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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 8h

One of the worst thing about being sick with a throat that hurts is not being able to scream or otherwise raise my voice while watching these incredible #baseball games happening...

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 8h

Love this so much. I remember as a kid when my family took a cross country road trip to Cooperstown my dad said we should go bc my favorite player (Carlton Fisk) had been put in there. I was also there the last day Comiskey Park existed. So many good memories with the Soxxers!

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sent this to a relative in IL this evening along with some other intel about family things that... well some of the family would probably support this even with yours truly living here. This is part of why some of us go to cities... to find communities, not to be x'd out by our haters to be clear.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's the thing about cities. There are so many of us that found community outside of where we grew up because parts or for some, all of how they shared space & grew just didn't care about them or their existence. Cities are love. I appreciate this being said so much.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've also been checking the #baseball games throughout the day although I've literally got my computer up with the Padres vs Brewers game right now. Yay about both the Soxxers & the Doyers. Also yay about Yankees losing. Wow this game on right now though. This is a damn tight game.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Saturday #boardgame Day is here! This is what we’ve been playing- 🧵

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I got a lot of flack from liberals for saying hey Newsom isn’t the golden boy yall are trying to act like he is. I wish I wasn’t right but like uh do you folks get it yet? That man ain’t coming to save you. He ain’t the GOAT you tried to make him out to be. Are you listening now or naw?

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yesterday was an adventure in quiet for a bit of the day. It was one of my son’s birthdays, a cross city transit tango, some #boardgame time, followed by a beer with history & a side of well that was said. Now I’m looking at the date & having a moment. I hate today. It’s my Grama’s deathiversary.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is back in the news, so here's a piece I wrote a while back. I'm the sister of a murder victim & am wholeheartedly against the death penalty. It does not bring your loved one back. It is solely about vengeance. It does not deter anything. Abolish it already. tinyurl.com/456yeehf

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Amid my grief, I came to care about the man who murdered my sister

Prisoners still deserve to be treated with empathy despite their crimes, writes Jennifer Stavros

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I gotta say, it's really something watching the Cubbies on limited life support for this post-season 2nd game & then reading about the literal death-sentence trash that is happening & reading about that person suffering at the same time. Absolute trash world we are living in...

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They didn't want folks to see this. They knew what they were doing... & they kept doing it anyway. I hope she lives & she sues them to oblivion.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you don't get how the death penalty is far beyond cruel & unusual punishment, you do not have a soul to sell anyone. You are already a ghoul. This is ludicrous.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cubs game time now. We need to win this. Come on Cubbies! I believe in you! #baseball

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So, I've been back in LA for almost a week & this is really weird to say but I legit miss Chicago, especially right now. The city itself is fucking rad af. I don't get why my family in the burbia is pretty much allergic to it. I did have a lot of fun on my trips to the city while there.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First postseason win for the Sox since 2005! So proud of my Soxxers!! From the worst to this. I love you, Chicago baseball!!!

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We Soxxers is the blessed bc Da Pope. Really sad I didn't get to a game while back home. They are rocking right now. I'm loving every moment of it.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Patients deserve dignity & privacy while receiving healthcare. This nurse was a hero, trying to help this person. Absolutely horrific that the nurse was charged with anything other than being an exceptional human being doing an excellent job of ensuring her patient was safe.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Late getting to it but watching the Soxxers Game 2. Jumping in at the game being 4-3 Soxxers over trashstros. Let's go White Sox!! #baseball

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This feels very Gattaca. What next? Labeling folks as invalids & then telling them they will amount to nothing in their lives?

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Awake & seeing stuff about a possible Vance pick for VP. Really hoping that team blue doesn't push Harris again, but given that they seem to not actually want to win an election, I fear they might. Would love to see actual viable choices picked. Trying to be optimistic that it will come to pass but

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Soxxers are up 3 to nothing now vs the Trashstros. Go Sox!!! #baseball

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Legit, do not find it ironic in the slightest that I came back & have been dealing with misogynistic shit to how there's currently big news about... wait for it... misogynistic absolute trash behavior by men in the top of the news. It's almost like this is a society sickness or something...🤔🤔🤔

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In other news, a piece I submitted months ago finally went live this weekend. I wrote about a local Black owned roller skating rink owned by an awesome person for a local pub here in LA called the LA Local. You can read the published story here: tinyurl.com/4hx6mfwy

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Sunshine Skate Center in. Inglewood

After witnessing the final days of World on Wheels, Cory Joseph built Sunshine Skate Center at Hollywood Park as a sanctuary on four wheels.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Returned & made mention about how I'm looking forward to getting things launched on a platform not on Substack. It went sideways as some felt compelled to defend being on the platform. So now I have some haters bc I am vocally not supporting a platform that supports fascists. Hilarious, tbh.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh: my political bias is eat the rich.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Back into the mix of Saturday #boardgames now doing the second play test game of the run. There are several regular faces here now but also quite a few new ones too. Really love being a part of this delightful mix of characters. It’s good to be home.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh: what’s discord? Note- I’m at a #boardgame store now & this was even more curious to hear.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had to check my rolling bag at the gate. Really worried about it because American plus grandpa stuff. Please pray that it arrives to LA as it should. Need no more whammies…🤞🤞🤞

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’s some guy here claiming he saw Pee Wee Herman on a flight recently. 🙄 What an idiot liar. No way possible given when he died but ok bro… 🙄🙄

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m overdue to show pics of things of the last few days but omg the last two days were epic & both involved baseball. However the most important event took up the majority of my storage on my phone & hot damn it’s been one big adventure sending my gramps off. I miss him so much. 💕🪦💐⚾️

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not currently in Wyoming but also apparently kinda am?

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ok this is a bit strange but I've tried posting pictures from the Cubs game last night twice now & they are not going up. It might be yet another storage issue I have to deal with. "Yay." However, dear friends, my goodness! It was such a good night at the game even if we didn't get to fly the W.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some hope for your Tuesday! Please read my latest piece that went up last week. (I missed it due to family & tech support issues.) Read about how a local shower serving homeless & housing insecure individuals was saved via collective action on the LA Local here: tinyurl.com/mv7rm7b4

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Shower of Hope LA mobile shower program

Grassroots advocacy saved LA's mobile shower units from budget cuts, expanding services across Inglewood, Boyle Heights and Northeast LA.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Had dinner out tonight with a cousin locally in the burbia. It was nice. We had a great time and laughed a lot. However... I'm STILL dealing with tech support issues & am just... Sigh. IDK how I'm going to do all of this stuff. Idk how I'm going to find the energy for all of it. But I have to...

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For some reason, unbeknownst to me, I seem to be dealing with a flurry of tech issues related to my storage for my phone despite doing several different things and, well so much of this shit is out of my control which... and I don't have much time left here of course :(

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh: do they sell gas stations at postcards?

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Being back in the small town is really strange. I randomly ran into someone I knew back in high school whom I ain't seen for over 20 years at Walmart earlier today when I was running an errand. Such unexpected, strange things. Heh.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Surprise greetings from IL sky folks. For those not in the know about what that tends to mean, yep, someone died. Well, not just someone... it was the greatest man to ever live & make an impact on my existence/my hero: my grandpa. This trip is SUPER heavy for me, as this man meant the world to me.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Last night I started this post: "My body is finally going, hey girl, you've been doing too many things lately & you should probably chill..." I did indeed need to chill and sleep for idk, maybe more than only a couple of hours at best bc, well the last few days have been a whole whirlwind.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Google just tried to autocorrect my writing of grandma as “Grampian”. Is that even a word or is autocorrect on AI slop drugs? 🤔🤔🤔

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Whelp yesterday was… But also! However… And! But… I’m awake after an almost 24 hour awake day, not for a meowing cat but a symphony from the sky & a feeling that even though everything might not be perfect, I’m delighted to be awake. I’m delighted to be alive. My soul is dancing as am I.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My friend's cat decided to meow until I woke up. I had only slept a couple of hours at best. Now I can't fall asleep & need to be out the door at 915 for day 2 of con. Let's see how much this kicks my ass later. FML.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's not quite 1 am here, & con was HECTIC, but damn, it's *extra* chaos level bc I'm in the process of soft-launching my upcoming #boardgame newsletter, which, once all that is up & such, I will happily ask you to subscribe to, etc! Yay games & words & things coming soon! Stay tuned!!)

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh: you should make a band called hot yoga lashes.

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My friend's daughter asked me about my lashes. I gave her some magnetic ones since I got mine done today, and then, as she was leaving, she asked me if I had any goth clothes she could borrow to wear out. Be still, my black goth heart. 🖤

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Which should I bring to read on the train today?

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So on Saturday I got to playtest a cute battle card game with crochet in the mix! It’s called Battle Goomies & went live on Backerkit today. It was also made by an awesome human named Louie. Go check it out & consider backing it. #boardgame folks! tinyurl.com/5b98kcus

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