Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 11/12/2025MJ Lenderman is easily the most overrated artist of 2025. Dude sounds like a frog and makes subpar and indie twang. Like he’s not BAD but good?? Is he good? 000
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Anyone here read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? My heart is in pain and I need to commiserate 000
Reposted by Josiah RobertsRobbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 17/09/2025This summer @therumpus.net published some truly stunning essays via our Essays section. Here's a #RumpusEssays thread: Starting things off, @josiahroberts.bsky.social's "To Adopt a Grandparent" therumpus.net/2025/05/06/t...therumpus.netTo Adopt a Grandparent - The Rumpus“In every interaction there’s someone with power and someone without. If you are the latter, your two most important virtues are patience and persistence.” 161
Reposted by Josiah RobertsPLNU MA in Writing @plnuwritingma.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Read this beautiful, wonderful piece by our own MA in Writing alum @josiahroberts.bsky.social, and congratulations on such a stunning first essay publication in @therumpus.net! 031
Reposted by Josiah RobertsThe Rumpus @therumpus.net · 08/05/2025“I hardly knew this old woman, but she was supposed to be important to me somehow.” From "To Adopt a Grandparent," a new original essay by @josiahroberts.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/Mi4wPFu 171
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The mornings were reserved for thesis work. Thesis is done. This morning, I beat my record for staring at the wall with a solid hour and a half streak. Conquer one beast, onto the next. Grind never stops people. Shootin for a solid 4 hours. Don’t let anyone stop you from reaching your dreams 110
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 06/05/2025My first publication is out today with The Rumpus! It’s a piece about growing up without grandparents and working with a lot of old people at the Apple Store. You can read it here! therumpus.net/2025/05/06/t...therumpus.netTo Adopt a Grandparent - The Rumpus“In every interaction there’s someone with power and someone without. If you are the latter, your two most important virtues are patience and persistence.” 2102
Reposted by Josiah RobertsRobbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 28/04/2025So proud of two of our @plnuwritingma.bsky.social students who received @awpwriter.bsky.social Intro Journals Project honors this year. Nonfiction Winner: @josiahroberts.bsky.social Poetry Honorable Mention: @itmebugail.bsky.social Read more here: www.pointloma.edu/news/plnu-ma... 032
Reposted by Josiah Robertsjessie taylor (she/her) @jessietaylor2896.bsky.social · 28/03/2025my biggest hater has been spotted at #AWP2025 @josiahroberts.bsky.social @eldiagram.bsky.social 092
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025“Boy who cried wolf this!” “Boy who cried wolf that!” What about the boy who just cried? What about him? 051
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025What if the boy who cried wolf was just lonely 010
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I’m getting a weird nagging feeling no one’s listening to me… 010
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Not wearing green tomorrow so I can lure the leopard cons in and tell them to stop tricking all the leopards cuz it’s not cool who’s with me 000
Reposted by Josiah RobertsWord Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Ebers Medical Papyrus, circa 1550 BCE. Oldest attested mention of migraines, as <gs-tp>: "half/side head". Shows up again in Galen of Pergamon 1700 years later with an identical construction: ἡμικρανία <hēmikranía> ἡμικρανία > Lat. hemicrania > O. French migraigne > English megrim, migraine Ow. 0298
Reposted by Josiah RobertsRobbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Hey look, the @plnuwritingma.bsky.social students started a reading series! Kudos to @itmebugail.bsky.social and @poetrybyemma.bsky.social for getting FROM THE MAW rolling tomorrow! 132
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 14/02/2025choose your fighter y’all (choose me. I am the cooler nemesis) 040
Reposted by Josiah RobertsRobbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 14/02/20252nite i saw 2 nemesi in their natural habitat @jess1et.bsky.social @josiahroberts.bsky.social 131
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 29/01/2025It’s right around this time when the dread sets in 100
Reposted by Josiah RobertsThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer? 7447757816922
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 16/01/2025If you’re someone who actively buys those little guac cups, I do not trust you 120
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Mk.gee if u see this can you blurb my book one day? 000
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 11/01/202590% or the time returning to something I wrote I was proud of—I find myself, well, less proud. 000
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025What do you all do to be like, idk, more aware of your body? 000
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 05/01/2025The downside of being completely unserious on here is that none of yall will believe me if im being serious 030
Reposted by Josiah RobertsBraden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 04/01/2025ME: I didn't choose the thug life THEM: you're eating soup in a cardigan at 10:30 on a Tuesday morning ME: I could not have been more clear 688447865
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 03/01/2025maybe sisyphus is happy but what about the boulder?:/ 000
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Im going by “Mordecai Applefoot” this year. 110
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025this 2025, I hereby declare war on all “ethans” if you’re name is Ethan, you can consider you and I enemies 010
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025This 2025, this page is dedicated to #lifehacks Stay tuned folks, and consider your life HACKED😌 110
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025#lifehack: if your New Year’s resolution is toxic, easy to do, something you already pretty much do—you will FOR SURE get it done, and therefore feel productive. Example: I am going to forget to lock my car more this year. BOOM easy—done. 100
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025this new years, I’m going to share my opinion more. I already share my opinion a lot so I think this will be easy for me 010
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025micro bangs this, micro bangs that—whatchu know about MACRO bangs?? 110
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025probably most toads struggle with social anxiety 030
Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025my 2025 new year’s resolution is to come up with new years resolutions for 2026 by the end of 2025 020