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Judith Basya

@judithbasya.bsky.social
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Author of erstwhile What’s Wrong with You advice column, will resume for reasonable comp. Assorted bylines covering music, books, breast cancer. Wedding and real estate photographer—sometimes I feel like people, sometimes I don’t.

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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
lol reminds me of my kid at that age penning a fake yelp review of dinner time and the “short server” (I’m under five feet) who was “mean and ugly”
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
My nose used to itch at cleanup time in preschool. Every single day. You (like me) might be allergic to boring, rote chores.
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
And you can wear Birkenstocks to a formal event!
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We’ll find out in “two weeks”
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Or how about Crappy Bullshit Solipsism… anyone care to chime in?
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
CBS…Crooked Billionaire Support
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Also that palm tree is falling over…
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I agree but also it can’t be antisemitism “plain and simple” because there’s also sexism
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I can’t get past the headline. The spouse’s perspective might make for a funny Substack but nyt should do better, see also: women ruining the workplace.
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thank you for making me feel momentarily better about it. Wow I even feel less bad about all the time I’ve wasted making absolutely sure my own sentences don’t make that kind of mistake…
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Correction he said need not want
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
A guy once told me that’s what women want like it was a seductive thing to say…..
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This is a rhetorical question right? The point is the same as in any other class action suit…. billable hours
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
In case anyone isn’t getting hourly emails from every place they’ve ever shopped at or done business with: today is Black Friday
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Let’s All Chant by the Michael Zager Band
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The Village Person
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
His kind of blue sky looks, um, eerily similar to the stock sky replacement offerings in Photoshop
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Have you never been to Germany?
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
their episode in 2000 about a kindergarten election, ie Florida/bush/gore, they put it together in just a few days and it’s a masterpiece
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Gee how surprising a bunch of conspiracy theorists conspiracy theorizing about each other. Put them in charge and what do you expect?
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Now that you’re willing to call it skeeting, I’m starting a push for bleating….
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In all the despair, I do find it funny that republicans are at risk of being “primaried” no matter which way they vote. Musk has more money than trump, no?
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
My guy is diabetic so his eyes deteriorated on the fast side, and we were able to keep him comfy with eyedrops for ~a year. Hopefully your cat will fare better! Meanwhile it’s inspiring to watch them adjust to loss of vision—humans could learn a lot from pets’ resilience.
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We had my dog’s eyes removed in November—he’s so much happier now that he’s no longer in pain. It wasn’t an easy decision but I’m glad we did it. Hope your kitty has many good days ahead!
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
My beloved
The face of a doodle mutt with dark hair and a white patch around his mouth
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Our administration will stand for two things: Fighting antisemitism and stopping the Soros-funded, Hollywood-controlling, migration-orchestrating, well-poisoning, global banking cabal of rootless cosmopolitans from destroying our Christian way of life. by J.D. Vance
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I’ll be your faraway friend who doesn’t know how to answer
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I’d change the channel immediately
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Like when your spouse was telling you all along, but you didn’t hear it until it came from your mother…. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won...
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I’m more concerned about the people who read his work and didn’t catch this obvious anagram until now
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
3-29-25 Sacramento CA @teslatakedown.com @sacteslatakedown.bsky.social #teslatakedown #sacteslatakedown
“Elon is a rapist” written on cardboard in pink, held by someone in a green tank top (their face is hidden behind the sign)“Stop the coup/kooks!!” Sign held up in front of a Tesla dealership. (Coup is crossed out and kooks is written underneath)People holding protest signs in front of a Tesla dealership. WHO THE F*CK VOTED FOR THAT SCHMUCK sign held up against a blue sky with clouds
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
@sacteslatakedown.bsky.social
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
3-29-25 sacramento CA @teslatakedown.com #teslatakedown #sacteslatakesown
Back of woman seen with hat and sign reading FIRE AND DEPORT MUSK NOWELON GO HOME hand painted sign held in front of a Tesla dealership by girl with braids, a black baseball cap and a colorful face mask. Young woman in sunglasses and face mask holding sign reading Y’ALL DONE MUSKED UP NOW!FUCK MUSK cardboard sign
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Not a fan of Stefanik (or republicans generally), but: would Trump have told her to step down if she was a dude?
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I’m so damn old, I can do the crossword and five minutes later not remember a single thing about it and do it again. I do it a teeny bit faster the second time, maybe. But barely.
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
An all-time favorite!!
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A few more….
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Here’s a few more
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Thank you!
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
@teslatakedown.com #TeslaTakedown
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hand holding a sign reading “ELON IS A CUNT” against a blue skyPeople holding black signs with metallic letters in front of a Tesla dealership: GOD HATES ELON, MUSK SKUM, & RESIST. Red headed woman holding a black and white sign that says “GO BUY A PRIUS” in front of a Tesla dealership. Protestors lining the sidewalk as a car drives past. Foreground is a red plaid-shirted person with a “GO FUCK YOURSELF ELON” sign. Other signs behind him include FIRE AND DEPORT MUSK NOW, HATE WON’T MAKE AMERICA GREAT, SUPPORT WORKERS STOP ELON, & FUCK THIS SHIT.
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I agree in principle… but I can’t think of a single sympathetic reason for anyone to own a cybertruck
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I’m perfectly fine with MAGA folks wasting their money on teslas
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
@teslatakedown.com #teslatakedown from protest Sunday 3/8/25 in Sacramento CA
A row of people on the sidewalk holding signs up for cars passing by. In the foreground a woman in black holds a homemade sign that says “ELON IS A CUNT”. Other signs behind her include “SUPPORT WORKERS STOP ELON,” “FIRE AND DEPORT MUSK NOW,” and a collage depicting Elon Musk as a bee in a “DOGE” cap next to “ELON BE GONE” insecticide spray. A row of people on the sidewalk holding signs up for cars passing by. In the foreground a man in a gray shirt,  orange pants and a sun hat waves a sign that says “COUP” in red at a passing car. Other visible signs say “I miss USAID”, “Resist” and “Elon is a Cunt”.Someone holding a handmade sign that says “people over profit$” held in the air in front of a Tesla dealership marquee. (The person isn’t visible, just their hand holding the sign). A black flag with the word “douche” above the tesla logo (both in white) flying above a tesla dealership marquee. In the bottom left corner is a partial view of a man in a black t-shirt holding the flag
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It’s also ageist BS. The 78 year old grandmas I know still have their minds and wits, just maybe not their original hips.
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A day off is important too! It helps you not burn out from protesting (and calling out anti-semitism online) the rest of the week…
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If you wanted to join the protest, though, you could easily find a rabbi and halachic justifications to do so.
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I was taught you can break Shabbat if a life is at stake…
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Judith Basya @judithbasya.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This is the Washington post that announced today it won’t print opinions it doesn’t agree with? Your story is data and time/labor they don’t deserve and that they’ll probably twist to not mean what you intended. Give it to an institution that has at least somewhat earned your trust.
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