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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 15h

What a thread. Condolences.

Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 15h

Hi, friends. I'm sad to report that my mom passed away on Sept. 22. She was peaceful and comfortable, which is a blessing, but I'll really miss her. She taught me the most important things--help others; be curious--by example, and I would absolutely not be the person I am without her influence.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 17h

This is a little heavy-handed, but how else is she expected to learn what an actual journalist’s job involves?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks to my regular 2am bout of insomnia for waking me just in time for this.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 1d

Kiss lightly at first, please — don’t begin to make out (4)

In our latest Out of Left Field cryptic crossword, sent to subscribers this morning, @hpicciotto.bsky.social and I offer some kiss cam advice for newbies.

www.patreon.com/posts/puzzle...

a man with a beard and a woman in a pink shirt are kissing

Alt: A man with a beard and a woman in a pink shirt are kissing.

media.tenor.com

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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 2d

New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with thoughts on Samuel Adams, Gustavo Gimeno, and "Noises Off."

pacificaisle.substack.com/p/double-stu...

Double stuffed

In its Berkeley premiere, a new concerto sounded rewarding but overextended

pacificaisle.substack.com

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 2d

This asshole can’t get out of our lives fast enough for me

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 3d

YES. From your mouth to God's ears

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely joy-inspiring stuff.

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 3d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 3d

I beg your pardon, sir? I assure you the scansion has no kind of fault or flaw.

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, this is terrific! Apologies for the long silence — the rhyme was stumping me.

Laura Braunstein
Is as industrious as a mows-all-the-neighborhood-lawns teen.
But instead of a beautiful front yard, what she does’ll
Leave you with a puzzle.

Laura Braunstein @laurabrarian.bsky.social · 8d

we need to write them about each other

Joshua Kosman
He’s the boss, man
At constructing a cryptic
In times apocalyptic

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 9d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 6d

This is wonderful! Thank you

Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 6d

I tried so hard to read this in Yiddish but in vain

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 7d

A thing I miss from childhood is coming across stuff that makes no goddam sense (usually in books) and you shrug and think "I guess that's just how the world is."

In The Jungle Books, there are always kites flying overhead. Kipling meant the raptors ofc but there were no birds in my 8yo scenario.

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 8d

Zero lies detected.

When I started attending SF Symphony concerts regularly in the late 1980s, the curtain time even on weeknights was 8:30. Hard to believe, but that’s how we rolled back then.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 8d

Well! Here comes ol' Dave Chappelle. Funny ol' Dave Chappelle...yes, sir! Funny ol' Dave Chappelle...

How I hate him.

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 8d

In grad school once I turned out a bunch of Composer Clerihews. The two I still remember:

Thelonious Monk,
Drunk,
Could play better than Daniel-François Auber,
Sauber.

Claude Debussy
Went to Africa on a spree
Where all the Watusi
Called him Debussy

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 8d

When you have plenty of time to devote to it — because you will not be able to stop — do yourself a kindness and dive into this thread. You will not be sorry, please trust me on this.

Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · 29d

"In the crescendo of orgasm I have sometimes been known to shout out the incumbent Pope's name" I have been back on the apps literally one minute. This is from the second profile I have looked at since reactivating. I am doomed

Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · Jan 2

"I'm too romantic for casual encounters" good lord

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 9d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 9d

how Phineas got the nickname Huey long

An orange and white cat stretched to maximum length on the living room rug.

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 9d

Indeed! I was amazed and gratified to read your review after posting mine. She sure is something huh?

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