Jenn
@jen-x.bsky.social
Educator, advocate, recovering perfectionist. Less Midwest nice than before. Here to learn from people smarter than I am.
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
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A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students:
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
December 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students:
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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This made me cry at my desk
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This made me cry at my desk
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This is Fendi. He is seen here demonstrating the internationally acknowledged sign language for politely requesting uppies. 13/10 would pick him up immediately (TT: isthat_jojo)
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is Fendi. He is seen here demonstrating the internationally acknowledged sign language for politely requesting uppies. 13/10 would pick him up immediately (TT: isthat_jojo)
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.
November 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.
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Starting November 1st, SNAP benefits are being cut, leaving millions of people with limited or no access to food.
If you are able to help, help. Food banks also take cash donations, which allow them to fill the banks with what they know is most needed.
We are truly all we have.
If you are able to help, help. Food banks also take cash donations, which allow them to fill the banks with what they know is most needed.
We are truly all we have.
October 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Starting November 1st, SNAP benefits are being cut, leaving millions of people with limited or no access to food.
If you are able to help, help. Food banks also take cash donations, which allow them to fill the banks with what they know is most needed.
We are truly all we have.
If you are able to help, help. Food banks also take cash donations, which allow them to fill the banks with what they know is most needed.
We are truly all we have.
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In the Northeast, now is also a good time to reach out to your co-workers, family members and friends to organize Warm Kit packing parties. If you've followed me for a while, you know that I've been doing #Warm4Holidays for years: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#Warm4Holidays2024
#Warm4Holidays Public Library Edition For a few years on Twitter, I used the #Warm4Holidays hashtag to organize crafters to join a New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day challenge. Crafters were invited t...
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October 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In the Northeast, now is also a good time to reach out to your co-workers, family members and friends to organize Warm Kit packing parties. If you've followed me for a while, you know that I've been doing #Warm4Holidays for years: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
September 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
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Now is the time to be curious about our universe, to be imaginative about all its possibilities, including the potential for humans to live in good and sustainable relations with each other and the ecosystems that we depend upon.
This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.
This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Now is the time to be curious about our universe, to be imaginative about all its possibilities, including the potential for humans to live in good and sustainable relations with each other and the ecosystems that we depend upon.
This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.
This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.
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"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
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the weaponization of course evaluations in the Brown University deal takes the consumerist model of higher education to new heights. not only is your job contingent on it, but make any of your students uncomfortable and you’ll be investigated by the government
July 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
the weaponization of course evaluations in the Brown University deal takes the consumerist model of higher education to new heights. not only is your job contingent on it, but make any of your students uncomfortable and you’ll be investigated by the government
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If you like Langston Hughes, specifically, then you already know.
If you like poetry, this book is for you. If you like hip-hop, this book is for you. If you like the stars, this book is for you.
If you like #StarTrek, this book is for you.
And if you want to know why you should preorder:
If you like poetry, this book is for you. If you like hip-hop, this book is for you. If you like the stars, this book is for you.
If you like #StarTrek, this book is for you.
And if you want to know why you should preorder:
The Edge of Space-Time: PREORDER + COVER REVEAL!
Coming 4/7/2026: The universe, reimagined!
news.chanda.science
July 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
If you like Langston Hughes, specifically, then you already know.
If you like poetry, this book is for you. If you like hip-hop, this book is for you. If you like the stars, this book is for you.
If you like #StarTrek, this book is for you.
And if you want to know why you should preorder:
If you like poetry, this book is for you. If you like hip-hop, this book is for you. If you like the stars, this book is for you.
If you like #StarTrek, this book is for you.
And if you want to know why you should preorder:
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The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity.
Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
July 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity.
Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
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bored and friendless rich people need to be stopped. LEAVE US ALONE.
July 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
bored and friendless rich people need to be stopped. LEAVE US ALONE.
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Okay their dad just took them to the playground so HERE WE GO
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I have a banger thread on informal feminized labor and "male loneliness epidemic discourse" cooked up in my head, but I can't get my kids to leave me along long enough for me to write it
July 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Okay their dad just took them to the playground so HERE WE GO
(thread)
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If you have no light, then what you have is dark. That's pretty simple and obvious, right?
But if you have a light—even a little bit of light—what you have is something unignorable. More, you have a point of reference, and a point of distinction.
www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...
But if you have a light—even a little bit of light—what you have is something unignorable. More, you have a point of reference, and a point of distinction.
www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...
So Shines A Good Deed In A Weary World
Dark isn't the opposite of light, it's the absence of light.
www.the-reframe.com
July 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
If you have no light, then what you have is dark. That's pretty simple and obvious, right?
But if you have a light—even a little bit of light—what you have is something unignorable. More, you have a point of reference, and a point of distinction.
www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...
But if you have a light—even a little bit of light—what you have is something unignorable. More, you have a point of reference, and a point of distinction.
www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...