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Erin Tinsman

@erinjoy.bsky.social
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Just an Erin married to an Aaron with a beautiful blended family across 2 states. Follow if you like nerdery, emotional honesty, parenting stories, thoughts on co-parenting long distance after divorce, politics, and exvangelical takes. 🪴

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 2h
I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 2h
Am I 11 and my parents won't take me to see Hanson perform at the Amphitheater in Milwaukee all over again? Yes. Yes, I am. America, you suck for this. 😭
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 4h
Taylor > Tolle I don't love missing the latter, even if the former is hella worth it 🕺✨
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today I bought a pair of sale overalls from my favorite handmade market type store on the pedestrian mall, and I found out Brandi Carlile has a requests-only tour coming up, and then I got to see Aaron for a brief moment in the middle of the day, and it made me so happy to see him I cried. 🥹
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's me, I'm all.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
when they go marching in:
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me, waking up every day to @atinsman.bsky.social next to me
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Other planets in our solar system, envying the moon:
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Aaron, just Aaron @a-j-ruszk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“If Croesus goes to war he will destroy a great empire.” - the Oracle at Delphi before Croesus attacked Persia and his own empire was destroyed
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026
the world would be a better place if all science students also studied history- and I don’t mean “memorise the list of Presidents/monarchs”, I mean “here is why people have fought and killed each other in the past and how that ended up for everyone”
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The toddler says "fee-fra" for zebra 🥹
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Aaron Tinsman @atinsman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If your politics are designed primarily to demonstrate to people who already agree with you that you are, in fact, one of the Good People, you are not doing politics. You are doing community theater for an audience that already bought tickets.
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you're a parent and want to feel some light emotional destruction on a Friday, may I recommend listening to this song?
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Who's happier in my household today, me or my toddler? 🤩🤩🤩
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This story going viral is actually a good reminder for lefties that you can’t let yourself be sabotaged by genuinely mean people who use liberation-coded language but ultimately have no interest in the formation of a community if they can’t call every shot
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ms Rachel is fun because your toddler will do things like sing "say ball, say ball, say...BALL!!!" and continue to happily, sweetly chuck his new ball out of the shopping cart. I was legitimately sweating when I left the store from all the running, squatting, chasing, and blocking. 😅
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
May I suggest indulging in an obscene amount of coziness today?
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For the first time in recent memory, I thrifted and only found a few things for myself. The best? An Eileen Fisher jacket, perfect for fall, and FLATTERING. Amazing how much nicer quality items tend to fit.
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Shan @73snangel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Exactly! I’m planning on looking every single one of these folks in the eye and asking them what was the straw that broke the camel’s back? Because it sure wasn’t the racism nor him being a sexual predator nor him being a convicted felon nor him being a liar nor him being corrupt nor January 6th 1/
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Jeremy Renner: I Understand
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How did that delightful banana youth score lower than that stiff lunky Bachelorette runner up? she says, while watching from her bed, comfy and squishy-bodied
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I saw this floating around the internet re: Taylor Hanson participating on DWTS starting tonight, and - the accuracy.
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🚨 DEAR HUSBANDS OF OG HANSON FANS:

Please emotionally prepare yourselves for tomorrow.

Your wife will be unavailable in the evening. You will need to handle dinner, bedtime, and any other household responsibilities that arise.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This will occur every Tuesday for the foreseeable future.

But there is something else you need to understand.

Some of you married a much tamer version of the woman you are about to meet.

She has not been triggered to this extent since approximately 1997–2000, so your patience will be required.

Because many of us spent our formative years fully convinced of one of two things:

1. We were going to marry Taylor Hanson.
2. Taylor Hanson was definitely going to be our brother-in-law.

There was no third option.

So please understand: this is not simply your wife “watching a television show.”

There may be screaming.
There may be crying.
There may be pacing.
There may be serious flashbacks to being 12, 13 or 14 years old.Screenshot 2/3 

You may suddenly discover that your wife has retained a truly concerning amount of Hanson-related information for nearly three decades.

Do not be alarmed.

Those files have simply been dormant.

At this point, I believe Justin Bieber at Coachella was merely the teaser trailer for what is about to happen when an entire generation of millennial women who loved Hanson in 1997 gets collectively reactivated.

We are a different breed.

We are cut from a different cloth.

And perhaps most concerning of all:

We have grown-woman money now.

We have cars.
We have credit cards.
We can buy concert tickets without asking our parents.
We can book hotels.

WE CAN CROSS STATE LINES UNSUPERVISED.

The 13-year-old girls inside of us have never had this kind of power.

So husbands, please be patient.

Support your wife during this transition.

Do dinner.
Put the kids to bed.
Do not ask why she is crying.
And under absolutely no circumstances should you say, “I don’t get what the big deal is.”Screenshot 3/3:  

It does not matter that nearly three decades have passed.

The girls are still here.
The feelings are still there.
And every Tuesday, we will be unavailable.

Thank you for your cooperation during this important time.

Sincerely,

The women who survived Hanson Mania the first time ✌🏼😂 and here for every ounce of it again! 

 #DWTS #brittay #taylorhanson
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The toddler and I visited the cat room at our local SPCA shelter today, just for the meows. The sounds of cat chatter overlayed with toddler chortles healed something deep inside. 🥹
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
1980 👀
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We got a decent mattress topper and how am I supposed to function in the world now? There is only bed
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI hypervigilance is a great description of the fatigue I feel looking at Online at the moment.
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Dancing With the Stars realized there was one segment of the population that has never tuned in, and so they got Taylor Hanson to dance. Anyway I'm going to become one of The Masses tomorrow for the 2-hour premiere. Dodger game be damned.
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Surprised Woman Eating Popcorn
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring:
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Patrick Brewer's Fiance Shirt
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Fibonacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
all y'all young bitches need to know that the 9/11 nostalgia factory sucks and also you can't even understand how much it changed everything.
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Horror movie: mom of toddler on the road edition
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I believe that Little Bunny Foo-Foo deserves an opportunity to reform.
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Linden the Scribe @lindenthescribe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good morning, but it's a sad morning too, as we remember September 11, 2001. Thousands of victims, thousands of grieving loved ones left behind, and thousands of heroes. God bless them, every one.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There's never been a better time to remember the golden rule: Trump doesn't lie to be believed. He lies to be repeated. If you're repeating anything Trump says, even to debunk it, you're helping him.
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My kingdom for a Captcha that phrases the question like The Killers would
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Dear Noah Kahan, thank you for hanging out with me in my friend's basement as I log some work after the baby went to bed.
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That awkward moment where you know your toddler has pooped, and it smells so so bad, but he's playing happily on his own and you've got to get some work logged any possible moment he'll give you
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Woman Clips Clothespin on Her Nose
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There's something to be said for reaching into your friend's cupboard for coffee, and landing on the mug you gave her after a miscarriage years ago, only to sit down to enjoy it at what used to be your kitchen table and chairs and to see the plant cutting you gave to her when she helped you pack up.
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David “schlazor” Lastname @schlazor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Lemon loaf near me
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Make America healthy you say? So open up thousands more hospitals around the country especially in rural areas or towns where private equity is buying them up and stripping them for parts? Making care free for all? A big push to train and hire more doctors? No? Ah just the individualistic fash parts
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NakedPastor @nakedpastor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't think it was a mistake that it's suggested that food is a basic right of everyone, that everyone should eat, and that we all eat should together every day. Shame on us that 25% of the world's population experiences food insecurity.
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Okay, listen. These were unrelated thoughts about 1. Dramamine (I'd called it "drugs" and my daughter bristled), and 2. Weird silhouette "art" on a rando's tall fence
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Why do I think that men won't adopt this moniker the way women embraced "girl dinner"
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My 12yo daughter made this comic based on the dynamic between Ryland Grace and Rocky in Project Hail Mary, and I'm obsessed.
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We're finishing the last 40 of the movie snuggled in the big bed at home 🥹🫶🏻 and I wasn't prepared to hear Robin Williams (as Teddy Roosevelt) say "Stay. You can't quit." Also, wee baby Rami Malek!? Adorable.
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We're watching Night at the Museum (2006) at the hotel tonight. My almost-13yo daughter genuinely asked why "movies don't have lighting like this any more. There was so much more charm back then" and, Sis
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I still say that my mental mashup of Ben Folds' Rockin the Suburbs and (Sir) Elton John's I'm Still Standing is The One.
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Tonight my brain is fixated on a hypothetical mashup of Dolly's 9 to 5 and One Week by the Barenaked Ladies. Grab a drumstick and your brain starts tickin / Pour yourself a cup of ambition / Yawning stretching tryin to come to life... it's been onnnne week 🎶🎶🎶
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