surely full of listening devices

Maybe don't plan your escape so loudly?
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Both mom and I are seeing Bella's ghost everywhere

Fitting, given that Bella would often stare at walls w/fierce concentration for long periods

A ghost sensing cat

It's only been a week, we are as stressed as we've ever been, we know the dancing ghosts in our heads will fadeto tolerable w/time
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
100%

Make them pay what WE pay

No free healthcare for life for Congress until it's free healthcare for life for EVERYONE
They should lose their fancy congressional plans and be stuck with the marketplace like the rest of us. (All of Congress, in fact.)
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'm tempted to say that the eight Dems that voted to take health insurance away from millions of people should also lose THEIR health insurance

But here's the thing

I don't think anyone should lose healthcare access

Not even murderers like The Eight

Universal Care means UNIVERSAL
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A win, a really fantastic win

We are expanding the book stall!

Into another space in the same building, though on the second floor

We will be nearly doubling our space

I sign the lease today

The building manager (and a lot of other people) are very excited

So are we
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Message to our friends from our hoomom. If able plz consider donating to a group that provides food for the beloved pets of people struggling right now. Our mum grew up very poor & remembers how hard it was to feed the family & their pet. Share some kindness. Love you all 🩷
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#WhatImWatching

The Way Home
S3, E7

Of all the places I expect Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac to show up,

This wasn't it

But I love love love that it did

Especially in a freaking Hallmark Network show that is highlighting witches as a force of good & a harnesser of science to solve conflict
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I'm fucking terrified

On top of everything else going on, they're coming after our only option for health insurance, again

millions of us with our literal lives on the line

AGAIN

STOP TRYING TO KILL US
How are you feeling about the situation?

I’m still beyond furious.
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This (not so) little man is a source of comfort right now

Mom knew what she was doing when she convinced me to take him on as a potential indoor kitty 18 months ago

We come from a long line of cat witches, and taking in the right cat at the right time is the song of our people
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Video appointment w/the Pulmonologist today

Who confirmed that Mom going under general anesthesia for a lumpectomy of her breast tumors & calcified tissue

would most certainly leave her unable to get off a ventilator

So basically, there are no treatment options

Which we guessed, but now KNOW
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Of all the pajama pants I previously got from Target, only 1 pair does not have holes

Mom wants to gift me replacements

Unfortunately, the brand I prefer is sold only at Target, a retailer I will never buy from again

So it's thrift stores, eBay, Poshmark, etc

A decent compromise? Idk
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Thanks for nothing, Senate Democrats

You should pay the same healthcare premiums you just made even more unaffordable for your constituents

Maybe then you'd get it

But probably not even then

You're all fucking millionaires with free healthcare for life

You'll never be like us

You don't care
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
So say we all
One thing I learnt from Battlestar Galactica is we never learn from our greatest mistakes; you can't learn from what you can't comprehend...

The Days of Man are Numbered. Goodnight, y'all.
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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My
Aircraft's
Grounded
Again
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Making weekend plans? Why not head to a local shelter and find a snuggle bunny like this baby for those cold winter nights 🤗 You won’t regret it! #cats #catsofbluesky #adoptdontshop
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM