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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman
@josie.zone
NYT-bestselling, Hugo-finalist authoress of RINGMASTER and TRUE BELIEVER. Upcoming: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECK. Judeo-Tranarchist exile. She/her. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social.

Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net

https://neokayfabe.com/
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Hi! I’m 𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧. Welcome to my pinned post!

To learn about me:

josie.zone

To learn about my first book:

josie.zone/true-believer

To learn about my most recent book:

ringmasterthebook.com

To learn about my next book:

beckbook.com

Love ya!

-Josie
The first Columbo is so weird
Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
🎶I'm healing you

I'm feeling you

Your old life, it is gone

Because I made a road to you

And came that way alone

😭😭😭
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
UPDATE: I made contact with the guy who wrote this musical, and it turns out we DID know each other at school, but he changed his name and look after graduation, so that's why I didn't recognize him

We're interviewing him for @herecomestomorrow.net season two next year

STAY TUNED
For those in the USA just waking up: apparently an X-Men musical debuted at my high school in 2023 and you can listen to all of the (really good!!!) songs here:
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Heirs to John Prine's old throne of "America's greatest living non-rapper lyricist" (incomplete list):

-Will Oldham
-John Darnielle
-Iris DeMent
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🎶I won't be going back to Boise, Idaho

Steal my keys if I say I'm about to go

'Cause nothing's worth the hurt

I've put her through

If I could do it all again

I still wouldn't know what to do
Also the concert introduced me to this newer song of his, which is a BANGER
Boise, Idaho
YouTube video by Bonnie Prince Billy - Topic
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November 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Also the concert introduced me to this newer song of his, which is a BANGER
Boise, Idaho
YouTube video by Bonnie Prince Billy - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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For @sirosenbaum.bsky.social and me, this track is, for all intents and purposes, "our song":
Birch Ballad
YouTube video by Matt Sweeney - Topic
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November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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In the note, I told Will he'd been a big part of why I had the courage to be a trans woman

His songs are so often sung by female narrators, but his voice never changes

I relate
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Gave Will Oldham a copy of my dad's biography of Big Bill Broonzy last night

Well, technically I gave it to his electric guitarist / clarinetist, but he said he'd give it to Will and I wrote a note on the inside
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"Stuffing" = WASP matzo ball
thanksgiving is honestly white people's chance to shine in the culinary arts
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
SUMERIAN.
Now we going to actually going to go before a federal judge and say that some moldy old Babylonian god is going to drop in on Central Park West and start tearing up the city?
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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When you're having dreams
Of Orgonon
Who you gonna call?
Cloudbusters
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
So that's it, huh
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.

Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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{shivering in the wilderness of what is now north carolina}

Did the Womenfolke Ruin Our Goode and Plentifull Settlement of Roanoke?

{a lone wolf howls in the distance}
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Starting to think dems aren’t Charlie Brown, they’re the football.
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
good lord this is pathetic, even for yehuda
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Literally me at the Bonnie "Prince" Billy concert in Lisbon tonight
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
About to (1) see Bonnie "Prince" Billy live for the first time in 20yrs, then (2) get my beard lasered off 12hrs later

The irony will not be lost on true BPB-heads
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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These people are going to send their life savings to a Macedonian server farm the second they don't have aides reading all their emails
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Read it and weep, hard!
Okay, now I somehow hate Nate Silver even more than I did before

Dear God, these quotes
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
When the technically gay Nate Silver said he was "ethnically straight" (real quote!) what he meant was "I have no idea how to be funny and am utterly unengaged in trends or culture"
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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"SEMOFAR"
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Anyway this all sucks
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM