Jess
@jessicaesquire.bsky.social
Queer, ex-Mormon, former lawyer, book reviewer, extremely online. Day job in media. She/her. The Triangle, NC. https://jess-of-the-durbervilles.ghost.io/
Fuck you, General Mills, we don't need this bullshit right now.
Three boxes all labeled as the same size but they're three different sizes and the smallest is around 60% the largest
Three boxes all labeled as the same size but they're three different sizes and the smallest is around 60% the largest
September 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Fuck you, General Mills, we don't need this bullshit right now.
Three boxes all labeled as the same size but they're three different sizes and the smallest is around 60% the largest
Three boxes all labeled as the same size but they're three different sizes and the smallest is around 60% the largest
Can you tell what happened last time I made this recipe?
September 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Can you tell what happened last time I made this recipe?
Went out to Durham Pride Parade today with 13yo (her first!) and had a great time. As always, my Still Bisexual After All These Years shirt got me lots of compliments.
September 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Went out to Durham Pride Parade today with 13yo (her first!) and had a great time. As always, my Still Bisexual After All These Years shirt got me lots of compliments.
So many excellent Redford watches to recommend but I have to throw out one of my favorite movies of all time, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which has both Redford and Newman (and Katharine Ross!) being charismatic as hell in a fantastic script full of perfect one liners by William Goldman.
September 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
So many excellent Redford watches to recommend but I have to throw out one of my favorite movies of all time, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which has both Redford and Newman (and Katharine Ross!) being charismatic as hell in a fantastic script full of perfect one liners by William Goldman.
Very clear dividing line between mine this week in all kinds of ways. #lastfourwatched
July 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Very clear dividing line between mine this week in all kinds of ways. #lastfourwatched
In Raleigh collecting donations for Chantal flood relief 12-3 today!
July 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In Raleigh collecting donations for Chantal flood relief 12-3 today!
Central NC flooding relief is urgent and active!
Locals: there are donation spots around the Triangle, full list and additional Chantal resources for aid requests and volunteers here: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua...
Everyone: mutual aid groups are very active on the ground, donations Venmo below!
Locals: there are donation spots around the Triangle, full list and additional Chantal resources for aid requests and volunteers here: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua...
Everyone: mutual aid groups are very active on the ground, donations Venmo below!
July 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Central NC flooding relief is urgent and active!
Locals: there are donation spots around the Triangle, full list and additional Chantal resources for aid requests and volunteers here: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua...
Everyone: mutual aid groups are very active on the ground, donations Venmo below!
Locals: there are donation spots around the Triangle, full list and additional Chantal resources for aid requests and volunteers here: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua...
Everyone: mutual aid groups are very active on the ground, donations Venmo below!
Donation sites popping up for flooding in NC. For Raleigh folks, here's info:
July 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Donation sites popping up for flooding in NC. For Raleigh folks, here's info:
So it used to be if you had money you had the freedom to spend all your time learning how to do the things you love. Now if you have money you can buy the things you love without spending any time on it. Why learn? Why be better when you can just buy it?
June 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
So it used to be if you had money you had the freedom to spend all your time learning how to do the things you love. Now if you have money you can buy the things you love without spending any time on it. Why learn? Why be better when you can just buy it?
My embroidery project instructions came in Japanese. The Google translate on my phone camera is very impressive! Except for this one part lol
June 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My embroidery project instructions came in Japanese. The Google translate on my phone camera is very impressive! Except for this one part lol
I get a little grouchy about joke reviews on @letterboxd.social but I just scrolled through the reviews for the new Ozon film and they're all joke reviews. BUT they're all in French so I adore them.
May 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I get a little grouchy about joke reviews on @letterboxd.social but I just scrolled through the reviews for the new Ozon film and they're all joke reviews. BUT they're all in French so I adore them.
My theory is correct! Big ass nest inside the roof!
May 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My theory is correct! Big ass nest inside the roof!
