Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If I’m gonna be visible today, best to get my nails done. 000
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Our Costco has whole chickens for 99 cents a pound right now, so I texted a couple of friends to let them know. Ran into one of them at my kid’s cross country practice and we were chatting about it, and my daughter said, “IS THIS WHAT ADULTHOOD IS? YOU JUST TEXT YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT CHICKEN?” 2146
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This is so real. At 40 I developed a neuroma in my foot and it changed so much about how I approach the world. I think about my feet and how they impact my future so much more now. (Also: orthotics.) 110
Reposted by Jamaila BrinkleyIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 30/07/2026If the Oates be Hall, sailor's good call If the Oates be Joyce Carol, sailors in peril 424252
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to let me have the Internet AND a kitchen. 161
Reposted by Jamaila Brinkley👻 SHEET GHOST 👻 @twolemonades.com · 08/07/2026The invention of the next great American novel is happening right now. (cc @jamaila.bsky.social) 152
Reposted by Jamaila BrinkleyJune Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 19/06/2026lmao poor yorick. they got his ass 1154251473
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Hello from the physical therapist’s office. I live with three triathletes and all three are injured this season, which is super fun. If you have ever met a triathlete, you will know two things are true: 1) they’ll tell you they do triathlon at the first opportunity and 2) they’re the worst patients. 120
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This one hits hard; when an author is a favorite of your own childhood AND your kids’ childhood for entirely different books it’s a wonderful thing. (I read her fantasy as a young adult; my kids LIVED for her How Do Dinosaurs books when they were little.) 061
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Beefsteak, Early Girl, Sungold, Sweet 100, Roma, and Black Krim. 020
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 10/05/2026When you raise nerds, sometimes your Mother’s Day cards are addressed to “Spawn Point” instead of “Mom” or “Mama.” 140
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Last night I dreamed that Dan Levy lived in a greenhouse in my backyard and was better at gardening than me. Still feeling a little resentful about it, tbh. 000
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 06/05/2026This is quite possibly the silliest and also the most satisfying weird little craft I have picked up in over 25 years of picking up weird little crafts. 2175
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The only TV I was allowed to watch was PBS Nature and the MacNeill-Lehrer Business Hour. 000
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 10/04/2026My kid athlete has an injury, which needs surgery. Insurance denied any more PT after 2 months, then told us they were denying surgery because she hadn’t done 3 months of PT. Planning to send them a bill for the athletic scholarship money she’s anticipating for college if this continues. 120
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I’m not really an author anymore but a fun thing about this liminal space I exist in is I get to pack books by people I still hang out with in various online spaces for vacation. (Shout out to @stephanieburgis.bsky.social and @valerievaldes.bsky.social who will be vicariously on the beach with me!) 161
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I don't talk about it a lot but one of my niche interests is celebrity gossip because I'm deeply basic. Anne Hathaway and I are exactly the same age - here's a thoughtful article from my fave gossip columnist about a good interview she gave about aging and work. www.laineygossip.com/anne-hathawa... 000
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 25/03/2026It’s my favorite time of year: when I get to go through my own social media to prove where I was and what I was doing for tax purposes. 000
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 22/03/2026If you are a person who a) backs into a parking spot at Costco, b) on a weekend, can you just… explain your worldview to me? 110
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 10/03/2026We are introducing our children to Star Trek and my daughter has just referred to Jean-Luc Picard as “the cool uncle.” 2133
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Getting mad about people being mean to my friends, while cooking vast quantities of food: the Jamaila Brinkley lifestyle 030
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 02/03/2026lol shoutout to my fellow only children of narcissists 241
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Twelve years ago right around this time, my husband took the single most unflattering picture of me that has ever been taken. (Turned out okay a couple hours later, though.) 030
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 24/02/2026This is not a media tie in I expected to see in the grocery store. 010
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Watched the new muppet show. My only note is that there should be more of them. 030
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 02/02/2026We saw The Great Gatsby musical yesterday and it was great but the hook of the song ‘New Money’ sounds exactly like the Fairly Oddparents theme song and now my brain is doing some VERY strange associations. (Also good luck getting this out of your head if you’ve seen both. Sorry.) 020
Reposted by Jamaila BrinkleyJamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Listen. The greatest moment of television in my personal lexicon is an episode of Barefoot Contessa in which Ina’s friend Susan brings a ‘surprise guest’ - the doorbell rings, Ina opens it, flings her arms in the air, and shrieks “IT’S MEL!!” upon finding Mel Brooks on her doorstep. AS WE ALL WOULD. 011
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 12/01/2026It’s the Patapsco now but growing up it was the Spokane! 010
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 07/01/2026My Bluesky strategy: occasionally retweet things, then disappear for a month, the show up to make one (1) post about food and reply to a million posts. Repeat. 130
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I genuinely hope that whatever food scientist came up with Nerds gummy clusters is getting some kind of real reward from it, monetary or career or whatever they want. They deserve it. 020
Reposted by Jamaila BrinkleyGreggo 🏳️🌈 @greggo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025My response to anything over the next two weeks 51149613934
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Me, finally watching Ahsoka multiple years after everyone else, shrieking “IS THAT @vinnythomas.bsky.social?!” during three crucial seconds to the extreme befuddlement of my significantly less Online spouse and childrenmedia.tenor.coma man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointingAlt: Leo, pointing at the TV 000
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Foreigner looks so happy to be in the parade. Good for them! 010
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Hi friends! It’s baking season again, which means I am here to sing the praises of pre-cut parchment paper. YES it is more money but the amount of stress it saves me is unimaginable. It’s SO EASY. If you can swing it I highly recommend it. 111
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I’m just imagining the Mythbusters testing this with ballistics gel and dummies, tbh 010
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 01/11/2025I have waited patiently through spooky season. Bring out the meal preparation Gantt charts and the gift shopping spreadsheets, IT’S MY TIME TO SHINE 010
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 27/10/2025We had a wee little earthquake here this evening. 2.5, according to USGS. My house shook! Wild stuff for Maryland. 120
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I posted about my recent age-related shoulder impingement diagnosis on Facebook and the over-40 women are coming out of the woodwork in the comments. The things our bodies do to us in return for managing to survive this long are wildly unfair. 010
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Hello! It’s me, your friend with a rare and stupid autoimmune disorder, here to ask your non-dietary tips on reducing chronic inflammation! My connective tissue and various appendages thank you in advance! 110
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 11/10/2025My husband took our son fishing this morning and he is not responding to any of my texts which consist solely of quotes from the increasingly obscure Strongbad Goes Fishing episode. Rude. 040
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Yes, OBVIOUSLY if I had known this was coming I would have waited to reread Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail again. But I read it like last week. That’s too soon. You have to save up for it. 010
Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 25/09/2025The amount of pressure I am feeling right now to identify and download a long enough fic to tide me through the upcoming AO3 20-hour maintenance is unreal. (I only read at bedtime! For like an hour! BUT STILL.) (Yes, recs welcome, esp if they involve Bucky Barnes or Jason Todd) 031
