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Jay Edidin
@edidin.bsky.social
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writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.
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It's important to test your product name in a range of languages and cultures, exhibit one million:
A ball of yarn whose label identifies it as Viking Garn: Alpaca Bris
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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making a hat outta sock yarn scraps #knitting
A partially knit hat, still on circular needles, incorporating a range of blue, green, and grey yarn snarled together, along with one narrow stripe of mottled red
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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TBH this is basically my dream date, romantic or otherwise. A half-hour lecture on something really interesting about which I know next to nothing? SIGN ME THE HELL UP.
A tweet from C_Zinkiev: Went on a date with a guy I really like. I dressed nice, did my hair, gave him an extensive 30 minute lecture on coelacanths, yet I haven't heard from him. the only thing I can think of is perhaps I did not provide enough information on coelacanths?? Fish people pls advise
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Blocked! Ends woven in! AND I got a nearly color-accurate photo!
A vibrant blue hand-knit toddler sweater
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE
www.teepublic.com/user/chekhov...
A black hoodie with white hand-lettered text reading, "problematic" A green t-shirt with black hand-lettered text reading, "respect potato" above a small drawing of a potato A maroon t-shirt with white hand-lettered text reading, "trans power" A red t-shirt with black hand-lettered text reading, "queer rage"
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Your seasonal reminder that I design t-shirts (and related products) for grumps, queers, and weirdos.

Impress your relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner! Surprise Grandma with the perfect Hanukkah present! Support a queer, trans independent artist who's been job-hunting since April!
A red hoodie with black hand-lettered text reading, "Axial tilt is the reason for the season" A black hoodie with white hand-lettered text reading, "feral queer" A black hoodie with white hand-lettered text reading, "make bad art" A white t-shirt with black hand-lettered text reading, "I would prefer not to."
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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i am the best podcast partner
A text message, reading, "I'm calling this episode The Amulet of Ass and you can't stop me"
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Was hunting through some old folders looking for a thing, and--

IYKYK
Wolverine from X-Men: The Animated Series looking displeased next to a giant banana, peeled and partially sliced, with a caption that reads, "god damnit" in all caps.
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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meanwhile, finished knitting this li’l guy
A diagonal photo of a small sweater hand-knit from bright blue yarn. It has not yet been blocked, and dangling ends remain to be woven in.
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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also i think this balloon might be an actual crime
a long word balloon. The top line is just the letter I.
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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I'm reading '00s Cable comics for @xplainthexmen.bsky.social; and, y'all, I cannot handle this font.
Some panels from a Cable comic from the early '00s. They are lettered in a font that feels like it was chosen to punish readers.
October 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I bought myself a very Good and Accurate t-shirt, which has just arrived.
A photo of the front of a shirt by RileySophia. A possum emerges from a tea cup shaped like the lower half of a person’s head. The possum bemoans, “too much everything,” while the cup adds, “all the time.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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"No," said Brian, "I want a sexier lab coat. One that clearly shows the contours of my ass."
A comic-book panel. There are a bunch of people in it, but the relevant part is that Brian Braddock is facing away from the reader, in a lab coat that clearly shows the contours of his ass.
October 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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also its mouth and body are a pouch large enough to accommodate an entire adult forearm
The plush salamander from the previous post with an adult forearm stuffed down its throat. It still looks tranquil and beatific.
October 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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please appreciate this beautiful friend @teaberryblue.net found for the toddler
An enormous plush salamander looking tranquil and beatific
October 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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photo by @sarahgiffrow.bsky.social
A recreation of a photo from the film Ginger Snaps: two people dressed as Brigitte and Ginger Fitzgerald press the palms of their hands together
October 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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I’m addition to having written “many words,” Randall James has a store full of things, including many boxes of the toddler's notebooks; and he wrote the labels for the boxes.

Also he has a Famous Shape? (see attached)

Will update as new information is revealed.
An aggressively abstract pen drawing by a toddler. The artist informs us that it portrays “Randall James’s Famous Shape.”
October 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Eve from the video game Parasite Eve
October 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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A comic-book panel. Danielle Moonstar says, 'I'm about to have a really bad attack of what the hell."
October 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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A screenshot from Silent Hill 2. James walks forward into a staircase surrounded by fire. A caption reads, “For me, it’s always like this.”
October 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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okay but Manhunter did it better
Superman hovers outside a window, saying, "You wanted to see me, Ms. Spencer?" His briefs, with a noticeable bulge, are centered in the panel, beside a caption reading, "That is never not impressive."
September 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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dear comic book people don't do this balloon/pointer placement
Part of a comic-book panel. A character is visible from the waist down; a stack of word balloons hang around his knee-level, pointer aimed directly at his crotch.
September 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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what’s your sign
An old black-and-white photo of a man standing beside a large sign hand-painted with the text, “we do not have a dinosaur”
September 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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okay ma'am i hear you but did you maybe also consider not dressing like an extra from The Warriors got into an accident at the neon paint factory
Bella Donna Boudreaux, clad in skintight neon, is concerned that fighting the evil tentacles in the streets will draw undue attention to New Orleans's thieves and assassins, who dress similarly.
September 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM