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Jenn C.
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Knitter, spinner, biker, reader, cook, mostly. LARPing in tech industry middle management to earn a living.
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Who forgot both water AND sunscreen for her 17 mile bike ride today?

I am a most unpleasant shade of pink right now.
May 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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It isn't that America lacks courage. It's that we’ve become so cut off from one another that many of us feel alone, which makes us feel afraid.

But when we are surrounded by courageous people, all of us become more courageous. 

Courage is contagious.
April 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
And then this is how it's going to go. Merely advocating for the most basic of civil rights for a disappeared person is enough for these goons to call you a terrorist, which then gives them the right to disappear *you*.
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
So we're here now, apparently.
REPEAT: JUAN LOPEZ GOMEZ, AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, IS BEHIND BARS FOR NOT HAVING HIS PAPERS. AND A JUDGE SAYS SHE CAN'T FREE HIM.
🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.
April 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Trans people belong.

Trans people belong in schools, in gyms, in shops and banks. Trans people belong in government. Trans people belong in sports.

Trans people deserve to live their lives the same as I do, afforded the same care and consideration I do.

Stand up. Get loud. Right now.
April 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Today was the first day it really felt like spring here in Boston. Celebrated with a long 'lunch break' to go out on my bike. Did NOT want to come back to my desk.
April 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It takes a lot to make me not want to pay my taxes, for a million reasons. It is deep, deep irony that THIS year is the year that we have to write a fucking enormous check to the feds, thanks to a banner employment year. I am SEETHING with fury.
April 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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The reason I have been unwaveringly NeverTrump from the beginning is it’s always been obvious to me that Trump is a bad person whose personal values are fundamentally at odds with the values of American liberal democracy. Not a flawed person, as we all are. But a bad person.
Reporter: The president of El Salvador said he would be willing to take American citizens in federal prison population.

Trump: I love that
April 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I didn't take any pictures, but went to the Boston rally today, Despite chilly rain, the turnout was immense, but that was pretty much expected.

What I'm really loving is the pictures from the small places, some deep in red states, with crowds that are larger than expected.
April 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
For fuck's sake. Was having an ok day, and then I skimmed the news, and I am just so tired.
April 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This lil sweater pattern is so much fun.
April 3, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.
April 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
So fucking impressed by Cory Booker today. That's the kind of leadership we need.
April 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Hi. If you're against trans folk being able to live their best, rich and full lives with all the rights and protections everyone else has then you can fuck right off and block me as you go, because I sure as shit have zero use for you, you feckless waste.
March 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
March 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Finished the cable sweater that was seriously 10 years in the making, cleansing my palette with some spinning and a sweet quick little baby surprise jacket for a soon to arrive little friend. #spinning #knitting
March 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Love working on sweater seaming, it's like magic. And it means the sweater is almost finished!
March 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This thread is a ride, and well worth clicking through to read the whoooole thing.
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Celebrated the time change yesterday by going on a nice easy hike with some friends. It was SO good to get outside after the freezing cold winter we've had.
March 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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One of the keys to an effective boycott is that even thinking twice or reducing business when it’s easy and convenient can be a big hit to the subject’s bottom line.
Thoughts on boycotts: inflict pain on the corporation. Buying a couple 99 cent ebooks from a self-published author on Amazon is fine. Don’t buy a microwave on it. Purity is never the answer. Restraint though and thoughtfulness is.
March 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The media is now obsessed with remorseful Trump voters, white voters, who are now losing their jobs or upset about inflation. I don’t want to hear from them. I want to hear from the Black voters who stood in line for hours, only to be turned away because their name was purged from the rolls.
March 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I just finished Goddess of Anarchy, a biography of Lucy Parsons, I'm halfway through Blindness by José Saramago and just started Who I've Always Been by Theresa Okokon
If you see this. Quote it with what you are reading this weekend:

A lot, because im erratic! Welcome to the monkey house anthology by Kurt Vonnegut, The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole, Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, and The Hades Calculus by Maria Ying.
If you see this, quote it with what you’re reading this weekend:

I’m hoping to finish A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, about which I have *very* mixed feelings, then move on to something deeply lesbian to get the taste out of my mouth
March 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This weekend is our library's yarn sale fundraiser. My haul from last night cost me $56 - and it's a doozy, includes 6 sets of my favorite no-longer-made nylon circular needles, more than one yarn that's no longer being made AND I got to support our library branch. All around win.
March 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM