Reposted by Joe Berkowitzmerritt @merrittk.com · 9hwe fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone 102102324
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzBrandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 20hSarah Hagi writing about the Daily Wire movie 🚨defector.comFinally, A Shitty Movie Where Muslims Are The Bad Guys | DefectorI can’t think of a time in my life when the idea of a Muslim terrorist was not the most acceptable societal enemy. As someone who came of age in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of both Iraq and Afg... 424829
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 29/09/2026Sorry I just need to take a few years to think about everything 142749
Reposted by Joe Berkowitznick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 3747941872
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I can see how a normie dmv person might not have thought to flag this. 2140
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem. 293383354
Reposted by Joe Berkowitzhuck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers 4161551265
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hard to overstate how it blew my mind as a child to find out a person’s legal name could be ‘Wolfgang’ 080
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen 1642172395
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Banned from the New York Times website, because I sent an angry email about not being able to vote for the Grape Stomping video in the Best TV Shows of the 21st Century because apparently it's from 1998, even though that information is not listed anywhere on the ebaumsworld site. 111747
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I ordered Goodfellas online and the version that arrived has this hilariously bad cover art. Like, why is it autumnal? 250
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I doubt this will be what makes the difference but I also know the connection that launches a career can come from anywhere so if you know a literary agent who might be into an LGBTQ mystery let me know 0103
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"I'm not mad," he added. "Please don't put in the newspaper that I got mad." 0163
Reposted by Joe Berkowitzweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106422507
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Another London dispatch: If any of you know any Broadway producers or investors, I am begging you to convince them to transfer "My Neighbor Totoro" to NYC when it closes in London in January. It is one of most enchanting, moving, heartwarming shows I've seen & I want audiences here to experience it🙏 16625110
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Maybe let him spend a few years demonstrating his alleged regret before helping him publicize it??? 080
Reposted by Joe Berkowitzmaundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026you've got to assume an ethics expert is troubled almost all the time. although it would be pretty cool not to be. "the blasé ethicist" 642336
Reposted by Joe Berkowitzthe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026malpractice story packaging in that the more pertinent details are: this guy is a bodybuilder promoter who killed his own son with a $100K divorce on wheels but is crowdfunding his funeral on a page that just says he was “accidentally struck by a moving vehicle” and they’re close to half that amountlatimes.comYoung boy killed after father backs Cybertruck into him, police sayA California man accidentally hit and killed his 6-year-old son while backing out of the family’s driveway near Temecula in a Tesla Cybertruck, according to police reports. 381368347
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 21/11/2025MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down TRUMP: Uh huh MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade? TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom 7790161417
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not the Trump White House's legendary standards of professionalism and decorum! 161
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just realized on this King of Comedy rewatch the limo window separating Sandra Bernhard and De Niro in the opening credits is like a TV screen, and it telegraphs the ending. 030
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Nobody wants to talk about it but Brad Pitt wears a tie with little basketballs going into hoops during *multiple scenes* throughout Se7en. 13713
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzActing the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026there are 70 million people for whom this is the biggest song in the world. they watch comedies called like "Wives of Jim" that have run for nine seasons. they're usually pretty affable in person. in 2024 they severed the fate of humanity because of egg prices 814243715
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzRichard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 01/08/2026My mom (idly scrolling on her phone): "Hm, have you heard of this film, Lost Highway?" Me: 2695
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This kicks so much ass. Also, it makes my life as a parent so much easier. 241260164
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzGwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...drgwenmarshall.itch.ioHigh Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen MarshallA satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG! 482195767
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026When you definitely understand the backlash you’re hoping to avoid. 091
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW BRAIN DROPPEDmed.stanford.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 232604779
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Finally, a chance to see Donald Trump on television. 0113
Reposted by Joe Berkowitzphil @philjamesson.com · 20/09/2026when i start ruminating on the boxed cereals which destroyed my memory, nothing can help me sleep. not even getting in full military regalia 502324266
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society. 392521496
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 21/09/2026It's restaurant week in a few places, so upping my piece about how it got a reputation for being cringe, and why it actually still rules www.weareravenous.com/restaurant-w...weareravenous.comRestaurant Week Is Good, ActuallyChefs and diners have been plenty skeptical of Restaurant Week's discounted menus. But what if it's a better way to learn what a city's restaurants have to offer? 0475
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 21/09/2026OK, might as well let the cat out of the bag The first excerpt from @beckbook.com is now available in the PRINT edition of New York Magazine!! It'll be online later, but if you can buy the actual issue, go support one of the last great print magazines!!! To entice you, here's the opening spread: 1021572
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Do you ever read a series of words 1084053566
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzJoe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026For dogs, sidewalk pee is social media. 1259
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty 3035901148
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886362293
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Excellent. I think he should ban more outlets. perhaps that will address the press's collective action problem... 437853
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What if AI superstar Tilly Norwood, longevity genius Bryan Johnson and the pronatalist couple just interviewed *each other* forever, perhaps on an island somewhere with no cameras or wifi. 0182
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026tilly norwood vs fred flintstone made up: ✅ / ✅ has a job: ❌ / ✅ catchphrase: ❌ / ✅ pet dinosaur: ❌ / ✅ is a virgin: ✅ / ❌ 713795529
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My brother in law is seven-feet tall and every photo he takes looks like this. 190
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Happy face of a girl enjoying a large treat to celebrate leaving the vet with good news. 060
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit. 352436651
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzGaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Imagining future digital archaeologists poring over boomer Facebook posts and attempting to use them to understand our culture and values the way we do tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal 742444360
Reposted by Joe BerkowitzJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Carly Rae Jepsen is great in part because her songs are horny in ways that most musicians can't capture all of. Cheerfully horny. Wistfully horny. Hornnui. She has the horny range. 411903278