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Mx Jon
@thejonstaples.bsky.social
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They/Them, trans/nonbinary
Mainer in the godless south (New Hampshire).
Trying to find levity in the face of *gestures broadly*.
Very strong feelings about lighthouses.
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A Domino's that very obviously used to be a Pizza Hut, complete with the classic Pizza Hut roofline in Domino's blue.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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A zombie Jon would probably eat your brains, if they weren't so shy.

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A blue eyed, purple haired, glasses wearing zombie smiles at you awkwardly from the pumpkin patch.
October 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Nobody:
No one at all:
Not a single soul:

Me: Revolutionary Girl Grootena
Utena and Anthy from Revolutionary Girl Utena, but Utena's face is swapped out for baby Groot's from Guardians of the Galaxy
September 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Drop some COATS 🧥🖤🦁

(Okay it's a vest, sue me)
My Disneybounding battle vest designed after the character Tamatoa from Moana, photographed at the Journey of Water at EPCOT. The vest is pink fading to teal with gold nailhead studs covering the yoke, gold epaulettes, and a back patch featuring Maui's enchanted fishhook with text reading "what a terrible performance, get the hook (get it?)"
September 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This is a test
September 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Today I accidentally Doordashed nearly a hundred dollars of food to a stranger's house on the other side of town, but on the bright side, this also happened:
A chickadee, the state bird of Maine, perched on my left thumb. The chickadee looks unsure of the situation. My nails are very cute too, a high-gloss black to gold fade. The background is my front porch, complete with doormat and garden gnome.
August 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Yes
YES
Poem: The Tiger by Nael, age 6 From "They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket" The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out
August 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Was nobody planning on telling me that this brand of sparkling wine is pronounced "Freshenay?"
A matte black bottle of Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut sparkling wine on a white background.
July 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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I want to see a movie set in the lighthouse at Cape Neddick. A Nubble feature.
Photo credit to Hidden Fox Photography. A lighthouse on a green hill by a rocky shore. The beacon is a stout white tower attached to a New England colonial style cottage by an enclosed walkway.
July 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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The Black Cat firecracker logo is a pop art icon.
The packaging for Black Cat flashlight crackers. A yellow background with a heavily stylized black cat's snarling face centered. There are simple depictions of fireworks, and text reads "Black Cat super charged flashlight crackers. Black Cat is the best you can get. A renowned trade mark owned by Li & Fung Ltd. Hong Kong" There is also a safety warning which I will not transcribe because I can't zoom in the alt text editor.
July 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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This was a weird day...
Text post from Twitter dated 9/25/24: Just remembered that I own four glencairn glasses and three bottles of fish sauce from different brands. I suppose I know what my late morning activity is going to be today. Two posts, first post reads: Thai Kitchen: We only bought this because we were in a pinch and it's what was available. Label is bland, designed to not frighten white people. Dasher top dispenses well for use in savory cocktails. Smell is uncomplicated. Bright, fishy, slightly musty. (Beneath is a picture of the bottle, small w/ dasher top, Thai Kitchen branding in generic Chinese food font.) Second text post reads: Dark amber color, does not coat glass. Taste is aggressive, slightly bitter, astringent anchovy taste, suitable for pasta sauce and large batch Bloody Marys for second-tier brunch guests. [Two star emojis] Two text posts with an image between. First post reads: Three Crabs Brand. Label is eye-catching, classic branding. Flag logo has Huy Fong rooster vibes. I can imagine it on a t-shirt at Urban Outfitters c. 2008. Pours semi-freely. Smell is sharp, iodine and mushrooms with a dark fruity undertone, like a blueberry with no sweetness. Image is a bottle of fish sauce, label is as described, red and white gradient with a flag: three green crabs on a white field. Second post reads: Coats glass thinly, maple syrup coloration. Smooth texture coats the tongue. Savory and faintly sweet, you don't taste salt so much as feel it. A welcome sneaky addition to just about anything, like Angostura bitters. [Four star emojis] Two text posts and an image. First post reads: Squid Brand. Label is a retro icon. If the Three Crabs logo is on a 2008 hipster's shirt the Squid Brand logo is framed on their kitchen's exposed brick wall. Dasher top on a bottle this size is a bit ungainly. Bright amber color. Thin syrupy coating on glass. Photo is as described, large glass bottle with green and white label, stylized font reading "Squid Brand" with a simplified image of a dried squid Second text post reads: Smell is complex: cheesy, fishy, notes of PB&J and socks, like the contents of the bottom of Davy Jones's locker. Almost a vinegary tartness, notes of peanuts, honey, and bright fishy undertone. [Four star emojis]
July 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I am a brave little soldier.
A nonbinary person with purple pigtails, a rainbow headband, a yellow cami and black shorteralls steps out of their comfort zone by going to Pride on their own.
June 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky
A frog sitting on a car windshield, photographed from inside the car so he looks like he's flying. A caption above him reads "I must go now, my planet needs me." and another caption behind him reads "*whoosh*" to imply motion.
June 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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New tattoo day! Another one for what is probably going to develop into a full Disney sleeve. Thanks to Anne Nault of Black Cat Tattoo in Dover, NH.
A fresh tattoo on the inside of my right forearm. A purple 12 toothed gear with four spokes is reminiscent of the old signage and curtainwarmer for the Carousel of Progress at the Magic Kingdom, and at its hub is a black semicolon for suicide awareness. There is a background of paint smears based on the ride's current exterior in teal, gold and a dark pink. There is text from the ride's theme surrounding, reading "There's a great big beautiful tomorrow." A line break was placed between "big" and "beautiful" because TACO has ruined the phrase "big beautiful" anything.
June 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from the device you're using with no explanation
An extreme close-up high angle photograph of a white daffodil with a yellow center rimmed with thin red edge.
May 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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My sisters and I (all independent of one another and a decade apart) came to the conclusion that EPCOT and Spaceship Earth were synonymous, and that the entire park was inside the giant orb.
Spaceship Earth, the iconic "Weenie" of EPCOT, which is a large silver geodesic sphere 55 meters across containing a slow-moving dark ride. A park map of EPCOT, which covers 305 acres.
May 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The giant foam D20 we made guests roll to make us kiss (we hate the glass clinking thing.)
A large foam D20, displayed with the 20 face up in a glass cloche. It is sponge painted almond and gold with the numbers inked in teal, but the paint has cracked in several places showing the green foam beneath.
May 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Jeannie's sister Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie
April 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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I've been working out the design for mine. I've already got Spaceship Earth on my shoulder, a reference to Carousel of Progress fits nicely.
Three versions of more or less the same tattoo design: A 12 toothed gear with four central spokes radiating from a central hub, which forms the top of a semicolon, the bottom of which is roughly centered in the void made by two of the gear's spokes. On all three the words "There's a great big beautiful tomorrow" is written in a tall art deco font called Diner. The gear used to be the logo for Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress, and the quote is a snippet from the ride's theme.
April 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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April 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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There's a fourth, but it's just a particularly bitchy fish.
A drawing of the American Shad (clupea sapidissima) drawn by American naturalist and illustrator Shermon Foote Denton in 1904. It is a silvery herring-like fish with a lightly spotted green ventral portion an a darkish tail
April 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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See, when the ride vehicle arrives in the smell lab, the smell they use for skunk is actually coffee.
A giant slot machine from the EPCOT ride Journey Into Imagination with Figment. The reels show a winning spin, but the image is Figment the dragon dressed like a skunk. The association of skunk imagery primes the audience to expect a bad smell, so they interpret coffee as skunk spray.
April 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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The comic strip character Nancy, wearing her pajamas in bed. She is saying "Actually yeah. Maybe today, Satan."
April 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Hippos are crazy. Everyone knows that they're such good swimmers because they're so fat.

They aren't fat.
They're jacked as hell and their muscles are just Shaped Like That.
They don't swim, they sink and then gallop along the bottom.
A CG image of two hippos, mirrored on the right the hippo is normal, on the left the hippo's skin has been removed to show its musculature. Its silhouette is almost entirely identical to the skin-having hippo.
April 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I know we were going to all skip April Fools Day this year, but what if I'm just repeating last year's prank?
A sign I made for a commercial paper towel dispenser. It reads "I'm a SMART paper towel dispenser! To operate simply say 'PAPER TOWELS NOW!' in a loud clear voice." Beneath this is smaller text reading "Researchers at Paris' Bureau International De La Recherche Des Poissons D'Avril favored this system 4:1 over competing Smart Commercial Active Moisture-Mitigation Enablement Distribution (SCAMMED) Devices." On the very bottom it reads "copyright 2024, Oofalay-Irpalay Technological Integrations of Kalamazoo, MI"
March 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM