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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 04/10/2026

Hello Sports Illustrated stadium, fka Red Bull Arena. I am thrilled to see you again. It has been way too long. #GothamFc #gobats

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 18/09/2026

I just had to reboot my laptop and it recovered this document that got tanked mid sentence and honestly, fair

A recovered Word document that says only "I have been trying"

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 07/09/2026

So having griped about the vets and the bag, in fact the cremation service did a lovely job — the urn is cedar and smells wonderful, and the paw print made me a little teary in the best way. Bon voyage, my little bear. You were the best.

On the left is a black leather pet memorial box opened to show a paw print and a brass name plate that says "Lola." On the right is a square cedar urn.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 07/09/2026

Welp, the emergency vet I took Lola to last week were pretty awful about the whole thing but at least the cremation service put her ashes in a fancy shopping bag I guess

A black shopping bag with a slight sheen, a woven satiny cord handle and an embossed paw print in the lower right corner.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 01/08/2026

Saw this walking back from my little mountain post office this morning.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 10/05/2026

Just commemorating how much I love New York City theater, in light of some impending news. (I’m a small account! This is not big news unless you’re me and/or maybe a dozen other people! It’s just taking me a little adjusting, is all.)

A stage in preset blue light. The set is small sofa center stage with a pyramid of high end shopping bags on either side and and big blank flat upstage.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 03/05/2026

In the midst of all the depressingness I thought I'd share a window into the uplifting, moving work of being a theatrical intimacy director, epitomized by this exchange I had with the fight director on my recent project about the work I did on a very specific, nearly 30-second long sound cue.

Image of the following Messages exchange:

Fight Director: Oh my God you worked on the fart?! The audience LOVED it!

Me: YAYYYYYYYY!!!!
Yeah. I just wanted to create something that looked like a stadium wave going around, except with people getting hit with the fart -- hear, then smell, then flee
I mean that was a LOONNNNGGG cue, it needed something
Maybe I'll put "Fart Direction" under special skills on my resume

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 28/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

a forest after an ice storm. mid-height ice-covered winterberry bushes in the foreground, ice-covered, bare deciduous trees in the background. a beam of bright cold winter sun angles down through the trees from the upper right corner, turning the scene into a crystal forest.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 25/02/2026

OMFG www.404media.co/whats-the-po...

Screenshot of a post about an AI that can go to school for you. White text on a black background reads:

If an AI can go to school for you what’s the point of going to school? For Advait Paliwal, Brown dropout and co-creator of Einstein, there isn’t one. “I think about horses,” he said. “They used to pull carriages, but when cars came around, I'd argue horses became a lot more free,” he said. “They can do whatever they want now. It would be weird if horses revolted and said ‘no, I want to pull carriages, this is my purpose in life.’”

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 20/02/2026

It has been a lonnnggg trip back around to making theater again, and it's come with more than a few sacrifices. But I am enormously grateful to be on this ride.

Block text which reads:
This was my first time ever doing an intimacy scene and julie made me feel so comfortable and confident i felt like i’d been doing this for a hundred years. She was always prepared to handle any situation and i could always count on her to advocate for me. She’s extremely capable while also being friendly, funny, and easygoing. I never once even felt awkward.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 20/02/2026

- Establishing and ensuring an environment where actors feel confident and free to be their best, bravest creative selves - Being prepared to address and advocate for anything from a quick hygiene blip (disposable pre-pasted toothbrushes, anyone?) to a potential safety issue

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 20/02/2026

My first testimonial as an intimacy director! Sharing not only because I'm thrilled and even proud (not easy for me to admit, I was raised to think that's bragging), but because it expresses everything I love and believe in about intimacy directing (besides choreography, which is a blast):

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This was my first time ever doing an intimacy scene and julie made me feel so comfortable and confident i felt like i’d been doing this for a hundred years. She was always prepared to handle any situation and i could always count on her to advocate for me. She’s extremely capable while also being friendly, funny, and easygoing. I never once even felt awkward.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 01/02/2026

This is who runs this account.

A 1970's-era photograph of a toddler with curly blonde hair walking intently on a gravel road by a lake, wearing only a diaper and a pair of yellow maryjane style sneakers.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 02/01/2026

Can't wait until the next Weasel Words game release

Screenshot of CBS Evening News's X post listing the 2nd of their 5 "simple values," which reads: "We report on the world as it is. We'll be honest and direct with you. That means no weasel words or padded landings. We'll tell you what we know, when we know it. We'll update our reporting when we uncover new facts. And we'll admit when we get it wrong."

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 26/11/2025

Sutton, WV. Ran out of stapled ones on the road, but hopefully still helpful.

A photo of of plastic orange alert whistles and a stash of folded “Form a Crowd / Stay Loud” flyers tucked in the corner of a Little Free library.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 25/11/2025

Apparently you are supposed to leave this McDonald’s at a dead sprint.

Picture of a McDonald’s door decal showing a vector human apparently running through a doorway at a dead sprint above the word “exit”

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 17/11/2025

Been stuck on this screen on ny.gov trying to access my health insurance account for 5 full minutes and counting.

A dialog box reads: "Please wait. Your password has been updated successfully. You will be redirected shortly. Thank you for your patience."

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 17/11/2025

You know what happened next.

A tabby cat sits unsuspectingly on a sofa while a black cat perches on the sofa back behind her, planning an attack pounce.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 26/10/2025

I was thinking gold but these days sure why not

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 22/10/2025

In one week! I'm super excited to be treading the storytelling boards again in NYC. It's a terrific lineup, and it's Halloween season -- perfect time to go see a story show in a former coffin factory. @pineboxrockshop.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DQF801vEetZ/

Graphic for Just One More Thing Storytelling show featuring a very cute bat. Show is 10/29 8:30pm at Pine Box Rock Shop, 12 Grattan St, Brooklyn, NY 11206

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 21/10/2025

I want so much for someone, somehow, to lower that flag to half staff.

The East Wing of the White House being demolished. The flagpole on the roof is visible in the background.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 11/10/2025

Still can’t quite believe I grew these.

A pair of orange globular dahlias in a small glass vase sit on a wooden railing overlooking a valley, all under a pale gray cloudy sky.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 06/10/2025

Oh man I wish I had a real camera because this full moon is rising so fast you can practically see a string pulling it like it’s in an Ed Wood movie.

Sequence (hopefully in order) of 4 pretty low quality photos of a full moon rising rapidly above a mountain.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 28/09/2025

Ah yes the terrifying New York subway, where at any moment you might be faced with a 7 foot tower of cotton candy

A 7 foot tower of pastel colored cotton candy on a NYC subway car

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 25/09/2025

I like this for the obvious reason but also for these hilariously janky PowerPoint annotations (complimentary)

screenshot of a PowerPoint slide annotated with chunky little misaligned red arrows and an X that's almost definitely made by manually crossing two individual lines from the default line menu. Delightful.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 21/09/2025

Wearing this coat at a crowded Paramus Trader Joe’s is, as they say, a choice

The back of a woman wearing an infamous army green “I really don’t care” coat

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 18/09/2025

Jesus christ. The president of Barnard College wrote this opinion piece in the NYT today. It contains this paragraph. I'm a Barnard alum. Genuinely sickened. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

Exerpt from an opinion piece in Today's NYT by the president of Barnard College, which reads: Some on social media have attempted to minimize the broader implications of Mr. Kirk’s assassination by pointing to his extreme views, such as his arguments that some gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for the right to bear arms. These attempts are like blaming a victim of sexual assault for going to a party wearing provocative clothing.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 15/09/2025

The dahlias are coming! I had just about given up, but kept on doing the things to keep it alive and it looks like it's going to bloom, in case you're grasping for a cheesy hopeful metaphor for some reason.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 11/09/2025

This is the time when I repost my favorite picture of Hellie the Cat, in which she figured out how to get outside the window but not how to get back in.

A black cat with yellow eyes sits on her haunches outside a glass window pane, eyes wide and round, stuck between the window and the screen behind it. If there were a thought bubble above her head it would read "WHY IS THE AIR GET HARD?"

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 11/09/2025

The person I see in my mind when they talk about the Utah manhunt.

Eddie Redmayne in the watermelon scene from Day of the Jackal.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 06/09/2025

Edward James Olmos was so good in Stand and Deliver

Edward James Olmos as math teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 04/09/2025

Things I never thought I’d say: “I’m about to get on this sloop.”

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 01/09/2025

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Promo image from the classic cartoon The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Bullwinkle the moose stands with his arms crossed while behind him Rocky the squirrel is wearing a 1940s-style aviator's helmet and waving.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 28/08/2025

Get your laughs where you can, I guess

Item #3 of today's Washington Post Trump tracker email, which reads:

Update: Weeks after the Trump administration attempted to remove [Voice of America Director] Michael Abramowitz from his position, a judge ruled only an advisory board could do so.

Complications: Trump can’t get the board in question, the International Broadcasting Advisory Board, to do so, because he fired the entire board shortly after taking office.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 24/08/2025

I took this photo of a guy at 14th & 8th.

A man in a black suit stands on a subway platform, facing away from the camera. A full sized fluffy red fox tail hangs down below his suit jacket.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 21/08/2025

They pretend they're not bonded but then they do this without moving for like five solid minutes.

A black cat sitting on a white rug stares up at a fat tabby cat sitting above her on an olive green sofa while the tabby stares right back down at her. Neither cat has moved in several minutes.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 19/08/2025

When I had to tear out the original wood planks of the walls I asked the guys to save them for me. Then I cut them into these shelves. There's something beautiful to me about the fact that the DNA of the house is still here, just transformed into something new and useful for this moment in time.

A span of white wall with four flat wooden shelves, with the corner of a window on the left and an open screen door on the right.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 13/08/2025

I know Elon’s trying to ruin Austin but it’s still the home of my favorite US airport

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 13/08/2025

OpenAI is hiring a Content Designer. This is not a managerial position and requires only 4 years experience.

Screenshot of black text on a white background that says "Compensation $245K — $310K + Offers Equity."

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 08/08/2025

Today’s work. Read the alt text to learn what a dork I am.

Four homemade plywood shelves installed in (previously) nonfunctional bathroom, turning it from a catchall for random crap into a functional utility closet. She Who Installed is perhaps overweeningly proud to have thought of putting a shelf just above an existing towel bar that she can now hang shit from with S hooks.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 07/08/2025

Hellie, once the newly adopted kitten, giving Lola — the OG cat — the evil eye.

A picture of a black cat sitting on a beige tiered cat tree, with one eye visible, and one hidden behind a rope column. The visible eye looks like it could be a shooting out a world destroying a laser.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 30/07/2025

When your friends come over for a drink at sunset and bring flowers from their garden ❤️❤️❤️

A vase with assorted wildflowers (sorry, I’m not a gardener but they’re purple and orange and yellow and gorgeous)

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 17/07/2025

Been trying for weeks to get dental care for an issue that feels like it's approaching emergency status. I entered "Dental" as the specialty for my most recent insurance search and got this list of providers. Not a dentist in sight.

Screenshot of a search return list message that says "Displaying 11 - 15 out of 40 doctors available for "Dental"

Screenshot showing the Areas of Focus under every provider listed in the search as "Behavorial/Mental Health"

Which, at this point... yes, this also, please? But FFS.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 03/06/2025

If you are the kind of neighbor, like mine, who will cut down an entire swath of trees that aren’t yours in order to open up the view from a ridge that is also not yours, be advised that I am the kind of neighbor who will strategically place outdoor furniture all along said ridge. OOOPSIE.

Photo of a mountain side on which nearly half an acre of trees have been chopped down and left as dead .

Photo along the ridge above those dead trees on which seating areas have been strategically placed to disrupt the view of the neighbors who illegally cut down those trees in the first place.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 02/06/2025

Are you in the Hudson Valley? Wanna come to a fun, free event where a town gets together to read A Midsummer Night's Dream? No experience necessary—pick characters from a hat and go! We'll have costumes/scripts/drinks. 6/20 7pm, Ellenville, NY. COME! It's hilarious. www.instagram.com/p/DKXXPiMRkgC/

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