Tara E. Jenson
@tejenson.bsky.social
Compassionate nihilist & gender traitor | Queer AF 🏳️🌈 | Postdoc @ BUSPH | Located in Mpls | Occasionally actual environmental epidemiology content (dementia/Alz) but mostly jaded cynicism & swears | she/they
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Tara E. Jenson
@tejenson.bsky.social
· Jan 20
“I am, as you say, relentlessly cheerful because it’s the best fuck you I can think of to this terrible world.” - Senior Chief Petty Officer Jenks Khan, from “And the Mighty Will Fall”
Thank you @kbwagers.com for another joyful read, and the perfect encapsulation of feels I’m holding close today❤️
Thank you @kbwagers.com for another joyful read, and the perfect encapsulation of feels I’m holding close today❤️
I love surfacing into bsky for the first time in a minute in the middle of a brief moment of nicetime vs the usual unrelenting un-nicetime. (I know, this doesn't fix or make ICE or any of the rest of the unrelenting awful stop, but it's 30 sec of "jesus well there are some rational ppl out there").
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I love surfacing into bsky for the first time in a minute in the middle of a brief moment of nicetime vs the usual unrelenting un-nicetime. (I know, this doesn't fix or make ICE or any of the rest of the unrelenting awful stop, but it's 30 sec of "jesus well there are some rational ppl out there").
goddamn I <3 my researcher work/life but hoo-boy this week I'm feeling T. Swift's lyric "you're only as hot as your last hit baby": last week 1 paper finally accepted for pub & another drafted, this week feeling like a failure struggling to make the current analysis mechanics work or even make sense
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
goddamn I <3 my researcher work/life but hoo-boy this week I'm feeling T. Swift's lyric "you're only as hot as your last hit baby": last week 1 paper finally accepted for pub & another drafted, this week feeling like a failure struggling to make the current analysis mechanics work or even make sense
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The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
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Look I have loved Tolkien for ages too but I learned a long time ago that if you are talking about the Silmarillion you are losing
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Look I have loved Tolkien for ages too but I learned a long time ago that if you are talking about the Silmarillion you are losing
Been a minute since I’ve been in the O’Shaughnessy at St. Kate’s, and I couldn’t be more grateful and happy to have been here tonight for an event with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Also ran into a little bird named @makeherway.bsky.social who I haven’t seen in a hot minute either!
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Been a minute since I’ve been in the O’Shaughnessy at St. Kate’s, and I couldn’t be more grateful and happy to have been here tonight for an event with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Also ran into a little bird named @makeherway.bsky.social who I haven’t seen in a hot minute either!
Finally chilly enough and had an excuse to go out tonight to catch up with a friend to have a chance to wear this ridiculously awesome thrift store find from this past summer. Srsly check these epaulettes and embroidered/beaded coat-of-arms situations!
October 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Finally chilly enough and had an excuse to go out tonight to catch up with a friend to have a chance to wear this ridiculously awesome thrift store find from this past summer. Srsly check these epaulettes and embroidered/beaded coat-of-arms situations!
Thanks for your quick action/photos & reporting this @fivesixzero.bsky.social.
Cool cool, cool cool cool cool.
Cool cool, cool cool cool cool.
Just witnessed someone trying to fireb*mb Fletcher’s Ice Cream in NE. Saw a dude acting weird next to a parked car in front of the place. I walked by, heard a smash through my earbuds, smelled gasoline/kerosine. Turned around, snapped some photos instinctively. Thankfully they suck at molot*vs.
October 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Thanks for your quick action/photos & reporting this @fivesixzero.bsky.social.
Cool cool, cool cool cool cool.
Cool cool, cool cool cool cool.
Mpls turned OUT today for #nokings. My only regret: that I didn’t get a better pic of the very good boy wearing a NO KING, YES KONG sign
![Small black dog at a No Kings rally with a sign that reads “NO KING” [where king is indicated by a crown icon] or YES KONG [where KONG is denoted by a Kong brand dog chew toy]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4smwm7mukkx6m2j2f2gn6lm/bafkreia2ll43qmps6nzdqysnkrlj7b3rioboxyajgxbaclombyy6iicyoy@jpeg)
October 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Mpls turned OUT today for #nokings. My only regret: that I didn’t get a better pic of the very good boy wearing a NO KING, YES KONG sign
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The C and D lines are also a few blocks south away!
Oh, if you are going to the No Kings action in downtown Minneapolis, take transit. The Green line & Blue line stop (US Bank Stadium is just a couple blocks away or the Govt Center stop too; short walk). The 10, 11, 17, 18 all stop on Nicollet Mall and then it's abt a 7 block walk to the park.
October 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The C and D lines are also a few blocks south away!
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October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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why isn't granularify a word though
October 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
why isn't granularify a word though
Come on my vibrant Fringe-Festy MSP neighbors and friends - let’s bring Portland levels of absurdist performance art protest to these ICE fucks. Let’s fucking go!
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Come on my vibrant Fringe-Festy MSP neighbors and friends - let’s bring Portland levels of absurdist performance art protest to these ICE fucks. Let’s fucking go!
guarantee anyone (and by that I mean dudes obvs) throwing shade at T.Swift for "Wood" is also first to chime in with "Nice...." anytime 69 makes an appearance and has so many mixtapes/playlists full of cockrock faves that are nothing but packed-with-eye-roll-inducing-corny-innuendos fuck songs.
October 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
guarantee anyone (and by that I mean dudes obvs) throwing shade at T.Swift for "Wood" is also first to chime in with "Nice...." anytime 69 makes an appearance and has so many mixtapes/playlists full of cockrock faves that are nothing but packed-with-eye-roll-inducing-corny-innuendos fuck songs.
In the building I'm working late in on an all-women's campus, there's a guy who walking around unironically with Hardy-Boys x REO speedwagon hair wearing an ill-fitting 70's era black plether/vinyl short sleeved belted jumpsuit/romper and I feel like someone's punking me or that I'm in danger
a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat
Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat saying "ha ha I'm in danger"
media.tenor.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
In the building I'm working late in on an all-women's campus, there's a guy who walking around unironically with Hardy-Boys x REO speedwagon hair wearing an ill-fitting 70's era black plether/vinyl short sleeved belted jumpsuit/romper and I feel like someone's punking me or that I'm in danger
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It's an iron law of history: if a bunch of people try to convince you that the professors, queers, and immigrants are the "real" threat, buy a fucking gun, because authoritarianism is on the horizon. Every time.
October 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It's an iron law of history: if a bunch of people try to convince you that the professors, queers, and immigrants are the "real" threat, buy a fucking gun, because authoritarianism is on the horizon. Every time.
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As a newish Swiftie (since the Eras tour), I can confirm that converts are the absolute worst.
Also happy Life of a Showgirl day to all who celebrate.
Also happy Life of a Showgirl day to all who celebrate.
October 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
As a newish Swiftie (since the Eras tour), I can confirm that converts are the absolute worst.
Also happy Life of a Showgirl day to all who celebrate.
Also happy Life of a Showgirl day to all who celebrate.
Get you a neighbor like me who runs around in the dense jungle of a backyard in the dark w/a head lamp or iphone light at 10:00 at night yelling and chasing one of her dogs who is chasing/trying to murder a [fill in the blank urban wildlife that this night happens to be a possum] instead of peeing
October 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Get you a neighbor like me who runs around in the dense jungle of a backyard in the dark w/a head lamp or iphone light at 10:00 at night yelling and chasing one of her dogs who is chasing/trying to murder a [fill in the blank urban wildlife that this night happens to be a possum] instead of peeing
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Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
Minnesota wyd 🧐
October 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Minnesota wyd 🧐
I like how the BBC news update at the top of the hour just casually dropped in mention about discovery of a "rogue planet" gobbling up space gas and floating "freely through the cosmos on its own" without any mention of whether it's on its way to put us out of our misery or what
October 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I like how the BBC news update at the top of the hour just casually dropped in mention about discovery of a "rogue planet" gobbling up space gas and floating "freely through the cosmos on its own" without any mention of whether it's on its way to put us out of our misery or what