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Jesse Doogan

@jadoogan.bsky.social
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Bossy little bluebird. Former bookseller. Sometime children’s publishing person. Hamline MFAC ‘24. Currently querying. jessedoogan.substack.com

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 23h
NINE!!
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The kids are using Lamb Chop and Sherri Lewis gifs in the chat but they don’t know the lore
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Happy birthday!!
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was on LitHub, of all places, the other day and it had one of those terrible takeover ads. It’s bleak.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The most important food in the greater Chicago area is actually the tiny triangle corner pieces of a square-cut pizza.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Deep dish is great but is for tourists and special occasions. Thin crust/tavern style (and hot dogs) are for every day.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It takes a really long time to say “Chicago pizza, no not deep dish, I mean the thin crust cut into squares.” “Tavern style” is quick.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In my professional opinion, as someone who has eaten Chicago thin crust approximately once a week since birth, “tavern style” is a useful term that came into fashion around the time “deep dish pizza is actually lasagna lol” discourse was happening to clarify what Chicago-area folks actually eat.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’d love to know what you think! I’m tempted to order it anyway.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
get this: The Great Gatsby? Not so great
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I cannot get over that this happened. And to a book that I very much would have liked to read. It is WILDLY depressing that it happened at Oxford University Press.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My first CD was Nature Harp Sounds, purchased with my own money from the garden center
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh wow
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did the Grammar Girl/Quick and Dirty Tips website gut all the grammar information? It’s been my default site to quickly check myself for decades but now I can’t find any useful information on the site.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh I am so very very sorry
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
sounds like a job for @localcelebrity.bsky.social
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Okay it is a plan
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Honestly if I wasn’t an hour away I’d still go. He’s working really hard to keep it going! I’m going to be devastated when it finally closes. Fortunately, Mokena loves a grimy little local spot (affectionate).
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The storied Mokena Video, which is still in operation. Dark rows of handmade shelves of empty VHS (now DVD) boxes. You pulled a numbered tag off a little eye hook and brought it to the counter where a guy who had everyone’s phone number memorized started filling out your receipt before you got there
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Why are these shoes exclusively for a guy who has just returned to his job as a majordomo after years of being a bewitched clock in an enchanted castle
Little slipper-style athletic shoes made of mahogany leather with a brass buckle
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Apparently it is rude to announce that the antique store’s logo is AI generated as you walk in the door but that is just stating a fact. I didn’t sit down at my little computer and type “make me an antique store logo phoenix stupid looking”
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Every sign/flier/seasonal menu in my favorite beach town was AI generated and there was nothing I could do but make it my sister’s problem
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I drove through yesterday and I knew things were bad, but honestly I’ve never seen that many trees and signs down, and I was west of the worst of it.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Has anyone seen a round-up of vetted places that are helping in Northwest Indiana right now?
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wait are you going to do a photo op next to BETH IS DEAD, the YA thriller from earlier this year?
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Chicago ingenuity
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My favorite local restaurant is named BlackBerry Market and I would like to be able to order an iced latte without considering ancient technology
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Slow roast tomatoes with garlic and freeze flat in gallon baggies
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ah yes, the ol “I is” construction so beloved by tired people
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Frank would they all be mad if I made this my ringtone
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The roaring exhaust fan noises my phone makes as it tries to figure out which of the dozen Jennifers I, a millennial woman, is trying to text
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
You know, it’s nice to have you On Here posting Black Books memes like the olden days
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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yes YES The tiger is out
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It was a real moment when I realized that the most realistic version of my goals would me just switching laptops at 5pm
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It is just wild to me that we can simultaneously have eleventy billion articles about how social media is destroying young people and then also a near-religious AI adoption policy.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Vegier for Pets
A sign that is supposed to say VEG | ER for Pets but because of font choice, kerning, and other design decisions says “vegier for pets.”
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 30/07/2026
just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster
William Howard Taft campaign poster, 1908

Floating head, with “BILL” in huge letters
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The luxury Apple Store experience of sitting on a bunch of Apple crates on the floor with a bunch of other adults
Many boxes on the floor upon which adults are seated
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Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Podcast @scroogepod.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A Scrooge backstory, how novel. We’ve never traveled back to his past before.
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I see it
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The thing is I probably am a kiwi in a birthday hat
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Okay so did someone just happen to see that the toast was up or did somebody make a statement somewhere?
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The Toast is back up??????!!!
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I got free coffee creamer in a giant cooler box with dry ice once from Klout
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I loved favstar so much
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m planning to pick it up this weekend!
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hooray and congratulations!!
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Jamie Oliver was at Taylor’s wedding because OF COURSE. Reputation era Taylor 🤝 pink sludge era Jamie Oliver
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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Honestly I want more of this on my timeline
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