JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think there are fewer psyops than people like to believe. I think maybe one or two pysops pop off every few months and when it happens everyone in the office is like YAAAAY! 51548
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026after retiring my last story for The Moth, I'm back with a new one! it's unhinged! I'm debuting it here in NYC on October 22nd! tickets here www.themoth.org/tickets/the-...themoth.orgThe Moth Mainstage in New York: Tightrope | MainstageThe Mainstage tour is The Moth’s signature live show, featuring a carefully curated lineup of tellers—writers, artists, adventurers, community members, and unexpected voices—sharing true personal stor... 0250
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Idk why this annoys me but when someone is like "I like how messy the characters are" and it's like as opposed to what ? doing mental monologues about how they're aware they're doing something problematic but in the broader context of-- 51403
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026when a fictional character is described as "messy" it's usually because they're doing human stuff 429625
Reposted by JPBabbar @sbabbar19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A painfully beautiful take on being single, gay, and feeling eternally broken but never knowing where the cracks are, if there is a piece missing, and if glue or anything at all could help repair. Using a pull quote to repost felt like a disservice to the kind of writing that feels like a mirror 🫂 0786
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026opened chess dot com today. the bots are Halloween-themed. this is a huge relief because if they hadn't been Halloween-themed I would have done something drastic. I would have lost control 227214
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026thinking about how rich I'd be if I didn't have chronic anxiety. because I would have started a lucrative cult by now 221410
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026oh interesting. I have to do stuff in order for certain things to happen 1847386
Reposted by JPRob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wow. This really gets at some of the experiences I've been trying to articulate/ write about recently. But it's also just an extremely enjoyable read. This is the kind of writing I really wish we saw more of. 2357
Reposted by JPVery Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I don’t believe in psychics, but I believe in curses. A curse is misfortune, with a storyline. Inside, a curse, tragedy, is a natural force. Like the wind, or the sea. It makes certain activities on certain days impossible." 0313
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's less the content for me and more that I would be on it all day 1160
Reposted by JP¡ElisAAAAAAHHH!👻🎃 @elisarockdoc.com · 01/10/2026"I even enjoy loneliness; that melancholic note, issued from a single, plucked string pulled taut over an emptiness." Another Brammer Banger™️ 0482
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'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 2185597
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life 30966152
Reposted by JPMike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Insomnia has its perks. This is the most brilliant thing I’ve read all night. 0335
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026still 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 1246923
Reposted by JPMark Bankston @markbankston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A lot of people are saying this is good and they're really underselling it. 14310
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026someone was like "a screenshot of your essay is doing numbers on X" and I tried to ignore it but I broke and looked and it was so nice! it was sandwiched between some prominent racist defending himself for being outed as having a half-Trinidadian child ❤️ 21789
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I 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... 42703
Reposted by JPMithos @mithos343.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the best essays I've read in recent memory 0211
Reposted by JPbleddwgan @radekllundain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I actually enjoy that this is wrong but in a correct way 31827
Reposted by JPrenan @segundorenan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026hoje não john paul eu já to lidando com coisas demais (agendei um tarot) 061
Reposted by JPGirl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Love it when a writer I admire writes something that is peak *them* - fantastic in all the ways they’re known for being fantastic. 0221
Reposted by JPLee @dieselee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Funniest fucking article I've read all year. 0253
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026someone trying to clown on me for having sex… no that’s the part that makes me a normal New Yorker actually 1882
Reposted by JPSilly dollthing (Alison!)🏳️⚧️🔞 @sillydollthing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's peak 014515
Reposted by JPIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Babe 😭 (Genuinely, read this right now. It's excellent.) 625159
Reposted by JPJosh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 30/09/2026“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?”” 311216
Reposted by JPAaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cancelling Brammer for what he did in Bengal (this piece is very good) 0314
Reposted by JPGayby Shark @viridian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I laughed, I cried, I considered murder-suicide. 0222
Reposted by JPHuber @huber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fantastic 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. 0101
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026fewer people questioning the “I’m Winston Churchill’s reincarnation” than I anticipated, which is for the best 6994
Reposted by JP𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'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... 712112
Reposted by JPjungftak hauntcons @invlwhen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Then I thought it would be a poor psychic indeed who needed to send follow-ups" incredible 0621
Reposted by JPuncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 30/09/2026not to be too uhhHH honest on main about my personal life but man 110719
Reposted by JPMari Stein (מרים שטיין) @heymaristein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is so great and also perfectly timed (I have therapy today) 0122
Reposted by JPMelinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 30/09/2026I cannot tell you how much my day improves when I open my email and see JP Brammer has written a new post 0211
Reposted by JPмальчик-гей @riz0me.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"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 115413
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I 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...johnpaulbrammer.substack.comThe Most Unlovable Man in New York CityOn being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic 41772125
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026sometimes 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 1029521
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026in the same dream I had to defend myself on twitter from some discussion that was dug up between me and oomf several eras ago. I said "that's byzantoomf we talked differently back then. many of you weren't even born yet" 32336
