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Jess Rafalko
@jessrafalko.bsky.social
PhD student working on American literature and form at Penn State. Fiction writer working on nothing of note. Just living on nerves and feelings.
I’m not really a “Let’s dunk on bad NYT headlines” person, but “his position has gyrated” is both a viscerally disgusting phrase and far less precise or descriptive than the existing, commonplace term for when a politician cravenly changes their stance on something, which is “flip-flopped.”
June 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I Googled “dogecoin” as a joke and this headline is so insane just on a syntactic level that I need to go lie down.
May 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Mildly obsessed with the first edition cover of Franzen’s second novel, which makes it look like some lurid murder book by Dean Koontz or something.
April 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
There are like fifteen separate insane things happening in this paragraph and I am obsessed with it.
February 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Spending Thanksgiving eve once more thinking about this JCO tweet.
November 28, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Googled “How long should an English literature dissertation be?” because my department doesn’t have very clear guidelines (also b/c I am dumb) and this bit from Columbia’s website is calling me out directly, reading me for filth, etc.
November 21, 2024 at 4:48 PM
The boy yearns
November 17, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Some days you feel like a shiny new penny and other days you feel like a
November 9, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Entering my Joan Didion era (wearing sunglasses and spending recklessly)
September 18, 2023 at 4:45 PM