Josephine Stewart
@jostewart.bsky.social
Proofreader/editor for hire, chronic replier, lover of tea and brown liquor. I also do weird art shit. I like to dance. COVID is not over.
I am on a train, wearing an N95 mask. I am the only person in this car wearing a mask. There are no fewer than five people with really gnarly coughs. It would be so easy for them to protect the people around them, but here we are.
February 3, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I am on a train, wearing an N95 mask. I am the only person in this car wearing a mask. There are no fewer than five people with really gnarly coughs. It would be so easy for them to protect the people around them, but here we are.
Friends, if you are even a little bit into the folky end of the music world and even a little bit near anywhere they're going, I think you should go see Ye Vagabonds. Holy hell, what a set. yevagabonds.com/tour
Ye Vagabonds - Tour
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February 3, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Friends, if you are even a little bit into the folky end of the music world and even a little bit near anywhere they're going, I think you should go see Ye Vagabonds. Holy hell, what a set. yevagabonds.com/tour
Last repost: Unbreaking.org is a thing I do with my fighty brain cells. I never know if it matters enough, or how much, or to whom, but I have to think that keeping track of events in a durable, intelligible way is meaningful. 1/3
Immigration — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
January 31, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Last repost: Unbreaking.org is a thing I do with my fighty brain cells. I never know if it matters enough, or how much, or to whom, but I have to think that keeping track of events in a durable, intelligible way is meaningful. 1/3
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A thing about this project is that we intentionally work *behind* the news cycle, like gleaners. We wait until we can describe something clearly and then we add that brick to the wall. It’s an unnatural fit for social media, which is kind of the point.
From the killing of Alex Pretti to the detention of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos thousands of miles from home, Minnesota continues to suffer violence at the hands of federal agents. We’ve added more than 30 events to our timeline just this week:
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
Immigration — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
January 31, 2026 at 4:09 AM
A thing about this project is that we intentionally work *behind* the news cycle, like gleaners. We wait until we can describe something clearly and then we add that brick to the wall. It’s an unnatural fit for social media, which is kind of the point.
These are the rapid tests I buy. I am not a doctor or scientist, but the doctors and scientists I look to recommend them. Be a responsible resident of the COVID age: Keep supplies on hand and test carefully (interval testing at 48-hr gaps).
20% off FlowFlex COVlD tests at Pharmalynk.
It's the test I trust and the company I've ordered from consistently the past 2 years. Better validity and lower cost than other rapid antigen tests.
I do not receive any revenue from any product or company, just a good deal.
It's the test I trust and the company I've ordered from consistently the past 2 years. Better validity and lower cost than other rapid antigen tests.
I do not receive any revenue from any product or company, just a good deal.
January 31, 2026 at 10:48 PM
These are the rapid tests I buy. I am not a doctor or scientist, but the doctors and scientists I look to recommend them. Be a responsible resident of the COVID age: Keep supplies on hand and test carefully (interval testing at 48-hr gaps).
A book of many things I didn't hear about in school, relevant to current horrors. We say we fought the Nazis, and we did. We also grew a lot of Nazis at home, before the war, absorbed useful Nazis afterward, and committed a(nother) massive campaign of legalized racial persecution. Things rhyme.
January 31, 2026 at 9:34 PM
A book of many things I didn't hear about in school, relevant to current horrors. We say we fought the Nazis, and we did. We also grew a lot of Nazis at home, before the war, absorbed useful Nazis afterward, and committed a(nother) massive campaign of legalized racial persecution. Things rhyme.
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I don't need all the folks working in facial recognition tech who told me I as being ridiculous and overly paranoid when asking about how these tools will be used to track, identify and harm people to apologize. But I do need them to actually *do something* about their work being used this way.
January 30, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I don't need all the folks working in facial recognition tech who told me I as being ridiculous and overly paranoid when asking about how these tools will be used to track, identify and harm people to apologize. But I do need them to actually *do something* about their work being used this way.
This part. @bmorecitydot.bsky.social telling people to keep off the roads if at all possible, don't drive, seriously, don't—and then kind of doing a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about all the non-car infrastructure! Curb cuts, sidewalks, bus stops a mess (not to mention alleys don't get plowed *at all*)...
This has been driving me insane all week. Downtown is completely ass backwards right now with fragile human bodies (the ones outside of cars) incurring all the weather risks. Curb cuts are behind walls of snow, sidewalks are skating rinks, it’s bananas.
Our priorities are exactly the opposite of what they should be as a society. Snow should be cleared off of sidewalks and crosswalks onto car lanes on the vast majority of streets in a major city. Clear a few emergency routes for ambulances and major bus routes and otherwise people should be walking.
January 30, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This part. @bmorecitydot.bsky.social telling people to keep off the roads if at all possible, don't drive, seriously, don't—and then kind of doing a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about all the non-car infrastructure! Curb cuts, sidewalks, bus stops a mess (not to mention alleys don't get plowed *at all*)...
It is after midnight on a Thursday on a night so cold no reasonable person would have a window open, and there is *very loud* music happening. I can feel the bass. I am not usually a noise scold, but come on. Are you trying to subwoof the ice off your sidewalk? Desist.
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 AM
It is after midnight on a Thursday on a night so cold no reasonable person would have a window open, and there is *very loud* music happening. I can feel the bass. I am not usually a noise scold, but come on. Are you trying to subwoof the ice off your sidewalk? Desist.
Many of us are old enough to have been, to various degrees, politically aware during the creation of DHS. Many people said *at the time* that it was a fascist enterprise established for evil ends, and we were right and have only gotten righter with time. Ramirez is right and she should say it.
DHS is not a rogue agency. Founded without essential accountability and oversight policies, DHS was built to violate our rights and empowered to act with impunity. But true security cannot be realized through oppression, dehumanization, and criminalization.
January 29, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Many of us are old enough to have been, to various degrees, politically aware during the creation of DHS. Many people said *at the time* that it was a fascist enterprise established for evil ends, and we were right and have only gotten righter with time. Ramirez is right and she should say it.
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There is no "immigration problem"
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM
There is no "immigration problem"
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
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I'm sorry I can't stop thinking "all democrats know how to do is fund police, do means test and lie" on repeat now
Unfortunately Democrats only know how to give cops more money, technology, and staffing. They only have one button to press and they’re making a very concerned face as they press it
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 PM
I'm sorry I can't stop thinking "all democrats know how to do is fund police, do means test and lie" on repeat now
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Idk I kinda think we should bring beliefs like this back. Tell them we gotta fix global warming asap or the Leviathan will escape. We gotta sacrifice another billionaire to the ocean or the harvest will be bad and food will get more expensive
a not insignificant number of people on Threads seem to believe the snow storm was The Government's attempt to refreeze the Leviathan, the world-eating serpent, which was getting loose (to eat the world, I assume)
January 26, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Idk I kinda think we should bring beliefs like this back. Tell them we gotta fix global warming asap or the Leviathan will escape. We gotta sacrifice another billionaire to the ocean or the harvest will be bad and food will get more expensive
This is very, very cool. Hard to overstate how cool this is. I've been hearing about this unfinished film for years; the fact that William Greaves's widow and then in turn his children took up the project and brought it to fruition is amazing. They're looking for wide release and I hope they get it.
Just watched the world premiere of Once Upon a Time in Harlem. In 1972 William Greaves filmed Harlem Renaissance luminaries bearing witness, sparring, reciting poetry, jubilating. The film was finally complete 50 years later. It's a masterpiece and a gift. www.onceuponatimeinharlemfilm.com #sundance
January 26, 2026 at 6:40 PM
This is very, very cool. Hard to overstate how cool this is. I've been hearing about this unfinished film for years; the fact that William Greaves's widow and then in turn his children took up the project and brought it to fruition is amazing. They're looking for wide release and I hope they get it.
