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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman

@boshthejerm.bsky.social
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28, He/him. Novelist, scientist, cat dad. Please ask me for a pdf of my book (and then also please ask to publish it). Bad at posting, good at being bald

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9h
Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble
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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 15h
feeling 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.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 13h
it's getting so you can't even publish the withheld name and personal details of a sexual assault victim without everyone getting "all mad"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 9h
Broken Anthony
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One 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
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Proposal for a new Boston city flag design
“Tremendous Storrowing on Memorial Dr this morning” and then a pic of a bunch of firefighters next to a truck some genius tried to drive under a low bridge, like a gaggle of geniuses often do despite the insane amount of signage about specifically how to not do this, known locally in Boston as “Storrowing”
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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
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Secret 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
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Weirdly 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
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of my favorite shows of all time!
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Assigned 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...
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Lilly 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.
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Star Trek le creuset shuttle loaf pan calls to me like those aliens in that TNG episode who stop everyone from dreaming except Troi
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Gonna start yelling “go back to your special basement” at players who strike out
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Begging 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
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Ham @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"I'm too talented to need shortcuts" goes so fucking hard.
youtube community post from Huggbees that discusses why he does not and will not ever use AI in his art
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you’d rather light yourself on fire than open any of this fascist tech
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
hello 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
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 21/10/2024
Alex Fay (@AlexlsOkay) on Twitter: "The most unrealistic part of Death Note is that a goth girl like Misa had an eight foot tall monstrous god of death who was so blatantly dtf and instead of jumping on that she spent the series thirsting after a gay republican"

rubaedo on tumblr replies:

"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes"
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Write shitty novels
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The 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.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Man reading his phone and having his fave disintegrated by a demonic red light
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 06/09/2026
Underrated 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
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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
my ass is the tool of big farts
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sonny Gray: kinda good at pitching
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Women’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.
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Skill issue
“I was like, guys, you can do whatever, you can smoke whatever, you can relax as much as you can, but please, to not do it around the tennis courts,” [Aryna] Sabalenka said when asked what she was thinking during the match. “It’s a bit tricky to handle that smell while you’re trying to compete at your best.”
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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
James Cameron pitching T2: imagine a guy who doesn’t make a face
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hollering
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
thank you lesbian tractor witch
image with swirling green background of the lesbian tractor witch it says: congratulations if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the lesbian tractor witch, she has removed all curses have a wonderful day
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/09/2026
Technology 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.
We’re eliminating AI use for students in 2-K through 8th grade for the upcoming school year.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
no everyone is going to be like this, unless they have seen 'hell or high water'
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Goose @phatcussy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the Onion shit and poop are stinky with boy making stinkface meme
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 03/09/2026
I 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
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 03/09/2026
I 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.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about and I can't even begin to care.
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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 02/09/2026
i 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
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
ok I had to force down a tear with this one reskeeting with alt text
Image of a page in a book with text reading as follows


THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO:

Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957. a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year-old American on her way to India.

Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, "You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life."

Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:

I've done the best I could with my life.

This book is for you.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Timeline cleanse from the Black Flute Brigade of Los Angeles.
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Many such cases
Screaming cat
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Bob l’eponge
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Watching 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
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
‘You can’t own a game’ rendered like the old anti piracy ads
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026
Normalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars'
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have watched this clip approximately eight billion times since watching this happen on live tv
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Josh “Please Ask To Read My Novel” Berman @boshthejerm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Aaron Swarz forever vindicated
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Al 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
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