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Jesse Miksic

@hybrid-gesture.bsky.social
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Poetry … Traditional Art (pencil ink watercolor) … Philosophy … Contributor, participant, pop culture enthusiast, nerd … Always searching

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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"What are you doing over there, standing and staring? Are you wondering about me? Do you have some concerns?" miksimum.com/2026/09/11/u... #drawing #sketchbook #characterDesign #traditionalArt #penAndInk #bskyArt
A drawing with a brush pen and fine liner, showing a lean character with a mask and hood, muscular and shirtless, holding a lighter with a little flame close to his body. He looks toward the viewer with intense eyes.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey, look! episode 4 of Gamesplaining is live! Buff men versus spicy women versus action movies! m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZARP... This is my YouTube show with my kid, where we explain stuff to each other while playing video games. Feel free to watch! Like! Comment! #dadLife #videoGames #parenting
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tonight, I #amWatcging a 2019 #movie called The Booksellers.  it’s definitely doing it for me on multiple levels. Great real life characters. Very cozy, just what I needed at 3 AM. And excellent for seeing stuff drift by the camera lens that I recognize. Right now they are covering The Strand.
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Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Good morning! Happy Friday! I was stuck on what to write for this #PoemsAbout #ThriftStore. Fun fact, my mom owned a consignment shop, sort of an upscale thrift store, but I went in another direction. Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk
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The Way of Things

Raindrops bounce,
silver teardrop splatter
on pavement, ocean,
forest floor, evaporate

to form cloud castles
and horses in the air
glowing in borrowed light

recycled water, air
repurposed dreams
it seems

this tired planet 
has seen it all before,

we’re living on a thrift store world,
cast offs from the stars,

reworked, remade,

still a little sparkle left.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Every once in a while the algorithm nails it I didn’t really know about the illustrator John Schoenherr But YouTube and Pete Beard have shown me the light youtu.be/uX8fsFXopqg?... #art #illustration
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THE ART & ILLUSTRATION OF JOHN SCHOENHERR HD 1080p
Because my own primary fascination has always been with the illustrators of the early 20th century, John Schoenherr is yet another remarkable talent I was ignorant of until a few years back. And the…
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thinking of starting some kind of new writing or personal project with philosophy as a creative seed. But challenges are already coming to light (see thread below) #philosophy
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The world is beautiful, but sometimes its digitization and globalization feels like an unforgivable impoverishment Seeking some kind of astral transcendence, we left our bodies behind, and now it turns out the higher plane is boring and alienating, and we have nothing left to go back to.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I think project management is incredibly important, given the number of failures and setbacks I’ve seen because nobody had ownership or a strong vision. But writing in the way that’s expected in project management is torturously hard for me. 
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Art as sanctuary: an experiment. A little constellation of ideas. Some things I’ve been thinking about. Let’s see if I can spin them out as a thread. (Who is out there? Are you receptive to this kind of signal?) #philosophy #aesthetics
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Steadfast princess of leather and hardwood, many times tested, waiting just off the path — for she is stillness and shelter, for she is the watcher on the edge of the territory, for she is an invisible line that only the chosen can cross. miksimum.com/2026/07/17/g...
A drawing with watercolor toning, showing a woman from slightly below at a 3/4 angle. She has a muscular frame, and he hands are conspicuously balled into fists. Her hair is brown, and has a flower and a braid of leaves. Her eyes look past the viewer, off into the distance.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Over Your Domain So here you are, you and your architecture, rising up from the crest at the edge of your great frontier. miksimum.com/2026/07/05/o... #sketchbook #fantasyArt #painting #watercolor #illustration #traditionalArt #bskyArt
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I’m sorry if you are a person who likes 4D cinema, but sometimes you’re going to get some unfiltered opinions on the Internet.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I’m just popping online to say, 4D cinema is the stupidest thing I have ever experienced. All the kids in my children’s movie hated it, and I hate it. 
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Is AI addiction a thing yet? Like, the compulsion to converse with something that perpetually mirrors, validates, and refactors your ideas through an essentially infinite body of knowledge? If not, it’s going to be, mark my words.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Fun new project lately: started a little YouTube channel where my kid (10) and I explain things to each other while playing video games. Lots of stuff about comic books and arcades in the first couple episodes. Feel free to check them out. youtube.com/@gamesplainers #videoGames #parenting
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Jesse & Gillian, Gamesplaining
We are a 10-year old and her dad. We both like playing video games, and explaining things. We have a lot to learn from each other.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
At a concert at the Mann skyline in Philly — Young the Giant with Cold War Kids and Almost Monday (very fitting) So sort of the big-hearted, emo-adjacent wing of indie rock #LiveMusic #weekendPlans
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
ALL IS NOT WELL WITH THIS ONE miksimum.com/2026/06/11/a... #drawing #illustration #sketchbook #fantasyArt #bskyArt
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Information is not really actual stuff, right? Information is just intricately-organized matter. I guess you could link it to intention, but even the thinking matter in our heads is also just stuff, organized spontaneously into information. Who talks about this? 
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
SWORD OF UNSEALING "I call this my sword of unsealing, my releasing steel. With these edges, I can cut myself beautifully open and step into the breach." miksimum.com/2026/06/02/s... #sketchbook #fantasyArt #drawing #illustration #bskyArt
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Make the call (or don’t, I guess) miksimum.com/2026/05/30/m... #drawing #sketchbook #art #illustration #bskyArt
A pencil, drawing in a sketchbook, showing a male figure flipping a coin and looking up at it with a neutral expression, with a shorter woman standing just behind him, also watching the coin in anticipation.
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LassePartanenArt.bsky.social @lassepartanenart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
One last #mermay mermaid #art #sketchbook #fantasy
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Banks in the shallows miksimum.com/2026/05/24/b... #drawing #illustration #sketchbook #landscape #art #bskyArt
A pencil drawing in a sketchbook, showing a landscape with a calm body of water. A bank sits on the left side in the foreground, with a single full tree and a tipped over rowboat. Another bank comes in from the right side in the middle ground, with a row of tall, sparse trees.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
For a few days, I have been a bit obsessed with One Last Kiss, the song by Hikaru Utada, which is featured in the Evangelion Rebirth movies. It speaks love and sadness and the passing of time that can't really be said any other way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uhh... #music #NeonGenesisEvangelion
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宇多田ヒカル『One Last Kiss』
映画『シン・エヴァンゲリオン劇場版』に書下ろした新曲「One Last…
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I've been quite absent from the digital landscape for... maybe 3 weeks now? Maybe 6? I would like to find myself again, on several fronts. The Internet is not the only one, but I *do* really enjoy all you crazy people, so I'm going to try to include this place in my current refactoring.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother’s Day (US) to all the moms out there, carrying your families through this landscape of shifting expectations and impossible stakes. And to the loving homes holding an absent mother in your hearts, cheers to you as well. #mothersDay
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
NAIAD You can’t step in the same river twice. Actually, there’s not really a river at all. The river is not so much an “object” as a process that can be touched. miksimum.com/2026/04/24/n... #drawing #sketchbook #bskyArt #illustration #philosophy
A drawing in a sketchbook using water soluble pencil, showing a female torso leaning back in a reclining position, arms outstretched. There is a loose sketchy vertical axis running past her around her head, going from the bottom to the top of the frame. This intersects with a swirling visual flourish approximately where her hair might be tossed.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Feel like there's a lot going on for me right now. First of all, based on some chatter, I may need to move off zirk.us. Anybody have any suggestions for good, reliable, well-maintained Fedi instances? #Mastodon #Fediverse
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Literature, philosophy, film, music, culture, politics, history, architecture: join the circus of the arts and humanities! For readers, writers, academics or anyone wanting to follow the conversation.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Say "question everything" to your kid enough, they may become a scientist Say it too much, they may become a philosopher #philosophy #parenting
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
DRYAD We are the dryads, agents of softening, drinking sunlight, and dispersing the soil. miksimum.com/2026/04/10/d... #sketchbook #drawing #art #fantasyArt #illustration #bskyArt
