Justine Gardner
@jbgrumpstone.bsky.social
🖊Word creature. 🪶Birb person.
Basically just an old* fart-in-a-bottle left on a dusty shelf somewhere in Brooklyn, NY.
*Old enough to know that being anti-fascist is 👍.
website: www.grumpstonegazette.com
linktree: https://linktr.ee/justine.gardner
Basically just an old* fart-in-a-bottle left on a dusty shelf somewhere in Brooklyn, NY.
*Old enough to know that being anti-fascist is 👍.
website: www.grumpstonegazette.com
linktree: https://linktr.ee/justine.gardner
One of my favorite fun facts about LEGO is before ol' Ole Kirk Christiansen got going with the plastics he manufactured this popular wooden "peace gun" in 1949. #internationalLEGOday
Also, always: #abolishice
Also, always: #abolishice
January 28, 2026 at 3:34 PM
One of my favorite fun facts about LEGO is before ol' Ole Kirk Christiansen got going with the plastics he manufactured this popular wooden "peace gun" in 1949. #internationalLEGOday
Also, always: #abolishice
Also, always: #abolishice
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Extrajudicial Killing
He #slipped helping another up. His eyes burning in the cold, from the gas; he could not regain his footing on the iced street. Masked men put him on his knees before he could utter please. His back now bared to them, they saw their chance and took it. #vss365
He #slipped helping another up. His eyes burning in the cold, from the gas; he could not regain his footing on the iced street. Masked men put him on his knees before he could utter please. His back now bared to them, they saw their chance and took it. #vss365
January 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Is there a German word for when you start writing what you think will be a 2K-word story but you're nearing 3K and you realize this will take at least another 3K to wrap up? #amwriting
January 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Is there a German word for when you start writing what you think will be a 2K-word story but you're nearing 3K and you realize this will take at least another 3K to wrap up? #amwriting
Will damp bag of soggy muesli @schumer.senate.gov pretend to care a little harder or do we have to wait for them to actually shoot defenseless babies like this in the face instead of just ripping them from their homes and families?
#abolishICE #defundICE
#abolishICE #defundICE
January 22, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Will damp bag of soggy muesli @schumer.senate.gov pretend to care a little harder or do we have to wait for them to actually shoot defenseless babies like this in the face instead of just ripping them from their homes and families?
#abolishICE #defundICE
#abolishICE #defundICE
Q.3: My current WIP character is a robot detective snowed in at a mediocre hotel, cut off from the internet and the outside world.
I'm not sure they would have any use for any of these days, save to try and understand the nature of the murderers they investigate.
#HorrorWritersChat
I'm not sure they would have any use for any of these days, save to try and understand the nature of the murderers they investigate.
#HorrorWritersChat
I LOVE these days being subverted. You're all in sweatpant heaven. What about your WIP characters? your main characters? And what would they say?
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
January 21, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Q.3: My current WIP character is a robot detective snowed in at a mediocre hotel, cut off from the internet and the outside world.
I'm not sure they would have any use for any of these days, save to try and understand the nature of the murderers they investigate.
#HorrorWritersChat
I'm not sure they would have any use for any of these days, save to try and understand the nature of the murderers they investigate.
#HorrorWritersChat
Q2: Definitely International Squirrel Day. Those little stinkers are plotting things for sure. Could also combine it with Granola Bar Day—squirrels getting bloody over the Nature's Valley. Raiding Costco en masse, tearing out throats, shredding faces...
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
So we have four days today...or was it five? SUCH a busy day...
International Squirrel Appreciation Day
National Hugging Day
International Playdate Day
International Sweatpants Day
National Granola Bar Day
So which one will you choose to make horror? I know you can....
#Horrrorwriterschat
International Squirrel Appreciation Day
National Hugging Day
International Playdate Day
International Sweatpants Day
National Granola Bar Day
So which one will you choose to make horror? I know you can....
#Horrrorwriterschat
January 21, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Q2: Definitely International Squirrel Day. Those little stinkers are plotting things for sure. Could also combine it with Granola Bar Day—squirrels getting bloody over the Nature's Valley. Raiding Costco en masse, tearing out throats, shredding faces...
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
Hallo! I have managed to scrape aside some mucus and find myself a spot at the spigot for #HorrorWritersChat...
I write weird stuff and not all of it horror, but all of it...weird. I like it weird.
My fave int'l hoilday:
UN's Day for Dialogue Among Civilizations. ...sigh...
I write weird stuff and not all of it horror, but all of it...weird. I like it weird.
My fave int'l hoilday:
UN's Day for Dialogue Among Civilizations. ...sigh...
#HorrorWritersChat
Q1.
For me this is the most important. Who are we, really?
Let's spill the beans. Or the squirrels. Or even the granola.
We're all listening.
Q1.
For me this is the most important. Who are we, really?
Let's spill the beans. Or the squirrels. Or even the granola.
We're all listening.
January 21, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Hallo! I have managed to scrape aside some mucus and find myself a spot at the spigot for #HorrorWritersChat...
I write weird stuff and not all of it horror, but all of it...weird. I like it weird.
My fave int'l hoilday:
UN's Day for Dialogue Among Civilizations. ...sigh...
I write weird stuff and not all of it horror, but all of it...weird. I like it weird.
My fave int'l hoilday:
UN's Day for Dialogue Among Civilizations. ...sigh...
Just read this take by @caspiandarke.bsky.social from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social… Gorgeous. Dark. Left me ruminating… 🖤
I’m incredibly grateful to share that my flash story, “Death Is a Black Door in the Ghetto,” is now live!
A door. A key. A burning. A letter.
Pass through the Black Door, and may you not remain unscathed.
👉 www.flashfictiononline.com/article/deat...
A door. A key. A burning. A letter.
Pass through the Black Door, and may you not remain unscathed.
👉 www.flashfictiononline.com/article/deat...
Death Is a Black Door in the Ghetto
Content Warning The letter wasn’t the first thing my mother set on fire, but it was the first that burned a door inside me—a door I’d spend years trying to open again.Most nights it was…
www.flashfictiononline.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Just read this take by @caspiandarke.bsky.social from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social… Gorgeous. Dark. Left me ruminating… 🖤
I’ve reached the age in life where I’ll make my Seinfeld references and no longer care if anyone gets them.
a woman is sitting on a couch wearing a brown jacket and white shirt .
Alt: a gif of a woman is sitting on a couch wearing a brown jacket and white shirt .
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:56 PM
I’ve reached the age in life where I’ll make my Seinfeld references and no longer care if anyone gets them.
TL;DR: Jonathan Ross and ICE are murderers.
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The New York Times provide a millisecond-by-millisecond look at the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. Watch our visual investigation.
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provide a millisecond-by-millisecond look at how an ICE officer ended up shooting and killing a motorist in Minneapolis.
nyti.ms
January 16, 2026 at 1:06 PM
TL;DR: Jonathan Ross and ICE are murderers.
I can haz low tempz pleez and we haz no flamez, promiss.
January 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I can haz low tempz pleez and we haz no flamez, promiss.
Rental History
The records go from digital, to typed, to handwritten, to the #wonky cursive of a 1924 inspector declaring a gas line satisfactory. Now there are no gas lines. Now this tenement is no longer rent-protected. Now she warms soup in a microwave, uses a phone to turn on the heat. #vss365
The records go from digital, to typed, to handwritten, to the #wonky cursive of a 1924 inspector declaring a gas line satisfactory. Now there are no gas lines. Now this tenement is no longer rent-protected. Now she warms soup in a microwave, uses a phone to turn on the heat. #vss365
January 14, 2026 at 11:27 AM
What in ever loving fuck…. @schumer.senate.gov Care to wag a stern finger at these goons or can we fucking impeach Noem and stop this before more murders are committed at ICE’s hands?
January 10, 2026 at 7:51 PM
What in ever loving fuck…. @schumer.senate.gov Care to wag a stern finger at these goons or can we fucking impeach Noem and stop this before more murders are committed at ICE’s hands?
It’s all been so…just… yeah… 🙇♀️
So here’s my demon Wilson, aka the Slayer of Ankles, cozy and snug under the weighted blanket…
#caturday #voids #blackcats #🐈⬛
So here’s my demon Wilson, aka the Slayer of Ankles, cozy and snug under the weighted blanket…
#caturday #voids #blackcats #🐈⬛
January 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
It’s all been so…just… yeah… 🙇♀️
So here’s my demon Wilson, aka the Slayer of Ankles, cozy and snug under the weighted blanket…
#caturday #voids #blackcats #🐈⬛
So here’s my demon Wilson, aka the Slayer of Ankles, cozy and snug under the weighted blanket…
#caturday #voids #blackcats #🐈⬛
Renee Good filmed law enforcement officers in the conduct of their duties, a right protected by the Constitution.
Ashli Babbitt broke through a window to assault members of Congress sitting in session, so a President could defy the Constitution.
These are not the same things.
Ashli Babbitt broke through a window to assault members of Congress sitting in session, so a President could defy the Constitution.
These are not the same things.
January 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Needs Must
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Needs Must
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
My favorite part so far of watching Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers with my son for the first time is telling him the best parts to go on a bathroom break.
#arwentimeispeepeetime
#arwentimeispeepeetime
a woman in a white dress is standing in a forest with trees in the background .
Alt: gif of a woman in a white dress is standing in a forest with trees in the background aka Arwen from LOTR.
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
My favorite part so far of watching Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers with my son for the first time is telling him the best parts to go on a bathroom break.
#arwentimeispeepeetime
#arwentimeispeepeetime
Old Cow
The articulated skeleton of a polled miniature Hereford is the first thing to greet incoming students making their way to the laboratory. The cow’s preserved organs lie open to the #air at her feet, pertinent points of interest labeled for the newbies.
Lunch is burgers on Main. #vss365
The articulated skeleton of a polled miniature Hereford is the first thing to greet incoming students making their way to the laboratory. The cow’s preserved organs lie open to the #air at her feet, pertinent points of interest labeled for the newbies.
Lunch is burgers on Main. #vss365
December 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Hey let me grab my vintage 1942 cookbook and look up some holiday cookie reci—
Uh…
Uh…
December 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Hey let me grab my vintage 1942 cookbook and look up some holiday cookie reci—
Uh…
Uh…
Tomorrow will mark 1 year since I woke from poor sleep, stunned with grief. I'd returned from the hospital a few hours before. I could hear my son downstairs, chatting happily. How was I to tell him his grandfather was dead?
For all those struggling with loss this holiday season, sending ❤️🩹.
For all those struggling with loss this holiday season, sending ❤️🩹.
December 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Tomorrow will mark 1 year since I woke from poor sleep, stunned with grief. I'd returned from the hospital a few hours before. I could hear my son downstairs, chatting happily. How was I to tell him his grandfather was dead?
For all those struggling with loss this holiday season, sending ❤️🩹.
For all those struggling with loss this holiday season, sending ❤️🩹.
Leave-Taking
Per the penciled notes he’d left on the kitchen wall, he turned to gas when the gun failed. Among the details of the #fight to end his life: a bum gun, a jug of church wine. Apologizing to his pastor, he wrote, “I’m in the next room now. Sorry, scout. Will I find you there?” #vss365
Per the penciled notes he’d left on the kitchen wall, he turned to gas when the gun failed. Among the details of the #fight to end his life: a bum gun, a jug of church wine. Apologizing to his pastor, he wrote, “I’m in the next room now. Sorry, scout. Will I find you there?” #vss365
December 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Silence
He said he had no #memory of the night’s events, refusing to name a culprit, denying even the fact of his injury. "I’m not shot," he’d declared from his hospital bed. “The wound is nothing.” Later, at the funeral in his parents’ home, guests noted the lack of corruption in the air. #vss365
He said he had no #memory of the night’s events, refusing to name a culprit, denying even the fact of his injury. "I’m not shot," he’d declared from his hospital bed. “The wound is nothing.” Later, at the funeral in his parents’ home, guests noted the lack of corruption in the air. #vss365
December 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM