Jenny Sherman
@jennythesherman.bsky.social
Writer, editor, rower, Minnesotaner, traveler, gardener, wannabeekeeper, asker of why. Raise plow!
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Donate to your local food banks, people! No government should allow its people to starve, and no kiddo should go to bed hungry. STEP UP.
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Donate to your local food banks, people! No government should allow its people to starve, and no kiddo should go to bed hungry. STEP UP.
An ode to bad candy and the consequences thereof....
“Whose child is the pirate? The pirate is disassembling our giant novelty skeleton.” By @jennythesherman.bsky.social
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/neighbors-pl...
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/neighbors-pl...
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
An ode to bad candy and the consequences thereof....
Sharing a great poem by Burlee Vang that hits all the right notes this Halloween. poets.org/poem/live-zo...
To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse
The moon will shine for God
poets.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Sharing a great poem by Burlee Vang that hits all the right notes this Halloween. poets.org/poem/live-zo...
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Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories
Your Brain’s Memory of a Story Depends on How It Was Told
Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories
www.scientificamerican.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories
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“The audience’s former perceptions of being ‘in control of’ or able to ‘use” time will be shown to be illusions at best.” By @deannesmith.bsky.social
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/interview-wi...
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/interview-wi...
October 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“The audience’s former perceptions of being ‘in control of’ or able to ‘use” time will be shown to be illusions at best.” By @deannesmith.bsky.social
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/interview-wi...
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/interview-wi...
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Nearly 100 submissions from reproductive rights advocates around the world paint a clear picture of censorship in action: abortion content is being removed, restricted, and silenced by platforms at an alarming rate. www.eff.org/pages/stopc...
#StopCensoringAbortion: What We Learned and Where We Go From Here
BY MOLLY BUCKLEY | October 3, 2025This is the tenth and final installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here.
www.eff.org
October 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Nearly 100 submissions from reproductive rights advocates around the world paint a clear picture of censorship in action: abortion content is being removed, restricted, and silenced by platforms at an alarming rate. www.eff.org/pages/stopc...
Nooooo, not Jane!
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Nooooo, not Jane!
Sperm Racing Start-Up Attracts $10M in Seed Funding...missed an opportunity with the headline, here. And missed unpacking the comparison of female repro systems to a speedway ("we've designed a microscopic racetrack that mimics the reproductive system"). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Sperm racing is all the rage among the tech bros. Why am I not surprised? | Arwa Mahdawi
It started as a gag, but Eric Zhu’s sperm races are doing good work in putting male fertility under the microscope – literally, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Sperm Racing Start-Up Attracts $10M in Seed Funding...missed an opportunity with the headline, here. And missed unpacking the comparison of female repro systems to a speedway ("we've designed a microscopic racetrack that mimics the reproductive system"). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Whose cheese is blue? Find out in my first piece for The Belladonna Comedy.
“Hit the road, pepper jack.” By @jennythesherman.bsky.social
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/fussy-cheese...
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/fussy-cheese...
September 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Whose cheese is blue? Find out in my first piece for The Belladonna Comedy.
The "adult content" in the image: old-timey painting of Adam and Eve in the Garden, and there are nipples.
You should keep an eye out for The Guardian's Poem of the Week. You really oughta. Delighted to see poetry, and poets, elevated in a news outlet.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Poem of the week: The Butcher of Eden by Pádraig Ó Tuama
What counts as grace is intriguingly rethought in a sly retelling of humankind’s biblical Fall
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The "adult content" in the image: old-timey painting of Adam and Eve in the Garden, and there are nipples.
You should keep an eye out for The Guardian's Poem of the Week. You really oughta. Delighted to see poetry, and poets, elevated in a news outlet.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Poem of the week: The Butcher of Eden by Pádraig Ó Tuama
What counts as grace is intriguingly rethought in a sly retelling of humankind’s biblical Fall
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
You should keep an eye out for The Guardian's Poem of the Week. You really oughta. Delighted to see poetry, and poets, elevated in a news outlet.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
All that and a bag of chips.
September 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
All that and a bag of chips.
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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
"Walking is our driving." Truth. Sidewalk and other NYC etiquette at Gothamist. (Though I'd have added no feet on the seats and only hands on the poles for subway riding. ONLY HANDS.) gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
10 etiquette rules to not be the worst in New York City
Etiquette starts with the simple acknowledgement that other people exist.
gothamist.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"Walking is our driving." Truth. Sidewalk and other NYC etiquette at Gothamist. (Though I'd have added no feet on the seats and only hands on the poles for subway riding. ONLY HANDS.) gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
A hawk cam. That's what I want. Very simple. I wanna see next spring's hatchling stalking around that ledge, eating squirrels and stuff, looking grumpy as it feathers out. But up close, from my lap. Make it happen, @fordham.edu! #Cornellhawks shouldn't get all the fun.
September 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A hawk cam. That's what I want. Very simple. I wanna see next spring's hatchling stalking around that ledge, eating squirrels and stuff, looking grumpy as it feathers out. But up close, from my lap. Make it happen, @fordham.edu! #Cornellhawks shouldn't get all the fun.
I like being reminded that the Earth is constantly popping off somewhere or other.
Your #DailyVolcamPic for 8 September
Popocatépetl at Global Volcanism Program. volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?...
See more webcams at Volcano Earth > sites.google.com/view/volcano...
Popocatépetl at Global Volcanism Program. volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?...
See more webcams at Volcano Earth > sites.google.com/view/volcano...
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I like being reminded that the Earth is constantly popping off somewhere or other.
From lava to snowfields to the ocean's floor? She's got the coolest job, with the best gear. My jealousy is only surmounted by my admiration.
Bacteria and archaea living in the Earth’s crust collectively outweigh more than 200 million blue whales, according to calculations by the microbial geochemist Karen Lloyd.
The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable | Quanta Magazine
A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push…
www.quantamagazine.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
From lava to snowfields to the ocean's floor? She's got the coolest job, with the best gear. My jealousy is only surmounted by my admiration.
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I’ve forced myself to get into TikTok and it goofy and distracting yet often feels like AM radio in the early 50s. It could be anything. Here Ann Patchett tears multiple new rectums in David Brooks, who only exists for that purpose.
It’s Friday, and if you haven’t read this towering stack of great literature, it’s new to you! This week, Ann mixes it up a bit and responds to an op-ed by David Brooks in the NYT. Is the novel really...
TikTok video by Parnassus Books
www.tiktok.com
August 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I’ve forced myself to get into TikTok and it goofy and distracting yet often feels like AM radio in the early 50s. It could be anything. Here Ann Patchett tears multiple new rectums in David Brooks, who only exists for that purpose.
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Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.
August 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.