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Joshua J. Friedman
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Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Oct 26
Welcome, new Bluesky users! Please check out the thread below for tips on setting up your account, making your feed more interesting, finding old Twitter friends, search, privacy, stats, and more (and please ask questions if you have them)
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Oct 17
🦋 WELCOME TO BLUESKY! I recommend exploring our custom feeds, which are a little like hashtags but more interesting. We have them for academic and professional subjects, sports, cities, hobbies (e.g., gardening, baking), and many more. Search them in the sidebar under Feeds. 🧵
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A source said the schools chancellor selection process has left some on the Mamdani transition disillusioned after lots of behind-the-scenes jockeying for the various different candidates. "That could have been done better," source said. w/ @caylabam.bsky.social
www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/30/m...
Mamdani to pick Manhattan superintendent Kamar Samuels as public school chancellor
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is expected to elevate Kamar Samuels, a local uptown Manhattan superintendent, to chancellor of the New York City public schools on Wednesday, sources confirmed to the Da…
www.nydailynews.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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A visual paean to the end of NYC's iconic #Metrocard, in honor of @rachelholliday.bsky.social and with all due apologies to Vincent van Gogh
Altered image of a Van Gogh painting of an old man in a chair with his head held in his hands in a gesture of sadness, with NYC Metrocards added on the ground below him
December 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Man and Dog, Lower East Side — Jamel Shabazz, 1980
Color photograph of a black man in blue jeans and a red jacket standing in the middle of a wet Street spinning in a circle while he holds onto but I think might be a big steak in mid-air attached to the other end of the steak is a muscular brown dog. This looks like play to me although I will know that the man has a concentrated look on his face as they asking himself how do I finish this up without launching this dog through somebody's shop window I don't know what street this is on but the cross street just up ahead is Rivington
December 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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do you really want to miss out on gems like this last supper bed frame?
Queen Size Last Supperbed frame. Price reduced, need it gone. $50 $600
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Hello. I've never done a *sale* for my newsletter to the general public because I am bad at business. Anyway, I'm now offering 25% off an annual subscription to The Long Game so you can see what our community of kind-hearted baseball sickos is all about: <3 mollyknight.substack.com/p/flash-sale...
Flash Sale: Only $37.50 for an annual sub!
Never done an offer like this to the general public before.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Great Blue Heron, out for a spin in the midday sun ✈️🌞🌿

Thibodaux, Louisiana, December 2025
#birds #birdsinflight #birdphotography
A Great Blue Heron in flight over a field and some tangles of low branches. This is a large gray-blue shorebird with a long pointy beak. Wings are extended out and up, long legs extended back. The backdrop is trees and bright green foliage under a bright hazy sky, out of focus. Closer zoom in of the Great Blue Heron in flight -the wing closest to the camera is extended down. The backdrop is trees and bright green foliage in hazy mid-day sun, out of focus.
December 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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This poem in the Paris Review really spoke to me on this very "winter is forever" kind of day
Katie Peterson Elegy as the Four Seasons Summer is never Fall is again Winter is forever Spring is when
December 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Happy Bluesky story: Paul Giambarba wrote and illustrated beautiful books about Cape Cod's natural and maritime history that have lived in my head since I was young. I just got a reply from @andygiam.bsky.social—Paul's son—who offered to send me these long-lost treasures. Thanks, Andy!
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Dec 31
I think we had a few of his books from the era of these cover designs, which I really like
Cover of Going Whaling with Cap'n Goody, by Paul Giambarba Cover of Early Explorers of America, by Paul Giambarba
December 30, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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I remain in awe of the collection of Lego dogs on display at the front desk at Ryan Veterinary. The texture on the poodle 🐩 = 🤌
A collection of Lego dogs including a Bassett hound, corgi, pug and poodle A collection of Lego dogs including a Bassett hound, corgi, pug and poodle A collection of Lego dogs including a Bassett hound, corgi, pug and poodle
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Chester Station on a December night along the Old Valley Road.
December 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Food52 has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections. America's Test Kitchen announced as the proposed stalking horse bidder for its assets. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
America's Test Kitchen Under Contract for Food52, Inc. Assets
/PRNewswire/ -- America's Test Kitchen (ATK), the leading, multi-platform, culinary media brand, today entered into an agreement for the acquisition of certain...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Palate cleanser
December 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Brazilian New Year's tradition! Lentils rather than black-eyed peas
gabibianco.bsky.social Gabi Bianco @gabibianco.bsky.social · 14h
The brown ones! It can be prepared as a stew (cooked in water, seasoned with salt, pepper, tomatoes, garlic and sometimes bacon, some parsley as garnish) or as a salad, cooked, cooled and served with olive oil, onions, tomatoes and parsley or cilantro (if you like it) first pic is stew, 2nd a salad
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Hello from Magazine Street 🌸🎨

