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Joe Auerbach

@joeauerbach.bsky.social

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Professional nerd. Hobbyist nerd. Biological nerd? he/him I think I wrote a book? It was sort of an accident, but it's in my linktree: linktr.ee/joe.auerbach

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · Jan 3

If you're a radical leftist, a progressive, a liberal, or even just a plain old Democrat, I'm probably on board with your politics.

But in this political climate, that shit doesn't matter because we're not even in the ballpark.

So until the room changes a LOT, I'm focusing on other shit.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1h

I'm at a school social function for one of my kids and there's not only a church here but a whole table full of cops.

This is a fucking nightmare.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 4h

I have wanted this for a very long time

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 5h

ahhhhhhhh www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ams0...

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG | Official Trailer (2025)

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Classics

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 4h

Yes!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

"ICE agents arrested a police officer Thursday morning in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro."

ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.

edition.cnn.com

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 4h

Also it robs you of the joy of solving the fucking problem which is the whole reason you do it.

I feel like if you don't like solving those problems and you don't like pushing past them, then you don't actually want to be a writer. You just want to have written a book.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 4h

In a Q&A with the Brando Sando, Leigh Bardugo just said that a writer using AI to get unstuck is like using a forklift at the gym.

You get the weight up but you didn't get any stronger.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 4h

Which is really not fair to this guy who just put on a t-shirt for crying out loud.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 4h

I just saw a guy wearing a two-tone black and brown t-shirt but the thing is the top half of the T-shirt is a very close match for his skin tone so I just assumed that it was some amazing queen wearing a corset to pick up their kids at school.

Now I'm a little let down actually.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah I think there is a real market out there for companies that realize early that nobody wants this.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 9h

If a parent always makes you call and never reaches out and then guilts you for not calling, that shit is emotional abuse. A thing I say as someone with a parent who does that.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 9h

Especially disabled people. But honestly, "just leaving" the US is nowhere near as easy as people pretend it is.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 10h

JD Vance saying that the Young Republican texts are just what kids do makes sense because it's what he does.

It's 100% NOT what kids do. It's what Nazi kids do.

Also, these are not kids. They're adult Nazis. It's the Young Republicans, not the pee wee Republicans.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely I would

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

Say it!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 1d

so I was going back through old files and I try not to jerk off in the mirror too much about my own work but I really was touched by the noodly hand of the muse here

its a one page RPG called Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron, and I'm not typing it all out because its very wordy and if you dob me in to the disability police I will come to your house and throw a lemon at you

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Meghan 🔜 PAXU 🖤✨ @meghanlynnftw.bsky.social · 21d

My hips don't lie.
And the other guard's hips don't tell the truth.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. I think my opinion changes when it comes to streaming something because streaming something is more of an endorsement.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1d

Well it's super iffy but to be fair the amount of respect you show to other cultures at your table is entirely your decision. I absolutely made some pretty big changes to those rules when I ran it for exactly that reason.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1d

That thrussy

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1d

Similar mouth shape and apart from that I've only ever really seen her in the glasses.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not an expert, but it's close enough that if you told me it was, I wouldn't question it.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1d

Wut

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1d

We're deeply fortunate that these people are so I'm stupid. If they were competent this would have been over immediately.