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Jay Edidin
@edidin.bsky.social
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writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · Aug 28
when i say that i'm an abolitionist, i am talking primarily about state violence including policing and incarceration; but i'm also very down for getting rid of grammar police and horny jail
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 7h
too big around. They tend to haul it around by the neck, as if they have just killed it
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 7h
and has such potential for backfire
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 7h
nope
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 7h
Gd, epiphytes alone…
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 7h
The toddler’s school picture day form says we can send them with a favorite toy, so we asked if they wanted to bring current favorite Goose, who is roughly as long as they are and very floppy, and they were ecstatic. This is gonna be the best school picture ever.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 7h
oh no
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 7h
tbh I kind of want a tattoo of this
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 7h
We wondered, but toddler clarified that the drawing is not of Randall; it’s just his famous shape.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 7h
I’m addition to having written “many words,” Randall James has a store full of things, including many boxes of the toddler's notebooks; and he wrote the labels for the boxes.

Also he has a Famous Shape? (see attached)

Will update as new information is revealed.
An aggressively abstract pen drawing by a toddler. The artist informs us that it portrays “Randall James’s Famous Shape.”
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 7h
Update: Writer James has a first name, which is Randall. While there IS a real author named Randall James, he mostly seems to write romance novels set on Cape May, so I suspect the name is coincidence.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 14h
The toddler has been telling us stories of their friend, Writer James, whom the toddler apparently knew when they were a teenager in college.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 8h
Eve from the video game Parasite Eve
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Jay & Miles @xplainthexmen.bsky.social · 8h
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 502 - Milkshakes of Despair (Maximum Security, Part 2 of 2) www.xplainthexmen.com/2025/10/502-...
502 – Milkshakes of Despair
In which t’ieves and assassins dress to impress; Bishop returns; Rogue and Carol Danvers have a moment; and the revolution will be stored on compact disc.
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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 15h
I found a 19th century Cat Villain!
A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 9h
yes but this one was specifically an emergency naked bike ride
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 9h
SOMEDAY
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 9h
Much as I love New York, I do kinda miss living in a city where "naked bike ride" falls under emergency protocols.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 9h
No, he has a store full of things, including many boxes of the toddler's notebooks, and he wrote the labels for the boxes.

Also he has a famous shape?

We are entranced.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 13h
As you ought
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 13h
(It's much, MUCH more survivable if you have a table to hide behind, FWIW)
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h
https://xkcd.com/3030/
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 13h
Yeah, this is Not Fun
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 13h
One of my favorite things on the fringes of conventions is tired cosplayers.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 13h
RIGHT?! I feel like any names in this article should be used as an IA investigation list.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h
any cop who walks because mamdani gets elected is almost certainly a cop who fears accountability and should never have been hired in the first place
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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d
Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable. " Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 14h
The toddler has been telling us stories of their friend, Writer James, whom the toddler apparently knew when they were a teenager in college.

@teaberryblue.net
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