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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 2h

Second time racing the Hartford Half Marathon and my second fastest half marathon.

Total time: 1:36:31
Pace: 7:22 min/mile

Man in blue hat, orange tank top, blue shorts, green and orange socks and green shoes running the Hartford Half Marathon. Mums flank the road to the finish.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 5d

A neighborhood grandmother that always sees my partner and I running around the block and knows that we're running a race soon made this great sign and stuck it in our yard.

A white sign in a yard with the words "You's got this" in orange with a finish line underneath. Bottom left corner is a drawing of two shirtless stick figures (one with long hair and a red headband and orange shorts, the other in a blue backwards cap and blue running shorts) running.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 2h

Artwork at the entrance of the Hades section (where books are a $1, but not arranged in any order) at Book Barn. Niantic, Ct.
#31daysofHalloween

Artwork in colors primarily of orange, purple, black and green depicting charon on a skiff. Fire and hands surround the image. On the lefthand side is a tree and full moon with flying bats.

A sign underneath reads:
The Underworld
Hot in the summer
Cold in the Winter
When it rains the river
Styx runs through it
and the paperbacks are not
in alphabetical order.
Welcome to Hades.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 2h

thanks! 🙂

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 2h

Second time racing the Hartford Half Marathon and my second fastest half marathon.

Total time: 1:36:31
Pace: 7:22 min/mile

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 2h

Artwork at the entrance of the Hades section (where books are a $1, but not arranged in any order) at Book Barn. Niantic, Ct.
#31daysofHalloween

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 1d

Orange Peel Fungus poking out from mud.
#31daysofHalloween

Closeup of orange sucker-shaped fungi in mud.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 1d

The mystery is solved.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure what they are, but dragons seem like a good guess.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 2d

Family crest engraved on a table tomb in Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery. #31daysofHalloween

Closeup downward shot of a grayish red tabletop tomb with engravings of bizarre creatures. One looks like a cartoonish aardvark with wings and bird feet and the other similar, but with a more canine-like head and stripes.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 2d

Skull-adorned staff.
#31daysofHalloween

A y-shaped branch stripped of bark with an opossum skull tied with black string between the branch split. Resting against a Japanese Maple Tree. Red leaves in the background.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 3d

Woolly Bear caterpillar sporting Halloween colors.
#31daysofHalloween

Closeup of a Woolly Bear Caterpillar on wood. The caterpillar has black bristles at both ends and orange bristles in the middle.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 4d

Ooo nice. Looks like mini-bagels.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not sure where she is originally from. In Connecticut now.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 4d

Fungi covering birch.
#31daysofHalloween

Closeup shot of base and trunk of birch tree covered in white polypore fungi. On the right side is a partial view of a forest background.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 5d

A neighborhood grandmother that always sees my partner and I running around the block and knows that we're running a race soon made this great sign and stuck it in our yard.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 6d

Hippocampus carousel figure at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.
#31daysofHalloween

Centered in a corner of a museum is a wooden hippocampus (serpentine fish lower half, horse upper half) carousel figure. To its left a partial glimpse of a colonial man statue, to the right a statue of a Native American and a poster of the same statue.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 6d

Trump, the Supreme Court, and liberal hero Newsom are teaming up against trans people.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 6d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7d

The Supreme Court appears ready to side with Trump in bringing back “gay conversion therapy.”

This practice involves physically abusing teenagers to try to turn them heterosexual, including with electric shocks and chemically-induced nausea.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks. I went for the first time to Salem on the 4th of July. It wasn't October packed, but had a nice crowd and fireworks at night.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 7d

Giles Corey's stone tablet at the Salem Witch Trials Memorial.

Refusing to plead guilty or not guilty of being a witch in order to pass land to his heirs through a legal loophole, Giles Corey was crushed to death by rocks stacked on top of his body over the course of three days. #31daysofHalloween

Downward angle of Giles Corey's memorial. A stone tablet inscribed with "Giles Corey Pressed to Death Sept.19, 1692."

Scattered on the tablet are gifts and offerings: berries, leaves, pine cones, sticks , a shell, and a little red crocheted bear.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 7d

October moon.
#31daysofHalloween

Zoomed out picture of white circular moon in faint pinkish sky wedged between two trees out of a line of autumn trees with green, red, and brownish-orange leaves. In front of the trees is a swathe of green grass followed by a line of brownish red taller grass, and in front of that more very green shorter grass.

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 9d

Hen of the Woods sprouting from the base of an oak.
#31daysofHalloween

Closeup of Hen of the Woods, a polypore mushroom. Background is the bark of an oak tree.

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