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@jpbrammer.bsky.social
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Writer. Illustrator. Joto.

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¡Elisa! @elisarockdoc.com · 7h
"I even enjoy loneliness; that melancholic note, issued from a single, plucked string pulled taut over an emptiness." Another Brammer Banger™️
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 7h
I'm not even abstaining out of snobbery like I simply know that TikTok would ruin my life. that would be a wrap on "my brain." I recognized this immediately and never touched the stuff
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 8h
just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life
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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 9h
Insomnia has its perks. This is the most brilliant thing I’ve read all night.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 9h
still attempting to be a weed edible person. ate 6 garlic knots and laughed until I cried at a hypothetical joke about "fashion weak" with no idea what the setup or even the punchline was. just imagining a frail creature ambling down a catwalk
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Mark Bankston @markbankston.bsky.social · 9h
A lot of people are saying this is good and they're really underselling it.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 10h
I should probably leave my comfort zone and find ways to make more people aware of my writing ? but I don't want to... I like this thing we have going here... you and I...
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Mithos @mithos343.bsky.social · 11h
One of the best essays I've read in recent memory
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bleddwgan @radekllundain.bsky.social · 13h
I actually enjoy that this is wrong but in a correct way
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Erik, Friend of the Dolls @bookwurmnerd.bsky.social · 13h
*sigh*....fuck
A snippet of a wider prose on being chronically single.
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renan @segundorenan.bsky.social · 13h
hoje não john paul eu já to lidando com coisas demais (agendei um tarot)
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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 13h
Love it when a writer I admire writes something that is peak *them* - fantastic in all the ways they’re known for being fantastic.
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Lee @dieselee.bsky.social · 14h
Funniest fucking article I've read all year.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14h
someone trying to clown on me for having sex… no that’s the part that makes me a normal New Yorker actually
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Silly dollthing (Alison!)🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @sillydollthing.bsky.social · 14h
It's peak
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 14h
Babe 😭 (Genuinely, read this right now. It's excellent.)
To be fair, I’m not doing so great with men. I told my most recent date that I was working on a novella. “Because you’re Mexican?” he asked. I asked what he meant. “Isn’t a novella a Mexican novel?” Before him was the guy who confessed over drinks that he didn’t “believe in Helen Keller,” because there was “no way she actually flew that plane.” I asked if he meant Amelia Earhart. “Who?” I slept with both of them.
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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 14h
“I told my most recent date that I was working on a novella. “Because you’re Mexican?” he asked. I asked what he meant. “Isn’t a novella a Mexican novel?””
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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 15h
Cancelling Brammer for what he did in Bengal (this piece is very good)
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Gayby Shark @viridian.bsky.social · 15h
I laughed, I cried, I considered murder-suicide.
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Huber @huber.bsky.social · 15h
Fantastic writing. I don’t consider myself chronically single, I simply took a break after a long relationship ended, but can relate to the magical thinking.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 15h
fewer people questioning the “I’m Winston Churchill’s reincarnation” than I anticipated, which is for the best
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Jamie @jayelharris.bsky.social · 15h
This was SO good
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 15h
I'm sorry but "I don't believe Helen Keller existed. There's just no way she actually flew that plane." is perhaps the best 1st date icebreaker of all time...
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veery @veery.bsky.social · 15h
lord have mercy
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jungftak hauntcons @invlwhen.bsky.social · 15h
"Then I thought it would be a poor psychic indeed who needed to send follow-ups" incredible
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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leylses.bsky.social · 15h
not to be too uhhHH honest on main about my personal life but man
The worst part about being chronically single isn’t the solitude, which I enjoy. I even enjoy loneliness; that melancholic note, issued from a single, plucked string pulled taut over an emptiness. The worst part is the ambiguity, which makes me susceptible to folk remedies, trite platitudes, and magical thinking. It will come when you least expect it. You’re looking too hard. What’s your sign? You’ll know it when you feel it. You’ll just know.

Thank you. I’ll stop looking until I find it. I’ll stop thinking about it so it can take me by surprise. This isn’t how anything else works, but I’ll give it a go. I wake up most mornings with a vague hope, smothered by the hour, and cruelly rekindled in sleep. I’ll have to stop doing that.
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Mari Stein (מרים שטיין) @heymaristein.bsky.social · 15h
This is so great and also perfectly timed (I have therapy today)
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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 15h
I cannot tell you how much my day improves when I open my email and see JP Brammer has written a new post
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мальчик-гей @riz0me.bsky.social · 16h
"To be fair, I'm not doing so great with men. I told my most recent date that I was working on a novella. 'Because you're Mexican?' he asked. I asked what he meant. 'Isn't a novella a Mexican novel?'" -- oh wow
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 16h
I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...
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The Most Unlovable Man in New York City
On being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
sometimes my desire for gossip becomes so strong I turn to niche youtuber beef and the first line of every video is always like "so glooby was an ex-mod of shitti's" as if God is trying to punish me for it
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wish my job was to wake up and start talking
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
dreamt I started a trend among gen-z of referring to each other casually as "girlyopteryx." like archaeopteryx, but also, girl.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Madame Web
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abigbatchofcumber @bigbatchofcumber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Still one of my favorite bits of writing ever.
Is Madame Web a good movie?

No.

Should I see it?

You should see it immediately. Madame Web belongs in the Criterion Collection with a lengthy, labored essay justifying its inclusion. I would write it for free.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dakota Johnson continues to distance herself from Madame Web. makes me sad. the ensuing centuries will vindicate my position that it's a seminal work
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this was kind of me at the model UN in the 8th grade
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
my life would be 35% better if I was a weed person
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TrueCrime youtubers will be like "I've been on this case for months" completely seriously like they don't mean "I was on the computer"
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
so I somehow only just now learned about what Flock cameras are
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it genuinely does depress and unnerve me when people act like nothing in The Left™ can be critiqued. I've seen antisocial behaviors become acceptable and even lauded. then, later, it's "those people don't actually represent the left." it makes me feel crazy! like, no, I was there, actually!
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
fidgeting in my seat preparing to pitch my new psyop ideas at the CIA (where I suffer from imposter syndrome)
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carly rae jepstein @die-hardman.com · 22/09/2026
seeing @jpbrammer.bsky.social posts in the wild on threads is always fun
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
no
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Idk how anyone finds time to write. I write for a living and I don't have a life and I still don't have time
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
a man in Iraq messaged me on grindr using a VPN (I love him he’s perfect) and this message is frying me
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
they community noted my shit
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
honestly my favorite day of high school. principal came on the intercom and announced "folks we got some boys from Anadarko looking to cause some trouble." it was automatic. we readied ourselves for melee. if they wanted to come get cooked they could do that
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I went to an underfunded public school. it was mostly war. I learned maybe one or two things but every day was war. I became excellent at it. I was honestly a tyrant. I remember next to nothing about math but everything about the factional violence between yearbook, newspaper, and key gang members
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