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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's so funny because I stopped buying the mini sleeves because the quality was so bad and switched to the regular - whose quality is now bad. Guess I'll switch back!

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That’d be wonderful, thank you!

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also re: cakes - my SIL has asked me to make a red velvet for her birthday (same weekend as the neice’s), anyone have a good go to recipe for that? She loves super sweet cakes.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I need a spouse just so someone else can do dishes when I’ve baked two cakes in less than 24 hours.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cake attempt two. Just filled it with raspberry preserves and made lemon American buttercream. I know the strawberry jam and strawberry powder in the frosting worked so I’m saving those for the final cake. Hoping this sponge is better, cross your fingers for me.

British sponge cake with raspberry preserves and lemon American buttercream.

The new lemon raspberry cake next to last night’s beautiful disaster of a strawberry cake with American hybrid buttercream. It looks pink and lovely with halved strawberries on top but it is a nightmare to eat.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well except that one time my nephew requested a captain crunch cake a week before his birthday. Turned out well but I definitely winged it!

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Okay sponge is waaay over baked lol. It also definitely needs a sweeter frosting so I’ll make a regular American buttercream for her actual birthday cake. I do like the strawberry jam under fresh chopped strawberries as the filling so I’ll keep that. This is why I do a trial run!

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s not even the oven’s fault this time, I was baking during the Penguins game and the timer went off in the last three minutes of play and I simply didn’t hear it. The end of that game was intense!

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Finished the test cake for niece’s birthday. The sponge is a little over baked and I’m not sold on the hybrid buttercream, but overall I think it turned out well!

English sponge cake with a strawberry American hybrid butter cream topped with fresh cut strawberries.

A slice of the cake on a pink plate in front of the rest of the cake.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's going to cost $25 extra to get it from Lego, which is why I held out hope for so long. But I've been trying since MAY and they haven't had it in stock once, so I think Barnes & Noble isn't going to restock it. Maybe for Christmas, but I think four months of trying is enough for me to call it.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Officially gave up on Barnes & Noble ever getting the Lego Jurassic Park T Rex Skeleton back in stock. Bought the new Lego bookstore book nook and when I finish that I have enough left over to buy the Jurassic Park Triceratops Skeleton. I'll get the T Rex direct from Lego after the holidays.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyway, getting ready to go to my second funeral in two and a half weeks. This is how you know you're getting old. Instead of having a lot of weddings and baby showers to attend, you start going to the funerals of your friends' parents.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someday I will figure out how to make my hair look good while curly, but I fear that today is once again not that day.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not surprised by this at all. All of my customers who are buying equipment right now are almost exclusively building things for data centers. Every other industry has fallen off a cliff. Used to be 80% auto, medical, and aerospace.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And how much did he get paid to say this?

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you for looking though!

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I probably will once they’re not selling them at McDonalds anymore. They’re $1.78 plus tax at the locations that will sell you them directly, so I’ll keep trying my luck for now.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bought little 3D printed shelves to display my Godzilla x Hello Kitty toys. Still missing Destroyah, not sure there’s any hope left for it, but I did great otherwise!

7 of the 8 Hello Kitty x Godzilla Happy Meal toys on scallop edged 3D printed shelves in teal, yellow, and mint green.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Though I'm still in trouble with the older three for going to Madison overnight after they slept over. The betrayal of having plans!

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You would have thought I was gone for weeks the way my nephew just ran up and hugged me and then said he was glad I was back from my trip. It was one day at a trade show.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Love hearing the R word in a distributor call. It's never good when your manufacturers are talking about weathering a recession.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm so excited for this book I made my Library pre-order a copy too.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm just glad nothing ever came of the bushes she wanted to move over. Trimming bushes sucks.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Got waylaid by my landlady when dropping off the rent check. She asked me to tour her garden to ask which plants I think would work in the front garden if she transplanted them. Is this a normal thing for other people? She never actually transplants anything, but this happens every few months.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Love quoting a customer $1k for one case of brass wire that cost less than $400 before Trump took office. But manufacturing is doing great, sure.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Planning a trip to New Orleans. Anyone have any recommendations?

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I didn't even know that was a thing they *could* break. How did they manage to break a function that's older than the mouse?

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Full disclosure I'm mostly going because The Shins are opening and I adore them. Also you know, hanging out with my sister and nephews and tickets were only $45.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've been listening to a lot of Weezer in the lead up to the concert in a few weeks and oh boy have a lot of their early songs not aged well.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We really lost a lot when governments went crazy for cars.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Getting a real power trip from my ability to set up new vendors. Oh a customer wants x and we don't carry it? I can fix that.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What weather app are you using?!?

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Super senior and rare orange female at the shelter near me. Someone please go adopt her. $150 chewy gift card for the luck adopter. Please share this. Please. Loudoun.gov/animals.

18 year old orange kitty in northern Virginia who needs a home now.

Adopt this sweet senior in northwestern Virginia

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Welp that's the end of my Outlier run. This sucks. It is not morally neutral to use AI tools at this time and I'm very disappointed it seems to be baked into the game.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Thanks for the feed link and the welcome!

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Which to be honest is the whole appeal of fountain pens for me XD

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I got samples of two reds (Diamine Oxblood and Diamine Red Dragon), a purple-blue (Diamine Polar Glow), and a turquoise (Jacques Herbin Emerald of Chivor). Put the Oxblood in for now, but it’s more brown than I really wanted. Going to try Red Dragon next!

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This pen arrived yesterday and is bringing me constant joy. Thank you for the rec!

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It does look amazing! Kind of bummed I’m a Nintendo gamer and not an Xbox gamer right now lol

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Easiest way to sell me anything is make it colorful and transparent! They look so cool.

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Jes @midnightbex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you look at the ANC version they have see through purple, neon green, and teal as well. Not sure what the difference between the two versions are though. Honestly tempted to get these even though I have a great working pair of earbud already! www.jlab.com/products/go-...

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JLab Go Pop ANC True Wireless Earbuds Transparent Purple

Experience powerful sound and peace with JLab GO POP ANC earbuds. Enjoy 27+ hours of playtime, active noise canceling, and clear calls. Customize your sound via the JLab app for a truly personalized a...

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Y'all. I know you're tired of my running on about this, and I *want* to give you a break over the weekend, but I CAN'T fail these cats. They need a HOME. They're affectionate, relaxed and in decent health, and their issues are MINOR and EASILY MANAGEABLE. All we need is to find That Person.

Gray cat with white flash on throat, sitting on bed, looking up.

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