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@jdhobbes.bsky.social
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Queer, Jewish, and geeky. Registered nurse for gender-affirming care and reproductive health. I have three dogs and I read a lot. she/they Use alt text on every image, every time. Banner and avatar are both photos of my dogs.

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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 22h
Fantasia. Not the Bald Mountain sequence, oh no. I loved that. It was the Ave Maria that came after that, with the lantern people walking over the hillside. Scared the SHIT out of me.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 22h
Genuinely wondering why this book is classed as #YA when none of her others are. I bought it automatically without noticing the genre, and honestly other than being shorter I don't really see the difference. (I love it, just like her others.) 💙📚🩸
Book cover, "The House of Gardenias" by Isabel Cañas
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My brother doesn't remember the Milford Plaza commercial and now I'm questioning my entire childhood. I don't know what it is about that commercial. It has lived rent-free in my head for almost 40 years.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why is this always me? 😂
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean sure, great that you're doing the right thing NOW, but the time to do that was when the horrific thing first occurred, not after a national outcry forced your hand. Now it's not right, it's just damage control.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finished this one today and let me say, it was a WILD ride. #BookSky 💙📚🩸
Book cover, "The Sea Hides Its Dead" by Megan Bontrager. An ominous red eye peers through the barrel of an ocean wave
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is a FABULOUS day for book releases. I got three preorder notifications in my email this morning! I love Tuesdays. 💙📚
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So there's this weird thing I do sometimes, where l need to have the TV on in the background while I'm reading, but whatever I'm (not)watching needs to be thematically similar to my book. Tonight I watched The Forest (2016) and The Ring (2002). #BookSky 💙📚🩸
Book cover, "Japanese Gothic" by Kylie Lee Baker
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
working on a theory of history called "the worst guy" theory basically whatever movement you create will eventually come to be controlled by its worst guy, and will likely be defined by its worst guy, so you gotta be really vigilant about figuring out where your threshold for worst guy is
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The cognitive dissonance of talking to a patient about STI screening, and suddenly not being able to remember if they're cis or trans.
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Ask Asking
Alt: Bugs Bunny gif, "May I ask something?"
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm not really sure how to describe this book. Fantasy? Magical realism? Ghost story? I just know it's beautiful and sad and hopeful and I love it. #BookSky 💙📚
Book cover, "Other Birds" by Sarah Addison Allen
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Of course it was a man.
Photo of Lindsay Clancy in a courtroom with the news headline "Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Case Says He Didn't Doubt Her Guilt - The juror, Michael Desronvil, defended his decision not to join other jurors in voting for Clancy's acquittal."
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This book is beautiful and unique and I absolutely love it. #BookSky 💙📚🌈
Book cover, "Forest Euphoria, The Abounding Queerness of Nature" by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
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Sword-Saint Vitus @armoredprincess.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*trying to tell you to quit your cowardice* stop being such a *remembers as a feminist I should not disparage women’s genitals* such a *remembers many women have dicks* such a *thinks of something women shouldn’t have* Stop being such a boyfriend.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have to finish my book today, because I accidentally marked it as finished in my StoryGraph when I meant to mark a different one. I'm just past the halfway point. It's a race against time!
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My baby girl 🥰
A white dog lying belly-up in the crook of her person's arm
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I guess there really is such a thing as immortality.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today's theme of the day is "Amenorrhea from testosterone is not sufficient for contraception if your partner produces sperm."
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why would I want to watch an AI video trailer for a book? I feel like whoever came up with that idea fundamentally misunderstands their audience. And books.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026
You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mayhew is a fan of Sondheim.
Photo of a Staffordshire terrier transfixed by a television screen showing the stage version of Sweeney Todd
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This week I received a book that I apparently preordered in June but I have no memory of doing so...and not only that, if you'd asked me I would have said I'd never heard of the book or the author. This is a first, even for me. #BookSky
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My house is filled with voice activated lights, yet I would rather turn them on from the app on my phone because speaking is too much effort. #WhyAmILikeThis
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I have a problem. I started reading this today and I feel like I remember NOTHING from the first book. #BookSky 💙📚
Book cover, "The Knave and the Moon" by Rachel Gillig
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
But what if I don't want to be visible?
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I visited my parents' dog today. I visited my parents too, but the dog is cuter.
Photo of a little dog sleeping peacefully on a sofa, one ear sticking straight up in the air
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 01/09/2026
I don't believe gen AI will ever be able to create fiction or art of any real merit. It's just using statistics to remix existing shit. But in the unlikely event that ever happened, I still wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Human creativity is joy & fulfillment even on the days when it's hard
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The end of the whiskey bottle always results in an overly generous pour. This is not a complaint.
Hand holding a glass of whiskey with an image of a raven on it, against a slightly blurry laptop with ebook text on the screen. A sticker next to the trackpad of the laptop reads "Read books & fight the patriarchy"
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My baby girl is happy I'm home
A white dog sleeping with her head against her person's leg, one pointy ear sticking straight up in the air and a distinct smile on her face
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh no. We cannot lose Tim Curry the very next day after Dolly Parton. We are not okay.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Finished this one tonight. I don't read much modern true crime but I do enjoy historical true crime. Rubenhold brings a fresh perspective to a familiar story. 💙📚💡 #BookSky
Book cover, "Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen" by Hallie Rubenhold
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G @gnielsenart.com · 25/08/2026
It says a lot about a stranger when losing them is this much of a gut punch. The world was better with Dolly Parton in it and that's just a fact.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This was a really wonderful read, and gave me context for a lot of things I've experienced but didn't necessarily have the language to articulate. #BookSky 💙📚🌈📚💡
Book cover, "Bi: the hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality" by Julia Shaw
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I've been using StoryGraph for years and I recommend it to all my friends! Love it 💙📚
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
IT'S HERE IT'S HERE ITS HERE I have been waiting YEARS for this book. #BookSky 💙📚🪐
Book cover, "Daggerbound" by T. Kingfisher
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Btw we're like bffs now
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Taurus: Like a dying star collapsing on itself, you will lie on your couch watching TV and eating junk food.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I'm weirdly bored with everything I'm reading lately.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
People tell me they like suits but don't have occasions to wear one. You can wear a suit to court, funerals, and religious services. Doesn't have to be your trial, friend's burial, or religion you believe in. Go to random trials, attend a stranger's burial, join multiple religions. Try it sometime.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm getting my hair cut. I'm apparently so bougie that I go to a salon with a lounge in it now.
A navy blue slightly sparkly drink in a margarita glass
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The Tiny Angry Witch @tinyangrywitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
⭐ BOOK ⭐ The Tiny Angry Witch has got a book of magic - but when you’re tiny, turning the pages can be tricky… This is our longest video so far. Stop-motion animation, made with models, props, and patience! Written, built, animated, voiced, and scored by 4 x people (and 1 x Witch)
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I enjoy that I'm not the only one who just wanders around the clinic making faces at people sometimes.
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Yes please. But only if it's cut diagonally.
Uncredited meme showing an uncut grilled cheese sandwich on a mid century modern white plate with tan flower trim. Caption reads "Might I interest you in a grilled cheese on a granny plate in these trying times?"
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gwen 🌶️👹 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 14/08/2026
America could have just been the country full of people who love chocolate chip cookies but instead its *gestures around at the bloated corpse of a whale on the beach about to rebrand as precipitation *
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 14/08/2026
People will really turn up their nose as astrology, scoff at the idea that belonging to one of twelve signs could actually determine your personality, and then believe with their whole heart that belonging to one of two genders completely defines who you are
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Such a sleepy baby girl.
Photo of a very sleepy white dog with black markings, resting her head on a person's leg with her ears splayed out
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If Bluesky was really as dead as they say, could I do THIS?? (okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)
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JD @jdhobbes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Every time we have a no-show at the clinic my brain helpfully supplies, "Two no-shows and one sick triceratops."
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