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Jen Haselhorst
@thatwasjen.bsky.social
Southern Illinois photographer, light painter, knitter, paddle boarder, nature lover, weather spotter, music fan, love to cook

🖖 infinite diversity in infinite combinations

www.jenhaselhorst.com
https://linktr.ee/JenHaselhorst
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Hi friends! I’m a photographer in Southern Illinois specializing in concerts, bands, and light painting. I don’t use photoshop or AI to create effects, all images are made in-camera with minimal exposure/color edits. Check out my site for prints and contact me to book 📸

#photography #lightpainting
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.

The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.

And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
watching Buffy the vampire slayer and putting up my Christmas tree, joy to the world
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The concept of a "student loan" is actually fucked up.
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I like how this entire story is basically just quotes from VCs and tech companies. They couldn't be bothered to ask any objective academics or economists what our ongoing failure to have literally ANY functional antitrust enforcement means
Meta’s Victory Opens the Way for Silicon Valley to Go Deal Shopping
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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This is how you know that it's not about the money. Because if it were, then libraries would not keep being defunded.
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The fella working the door at the bar was cross stitching and I applaud his crafternooning on the job 🪡
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
stood at the edge of a cornfield wildly applauding the sky in my pajamas tonight 🤩

Aurora borealis 11/11/25 9:15pm north of Murphysboro, IL
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
never been so pumped for a mayoral election of a city I don’t live in
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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The shutdown is ultimately a legislative negotiation about a budget.
Hard to resolve it when the controlling party in one part of Congress refuses to negotiate, will not re-open the House, is not in DC.
Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10.

This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Healthcare premiums are expected to skyrocket for people who are enrolling in ACA plans. Some parts of southern Illinois will see their rates more than double if Congress doesn’t extend tax subsidies.

Are you changing your coverage or going without because of big rate increases?
October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I am currently down with the sickness 😷🤧
October 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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You can cook food for your neighbors. Set a free pantry box outside of your place. Pool money with your coworkers if someone at work has young kids or an elderly relative that likely has SNAP.

You don’t have to pry into people’s business, you can just do things & make it known help is available.
October 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I love soup season. I had French onion AND pasole today, making chicken chili tomorrow. I freaking love soup
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM