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Connie Love

@tinjack.bsky.social
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Gay daughter of a Kansas plowboy and a Wyoming cowgirl. Now living in a solidly Blue state.

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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I can’t deal right now with the corruption, grifting and cruelty bombarding us on a daily basis. So I am losing myself tonight reading about the Green River Killer in Washington state. I am not sure how reading about a serial killer seems less benign than what is happening to my beloved country.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
@svandals.bsky.social Oh my gosh. An actual Ichabod on my feed. My niece Rebecca Love just graduated with a nursing degree from Washburn. And my brother Bruce Love just retired after working HVAC there for several years. I grew up in Burlingame. Visit my hometown if you get a chance.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Holly Rowe and Chiney Ogwumike are the best ambassadors for women’s sports in the US. Portland has the WNBA Fire and the Portland Cascade of the AUSL in Hillsboro. The Sports Bra (the first and only sports bar highlighting women’s sports in the US) started in the city in 2022. Mecca.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thank you.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I spent much of my research career investigating wood decay and chemical preservation. Representations of utility poles, cross arms and transformers with utility workers hit me in the gut. And watching Bad Bunny climb those metal handholds. Wow. Maria is still hurting PR. My country failed them.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We’re going to need a bigger bus.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I wish all of you could live in western Oregon where I can drive two miles from my house and cut my own fresh tree from one of the local tree farms. $25 and I always give the owner $50 because I am so grateful he still maintains a u-cut property.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
There is still tremendous support for Ukraine from many American people. What changed on our side is that Donald Trump was elected president. Our country’s support for Ukraine’s resistance against Russian aggression faded because one man chose to do so. I am sorry. We are trying to change that.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
As well they should. A peace plan without Ukrainian input is a travesty.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
TACO.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
We seem kindred Ryan S. I will have to Google 🤬 Canadian Shield. Our farm is in Eastern Kansas. Our timber along Switzler Creek in Osage County, KS contains black walnut, hickory, red elm, oak and maple. We don’t log it, and none of our LLC future designates will either.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
My three siblings and I have a small farm, about 151 acres. We took more than 20% of our tillable acres out of production on both sides of the creek that runs through our bottom ground. We put it into CRP to filter herbicides and fertilizer out of the creek. Some farmers are stewards. We are.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Where I grew up in Eastern Kansas, we called this “dooring”. Usually used against dogs that snapped at the tires of your car as you drove by.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I am inspired by your efforts in support of Democrats in MO. I will financially support them. I am a Kansas native. KS came in as a free state while MO did all they could to thwart that. Quantrill and John Brown are part of our shared history. I hope I am better than either of them. I know you are.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Wow. Bravery and poise.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
That is so beautiful. Thank you.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I have a daughter, son-in-law and two small granddaughters living just a few miles from that town. Not Trump voters. I ask everyone to please consider the real people behind generalizations. Thank you.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I am not going to criticize any of them for being overweight. I am much more concerned about their racism and antisemitism.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
As my Wyoming-born Uncle Bud used to say “get ‘er ass” Senator Murray. Use your tennis shoes if you have to. That reference to her tennis shoes would be well-known to us in the Pacific Northwest.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
When will he run out of Fox Entertainment personnel? His draft pool is ridiculously small.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I am not sure he ever progressed past that age.
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Trouble @trouble08.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Just making shit up as he goes. I swear he's reverted to his 6 year old self.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
So, first Sister Wives, and now Poly Family. And perhaps many more alternative family groups that I will never expect to care about. But, apparently enough American viewers do. But Mayor Pete, his husband and their two kids are somehow the family so many folks rail against as unnatural and immoral.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My mistake. Sorry. It is Xfinity, not Verizon, for the ads I find offensive. My cable provider is Xfinity (Comcast in my region) and I stand by original post about their ads.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I have been a longtime Verizon customer. Their recent ads depicting prospectors seeking riches while spouting exaggerated regional dialects offends me. Just stop, Verizon. I also hear white, northern folks, pretend to affect southern accents. Just fucking stop with that shit too.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
@freefalling66.bsky.social Thank you for the repost concerning my family member currently serving our country under this current administration. I am now following you. I am being vague about their role because we share a somewhat recognizable and memorable surname. They are only 24 years old.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I have an active duty family member currently serving under Trump. They did not vote for him. They have expressed their anguish to me at possibly having to make a choice to follow possible illegal commands. My heart breaks for them because they love serving our country.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It is far, far too late for Tesla to recover. Elon and his Doge cronies tanked too many of our essential governmental agencies. Musk’s billions cannot rescue that company now, especially if he tries to return to rescue his company. Good.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I have an active duty family member currently serving under Trump. They did not vote for him. They have expressed their anguish to me at possibly having to make a choice to follow possible illegal commands. My heart breaks for them because they love serving our country.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
My DNA profile indicates 49% Scottish. I would gladly go if they would accept me 😁.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
You’re welcome. Obviously, we do not know each other, but compassion need not require a personal relationship.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Nope. Voting for this bill is potentially disenfranchising millions of folks who should be legally, and easily, allowed to vote. I don’t often say this now, because my kids started thinking this was an appropriate response to wayward drivers, but you are a dumbass.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Do you really believe red state leaders won’t use every underhanded tactic they can imagine to disenfranchise their voters with insufficient documentation? Did you happen to take your wife’s last name when you married, if you are married? I bet not. You are fooling yourself.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This should not be happening in our country. So many people will be needlessly suffering.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I am sorry this is happening to you.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I am so sorry for that. This is a tragedy for so many Americans.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I live in a solidly blue state that suffers yearly from devastating wildfires. People lose homes, businesses, and sometimes, their lives. Wildfire doesn’t consider the voting habits of the people in the path. Have some compassion. No one deserves to suffer because they vote a certain way.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I know many people like cats. I grew up on a farm and we had many cats. They kept the mice and rats in check. I actually had several favorites that I adored. I live in town now and the neighborhood cats prey on the birds that come to my feeders. It is not their fault, they are just cats.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
But, my grandma in Wyoming once whipped a rope out at a magpie that was bugging her and snapped it’s head off. She left it lying there and said “let that be a lesson to the rest of them”. My mom, her daughter, grew up on horseback and won sharpshooter medals. I am her daughter 😀.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
That made me laugh. And thank you. I don’t know anything about the OP but I am old, and white. Black women have carried the torch for way too long in the US. So, I am picking it up in every way I can now. Not violently, that was rhetorical.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I, for one, would welcome the assistance from an old Canadian man. And thank you to all Canadians resisting our crazy president. I hope you all know that most of us down here do not condone the belligerence from our tiny rapist man-child against our closest ally.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Well, we did fight to become a free state. “Bloody Kansas” after all. Lawrence, Kansas, especially, paid a very heavy price. There is a reason John Brown and his followers continue to blaze in full color on the walls of the rotunda in the statehouse in Topeka.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I grew up in rural Kansas. I am so glad you are meeting with them. Thank you for not ignoring them. That photo could have been taken in my hometown in eastern Kansas.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I am an old woman from America. If your fist isn’t strong enough, I will add my own to it.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I currently cannot join any active protests. But I do financially support several public radio broadcasters in Oregon. OPB, and KLCC and KRVM, out of Eugene KRVM broadcasts Indian Time on Thursday nights. Stream it if you are not local. The variety of Native American music is captivating.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Come on up to Oregon. No individual can own our beaches or block access to them. Summers have near zero humidity because it does not rain during the summer. True, we do have low clouds and rain from late October until late February. But many of our rainy days give us less than 1/2 inch.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I spent 19 years at Oregon State University researching wood decay and wood preservation, primarily working with utility companies in both Canada and the US. Also, Elon Musk is an uninformed idiot.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
There is a recently-installed CCA-treated southern pine utility pole right next to that broken pole. The broken pole was stubbed and the duct tape is a joke. When a utility line is repaired, they don’t worry about removing the old poles right away. They just work to get the power back on.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I am so sorry. Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. Ripple effects from a giant boulder carelessly thrown into the waters of so many American’s livelihoods.
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Connie Love @tinjack.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
That definitely made me giggle. Thanks.
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