Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 9hGoing to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble 311015174
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Bermanjamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 15hfeeling this hard -- i am so glad that there is an actual conversation that's taking place around cornell, and that survivors coming forward isn't being dismissed as 'woke 1' or whatever the fuck. and it's also hard to ignore that we've been here before, in the recent past, and nothing changed. 379782
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Bermandr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 13hit's getting so you can't even publish the withheld name and personal details of a sexual assault victim without everyone getting "all mad" 749122
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13hdo men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now 44081401200
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the more fascinating things to me about Primetime is learning that I am among very few people under 30 that knew about the end of to catch a predator Probably good that that is changing, idk, who am I to say 000
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Proposal for a new Boston city flag design 010
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Not tryna be mean though sorry” was always my personal favorite bit 000
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Secret boygenius reunion was something I kinda knew could fix me on an intellectual level, but having now actually witnessed secret boygenius reunion, the level of fixed within me is unprecedented 100
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanAysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Weirdly I don’t remember any smug, scolding articles after the 2025 Super Bowl when a bunch of people claimed to have never heard of kendrick lamar. Wonder why that is 631440
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One of my favorite shows of all time! 71228
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 20/09/2026@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep Lilly Wachowski in Variety not pulling punches: "She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support “Harry Potter,” you’re supporting trans genocide." Hear, hear. variety.com/2026/film/fe...variety.comLilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk. 024068
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The Star Trek le creuset shuttle loaf pan calls to me like those aliens in that TNG episode who stop everyone from dreaming except Troi 002
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Gonna start yelling “go back to your special basement” at players who strike out 000
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Begging people to understand that “a””i” companies are made up almost exclusively of rationalist douchewads who cooked their brains with Rokos Basilisk and shitty Horky Pooper fanfic, and they think the chatbot will murder them because of that 000
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanHam @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"I'm too talented to need shortcuts" goes so fucking hard. 4677252372
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026RT if you’d rather light yourself on fire than open any of this fascist tech 000
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026hello liberal democracies around the world, i hate to say it but you need to take a look at how successful the funding of fascist media in america has been for the far-right and you need to start counteracting this with your own dollars funding progressive media here 432260463
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 21/10/2024 334441095
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Write shitty novels 000
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it. 141171305
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026 727115
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 06/09/2026Underrated reason why an Abdul win would be great is that it would be really beneficial to have a senator who has committed his lifework to actual public health policy doing nonstop counter messaging against RFK Jr crankery in 2028 101625245
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time 121897587
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 05/09/2026my ass is the tool of big farts 16811276
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Sonny Gray: kinda good at pitching 000
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Women’s boyfriends and husbands are using this case as a way to degrade and threaten them—stories are popping up all over Reddit. It’s becoming an antifeminist litmus test, much like believing Amber Heard was. Believing that Clancy had postpartum psychosis will get you smeared and harassed. 31844177
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanThey Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026 182137222677
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanJohn Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine 3483382486
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026James Cameron pitching T2: imagine a guy who doesn’t make a face 000
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanChuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026thank you lesbian tractor witch 13491962971
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/09/2026Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade. 9361601085
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanChuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026no everyone is going to be like this, unless they have seen 'hell or high water' 2164545
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanGoose @phatcussy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026 431024
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanLady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 03/09/2026I really appreciate how My Cousin Vinny understands that the hottest thing you can do is rage bait your partner until they start rambling about the hyperfixations they’re experts on 9882120
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanTBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 03/09/2026I am practising zero tolerance for this shit. If they use genAI for any part of development, then I don't know how I'm supposed to trust that they aren't using it elsewhere. They keep only being sorry when they get caught, they keep pleading for special exemptions. Just. Don't. Use. It. 61687630
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about and I can't even begin to care. 4490130
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Bermanjosh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 02/09/2026i want to know that the people i watch are real actors. i want to know that the words i'm reading were written by an author. i want to know that the strokes on a canvas were painted by a real human. i simply refuse to believe that the vast majority of people do not also feel this way 347576
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026ok I had to force down a tear with this one reskeeting with alt text 191924497
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanBrandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Timeline cleanse from the Black Flute Brigade of Los Angeles. 19481442327
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Watching the war tourist rapist with the Nazi tattoos who was friends with the Pod Save Bros have defenders saying "he's better than Susan Collins and he won't vote like her" was eye opening, I'll tell you that 1235051
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanMike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026 84131653427
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026Normalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars' 1842831437
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I have watched this clip approximately eight billion times since watching this happen on live tv 000
Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Aaron Swarz forever vindicated 010
Reposted by Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” BermanAl Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4 10492272509