Jon Mooallem
@jmooallem.bsky.social
jonmooallem.com
Originator of the “Heavy Tarp” theory of societal decline
Originator of the “Heavy Tarp” theory of societal decline
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Jon Mooallem
@jmooallem.bsky.social
· Jan 28
I do not think posting is healthy for me.
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I do not think posting is healthy for me.
January 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I do not think posting is healthy for me.
Watching Parks and Rec with my kid and I forgot that Ben, while out of work and depressed, makes a stop-animation movie set to R.E.M.'s "Stand." In middle school, I made a stop- animation movie for math class set to R.E.M.'s "Stand." I think it was about fractions. I was also depressed?
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Watching Parks and Rec with my kid and I forgot that Ben, while out of work and depressed, makes a stop-animation movie set to R.E.M.'s "Stand." In middle school, I made a stop- animation movie for math class set to R.E.M.'s "Stand." I think it was about fractions. I was also depressed?
Seasonal affective disorder, engage.
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Seasonal affective disorder, engage.
Just think, it all started with fish hauling themselves onto land and becoming lizards. Happy Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Just think, it all started with fish hauling themselves onto land and becoming lizards. Happy Thanksgiving.
These are my interests.
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
These are my interests.
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Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community.
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Compassionately Respond to an Overdose
Naloxone, rescue breathing, and 911: Learn the do's, don'ts, and best practices for reversing an overdose.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community.
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
It was phenomenal.
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It was phenomenal.
Just had an experience with an owl.
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Just had an experience with an owl.
chat, if you buy yourself a comfy $19 sweatshirt for Pacific Northwest winter cozy times and immediately (within minutes) splatter salad dressing all over it, do you get to buy yourself another to replace it or do you have to wear it like a slovenly scarlet letter until spring? asking for friend.
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
chat, if you buy yourself a comfy $19 sweatshirt for Pacific Northwest winter cozy times and immediately (within minutes) splatter salad dressing all over it, do you get to buy yourself another to replace it or do you have to wear it like a slovenly scarlet letter until spring? asking for friend.
SHELL GAME season 2, out now!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
SHELL GAME season 2, out now!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
one social media goal of mine is to one day have the expertise/self-esteem to slap the target emoji onto another poster’s observation, just once.
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
one social media goal of mine is to one day have the expertise/self-esteem to slap the target emoji onto another poster’s observation, just once.
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Ezra Klein: Patti Smith, welcome to the show. You’re very different from me. What’s that like?
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ezra Klein: Patti Smith, welcome to the show. You’re very different from me. What’s that like?
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I journalism-careered wrong.
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I journalism-careered wrong.
“Book III“ out tomorrow, can’t wait!
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Book III“ out tomorrow, can’t wait!
Welcome to LIMITED SIGHT DISTANCE, the JMooallem feed’s regular feature about what’s happening ”out there”
Dispatch from three-dimensional space: Seconds after this was taken, garbage truck hauled around the corner. Owl flew to higher perch. Truck stopped, garbage guy watched, made binocular-eyes at me with his hands to make sure I saw, and we both did gleeful thumbs up.
Lots happening out here.
Lots happening out here.
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Welcome to LIMITED SIGHT DISTANCE, the JMooallem feed’s regular feature about what’s happening ”out there”
Dispatch from three-dimensional space: Seconds after this was taken, garbage truck hauled around the corner. Owl flew to higher perch. Truck stopped, garbage guy watched, made binocular-eyes at me with his hands to make sure I saw, and we both did gleeful thumbs up.
Lots happening out here.
Lots happening out here.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Dispatch from three-dimensional space: Seconds after this was taken, garbage truck hauled around the corner. Owl flew to higher perch. Truck stopped, garbage guy watched, made binocular-eyes at me with his hands to make sure I saw, and we both did gleeful thumbs up.
Lots happening out here.
Lots happening out here.
”They’d be impressed if they knew I just finished an advance copy of the new (amazing) George Saunders.“ - me, cleaning my gutters on a ladder, thinking about the internet
November 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
”They’d be impressed if they knew I just finished an advance copy of the new (amazing) George Saunders.“ - me, cleaning my gutters on a ladder, thinking about the internet
mockup of a shirt I’d buy to vent my frustration while shopping at my town’s unnecessarily fancy grocery store, proceeds of which could
go to Feeding America or similar, thus leveraging privileged grievance into actual help for people who need it.
just an idea.
go to Feeding America or similar, thus leveraging privileged grievance into actual help for people who need it.
just an idea.
November 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
mockup of a shirt I’d buy to vent my frustration while shopping at my town’s unnecessarily fancy grocery store, proceeds of which could
go to Feeding America or similar, thus leveraging privileged grievance into actual help for people who need it.
just an idea.
go to Feeding America or similar, thus leveraging privileged grievance into actual help for people who need it.
just an idea.
very cool you have your own fancy horse to do that, I’ve been getting kicked in the head by a feral mule every day for years
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
very cool you have your own fancy horse to do that, I’ve been getting kicked in the head by a feral mule every day for years
This is so cool I have a mug that looks like this
Jupiter’s Stunning Southern Hemisphere - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/GxRZqB
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This is so cool I have a mug that looks like this
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your imposter syndrome gives far too much credit to the genuine article
tfw you rediscover "the elites" are a sea of mediocrities
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
your imposter syndrome gives far too much credit to the genuine article
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I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
I journalism-careered wrong.
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I journalism-careered wrong.