Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 1hIt was always confusing to me that Nazism was so homoerotic while also being venomously, violentlyanti-gay & I didn’t expect to live through a period that would explain it to me 61359
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/10/2026One student found a handwritten note above “The Whiteness of the Whale” chapter—a transcription from the book review in the London *Leader*: this “chapter…should be read at midnight, alone, with nothing heard but the sounds of the wind moaning without, and the embers falling into the grate within” 114921
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialJudy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I think men would read more, in aggregate, if they were socialized to care and be curious about experiences different from their own 3295
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 10/10/2026“despite no explicit sexual content or even nudity, the show is rated nc-17 for flusteringly beautiful people immaculately dressed and lit and tension that makes you aware of your body again.” 1437
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 188111811873
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialNetbug | Current Hyperfixation: Guardians of the Galaxy @netbug009.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Land owners should be fined for empty real estate until nobody is homeless, actually. 210821
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I would prefer for there not to be one grim complex sexually traumatizing news story after another for a full decade THANK YOU VERY MUCH 120117
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialDana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don't subscribe to as many writers' Patreons as I wish I could, because the cost adds up fast, but Rax's writing is so brilliant & necessary (& often darkly funny) that it's worth every penny. 1467
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.social(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Dune 3: You Should Have Someone Take A Look At That 781214252
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 199113352170
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialJesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of 105100052093
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I feel you, Daniel L 434385682
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialMatt Baume 🏳️🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know, 471631334
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203190905452
josieam.bsky.social @josieam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Writing long-form essays and being forced to skeet about it is the most annoying thing ever. But I write long-form essays! Scroll down for links. 001
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about! 1552644423
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialMad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This deserves more likes 1183
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialKathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026this is not paywalls, fyi - this chart looks roughly the same for sites that have had paywalls since long before 2022. this is all former SEO traffic that has now vanished in exchange for ai search summaries 17810239
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialNaraka Final Ghoul @eris.anarchogoth.rip · 22/09/2026if there are two lessons I wish I could make every trans woman internalise: 1. no one is coming to save you, you're going to have to save yourself 2. believe in your fucking self 821146
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What? Are you all too busy or something? 20916
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again 504060636
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialInformed1 @informed1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I do not laugh out loud to memes very often, but this one really got me. 291764452
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialAmelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans” 5259201627
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134431142
josieam.bsky.social @josieam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I just published Dirty Laundry medium.com/@joshmeyers_...medium.comDirty LaundryI have been living in my 150 square foot studio apartment for more than three years now. This qualifies as a new record for me: I have not… 000
josieam.bsky.social @josieam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026medium.comDirty LaundryI have been living in my 150 square foot studio apartment for more than three years now. This qualifies as a new record for me: I have not… 000
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Great montage of one of Bob Mackie's signatures--the Cher unveilings, circa 1976. 13504132
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialDiedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 14/09/2026When my son was 5 he had a sartorial flair To go to arts delicatessen he wore a midnight blue cape, top hat &monocle As we were leaving an older gent stopped him saying “young man, i like your style” Meant the world to our son that man was Bob Mackie RIP 285169341486
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be." 3942221
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here. 5949461459
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Still unbeaten. RIP 2569137
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 02/09/2026Underrated god-tier advice 6782165
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.social🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Her presence is an argument: A woman can make herself into her greatest artistic work. Being full of yourself isn’t detrimental but necessary for survival. Humor is a means of self-definition." 0399
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialEmily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Too much modern culture only understands politics as a form of performance art and not as a form of individual and/or collective action, even though the latter is what politics actually is. 111934352
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I am so glad this piece on Emi Koyama was written and honored to be one of many people who contributed quotes to it: www.autostraddle.com/emi-koyama-i...autostraddle.comProlific Trans and Intersex Activist Emi Koyama Has Died. Her Legacy Reminds Us To Imagine Transfeminist FuturesKoyama’s work deeply shaped the last three decades of trans, feminist, and intersex thinking. 1331138
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Where this thread goes is a journey. Take it. It's the deepest kind of memorial. 26427
josieam.bsky.social @josieam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026RIP Dolly. East Tennesseans know: she was our queen and always will be. 000
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialMad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"Every time a right winger laughs at a socialist who was born rich, it should be understood as a desperate attempt to justify their own moral failure to themselves. If you grew up rich and are now a leftist, the proper response is: 'Yes I am. Why aren’t you?'" www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol...hamiltonnolan.comNever Apologize For Being a Class TraitorAll rich kids should be socialists. 14371113
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialJudy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Among other Camp Miasma delights, no other filmmaker in the world uses music to speak for and to their own microgeneration (born in the mid-'80s) as precisely as Jane Schoenbrun. Like are you really getting the most out of this movie if you aren't passionately ambivalent about "A Long December"? 4352
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Yesterday was the Provincetown Carnival parade; the theme was Deep Sea Disco. This morning, we found these, abandoned next to our porch. I am sorry to report that a twink has been raptured. RIP my undersea queen. You died as you lived--a hot mess who couldn't walk in heels. 251436209
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialBrotha Tiptoe @thesuburbanthug.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026I just don’t get when it became a sign of “maturity” or “progress” to be in a room full of people that don’t like you. What good is a seat at the table when you’re the main course? What good is it being in the room when everyone in the room is conspiring to put you right back out? 48324
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialNorah 🤗 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I sent this to my husband. He watched it, then proceeded to go out on the patio to smoke a cigar. No words were uttered 🤣🤷🏽♀️ 3930361
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialBowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026John Crowley was a great essayist as well---the close of "On Not Being Well Read," 2015 07532
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.sociallaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026But they will be 4069151185
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris 445865958
Reposted by @josieam.bsky.socialMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I grew up in a proper country, in which Gore Vidal had beef w everyone & Lillian Hellman sued Mary McCarthy for something MM said on the Dick Cavett Show ("every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' & 'the'"--honestly an all-timer of a burn). Srsly critics fighting is a sign of cultural health! 534356
