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Jodhiay
@jodhiay.bsky.social
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Procrastinating writer, senior editor at @weirdnj.bsky.social. Haunted by typos. Opinions are my own. She/her.

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"Dear Diary, my teen-angst bullshit now has a body count."
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Jumbo jet.
The time is 7:47 as seen on my phone. The white numbers appear over an image of a red chili pepper.
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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shakespeare.lol
this, who like a block hath denied my access to thee.
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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scalzi.com
Remember our mantra:

Don't Engage, Just Block.
October 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Hopatcong.
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Oct 8
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
jodhiay.bsky.social
Replacing my dishwasher, which hasn't worked for the last six weeks or so and before that sporadically, with a new one tomorrow.

Guess what started right up a little while ago?
a close up of a dishwasher filled with dirty dishes and water .
Alt: Interior of a working dishwasher.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
jodhiay.bsky.social
Bonespurs really needs to get Vietnam out of his mouth.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 5
Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
October 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
jodhiay.bsky.social
So I removed a post about a certain retail store (think kids jewelry) that filed for bankruptcy because a photo of a sign posted in front of one of their locations may or may not be genuine.

But this is true: I was shocked when I went to my local mall recently and saw one of these stores there.
October 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Last week I donated around 30 Clive Cussler books to a charity to make space for my massive TBR pile and now this is popping up on my Kindle.

I can’t get away!
Kindle screen showing Clive Cussler´s and Jack Du Brul’s latest book, The Iron Storm. Clive’s ghost is haunting me.
October 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Wine Moms and Soccer Dads, this is our time
gwensnyder.bsky.social Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · Sep 27
Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...

Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

We all need to be Spartacus on this one.
September 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Why am I only hearing about Kaleb Horton today? JFC what an amazing writer (and photographer).

Sending love out to his family and friends.

And a general eff you to the universe because this is someone who should be here still. Really.
nedraggett.bsky.social Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · Sep 27
And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.
Facebook post from Kaleb Horton, September 18, 2017: Toys R Us is probably going out of business this year. I'm fascinated by the collapse of retail, because what it really signifies is the collapse of the 20th century. The reason I pushed to profile guys like Harry Dean Stanton, Merle Haggard and Chuck Berry, was that writing about them is a way of writing about the 20th century, and how different it was from where we are now. How shockingly different, in retrospect. The migration out of the south, the descent of the Dust Bowl, which was a Biblical plague; the millions of people who were killed during World War Two. Monoculture, and the idea that a great episode of a television show would be seen by *half of all people.* The arrival of flight, and the end of horses. Homes without electricity. Coming of age without computers, without television. Listening to the radio for entertainment. The 20th century was a long time ago and it's a ghost now. It's a ghost you see in the places you wouldn't expect. It's seen in towns that were bypassed by the freeways, the dusty little towns out west that still have old diners and motels and payphones. It's seen in the places that we left, places where mines shut down, places where tourist attractions died off. It's seen in Bakersfield with Buck Owens' Crystal Palace and it's seen in Roswell, which stubbornly maintains the relics of the '90s UFO boom. Things like that won't be around forever. Someday owners will die and towns will burn and they won't be rebuilt. And it's difficult to suss out what those things are, because they're on roads, physical and metaphorical, that we no longer travel. The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end. But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s. I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are. I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.
September 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
jodhiay.bsky.social
So there's just one county in PA and the Delaware River until feral swine show up in my corner of NJ. 🐷
September 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I never dropped the book of faces because of work stuff but man are there some disappointing new fashy people popping up in my timeline there. Like, REALLY?
September 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Look, something fun and distracting with a fabulous author and human being because we need this right now.
gailcarriger.bsky.social Gail Carriger @gailcarriger.bsky.social · Sep 12
Tomorrow I'll be going live to answer the most common questions I get about being an author. Join me September 13th at 3pm pacific/6pm eastern.

YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/gailcar...
FB: www.facebook.com/events/40947...
September 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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For those of us whose strongest connection to this song is Pulp Fiction.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6q...
The original Misirlou - Μισιρλού (Τέτος Δημητριάδης -1927)
YouTube video by Xorisame
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September 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Hey ‪@authorizedmusings.bsky.social‬ this is right up your alley!
jrmorber.bsky.social Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · Aug 31
Y'all, I'm considering adopting a rescue Doberman. I have never had a Doberman. I have had shepherd mixes, lab and lab mixes, and an AmStaff mix. What are some things I need to know about Dobies? What types of things should I know/ask at the virtual meetup next week?
August 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Saw this on my walk earlier and dammit it’s not what I hoped it was for.
Flag at half mast in town park.
August 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Spot on, @duolingoverde.bsky.social.
Duolingo screenshot showing Lily saying “Je n’en peux plus” in French with the English translation, “I can’t take it anymore” below.
August 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Dealing with people in the Weird NJ world for as long as I have, this tracks.
August 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Does anyone else have a hard time with replacing inanimate things like cars? I'm not heartbroken but have the absolute feels about replacing my very old (2012) car, even though it makes sense, logicially.

Part of it is having to make car payments again, but it's also the end of an era.
July 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Wait for it...
dicknixon.bsky.social Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · Jul 19
The Phanatic is a real son of a bitch.
July 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Sharing this from @christinogle.bsky.social because it's so visually pleasing to me. Textures jumping out all over, fab color use/balance. And stories in it...
July 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Love the volunteer #hollyhocks in my yard.
A light yellow hollyhock flower faces the camera at a slight angle with another appearing behind it. There's a bug of some kind on one of the petals, and the early evening sunlight is lighting both flowers and foliage from the left.
July 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Looking for work!

I write about horror movies + music with a focus on reviews, essays, and other long-form pieces

🧵 of some of my work via author pages at places like Bloody Disgusting, Dread Central, and Flood magazine
July 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM