Josh Billinson
@jbillinson.bsky.social
I do the skeets for @semafor.com
My job is to get people to read the news, but I think push notifications are deeply unhealthy and it’s fine to just seek out news on your own time instead of letting someone shove it in your face at all hours of the day.
There’s a thin line between staying as informed as you should and making yourself anxious in a way that is completely unproductive and every single day the news is trying very hard to push you over into the latter
August 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My job is to get people to read the news, but I think push notifications are deeply unhealthy and it’s fine to just seek out news on your own time instead of letting someone shove it in your face at all hours of the day.
oh so now it’s a crime to support local journalism
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.
www.thecity.nyc
August 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
oh so now it’s a crime to support local journalism
The people of Earth-818 in FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS
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July 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The people of Earth-818 in FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS
He is now calling for Trump to nationalize SpaceX lmao
June 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
He is now calling for Trump to nationalize SpaceX lmao
Hilarious number of your former colleagues to have immediately running to Politico to trash your new book announcement
June 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Hilarious number of your former colleagues to have immediately running to Politico to trash your new book announcement
I love when the New York Post does Eric Adams mad libs
June 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I love when the New York Post does Eric Adams mad libs
“It was another win for a well-organized lobbying campaign led by manufacturers of dark roofing materials.”
How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
As cities heat up, reflective roofs could lower energy bills and help the climate. But dark-roofing manufacturers are waging a quiet campaign to block new rules
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“It was another win for a well-organized lobbying campaign led by manufacturers of dark roofing materials.”
Almost opted against submitting expenses for a work trip to avoid having to tell a coworker that I went to Taco Bell three times in one week
May 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Almost opted against submitting expenses for a work trip to avoid having to tell a coworker that I went to Taco Bell three times in one week
I never really considered that the Secret Service would do this but now I need to know if anyone has ever been picked up on an outstanding warrant because they visited the White House
May 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I never really considered that the Secret Service would do this but now I need to know if anyone has ever been picked up on an outstanding warrant because they visited the White House
There’s a great bit in THE FINAL RECKONING where Ethan Hunt, finally forced to confront the reality that he regularly hurts innocent people in service of his missions, apologizes to someone just for the guy to brush him off and say Ethan actually made his life way better by accident
May 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
There’s a great bit in THE FINAL RECKONING where Ethan Hunt, finally forced to confront the reality that he regularly hurts innocent people in service of his missions, apologizes to someone just for the guy to brush him off and say Ethan actually made his life way better by accident
Really did not love the first hour or so of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING, which falls to near FAST & FURIOUS levels of silly self-seriousness, but then Tramell Tillman almost single-handedly saves the movie by being the first person to remember this is supposed to be campy fun
May 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Really did not love the first hour or so of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING, which falls to near FAST & FURIOUS levels of silly self-seriousness, but then Tramell Tillman almost single-handedly saves the movie by being the first person to remember this is supposed to be campy fun
NYC Tourist Tip: Disoriented coming out of the subway? Just stop at the top of the stairs and wait for a helpful New Yorker to give you directions
May 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
NYC Tourist Tip: Disoriented coming out of the subway? Just stop at the top of the stairs and wait for a helpful New Yorker to give you directions
Timothée Chalamet auditioning for the UNCUT GEMS prequel
May 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Timothée Chalamet auditioning for the UNCUT GEMS prequel
So you’re telling me that in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION, the IMF is subject to Senate oversight and closed door hearings, but in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING we learn that the DNI doesn’t even know about the existence of the IMF?
May 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
So you’re telling me that in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION, the IMF is subject to Senate oversight and closed door hearings, but in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING we learn that the DNI doesn’t even know about the existence of the IMF?
Any store could shell pistachios for added convenience, but the real Trader Joe’s magic is in coming up with just the perfect repulsive and humiliating name for it
May 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Any store could shell pistachios for added convenience, but the real Trader Joe’s magic is in coming up with just the perfect repulsive and humiliating name for it
My dog has been sitting next to me on the couch absolutely locked in for nearly the entire MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE marathon. He can’t get enough of Ethan Hunt and the IMF.
May 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
My dog has been sitting next to me on the couch absolutely locked in for nearly the entire MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE marathon. He can’t get enough of Ethan Hunt and the IMF.
Rewatching MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT and it’s so funny how both big stunts Tom Cruise does between the HALO jump and the helicopter could have so easily been done by a stunt men? We can barely see your face, Tom!
May 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Rewatching MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT and it’s so funny how both big stunts Tom Cruise does between the HALO jump and the helicopter could have so easily been done by a stunt men? We can barely see your face, Tom!
I don’t love the Knicks but the Pacers are a deeply evil team (have a QR code on their jersey)
May 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I don’t love the Knicks but the Pacers are a deeply evil team (have a QR code on their jersey)
I worry about Timothée Chalamet at these Knicks games. A sickly little Victorian boy can only handle so much stress
May 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I worry about Timothée Chalamet at these Knicks games. A sickly little Victorian boy can only handle so much stress
Just rewatched MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III for the first time in years and for as much as I love Philip Seymour Hoffman’s performance in this movie and think he’s the franchise’s best bad guy, I totally forgot how he ends. MADAME WEB ass villain kill!
May 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Just rewatched MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III for the first time in years and for as much as I love Philip Seymour Hoffman’s performance in this movie and think he’s the franchise’s best bad guy, I totally forgot how he ends. MADAME WEB ass villain kill!
“You can’t make an emotional Star Wars for grown ups unless it’s rated R” is an incredibly funny thing to say like a week after the Andor finale
Ryan Reynolds reveals that he pitched an R-rated STAR WARS project.
“It doesn't have to be overt, A+ characters, there's a wide range of characters you could use. And I don't mean R-rated to be vulgar, R-rated as a Trojan Horse for emotion”
(Source: open.spotify.com/episode/53Dv...)
“It doesn't have to be overt, A+ characters, there's a wide range of characters you could use. And I don't mean R-rated to be vulgar, R-rated as a Trojan Horse for emotion”
(Source: open.spotify.com/episode/53Dv...)
May 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“You can’t make an emotional Star Wars for grown ups unless it’s rated R” is an incredibly funny thing to say like a week after the Andor finale
Actually really enjoyed revisiting this one despite the flaws. Still my least favorite but now I think the real problem isn’t how disconnected it feels from the rest, but that John Woo waited until the last 30 minutes to really start doing John Woo shit.
My wife who has never seen any of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movies and would not commit to the rewatch marathon is in the room while MI2 is on. Afraid this will make a bad first impression.
May 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Actually really enjoyed revisiting this one despite the flaws. Still my least favorite but now I think the real problem isn’t how disconnected it feels from the rest, but that John Woo waited until the last 30 minutes to really start doing John Woo shit.
They need to do George Lucas style special editions of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE franchise in a few years where they just go back and add Kittridge to all the movies he’s not in.
May 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
They need to do George Lucas style special editions of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE franchise in a few years where they just go back and add Kittridge to all the movies he’s not in.
just remembered this
May 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
just remembered this
My wife who has never seen any of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movies and would not commit to the rewatch marathon is in the room while MI2 is on. Afraid this will make a bad first impression.
May 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
My wife who has never seen any of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movies and would not commit to the rewatch marathon is in the room while MI2 is on. Afraid this will make a bad first impression.