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Jes
@midnightbex.bsky.social
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reader, hiker, creative - she/they 🏳️‍🌈

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Can see the tiniest bit of the Northern Lights from my house tonight!
The tiniest glimpse of the red Northern Light peaks between two large trees.
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Got some very exciting book mail today! Wolf Worm by @tkingfisher.com due out in March 2026. Starting this immediately!
A picture of an advance galley copy of Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher propped up on the top of a bookshelf in front of a blue glass jar full of Tootsie Pops and a print of a scarab framed in gold.
October 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Finished a scarf for my mom!
A hand knit scarf using Malabrigo Caracol yarn in the Archangel colorway.
October 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Halloween people already Halloweening.
A gold sedan with a skeleton strapped across the hood like they got hit with the car and they kept driving.
September 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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First of the new additions to the Godzilla Stairway Gallery framed and hung! This piece is a print of “Godzilla in a Bottle” by Cassia Lupo.
A print of artwork titled Godzilla in a Bottle by artist Cassia Lupo which depicts a monstrous green and black lizard like creature known as Godzilla dwarfing a city skyline as a couple planes fly past. They are all trapped in a square bottle with a cork lid, Godzilla has his front limbs pressed against the glass and is breathing radioactive fire, to no effect. The print is in a mint green scalloped frame hung against a white wall.
September 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Why does my typewriter hate Edinburgh?
Multiple attempts to type David Fleck “Voyagers Over Edinburgh” Art Print, 2012 on a typewriter. Edinburgh gets progressively printed worse and mysteriously becomes wavey as the attempts persist.
September 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Look what I found on my front door.
An absolutely enormous brown spider with an elongated abdomen and spindly legs straight out of a horror movie perched on the ribbon of a front door wreath.
September 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Absolutely destroyed the niblings at Monopoly this afternoon.
A monopoly board with hotels on the entire first half of the board plus Marvin Gardens and Boardwalk. The rest of the properties are adorned with multiple houses. In front of the board every property card is lined up, with both utilities and all four railroads. The other three sides of the board are empty.
August 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Had to make a little doodle of that kaiju puppet immediately. I love it.
Silly little doodle on a yellow star shapped post-it note of the kaiju puppet from Shing Yin Khor’s The Last Fifteen Minutes short film.
August 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Chicago's seems obvious
An Italian beef sandwich with giardiniera.
August 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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New spectator sport hot from my nephew’s birthday party - watching a bee eat chicken.
A bee cutting off a small piece of chicken from a larger piece of chicken.
August 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Also did my animal helping duties for the day by moving this fledgling off the bike path and under some evergreens. It was not happy with me.
A maybe cedar waxwing fledgling gripping a piece of bark and plotting how to finally get its beak on my fingers after being moved off the bike path.
July 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Didn’t realize how far I’d gone until I got to the windmill and realized I was three towns over.
Photo of an old windmill perched on the tip of a rise in front of a line of trees and a cloud filled blue sky.
July 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Got up early to get a small hike in at the local sedge marsh. The city’s done a great job restoring it. So many plants I don’t see elsewhere! Sadly didn’t see any bald eagles today, though they’re along this stretch of river often.
A wooden board walk stretching ahead the. curving to the lift surrounded by a sea of sedge, grass, and marsh plants. There are trees on the horizon. In the foreground an expanse of sedge marsh is divided from tree covered land across a stretch of river. Two lone trees stand at the boundary of marsh and river. A wooden board walk surrounded by greenery marches straight ahead ending in a small observation dock which hangs over the river. A view if a wide river just as it begins to bend with tree lined banks.
June 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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First turtle rescue of the year!
A painted turtle just trying to make it to the pond.
June 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Look what finally arrived today!
The complete series of Murder She Wrote on blu-ray. AHAHAHAHA mine.
June 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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My niece came over this morning and while she was here she picked out all his food related toys so he could have some food since he wasn’t eating. He keeps going back and laying on the pile. 😭😭😭
A very sick orange tabby laying in the pile of toys his favorite kid got out for him.
June 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Making unholy soup for my cat who won’t eat but will drink all the water
A very pleasant smelling puree of Science Diet k/d tuna stew, canned tuna, sweet potato, and pumpkin heavily watered down into soup form.
June 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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You know when you see something and suddenly you can feel the banked fires of a past obsessions being flamed? Yeah.
Screen shot of an prder for the DC Pride Tim Drake Special and Tim Drake Robin #1 comic books.
June 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Found this really cool plant at my local garden center. Reminds me of chilies.
A green plant with red, black, and white skinny flowers in a white pot.
May 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Pretty sure this isn't experimental reggae indie pop band Magical Beautiful, but it could be?? They're from Chicago. It's allegedly from 2007 and I used to go to shows in Chicago all the time and people would just hand you demo CDs as you were walking out. But who knows? I have no memory of this.
A screen shot of an album allegedly by the band Magical, Beautiful called winterlude, winterlude made in 2007. All the track names are MAGICAL,BEAUTIFULwinterlude followed by the number 1 through 11.
May 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I call this piece Promised (I Would Eat a Banana Every Day At Work, Didn’t. Bought More Bananas) Anyway.
An artistic photograph of two bunches of bananas. One bunch is of five bananas, fresh and new bought on the promise of eating one banana at the office every day. The other is of three bananas, brown spotted with age, forgotten at the office and left to rot away.
May 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Fedex did a real bang up job on this one.
Fedex absolutely destroyed this box. Angle 1 is of a beat up corner of a rectangular cardboard box. Angle 2 is of the other end of a beat up corner of a rectangular cardboard box. The smashed in corner on a package delivered by Fedex A gouged divot down the side of a cardboard package delivered by Fedex.
May 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Saw a black squirrel!!
A black squirrel
May 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I may feel like I’d rather die than keep existing with with this upset stomach, but Ollie’s sure acting like it’s a top tier day of his life.
An orange tabby cat sleeps tightly curled up in a ball on a multi colored zigzag patterned afghan draped over the lap of his ill owner, impeding her attempts to flee to the bathroom.
April 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM