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Joshua Rivera

@jmrivera.bsky.social

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writer for hire. bylines at Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, and Vanity Fair. movies and tv and games and books and

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · Nov 25

Oh I never did an intro post. So:

I’m a writer interested in pop culture and how we make meaning from it. I was entertainment writer at polygon, and before that had stints at EW, GQ, and freelanced everywhere. Stories saved my life and I want to help people understand them, and each other, better.

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Christian D'Andrea @trainisland.bsky.social · 14h

the ESPN story asking Giants teammates to describe Cam Skattebo is exactly what you'd expect (complimentary)

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 4h

lol jay

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t want to defend tron too much here but legacy was not a huge flop. tron is weird in that its always had passionate fans in the arts. there has always been a gaggle of nerds in Hollywood who would love to make a sequel

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

Then in 2010 they made a sequel to TRON and that was a huge flop too, despite being helmed by a director who later became a mega-hitmaker. Why go back for more? It's weird!

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 5h

lol. Lmao

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 5h

entire team has the yips

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 5h

bummed it had to be against the eagles but it is cool to see the giants fielding some young exciting guys, things are really coming together for them

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 5h

The birds are not turning it around

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 5h

I’m 0 for 2 on tv choices tonight, need the birds to turn it around

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 5h

I would say this peacemaker finale didn’t fumble it in the red zone as much as it just stopped playing entirely and called it for the season

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 6h

If you listen closely you can hear saying “I’m Cam Skattebo and this is Jackass” before every carry

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 6h

Jesus that was like a brainstorming session for finding the worst possible way to lose

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 6h

It is very important to make as legible as possible as often as possible that various administration administration officials are either straight-up delusional or lying through their teeth, every single day

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 6h

I cheered and kept waiting for the movie to do something like it again, alas. I’m coming around to the rest though!

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah I think it’s good for the writer to have this level of understanding of their characters but quite detrimental to have them put it in such terms

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 6h

Whether or not you dig Ends the prologue is undeniable, incredible black comedy beat

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 7h

I think I like Halloween Ends more with each passing year. Think I’m gonna do this double myself soon!

Matt Cohen @mattdcohen.bsky.social · 7h

spooky szn double feature tonight c/o @jmrivera.bsky.social: Halloween Ends and John Carpenter’s Christine. surprisingly good and thematically on point pairing!

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 7h

one more inning!

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 8h

An all-timer line delivery

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 8h

few things funnier on tv than Dennis Reynolds losing his composure

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 9h

Do you know how many times I have bought thyme when I meant to get rosemary? Three. That’s how many extra bottles of thyme I have.

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 10h

I just found out about them from someone I know who has a litany of terrible allergies, had no idea. (My ragweed allergy isn’t too bad, just takes me out for a couple days in mid October. I do have a mild dog allergy I gotta make sure doesn’t get worse though)

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 10h

the ragweed may have become strong enough to overcome my feeble otc antihistamine, and it’s only getting stronger…

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Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · 13h

a thing i've been thinking about a lot is how, when i started researching my book (2016), "antifa" was the bogeyman of neo-nazis. now it's the bogeyman of the white house. the math here isn't hard to do.

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah I’m willing to extend it leeway but the decision to extend the film by one scene and then what happens at the end of that scene kind of has me constantly kicking the tires on the thing, wondering how seriously I should take it

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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 1d

Y'know, when people have asked me about my dream game, I've always said a runaway slave + Underground Railroad project or something set in or around the Haitian Revolution.

Someone somewhere is already taking this on and infusing the work with all the courage that the subject matter deserves.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news