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she/they, nonbinary/agender/gendermeh Level 40 queer cryptid Nerdy about many things Pittsburgh: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ioidzp6tplzplctluzbws6tn/feed/aaaeeierkqhko You gotta use alt text, babes.

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Jay @jayarden.com · Nov 16

I have no idea how or why there's a thousand of y'all here, but it's worth echoing what I've seen others say - interact with me and I'll interact with you! We're chatty here in a way you might not be familiar with. And if we vibe or have stuff in common I'll probably follow ya back at some point.

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Jay @jayarden.com · 3d

Ohh okay so I'm probably going at least twice in the theater, got it 🤓 thank you sir!

Jay @jayarden.com · 3d

@themountaingoats.bsky.social okay JD how are we feeling about this? I trust your opinions so no pressure.

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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG | Official Trailer (2025)

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Jay @jayarden.com · 23d

Aw, thank you! Def recommend the trip, I hit the rock hall of fame and the art museum (which is free!) too and I'm wiped out today but looking forward to next time. The current band iteration is absolutely killing it out there and I'm super excited for the shows they schedule after the new album.

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Jay @jayarden.com · 23d

@themountaingoats.bsky.social belated but have to thank you for Cleveland. Was lucky enough to be at the barrier dancing and getting lost in the music as y'all took us on a journey. Every time I see tMG it's somehow both brand new and like coming home. Much love.

Selfie of Jay, pre-show, lit in blue from the stage. They're wearing a white heavy duty respirator mask, dark framed round glasses, a denim battle vest with patches and pins on the shoulders, and have short hair. Their expression is wide eyed and exaggerated, eyebrows raised high. The crowd at the Agora is sparse behind them.

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Jay @jayarden.com · Sep 10

Not the person you asked but I was able to schedule at a local minute clinic but only for a few days in advance (more than four or five days out returned no availability)

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Jay @jayarden.com · Sep 9

The first drop in is SO GOOD

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Jay @jayarden.com · Aug 16

It's still pretty lovely and weird (pos) over on tumblr, for whatever it's worth

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Jay @jayarden.com · Jun 24

@bondcliff.bsky.social not bad for a first go with the lotto eh?

Side on (slightly forward stage right) view of a stage, as yet empty of band personnel, awash in blue lights. A modest crowd gathers in the pit.

Phish, Pittsburgh - June 24, 2025
Petersen Events Center

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Jay @jayarden.com · Apr 30

@jonwurster.bsky.social so Pittsburgh is kind of a wreck right now. Any idea if y'all will be going on tonight? Hope you're staying safe!

Jay @jayarden.com · Apr 19

Aw, and this gave ME a good feeling. Pet that clearly excellent cat for me, please! 🫶

(and seeya in Baltimore in a couple months!)

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Zoe The Socialism Hind 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦌 @zoe248.tgirl.gay · Mar 25

Hey, yinz want to makeout near the women pipe in this Chinese restaurant in Toronto?

Hallway outside a women's washroom at a Chinese restaurant in Toronto. A pipe with a sign that reads WOMEN

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💛Neurodivergent Grimoire💛 @ndgrimoire.bsky.social · Mar 25

🧵 Retro or #vintagetoy identification help!

When I was a kid in the 80s, my sister let me play w/ this creative plastic grid type creative picture builder set. There was no box, so I have no idea what it was. There were a variety of little plastic shapes, approx a cm in size to plug into the grid.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · Mar 25

Do you ever think about how we think with cells that looks like some of the most beautiful patterns in nature? And when you think about what, what are you thinking with? It's a river delta, it's a tree branch its pond ice its my mind...

Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · Mar 24

It snowed again today. 👎 But there were incredibly beautiful ice patterns in the lake. 🤙

Beautiful spidery ice patterns at the edge of a partially frozen lake. One of them looks like antlers. Some of them look like neurons.

Beautiful spidery ice patterns in a frozen lake.

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Molly Bangles @mollybangles.bsky.social · Mar 24

It’s Timberdoodle time 💛🪶🥔

American Woodcock in Bryant Park, NYC, March 2025

An American Woodcock - a mostly tan/buff colored bird with a potato-like body, very long slender beak, and large eyes - posing among the leaf litter and green ivy on the ground in Bryant Park. The bird is mostly facing the camera, head turned ever so slightly to the left.

An American Woodcock walking among the leaf litter and green ivy on the ground in Bryant Park. The skyline is reflected in their left eye.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · Mar 24

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · Mar 24

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · Mar 25

Signal sells extremely drippy merch, support your local end-to-end encrypted messaging app
shop.signal.org/products/use...

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · Mar 25

Librarians: I want to design a postcard that supports public libraries like I did for USPS. In the comments, for possible use on the back, please share very short statements about why libraries are important and what people can do to protect them. Thank you! I'll use what I can.

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · Mar 24

Food for thought: When you key a Tesla, it's not Elon that has to repair the damage. It's hard working American auto body repair people. Which is to say, you're helping create valuable American jobs by keying Teslas.

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · Mar 25

I'm reaching back for wayback lore from the other place, but who was the first "...and he just tweeted it out" poster?

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TribLIVE @triblive.bsky.social · Mar 24

Updated Pittsburgh area concert calendar: triblive.com/aande/music/...

2025 Pittsburgh area concert calendar

Concerts scheduled for the Pittsburgh area: March 2025 March 24: Deadgrass at City Winery Pittsburgh March 24: Quest Master, Fief, Hillsfar, Mithra at Shred Shed March 24: Reliable Child, Thin Lear, N...

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Queer and Pleasant Danger @monsterologist.bsky.social · Mar 21

The truth is America only exists BECAUSE of diversity. America only exists because immigrants built it. Often against their will.

Erase the history of Black people in America, and what is left isn't America. Erase the history of the undocumented immigrant in America, and what is left is not America

A picture of Linus, a cartoon character from Charles Schultz' Peanuts, shouting, "If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Mar 24

Fascists benefit from an uninformed, unwell & divided population.

That's why community care is so important. Give to your local mask bloc, food bank, community fridge or free library.

Wear a mask, and if you can afford it, leave N95s IN the free libraries! People will happily take them!

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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · Mar 24

Judge blocks Texas A&M University’s drag ban

The temporary injunction will allow a queer student group to hold its annual “Draggieland” performance at a university theater.

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Judge blocks Texas A&M University’s drag ban

The temporary injunction will allow a queer student group to hold its annual “Draggieland” performance at a university theater.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 24

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

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