Justine Gardner
@jbgrumpstone.bsky.social
🖊Word creature. 🪶Birb person.
Basically just an old* fart-in-a-bottle left on a dusty shelf somewhere in Brooklyn, NY.
*Old enough to know that being anti-fascist is 👍.
website: www.grumpstonegazette.com
linktree: https://linktr.ee/justine.gardner
Basically just an old* fart-in-a-bottle left on a dusty shelf somewhere in Brooklyn, NY.
*Old enough to know that being anti-fascist is 👍.
website: www.grumpstonegazette.com
linktree: https://linktr.ee/justine.gardner
Just read this take by @caspiandarke.bsky.social from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social… Gorgeous. Dark. Left me ruminating… 🖤
I’m incredibly grateful to share that my flash story, “Death Is a Black Door in the Ghetto,” is now live!
A door. A key. A burning. A letter.
Pass through the Black Door, and may you not remain unscathed.
👉 www.flashfictiononline.com/article/deat...
A door. A key. A burning. A letter.
Pass through the Black Door, and may you not remain unscathed.
👉 www.flashfictiononline.com/article/deat...
Death Is a Black Door in the Ghetto
Content Warning The letter wasn’t the first thing my mother set on fire, but it was the first that burned a door inside me—a door I’d spend years trying to open again.Most nights it was…
www.flashfictiononline.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Just read this take by @caspiandarke.bsky.social from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social… Gorgeous. Dark. Left me ruminating… 🖤
I’ve reached the age in life where I’ll make my Seinfeld references and no longer care if anyone gets them.
a woman is sitting on a couch wearing a brown jacket and white shirt .
Alt: a gif of a woman is sitting on a couch wearing a brown jacket and white shirt .
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January 16, 2026 at 6:56 PM
I’ve reached the age in life where I’ll make my Seinfeld references and no longer care if anyone gets them.
TL;DR: Jonathan Ross and ICE are murderers.
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The New York Times provide a millisecond-by-millisecond look at the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. Watch our visual investigation.
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provide a millisecond-by-millisecond look at how an ICE officer ended up shooting and killing a motorist in Minneapolis.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:06 PM
TL;DR: Jonathan Ross and ICE are murderers.
I can haz low tempz pleez and we haz no flamez, promiss.
January 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I can haz low tempz pleez and we haz no flamez, promiss.
Rental History
The records go from digital, to typed, to handwritten, to the #wonky cursive of a 1924 inspector declaring a gas line satisfactory. Now there are no gas lines. Now this tenement is no longer rent-protected. Now she warms soup in a microwave, uses a phone to turn on the heat. #vss365
The records go from digital, to typed, to handwritten, to the #wonky cursive of a 1924 inspector declaring a gas line satisfactory. Now there are no gas lines. Now this tenement is no longer rent-protected. Now she warms soup in a microwave, uses a phone to turn on the heat. #vss365
January 14, 2026 at 11:27 AM
What in ever loving fuck…. @schumer.senate.gov Care to wag a stern finger at these goons or can we fucking impeach Noem and stop this before more murders are committed at ICE’s hands?
January 10, 2026 at 7:51 PM
What in ever loving fuck…. @schumer.senate.gov Care to wag a stern finger at these goons or can we fucking impeach Noem and stop this before more murders are committed at ICE’s hands?
It’s all been so…just… yeah… 🙇♀️
So here’s my demon Wilson, aka the Slayer of Ankles, cozy and snug under the weighted blanket…
#caturday #voids #blackcats #🐈⬛
So here’s my demon Wilson, aka the Slayer of Ankles, cozy and snug under the weighted blanket…
#caturday #voids #blackcats #🐈⬛
January 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
It’s all been so…just… yeah… 🙇♀️
So here’s my demon Wilson, aka the Slayer of Ankles, cozy and snug under the weighted blanket…
#caturday #voids #blackcats #🐈⬛
So here’s my demon Wilson, aka the Slayer of Ankles, cozy and snug under the weighted blanket…
#caturday #voids #blackcats #🐈⬛
Renee Good filmed law enforcement officers in the conduct of their duties, a right protected by the Constitution.
Ashli Babbitt broke through a window to assault members of Congress sitting in session, so a President could defy the Constitution.
These are not the same things.
Ashli Babbitt broke through a window to assault members of Congress sitting in session, so a President could defy the Constitution.
These are not the same things.
January 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Needs Must
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Needs Must
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
My favorite part so far of watching Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers with my son for the first time is telling him the best parts to go on a bathroom break.
#arwentimeispeepeetime
#arwentimeispeepeetime
a woman in a white dress is standing in a forest with trees in the background .
Alt: gif of a woman in a white dress is standing in a forest with trees in the background aka Arwen from LOTR.
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
My favorite part so far of watching Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers with my son for the first time is telling him the best parts to go on a bathroom break.
#arwentimeispeepeetime
#arwentimeispeepeetime
Old Cow
The articulated skeleton of a polled miniature Hereford is the first thing to greet incoming students making their way to the laboratory. The cow’s preserved organs lie open to the #air at her feet, pertinent points of interest labeled for the newbies.
Lunch is burgers on Main. #vss365
The articulated skeleton of a polled miniature Hereford is the first thing to greet incoming students making their way to the laboratory. The cow’s preserved organs lie open to the #air at her feet, pertinent points of interest labeled for the newbies.
Lunch is burgers on Main. #vss365
December 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Hey let me grab my vintage 1942 cookbook and look up some holiday cookie reci—
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December 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Hey let me grab my vintage 1942 cookbook and look up some holiday cookie reci—
Uh…
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Tomorrow will mark 1 year since I woke from poor sleep, stunned with grief. I'd returned from the hospital a few hours before. I could hear my son downstairs, chatting happily. How was I to tell him his grandfather was dead?
For all those struggling with loss this holiday season, sending ❤️🩹.
For all those struggling with loss this holiday season, sending ❤️🩹.
December 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Tomorrow will mark 1 year since I woke from poor sleep, stunned with grief. I'd returned from the hospital a few hours before. I could hear my son downstairs, chatting happily. How was I to tell him his grandfather was dead?
For all those struggling with loss this holiday season, sending ❤️🩹.
For all those struggling with loss this holiday season, sending ❤️🩹.
Leave-Taking
Per the penciled notes he’d left on the kitchen wall, he turned to gas when the gun failed. Among the details of the #fight to end his life: a bum gun, a jug of church wine. Apologizing to his pastor, he wrote, “I’m in the next room now. Sorry, scout. Will I find you there?” #vss365
Per the penciled notes he’d left on the kitchen wall, he turned to gas when the gun failed. Among the details of the #fight to end his life: a bum gun, a jug of church wine. Apologizing to his pastor, he wrote, “I’m in the next room now. Sorry, scout. Will I find you there?” #vss365
December 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Silence
He said he had no #memory of the night’s events, refusing to name a culprit, denying even the fact of his injury. "I’m not shot," he’d declared from his hospital bed. “The wound is nothing.” Later, at the funeral in his parents’ home, guests noted the lack of corruption in the air. #vss365
He said he had no #memory of the night’s events, refusing to name a culprit, denying even the fact of his injury. "I’m not shot," he’d declared from his hospital bed. “The wound is nothing.” Later, at the funeral in his parents’ home, guests noted the lack of corruption in the air. #vss365
December 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I’m exhausted. The world is exhausting. I just want to lie down on the floor and not move until January.
But I just let a sweet corgi wearing a festive jingle bell collar. So all right with the world.
But I just let a sweet corgi wearing a festive jingle bell collar. So all right with the world.
December 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I’m exhausted. The world is exhausting. I just want to lie down on the floor and not move until January.
But I just let a sweet corgi wearing a festive jingle bell collar. So all right with the world.
But I just let a sweet corgi wearing a festive jingle bell collar. So all right with the world.
Now that’s some holiday spirit I can get behind this year…Santa’s eyes are especially bonkers (in a good way).
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Now that’s some holiday spirit I can get behind this year…Santa’s eyes are especially bonkers (in a good way).
the internet may be under threat of being smothered to death by AI slop but if you can still dig deep into newspaper archives I'm a happy gal. This ad in the 12/16/25 edition of the NYT had me going, "Yeah and how did that work out?"
December 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
the internet may be under threat of being smothered to death by AI slop but if you can still dig deep into newspaper archives I'm a happy gal. This ad in the 12/16/25 edition of the NYT had me going, "Yeah and how did that work out?"
Lodging
The old woman's cries from the window protesting imprisonment begat a visit from city services. She claimed no #memory and refused them leave to enter. Neighbors said she roamed the halls most nights, scratching doors on the way to the outdoor privy, where she kept a certain bottle. #vss365
The old woman's cries from the window protesting imprisonment begat a visit from city services. She claimed no #memory and refused them leave to enter. Neighbors said she roamed the halls most nights, scratching doors on the way to the outdoor privy, where she kept a certain bottle. #vss365
December 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This got me right in the guts. His smile.
Rob Reiner wearing a hat knitted by his daughter, Romy.
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This got me right in the guts. His smile.
Makes me think of the recent @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social episode where he talked about getting distracted by puffins while filming.
Listen to the auties, people. I demand Christmas puffins.
December 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Makes me think of the recent @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social episode where he talked about getting distracted by puffins while filming.
The entire freakin’ year…💔
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The entire freakin’ year…💔
Unable to do #HorrorWritersChat today due to work-life balance issues. But enjoy, y'all, and I'll try to check in later...
December 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Unable to do #HorrorWritersChat today due to work-life balance issues. But enjoy, y'all, and I'll try to check in later...