Joshua Siegal
joshuasiegal.bsky.social
Joshua Siegal
@joshuasiegal.bsky.social
Chicago
Writer, Musician, Creative Technologist
🖊️ in Michigan Quarterly Review, PodCastle, Skeptic Magazine, Peatsmoke Journal, etc
🎶 at http://redspotrhythmsection.com
Also: game dev, software dev, making things in general

http://joshuasiegal.org
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Today's right-wing men have never read a book, but think they're smarter than everybody else because they cosplay as the "clever gremlin" from Gremlins 2.
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Some of my best friends are essays.
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
October 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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this is exactly what's happening
The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
You guys, is this a problem?
October 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
SFFH folks, what's your favorite speculative zine / journal that publishes interactive stories?
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
October 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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This is truly grotesque. Teachers should not be using this stuff. If a school was pushing it on teachers who work with kids I care about, I'd make a big effing stink until they stopped. We have to not give into this.
October 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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You gotta give ‘em hop.
October 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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The mask has slipped!
10/7/25😳miller: “has plenary authority” then immediately stops
October 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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War-ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.
September 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"
Be Loud — For America
By Governor JB Pritzker
contrarian.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
My kid reuben on character vs plot: "nobody cosplays as the plot of a story."

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September 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The little-known last two words of the Gettysburg Address
September 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
oh man I heard archduke ferdinand got shot
September 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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These guys are simply not smart.
September 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history

BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
September 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I know it's been done to death, but I'm sorry this is just peak "can you imagine if Obama had..."
White House sheds light on video of person throwing things out of a window
Social media sleuths have launched their investigation after a dark figure was seen throwing black bags out of the White House's third floor
www.irishstar.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Collective Bargaining is the third state of Collective Grief.

Happy Labor Day!

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September 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"Trump is Dead" is the new "Elvis Lives"
August 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM