another day at the empanada factory with Abuela’s handmade gold
jenzo duque-french 🇨🇴
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writer gamer agitator • THE REST OF US (Viking Books) • BASS 2021 • abolitionist • views: mine • he/his • free 🇵🇸
33WF is the organization that never sleeps! Thank you to everyone who joined us as we canvassed for our School Board Candidates on Saturday afternoon, fundraised for our Springfield Candidates Saturday evening, and biked the ward to fundraise for Rossana on Sunday afternoon! bit.ly/Rossana33Eve...
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i was in charge of volunteer grilling during an IPO event and had to work two grills at once and even though it's the end of the season i now have the grill bug and wish to grill more, though preferably on a single grill at a time
Hey chicago bicyclists! I have a friend who is moving to albany park neighborhood of chicago, near the end of the brown line and wants to start biking for daily errands, haven't biked in a while. What advice would you give? They want to stay anonymous at this time.
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Thank you to everyone who joined the 7th Annual Bike With Rossana fundraiser! We had an amazing time touring the ward in our custom shirts, stopping by Miko’s for Italian ice, and regrouping for a backyard barbecue. Missed the event but want to donate? rossanafor33.solidarity.tech/donate-to-ro...
Not nearly enough of you are following Jenzo DuQue on here. That probably means not nearly enough of you have read this incredible flash hybrid thingy. Go read it. Now. And follow Jenzo. He's the real shit. Dude has *language* y'all.
jenzo duque-french 🇨🇴@jenzo.bsky.social · last mo.this is quite late but if you feel so inclined: the good folks at honey literary were kind enough to give my latest thing a home www.honeyliterary.com/issue10/hybr...
everybody's like where's jenzo where's jenzo as if i didn't just LARP being a single parent to my new kitten and older cat for like four days
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Bike With Rossana 2026 - Rossana for 33
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yknow, it occurs to me that my mental health crisis DID happen at a really inconvenient time
housing's a right in bikini bottom bc what do you mean 2 food service workers dealing with wage theft can afford their own single family homes? aint no way the starfish has a mortgage without a 9-5, so is the boulder paid off? subsidized housing, UBI? market's gotta be a bubble just wait til AI hits
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My daughter’s latest masterpiece
imagine being this far in the ride and only now beginning to worry about the economy. someone is.
It’s kind of crazy that this is going to be revelatory for a lot of people while idiots who post online have known this incredibly important information for years and years at this point
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w agoThe 3-hour-and-45-minute “Musk” (plus a 10-minute intermission) hits theaters on Oct. 16, but it’s already causing a stir. The documentary paints Elon Musk as an emotionally unstable grifter with more power and influence than perhaps any other human. https://wapo.st/4ydlXzL
I have a new story out today, in Chatterbox: www.chatterboxlit.com/read/t-boy-n... it’s about friendship between trans boys, and hanging out in the woods, and magic jizz, and it’s a romance. Pls enjoy
T-Boy Never Fights Alone — Chatterbox Literary
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from the comfort book by Matt Haig, which helped save my life
from the comfort book by Matt Haig, which helped save my life
it’s world suicide prevention day. as a survivor, I want to quote matt haig, “Stay for the person you will become. you are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or decade…You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost & former you held on. Stay. “
jenzo duque-french 🇨🇴@jenzo.bsky.social · 3w agothis is profoundly sad. add to the list of reasons not to interact with ai. i honestly don’t know if id be alive had I been confiding in chatbots during my lowest & most suicidal moments. thank god ive stayed away. so predatory. we’ve barely grazed the surface of mental health in this country as is
beating the Islamophobia drums wasn’t enough they had to kick up some Sikhphobia too before 9/11
Sorry, not sorry, not going to care about hasan piker’s meat because I grew up with an alcoholic, psychologically abusive father in constant distress, anxiety and worry. Hearing the key in the door every evening was my own “hasan piker’s meat” for almost 20 years.