Jess
LightNews LightNews
banner
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
Jess
@jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
130 followers 200 following 130 posts
🍑 Atlanta.
📝 Writing things down.
🎙️ Playing Southern-Fried TTRPGs with @shrimpandcrits
🇵🇸
Posts Replies Media Videos
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
Friends! What are your favorite examples of mixed media creative projects? Think stories told as weirdly as possible: online mixtures of text and audio and photography and art.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
I have a similarly dramatic (but less gorgeous) reaction to being suddenly Too Cold
janetlunde.bsky.social Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 24d
The ginko tree is a living fossil, unchanged in 200 million years. Unlike other deciduous trees, its leaves all drop within one day. We get a night below freezing, and the next morning at dawn the leaves start dropping. The tree goes from full to bare branches very quickly.
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reposted by Jess
frames.earlgreymemes.club
DS9 "The Search, Part II"; Garak in the Replimat, with caption: and the only explanation I can find DS9 "The Search, Part II"; Garak in the Replimat, leaning in, with caption: is that our leaders have simply gone insane.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
Why did no one inform me that icing a cake is really, really hard?
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
May I recommend Qobuz? Lossless audio, some of the highest artist payouts, no ICE ads or investment in military/surveillance tech
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Oct 28
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE.

A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.

But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
(around the Spotify logo) GET ICE OUT OF SPOTIFY ICE DOESN’T NEED A PLAYLIST. IT NEEDS ACCOUNTABILITY. • Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads • Demand Spotify immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts. • Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.
November 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Reposted by Jess
notalawyer.bsky.social
i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
having Worlds Beyond Number repost your cosplay is like posting a really effective personals ad.

there ARE cool nerds in my area! i DO want to meet them! they're following me on instagram now!
October 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
Had so much fun getting a lil 👻spooky👻 with the girls. Go listen to @monstersplaybook.bsky.social !
monstersplaybook.bsky.social The Monster's Playbook @monstersplaybook.bsky.social · Oct 28
Ya'll ready for a special #monsteroftheweek Halloween one shot? Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! 👻🎃

Special thanks to our guests Tori from @gmdlcast.bsky.social; Jess from @shrimpandcrits.com; and Alex of Bored Board Games (IG/TikTok)!

We had so much fun getting to play with you all. ❤️
October 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Reposted by Jess
vornietom.bsky.social
I understand cow tools btw. If you don’t it’s a skill issue. Couldn’t be me
cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · Oct 28
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."
October 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reposted by Jess
yeeeerika.bsky.social
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
one of our vendors at work sends truly incredible market updates every month including long rambles about his celeb crushes, strained Vietnam war metaphors, and hyperbolic personal anecdotes (this month's was "kicked out of a Vegas buffet because his appetite was destroying the shrimp population")
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
decompressing from the stress of binging the Liveship Traders trilogy by starting House of Leaves
October 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
reading Gotham Nocturne has given me my new favorite phone background
October 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
I wish we got paid tbh
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 13
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
October 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reposted by Jess
junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
I didn’t expect it to look *good* but I am kind of astounded at how low budget it looks?
October 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
Come watch my lil character fall down a mountain a lot! No really, a lot! I have never played this game before!
shrimpandcrits.com Shrimp and Crits @shrimpandcrits.com · Sep 29
TOMORROW!
Join us on twitch as we climb to the PEAK and discuss podcasts, life, and everything!

twitch.tv/shrimpandcritspod

⛰️🚩

Featuring: @itscap.bsky.social, @jesssparksnotes.bsky.social, @tehkyle.bsky.social, and Mr. Island!
Kyle and Cap's PEAK characters standing at the bottom of the page in front of a sketched mountain and treeline. Light clouds are in the blue sky behind the three show's logos and the text about when the stream is.
September 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
Went to go back this fantastic system and IT'S ALREADY BOOKED. Congratulations @quinnmajeski.bsky.social ! Can't wait to see this weird, eldritch book hauntin- I mean, hanging out on my shelves.
quinnmajeski.bsky.social Quinn Majeski @quinnmajeski.bsky.social · Sep 18
Absurdia is FUNDED!

Thank you all so much for your support. I had no idea what to expect and I’m blown away at funding in less than 24 hours. I’m incredibly excited and grateful to make this weird little game a (sur)reality.

Next up, stretch goals! Stay tuned for more info 👁️
quinnmajeski.bsky.social Quinn Majeski @quinnmajeski.bsky.social · Sep 17
Live now on Backerkit!

Absurdia is a love letter to classic and contemporary absurdist works like Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls in #TTRPG form.

Subvert normalcy. Embrace chaos. Get weird.

Back today 👁️
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/q...
September 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Reposted by Jess
jessiegender.bsky.social
Reading this on loop today.
September 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
I can tell Tallulah’s glad I’m home by the volume of her snoring.
A black and white pitbull mix in a bandana snores on a blanket.
September 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
And one more, because @aabria.bsky.social ‘s deconstruction arc with Suvi lives permanently in my brain. #dragoncon
August 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
“You’re going to the back of the gallery, kid.”

Took Steel from @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social to DragonCon and dodged a few Retributive Curses from my lovely Ame, Kaleen.
August 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
Best way to start your day is just listening to @tkingfisher.com talk about ideas for spacefaring mole rats.
August 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
jesssparksnotes.bsky.social
I want to have words with whoever coined “go up to go down” as DragonCon elevator wisdom.
August 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM