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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human)

@jennyil.bsky.social
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She/her. Artist, engineer, cook, photographer, family historian, problem solver, activist. DV survivor. Dog and 2003 Thunderbird owner. Resilient, brave, kind.

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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 22h
Most voters are lazy and quite a few of them are in fact stupid. If you want more people to vote and have their votes counted you need it make it as easy as possible for them to get complete and accurate information.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 22h
Which I bet does not give out accurate county level election information in Illinois either. So someone who wants to vote - uses your site, gets misleading information, calls the number and is told to check the County website. Why not just send them to the County website?
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 22h
They won’t know that additional information is available if they use your site. It doesn’t say anywhere that I could see that you should double check the information with whoever runs your local elections.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 22h
Then Illinois voters who use it will get incomplete or inaccurate information and some will be discouraged from voting as a result.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 23h
Yes - it correctly connects me to my county election information but it only displays some of it. It doesn’t tell me where all the early voting locations are or when they open, and it only lists one early voting ballot drop off locations. I can get that information in seconds if I go direct.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Almost has Illinois right but not quite - pulls up multiple options for Election Day dropping but doesn’t tell me that there are multiple vote by mail ballot drop off locations and that more early voting locations open on Saturday.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
In Illinois you can go to the polls, register or update your registration and vote a regular ballot.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It is not easy to get ducks in a row.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I have been co-chair and then chair of a municipal committee for the past 5 years. It has been disfunctional from the start. We have a non-voting member who is a liason to another group and we are now merging with that group. I have encountered several people who thought she ran our committee.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It isn’t just Musk - anything about voting that you see that doesn’t include the election date and location and include a link directly back to the organization that runs your elections is misinformation.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You can also use “heel” or “sit” to calm down an anxious dog. Gail is nervous about everything - she knows to heel when something scares her.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I found with very restless dogs that “sitting” gives them something to do and concentrate on. The whippet pointer mix would keep all 4 paws on the ground and bounce while visible concentrating on following instructions.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When I was a Village Trustee I received death threats from gun violence advocates and anti-development open space advocates - I am a strong DEM voter but this is a both sides issue.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When they bark at things I don’t want them to, I stop, make everyone sit, calm down and shut up. Then we proceed with the walk. Got Lennie to stop barking his fool head off every time he saw a truck or school bus. He is cute but that head is empty.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I use a prong collar with both Lennie and Gail because they are hunting dogs with strong prey drives and can pull hard when motivated. I didn’t use one with the whippet/pointer mix but did with the monstrous Lab/Shar pei mixes. You can control barking with corrections and a prong collar.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Tonight it was a repost telling people to not accept ballots with marks on them - I live in a county that requires ballots cast in person to have the election judge’s initials on them.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It is once again election season and people are sharing incorrect election information - if it doesn’t have a location, date and link to an election authority’s website just assume it is wrong.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You would love my neighbors. I love that the County moved the early voting site so I don’t have destination Halloween and last minute voters to deal with.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It would - Columbus was a poor choice.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Unless they overlap into meal time - then she whines.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Get a prong collar and a training leash and teach her to sit instead of jump on people. You use the short training leash as a reminder to her and to grab and yank when she jumps.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I successfully taught both Gail and Lennie to be quiet on command during the pandemic. Then I moved the computer monitors upstairs and they realized that they could pretend not to hear me and bark at the front door. I have a bed for Gail under my desk and she lies there quietly during meetings
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I ended up getting Lennie his own dog. It helps to find one that is needy and almost identical to the first dog. I still have to remind people in meetings that I have rescued hunting dogs who bark and bay. . .
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It incorrectly but I have a lot of copies of family bible records and other documents. There are some bad historians in my Dad’s family and some good ones.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I actually have a lot of detail - my mother’s mother died when she was 3 so she was raised by a Grandmother and Great Grandmother - I have photos, documents and records from them. One of her relatives was interested in genealogy and lineage societies - she collected a lot of info, then interpreted
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Some of it is people who have corrupted their trees with bad information or who base their trees on people who put together family histories and made up stuff. Some of it is bad transcriptions - human and now AI. Some is bad search matching (worse with AI)
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It isn’t the ancestors - it is the people who create on-line family trees. My last immigrant ancestor arrived before WWI, my first arrived in the early 1600s. Lots of people with family trees, lots of questionable information. Lots of big families with the same names.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
He was but Columbus Day in the US started as a response to the lynching of 11 Italian immigrants in New Orleans. Something that we should talk about more.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
No real recipe - chopped onions, celery, carrots and mushrooms and cooked them in oil, added stew meat and spices - cooked until meat was brown. Then added a large can of crushed tomatoes, half a can of red wine, and 3/4 can of beef stock. Put lid on and in the oven for 2-3 hours. So good.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I did not take Lennie across the street to check on the neighbor’s progress with their Halloween decorations but I did finish the beef stew and mashed potatoes.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
That is how I feel when I see some of these things. The newest one was a woman with a wedding date before she was born in multiple family trees.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So sorry to hear this.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also, it is not possible for the same person to be listed in the Revolutionary War bounty land records and to be inducted into the Army in 1917.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Sounds like the USPS - at least at my house.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Penelope is not likely to be someone’s husband even though this information has been repeated in several different family trees.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Genealogical research this weekend has been mostly boring. I am going through large families that are distant relationships or related by marriage. Some of these people had so many children. Also, so many people put impossible things in their family trees.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Gail would like a word.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My neighbors with the destination house are decorating this year! Lennie has already dragged me across the street twice to check it out. Pictures coming.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Neighbors are decorating for Halloween - pictures coming.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Gail, despite her advanced age (she is at least 11-12) still does that.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This election season make sure any information you share about voting is clear about the location and dates that it applies to. Different places have different deadlines and rules. Don’t mislead people or discourage eligible voters.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Excellent spatial problem solving!
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Very sorry to hear of your loss.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The white one is a mini highland cross with dwarfism mutation - about 4 months old in the picture. The orange mini Highland cow is 8-9 months old.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think these are more fun to play with
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have changed my approach - I am correcting people on line, not arguing with them, and if they don’t fix their posts - reporting then to the County Clerk’s Office.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Early voting has begun and it is now Election Misinformation Season. The Democratic Party should require all of its officials from the precinct committee person on up to attend mandatory election training every election cycle.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nope. There is some video on local Facebook now - looks like it was contemplating going shopping.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Life in the suburbs in an area that still has small farms.
Black and White cow standing in front of the Home Depot Garden Center entrance at night.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human) @jennyil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For those who were waiting for pictures - it visited Home Depot.
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