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Josiah Roberts

@josiahroberts.bsky.social
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
MJ 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?
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Anyone here read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? My heart is in pain and I need to commiserate
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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This 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...
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To 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.”
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PLNU MA in Writing @plnuwritingma.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Read 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!
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The 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
The above quote and information written in black and red against a white background. In the lower righthand corner is the full Rumpus logo in red. In the upper lefthand corner is a linked line drawing of two hands reaching skyward.
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The 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
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My 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...
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To 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.”
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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
So 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...
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jessie taylor (she/her) @jessietaylor2896.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
my biggest hater has been spotted at #AWP2025 @josiahroberts.bsky.social @eldiagram.bsky.social
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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?
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
What if the boy who cried wolf was just lonely
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I’m getting a weird nagging feeling no one’s listening to me…
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Not 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
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Don’t sleep on it🗣️
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Baguette things comin’
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The chosen one
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Only begotten son
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
begotten
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Bagu
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
bag get what??
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
bag get
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
baguette
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I’d be your driving crooner
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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Ebers 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.
Picture of a papyrus with demotic script in red and black
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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Hey 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!
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
RIP Biff
detective crashmore quote it’s kind of a cosmic gumbo
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
choose your fighter y’all (choose me. I am the cooler nemesis)
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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
2nite i saw 2 nemesi in their natural habitat @jess1et.bsky.social @josiahroberts.bsky.social
2 nemesi
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It’s right around this time when the dread sets in
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
If you’re someone who actively buys those little guac cups, I do not trust you
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Mk.gee if u see this can you blurb my book one day?
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Looking for books and essays on dreaming??
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
90% or the time returning to something I wrote I was proud of—I find myself, well, less proud.
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I don’t know how to sit still
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
What do you all do to be like, idk, more aware of your body?
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The downside of being completely unserious on here is that none of yall will believe me if im being serious
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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
ME: 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
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
maybe sisyphus is happy but what about the boulder?:/
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Im going by “Mordecai Applefoot” this year.
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
this 2025, I hereby declare war on all “ethans” if you’re name is Ethan, you can consider you and I enemies
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
been thinking about pen names
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This 2025, this page is dedicated to #lifehacks Stay tuned folks, and consider your life HACKED😌
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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.
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
this 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
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
micro bangs this, micro bangs that—whatchu know about MACRO bangs??
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
probably most toads struggle with social anxiety
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I think probably most frogs evade taxes
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
my 2025 new year’s resolution is to come up with new years resolutions for 2026 by the end of 2025
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Josiah Roberts @josiahroberts.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
r u ever afraid of your computer?
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