Joanna B (she/her)
@thewelllostmind.bsky.social
Nonfiction writer, when brain cells allow.
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If you’re not screaming with every exhale, are you even awake?
February 13, 2026 at 1:39 AM
If you’re not screaming with every exhale, are you even awake?
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At least someone is
February 10, 2026 at 3:04 AM
At least someone is
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
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you can’t wait for a nonprofit to save you when you see ICE kidnapping your neighbor or harassing parents at your kids school
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
you can’t wait for a nonprofit to save you when you see ICE kidnapping your neighbor or harassing parents at your kids school
I haven’t even used up all of the water I collected two weekends ago by dripping my taps to prevent frozen pipes, but today’s forecasted high is 81°
February 7, 2026 at 2:12 PM
I haven’t even used up all of the water I collected two weekends ago by dripping my taps to prevent frozen pipes, but today’s forecasted high is 81°
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There's so much unnecessary bullshit we all gotta deal with just because it's making somebody somewhere richer.
February 7, 2026 at 1:28 AM
There's so much unnecessary bullshit we all gotta deal with just because it's making somebody somewhere richer.
Exactly what terrible fate are we collectively trying to avoid by always skating to Ravel’s Bolero? We’re already in a hell timeline, let’s break whatever pact that comes from and just see what happens
February 6, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Exactly what terrible fate are we collectively trying to avoid by always skating to Ravel’s Bolero? We’re already in a hell timeline, let’s break whatever pact that comes from and just see what happens
I cannot be healed by ice dance, but I can disassociate a little bit, and that’s fucking good enough right now
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I cannot be healed by ice dance, but I can disassociate a little bit, and that’s fucking good enough right now
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The cycle from Amazon killing bookstores to Bezos axing the books section of the Post is something
February 4, 2026 at 2:35 PM
The cycle from Amazon killing bookstores to Bezos axing the books section of the Post is something
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they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll empty a whole goddamn magazine into you while you’re lying on the ground if you don’t cheer them on while they’re fucking doing it.
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
January 24, 2026 at 3:52 PM
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll empty a whole goddamn magazine into you while you’re lying on the ground if you don’t cheer them on while they’re fucking doing it.
What is a donut hole but an amuse bouche for breakfast?
January 24, 2026 at 2:50 PM
What is a donut hole but an amuse bouche for breakfast?
I honestly think “love” might be among the top words I use on a day-to-day basis, just from saying it to my cat
January 23, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I honestly think “love” might be among the top words I use on a day-to-day basis, just from saying it to my cat
In millennial terms: maybe Magneto was right
January 21, 2026 at 11:45 PM
In millennial terms: maybe Magneto was right
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Heads-up, Austin. ICE operating out of Buda (=south Austin suburb) this weekend.
January 15, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Heads-up, Austin. ICE operating out of Buda (=south Austin suburb) this weekend.
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-human tries to use art to perfectly communicate something they see or feel
-they fail
-in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art
-other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful
-they fail
-in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art
-other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful
January 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
-human tries to use art to perfectly communicate something they see or feel
-they fail
-in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art
-other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful
-they fail
-in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art
-other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful
“An excellent choice, madam,” I say as my cat decides where on the bed she wants to sit, adjusting my own legs accordingly
January 3, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“An excellent choice, madam,” I say as my cat decides where on the bed she wants to sit, adjusting my own legs accordingly
Was worried for a second that my pet insurance was about to give me a 2025 wrapped
January 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Was worried for a second that my pet insurance was about to give me a 2025 wrapped
Starting the new year right: watching Taskmaster Champion of Champions
January 1, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Starting the new year right: watching Taskmaster Champion of Champions
I’m so curious about the dynamic between Catherine’s cat and Precious (who she maybe seems to adopt) after the events of Silence of the Lambs
December 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I’m so curious about the dynamic between Catherine’s cat and Precious (who she maybe seems to adopt) after the events of Silence of the Lambs
Josh O’Connor has leant his sizable charisma to so many undeserving institutions: the royal family (Charles in particular), the Catholic Church…tennis. And I say that as a fan of the sport.
December 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Josh O’Connor has leant his sizable charisma to so many undeserving institutions: the royal family (Charles in particular), the Catholic Church…tennis. And I say that as a fan of the sport.
This is a real life “Single and Fabulous?” moment
December 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is a real life “Single and Fabulous?” moment
Shin Ramyun knows what their commercial needs to sell specifically to me: a Spice Girls song
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Shin Ramyun knows what their commercial needs to sell specifically to me: a Spice Girls song
How has Blumhouse not yet made a low-to-mid-budget movie about SantaCon? The horrors are right there!
December 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
How has Blumhouse not yet made a low-to-mid-budget movie about SantaCon? The horrors are right there!
AI will never be a writer because it kills everything but it’s darlings
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
AI will never be a writer because it kills everything but it’s darlings