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
Insides, Out
Dissection day in #science class: the cloying stink of formaldehyde and the squelch of scalpel biting into vitreous humor. Some students are conscientious about slicing and pinning the required parts; others find the hard bean of the lens and reserve it for future use. #vss365
Dissection day in #science class: the cloying stink of formaldehyde and the squelch of scalpel biting into vitreous humor. Some students are conscientious about slicing and pinning the required parts; others find the hard bean of the lens and reserve it for future use. #vss365
![A detail from of an illustration showing a human skeleton leaning contemplatively at a table, its hand resting on the skull of another human. [Image by Thomas Geminus c. 1545, courtesy of NYPL public domain collection.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kwn5hweta73gzq4sdv6eitj/bafkreifgvc7o53muh75psbjsnbnrvrxznsv4h7rqyn6ef7n7rvld4khlb4@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Lookee at the little delight I got in the mail yestereve from @helleborezine.bsky.social
The cover is even more gorgeous in person.
#bookmail #📖📫
The cover is even more gorgeous in person.
#bookmail #📖📫
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Lookee at the little delight I got in the mail yestereve from @helleborezine.bsky.social
The cover is even more gorgeous in person.
#bookmail #📖📫
The cover is even more gorgeous in person.
#bookmail #📖📫
Language Arts
The teacher, new and unafraid, took great joy in teaching the #myths, reveling in epithet and aegis, pantheon and hubris. In her final class, she talked of Aphrodite’s birth on the half shell. She asked them to think of oysters, their shape, and the feel in their young mouths. #vss365
The teacher, new and unafraid, took great joy in teaching the #myths, reveling in epithet and aegis, pantheon and hubris. In her final class, she talked of Aphrodite’s birth on the half shell. She asked them to think of oysters, their shape, and the feel in their young mouths. #vss365
![An illustration with the word "Menu" in elegant lettering above and oyster on the half shell with fork. [Image c. 1900, from NYPL public domain collection.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kwn5hweta73gzq4sdv6eitj/bafkreigmxe4uj4uvxrih46fevrmzzd4vezhha7jd2gm5dk5oro2ynkxqyu@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Wisdom to Distinguish
A small #measure of whiskey before bed turns to two, then three. The bottle is nearing empty, although it had not started full. Your therapist talks of active avoidance and passive. Tell me which it is, then, when you pour the last glass and forget to set your alarm. #vss365
A small #measure of whiskey before bed turns to two, then three. The bottle is nearing empty, although it had not started full. Your therapist talks of active avoidance and passive. Tell me which it is, then, when you pour the last glass and forget to set your alarm. #vss365
![Illustrations from a book on watch making from mid 1800s. [Image courtesy of NYPL public domain archive. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bb8aae70-c603-012f-0634-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kwn5hweta73gzq4sdv6eitj/bafkreidyywsureviytuju7qzserhgs6z5adez2rkndr7dfzvwpdcqkmizu@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Famine
The learning #language model was hungry. It’d eaten all the #literature, poetry, memoir, #law books, research papers. So they fed it 90s-era ’zines, mimeographed co-op newsletters from 1975. Bazooka Joe comics, jokes from Cracker Jack boxes, before they stopped giving away real toys. #vss365
The learning #language model was hungry. It’d eaten all the #literature, poetry, memoir, #law books, research papers. So they fed it 90s-era ’zines, mimeographed co-op newsletters from 1975. Bazooka Joe comics, jokes from Cracker Jack boxes, before they stopped giving away real toys. #vss365
![A blurry screenshot of a snippet of typewritten text from a 1970s newsletter for the Park Slope Food Co-op detailing updates about packaging. [Courtesy Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn collection.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kwn5hweta73gzq4sdv6eitj/bafkreigym452eujunlg5lvgvefkt4xmwruvksjpgioc6c6ekp5qcwg4x5u@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Famine
The learning #language model was hungry. It’d eaten all the #literature, poetry, memoir, #law books, research papers. So they fed it 90s-era ’zines, mimeographed co-op newsletters from 1975. Bazooka Joe comics, jokes from Cracker Jack boxes, before they stopped giving away real toys. #vss365
The learning #language model was hungry. It’d eaten all the #literature, poetry, memoir, #law books, research papers. So they fed it 90s-era ’zines, mimeographed co-op newsletters from 1975. Bazooka Joe comics, jokes from Cracker Jack boxes, before they stopped giving away real toys. #vss365
Clearing Out
You find the objects used for your childhood spankings in a forgotten pile on the third floor; the internet names them laundry paddles. Then #history unravels for you from there. A hundred years ago, this house a laundry, a baby drowned in the hot lye of her mother’s labors. #vss365
You find the objects used for your childhood spankings in a forgotten pile on the third floor; the internet names them laundry paddles. Then #history unravels for you from there. A hundred years ago, this house a laundry, a baby drowned in the hot lye of her mother’s labors. #vss365
![A blue-tinged photo from early 1900s of crisscrossed lines of laundry hanging from the back of NY tenement buildings. [photo courtesy BPL public domain archives.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kwn5hweta73gzq4sdv6eitj/bafkreidspaebr35663xah6vnl5alwrjuod5tsr6opxfvtwhg6vuocc4iam@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🧙♀️Happy Halloween, Allhallowtide, Samhain, etc., to all who celebrate, my creeps!
![A an early 20th century postcard featuring an illustration of giant smiling carved pumpkins and red devils swirling around them. [From the collections of www.tuckdbpostcards.org.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kwn5hweta73gzq4sdv6eitj/bafkreihal6tsivm3ge524cit2fyzodnq65pa4vwrghrokpj3etx7ifow3m@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🧙♀️Happy Halloween, Allhallowtide, Samhain, etc., to all who celebrate, my creeps!
Earlier today: my large void napping in her small bed
October 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Earlier today: my large void napping in her small bed
Today’s NYT front page: Above the fold, using an old pre-demo photo with the caption: “Critics are outraged over its demolition, but *some* welcome a change.”
I assume in this instance, “some” means “oligarchs buying access and shitting on democracy,” right @nytimes.com?
I assume in this instance, “some” means “oligarchs buying access and shitting on democracy,” right @nytimes.com?
October 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Today’s NYT front page: Above the fold, using an old pre-demo photo with the caption: “Critics are outraged over its demolition, but *some* welcome a change.”
I assume in this instance, “some” means “oligarchs buying access and shitting on democracy,” right @nytimes.com?
I assume in this instance, “some” means “oligarchs buying access and shitting on democracy,” right @nytimes.com?
Oh wait so this is where the ICE babies are getting their gear
October 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Oh wait so this is where the ICE babies are getting their gear
🪦📸🔟
Creeps! It continues to be delightfully chilly with bright sun here in my corner of the world. Enjoy this red-tailed hawk taking off between the grave stones in search of snacks for today October 10.
#cemetery #gravetober #birdsofpreyknowtheyrecool
Creeps! It continues to be delightfully chilly with bright sun here in my corner of the world. Enjoy this red-tailed hawk taking off between the grave stones in search of snacks for today October 10.
#cemetery #gravetober #birdsofpreyknowtheyrecool
October 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🪦📸🔟
Creeps! It continues to be delightfully chilly with bright sun here in my corner of the world. Enjoy this red-tailed hawk taking off between the grave stones in search of snacks for today October 10.
#cemetery #gravetober #birdsofpreyknowtheyrecool
Creeps! It continues to be delightfully chilly with bright sun here in my corner of the world. Enjoy this red-tailed hawk taking off between the grave stones in search of snacks for today October 10.