A drawing in a sketchbook, with a wash using water soluble pencil, showing a female figure with a large swoop of black hair curling behind her. She holds a very straight branch, whose top end is bursting into a bloom of flowers.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
“Sleep, friends — stop worrying and sleep. I’m here to be your refuge, me and my blade and my body. I am here to shelter you — a fortress made of shadow and stone.” miksimum.com/2026/03/25/a... #watercolor #painting #fantasyArt #traditionalArt
A watercolor painting showing a figure with a raised black visor, a golden glaive, and a purple cloak. There is a large stone fortress visible in the cloak, as if looking through it into a landscape.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Holy shit, Habermas just died this month! 🥺 A philosopher who wanted us to be good — by being honest, and open, and considerate of each other Rest in peace 🌸 #philosophy
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Museum Memories: The Franklin Institute and Rhythmic Machines When I was a kid, living outside Philadelphia and accustomed to constant visits to the city, I thought of the Franklin Institute as my family’s special museum. miksimum.com/2026/03/18/t... #philadelphia #philly #blog #indieWeb
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The Franklin Institute’s Rhythmic Machines - Jesse Miksic // Hybrid Gesture
In my memories of this time, the Franklin Institute is a strangely bare and echoey place of learning and wandering, a true “Institute“ of hard surfaces and high ceilings and placards. three key…
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Got my Wikipedia fingers at max tempo during the Oscars. I REALLY want to watch “Perfectly a Strangeness” #Oscars
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1. Crispy burnt edges of lasagna 2. Dog voluntarily deciding to curl up next to you on the couch 3. Bright sun and rich earthy colors immediately after a rain storm
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 13/03/2026
At a time when federal vaccine policy is in flux, our responsibility at the state level is to provide clarity, protect access, and ensure families have the tools they need to keep themselves and their children safe, writes @senatorstevesantarsiero.com.
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State Senator Steve Santarsiero: What You Need to Know About Vaccine Access in Pennsylvania - Bucks County Beacon
At a time when federal vaccine policy is in flux, our responsibility at the state level is to provide clarity, protect access, and ensure families have the tools they need to keep themselves and their...
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
MOONLIGHT MONOLOGUE Now that the last of us eavesdroppers are gone, the little creek can speak freely, addressing nobody, confiding in the empty air. miksimum.com/2026/03/13/m... #watercolor #painting #art #sketchbook #bskyArt
A messy watercolor painting, showing a landscape in three layers: in the front, a stream running down little waterfalls, lit up bright white. Above that, a rough and grassy slope with some fence posts. Above that, the crest of a hill with a few houses and trees peeking over. The middleground layers are very dark, and the background is blue and orange, suggesting evening.
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Empiric @empiricemissary.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Old bird painting, still think it turned out neat #crow #raven #bird #birdskull #skeleton #art #digitalart
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Ovid's Metamorphoses - About 100 pages in, and I'm not sure there has ever been a more apt title for a work of literature. #bookSky #amReading #mythology
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Chris Silverman @csilverman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
#notesArt
A figure stands on a craggy dark mountaintop under a dark blue sky. The figure's hand is outstretched, and a glowing whitish-green fireball leaps from it into the sky, casting a glow over everything. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A brief meditation from your friendly neighborhood dabbler on living the occult-curious life miksimum.com/2026/03/07/o... #occult #philosophy #blogpost
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I saw a video, not too long ago that recommended doing mini essays as a tool for thinking through ideas. I used to do that a lot, and I called it “blogging”
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We left the spire vacant for generations. Nobody entered... nobody even went close enough to see where it met the earth. miksimum.com/2026/02/27/a... #painting #sketchbook #watercolor #fantasyArt #illustration #bskyArt
A watercolor painting in dirty orange and gray, showing a tower with a pointed spire, accessible by a bridge crossing over from some other structure outside the frame. There are trees at the base of the tower, and two lights appear in windows.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Who’s up for listing their unfinished projects on this lovely Friday? I have a couple big ones sinking deep into the Swamps of Procrastination 1 - Deck of Motifs 2 - Unnamed Poetry Manuscript 3 - Poetry and art zines Details below in thread #UnfinishedFriday
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
WHAT’S DONE Do you see my beacon? Do you see the tower, lit and smoking like tallow? Now the world will know… They will know the tower’s authority is not absolute. miksimum.com/2026/02/15/w... #sketchbook #drawing #fantasyArt #illustration #bskyArt
A drawing in a sketchbook, showing a muscular figure from behind, standing anchored to the ground, with his left hand extended and resting on a massive sword. The figure is armored around the shoulders and hands, and he has a curious design on his back with a circle wrapping around two eyes. In the distance, a tower can be seen, with fire and smoke issuing from the top.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
@julianastratton.bsky.social is the only one in the IL senate race who has said she would not vote for Schumer as leader. www.foxnews.com/politics/ill...
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Illinois Dem Senate candidates split on backing Schumer as leader
Growing Democratic revolt against Schumer emerges as Illinois Senate hopefuls split on leadership support during primary debate ahead of 2026 election.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
THE SECRET INGREDIENT I do not need your wetware, your neural extensions, your response curves. miksimum.com/2026/02/10/t... #drawing #sketchbook #illustration #cyberpunk #SciFi #bskyArt
A drawing in pencil, showing a close-up view of a face in profile, hidden behind a raised collar below the cheek. The drawing is focused on the eye, the ear, and the hairline. Around the character’s temple, there is an abstract pattern of circles drawn with technical precision, with a triangle of straight lines connecting them.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
SHADOW BODY MIRROR WORLD “When I was lost in the light, I made my own dark, and it walked with me — my ageless shadow, my loyal replica.” miksimum.com/2026/02/05/s... #sketchbook #drawing #fantasyArt #pencilArt #characterDesign #illustration #traditionalArt #bskyArt
A pencil drawing in a sketchbook, showing an old man, stooped forward and holding something in a hand held out before him. He is bald with a long and important white beard, and he is shirtless. His face has a tranquil expression. Abstract designs radiate out from his head and curve around in the space above him. The object in his hand appears to be a small hand mirror suspended from a chain.
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Jesse Miksic @hybrid-gesture.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
She didn’t need to study the spell in a grimoire, or learn it from a back-alley conjurer… she had it in herself already, and she found it easily enough. #drawing #penAndInk #illustration #fantasyArt #bskyArt
A drawing in a sketchbook in black ink, showing a landscape with a silhouette of a tower and a line of trees in the distance. There is a line of fence posts leading into the background. In the foreground, there is a stream, with two leafless trees on the bank. Two people in silhouette are leaning over the stream, looking at something in the water. The sun is low over the horizon.
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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
▫️ unforgotten ▫️
images from four small stones - appearing like glimpses of lost landscapes
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