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TheJen

@TheJen@beige.party

Alt account is https://mastodon.social/@JenWojcik
On Fedi since 2018

Kicked off Twitter for telling Elon to choke on a bag of dicks.

New Mexican. Ex Texan. Redhead. Opinionated. Salty. Sarcastic. Uses "fuck" A LOT. Mom. Cat concierge. GSD named Zelda Fitzgerald. Brother fighting in Ukraine. Kiddo in college.

She/her. Always they/them

Breeds weed and grows shrooms in the Rio Grande Valley in #NewMexico.
headed back to school for a degree in genetics. Trying not to die in my sleep #CPAP #SleepApnea

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RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

TheJen,
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@RickiTarr @DemocracySpot @glennsills Where I'm from, they look like this. Almost all of them. Gender, schmender. They'll gut you.

TheJen, to random
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Told the hubs to pull anything he has at stack overflow, and his response was, "That place has been full of garbage for YEARS. I never go there or contribute anything."

Okey dokey then. Heh.

shoq, to random
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You know why nobody talks about “garage inventors” anymore? Besides the fact that nobody can afford a garage anymore, it’s also due to changes in patent law that congress approved that largely cripples small inventors with a “first to file” rule that makes it way too easy for big companies to basically make off with any good idea by patenting a defensible variant using their biggest advantage: lots of money to spend on lawyers.

TheJen,
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@shoq I "invent" useful crap all the time to help myself in my own life. Some are good enough to be a product, but why do it? There's no point for this reason. The second you make a sale, a copycat is up on Temu or whatever the next day. It's a terrible rat race.

TheJen, to random
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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, to random
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I'm not interested in Mother's day until every woman who wants to be one, can and every woman who doesn't, shouldn't be forced to.

Until we are all full citizens, shove your fucking flowers.

Alice, to random
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I dated a guy for about a week when I was a teenager and I just googled him and found a YouTube video of him doing standup comedy which is interesting because I don’t remember him being particularly funny and the video serves as proof that he still isn't.

TheJen,
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@Alice I'm amazed you remembered his name.

TheJen, to random
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Yup. Better off with bears.

TheJen, to random
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Dear Rep Cuellar: Pound sand. Seditious twatwaffle.

TheJen, to random
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Explained the bear v man meme to the hubs. He shrugs and said "yep, bear. Men suck."

You see why I married him?

TheJen, to random
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I gripe about New Mexico and trying to get anything done, but credit where credit is due. Maggie Toulouse-Oliver, our Secretary of State, has done an incredible job fortifying and modernizing our voter registration and voting systems. I was able to change my voter registration online in 5 minutes. Securely. Big fan.

samhainnight, to random
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I’m clearly going to need to get a hutch for the kitchen. Looking online, I saw some nice ones from Wayfare, but I’ll be damned if I’ll spend one penny on something from a business that provided bunk beds to the detention centers that the Trump administration put the stolen immigrant children in. So I’ll keep on looking. Suggestions for something under $500 with drawers, a shelf and cupboards welcome.

TheJen,
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@samhainnight Pretty sure the people who did that at wayfair are gone now, but I could be wrong.

TheJen,
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@samhainnight Yep. He's gone.
https://www.aboutwayfair.com/category/company-news/an-update-from-niraj-shah-on-recent-leadership-changes-at-wayfair

TheJen, to random
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Went out front with our measuring tape and decided we will build a shipping container shop to one side in the front of the house. The house really isn't anything special curb appeal-wise, but a shop would add tremendous value. We have tools. A lot of fucking tools. :)

inquiline, to random
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" now finds itself in a far more vulnerable place. The attack last night was pure anarchy in which violent thugs were given free rein, seemingly with the tacit support of law enforcement. It placed scores of anti-war demonstrators in the encampment in direct and serious danger.

Moreover, the actions last night do absolutely nothing to assure the security and well-being of Jewish students, staff or faculty"

https://forward.com/opinion/608479/ucla-violence-campus-protests/

TheJen,
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@inquiline I agree with you, but just wanted to thank you for using the word "rein" correctly. :)

KingShawn, to random
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Me: Signals to turn left into a business driveway.

Him: Asshat trying to turn right out of the business but, because he's driving a giagantic Wankmobile, he can't make the turn so he turns wide INTO my lane.

Me: "Learn to drive that thing, you dipshit!"

Him: "Fuck you! Come here!"

Me: Puts car in park in the middle of the street, gets out.

Him: Sees me unfurl all 6'3", 260lbs of myself out of my little Jetta and headed his way. He wisely drives away quickly.

Fucking coward.

TheJen,
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@KingShawn HA

TheJen,
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@KingShawn Guaranteed he would have.

TheJen, to random
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Fix your own shit, then. Posting it again just to be a dick.

https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

TheJen, to random
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Here's the solid oak table and chairs prior to reassembly along with the maker's mark. :)

@Catawu

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TheJen, to random
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It would be epic if (when?) The other automakers gang up on Tesla and sue it out of existence for this bait & switch bullshit he just pulled with the charging infrastructure.

If there is a god...

TheJen, to random
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Oooh I just feel all raw and raggedy and angry and astew with all kinds of fucked up bobbing bits swirling slowly around in a thick broth of wtf.

It's the 70's all over again but MEANER. It's the 80's all over again but GREEDIER. It's the 90's all over again but DUMBER.

I cannot fucking parse this shit.

Pandemic rages on while we ignore it. New one on the horizon (Thanks TEXAS). We're staring down literal madness in our halls of government.

But I still have to scrub the toilet and do laundry and comb my hair and grow flowers and try to somehow be fucking normal in the midst of the torment nexus.

<Long exhale>

the_etrain, to random
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Given my middle-ageness, I will only be using this account to complain about the sodium content of food from here on out.

TheJen,
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@the_etrain And I will reply with what new ache and/or pain I am currently experiencing. Fair trade. ;)

GrimmReality, to random
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Ah, Seinfeld being a multimillionaire pseud who will want for nothing until his dying day but remains ultraperturbed at time passing and people trying to make society less shitty - always sparkling material and maybe a sufficient prompt for me to do a shot-for-shot repost of my other-medium thread of his last and profoundly dogshit stand-up special/basic-as-fuck litmus test. I shall have a beer or two and mull this prospect.

TheJen,
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@GrimmReality Yup. He surrounds himself with actually funny people and just got labeled that by association. That fucker IS NOT funny.

TheJen,
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@GrimmReality Jerry Seinfeld is edgy like a controversy about cuffs on khakis.

_L1vY_, to random
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I had the window open and the air smelled a way it must have smelled a couple years back, and it brought a memory of driving, hearing a song that came out around then, and I felt the crushing weight of our worldwide terror on my chest and the pressure of never being able to weep. Tears still in waiting.

TheJen,
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@_L1vY_ I was raised in part by my Dust Bowl Depression Era grandparents, and I find myself leaning on those lessons more and more these days. They were tough people with tough lives, and I'm afraid we may be in similar situations soon.

atomicpoet, to random
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To this day, what really gets me about 90s music is that “alternative” was considered more rebellious than heavy metal.

People were actually convinced the R.E.M. was edgier than Metallica.

TheJen,
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@atomicpoet Right?

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