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Jess 🏳️‍⚧️
@jess-does-lyfe.bsky.social
nonbinary dude | parent | Earthseed enthusiast | disaster prep | living in Asheville 🏳️‍🌈⛰️🏳️‍⚧️🧗‍♂️☕️🍲
Posting this for awareness, not alarm. Stay alert Asheville.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Anyone seen these cars before? There’s a bunch of them together although the photo just has one.
Gov’t plates.
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#TheBirds
Sound on for Hitchcock vibes 🐦‍⬛
Happy Halloween 👻
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ok I’m about to change it up and get a little spooky. 😱

Here are some photos of an Eastern Black Rat snake climbing very high up into a tree.

It stayed in the tree for 3 days.

So when you’re hiking in the woods be sure to walk where you step… and also check the trees. 🐍

#wnc #nature
October 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
October 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Foundy is coming back! Drove past rubble and the beginnings of a rebuild to buy a beer at the freshly reopened Wedge location.
Bouldering gym opens next week!
#Asheville
October 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
2 for 1 - they’re both fantastic
October 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Don’t think this sign is really anti-dessert..
October 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
So my sunrise post caught the algorithm wind.
A microcosm of life as a trans person- most people just like the post, share the post, some people comment.

Then there’s one transphobe who just cannot take a beautiful sunrise photo and has to comment on the 🏳️‍⚧️

Blocked me 🤷🏻‍♂️
Hopefully bc I’m punny.
October 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I love a reminder, especially one as gorgeous as this - that for all our human drama, there are forces that know nothing of our petty chaos and they just keep on going.
#sunrise
October 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Who doesn’t love to nap with their favorite toy?
#Caturday
October 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Since I shared the photo that brings up the most grief, might as well also share the one that gives me the most hope.

Hope…even when the creek rises.

#Asheville #Helene
September 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🐈 Don’t mind me - just making out with my sea lion.
#Caturday
September 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.”
- Chief Seattle

I took this photo 1 year ago, and it has haunted me ever since.

Every parent wants to avoid this inevitable moment, when your child experiences a trauma completely outside of your control.
#Helene
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September 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Paused the mowing for this praying mantis today. Totally worth it.
#BugSky
September 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Haircut 💈
Beard trim tmrw perhaps..
September 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Overpowered by the urge to nap, the domesticated feline is defeated by yarn feather
#Caturday
September 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Wanna go on an adventure?
#Nature
September 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ok this one got me 😢
September 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Starting to see the thru lines..
#TransPanic
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Stop scrolling. Go outside 🥾
Your soul will thank you.

Fawn Lake in DuPont State Recreational Forest 🌳
September 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Spent a chunk of the day doing this
10/10 - recommend
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September 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Took the kid to pick out a betta fish the other day.
It’s some double tail male variety but the kid referred to it as she in the parking lot.

I said “it’s a male fish but if you want to use she words for it that’s up to you.”

She paused, thoughtful, and said
“Her name is Precious.”
May I present -
September 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This particular verse from Octavia E. Butler has been alarmingly on point recently.

A parable - one might say.
September 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Stealth cat
#Caturday
September 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM