Joseph Osmundson
@reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social
scientist, writer, activist. VIROLOGY (Norton, 2022) "dazzling... love essays" -NYTimes Book Review, NBCC & Lambda Literary Finalist in Nonfiction
I won a journalism award with @xtramagazine.com and all I can think about are these fucking Teflon pans.
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(Thank you @tmziniuk.bsky.social for being the best gay editor there is!)
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(Thank you @tmziniuk.bsky.social for being the best gay editor there is!)
July 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I won a journalism award with @xtramagazine.com and all I can think about are these fucking Teflon pans.
reluctantlyjoe.substack.com/p/i-won-a-jo...
(Thank you @tmziniuk.bsky.social for being the best gay editor there is!)
reluctantlyjoe.substack.com/p/i-won-a-jo...
(Thank you @tmziniuk.bsky.social for being the best gay editor there is!)
Cuomo: New York *does* have an affordability problem! My nephew’s first cousin by marriage can’t even afford Uber Black anymore!
July 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Cuomo: New York *does* have an affordability problem! My nephew’s first cousin by marriage can’t even afford Uber Black anymore!
If you're seeing this, post an old photo of yourself that you still love.
July 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you're seeing this, post an old photo of yourself that you still love.
Sorry but if he’s from America, he’s not really a Pope, he’s just a sparkling Pontiff.
May 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Sorry but if he’s from America, he’s not really a Pope, he’s just a sparkling Pontiff.
This is what AIDS deaths look like. They never went away, not even here in the US, but too many have forgotten.
500,000 deaths like this at the stroke of a pen.
500,000 deaths like this at the stroke of a pen.
March 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is what AIDS deaths look like. They never went away, not even here in the US, but too many have forgotten.
500,000 deaths like this at the stroke of a pen.
500,000 deaths like this at the stroke of a pen.
MAX! and I are in an uber to JFK (the 2 train stopped running so…) and the driver just put on PRIDE RADIO.
Did he just call me an f slur?
Did he just call me an f slur?
January 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
MAX! and I are in an uber to JFK (the 2 train stopped running so…) and the driver just put on PRIDE RADIO.
Did he just call me an f slur?
Did he just call me an f slur?
My partner does something I've never heard of: Putting all our (unwrapped) gifts under the tree AFTER Christmas.
Do other people do this? I think it's cute it had just never occurred to me!
Do other people do this? I think it's cute it had just never occurred to me!
December 29, 2024 at 10:54 PM
My partner does something I've never heard of: Putting all our (unwrapped) gifts under the tree AFTER Christmas.
Do other people do this? I think it's cute it had just never occurred to me!
Do other people do this? I think it's cute it had just never occurred to me!
I’m sorry but Gus Kenworthy starting a Book Club to fight Book Bans and actually it’s a COFFEE TABLE BOOK CLUB is just a hellscape madlib.
Influencers monetizing fascism aghhhhhhhhh.
Influencers monetizing fascism aghhhhhhhhh.
December 19, 2024 at 3:48 PM
I’m sorry but Gus Kenworthy starting a Book Club to fight Book Bans and actually it’s a COFFEE TABLE BOOK CLUB is just a hellscape madlib.
Influencers monetizing fascism aghhhhhhhhh.
Influencers monetizing fascism aghhhhhhhhh.
NYCers you have (my) permission to take an hour off and get outside in this winter sun even if that means working a little later in the winter dark.
December 17, 2024 at 7:02 PM
NYCers you have (my) permission to take an hour off and get outside in this winter sun even if that means working a little later in the winter dark.
Accidentally made “Assassins Pasta” without thinking about Luigi?
December 11, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Accidentally made “Assassins Pasta” without thinking about Luigi?
BISEXUAL ERASURE
December 7, 2024 at 5:34 PM
BISEXUAL ERASURE
It was cold but we got outside before the sun went down, and both are doing a little better.
December 6, 2024 at 9:25 PM
It was cold but we got outside before the sun went down, and both are doing a little better.
FOR NO REASON posting the story of a friend from college – Arijit Guha – who had to crowd fund hundreds of thousands of dollars WHILE INSURED and dying of Stage IV Colon Cancer.
www.businessinsider.com/student-dies...
www.businessinsider.com/student-dies...
December 5, 2024 at 4:35 PM
FOR NO REASON posting the story of a friend from college – Arijit Guha – who had to crowd fund hundreds of thousands of dollars WHILE INSURED and dying of Stage IV Colon Cancer.
www.businessinsider.com/student-dies...
www.businessinsider.com/student-dies...
Holiday tradition, nyc style.
December 1, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Holiday tradition, nyc style.
Didn’t take pretty pics BUT bae’s family reported it was the best holiday meal I’d cooked for them yet and insisted we host Christmas, so… I will take it.
November 29, 2024 at 4:32 AM
Didn’t take pretty pics BUT bae’s family reported it was the best holiday meal I’d cooked for them yet and insisted we host Christmas, so… I will take it.
Not to start a *discourse,* but I hear a lot of whispering about nightlife getting more MEAN GIRL since COVID.
Everyone seems afraid to speak, which lets this trend continue. Speaking up won't fix it, but it *is* a first step.
https://xtramagazine.com/culture/is-vip-ruining-queer-nightlife-254411
Everyone seems afraid to speak, which lets this trend continue. Speaking up won't fix it, but it *is* a first step.
https://xtramagazine.com/culture/is-vip-ruining-queer-nightlife-254411
July 13, 2023 at 7:40 PM
Not to start a *discourse,* but I hear a lot of whispering about nightlife getting more MEAN GIRL since COVID.
Everyone seems afraid to speak, which lets this trend continue. Speaking up won't fix it, but it *is* a first step.
https://xtramagazine.com/culture/is-vip-ruining-queer-nightlife-254411
Everyone seems afraid to speak, which lets this trend continue. Speaking up won't fix it, but it *is* a first step.
https://xtramagazine.com/culture/is-vip-ruining-queer-nightlife-254411
First ever proper Roman carbonara (spent my retirement fund on guanciale).
This is my Bluesky x Cooking Channel now.
This is my Bluesky x Cooking Channel now.
July 4, 2023 at 5:51 PM
First ever proper Roman carbonara (spent my retirement fund on guanciale).
This is my Bluesky x Cooking Channel now.
This is my Bluesky x Cooking Channel now.
Elon said touch grass, so…
July 1, 2023 at 8:15 PM
Elon said touch grass, so…