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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Last year I investigated druggings at the world’s most famous gay bar with reporter Kate Sosin. Today the piece was nominated for an award by @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social. You can read it here: 19thnews.org/2024/01/inve...

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A night they can't remember, at one of the country's most popular LGBTQ+ bars

Many maintain that The Abbey in West Hollywood is the site of the most disorienting experience of their lives.

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

working on a novel and i think i'm overusing diarrhea as a plot catalyst / accelerant. it just feels so real to me!

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Main benefit to living in the U.S. is seeing movies first. Can’t think of anything else.

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

People should be 1,900% more obsessed with Lorrie Moore

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

if you'd like a slice of what hazily resembles bread but is actually a collection of sawdust, boiled and pressed, ezekial is for you my friend.

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I’m reading Joan Didion and it’s true what they say: all the characters have migraines

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Watching The Pitt to relax!!!!

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

RHOBH is horrible this season but I would watch a follow-up documentary on Kathy Hilton’s skincare routine if it was directed by Aronofsky.

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Really thought more gays would revolt after the poppers ban. Where are the riots??

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you encounter me chowing down on a sandwich from Subway, something in my life has gone horribly wrong

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Issues of free speech aside, I can’t think of a worse scenario for U.S. Jews than a white supremacist admin making the arbitration of antisemitism their raison d’etre.

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Sitting on the beach on a gorgeous day letting the little styrofoam balls fly into my eyes and mouth

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I’m just so happy for Bowen Yang, who I am also vicariously living through.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher

Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

what a fucking embarrassment to humanity

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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 26/02/2025

Gotta get used to linking arms with people you can't stand EXCEPT they don't want authoritarian government, if we want to get out of this mess

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If you want to put me to sleep, start talking about genealogy

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Every time I open Twitter I see something that adds to my therapist’s billable hours

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I don’t understand rooting for your city’s sports team but I DO understand rooting for your city’s Opera House! Go São João!

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Abracadabra and Doechii’s Grammy performance are the only good things that have happened this year, no? Struggling to think of literally anything else!

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

What if it reaches this point for me

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Has anyone ever called them “Repubes”? Feel like that could move the needle..

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

My poor elderly chihuahua keeps eating his own ass and then choking on the hairs :/

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

i wrote about a listening device that can call for help when you're having a gay crisis :) open.substack.com/pub/stevenbl...

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AI That Can Tell When You're Having a Gay Crisis

No more scrolling dick pics till 5am

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

An underrated virtue of all other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"had to dive under the table next to me at this coffee shop to attach my plug to an outlet. extremely awkward: guy next to me thought he was about to get a blowjob. then i actually gave him one." — how most gays on twitter sound these days

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Touring new apartments and just realized if I can’t walk to a cafe I will kms

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

i wrote about a listening device that can call for help when you're having a gay crisis :) open.substack.com/pub/stevenbl...

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AI That Can Tell When You're Having a Gay Crisis

No more scrolling dick pics till 5am

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Evergreen writing tip from John Swartzwelder (creator of a tons of classic The Simpsons episodes, plus some very funny novels). This is from a rare interview, by Mike Sacks of The New Yorker, 2001. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I need to write for BUTT and Crotch magazines. Cover all my bases.

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I’m not physically or mentally well, but other than that I’m fine!

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

One thing I love about Portugal is that older, gruff-looking men will stop in the middle of the sidewalk and make kissy noises at your gay ass chihuahua.

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

“Thank god it’s an Airbus” would make for an effective slogan. (It’s also what I just said out loud in an empty hotel lobby.)

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

What happened to time? Why does every 2024 list seem to have been written about a previous year?

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Normalize existential conversations on Grindr

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

When two flirty, intelligent bottoms realize they’re sexually incompatible, sometimes they form a creative bond that is powerful beyond measure.

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

What is bulking season? Is that when everyone is allowed to get fat? If so I’m celebrating as well.

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Why do so many gays in Silverlake dress like slutty car mechanics

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I’ve now had multiple conversations with Americans trying to get European citizenship who don’t understand that if you get, say, an Italian passport, you don’t have to live in Italy…….

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

THIS IS HUGE! An HIV PrEP drug candidate in the form of a twice-yearly subcutaneous injection has been shown to reduce HIV infections by 96% in a SECOND late-stage Phase III trial. Lenacapavir was 99.9% effective at preventing HIV in MORE THAN 2,000 participants. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Good morning everyone. From the trailer of the new Liza Minnelli documentary, please enjoy this footage of a pantsless Liza riding an electric scooter while smoking a cigarette.

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Steven Blum @stevenblum.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

At the moment I need a Christmas Market more than I need gossip, sex or exercise.

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Jonathan Reiner @jreinermd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If a new pandemic comes to the US we’ll have an NIH dir who advocated for letting COVID burn through the US, an HHS Sec who believes in raw milk but not vaccines, an FDA commissioner who said COVID would be over by 4/2021, & a CDC dir who supported the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism.

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

this bizarre interview with musk’s inconsistent, unreliable father is arguably more illuminating than the entire Isaacson book

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