Tara E. Jenson

Look I have loved Tolkien for ages too but I learned a long time ago that if you are talking about the Silmarillion you are losing

View of a stage with two empty chairs and a coffee table with “The Message” by Ta-Nehisi Coates standing on it

Event program with author photo on it for Ta-Nehisi Coates Oct 23rd at 6pm at the O’Shaughnessy at St. Catherine University

POV looking into the mostly empty, doors-just-opened expanse of the O’Shaughnessy auditorium

Been a minute since I’ve been in the O’Shaughnessy at St. Kate’s, and I couldn’t be more grateful and happy to have been here tonight for an event with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Also ran into a little bird named @makeherway.bsky.social who I haven’t seen in a hot minute either!

Masc-presenting person with chunky red glasses, a blue black and white scarf and a black blazer with gold fringe epaulets and beaded coat-of-arms taking a selfie standing in front of an antique-ish liquor cabinet/built-in

close up of shoulder area of black blazer with gold fringe epaulets and beaded coat-of-arms from last photo

Finally chilly enough and had an excuse to go out tonight to catch up with a friend to have a chance to wear this ridiculously awesome thrift store find from this past summer. Srsly check these epaulettes and embroidered/beaded coat-of-arms situations!

Thanks for your quick action/photos & reporting this @fivesixzero.bsky.social.

Cool cool, cool cool cool cool.

Small black dog at a No Kings rally with a sign that reads “NO KING” [where king is indicated by a crown icon] or YES KONG [where KONG is denoted by a Kong brand dog chew toy]

POV standing on a bench looking a down and across a street in downtown Minneapolis during today’s No Kings protest

Two people holding signs at today’s No Kings rally: one sign has a monarch butterfly and reads No Monarchs (Except butterflies), the other sign is a nicely done Angry Orange Baby Trump drawing.

Mpls turned OUT today for #nokings. My only regret: that I didn’t get a better pic of the very good boy wearing a NO KING, YES KONG sign

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

The C and D lines are also a few blocks south away!

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right? like no amount of being friendly is gonna keep the fascists from coming for them so why not just go fucking YOLO?

related to prior post: does anyone else ever hit a point in their revise-and-resubmit grind where you feel like you're starting to literarily come kind of unhinged?

why isn't granularify a word though

Heart of the Beast/May Day puppets let’s go!

Come on my vibrant Fringe-Festy MSP neighbors and friends - let’s bring Portland levels of absurdist performance art protest to these ICE fucks. Let’s fucking go!

ooooh adding to my 2026 audiobook tbr omnomnom. it’s time.

exactly that!!! Corny as hell, and also you fucking go girl singing about your dude's cock! 😂

lol T.Swift aint need me to defend her, just anytime anyone comes for a woman musician's lyrics for being too [fill in the blank] I always enjoy (hate) instantly thinking of 5000 dude musicians of whatever genre doing same or more in spades but being lauded for artistry, depth or just a good time

guarantee anyone (and by that I mean dudes obvs) throwing shade at T.Swift for "Wood" is also first to chime in with "Nice...." anytime 69 makes an appearance and has so many mixtapes/playlists full of cockrock faves that are nothing but packed-with-eye-roll-inducing-corny-innuendos fuck songs.

we seem to have deprived them entirely of the footage they were obviously hoping for

30s/40s ?

A masc-presenting person with 70s's era hair style in a black leather/plether jumpsuit

Like this is in the realm of what was happening, but ill-fitting and short sleeved. And, well - it was incredible.

a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat saying "ha ha I'm in danger"

In the building I'm working late in on an all-women's campus, there's a guy who walking around unironically with Hardy-Boys x REO speedwagon hair wearing an ill-fitting 70's era black plether/vinyl short sleeved belted jumpsuit/romper and I feel like someone's punking me or that I'm in danger

That (going back thru highlights from my twitter archive) is something I need to do at some point!

RIGHT?? These are the stupid things I most love the internets for gifting us 😭

YouTube video by HackStansbury Viking Kittens

But hey here's to an all-timer Cheezburger (or CB-adjacent/inspired/tangential?) that's still to be found :)

We've checked & have yet to unearth it even in the wayback machine - iirc was removed by involved prof's request before the wayback existed? And I'm talking the original "searchin, seizin, surveillin - wit no warrants" post by the students (coworkers? postdocs?) not the subsequent cheezburger posts

💯! I remain bereft that the original full ceiling cat narrative is no longer (afaik) anymore to be found anywhere on the interwebs

It's an iron law of history: if a bunch of people try to convince you that the professors, queers, and immigrants are the "real" threat, buy a fucking gun, because authoritarianism is on the horizon. Every time.

I literally thought this gif about an hour ago when I was adding a date to a code file. great brains on the same wavelength 🧠😄