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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@davscomur.bsky.social I finally put all 287 Signet vintage classics I had in one bookcase. With plenty of room for more lol. #bookcollector #booklover #vintagebooks #homelibrary

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And this is one no one in the US will care about but got my Chalet book collection its own bookcase, too, finally (the fancy kind, specially ordered) #booklover #bookcollector #homelibrary #chaletbook #girlsgoneby

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I truly admire my kid. He's chosen a career that basically will have him auditioning time and time again, with a lot of rejections (it's a very competitive field AND the openings are very, VERY limited) but he is doing it and already putting himself out there. I know I couldn't handle it.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Today's show. Let me tell you, as stunning as you may think Lupita Nyong'o is on screen, she is ten times that in person. I am not familiar with how much theater work she's done but she was excellent in the role of A.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@bethinsac.bsky.social did you see?! $150 presale tickets to Downstate and then can purchase a $250 presale ticket to Small Mouth Sounds on a non weekend in a non premium seat. I guess they think people are dying to see Paul Rudd/Julia Roberts/Greta Lee/Martin Freeman on stage?! Insane!

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anytime anyone askes me about future plans in the next 5 to 10 years (I'm at that age where it now comes up in convo, especially since my kid is graduating college next May, and also b/c I keep talking about how I hope I get laid off), I show them this. Very, very few know or appreciate my answer.

Elderly woman in the midst of a raging fire burning her books around her.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Me: I don't think I'm seeing as many shows as I could. Also me: Seeing Preexisting Conditions, Inter Alia, Wanted, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Much Ado About Nothing (Jamie Lloyd), Galileo, A Few Good Men, Here There Are Blueberries and View From A Bridge btw now & Jan in NYC.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I don't get mad at Republicans in power every time our 6-3 right wing majority SCOTUS chip away at yet another principle of what the country is supposed to be about. I DO get furious at the Democrats who squandered all the opportunities they had when they were in power to prevent this. #SCOTUS

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Over on an Instagram account of there's discourse happening on childhood movies that traumatized you as a kid. Once again I must offer the 1974 Japaness animation of Jack & The Beanstalk. Is it any wonder I thought weddings were horrifying? youtu.be/yT14LUuSEm8?... #animation #childhoodtrauma

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Jack and the Beanstalk 1974 Are You Happy

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The Belgian football team are assholes. #fifa #worldcup

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I know I'm spoiled by J going to college only 40 mins away, & that during the semester I at most go 2 weeks w/out seeing him, & he's spent every winter break & spring break w/ me, too. So him going away for 6 weeks again this summer is what other parents deal with all year...but I'm still sad.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Saw Fear of 13 today w/ Tessa Thompson (whose fan I've been since she appeared in the Cold Case episode "Best Friends" ~20 yrs ago) & Adrian Brody. No stage door today b/c they were prepping to go straight to the Tonys. A pity; they're both, especially Tessa, apparently very nice about doing it.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Optimism REALLY continues: booked [Jamie Lloyd's] Evita tickets for March '27. Very last row* w/ presale code was still a LOT. Also realized it's at the Winter Garden, same as where his MAAN is. *J & I saw it 5th row orchestra center at West End last summer for less. Broadway prices, man.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I also am having trouble narrowing down from 9 shows to the (at most) five I can manage to see when I am back in London in July. Oh woe is me, my diamond shoes are too tight.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My optimism* apparently knows no bounds. Have booked to see [Jamie Lloyd's] Much Ado About Nothing (with Tom Hiddleston) and Galileo (with Raúl Esparza) in late November of this year. *or is it my fatalism resulting in me spending savings left and right on showa and trips and concerts?! #broadway

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I also made the slightly unwise choice of treating myself to a coffee drink which I thought sounded cool. I found out after the fact it had something like 3 espresso shots in it, which coupled with my adrenaline rush build up & release waiting for & getting my results literally had me bouncing.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I (finally) got some good health news today (versus the last several months where each appointment/test was , let's just say, not as good as I wanted/hoped for) and so for 24 hours I'm just gonna fully enjoy this burst of happy feeling without adulterating it with the now hourly onslaught of crap.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Between his roles on Dept Q, Shetland, In The Dark, & now Irvine Welsh's Crime, Jamie Sives may be my favorite supporting Britbox crime series character actor. I laughed out loud for a good five minutes for his scenes in Episode 3 of Crime. Horribly rude, seriously funny character in that show.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

J's telling me about all dept. heads at the grad schools he's applying to (for trombone performance; it's traditional to take a private lesson with each to see how you vibe) and, yeah, he's a senior next year so no surprise he's talking grad school but then again how is this possible? #indenial

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is hitting all the spots and scratching all the itches in my brain so perfectly. I have other songs that do the same with their chorus or bridge or sometimes just in a 4 second span but there's only a very few where the whole song is giving my brain a deep massage. youtu.be/iWsyCjlH-V8?...

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Take One For The Team

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading. It was worth it.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

When I turned 21, I worried about being able to have a stable life in the US esp. after all my parents had gone thru to get me here. My kid turned 21 today & he's worried about being able to have a stable life in the US esp. after all I'd gone thru to be here. #sameasiteverwas #generationaltrauma

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Look at me buying tickets for a concert 6 months away, my mind so overtaken by stress and worry that it's shut down all logical thinking and is instead embracing delusional optimism.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I think he'll like it. #bookcasemakeover #books #bookcollector #personalibrary 5 of the ten cases; 7 done so far.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Part of my bday gift to J is putting his books in order on the 10 bookcases he has in his bedroom. (Yes. 10.). Which means pulling off books at least off the first row of each shelf on each case to see what's on each shelf (most shelves are double stacked. This took 3 solid hours. 2 down, 8 to go.😮‍💨

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Trivial good thing of the day: I bought a pair of "high rise utility supersoft jeans" (cut is like a wider legged barrel jean) in "vanilla pudding" (a lovely pastel-y yellow) on clearance ($19.50) from Gap Outlet on a whim; I may never wear a differenf pair of pants ever again. #gap #gapjeans

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Protecting myself from mental & emotional collapse by indulging in my fave comfort measures: watching my GOAT series #Leverage all over again; fixating on finding the best cover art editions of a book (currenrty The Beautiful & Damned); & playing a new song on repeat: youtu.be/1mOGviDFRQU?...

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Just saw Data at the Lucille Lortelle. It was very good and very targeted towards current events. The lead,Karan Brae, played the Indian friend in the original Diary Of A Wimpy Kid movie and, well, I'm old. Also he was fantastic.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Demi Moore's arms are the perfect anti-Ozempic ad. They're literally skin and bones. 😶 #oscars #ozempicepidemic

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

It’s that time again…

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The bookseller most impressed w/ our haul from their store (they all were, but this one was the most vocal) was the co-owner of Bodies In The Bookstore in Cambridge. Which yes, is an all "Crimes" (i.e. Mystery for US folk) bookstore w/ both new & secondhand books. J was, of course, in his element.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Baggage handler at EWR who helped pull our suticases from behind the others lumped in front lf them:" What do you have in here, bricks?!!" J and me together:" No, just books." (I won't tell you how many we bought [new &secondhand] cos it's a ridiculous amount even for us. #bookcollector #booklover

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Re last post: If you know me for 5 mins in real life you know I will never be frivolous about war. But enough people in my life have seen this weird coincidence that when I turned my phone on, after landing in LHR, last Sat that I had 9 msgs to the tune of"you need to stop going to London".

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We are back on US soil. The last couple of times when we left and war/attacks broke out the daywe left, things settled about 48 hours after we were finally home. If we are in fact some weird butterfly effect for the world, let's home in 48 hours we see the same settling this time.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

But let's bomb that country too, in the name of "freedom" [to pillage their bountiful natural resources].

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

You cannot imagine how fucked up you get mentally knowing taxes you paid are being used to kill your family and friends back home.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Please check in on your trans friends today. What is happening in Kansas is magnifying every valid fear of theirs even more so today. Understand unless you are a white "Christian" male, this *is* eventually your future, too, so if nothing else fuels your support for them let that do so. #transrights

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Re last few reposts: also this means inability to vote, which aligns with the push fornthe SAVE act and the recent ruling of SCOTUS that the USPS can tamper with your mail and you habe zero recourse (but it remains a federal crime for everyone else. )

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026

And any trans person arrested under this will be placed in units of their sex assigned at birth. For trans women, this means v coding, rape, and sexual assault. They'll also be denied access to hormones and forced to detransition. I can't begin to tell you just how cruel all this is.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I have a horrible sinking feeling that this means the police will purposefully looking for and running license plates aligned with these drivers' licenses to arrest them. Which I'm sure the people affected are thinking same. On top of potentially losing jobs or unable to make [medical] appointments.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

We've had no power since 4AM b/c of the snow storm. ETA to restore is 4PM Thurs. We've well water so no power also means no water...'cept I'm married to the handiest person who figured how to hook a backup battery to the well pump & customized two separate generators himself so we're warm & ok.

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I have to stop.watching the videos from #puertovallarta because it's adding more sadness to my already sad state over #iran and here. @bethinsac.bsky.social the cartel burnt down Faramacia Guadalajara in south Centro, as well as several Oxxos, and there's burning vehicles all over ZR. 🥺

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Jayran @jayran772.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I didn't need more reasons to love NYC's Port Authority-clean, safe station; friendly employees; clean bathrooms so well kept]; great location) but their newest addition to their various stores is Le Cafe Coffee which makes a great London Fog (my fave). #portauthority #nyc #nycportauthority

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