Jen Ahm
@captainobstinant.bsky.social
Just a bipedal mammal trying not to panic. Living in interesting times for four decades and counting.
Look, sometimes you just REALLY need a sewing pattern.
January 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Look, sometimes you just REALLY need a sewing pattern.
No longer existed. Add this to the fact that at the holidays families gather, and when families gather the compare achievements, and you have a glaring vulnerability anyone can use to launch a formulaic holiday movie into.
December 24, 2024 at 8:33 PM
No longer existed. Add this to the fact that at the holidays families gather, and when families gather the compare achievements, and you have a glaring vulnerability anyone can use to launch a formulaic holiday movie into.
I’m interested to see how the trend of leaning into these stories at the holidays corresponds with the 2008 crash, when 2 things started to become apparent:
1. The middle class was not safe
2. The patterns of life that boomers enjoyed in terms of solid jobs, affordable housing, and early marriage🧵
1. The middle class was not safe
2. The patterns of life that boomers enjoyed in terms of solid jobs, affordable housing, and early marriage🧵
December 24, 2024 at 8:31 PM
I’m interested to see how the trend of leaning into these stories at the holidays corresponds with the 2008 crash, when 2 things started to become apparent:
1. The middle class was not safe
2. The patterns of life that boomers enjoyed in terms of solid jobs, affordable housing, and early marriage🧵
1. The middle class was not safe
2. The patterns of life that boomers enjoyed in terms of solid jobs, affordable housing, and early marriage🧵
They’re fairy tales. Fairy tales as a genre always had a strong element of all needs magically being met in them, which makes sense given that some of them are quite old and for much of human history being poor was literally fatal. It certainly is now.
December 24, 2024 at 8:26 PM
They’re fairy tales. Fairy tales as a genre always had a strong element of all needs magically being met in them, which makes sense given that some of them are quite old and for much of human history being poor was literally fatal. It certainly is now.