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Jay in NH
@jayinnh.bsky.social
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Bsky Elder here for a laugh and a hangout with good people. Yes to shitposts. No to politics, activism, advocacy, hate, rage.

Habs fan formerly living in the White Mountains (now in NJ).

Welcome to Bluesky.
Don’t be a dick.
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Found this little number while helping Mrs. Jay shop for a gown at Macy’s some years ago. The look: *eviscerated* snake.

NGL, would make a statement on Pam Oliver.
A rack of dresses at Macy’s, with other dressed in the background. The dress shown prominently has a black and white snakeskin pattern with a wide crimson stripe down the front suggesting evisceration. The label on the dress is Nine West, which I understood to be an otherwise not especially bloodthirsty women’s wear label.
January 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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I don’t know who Rite Lite is and I don’t know why they make bizarre novelty Chanukah toys and I don’t know why CVS thinks it’s important to stock them nationwide.

But what I DO know is that there is a toy inventor out there who may be criminally insane and he’s found his ideal day job.
A shelf display in a CVS featuring a seasonal toy called Judah Maccabot 2.0. The box copy said that it pays your favorite Chanukah songs, whatever those may be, and dances to the music. This would make a legendary white elephant gift exchange item due to its singular lack of appeal for all ages. A “bouncing dreidel” toy for sale at CVS. The shape is nothing like a dreidel, I think we can all agree on that.
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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It snowed in NJ last night! 🤨

(To the New Hampshirer in my heart, such a puny amount of snow seems impossible. Like going to Costco and buying a single grape.)
Car hood with the faintest scattering of tiny snowflakes. Basically, if you put all that snow together, you would have a single snowball small enough for a chipmunk to throw.
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Dachshunds are the most insanely engineered dogs (next to bulldogs) and yet so enduringly cute and sweet. Here’s a pic of my long-gone Yimmy, tail whipping too fast to be caught by modern photography.
Yimmy, a male black and tan smooth dachshund, on his back, demanding tummy rubs, tail whipping frantically back and forth.
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Hey @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social, I found this majestic tribute to corn syrup in my camera roll. Thoughts?
Bottles of Mrs. Butterworth’s Fruity Pebbles-flavored syrup on a grocery shelf. Presumably right at the eye-line of children with hair-trigger needs for processed foods.
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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“Draw me like one of your French girls."
Taffy, a tricolor shih tzu mixed-breed dog, reposed languorously on a brown and cream-colored dog bed set on a brownish carpet, the color of which I literally never even noticed before, it’s that nondescript.
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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When Taffy was a puppy, Mrs. Jay liked the idea of dressing her up in cute coats for winter’s. She did not ask if Taffy liked the idea and Taffy made it clear that she did not.
A small shih tzu mixed-breed puppy sitting on a brown carpet. She is wearing a brown tweed and knit coat with a ruffled skirt. She is also wearing an expression of barely contained rage at the indignity of being in this outfit. She was not made to wear the coat again and it was returned to the pet store in a shroud of shame.
October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Nothing says “you’ve betrayed me and I will never forgive you” like a puppy after her first bath. (Well, maybe not retrievers.)

For @rosalynroy.bsky.social
Taffy, a Shih Tzu mixed-breed dog as a puppy after her first bath. She is swaddled in a towel and looking utterly shocked by the whole experience.
September 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Just what we need, the whale version of this little bastard.
Scrappy Doo, from when the Scooby Doo show jumped the shark.
September 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Taffy is the Picasso of snoozing.
A black, gray, and white shih tzu mix is lying on a dog bed on the carpet in my. She’s on her back with her back legs propped against the back of the dog bed but her head is resting sideways against the front lip of the bed.
September 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Taffy reporting in back from her puppy days, when it became clear she would need frequent groomings.
A black and white shih tzu mix puppy sitting on the sidewalk, looking up at the photographer.
August 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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That’ll buy, what, six boxes of these?
A box of “Little Hug” fruit-flavored drinks in t plastic, barrel-shaped containers with gill lids. A hand in the foreground holds a blue one. No one names the flavors by the actual fruit it’s supposed to mimic; rather, the flavors are just the color of the liquid. And when you’re drinking it and reaching the last sip, it just tastes like plastic.
July 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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No cheating. Post the last pic of your pet.

This is Taffy
Taffy, a Shih Tzu mix, lying on my pillow in the early morning half-light after I’d woken up and gone to the shower. She’s looking up with an expression that says she knows I’ll let her stay there. Which I did.
July 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Never stop collecting our fears and dreams, Google.
Cell phone Google search screen with the words “Is there a way to stop” and possible searches listed with various completions: is there a way to stop your period is there a way to stop spam calls K Q is there a way to stop a tornado K is there a way to stop snoring is there a way to stop getting junk mail is there a way to stop sweating so much is there a way to stop dreaming
July 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Dogs are an exercise in pure love.

(Golden retrievers pathologically so.)
Taffy, a white and gray Shih Tzu mix, sitting on a fancy rug and looking up happily at the photographer.
June 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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But Gary’s hair swoops and dives and flows like a living time-lapse image of a flock of playful birds and it deserves honor and respect.

There. I’ve said my piece and can go back to sleep. Or try, anyway.
Different plaid western shirt, same magnificently thick and textured hair, brushed down and back toward a distant vanishing point on the horizon.
June 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Yes, Loni Anderson’s spun sugar Aqua Net confection is a justly heralded masterpiece of elegance and improvised personal protective equipment for construction sites.
Loni Anderson and Jan Smithers in a screen capture from WKRP. Loni’s platinum blonde hair is up and structurally impossible without the use of a prehistoric Bump-It. She’s wearing a red silk blouse, buttoned low. The show’s Mary Ann to Loni Anderson’s Ginger, Jan Smithers is wearing a modest white blouse buttoned way up and a tweed jacket. Her hair is no slouch, either, and is a fine example of its time for its length and prodigious (some would say bodacious) bangs, but it lacks the sculptural magic that marks Loni’s and Gary’s hair for greatness.
June 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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I can’t sleep because I can’t stop thinking about Gary Sandy’s absolute masterpiece of 1970’s hair.

Mini🧵
Gary Sandy as Andy Travis on WKRP In Cincinnati. He is wearing a plaid Western shirt with snap buttons, open at the chest as was the style back then and I wish it was now. His hair is a chestnut-colored confection of blow-dried magic that frames his face and swoops back, like a magical, textured motorcycle helmet.
June 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Calm down, ice pop.
An ice pop that melted a little and ended up in a suggestive shape.
June 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Post a picture of when your pet was little
Taffy, a Shih Tzu mix, as a puppy. She is sitting on the sidewalk, looking up. It’s a sunny summer day and she’s overdue for her first-ever grooming so she basically looks like a tribble with eyes, a nose, and a tail.
June 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I think Mom was photoshopped in after the fact and there’s a whole story to it that the frame manufacturers would rather we didn’t ask about.
A new picture frame with the default family photo in it. Dad and kids are looking into the camera. Mom’s got her head tilted away and is looking back to the side of the camera, like she’s making sure it gets her good side but over-corrected and more has no idea where the camera actually is. Meanwhile, Dad looks more like a model than anyone who has time to take care of a family between stem cell skin treatments and the occasional Quaalude.
June 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Today I learned that our mailbox is a tardis.
Amazon delivery confirmation indicating that a pack of sixteen enormous rolls of paper towels were left in our residential mailbox.
May 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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No judgment at all. Just a little reminiscent.
The pattern chooser from the original monochrome MacPaint program. Various halftones and other patterns of different densities and complexity.
May 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Taffy checking in for you!
Taffy, a Shih tzu mix holding up a stuffed radish toy (with a somewhat evocative opening for a finger) and asking to play. Taffy, a Shih tzu mix, looking up at the camera and she is in a GREAT mood!
April 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Get in, loser. We’re posting baby pictures of our furry family.

*Baby carrot for scale
Shih tzu mix puppy held by man in jeans and a polo shirt. The dog is in one hand. In another is a baby carrot to show the scale of the dog’s head.
March 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM