TheJen

TheJen, 18 days ago to random

It is so fucking insidious how Facebook in particular has tricked business owners into thinking a Facebook page or Instagram is a proper substitution for an actual website. There is a crochet designer I love, but she is ONLY on Meta products, which means I CANNOT SEE YOU BECAUSE I DO NOT GO THERE.

Fucking leaving money on the damned table because you refuse to make an actual site.

Bad business, that.

TheJen, 1 month ago to random

I cried at the Voyager news today. I also know why.

Because for every techbro out there, there's a talented engineer quietly working to make things actually better.

That gives me hope.

Hope is in short supply these days.

TheJen, 4 months ago to random

Gotta love it. Watching a whole bunch of GenXers out here quietly doing what we always do: Adapt.

There is a non insignificant number of us building big NAS media storage systems and collecting physical media to store on it for our perpetual and uninterrupted use.

No corporation can unalive your library because it lives where they can't touch it.

Worried about losing everything because it's all digital?

Get yourself a GenX friend.

TheJen, 2 months ago to random

A word to my cisgender sisters:

It seems to me that if a person born looking like a dude...with ALL THE PRIVILEGE THAT AFFORDS chooses to transition into a form that makes them happy, but IMMENSELY VULNERABLE why in hell would we not embrace them?

They CHOSE to participate in the fight for equity and inclusion in spite of their own personal danger.

Women should welcome ANYONE willing to stand with us.

Trans women are not our fucking enemies.

Get it through your heads please. We are stronger together.

This has just bugged me for a long time and I just needed to say it.

TheJen, 3 months ago to random

RUSSIAN TROLL FARMS HAVE FOUND THE FEDIVERSE.

BUCKLE UP, KIDS.

<https://mstdn.social/@stux/111800177230783839>  
stux@mstdn.social - Disabled signups for now, a lot of "random generated" users(bots) just signed up, all using "@mail.ru"

Little heads up for admins and mods

TheJen, 1 month ago to random

The only thing I want to know is how teeth and eyes somehow became not body parts for insurance purposes.

TheJen, 2 months ago to random

The people who say Russia would stop if Ukraine surrenders are unserious people who wouldn't know a history book if it hit them.

Stop listening to such people.

TheJen, 4 months ago to random

Accomplishments for 2023:

I refused to die.

Goals for 2024:

Refuse to die.

TheJen, 1 month ago to random

Ok kids! Story time!

The tale of how I was almost eaten by a bear while wearing a nightgown.

My buddy Chef called me one day and told me that a woman he had worked with in the hotel industry had purchased an old plantation hotel near Waynesville North Carolina and she was needing good people to come run it. She tapped Chef, and he tapped me as I had experience general managing historic hotels.

Long story short, I took the job, packed my trailer and hit the road.

So that's the scene. Western North Carolina very close to the Tennessee border near Asheville.

I rented a house midway between Asheville and Waynesville. It was in the big middle of a bunch of farms, so it was fairly isolated, and DARK.

I also still smoked cigarettes at the time, and that plays an important part in the story.

TheJen, 4 months ago to random

It has not escaped my notice that the majority of the people actually standing up to trump & co are women.

Unflappable, steely eyed women.

Men are clearly too emotional to handle it.

TheJen, 4 months ago to random

THE ONLY REASON SWATTING WORKS IS BECAUSE POLICE CAN BE REASONABLY RELIED UPON TO BE VIOLENT.

TheJen, 3 months ago to random

In case you weren't aware, any expert in any subject is an expert BECAUSE they have made every single mistake in that given endeavor and have learned from it.

NOT BECAUSE THEY DID EVERYTHING RIGHT.

You learn buckets more from failure than success.

Even better is learning from the failures of others.

TheJen, 4 months ago to random

Dear all my old digital marketing clients who insisted they didn't need a website and that social media was fine and would totally scale and not get bought by fascists:

Told you so.

TheJen, 20 days ago to random

Yup. Better off with bears.

TheJen, 4 months ago to random

Person here: "if a person chooses not to vote, respect that".

UMMMMMM IMMA GO WITH NO, DOG.

Blocked. No. Participation in a democracy AT ITS BASIC LEVEL REQUIRES YOU TO VOTE.

FULL STOP.
PERIOD.
END OF DISCUSSION.

TheJen, 2 months ago to random

America, you in danger girl.

TheJen, 2 months ago to random

Look folks, my family showed up on this continent on the fucking Mayflower.

I'm a real American.

My new neighbors who showed up in this country from Nicaragua last week?

Also real Americans.

The folks who showed up here in chains as literal livestock for 400 years?

Absolutely Americans. More so than the rest of us, probably.

The families whose land I live on and who have been on this continent for 15,000 or more years

The OG Americans.

EVERYONE who calls this land home is an American. I don't care who you are.

TheJen, 1 month ago to random

Welp. 20 days until first criminal trial for the smelly one begins.

He's peddling BIBLES.

Seriously, why are the Coen Brothers writing this reality?

TheJen, 1 month ago to random

All I'm saying fellas, is just be glad women only want equality and not revenge.

TheJen, 1 month ago to random

Trump isn't falling asleep, he's overwhelmed. My father, who's also a narcissist like that fucker CANNOT COPE when his actions are called into question. He closes his eyes and tunes out just like trump.

This is the FIRST TIME in his ENTIRE LIFE he has been made to answer for his misdeeds and he CANNOT COPE.

TheJen, 1 month ago to random

The other day I decided to dig out my silverware that my grandaddy gave me when I married, wash it up and use it daily.

Life is a special occasion. Especially now.

Use the silver. Have your tea in a fine china cup. Nobody can tell you no and "traditions" are peer pressure from dead people.

TheJen, 4 months ago to random

Fuckers won't give me an rsv shot because I'm not 60.

WHO MAKES UP THESE STUPID FUCKING RULES?

TheJen, 2 months ago to FediPact

Gee whiz. Massive abusive tech surveillance company doesn't do what they promised. Shocking NO ONE.

<https://todon.eu/@queue/112130436372737490>  
queue@todon.eu - Reminder to anyone who said "Meta wouldn't do anything to Fediverse, we should let them join!"

Meta is now automatically muting all posts that mention PixelFed, so it's users can't read about any alternatives to its services.

<https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807>

Just remember, *Every time advocacy groups warn about tech/capitalism, believe them.* We don't make shit up, we use history of actions and facts to state our reasons to be against it.

If your instance isn't part of @FediPact please urge your admins to join or move to another instance who is.

And if you want proof, ask the general public what Jabber/XMPP was, and then ask what Google how they killed it.

EDIT: *Please* send support to the creator of the FediPact, @vantablack as she is homeless. This is possible because of them.

#fedipact #meta #pixelfed #eff

TheJen, 1 month ago to random

How to stop a stochastic terrorist:

1. Put him in jail.

TheJen, 1 month ago to random

So SCOTUS is probably going to outlaw homelessness. Why not just go whole hog and recreate debtor's prison...or hell...let's just do Bedlam all over again.

Sure. Why not? All those private prison companies need bodies so they can overcharge the state by 3, 4 times the amount needed to house and feed them.

Wins all around.

THIS IS #SARCASM for those whose sense of humor has gone the way of the dodo.