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Joshua Rivera
@jmrivera.bsky.social
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writer for hire. bylines at Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, and Vanity Fair. movies and tv and games and books and
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · Nov 25
Oh I never did an intro post. So:

I’m a writer interested in pop culture and how we make meaning from it. I was entertainment writer at polygon, and before that had stints at EW, GQ, and freelanced everywhere. Stories saved my life and I want to help people understand them, and each other, better.
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 23m
having a discussion with the puppy about how we prefer yorgos Lanthimos’ more abrasive earlier films and their alienating approach, and how liking a movie he made feels like a disappointment
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 59m
Me on the bus: Hamish! Linklater!

The people sitting next to me: Hamish! Linklater

The whole bus: HAMISH! LINKLATER!

Bus driver, smiling: HAMISH! [horn] LINKLATER! [horn]
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 11h
lol I just wanna give Jake moody a hug man. What a sweetie
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ryan sutton @ryansutton.bsky.social · 11h
i wrote about chipotle's terrible carne asada but i also thought out loud about why chipotle is such a boring and undesirable fast food brand www.thelotimes.com/p/chipotle-c...
Chipotle's Carne Asada Is Bad Food x 1000
A meditation on the struggling chain
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 12h
More like Flashbacks of Yotei amirite
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 13h
If I were a game dev I would just put it on a usb stick and bury it in the appalachian mountains somewhere and tell everyone to go find it, I would get more press than just putting it on steam, like a rube
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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 13h
video game release calendars are so dire, man. how do people even know what's releasing anymore?

it's a toss-up for whether an indie game is gonna be listed at all. delays often go wholly unnoticed
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 13h
excited to kick off the new year with the pathologic freaks posting weird immersive theater shit
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Ice-Pick Lodge @icepicklodge.bsky.social · 21h
Pathologic 3 launches on January 9, 2026.

A new free demo — an introduction to the full game — is out now on Steam!

We’re also unveiling the first of three trailers, each offering a different perspective on Pathologic 3.

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Pathologic 3: Release Date Announcement
YouTube video by IcePickLodge
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 21h
This page rules, and Superboy-Prime is still the most prescient villain of the internet era of comics fandom, reflecting its own reactionary impulses back at it
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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 21h
INFINITE CRISIS 20th anniversary. I love the final page by Geoff and Phil. Superboy-Prime wasn’t always the over-the-top, even comical character he’s sometimes written as. In this story he was meant to be terrifying. And you feel the menace radiating off this page. I’ve never forgotten it.
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 21h
truly upsetting how much time and effort goes into distilling an idea into a single sentence. but that’s also why writing rules.
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 21h
Every year that one Logan Lucky joke gets even funnier

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George R. R. Martin addresses 'Winds of Winter delay 'controversy'
George R. R. Martin knows 'there's all this controversy' about the 'Winds of Winter' delays: 'I don't feel happy breaching contracts or missing a deadline or anything like that.'
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 22h
Going to be real funny if tom king’s Lanterns show does exactly this with Hal
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 22h
looking at this years superhero media and it seems like we are months away from the genre going full sopranos with a show about a Batman analogue in therapy
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d
For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.
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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d
Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 1d
We thought about trying to quantify DOGE's effect at the end of the fiscal year — Musk’s own deadline for finding $1T — and realized it was impossible.

That’s the larger story: No one, even Congressional appropriators, can follow what’s happened to federal spending.
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Not Even Congress Knows How Much Money DOGE Cut
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 23h
If I yearn for the suburbs it’s really just because I have not yet had the opportunity to let my puppy do this
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23h
The cover for this week’s issue is “Cannonball,” by Harry Bliss. See what’s inside: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NcQOF2
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 1d
It’s not that the puppy steals my spot when I get up, it’s that she looks dead at me like she’s always been there and it would be animal cruelty to make her move
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 1d
you: I have a new hyperfixation

Me: hey man that’s cool you ever see that one movie Christine? No reason.
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 1d
finally saw Halloween 3 and I am now a Halloween 3 fan
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 1d
good wall to stand in front of and think about things
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 1d
She shared it yes but it’s Flanagan
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 1d
These pieces are conceived, written, and shared antagonistically, and outrage is their metric for success. I think it’s more interesting to ask procedural questions, like why would a writer at a legacy media publication speak so disparagingly about legacy media
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 1d
This piece is interesting in that it opens by scolding people for suddenly developing an interest in CBS News and then displays a profound disinterest in the recent history of CBS News
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 1d
Call me old fashioned but I think being close personal friends with your subject ought to disqualify you from writing about them
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d
So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador. But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 3d
back at my favorite place, @mahoningdit.bsky.social
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