New Orleans, December 2025
At sunset, a sprig of bright coral-pink bougainvillea flowers in front of an out-of-focus background of a low wrought-iron fence, a bare tree, and two blue-gray two-storey wooden houses with front porches and tall columns on both levels. A rectangular sign with rounded corners on a telephone pole that is blue with gold stars and reads, in yellow lettering: This is the journey of surviving through art. A gas station and a bright green building are in the background, as well as the gray-purple dusk sky
December 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Jan Anton van der Baren. Still Life with Squashes, 1657 (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
A variety of squashes and gourds in a Flemish courtyard
May 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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koru recharging through the power of megaliths
koru rolling around joyously on his back next to some low rocks that are part of a stone circle on a hillside more writhing with abandon now wriggling on his back next to an information sign about the stone circle koru standing looking at the stones with the sun behind him
December 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Afternoon
December 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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So what's everyone's favorite black-eyed peas recipe?
A bag of Rancho Gordo Super Lucky 2026 Black-Eyed Peas.
December 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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From the get-go, budget watchdogs questioned City Hall's health savings deal with labor unions that relied largely on moving money around. A decade later, Comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social delivers an autopsy. The City of NY is owed billions of dollars. What will @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social do?
Explosive Audit Urges Dissolving Insolvent City Employee Health Fund
The review by Comptroller Brad Lander finds the joint city and municipal union fund owes billions to the city following contract deals that aimed to save money on health care.
www.thecity.nyc
December 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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“With this complaint, @thelap.bsky.social challenges both congressional intransigence and judicial branch inaction,” said LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman.

Our full statement about our complaint against Judge Sarah Merriam: www.legalaccountabilityproject.org/press-releas...
The Legal Accountability Project Files Judicial Misconduct Complaint Against Second Circuit Judge Sarah Merriam — The Legal Accountability Project
LAP took a significant step toward real judicial accountability this month by filing our first judicial misconduct complaint against Second Circuit Judge Sarah Merriam.
www.legalaccountabilityproject.org
December 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Still marveling at what Angela Simmons's filter did to Eric Adams this weekend (via @katiehonan.bsky.social)
A photo from an Instagram story of Eric Adams and Angela Simmons, looking heavily filtered.
December 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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So what's everyone's favorite black-eyed peas recipe?
A bag of Rancho Gordo Super Lucky 2026 Black-Eyed Peas.
December 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Friend in Westchester NY is trying to place a very friendly cat that hangs out in their yard. The cat is good with other cats. Please spread the word. They’ll have to go to aspca if it gets much colder (yes they built a temp shelter plz read the screenshot). #adoptdontshop #Westchester #PeekskillNY
A tuxedo cat looks thru a window. They have a very sweet face @angetranland #peekskillny do you recognize this cat? it befriended my cat @ohaibatai this summer, then when the big snow came it became evident it'd been living on our back porch. i tried to ignore it but when the temperature dropped to -17*F i got worried and (foolishly) made it a makeshift shelter (2nd pic.) soon the little shelter will not be warm enough over night i have 2 rescues already and can't accommodate more if you can, please send this post around or DM if you'd like to possibly adopt No-Name the Cat. it's a very affectionate creature, purrs like an engine and gets along with other cats. is it old to describe a cat as polite? because it IS a polite cat. if i can't find its existing home or a new one... i'll have to take the risk of brining it to the nearest @spcawestchester - because there is a high influx of strays this time of year this little baby could be killed if i bring them there (not out of cruelty but out of shelter capacity/ necessity.) No-Name is a GOOD CAT i don't want it to die.
December 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM