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Joe Berkowitz

@joeberkowitz.bsky.social
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Writer. Not too annoying. Books: American Cheese, Away With Words, You Blew it. Bylines: Many of the good places.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 22h
"take a hike" joke's on you, exercise would be great for my mental health
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16h
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 18h
I found this video really moving, it reminded me of the many professors who put themselves in harm's way to protect their students during the encampments for Palestine, but I can't really think of an elected official here in the US doing the same
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The music of Seinfeld, divorced from the show itself, is nothing short of disgusting. Imagine if the show didn’t exist but the music somehow did. Hearing it, your face would twist in angry revulsion
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's wonderful that you and Benny had each other for as long as you did and my heart hurts for your loss, Amy.
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reading between the lines, the constitution strongly implies the rules could bend if A Very Special Boy were president.
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well look who made the dang news.
Minnesota Public Radio instagram with a story about last weekend’s witch boarding, which of course was women dressed as witches going out on paddleboards. (My spellbinding wife is the one keeping a handle on the adorable black lab.)
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
an inclusive company that makes sure the victorian child ghost in your attic isn’t overlooked this holiday season
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Low bar but this is the most profound point ever made on Bill Maher’s show.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Professor Frink saying this
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The 'Jeff Epstein? The financier?' meme but with text that reads 'Dennis Hastert? The banking laws violator?'
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This will make Trump forget about the time Elon called him a pedo. No, I don't know if I'm being sarcastic.
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Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI
Donald Trump has been pushing the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence."
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game.
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An ad from S5 of Mad Men. A bunch of men's clothes on the beach and a set of footprints leading to the water. Everyone who sees it assumes it's about suicide. Tagline reads: Hawaii. The jumping off point.
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The poster for the movie Fright Night at the theater where my parents took me to see Pee-wee's Big Adventure. And then the clown in Pee-wee's Big Adventure. And then Large in Marge Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A big group of women including my wife went paddleboarding dressed as witches yesterday and I love this photo where it looks like she and our dog are not with any group, just out for a witchy ride on their own. Also the paddle in the water looks like a broom.
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Using my vaccine recovery day to make apple butter and tomatillo salsa.
Apples on a cutting board, assorted ingredients, a pot with one chopped up apple in it, and a laptop with Fear playing in one part of the screen and a recipe on another window.Gorgeous brown apple butter with little bits of ginger sticking outJar of nuclear green tomatillo salsa
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 03/10/2026
it’s sooo funny that jesse eisenberg turned down the social network sequel but said yes to “now you see me 3”
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
they look like rival casino owners in a straight-to-video movie where Eric Roberts plays both of them
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan
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The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan
Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal
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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 20/06/2026
werner herzog with a speech bubble over the quoted post
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not as damning as, say, a joke on Jimmy Kimmel I didn't care for.
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A bit beside the point but the reclamation of Southland Tales has just been bizarre to me.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/10/2026
in July an ICE agent killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. just 6 months prior, agents abducted 100 people in 3 days during "Catch of the Day" I joined Mainers monitoring an ICE facility despite harassment, making memorials, protesting Congress, and caring for their neighbors @us.theguardian.com
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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too
ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Something patronizing about these notifications like ‘well well well, look who got off their ass for 20 whole minutes’
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you for reminding me of my favorite facial expression in cinema history.
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
get yourself a grump Husband who loves old graveyard
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Amazing thank you! My grump Husband (who was a coal miner in England starting at age 16. Guess he has reason to be grumpy) loves old graveyard.
So do l! I am going to plan activities for us, stuff I know husband will like (kid is happy if husband is) so l have my first thing which is the graveyard.
Thanks! Any good antique stores? Just to look?
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 30/09/2026
Talked about the new wave of independent food media with @devrafirst.bsky.social at @bostonglobe.com. I think we're building something good. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/30/l...
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Food media strikes back - The Boston Globe
In an era of upheaval, journalists are launching independent publications. Will this experiment work?
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026
we 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
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of these must be imminent.
Elon Musk tweet from when Grok was contradicting all his manifestly incorrect stated beliefs about objective reality: "Major fail, as this is objectively false. Grok is parroting legacy media. Working on it."
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sarah Hagi writing about the Daily Wire movie 🚨
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Finally, A Shitty Movie Where Muslims Are The Bad Guys | Defector
I 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...
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"What do you mean you haven't heard Choosin' Texas by Ella Langley, that is mathematically impossible meep morp"
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Computer, tell me what music I like."
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 29/09/2026
Sorry I just need to take a few years to think about everything
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On 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.
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
agamemnon-style physical education
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can see how a normie dmv person might not have thought to flag this.
License plate that reads AGAPE2U
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I 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.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dissociating politically by autumning out.
A man, woman and gorgeous black lab pose near a bunch of pumpkins at an apple orchard
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hard to overstate how it blew my mind as a child to find out a person’s legal name could be ‘Wolfgang’
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’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
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Banned 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.
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Or when it’s just the actors’ last names but some of them aren’t well known enough yet and it looks wrong.
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