Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 28/09/2026The children are scared and it’s your fault hope that helps 14811
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 27/09/2026Yes that’s right, what makes you the Chosen One is your score on a test where <checks notes> you say what words are like other words 2465
Reposted by Jess ZimmermanNathan Edwards @grackle.space · 26/09/2026Bring my whole self to work? Buddy, I don’t bring my whole self ANYWHERE. Have you seen that guy? 0174
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 26/09/2026When JD was fucking the couch, that was genuinely fun for a minute 1180
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 25/09/2026You guys ever like a book so much that 10% of the way through you’re already mad you’ll eventually finish it? Because I’m having that experience with Exit Party 5260
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 25/09/2026I think we all know that iced coffee will be a total outrage for anyone they want to say “doesn’t fit the culture” and not a big deal for anyone else 0164
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 25/09/2026I just read Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey” and I thought it was a pretty remarkable memoir but it’s a lot harder and more confusing to recommend to people after the publication of Daniel Mendelsohn’s “THE Odyssey” 2101
Reposted by Jess Zimmermanmaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place 7164861215
Reposted by Jess Zimmermancait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it 222304646
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 24/09/2026We got a baby camera so we can check on the dog in her crate (she sleeps in the other room and sometimes has Night Digestion) and I’ve started calling it the Pupnapticon 0210
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 23/09/2026Bake Off had an older guy who was one of several making lemon cake and they described him as “bringing something extra to the lemon party,” we’ve blown right past “soggy bottoms” lads 0290
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 22/09/2026Great now people can get progressively worse at self-regulation just like they get worse at all the other cognitive tasks they outsource to robots 0150
Reposted by Jess ZimmermanElon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026i'm in the 16% but only because I prefer he be awake 7536
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 21/09/2026This doesn’t count as my zeitgeist prediction for this year because it’s only for litfic but I’m calling it: non-human/non-alive narrators 0100
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 21/09/2026God this means it’s ten years since the first September video 13612
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 21/09/2026It’d be so great to have functional government guidance on whether I can go to the gym tomorrow 1180
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 21/09/2026If you want to judge people for moving to your city wrong you should have been born in DC 1342
Reposted by Jess ZimmermanAngela Woolsey @redporchremnant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I came across this when I was at the Kennedy Center protest on Friday, and however ugly you think it looks online, it's even uglier in person 21226100
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 20/09/2026Live footage of me having covid but still doing my little tasks 0110
Reposted by Jess ZimmermanRed Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is exactly the thing. Trans rights are worth defending because trans people are worth defending and, also, simultaneously, at the same time, the very basic statistical truth is that the overwhelming majority of people harmed by mandated & enforced gender norms are not going to be trans. 210423
Reposted by Jess ZimmermanRed Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 20/09/2026IF YOU CAN'T LOOK AT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN 2026 AND FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO SAY THAN, "DUH... ACTUALLY I HATE TRANNIES, TOO!" GET THE *FUCK* OUT OF POLITICS AND GO BACK TO THE CIRCUS, YOU FUCKING CLOWN!! 2499
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 20/09/2026I was so confused by this until I remembered I only watch panel shows (where “Christmas special” just means “everyone has a sweater”) 0111
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 19/09/2026My biggest lost cause in copy editing is trying to get people to stop saying “global pandemic.” They’re global by definition! That’s what the “pan” means! 3250
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 18/09/2026There is no question in my mind that when AI kills us all, it will be by being too stupid, NOT being too smart 0365
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 18/09/2026I wish I were in either of the “forgot about it” categories 080
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 18/09/2026There’s a new dog at my dog’s day care whose name is Mambo No. 5 4561
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 17/09/2026I wish I were stupid enough to have AI psychosis, it seems like a much easier way to cope 0322
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 17/09/202620-year-old me did not believe in the existence of 46-year-old me and the least I can do is return the favor 0370
Reposted by Jess ZimmermanRich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 21/08/2026Traveling back in time to kill the internet as a baby 510519
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 12/09/2026Another northbound train pulled in across the way and I somehow paid “only” $48 to buy the last ticket AND it let me get a refund on the other one? I really didn’t think any of that would work. Late train left before new train and new train is still noisy but happy new year 290
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 12/09/2026Used to do this by talking about reducing spending but now it’s children’s genitals or nothing I guess 0152
Reposted by Jess ZimmermanAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question” 171996343
Reposted by Jess ZimmermanWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage: 1082734835
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 10/09/2026Sometimes if I need a moment of zen I look at the staged photos of the Taskmaster house from its Rightmove listing 2211
Reposted by Jess ZimmermanMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026As a Jewish person who has long been concerned about antisemitism, I think it’s fucking bananas that Republicans’ biggest donor is a neo-Nazi and that’s not really a political scandal—but we’re constantly talking about whether my friends on the left have a problem. 111015237
Reposted by Jess Zimmermanthank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026What a great day to buy my exorcism novel about a gay, lapsed Catholic single mom and her possibly possessed daughter:bookshop.orgThis Is My BodyA gripping queer horror novel that reinvents the classic possession story, following a single mother forced to confront the religious trauma she escaped when terrifying supernatural events threaten he... 1148
Reposted by Jess Zimmermanthank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026What a great day to buy my zombies-at-Pride novel: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...bookshop.orgThe Z Word"Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating."--Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt and Cuckoo Packed with action, humor, sex, and big gay feelings, The Z Word is the queer zombie rom... 194
Reposted by Jess ZimmermanJordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit 7448781046
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 09/09/2026If an AI wants to destroy life on earth I welcome it. Do something right for once I dare you 0226
Reposted by Jess ZimmermanBryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It always seems like it can't be true, but it is: American businesses often pay more to try to defeat a union drive or contract negotiation that they would if they recognized the union and agreed to better pay and benefits prospect.org/2026/09/08/u...prospect.orgHow Much Do Union-Busting Campaigns Cost? - The American ProspectIs your boss making you sit through anti-union propaganda meetings? It turns out those are pricey. 16886334
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 07/09/2026Happy Labor Day, my company unionized and got union-busted last year and many of us including me are still unemployed and I’d do it again because unions are good 0404
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 07/09/2026I’ll go further and say that almost nobody who’s trying to write children’s books should write children’s books. It’s a specific skill and having a child, knowing a child, and/or being able to rhyme two words is not sufficient 2491
