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.
JUST HELP PEOPLE, YOU LOSERS*
*Not you, kind internet individual who probably donates to food banks—the feckless, cruel, means-testing government dipshits who prefer to spend our tax dollars on pretty much anything else.
*Not you, kind internet individual who probably donates to food banks—the feckless, cruel, means-testing government dipshits who prefer to spend our tax dollars on pretty much anything else.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
JUST HELP PEOPLE, YOU LOSERS*
*Not you, kind internet individual who probably donates to food banks—the feckless, cruel, means-testing government dipshits who prefer to spend our tax dollars on pretty much anything else.
*Not you, kind internet individual who probably donates to food banks—the feckless, cruel, means-testing government dipshits who prefer to spend our tax dollars on pretty much anything else.
This applies to so many things.
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This applies to so many things.
This post contains rough publishing-world news, but also, can I just say? This is great, honest comms, worth a read. I like the Deadlands—and, full disclosure, I have done work for them. They are good folks, straight shooters, and I'm glad they're sticking around even though they need more support.
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This post contains rough publishing-world news, but also, can I just say? This is great, honest comms, worth a read. I like the Deadlands—and, full disclosure, I have done work for them. They are good folks, straight shooters, and I'm glad they're sticking around even though they need more support.
Most of my friends are not extremely online and will never see this, so I am safe. Also I would never hurt them, so they are safe.
If you think your friend group doesn’t have one, please consider YOU may be the entity.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Most of my friends are not extremely online and will never see this, so I am safe. Also I would never hurt them, so they are safe.
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Drawing some more weird creatures. We need to adorn buildings with these again.
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Drawing some more weird creatures. We need to adorn buildings with these again.
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
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I agree that the trauma of the initial year certainly plays a role, but I think the much bigger factor to point at is the ongoing forced infection and the well documented multi-systemic damage (including brain damage) that repeated infections is doing.
The story is repeated infections.
The story is repeated infections.
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I agree that the trauma of the initial year certainly plays a role, but I think the much bigger factor to point at is the ongoing forced infection and the well documented multi-systemic damage (including brain damage) that repeated infections is doing.
The story is repeated infections.
The story is repeated infections.
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I don't want another tote bag. Sell me custom n95 masks as part of your non-profit fundraising drive.
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I don't want another tote bag. Sell me custom n95 masks as part of your non-profit fundraising drive.
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Workers should be able to move as freely and easily as owners do.
Anything short of open borders is bigotry. I mostly keep this one quiet because it's so far from political reality that it's not worth talking about, but there's really no morally justifiable reason that I should be able to move to Utah, but a Guatemalan guy should not.
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Workers should be able to move as freely and easily as owners do.
There's a beautiful and very funny passage in Chip Kidd's The Cheese Monkeys about experiencing this kind of eyeball-realigning integration of design learning; I used to show it to people all the time. I was raised by a calligrapher/artist, and I will never be able to shed the dark knowledge.
I love that Menswear Guy has learned about kerning and he's never gonna shut up about it now because YOU CAN'T UNSEE IT
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
There's a beautiful and very funny passage in Chip Kidd's The Cheese Monkeys about experiencing this kind of eyeball-realigning integration of design learning; I used to show it to people all the time. I was raised by a calligrapher/artist, and I will never be able to shed the dark knowledge.
I continue to pay for and read @defector.com even though I am totally not a sports person because they keep making space for genuinely lovely and intelligent writing on all kinds of subjects (...and for David J. Roth occasionally eviscerating a politician with brutal glee). This is the former.
Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read
What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector
Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least to...
defector.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I continue to pay for and read @defector.com even though I am totally not a sports person because they keep making space for genuinely lovely and intelligent writing on all kinds of subjects (...and for David J. Roth occasionally eviscerating a politician with brutal glee). This is the former.
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I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
Dear Baltimore,
If possible, please stop catching on fire. Things are tough enough for everyone right now. Also—now speaking from pure selfishness—I only moved here a few years ago. I'd love to get to know you better, and parts of you keep going up in smoke.
Stay strong,
Jo
If possible, please stop catching on fire. Things are tough enough for everyone right now. Also—now speaking from pure selfishness—I only moved here a few years ago. I'd love to get to know you better, and parts of you keep going up in smoke.
Stay strong,
Jo
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Dear Baltimore,
If possible, please stop catching on fire. Things are tough enough for everyone right now. Also—now speaking from pure selfishness—I only moved here a few years ago. I'd love to get to know you better, and parts of you keep going up in smoke.
Stay strong,
Jo
If possible, please stop catching on fire. Things are tough enough for everyone right now. Also—now speaking from pure selfishness—I only moved here a few years ago. I'd love to get to know you better, and parts of you keep going up in smoke.
Stay strong,
Jo
And tell them to remove Schumer and Durbin from their posts as minority leader and whip. We know they won't do it, but they fuckin' need to hear just how done everyone is with the party leadership.
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
And tell them to remove Schumer and Durbin from their posts as minority leader and whip. We know they won't do it, but they fuckin' need to hear just how done everyone is with the party leadership.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Public Works Administration but it's all forensic accountants, security engineers and attorneys.
October 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Public Works Administration but it's all forensic accountants, security engineers and attorneys.
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
Question for @moderation.bsky.app: Why's this getting labeled as "Rude"? Do all posts that cuss about Mamdani's mayoral victory or Cheney's death get this label? Not from what I've seen! Is there...some other reason? I have a guess, and I'd love to be wrong!
“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Question for @moderation.bsky.app: Why's this getting labeled as "Rude"? Do all posts that cuss about Mamdani's mayoral victory or Cheney's death get this label? Not from what I've seen! Is there...some other reason? I have a guess, and I'd love to be wrong!
Yes. Many ingredients, but this was huge—and immensely dispiriting because everyone with a shred of real political insight has spent about twenty years BEGGING the Dems to fight, to meaningfully distinguish themselves as more than Republican Lite, to give people something to vote *for*. So! Onward.
going back to ringing the bell that Trump's win in 2024 wasn't because of a huge cultural shift to the right, especially among young voter blocks that went for him, as much as it was a general frustration with Biden, with centrism, and with the lack of a clearly articulated positive vision from dems
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Yes. Many ingredients, but this was huge—and immensely dispiriting because everyone with a shred of real political insight has spent about twenty years BEGGING the Dems to fight, to meaningfully distinguish themselves as more than Republican Lite, to give people something to vote *for*. So! Onward.
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Swing voters stay home when they’re offered a choice of Status Quo and Status Quo but Meaner.
Swing voters turn out when they’re offered a choice of progressive, forward, momentum.
Swing voters turn out when they’re offered a choice of progressive, forward, momentum.
There was a striking consistency to the elections across states that really fits just one possible explanation: people are mad at President Donald Trump and voting for the opposition party.
One part of the story is that the Democratic base turned out. But another part is that swing voters swung.
One part of the story is that the Democratic base turned out. But another part is that swing voters swung.
Why Democrats won the 2025 elections
Democrats romped in both high-profile and low-profile elections Tuesday, in what clearly seemed like a national trend.
www.vox.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Swing voters stay home when they’re offered a choice of Status Quo and Status Quo but Meaner.
Swing voters turn out when they’re offered a choice of progressive, forward, momentum.
Swing voters turn out when they’re offered a choice of progressive, forward, momentum.
I would like to wish everyone with lots of judgmental things to say about how poor people eat a very Shut the Fuck Up.
"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I would like to wish everyone with lots of judgmental things to say about how poor people eat a very Shut the Fuck Up.
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Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?
$2733.15 a month.
$2733.15 a month.
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?
$2733.15 a month.
$2733.15 a month.
TALL, I SAID
It is very beautiful! Its sails rise three hundred feet above the water and FOLD DOWN to go under bridges!
Call me a yokel, I don't care, I find this so impressive. *chinhands*
It is very beautiful! Its sails rise three hundred feet above the water and FOLD DOWN to go under bridges!
Call me a yokel, I don't care, I find this so impressive. *chinhands*
⚓😎 Cool Ship of the Day: Neoliner Orgin (IMO: 1021829)
Commercial sailing Ro-Ro ship photographed by a member of the Baltimore & Chesapeake Bay Ship Watchers Facebook Group.
This ship transforms!
@mercoglianos.bsky.social
Source (Theresa Abel): www.facebook.com/groups/balti...
Commercial sailing Ro-Ro ship photographed by a member of the Baltimore & Chesapeake Bay Ship Watchers Facebook Group.
This ship transforms!
@mercoglianos.bsky.social
Source (Theresa Abel): www.facebook.com/groups/balti...
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
TALL, I SAID
It is very beautiful! Its sails rise three hundred feet above the water and FOLD DOWN to go under bridges!
Call me a yokel, I don't care, I find this so impressive. *chinhands*
It is very beautiful! Its sails rise three hundred feet above the water and FOLD DOWN to go under bridges!
Call me a yokel, I don't care, I find this so impressive. *chinhands*
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There's a ton of information on this website for Baltimore City residents who have been impacted by the federal government shutdown. Food resources, housing resources, and more. www.baltimorecity.gov/shutdown
Support for Residents During the Federal Shutdown
Mayor Brandon M. Scott has announced a $4.68 million investment by the City of Baltimore to support residents and federal workers impacted by the ongoing government shutdown.
www.baltimorecity.gov
October 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
There's a ton of information on this website for Baltimore City residents who have been impacted by the federal government shutdown. Food resources, housing resources, and more. www.baltimorecity.gov/shutdown