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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 16h

choosin Texas is mostly just pleasantly forgettable. I know I’ve heard it, more than once even but I keep trying to remember the tune and my brain just pulls up good luck babe instead.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 16h

really don’t understand this system we have where the Supreme Court lets the government continue doing a possible illegal thing until they decide it is for sure illegal. Just seems like we wouldn’t want to inadvertently sanction horrible crimes, as a rule

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 19h

the thing about the clone saga is that there is no story there. it was thrilling waiting for them to come up with one as it was happening, but then they never did. For years! deadline.com/2026/09/spid...

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'Spider-Man' Sony Universe TV Series Nears Amazon Order (EXCLUSIVE)

Amazon nears greenlight for 'Spider-Man' Sony Universe TV series based on the Clone Saga Marvel Comics storyline about Ben & Kaine. Kelvin Yu writes.

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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a sensational piece, and @jmrivera.bsky.social is an exceptional writer

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

generally speaking if you see a headline breaking a story you would like to be true from an outlet you’ve never read before it is probably false and not worth sharing

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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Laura Bradley @lurabardley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Journo request: I'm looking for Youths™ who are watching, or have watched, Friday Night Lights. Basically, anyone who is *not* a millennial or older. Are you this person? Do you know someone who is? DM me!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 26/09/2026

Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, on why she dislikes the phrase ‘I really love reading’. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026

Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The cool thing about living in Philly when you’re traveling abroad is that when people ask where you’re from they always smile and say ROCKY!

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

anyone have a favorite bar in Kyoto

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Jank @jank.cool · 26/09/2026

Another seven days have passed at Jank dot cool. The videogames never cease. Here's what we wrote. www.jank.cool/jank-mail-ha...

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Jank Mail: Halo falling

This week in PC gaming

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Every few months we get people extrapolating from a sports clip to determine some guy in the stands needs to get dumped and his wife/girlfriend to upgrade, and every time there's a post-din reveal that says quite a few of you need to touch grass

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am definitely team better call Saul is superior to breaking bad, a show that I think has aged the worst out of that white guy antihero golden age wave. The Shield, as always, deserves more love

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tokyo is the best city in the world for hotties with IBS

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh I forgot to share this earlier but I wrote about the secret to Reacher season 4 being the best one since the first: Philadelphia www.tvguide.com/news/reacher...

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Reacher Season 4 Became an Incredible Philadelphia Show - TV Guide

He's not just a big man; he's a big man on the road

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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one dozen rats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

explaining to cam skattebo that he won’t be able to play with jaxson anymore using the same hand signals they used to tell koko the gorilla her cat died

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

and slam in the back of MAGNOLIA

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

DIGGER through the ditches and burn through the witches

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Beautiful stuff from @jmrivera.bsky.social. I read it twice today. I have an incredibly fraught relationship with time that's poisoned so many aspects of my life including my hobbies. I really want to refactor my game time in the image of this piece & shake the anxieties it rightfully pokes holes in

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

oh this is up! I wrote an essay about how video games keep track of the hours you spend playing them, and how I find that vulgar

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

oh this is up! I wrote an essay about how video games keep track of the hours you spend playing them, and how I find that vulgar

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am having the worst day of my life trying to get out of narita airport. I should have just started walking to my hotel

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning! Over at Vulture I wrote about the ending of Resident Evil, which is pretty divisive but I think it holds up to scrutiny www.vulture.com/article/resi...

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Resident Evil’s Ending Is the Right Kind of Cruel

In his first franchise outing, writer-director Zach Cregger eschews obvious sequel hooks for something more devious.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning! Over at Vulture I wrote about the ending of Resident Evil, which is pretty divisive but I think it holds up to scrutiny www.vulture.com/article/resi...

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Resident Evil’s Ending Is the Right Kind of Cruel

In his first franchise outing, writer-director Zach Cregger eschews obvious sequel hooks for something more devious.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/09/2026

Fascinating explainer from the NYTimes today — and not just because it cites RNS (thanks!). Tucked in here is one of the most succinct assessments* of mainline Protestantism's historic US political role I've seen this cycle — an important this for folks to grasp. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/m...

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Can Democrats Reclaim the Christian Moral High Ground?

A surprising number of pastors are running as Democrats this year, challenging Americans’ assumptions about politics and faith.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

for the record I think that EB white quote sucks. as if ambition and romance must be imported. come on

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

conducting an experiment this season to see how far a fantasy team can be carried by Josh Allen alone

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

buried in this very good announcement: soraya has plans to write about Zelda, which means I have plans to read Soraya on Zelda

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

sometimes mma delivers the goods (a sex pest folding like a cheap deck chair in seconds)

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

real meme potential on those saucy fuckin horns in the resident evil theme

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we should venerate game reviewers who give hundred hour video games a bad review. what makes you think you have the mental fortitude to spend a hundred hours on a thing that sucks ass. most of you can’t be bothered to read more than a headline.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Maybe this is too broad but I think a lot about how in the mid to late 2010s every media outlet wanted a Taylor Lorenz of their own and while none of them went quite the way she did a lot of publications were paying good money for young women willing to break their brains online

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle

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Michelle

A tribute.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

got some blue potatoes in the farm share box and that is a Star Wars ass vegetable

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

new @aftermath.site column! in the latest installment of THE WORK I wrote about Furious, what it really takes to bring the bastards down, and how our institutions aren't up to the task aftermath.site/hulu-furious...

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Hulu's Queasy Thriller Furious Wants Our Hands At Abusers' Throats

The hit crime thriller rages against the powerful men who use their power to build staggering empires of abuse, and what it might take to bring them down.

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Saloni Gajjar @salonig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

did you know South Asian dance competitions in American colleges are a very real and intense thing? netflix's BEST OF THE BEST captures that in a flashy & astute YA movie, with a great turn from Never Have I Ever's Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. highly recommend: www.avclub.com/best-of-the-...

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I hate wonder so much. Industrial scale ghost kitchens. Food from a company that hates you.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I loved Natasha’s piece on the physicality of Liz Meriwether’s shows

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Doc Ochs @nochshorn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Joshua’s column and mine use the same picture and they’re both very good. Coincidence...?

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