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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 21/01/2026

Or maybe you made corrections on the website and forgot to do it here? (I'm looking at the article URL.) Anyway, perpetual neighborly reminder that AP style does not have your back on this:

Screenshot of post from official AP Stylebook social media account:
"Avoid the vague jargon "officer involved" for shootings and other cases involving police. Give specifics. If police use the term, ask for detail. How was the officer or officers involved? Who did the shooting? If the information is not available or not provided, say so."

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 14/11/2025

D: I am so sorry. I scrunched my face up in horror just reading it.

Simple stylized illustration of a black cat, very upset and yelling, against a typographic background of "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 03/11/2025

There is a reason kinda specialized "not quite a human."

Close-up of a sort of androgynous-looking woman's face. Short dark hair, fake horns, and smudged black makeup around her eyes and emphasizing the lines in her face.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 03/11/2025

While this isn't a brazen use of "officer-involved," I'd say the Associated Press Stylebook's reminder to answer the question "Who did the shooting?" is applicable. Seems relevant! ...Good ol' exonerative mood.

Screenshot of a social media post from the AP Stylebook: Avoid the vague jargon "officer-involved" for shootings and other cases involving police. Give specifics. If police use the term, ask for detail. How was the officer or officers involved? Who did the shooting? If the information is not available or not provided, say so.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 17/08/2025

And yes, I was fully nose sprayed, antihistamined, and N95'd.

Torso shot of a skinny white person wearing a dark-brown baggy tank top and a beige-and-black bandana. Only the bottom half of the face is in frame, wearing a 3M Aura N95 mask.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 21/04/2025

I think he makes a great companion/update to the traditional image I think of as Consternation Cat:

Two photos in sequence of an adorable white-and-tabby cat wearing tiny round glasses and a bow tie, paws up on a desk, looking at a computer. First image: A normal, resting expression, as if the cat is reading. Second image: An expression of total affronted disgust, ears back, open mouth, hissing. Whatever the cat just read is contemptible.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 03/04/2025

Sometimes (let's be real, more often than we'd like) the brains just say...

An ATM screen with the heading "Would You Like To," above the the space where descriptions for selectable actions would usually be displayed in line with the selector buttons. There is only one visible option, and it's just a big blue arrow labeled NO, with zero explanation or other text.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 24/02/2025

UGH. So very sorry. I lack pets, so, here, would you like a pep talk from a fed-up horse?

Bold line drawing of a horse smoking a cigarette. The horse's blanket reads: DON'T GIVE UP. YOU CAN CUSS THE WHOLE TIME JUST DON'T GIVE UP.

Illustration by Nick Stroia

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 18/02/2025

You just seem like a really cool person. *chinhands* Here, would you like a cat who might function as an anger and/or heartbreak translator? (Illustration by The Cat Hive)

A stylized silhouette illustration of a black cat mid-yowl. Its only visible features are whiskers and a terrifically wide-open pink mouth with sharp little white teeth. The entire background of the frame is covered with repeated aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa to represent the cat's wailing.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 03/12/2024

I do not have a sticker for you. Will you accept these mysterious skeletons?

A scratchy old black-and-white printed illustration (probably an engraving?) of four skeletons playing musical instruments. Left to right: harpsichord, flute, viola da gamba, and harp. Its original caption reads SOME MYSTERIOUS SKELETONS.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 08/11/2024

@foxymoxie.bsky.social Thank you so much for sharing Bayan's fundraiser. I've been distracted because my country drove itself off an electoral-politics cliff, but I appreciate you! Here's a picture of part of my day.

A picture of capped wires inside an outlet box, because the next thing to do is ALWAYS to take care of your people, and sometimes that means tomorrow's project is scrambling around in the attic to help dad figure out how to activate this circuit he wired probably...six years ago.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 08/11/2024

@annabookwriter.bsky.social Thank you so much for sharing Bayan's fundraiser. I've been distracted because my country drove itself off an electoral-politics cliff, but I appreciate you! Here's a picture of part of my day.

Treetops against a clear blue November sky. The leaves have mostly dropped in this area, but the ones that remain on these trees are yellow and tan, and in person they look like actual gold when the low-angle afternoon sun comes through them.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 08/11/2024

@christeladina.bsky.social Thank you so much for sharing Bayan's fundraiser. I've been distracted, because my country drove itself off an electoral-politics cliff, but I appreciate you! Here's a picture of part of my day.

Extremely dense layer of fallen leaves on the ground, mostly oak and maple. Black boots and old metal rake of the person taking the photo are visible at the bottom of the frame.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 01/11/2024

I didn't do much for Halloween, but I did throw on a very lazy skully-face to hand out chocolate to the locals. Sat outside with a beverage (hence the absence of mask) and pointed the revelers at the candy. We had LED candles and partner put music on a bluetooth speaker. A good night.

A short-haired woman wearing a black suit, an orange floral scarf, and silver rings and necklaces. Her face is made up to resemble a skull.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 14/10/2024

@actualkatherine.bsky.social, thank you for reposting Bayan's fundraiser! Here is your random photo—just look at this cute little baby rosehip.

A little baby red rosehip against a background of glossy, dark green rose leaves.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 14/10/2024

@kateschapira.bsky.social, thank you for reposting Bayan's fundraiser! Here's your photo—the big gnarly commuter artery that cuts off a bunch of Baltimore neighborhoods from areas to the north, most notably one of the city's best parks. Good news: there *is* a planned project to improve this.

View from raised pedestrian walkway of a large divided road lined with orange construction-marker barrels. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the grassy embankment on the far side of the road is the edge of a HUGE park.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 14/10/2024

@katecrane.bsky.social, thank you for reposting Bayan's fundraiser! Here's your kinda random photo—the tail end of blooming season.

A lush, deep green, leafy vine with clusters of delicate, four-petalled white flowers.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 19/09/2024

I’m so sorry your daughter is suffering and that you are in such a hard spot! If love from the internet helps: we are all rooting for both of you. Here are some beautiful flowers defying some concrete.

Small red wild poppies defiantly growing up through the crack at the edge of a cement sidewalk.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 12/09/2024

Again, Baltimore, regarding Question H: NO. Vote against, and know that the measure itself is part of the same corporate rot actively destroying your legacy newspaper (among other things). David D. Smith and Sinclair Media are explicitly right-wing actors doing all they can to crush community power.

Tweet from Phil Davis:
I'm begging for proper disclosure in the Sun's op-ed section. Not once in Jovani Patterson's op-ed about the council size ballot question is it disclosed that his committee is almost ENTIRELY FUNDED by the Sun's owner.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 04/09/2024

When I wink at you from across the dark bar. (Note that I’m maskless because I’m *outside* with no people around.)

Against a dark nighttime background, a pale dark-haired woman, gently smirking, photographed mid-wink and slightly blurry.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 13/08/2024

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

On a blue background, an old-timey black-and-white illustration of a knight in full armor, on horseback. Surrounding text banners in Renn-faire flavored font say: THOU MAY INGEST A SATCHEL OF RICHARDS

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 07/08/2024

Offscreen: A bunch of tents in the yard. That house is not in a state for a bunch of people to actually stay in it. Other accomplishments: Helped my dad replace the rear brake calipers on his ancient Volvo. I had not previously participated in any car repair. It took forever, but we got it done.

View from basically inside the wheel well (with the wheel off) of a bright new silvery brake caliper attached to a very old, very not-shiny rotor.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 07/08/2024

Was away from internet/good cell signal a bit last week, (Cleveland and then) in WV for good-and-hard times with family, traditional dip in the Ohio river, camping, best meals I eat all year, bugs, wasp sting, jokes, sweat, blood, tears, etc. Image offerings with respect for...all that: (CW spider)

Nighttime flash photo of shiny brown spider friend against backdrop of faded, chipped, white-painted siding. Looked like Steatoda triangulosa, though it was big for that species!

In the background, yard chairs, a sun tent, and an old saltbox-style house, faded gray and white, partly shaded by a huge black walnut tree. In the foreground, freshly mowed grass and a dilapidated old shed.

View from a grassy/weedy hilltop: fog rising up out of a wooded valley.

Against the black background of night in a place with no streetlights, my father in his natural habitat—tending (or messing with) a big campfire.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 26/07/2024

I’m about a third of the way through an eleven-hour train ride and am slightly antsy, AMA.* *Promptness of answers contingent upon cell signal.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 04/07/2024

Adventures in caution vs calculated risk: Nearly incognito, hopefully less vulnerable. Today I needed to take a train to NJ to see my bestie, so I took a Zyrtec, sprayed my nose, slapped on a disposable P100, and I’m crossing my fingers.

A woman with short dark hair looking mysterious in sunglasses, a P100 respirator, and a keffiyeh, against the background of a sunny train window.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 16/04/2024

@nytimes.com Hey, quick question, WTF are you folks doing over there?

Tweet from Christopher Rufo in which he explains (with screenshots) that The New York Times is following his lead in criticizing NPR, directly quoting posts he highlights. He says "We are driving the narrative."

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 15/04/2024

FIREWORKS, ETC (Unless you have a specific request, I offer this self-satisfied cat.)

Fancy decorative-bordered Victorian photograph of a (tortie?) cat in a little lacy dress. Caption says: IT IS MY PARTY

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 15/04/2024

Drive-by cheerleading for reinforcement, top yourself up:

A hand holds a clear glass mug of ginger tea with a spoon in it. Etched gothic lettering on the side of the cup says: Potion of Executive Function

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 06/04/2024

Anna knows just how you feel, and so do I, and it's a good thing this fucking week is over, so say we all.

Anna from Slings & Arrows looking super stressed out, with smudges of printer ink on her hands and face. Meme text says "Roses are red, slant rhymes are tricky, if you touch anything, I'm gonna cry"

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 27/03/2024

Aw, noooooo, sorry! I have no extra cats for you, but would you like an illustration to cuss at (as your body seems to be getting more than its fair share of telephone calls from Hell)?

Edwardian illustration of a big fancy red devil talking on an old-fashioned office telephone in Hell.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 13/03/2024

Ugh, I'm sorry. Here, I brought you a

Side-by-side pictures of a brown tabby cat wearing a costume lion mane; calm and cute in the first pic, roaring in the second.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 08/03/2024

I am far from the first to pitch this, but:

Cary Grant (in The Philadelphia Story) says "Hello, friends and enemies."

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 21/02/2024

Selection limited by books currently in my house, not beloved treasures in storage, so... The Le Guin essays are a slight cheat, because I haven't read every entry in that book six times, but some I have read many more. Also not dead certain about The Cheese Monkeys, but it's likely.

Four book covers, clockwise from top left:
Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban
Dancing at the Edge of the World, by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück
The Cheese Monkeys, by Chip Kidd

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 20/02/2024

I tend to like a bunch of his less colorful stuff, and also this one in particular:

The Kingfisher, the Raven and the Half Moon Run: oil painting by Ray Troll in deep blues and greens, with the birds in the foreground and apparently flying salmon in the background.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 10/02/2024

Quote post with a picture of street graffiti from your phone:

Green and black graffiti featuring a stylized horned face, painted under a stone canal bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland (2022).

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