Jen Watson
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Jen Watson
@jwatson.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Hi, Bluesky! If you already have a dressing recipe that’s your “if I don’t have my grandma’s dressing I’ll die” thanksgiving requirement, you should make that one and have a great Thursday.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
If you go into the kitchen right now and make some rice it’ll be good and dried out by Friday which means you can have turkey fried rice, is all I’m saying.
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If you go into the kitchen right now and make some rice it’ll be good and dried out by Friday which means you can have turkey fried rice, is all I’m saying.
When we, heavy drinkers, started hosting post-COVID I made two major changes to my behavior: always have some sort of interesting NA thing to drink available AND offer that interesting thing as part of the welcome spiel. Beer, wine, cocktail? I just made this gorgeous mint iced tea?
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
When we, heavy drinkers, started hosting post-COVID I made two major changes to my behavior: always have some sort of interesting NA thing to drink available AND offer that interesting thing as part of the welcome spiel. Beer, wine, cocktail? I just made this gorgeous mint iced tea?
“We wanted it very badly in the moment. More than anything. So that nothing would ever end. Not just borrowing happiness from tomorrow to spend today but borrowing happiness from the rest of our lives.”
An absolutely devastating, beautiful, you-get-it-if-you-get-it exploration of grief.
An absolutely devastating, beautiful, you-get-it-if-you-get-it exploration of grief.
It is such a disorienting feeling when someone you care about but hadn't talked to that much in a couple of years dies suddenly because there is now a freshly dug hole inside of you and yet the day to day routine of your life has not been altered one bit. www.welcometohellworld.com/watertown-ma...
Watertown, Massachusetts
This piece appears in my book We Had It Coming.
I am sitting in a waiting room right now none of us ever want to be inside of crying about an old friend I'm not entirely sure is even gone yet. The te...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
“We wanted it very badly in the moment. More than anything. So that nothing would ever end. Not just borrowing happiness from tomorrow to spend today but borrowing happiness from the rest of our lives.”
An absolutely devastating, beautiful, you-get-it-if-you-get-it exploration of grief.
An absolutely devastating, beautiful, you-get-it-if-you-get-it exploration of grief.
We have a family of two and we run the goddamn dishwasher nearly every day of our lives. Maybe it isn’t full! But I promise you it is so much more efficient than me being like “oh it’s only a couple of glasses” and running the water for four straight minutes.
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
We have a family of two and we run the goddamn dishwasher nearly every day of our lives. Maybe it isn’t full! But I promise you it is so much more efficient than me being like “oh it’s only a couple of glasses” and running the water for four straight minutes.
Yes, I just reposted my own pinned dressing recipe, but I tell you - it’s the best thing I ever make. You have eight days until Thanksgiving. You can make your focaccia days in advance. We’re doing a teeny tiny two person party this year and I’m making an entire 9x13 of it anyway.
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Yes, I just reposted my own pinned dressing recipe, but I tell you - it’s the best thing I ever make. You have eight days until Thanksgiving. You can make your focaccia days in advance. We’re doing a teeny tiny two person party this year and I’m making an entire 9x13 of it anyway.
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Hi, Bluesky! If you already have a dressing recipe that’s your “if I don’t have my grandma’s dressing I’ll die” thanksgiving requirement, you should make that one and have a great Thursday.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
November 20, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Hi, Bluesky! If you already have a dressing recipe that’s your “if I don’t have my grandma’s dressing I’ll die” thanksgiving requirement, you should make that one and have a great Thursday.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.
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This is great. I've been hoping a "Grab Your Wallet" type movement would take hold. Make the enablers feel it, indeed! Shop small instead.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is great. I've been hoping a "Grab Your Wallet" type movement would take hold. Make the enablers feel it, indeed! Shop small instead.
Shameless promotion: I make delicious confections at my one-man chocolate company (noshthis.com) and am offering free shipping through 2025 on orders over $75.
Shameless promotion: I make delicious confections at my one-man chocolate company (noshthis.com) and am offering free shipping through 2025 on orders over $75.
hey fellow women who were ever told we were mature for our age
how we feeling this week
how we feeling this week
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
hey fellow women who were ever told we were mature for our age
how we feeling this week
how we feeling this week
just heard someone on the street say “ooh should we take a zoox” and I think it’s the most very real curtains for zoosha moment I’ve had all year
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
just heard someone on the street say “ooh should we take a zoox” and I think it’s the most very real curtains for zoosha moment I’ve had all year
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The first dog tries to pay with a toy.
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The first dog tries to pay with a toy.
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If we were doing best Nelly videos BATTER UP would be top 3 and it ain’t 3
Batter Up gets a shout only for having a Sherman Hemsley cameo in the video.
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If we were doing best Nelly videos BATTER UP would be top 3 and it ain’t 3
oskar isaac
Every day someone new learns that Oscar Isaac was in a late 90s Christian ska band. Who will today’s person be.
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
oskar isaac
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Please don't reply to my posts with facts I am trying to be an idiot
December 1, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Please don't reply to my posts with facts I am trying to be an idiot
“I WISH”?!
Would you believe me if I told you it got so much worse from there
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
“I WISH”?!
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My short personal extremely mild nightmare is over
YouTube TV and Disney have reached a deal that will restore ESPN, ABC and other channels to the platform’s 10 million subscribers after nearly a two-week hiatus, the companies announced.
November 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My short personal extremely mild nightmare is over
hey regarding recent news I feel like I should remind everyone that making jokes about the young people who have been sexually assaulted by the worst people in the world isn’t as cute or funny as you think it is, maybe sit this one out
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
hey regarding recent news I feel like I should remind everyone that making jokes about the young people who have been sexually assaulted by the worst people in the world isn’t as cute or funny as you think it is, maybe sit this one out
I really have to stop doing the New Yorker crossword puzzle because those people are trying to convince you that anyone has ever once used the word QUIDNUNC and I can no longer abide by it
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I really have to stop doing the New Yorker crossword puzzle because those people are trying to convince you that anyone has ever once used the word QUIDNUNC and I can no longer abide by it
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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Jasmine Crockett: "If people decide that they want to continue to support person who may be a pedophile themselves or a person who obviously is covering on pedophiles, that's on them. But they should at least know the devil they decided to pick."
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Jasmine Crockett: "If people decide that they want to continue to support person who may be a pedophile themselves or a person who obviously is covering on pedophiles, that's on them. But they should at least know the devil they decided to pick."
My second to last food bank delivery today was a 78-year-old widow who lives alone and just had surgery to remove a brain tumor. She didn’t see the confirmation email and was surprised when I showed up because she thought she wasn’t going to have food this week.
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My second to last food bank delivery today was a 78-year-old widow who lives alone and just had surgery to remove a brain tumor. She didn’t see the confirmation email and was surprised when I showed up because she thought she wasn’t going to have food this week.
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Me Too didn't fail. It was buried alive
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Me Too didn't fail. It was buried alive
If you wonder where every nerd you know in San Francisco is, we’re on the train having a party for the train. #ByeByeBreda
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
If you wonder where every nerd you know in San Francisco is, we’re on the train having a party for the train. #ByeByeBreda
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…Is the perfect strategy to have.
I’d love more coders to take that attitude because a lot lives in their layer but at least designers can keep the focus.
Accessibility is related to usability. Both are aspects of design. As a designer it’s our literal duty to make it work
I’d love more coders to take that attitude because a lot lives in their layer but at least designers can keep the focus.
Accessibility is related to usability. Both are aspects of design. As a designer it’s our literal duty to make it work
I didn't start a specialist, and I don't have "accessibility" in my job title today.
I've just spent the better part of a decade asking "how do I make this more accessible" in everything I do, which just so happens to be in product design.
That curiosity makes my job far better, more meaningful
I've just spent the better part of a decade asking "how do I make this more accessible" in everything I do, which just so happens to be in product design.
That curiosity makes my job far better, more meaningful
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
…Is the perfect strategy to have.
I’d love more coders to take that attitude because a lot lives in their layer but at least designers can keep the focus.
Accessibility is related to usability. Both are aspects of design. As a designer it’s our literal duty to make it work
I’d love more coders to take that attitude because a lot lives in their layer but at least designers can keep the focus.
Accessibility is related to usability. Both are aspects of design. As a designer it’s our literal duty to make it work