Jennifer Weeks
@jenniferweeks83
Freelance editor and writer, formerly @us.theconversation.com. Many bylines in many places. DC native, mom, Red Sox fan, alto II, Eph. Parallel parking is my special power.
TIL that the difference between the price of oil and that of the products it's refined into is called the crack spread, and a truer term was never coined.
Weird yellow-grey skies over Boston from Minnesota wildfire smoke drifting east. It feels like the dimming before a partial eclipse.
It's worked for the Dropkick Murphys for 30 years (photo from one of their shows last March in Boston)
Timeline cleanse: Float Boat, by Dale Chihuly, inspired by a trip to Finland and his childhood experience picking up Japanese fishing floats along Puget Sound.
Corvids have so much attitude. This black-billed magpie was mooching from customers outside a bakery in Bozeman -- it almost sat on our feet.
We lost this sweet boy abruptly yesterday at age 17+ -- pretty good for a shelter cat whose first 5 or 6 years were chaotic, and who came to us with a heart murmur. We spoiled him for the next 11, and will adopt a new cat soon, but right now there's a 10-pound hole in our hearts #catsofbluesky
Show me you didn't read the book blurb without saying anything. #polisky
Stack and Mary at the end of Sinners look like birds in nesting season
I’d like to report a Renaissance painting #caturday #catsofbluesky
Solomon demonstrates his Apostrophe move. The degree of difficulty is low, but he's got perfect execution – look at that back leg extension. Plus, if you flip him 180 degrees vertically, he's a comma #catsky #catolympics
It's the now version of the "Hairspray" finale, where Black and white teens start dancing together on the Corny Collins Show. In the 2007 movie, nasty stage mom Velma tells the host to do something because the show is "turning to gumbo." He says, "Not a chance -- this is the future."
The snow has arrived in Boston, but our local bagel store is packed and has plenty of iced coffee to go. Stay thirsty, Massachusetts
Mr Drama King makes it known that he disapproves of his people going on trips and will need extra treats to cope with this disruption #caturday
My niece’s cat surveilling the kitchen from his strategic vantage point above the fridge. Look at that focus #caturday
Birds, bugs, fish, whatever. Let's see some #NewYearsEveIridescence! #birds (mallard)
Never expected to see the GAO use Whack-a Mole to describe a public policy challenge, but it's not a bad metaphor for curbing malicious uses of generative AI. www.gao.gov/products/gao...
Solomon has demonstrated that at 15, he can still jump up onto our kitchen counters, at least when he smells turkey. He got some in his bowl but believes that he deserves seconds #catsky
Ok ICE/CBP, what are you doing about this urban lawlessness? Neighborhoods are under threat every day that these criminal actors terrorize citizens.
Support politicians who will fight for you the way Ramses attacks this ribbon wand #caturday