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Jan (née ZetteZelle)

@jtfd.bsky.social
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Liberal arts success story (Oberlin ‘93). Living kidney donor. Any bad thing that happens to me can and will be made into a funny story.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
It's interesting coming from a place like the Rust Belt and visiting a place like Silicon Valley You see all the capital accumulation in a dynamic industry, all the fortunes being made, all the money flying around And you know nothing lasts forever
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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UnexpectedTexture Art @unexpectedtexture.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I cannot overstate how excited I am for this and to meet Large Francis the Isopod Scholar.
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Jan (née ZetteZelle) @jtfd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#eklipsenavarra Gracias, #Tafalla!
Solar eclipse—sun’s rays shining around edges of the moon’s shadow.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
the good news is that we've drawn a red line for iran and the bad news is that it currently stops at friendship heights, with shuttle service continuing to north bethesda
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Robert Ingersoll @rgingersoll.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Many calls are wrong. When the corrupt leader of the host nation involves himself in a wrong call, it’s unethical, unsportsmanlike and wrong on its face. Take the high road, play to win without the carded player and take pride in doing the right thing regardless of the outcome.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/06/2026
I've been thinking about this a lot. First, this is absolutely a homophobic attack on Buttigieg's family and should be treated as such. It's also an example of how CPS works all the time. I keep seeing everyone horrified that the kids were separated to be interviewed. That's what they do.
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
i hear the tech bros want to generically engineer designer babies. finally, a baby with pockets
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 06/04/2026
There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
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Daniel in Cornwall @danielincornwall.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Don't ask how you would open the Strait of Hormuz. Ask yourself how open to the Strait of Hormuz are you?
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.
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Jan (née ZetteZelle) @jtfd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Rereading books 1 & 2 in preparation for book 3 TOMORROW!!!
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Jan (née ZetteZelle) @jtfd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The WaPo still occasionally gets it right.
Article on Def Sec Hegseth objecting to unflattering photos, accompanied by photo of Hegseth giving a confused sneer.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"
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Jan (née ZetteZelle) @jtfd.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This one is a secret code for detecting Anglicans/Episcopalians of a particular generation.
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Jan (née ZetteZelle) @jtfd.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I have dear friends at FinCEN. The thought of their efforts to protect the U.S. financial system being weaponized like this makes me sick—as does the thought of someone less ethical than Hurley being put in charge. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump Treasury official to exit after objecting to Minneapolis crackdown
John Hurley’s exit follows internal disputes over the White House-backed push to target alleged fraud in the Somali community.
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max graves @maximumgraves.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
all of the post-heated rivalry press about why women like yaoi is driving me crazy. imagine if there were a blitz of articles in the year 2026 like "why do men like lesbian porn?" who can say. world's biggest mystery
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/02/2026
epstein and the epstein class were so fucking desperate for validation they funded a cranberry bog of academics to explain why they were the master race, but yeah sure. it's women who only care about being admired
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day
the ninja turtles and the power rangers putting aside their differences and teaming up
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism
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Jan (née ZetteZelle) @jtfd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I grew up in New England rooting for the Patriots (I still feel the pain of Super Bowl XX). Moving away didn’t stop my fandom; that happened when they started winning all the damn time and got smug and boring. Tonight’s loss may have been cleansing enough for me to become a fan again.
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 09/02/2026
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
If the Republican US attorney for the District of Columbia doesn't recognize the Heller decision then no state is under any obligation to do so either
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
It was literally preferable in some school districts to imply the Roanoke settlers all starved to death, were murdered, or sucked up by UFO tractor beams than to acknowledge a local tribe went "Dang, dude. You need a hand? Come sit by the fire. BTW I think my sister likes u."
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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🚨As if DC didn’t already have enough to deal with, today we learned the Senate and House will vote next wk on SJ Res. 102 and HJ Res. 142 to disapprove a bill to decouple provisions of DC’s tax code from the feds. This would blow a $820 MILLION hole through the financial plan!
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eek @eke.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
the thing that jumps out across multiple agencies is how they think the *mechanics* of *writing regulations* is the difficult task to be solved and that the content of the regulation is easy. it's almost as wrong as you can possibly be
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/01/2026
There are a lot of men out there who do not see any of the logistics happening around them and they're like "wait, where the fuck did these hand warmers come from?" Look at every kid wearing mittens, and that's your answer. From the people who have been silently keeping hands warm for centuries.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Think about how although Pretti was a gunowner, when he saw someone being attacked his first response wasn't to use the gun but to help them up and ask them if they're ok. It wasn't even on his mind that a gun would be useful. Compare that to the paranoia of rightwing gun culture.
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That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
There’s not a single person in this country that they couldn’t easily come up with a post facto justification for murdering
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Jan (née ZetteZelle) @jtfd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
My church announced yesterday that there would be no Sunday services due to the predicted storm. It’s a decision they made for the safety of staff and congregation, and I don’t fault them for it… But at this moment I’m in desperate need to be with the community that shares my values and sorrow.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 24/01/2026
The central question of the last decade+ in America is if the police can kill you if they feel afraid, and it was my understanding that you sign up for the job knowing there’s going to be danger and you’re paid to be better than “I shot him because I was scared”
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Gutenberg Panini Press @thefearofcod.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
in case you don’t speak Anglican, this means “if you work for ICE you are going to hell” which is both based and theologically sound
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I don’t know what I did to Prose, but it’s hard to maintain friendships in adulthood
A coffee mug with a simple book design and “Friend of Politics” with the “and Prose” having been rubbed or chipped off
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I think abusing your position at a think tank to fix the outcome of a gambling contract on a real life war by altering a map is immoral, but tbh probably less immoral than genuinely gambling on what's going to happen in a real life war is?
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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
a new jersey-based christmas tree delivery service called Spruce Bringsteen
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Jan (née ZetteZelle) @jtfd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
My sole employer to have followed federal wage and hour regulations was a huge law firm that represented corporations who had engaged in nefarious behaviors. The nonprofits didn’t even understand that they weren’t supposed to ask the intern to stay til 9 pm.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 01/12/2025
I named my fists Bert and Ernie because one’s a little bigger than the other. Wait. That’s my boobs, not my fists. My bad.
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pretty kate machine @littlefreaklibrary.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
It's so funny when someone writes a song to try to get someone to have sex with them. That's what a bird would do!
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Big Wonderful Wyoming @wydot.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Red Canyon, 11/29/2025, 10:25:20 AM
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