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Jonathan Zoia

@jzoia.bsky.social

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📍Chicago 👬Adam 🐶 Mari Gay, feminist, veg Love: Languages, Travel, Reading, my plants Vices: Real Housewives and Diet Coke

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · Nov 16

Reintroduction thread:

Name: Jonathan
Pronouns: He/Him
Location: Rogers Park, Chicago
Interests: Books, travel, gardening and houseplants, terrible reality tv, Star Trek
Vocation: Loving Dogs

Me smiling in front of a building, Liverpool Parish Church

Me and my partner in front of purple flowers

My dog a brown and white pittie driving our car but not really of course

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 11h

Noel took a while to grow on me, although that may be partially due to his chemistry with Matt, who I did not like. Alison on the other hand I adore

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 12h

Apple cider donuts is my preferred vehicle 😋

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 16h

They should, pretty please, tell him he can have it next year if he is a really, really good boy and stops snatching people off the street

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 16h

Sometimes I wonder what worthwhile things my parents taught me, but just now as I was walking down the stairs with a pair of scissors, I realized that I was holding them correctly without thinking about it 🤣

Good job, Mom and Dad!

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 20h

This is correct. Out of my view the activists were making sure that they checked his documents rather than just grabbing him

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 20h

Unfortunately no, it was very chaotic and I could barely see. Thus me not knowing where the vendor went etc

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 20h

Indeed!

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 23h

This has kind of blown up and is attracting trolls so I want to provide one final update

They did indeed stop to target the vendor selling champurrado, but when he had all his paperwork in order they took two homeless men instead.

There is no plan, no criminal targets, just chaos

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 1d

I thought maybe I was misunderstanding because it was very chaotic with bikes and vans and whistles etc but it’s confirmed. Not sure if they got him away fast enough.

Seems like they are on the far north side and the north shore today

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched activists on bikes come speeding up, half of them whisk away the champurrado man and the other half stayed with his cart just as unmarked van of goons pulled up

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 3d

Working with much older people is so fun. They think I am so clever for doing normal things and my boss was highly amused by the concept of “basic”

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 5d

I just really love using the pressure washer

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 6d

“It still works” (it smells so bad I can’t believe it)

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 6d

He is such a smart person but the thinking ahead aspect is missing entirely

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 6d

We have a shop vac, a huge wet vac, a cheap basic vacuum for the basement, and a Dyson. You’ll never guess which one my husband used to vacuum up a broken water pitcher and the water it contained. I would be mad but it so funny to me

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 7d

Under the stairs is also a fun option! And eves are pretty annoying tbh, we used ours for her room and our secondary hvac but I do bang my head more often than I want to admit

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a little hard to photograph because it’s a weird half height closet. But the little curtain is at the door, she has some art, bed and all her clothes are hanging.

Our dog laying on her bed and a fake window with a giraffe

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 8d

I just randomly remembered a day I was kind of sneaking around a home goods store collecting items to turn a closet into our dogs bedroom

My husband comes over and I am thinking, oh god he is going to think I am so weird, and he says “are you making Mari a bedroom!?!? She will need wall art!”

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 9d

I wish I was like this. I would have promptly sat down in front of the tv

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you! She is quite a talent

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 9d

My husband has been furloughed for 28 minutes and he is already driving me up a wall. His constant need to be productive is something I cannot relate to. He is currently in the basement looking for paint to touch up the walls

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you! She is the best. Her next project is to paint goldenrod and asters because I said that is my favorite autumn sight

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 10d

My grandma is so emotionally smart, no wonder she is healthy at 88. She is upset about “armed masked police roaming around snatching people” but after writing letters and making donations she didn’t know what to do so she learned to use acrylics (she is a pastels lady usually)

Her first attempt:

A fall scene in acrylic paint. A bit of an impressionist picture of an autumn tree

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Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 10d

I am glad to see a reference Bible front and center. When I worked at Borders, bibles were stolen like crazy

Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social · 12d

It’s gotten to the point that I legitimately probably need help caring for all of them (or at least I need to stop relying on my memory of what they need and when)

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