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Jennifer Linde

@jensprite.bsky.social

UMN prof married to cranky poet ▪︎ middle-aged cat lady ▪︎ 〽️ Go Blue! ▪︎ I was on Jeopardy!, it was fun ▪︎ this timeline sucks ▪︎ fuck fascists

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it’s not great!

05.08.2025 14:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BRONTOSAURUS: roar

STEGOSAURUS: roar

TYRANNOSAURUS: roar

THESAURUS: bellow

05.08.2025 01:54 — 👍 736    🔁 193    💬 7    📌 2

this is disturbing and wrong and should not be done

04.08.2025 20:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm going to miss this 🔥🕷️🔥

31.07.2025 01:26 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

27.07.2025 22:49 — 👍 2624    🔁 966    💬 82    📌 27

this is one of the many reasons why you can't believe a word of their 'Make America Healthy Again' bullshit

25.07.2025 22:50 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The US is in the hands of a gang of psychopathic criminals led by a mad king with a collapsing brain, and the media just keeps pretending this is all normal.

21.07.2025 15:13 — 👍 6979    🔁 1767    💬 242    📌 93

he could stop being the worst sport but we know that's not possible

20.07.2025 03:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you're applauding the end of the separation of powers and whatnot, may you be haunted by the ghosts of every social studies teacher your stupid ass has ever had.

13.07.2025 21:15 — 👍 2346    🔁 366    💬 27    📌 15
Stacey Sobelman
staceysobelman
ICE is offering a $45,000 SIGNING BONUS plus $100,000 starting salary.
I make $55,000 as a teacher in my 8th year with a Masters.
It was never true that wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy to pay teachers more. It was always intentional. Education has been INTENTIONALLY defunded for decades because an educated populous is a threat to power. Read the books. Do the work. They are
TERRIFIED of education.

Stacey Sobelman staceysobelman ICE is offering a $45,000 SIGNING BONUS plus $100,000 starting salary. I make $55,000 as a teacher in my 8th year with a Masters. It was never true that wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy to pay teachers more. It was always intentional. Education has been INTENTIONALLY defunded for decades because an educated populous is a threat to power. Read the books. Do the work. They are TERRIFIED of education.

17.07.2025 23:10 — 👍 7802    🔁 2753    💬 55    📌 103

Gutting PBS and NPR is so fucking foul man. I hate Republicans so much.

17.07.2025 15:43 — 👍 380    🔁 57    💬 13    📌 6

tasty use of hellscape!

16.07.2025 00:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

right, and one of their favorites is that Minneapolis is a burning hellscape 🤷

15.07.2025 23:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
a lakeside scene: the top third of the photo is puffy gray-white clouds against a blue sky, the middle third is green trees of varying shapes on an island in the lake, and the bottom third is the lake itself, reflecting the trees and clouds and with some dead tree branches sticking out of the water. there are turtles on one of the branches

a lakeside scene: the top third of the photo is puffy gray-white clouds against a blue sky, the middle third is green trees of varying shapes on an island in the lake, and the bottom third is the lake itself, reflecting the trees and clouds and with some dead tree branches sticking out of the water. there are turtles on one of the branches

scary scary Minneapolis lake park

15.07.2025 23:47 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
a lakeside scene: the top third of the photo is puffy gray-white clouds against a blue sky, the middle third is green trees of varying shapes on an island in the lake, and the bottom third is the lake itself, reflecting the trees and clouds and with some dead tree branches sticking out of the water. there are turtles on one of the branches

a lakeside scene: the top third of the photo is puffy gray-white clouds against a blue sky, the middle third is green trees of varying shapes on an island in the lake, and the bottom third is the lake itself, reflecting the trees and clouds and with some dead tree branches sticking out of the water. there are turtles on one of the branches

scary scary Minneapolis lake park

15.07.2025 23:47 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

evergreen: Stephen Miller is full of shit

15.07.2025 21:46 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

I mentioned it after he hit the triple, because why not?

12.07.2025 21:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

KN95 mask doing its thing while the Twins do their thing

12.07.2025 20:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
zoomed-in shot of the left field scoreboard at Target Field, with flags on the wall and the city skyline in the background. the board says “BYRON BUXTON HITS FOE THE CYCLE” and shows #25 Buxton from the back

zoomed-in shot of the left field scoreboard at Target Field, with flags on the wall and the city skyline in the background. the board says “BYRON BUXTON HITS FOE THE CYCLE” and shows #25 Buxton from the back

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12.07.2025 20:39 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

m o o n

10.07.2025 02:49 — 👍 23    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I splurged on a pair of Birkenstock clogs because I figure they'll last pretty much forever as indoor shoes

05.07.2025 22:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

04.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 59524    🔁 10119    💬 1022    📌 436

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

19.06.2025 11:21 — 👍 29342    🔁 8582    💬 576    📌 700

Not to be a lib, but you guys, I don’t think Kamala Harris would be selling merch for the tents surrounded by alligators being used as a concentration camp.

01.07.2025 23:57 — 👍 2176    🔁 425    💬 66    📌 19

Taraji P Henson: Project 2025 is bad and here’s why!

Kamala Harris: Project 2025 is bad and here’s why!

Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, the whole Democratic lineup: Project 2025 is bad and here’s why!

White Voters, 2025: Project 2025 is bad! Why didn’t anyone tell us about it?

29.06.2025 16:19 — 👍 929    🔁 334    💬 42    📌 39

We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps

28.06.2025 22:11 — 👍 5284    🔁 2361    💬 111    📌 61

I don't remember, but I can tell you it was a white minivan

25.06.2025 23:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

that's what my friend said!

25.06.2025 23:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

my friend says they deserve kidney stones

25.06.2025 23:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

to the dudes who deliberately drove through the puddle to splash me on the side of the road: you deserve 3 flat tires and ingrown toenails

25.06.2025 21:43 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

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