brian j.
@talkwordy.bsky.social
kit kat enthusiast. former journalist, always editor. founder of Fireside Fiction Company. i delete my old skeets on the regular. he/him
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SOMEONE: Fuck you!
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
Bovino is taking part in CBP detentions in Charlotte. dickfc_w_l on TikTok.
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
SOMEONE: Fuck you!
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
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Full warning: this story made me cry, because of how accurately and beautifully it peels back the layers of oppression, self-censorship, exile, community, rebuilding. A beautiful representative from the forthcoming anthology We Will Rise Again, out on Dec 2!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Full warning: this story made me cry, because of how accurately and beautifully it peels back the layers of oppression, self-censorship, exile, community, rebuilding. A beautiful representative from the forthcoming anthology We Will Rise Again, out on Dec 2!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
He was a boy
She was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious?
He was the politician
She did journalism
What more can I say?
He desired her
She desired back
Secretly he desired desiring as well
But all of her friends
Stuck up their nose
They had a problem with his wormy brain
She was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious?
He was the politician
She did journalism
What more can I say?
He desired her
She desired back
Secretly he desired desiring as well
But all of her friends
Stuck up their nose
They had a problem with his wormy brain
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
He was a boy
She was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious?
He was the politician
She did journalism
What more can I say?
He desired her
She desired back
Secretly he desired desiring as well
But all of her friends
Stuck up their nose
They had a problem with his wormy brain
She was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious?
He was the politician
She did journalism
What more can I say?
He desired her
She desired back
Secretly he desired desiring as well
But all of her friends
Stuck up their nose
They had a problem with his wormy brain
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He was a Whopper, I was a McRib—back for a limited time, only at participating locations. He told me to "have it your way," I was content enough to say "I'm lovin' it." Could I really be his Burger Queen? He doesn't have a worm in his brain by the way. So the memes are wrong, the ones about the worm
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
He was a Whopper, I was a McRib—back for a limited time, only at participating locations. He told me to "have it your way," I was content enough to say "I'm lovin' it." Could I really be his Burger Queen? He doesn't have a worm in his brain by the way. So the memes are wrong, the ones about the worm
The crimes I could commit with this car
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The crimes I could commit with this car
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"she typed most of the book into her notes app while hiking" yeah i can tell
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"she typed most of the book into her notes app while hiking" yeah i can tell
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I'm not the first to note how good and important this article is. A clear-eyed, first-person explanation of how the administration has gutted the Justice Department. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I'm not the first to note how good and important this article is. A clear-eyed, first-person explanation of how the administration has gutted the Justice Department. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Love this so much. 💜
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Love this so much. 💜
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as someone who really thought there wasn’t much there for the longest time I cannot draw any conclusion other than “they are monumentally terrible” at this point
man, what the fuck is in these files that would a) be worse than anything we have ever learned about him, b) make him willing to risk a maga civil war over it, and c) have him desperately calling half of the republicans in the house and begging them to vote against their release
Trump on Epstein Files: I don’t want to talk about it because fake news like you—you’re a terrible reporter—fake news like you just keeps bringing up to deflect from the tremendous success of The Trump Admin
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
as someone who really thought there wasn’t much there for the longest time I cannot draw any conclusion other than “they are monumentally terrible” at this point
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i created this to annoy a buddy who hates springsteen and tolkein, and ended up crafting my finest work of art yet
youtu.be/0pLVt_phV5o?...
youtu.be/0pLVt_phV5o?...
The Two Thunder Roads
YouTube video by talkwordy
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November 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
i created this to annoy a buddy who hates springsteen and tolkein, and ended up crafting my finest work of art yet
youtu.be/0pLVt_phV5o?...
youtu.be/0pLVt_phV5o?...
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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one of many reasons why the whole "Democrats have no space for men" argument is bullshit is that they still keep misogynist creeps like Larry Summers around
I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
one of many reasons why the whole "Democrats have no space for men" argument is bullshit is that they still keep misogynist creeps like Larry Summers around
i created this to annoy a buddy who hates springsteen and tolkein, and ended up crafting my finest work of art yet
youtu.be/0pLVt_phV5o?...
youtu.be/0pLVt_phV5o?...
The Two Thunder Roads
YouTube video by talkwordy
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
i created this to annoy a buddy who hates springsteen and tolkein, and ended up crafting my finest work of art yet
youtu.be/0pLVt_phV5o?...
youtu.be/0pLVt_phV5o?...
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I am moving out of state and have an outdoor cat who is very skittish that I simply can’t take on a plane without risking life and limb. Would anyone in PDX like to adopt a moody gray lady? She could be fine inside a home with no other cats, she doesn’t tolerate them (hence outside). DM if so.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I am moving out of state and have an outdoor cat who is very skittish that I simply can’t take on a plane without risking life and limb. Would anyone in PDX like to adopt a moody gray lady? She could be fine inside a home with no other cats, she doesn’t tolerate them (hence outside). DM if so.
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Welcome to No November where we skip November entirely. Welcome to December.
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Welcome to No November where we skip November entirely. Welcome to December.
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If you’re making Monica Lewinsky jokes you care about victims a lot less than you think you do. Hope this helps.
November 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you’re making Monica Lewinsky jokes you care about victims a lot less than you think you do. Hope this helps.
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Ok these all sound like gay porn titles.
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Ok these all sound like gay porn titles.
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One last promo! Bostonians, come see me on 11/16 at @thecoolidge.bsky.social doing a seminar on the great heist noir ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW. Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters and me!
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Seminar: Odds Against Tomorrow
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November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
One last promo! Bostonians, come see me on 11/16 at @thecoolidge.bsky.social doing a seminar on the great heist noir ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW. Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters and me!
coolidge.org/package/semi...
coolidge.org/package/semi...
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I wrote about that film several times and will mention it in my seminar tomorrow.
www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/02/a...
www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/02/a...
Our movie critic is a sucker for boxing movies. Here are 5 favorites. - The Boston Globe
The release of “Creed III” gives Odie Henderson the opportunity to confess perhaps the biggest bias he has. Plus, he shares his pick for the greatest boxing movie ever made.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I wrote about that film several times and will mention it in my seminar tomorrow.
www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/02/a...
www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/02/a...
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It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
www.vulture.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
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We need kindness so much right now and I just am exhausted by how many people are ACTIVELY looking to be shitty
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
We need kindness so much right now and I just am exhausted by how many people are ACTIVELY looking to be shitty
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The framing of this by CNN implies she's talking about bad candidates, but she isn't. She's saying this country hates women. People say look at Mexico or Germany, they elected women. Yes. Because they, as a country, don't hate women nearly as much as we do. Fucked up shit. She's not lying.
Former first lady Michelle Obama said America is "not ready for a woman" president during a conversation at her New York book event. https://cnn.it/43ApuKZ
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The framing of this by CNN implies she's talking about bad candidates, but she isn't. She's saying this country hates women. People say look at Mexico or Germany, they elected women. Yes. Because they, as a country, don't hate women nearly as much as we do. Fucked up shit. She's not lying.