Tenessa Gemelke

@mulegirl My 11YO son said, “You pay attention, figure out what is important, and then make it happen.”

@Tubes Serious 4th grade book report vibes

@Tim_Walz Am I too late?!

No better place to be than the Minnesota State Fair.

@TimWalz is at the fair!!! Trying to make this dream come true!

@GovTimWalz is at the fair!!! Trying to make this dream come true!

@Caissie I loved the astrology convo, plus knowing you got to experience Tim Walz this week! (You’ll always be a Minnesotan in my heart.)

My phone mysteriously played podcasts all night (instead of just one episode), and I woke up to @Caissie interviewing @cmclymer—both my imaginary best friends on the internet! Thanks for leaning into the possibilities, you two joy nuggets.

@melanie_seibert @CartoonsHateHer I actually had a blast! Obviously the elaborate hair and makeup weren’t for me, but I loved the new clothes. (I still shop exclusively at thrift stores, though.)

@CartoonsHateHer Hey @gemelket, how did you feel about your WNTW makeover?

randomly remembering the What Not To Wear show which gave fashion makeovers that turned every single guest into a 45 year old Karen

@AngryBlackLady My dad would make the entire Thanksgiving menu again sometime in the spring. “If we all agree this is the best dinner, why make it only once a year?”

@UnwinderH (I realize I’m blurring lines between genres—I mostly meant to say that the fringes are now very mainstream.)

@UnwinderH I took a class in college called “The Future in Fiction.” The professor couldn’t get clearance for any class with “sci-fi” in the name. I do think things have changed since then. Comic books used to be marginalized to nerd culture, and now those stories OWN the box office.

Discuss: Are Sci-Fi and Fantasy really still ghettoized as unserious literature?

@LizHackett Turns out the oak boards and bag salads were the friends you made along the way.

Between the pandemic and the strike, I'm not sure what I wear anymore. Linen pants and a belted paper bag? Is the mom jeans revival done? I have two oak boards and a bag of salad. Can I make a dress of it?

@UnwinderH I am begging every human in your house to please never change.

Foster kid told me there was a dog at the park that looked "really nineties" and then I went to the park later and the dog was still there and I could easily tell what dog she meant.

@UnwinderH Hello, you are me now!

drinking boxed wine and eating a block of cheese that my toddler picked out at the farmer's market

@UnwinderH This is so much better than capitalism. Dan got to kinda do this for a few years. Money is the worst.

I only want to hang out with my toddler and do dad shit. Don't want to go to work. Don't even really want to post online.

@UnwinderH I am a total laggard, so I usually let the rest of the internet figure it out, and then Grandma Tenessa wanders in late.

@gemelket On here but gradually moving my operation to BlueSky, which is invitation-only right now. Everything I've been hearing about Threads sounds horrible so I'm trying to avoid going there if at all possible.

I didn't really LEAVE this place, but I just kinda gave up one day. Anybody still out there?

@RonSexsmith I saw you for the first time in Manhattan at the South Street Seaport, approximately 2002? Your songs just keep getting better the more I listen to them—from the old favorites to the newest covers. Thank you for many of my dearest soundtracks.

@rosamund I’m glad you are fine, and please know that you are allowed feral screams with ANY emotion in the meantime.

- Enroll in a Title 1 school - Get into the predatory lending business - Become an ectopic pregnancy in Texas mcsweeneys.net/articles/thing…

Why does this make me feel seen?