Jen Tynes
@jentynes.bsky.social
Walks and writes and forages and teaches.
Dang. I keep forgetting to make workplace disagreement acceptable by prefacing it with "I just want to push back on that."
February 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Dang. I keep forgetting to make workplace disagreement acceptable by prefacing it with "I just want to push back on that."
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if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power
February 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power
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Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.
February 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.
From WHAT IF THE INVADER IS BEAUTIFUL by Louise Mathias
February 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
From WHAT IF THE INVADER IS BEAUTIFUL by Louise Mathias
The first-year writing class is a house haunted by the five paragraph essay, and I grow weary of its shenanigans, but I still get a little uncanny thrill every time a student starts talking about their "three bodies."
February 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The first-year writing class is a house haunted by the five paragraph essay, and I grow weary of its shenanigans, but I still get a little uncanny thrill every time a student starts talking about their "three bodies."
This interview with Kaveh Akbar was good company this morning: slate.com/podcasts/dea...
After Sobriety, Chasing Goosebumps Instead of Highs
“I have never, at any point in my life, been someone who liked a thing moderately.”
slate.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This interview with Kaveh Akbar was good company this morning: slate.com/podcasts/dea...
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lawyers: your bat signal has been activated
The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law."
Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
lawyers: your bat signal has been activated
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
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Fixing my heart this morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6-z...
Yasmin Williams: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Fixing my heart this morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6-z...
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Harvard Divinity School punished students for having a PRAYER-IN last semester. I absolutely understand why students have decided to change tactics.
When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.
When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.
February 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Harvard Divinity School punished students for having a PRAYER-IN last semester. I absolutely understand why students have decided to change tactics.
When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.
When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.
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My staff is hearing reports from Head Start programs in Oregon that they're still locked out of federal funds. My office is doing everything it can to get more info and get funds flowing before providers have to start closing their doors.
February 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My staff is hearing reports from Head Start programs in Oregon that they're still locked out of federal funds. My office is doing everything it can to get more info and get funds flowing before providers have to start closing their doors.
fy writing students are researching important problems in their communities while largely not following current events; timeliness is always a thing we have to work on, but it's so demoralizing to have to keep telling them "actually that thing is even more fucked and complicated right now..."
February 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
fy writing students are researching important problems in their communities while largely not following current events; timeliness is always a thing we have to work on, but it's so demoralizing to have to keep telling them "actually that thing is even more fucked and complicated right now..."
problem-solving and self-care strategies I am engaging with this winter = strong pu-erh tea.
February 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
problem-solving and self-care strategies I am engaging with this winter = strong pu-erh tea.
Hearts of Space's tribute to David Lynch is a very good soundtrack for catching up on the essay grading that you are very, very behind on because everything is currently terrifying and insane: www.hos.com/this-week/pr...
January 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hearts of Space's tribute to David Lynch is a very good soundtrack for catching up on the essay grading that you are very, very behind on because everything is currently terrifying and insane: www.hos.com/this-week/pr...
Really developing an appreciation for that part of the evening when it's too late to expect any more work will happen but still early enough to feel really optimistic about the work that'll get done in the morning. I'm waking up early, y'all.
January 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Really developing an appreciation for that part of the evening when it's too late to expect any more work will happen but still early enough to feel really optimistic about the work that'll get done in the morning. I'm waking up early, y'all.
Amicus podcast’s emergency episode this afternoon helped me get my brain around this current funding freeze fuckery; on Molly of Denali right now, children are making necklaces with glass beads and fish skin.
January 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Amicus podcast’s emergency episode this afternoon helped me get my brain around this current funding freeze fuckery; on Molly of Denali right now, children are making necklaces with glass beads and fish skin.
The four year old and I took the bus to the grocery store today. The past few months, college students regularly offer me their seats on crowded buses. We had to wait for eggs because a woman blocked them, telling an employee about the wise president and “Mr. Musk.” It is winter, I am 45, the end.
January 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The four year old and I took the bus to the grocery store today. The past few months, college students regularly offer me their seats on crowded buses. We had to wait for eggs because a woman blocked them, telling an employee about the wise president and “Mr. Musk.” It is winter, I am 45, the end.
Major personal accomplishment of 2025 so far: cooking the foods in the freezer before they become ancient & ice-bearded-
January 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Major personal accomplishment of 2025 so far: cooking the foods in the freezer before they become ancient & ice-bearded-
From SIDEWALK NATURALIST by Sue Landers (above/ground press)
January 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
From SIDEWALK NATURALIST by Sue Landers (above/ground press)
The four year old has discovered Molly of Denali, and watching it with her turns out to be very good for the soul, especially when I need to step away from the news.
January 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The four year old has discovered Molly of Denali, and watching it with her turns out to be very good for the soul, especially when I need to step away from the news.