#cemetery #gravetober #birdsofpreyknowtheyrecool
🪦📸9️⃣
My creeps! Yesterday was one of those DAYS, so belatedly the gravestone pic for 10/9, which was a blustery day here in Brooklyn. #cemetery #october #gravetober
My creeps! Yesterday was one of those DAYS, so belatedly the gravestone pic for 10/9, which was a blustery day here in Brooklyn. #cemetery #october #gravetober
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🪦📸9️⃣
My creeps! Yesterday was one of those DAYS, so belatedly the gravestone pic for 10/9, which was a blustery day here in Brooklyn. #cemetery #october #gravetober
My creeps! Yesterday was one of those DAYS, so belatedly the gravestone pic for 10/9, which was a blustery day here in Brooklyn. #cemetery #october #gravetober
🪦📸8️⃣
Creeps! Today, for October 8, I give you a taste of fall as the temperature begins to dip here in Brooklyn, NY (finally)…
Something about two grave markers leaning into each other as the earth settles beneath them just gets me right in the feels…
#cemetery #greenwood #october
Creeps! Today, for October 8, I give you a taste of fall as the temperature begins to dip here in Brooklyn, NY (finally)…
Something about two grave markers leaning into each other as the earth settles beneath them just gets me right in the feels…
#cemetery #greenwood #october
October 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
🪦📸8️⃣
Creeps! Today, for October 8, I give you a taste of fall as the temperature begins to dip here in Brooklyn, NY (finally)…
Something about two grave markers leaning into each other as the earth settles beneath them just gets me right in the feels…
#cemetery #greenwood #october
Creeps! Today, for October 8, I give you a taste of fall as the temperature begins to dip here in Brooklyn, NY (finally)…
Something about two grave markers leaning into each other as the earth settles beneath them just gets me right in the feels…
#cemetery #greenwood #october
🪦📸7️⃣ For October the 7th, I give you this kestrel basking in the sun of Brooklyn’s ongoing 2nd (3rd?) summer. It’ll be cold and leaders soon enough, my creeps. I hope? #october #greenwood #cemetery
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🪦📸7️⃣ For October the 7th, I give you this kestrel basking in the sun of Brooklyn’s ongoing 2nd (3rd?) summer. It’ll be cold and leaders soon enough, my creeps. I hope? #october #greenwood #cemetery
🪦 Hello my creeps! Here is today’s cemetery pic for October 4. Beautiful blue skies for a gentle walk among the graves… #halloween #cemetery
October 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🪦 Hello my creeps! Here is today’s cemetery pic for October 4. Beautiful blue skies for a gentle walk among the graves… #halloween #cemetery
🪦Morning, creeps! To distract from the ongoing and increasingly dismal state of things here is today’s graveyard pic for October 3.
Who wants to totter down this leafy path through the tombstones with me?
#dontfearthereaper #october
Who wants to totter down this leafy path through the tombstones with me?
#dontfearthereaper #october
October 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🪦Morning, creeps! To distract from the ongoing and increasingly dismal state of things here is today’s graveyard pic for October 3.
Who wants to totter down this leafy path through the tombstones with me?
#dontfearthereaper #october
Who wants to totter down this leafy path through the tombstones with me?
#dontfearthereaper #october
🪦 ⚰️ Happy October, my fellow creeps! In honor of the spooky month I will post a photo each day from my happy place, my local cemetery Green-Wood. The first, taken last week, with GW still in the throes of Brooklyn’s second summer. #october
October 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🪦 ⚰️ Happy October, my fellow creeps! In honor of the spooky month I will post a photo each day from my happy place, my local cemetery Green-Wood. The first, taken last week, with GW still in the throes of Brooklyn’s second summer. #october
@nymag.com
Okay but who’s the brains?…Anyone?…Bueller?
Okay but who’s the brains?…Anyone?…Bueller?
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
@nymag.com
Okay but who’s the brains?…Anyone?…Bueller?
Okay but who’s the brains?…Anyone?…Bueller?
