Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 31/12/2025This feels like a great opportunity for the traditional Serbian cheers “živeli” which means “we lived” which we did, indeed, manage 3769
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Nije kafa Kuvana vina Like if a chai latte were made out of wine instead of milk Happy new year 6610
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Today I saw my neighborhood obučarka Her shop was closed for a couple of weeks because everyone had the “not showing on covid tests but doctors think it’s mutated covid” that put half the city on our asses I am happy she and her staff made it through 3681
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 24/12/2025slate.com/advice/2025/... Are work-from-home-induced slides into pajamas and irregular usage of body cleansing liquids as much of a phenomenon as I think they are?slate.comMy Boyfriend Works From Home. It’s Led to a Vexing Problem in Our Sex Life.He's gotten a bit too ... comfortable. 4222
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I will not ask the obviously ai chat bot how many minutes are in a moment That would be a fruitless waste of electricity and water Instead I will sit here and seethe 6620
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 12/12/2025I restocked my single alcohol wipe and small tissue pack stash (For the not really large but still firmly NYC style Mary Poppins-esque purse) Which means I can’t stop thinking about the time someone knocked over a beer at a bar and I triumphantly whipped out what turned out to be a maxi pad 5721
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 08/12/2025NYSIF rates are going down by 28% for next year But there’s still a 60$/year minimum Which we were already under I guess, happy for everyone else? 0120
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 06/12/2025This is incredibly useful Is it still acceptable to go on long and meandering philosophical detours in the alt text? 6452
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Eva Wiseman is a treasure www.vogue.co.uk/article/most...vogue.co.uk5 Of The Year’s Most-Googled Relationship Questions, AnsweredAs cuffing season commences in earnest, British Vogue’s agony aunt Eva Wiseman tackles the quandaries the chronically online are grappling with. 1161
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Thanksgiving 2025 I woke up I paused to enjoy gratitude for every detail I noticed I considered cooking and then didn’t I participated in a small critical discussion of American policies throughout history Then … 1620
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Glasses info request part two: I have a runny nose and it has been raining How are contact lenses? 15200
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Twelve days ago I experienced stereopsis It is wild I can just… see where things are in proximity to other things Faces in person are much more recognizable So: how do people mange the details of full-time glasses-wearing? is attempting sports which involve catching objects a bad idea? 16480
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Voicememo to accountant: “Hello, good morning. I am integrating bookkeeping software with payroll and have several questions. [insert questions] I am also waiting for [redacted] at [payroll co.], my assigned support human, to wake up and respond to emails. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers.” 1350
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Closing my S Corp, which means valuing tangible assets, which means valuing a pile of gently used lingerie This leaves me wondering who else from the professionally scantily clad trades has a spreadsheet tracking their impractical sexy garb And what else might be on their spreadsheets 8881
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 31/10/2025You say “made”, I say “bestowed the opportunity to” 5501
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Why (in the sense of an actual question) is the extremely vast majority of dental hygiene products some kind of mint? Related: did you know mint toothpaste isn’t supposed to burn like fire for a couple of hours after you brush? I didn’t until this summer 11550
Reposted by Jessica StoyaChelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 08/10/2025As part of @everylibrary.bsky.social's roster of events for Banned Book Week (buy a banned book @bookshop.org), Jessica Stoya and I talked about Fanny Hill, criminal and civil book bans, and the US Supreme Court:youtube.comWhy Fanny Hill Still Turns Heads with Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica StoyaYouTube video by EveryLibrary 0610
Reposted by Jessica StoyaChelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 06/10/2025It's Banned Book Week, and I'm delighted to be part of @everylibrary.bsky.social's calendar of events by chatting with @stoya.bsky.social about Fanny Hill (aka Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure), a Very Banned book. I mean, it was banned in two countries, at least five times.everylibrary.orgEveryLibrary Live! Banned Books 2025 CalendarJoin EveryLibrary Live! for Banned Books Week Fest 2025, a free online celebration featuring 25+ authors, editors, and advocates in bold conversations about storytelling, censorship, and the freedom t... 2138
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 04/10/2025This half drunk man was about to tell me why, for the past several months, he has been confidently assuming I am Russian despite my complete inability to roll an r And then he got distracted As tipsy people tend to 10710
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 04/10/2025It is dumb! It is ignorant! And it also works in one of several ways when it is inescapable for prolonged periods of time. 0400
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 04/10/2025My completely flaming hot take on “Wayward” is that, as much as it drastically underplays the reality of teen reprogramming camps, it serves as a palatable-to-the-blissfully-uninitiated primer on some of the mind warping tactics Which are often used by the current US administration 2506
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 01/10/2025… they please replace it with one that is actually representative of how I tend to look? 3341
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 01/10/2025So, now that the US government is shutting down nonessential operations, is it a good time to tell the consulate that I really dislike my passport photo because I got too close to the old one expiring when I was still recalibrating from a deeply regrettable (and failed) hormone treatment so could… 2290
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 24/09/2025“Allowed to focus on… where we feel our voices will be effective” 💕 1502
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 20/09/2025In which Rich Juzwiak really knocks it out of the park on sexualized labor, and I am that much more proud to be his colleague slate.com/advice/2025/... For @slate.com’s How To Do It columnslate.comMy Wife Told Me She Got a “Promotion” at Work. Then I Found Out What She’s Really Been Doing.This isn't exactly how I want her to support our family. 0330
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I do pay a little extra for the hand-holding tier It works out as less expensive and more efficient than bothering lawyers and accountants with things that are below their level but above my head when I first encounter them 1280
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I love the payroll company I use in the US Every time, I get nervous. Revert to North Carolina accent. Say things like “do you have some kind of add on that keeps track of numbers things that aren’t payroll?” Then I apologize and explain that I write about non-business subjects They’re patient 1470
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 18/09/2025With a little more executive function, the past two days could have each been half at my desk and half on my feet Alas… 1210
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 18/09/2025My orbs were titillated I injected nothing balsamic Only thoughts and opinions But I suppose some of those could be considered tart, sweet, or simultaneously both 4351
Reposted by Jessica StoyaChelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Anyway preorder this new edition of Fanny Hill with a forward by me and a conversation with @stoya.bsky.social. It'll titillate your twin orbs and perhaps induce a balsamic injection. 0132
Reposted by Jessica StoyaChelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Reminder that Fanny Hill was banned, litigated, expurgated, rereleased, banned, litigated, edited, rereleased, banned in the UK, banned in the US, litigated, rereleased, and now faces potential bans again. All this for a book with no expletives and espouses a clearly capitalist bourgeoise agenda. 32610
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 17/09/2025After a ten hour workday, which included makeup and also bits of cleaning during slim chunks of down time which would otherwise have been wasted I need to remove the makeup (Which includes primer, light foundation and powder, and mascara) Why didn’t I train Pixelcat how to help with this? 2340
Reposted by Jessica StoyaWanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 14/09/2025“Anything that has a new smell may have a mouse in it” - ancient cat proverb 0232
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 14/09/2025This cat is precious Widget does not care whether I am in a sit-able position at all Unless I have a new-to-him smell Because he is a happy little pillow on the corner of the couch or bed There’s almost always an outlier 1500
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Pixel’s favorite parts of the day are when I am sitting at my desk or laying in bed 22476
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Meanwhile, any time I change something in my hygiene routine that involves a new scent, I become the most interesting thing in the home to Widget 2400
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Somebody gave me a sample of this incredible moisturizer and it is truly incredible but it also smells like if there were some coconut flavored medicine in a way similar to the cherry flavored cough syrup of millennial youth 2300
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 11/09/2025That time I did a whole chapter of my book in rhubarb voice because the producer of the audiobook was the producer of Life With Althaar and then the publisher refused for multiple years to acknowledge that audiobook sales should be accounted for and paid out according to contract 2272
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 10/09/2025After a few weeks of trying (in several contexts) to get at the mats with all three combs Widget took care of them himself The hairball he horked up after was god-level 2470
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Ok, yes, I understand we’re saying “gotovo” because the game is finished and Serbia lost But It is very important to me to understand the details of why it is “gotovo” with an “o” when “game” is “igra” so it seems like it should be “gotova” with an “a” 2170
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Have I been sneezing for a week and a half because I’m not taking enough antihistamines? Or because I’m having a side effect to the antihistamines? 4250
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 02/09/2025The cats are obsessed with, at the age of 12-14, a catnip ball in a rawhide strip cage. Whatever makes them happy and gets them moving. 2640
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Woooooo—we have overwhelmed him with both options and care Thank you all I am blessed to be a part of this world 1381
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Really The friend was like “omg thank you so much for the effort” And I was like “bro—I am me and bluesky is bluesky” 1340
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 02/09/2025@ajordanxiii.bsky.social I really have to know what “certified master cocksman” means 2150