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Writer, Godzilla fan, terrible gardener. Recovering blogger. Cat caretaker. I often post pictures of bugs, plants, fungus, and other weird stuff I find on hikes or in my garden. She/her

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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm still processing this. ICE attempted to execute a man in broad daylight in my old neighborhood in Austin. The protest about it was gassed by DPS. A few days later, DPS rounded up people who were at the protest in unmarked cars under charge of "participating in a riot."
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Do I get to be smug about having never owned a pair of Converse because they don't fit wide feet?
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a great analogy.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I can't decide whether to be upset about this or not 😂
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How is it possible that Armadillo Con is this weekend? I've barely read any fiction or watched much, haven't tried to write anything. My brain has been stewing in politics and activism for 18 months without a break. If I can't multitask a spreadsheet of voter data, I can't listen to or watch it.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I rabbit holed the other day on UV C sanitizer lamps, because they use the ultraviolet wavelength that detects counterfeit stamps (254nm-ish). Amazon is full of these things showing UV lamps uncovered in open, occupied areas, over pet beds, childrens toys. They cause blindness. They shred DNA.
Screen shot of Amazon listing for a UV C lamp
Dangerous UV C light attached to kitchen cabinet and glowing uncovered in kitchen

COOSPIDER U/V/C Light, 253.7nm Sanitizer Lamp with 5ft ON/Off Switch Cord and Plug, 110V Ozone Bulb for Shoes Closet Cabinet Bathroom, Gift Idea (6W Ozone
 Lamp, Pack of 2)
 Usage Scenarios
 KitchenScreen shot of Amazon listing for a UV C lamp
Image of a cat area with a cat house, food and water bowls, and a random wall shelf with the UV C lamp attached and glowing, where any pet could look at it and get blinded, or sleep near it and get exposure to cancer causing short wave ultraviolet light.

COOSPIDER U/V/C Light, 253.7nm Sanitizer Lamp with 5ft ON/Off Switch Cord and Plug, 110V Ozone Bulb for Shoes Closet Cabinet Bathroom, Gift Idea (6W Ozone
 Lamp, Pack of 2)
 Usage Scenarios
 KitchenScreen shot of Amazon listing for a UV C lamp
Image of a kid's toy box, with the UV C lamp attached inside the lid and glowing, where any one  could open it unaware, look directly at the lamp and get blinded. A little kid would probably stare at it.

COOSPIDER U/V/C Light, 253.7nm Sanitizer Lamp with 5ft ON/Off Switch Cord and Plug, 110V Ozone Bulb for Shoes Closet Cabinet Bathroom, Gift Idea (6W Ozone
 Lamp, Pack of 2)
 Usage Scenarios
 KitchenScreenshot of text further down the Amazon listing for this UV C sanitizer lamp-

Warning: Human/Pets/Plants can't be exposed to the U/V Light! Must Leave the space when lamp is working. Recommend using 30 minutes each time. After each use, the room must be ventilated for more than 30 minutes before people/pets/plants can enter.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Found my new livestream zen of bears getting fat for the winter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Zr...
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LIVE Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2026 | explore.org
YouTube video by Explore Live Nature Cams
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We really have the Republicans on the back foot in Texas. Abbott's lost control of the narrative, all he's doing is reacting. Gina Hinojosa's anti-surveillance state ad the other day really got him. Most of the Flock and other ALPR cameras in the country are in Texas.
texastribune.org
Abbott blocks state agencies from spending money on Flock cameras
The order came as The Texas Tribune was preparing to publish an investigation detailing how a state agency has devoted at least $30 million to building the state’s Flock surveillance network.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
AI can only generate iterations of what it's been fed, and eventually starts eating itself. We need federal laws on this **immediately.** That judge may have created a brand new revenue stream for the CSAM "industry" to train AI on increasingly horrific things.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.kxan.com/news/local/p... "Following a vote to suspend the use of Flock cameras in the city, Pflugerville said over 400 agencies had accessed its Flock system, while only 83 had authorization."
kxan.com
Pflugerville says hundreds of unauthorized agencies accessed its Flock system
Following a vote to suspend the use of Flock cameras in the city, Pflugerville said over 400 agencies had accessed its Flock system, while only 83 had authorization.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.
Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New burn out sign- I've craving paranormal mystery novels as the escapist drug lately, and grabbed a bunch of audio from the library. I've been struggling with the first one, and just realized it's actually a comedy, a very British comedy. The main character is supposed to be irritatingly vapid.
static.klipy.com
Sad Cat Lounging
Alt: Sad Cat Lounging
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Two of my cars that hate each other are currently both in my lap, sort of half on the arms of this chair. They are not looking at each other. Claire is occasionally flicking her tail. Lermontov is staring into space. I need to get up and make dinner, and I don't know what to do.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Lol
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I don't know what I got on my leg tonight, but every cat in the house has tried to either roll around on my jeans or violently make out with my calf now that I'm wearing pajamas. I was at a city council meeting all night, this is mysterious.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is the most accurate thing that has ever been said about the Elric of Melnibonè books.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Microsoft365 is having some kind of server meltdown and isn't acknowledging my subscription. I can't edit anything in Excel. This is bullshit.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
👀👀👀
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have defeated the waitlist for both of the law classes I have to take this fall to stay on schedule. I may now lay that particular source of stress to rest. What fresh horror will take its place?
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I miss when my personality was mostly being a weird film nerd with a bunch of WIP novels who was considering going back to school for ecology because mushrooms are cool. These days, it's mostly political activism and reading for my law classes. It kind of sucks, but fascists are kidnapping people.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.
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Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com · 30/07/2026
*takes deep breath* *ululates* WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS hornedlarkpress.moksha.io/publication/...
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Today I was reminded of why I prefer dealing with my suburb's city council over Austin's city council. Today was very long. Corruption scales up along with everything else in local politics and I hate it.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Every single person in this country should be up in arms over this shit. Every single family that sent someone to Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, or any other bullshit conflict the U.S. government threw our people at since the 1950s should be screaming about this, now he's killing our kids.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Every time I see a picture of Trump and some guy in front of the Oval Office fireplace, there is more gold. That is the tackiest shit I've ever seen. Those urns look worse than when I spray painted a bunch of plastic things gold for Halloween decorations.
Screen shot of AP news, image of Trump and Lebanese president Aoun, in front of the Oval office fire place, which is covered in pale gold filigree, a weird gold thing covering most of the fireplace screen, gold eagle tables to either side, a bunch of gold urns lining the mantle, random gold things on the walls, a gold frame holding a picture of Reagan. It's hideous and ridiculous and looks like a parody of a Bond villain's lair.
For some reason a model airplane is sitting on the coffee table. It does not have any gold on it and looks out of place, like a relic from another era.
The headline under the picture reads "Trump shuts down Iran talks for now as Senate prepares to review his $88B
request for more war funds" beneath the image
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So my birthday's coming up 😀
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Meet my newest creation: Lapina Burrowlight the Cosmic Bunny. I designed and hand-sewed her, and I hand-embroidered all her stars and planets. She enjoys discovering new cosmic truths, baking cookies, and making friends throughout the universe. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
Here's a lovely photo of Lapina. She's a fabric art bunny of sorts. She's black with a gray face, seven red eyes, a little open mouth with six pointy teeth. She has long black and gray ears, and two twirly tentacles. Her body is covered with hand-embroidered stars of various sizes and colors. There's also an embroidered red planet with a yellow ring and another purple planet. She's holding a yellow fabric egg. There's green fur in the background of the pic.Here's another lovely photo of Lapina where she's resting on my palm.Here's a lovely photo of Lapina's back. Here too she's covered with embroidered stars of various sizes and colors. She's holding the egg of destiny in her tentacle.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Relatable.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
He's asleep.
A ridiculous dark gray tabby cat asleep on his back with front paws in the air and bent like an otter, back legs stretched out almost straight but also in the air, and he's sort of twisted around.
He is blissfully asleep like this at the top of some stairs and directly in front of a door.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I would like for the rest of the world to understand that by our own standards, that NFL-style half time show was utter shit.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Is this the live action Moana?
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
No bring back the Muppets
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It's rare for the deaths of distant celebrities to get any sort of emotions out of me, but Sam Neil this morning, this one hurts.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Somewhere in Hell, John McCain is greeting Lindsey Graham, one of his best friends, by punching him repeatedly.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Cool. Now Texans need a VPN to do anything online.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
www.newsweek.com/i-dated-grah... Every single cis het man in the Democratic Party, and every single person who has at any point defended Platner, should be forced to read this. The worst sexists and harassers I've ever known walked around calling themselves feminists while mansplaining feminism.
newsweek.com
I dated Graham Platner. I believe Jenny Racicot and Lyndsey Fifield.
'Believe women' cannot be a phrase we reserve for our enemies.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
An excellent thread and an angle on what I'm trying to say when I attempt to explain to people why I bother with politics. I HATE electoral politics. But people have bled and died for what this country should be, for my rights and yours, and that better world will *never* be unless we fight today.
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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Direct hit from Dupont Circle.
A cloud-to-ground lightning bolt behind the Independence Day fireworks in DC.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is not what I wanted to come home to after days of breathing Corpus Christi's terrible air.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I just realized that I'm feeling so burned out because the first No Kings was a little over a year ago and I've been throwing myself into a million activist and organizing things without a break ever since.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A few weeks ago, I started listening to the podcast Texas Ag Today, because agriculture costs are a strong economic predictor. But it's also the closest I can stand to get to modern conservative culture. It's a shock to have left West Texas years ago, and hear so much federal boot licking today.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A 1/4 scale recreation of the Senate and House floors, with muppet-style puppet versions of all 535 members of Congress, each with a three person puppeteer/voice actor team, and a day long festival dedicated to playing out "correct" votes, and interrogations of muppet versions of my enemies.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Alright, whoever you are that is dealing with an ancient artifact or fighting a dead god or stopping someone from going back in time to assassinate President Al Gore, it's working! The Knicks won, keep going, make it happen and FIX THE DAMN TIMELINE.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Austin, we need to have a serious talk about 2028 and the Austin FC.
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
So... FOIA requests for the contract with the company doing the removal, any and all communications between the Kennedy Center and the company since May 30th, list of any other work they've done for KC, whether there was an open bid...
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I hope the people outside the Kennedy Center start texting all their friends to come out and build a massive crowd to witness the creation of this extraordinary sculpture of steel and delay tactics.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae
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☁️Now🤖Breezing💨 @nowbreezing.ntw.app · 13/06/2026
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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Watching these conspiracy theories about the scaffolding going up at The Kennedy Center develop in real time is *fascinating.*
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