Jessica LeTourneur Bax

Freelance copyeditor for university presses & trade publishers. Public historian. Lover of books, history, fashion, and travel. Fueled by coffee. She/her.

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Really disappointed in @Zappos for discontinuing their military discount program with no notice. I called customer service on behalf of my hospitalized veteran dad and the agent was completely unapologetic & unsympathetic. Shameful.

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@EddyEkofo Go f*c* your face

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@katherinebhowe I have a young son and I’m the only child to single parents in their seventies who both live alone and on opposite sides of the country far from where I live, and I’m choked up by this even being a possibility, it would be an enormous help.

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@LadyHawkins

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People say nineteenth-century novels are “boring” but that period gave us Frankenstein, vampires, lesbian vampires, the story of a man who stays young while his portrait ages. It gave us Alice in Wonderland. It gave us wives in the attic.

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@SusanMacNeal Thanks for sharing! My husband & I have had this on our list for too long and want to watch it in honor of Dame Maggie.

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@JosinMcQuein @rachkmc It’s bonkers to me that this is a thing: I recently reconnected with a male friend from high school and his wife won’t allow him to see me when I’m in town next week, nor does she want him speaking to me period (they’re Catholic).

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@fuggirls In the summer of 2020 I was telling my dad about how much I missed drinking margaritas on patios and he sent me a Margaritaville machine ♥️

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@rachkmc I love having one kid, but I know I would have been miserable with three or more or as a stay-at-home parent.

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@rachkmc You’d have to live here to really understand the hypocrisy of these men and the fact that nothing anyone says or does will change it, it’s too ingrained.

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@LadyHawkins @samanthaistan I’m just so happy to see Hamilton getting podiums again; we all cried happy tears along with him when he won Silverstone.

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@LadyHawkins @samanthaistan He threw more temper tantrums this weekend than my son has all year; he hates losing so much he turns into a toddler who missed naptime. It’s hilarious.

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@LadyHawkins Love this :) My son yells “Box Box” when he needs to use the bathroom and now my husband and I have taken to doing it on long drives and one of us needs to stop.

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@rachkmc

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@LaurenKiehna You have my deepest sympathies—my home office flooded two weeks ago and I had many books piled on the floor.

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@rachkmc Sadly it’s not surprising—they all bought into the purity culture and true love waits movement BS of the 1990s.

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@rachkmc I know several Christian women who won’t let their daughters listen to her music because she sings about female empowerment and “revenge” (their words).

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Healing from surgery this week & am very grateful to have @Jessica_StClair keeping me company as I rewatch #PlayingHouse for the millionth time & listening to @thedeepdivepod, reminding myself that I can do hard things & time in the underworld is temporary.

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@rachkmc I so rarely see movies in theaters anymore—I tend to just wait to see them from the comfort of my own home several weeks or months after their release.