Also thought of @neolithicsheep.bsky.social when I saw this sheep drawn carriage.
May 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Also thought of @neolithicsheep.bsky.social when I saw this sheep drawn carriage.
My first time seeing The Dinner Party at the Brooklyn Museum today and it was very clearly a Tag Yourself situation.
April 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My first time seeing The Dinner Party at the Brooklyn Museum today and it was very clearly a Tag Yourself situation.
If we were still changing our profile pictures all the time I would absolutely make this mine.
April 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If we were still changing our profile pictures all the time I would absolutely make this mine.
My #lastfourwatched is a very random mix.
April 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My #lastfourwatched is a very random mix.
Teenager and I were baffled by this piece of college mail that kept going on and on about men and manliness. Eventually we realized it's an all male school.
April 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Teenager and I were baffled by this piece of college mail that kept going on and on about men and manliness. Eventually we realized it's an all male school.
I really need to know what was going on in the 20th century. I'm watching the Mary Tyler Moore show. This is Ed Asner in the first episode. Aired a couple months before his 41st birthday. FORTY YEARS OLD. What was it? Smoking? Pollution?
March 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I really need to know what was going on in the 20th century. I'm watching the Mary Tyler Moore show. This is Ed Asner in the first episode. Aired a couple months before his 41st birthday. FORTY YEARS OLD. What was it? Smoking? Pollution?
@theassemblync.bsky.social shared this in the subscriber newsletter today as a detail that didn't make the cut in their new story but I think we need a full investigative piece on how Belichick requested his 24 year old girlfriend be cc'd on all emails from UNC.
March 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
@theassemblync.bsky.social shared this in the subscriber newsletter today as a detail that didn't make the cut in their new story but I think we need a full investigative piece on how Belichick requested his 24 year old girlfriend be cc'd on all emails from UNC.
Very grateful to whoever is responsible for this excerpt from the school district email. It's straightforward and to the point. It doesn't have a call to action, but given our ongoing budget struggles, the subtext is clear.
February 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Very grateful to whoever is responsible for this excerpt from the school district email. It's straightforward and to the point. It doesn't have a call to action, but given our ongoing budget struggles, the subtext is clear.
The birds are back at the nest on my porch. The male likes to look in the window and watch me while the female is getting everything in order
February 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The birds are back at the nest on my porch. The male likes to look in the window and watch me while the female is getting everything in order
A perfectly brutal evisceration of one of the people I loathe most by one of our best.
This sentence cracked me wide open, will never think about people coming after trans kids the same way again.
nymag.com/intelligence...
This sentence cracked me wide open, will never think about people coming after trans kids the same way again.
nymag.com/intelligence...
February 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A perfectly brutal evisceration of one of the people I loathe most by one of our best.
This sentence cracked me wide open, will never think about people coming after trans kids the same way again.
nymag.com/intelligence...
This sentence cracked me wide open, will never think about people coming after trans kids the same way again.
nymag.com/intelligence...
The author of DECAGON HOUSE MURDERS, one of my favorite Japanese mysteries, has a new book coming to the US this spring: THE LABYRINTH HOUSE MURDERS. The map at the front has a very "hold my beer" vibe. 💙📚
February 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The author of DECAGON HOUSE MURDERS, one of my favorite Japanese mysteries, has a new book coming to the US this spring: THE LABYRINTH HOUSE MURDERS. The map at the front has a very "hold my beer" vibe. 💙📚
Two selfies and two weeks later I had popped. (I can't remember where that bathroom was but this mirror I remember as being the food court at Boston children's hospital? I worked at the hospital next door at the time and would run over for McDonald's soft serve, a pregnancy craving.)
January 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Two selfies and two weeks later I had popped. (I can't remember where that bathroom was but this mirror I remember as being the food court at Boston children's hospital? I worked at the hospital next door at the time and would run over for McDonald's soft serve, a pregnancy craving.)