Baltimore, if you need to shovel and you haven't done it, go do your shovel-and-resalt *now*. Stuff was already decently heavy, and I have a feeling that the little spitty stuff that's coming down right now will make you sad if you stack a few hours of it on top of the overnight snow.
January 25, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Baltimore, if you need to shovel and you haven't done it, go do your shovel-and-resalt *now*. Stuff was already decently heavy, and I have a feeling that the little spitty stuff that's coming down right now will make you sad if you stack a few hours of it on top of the overnight snow.
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Very much related.
Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
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Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
bsky.app/profile/norm...
A thing that might not be clear from the outside is that while everyone here is engaged in this fight, ICE’s use of dystopian technology means that you essentially have to pick a lane between observing ICE and doing mutual aid. They are tracking observers’ cars, and taking pictures of their faces.
January 23, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Very much related.
Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
bsky.app/profile/norm...
Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
bsky.app/profile/norm...
I have occasionally gotten satisfying use out "lemon" (in the bad car/unrescuably flawed machinery sense). It does benefit from an adjuvant curse—"You fucking lemon" has real sauce, for some reason)—but it can stand on its own.
I'm trying to collect more epithets that aren't ablelist or profane. Haven't heard "dingdong" in a while - might put it into the rotation! Thanks, @anjalikdayal.bsky.social!
this preening little dingdong
January 24, 2026 at 3:40 PM
I have occasionally gotten satisfying use out "lemon" (in the bad car/unrescuably flawed machinery sense). It does benefit from an adjuvant curse—"You fucking lemon" has real sauce, for some reason)—but it can stand on its own.
Those of you who know me may also know that I generally Just Don't write as myself for any formal public consumption. I'm decent at it. I hate it. So when I tell you that if I ever de-blob myself and volunteer for the despised tortures of actual solo writing, it will probably be about this...
The memory-holing around COVID just dazzles me. Like, nine months after the trucks of dead bodies they were like "naaaaaaah"
January 21, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Those of you who know me may also know that I generally Just Don't write as myself for any formal public consumption. I'm decent at it. I hate it. So when I tell you that if I ever de-blob myself and volunteer for the despised tortures of actual solo writing, it will probably be about this...
And all of it can fuck off all the way into the sun. I will NOT be sorry. I am a hater.
Having just survived a tidal wave of gaslighting, the desperation to convince people to give up their capacity for creation and reasoning so they can become a slop generating third party thinker is palpable.
"You'll be sorry if you don't!" is all they have left.
"You'll be sorry if you don't!" is all they have left.
January 20, 2026 at 8:19 PM
And all of it can fuck off all the way into the sun. I will NOT be sorry. I am a hater.
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This part. We are social people. We just want to protect ourselves and others. We'd stop masking if we got things under control but until everyone steps up to help we won't.
I am very tired of claims that maskers or covid cautious people are all just antisocial weirdos who wanted an excuse to hide forever. Many of us had active, full social lives that we would still have - if you would agree to help make the environment safe. You won’t, so we’re trapped.
December 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This part. We are social people. We just want to protect ourselves and others. We'd stop masking if we got things under control but until everyone steps up to help we won't.
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
This entire thread is gold, and I encourage everybody to read it. (1/3)
Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
Read about Commonsense Guardrails for Using Advanced Technology in Schools aiinstruction.org/sites/defaul...
December 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This entire thread is gold, and I encourage everybody to read it. (1/3)
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
Happy solstice, everybody.
December 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Happy solstice, everybody.
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I’ve seen this dynamic with a few journalists. Some are fine w copy editing, researching, even art being automated, as long as their brilliant mind is allowed to be creative. It’s all of us or none of us, boo. You can’t just wait to fight this stuff until it comes for YOUR job.
the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
December 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I’ve seen this dynamic with a few journalists. Some are fine w copy editing, researching, even art being automated, as long as their brilliant mind is allowed to be creative. It’s all of us or none of us, boo. You can’t just wait to fight this stuff until it comes for YOUR job.