The Bitter Southerner
@bittersouth.bsky.social
Over 11 years independent publishing — print mag, James Beard🏅s, books, podcast, t-shirts, working on a #BetterSouth #BetterAmerica #BetterWorld for ALL.
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Don’t waste your time with AI slop. These albums have what you’ve been searching for, and more, this whole year.
This year, @bittersouth.bsky.social tapped me to write about the best Southern music of 2025. Check it out, and let me know your top five, ten, 20. bittersoutherner.com/best-souther...
This year, @bittersouth.bsky.social tapped me to write about the best Southern music of 2025. Check it out, and let me know your top five, ten, 20. bittersoutherner.com/best-souther...
Best Southern Albums of 2025 — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
The Algorithm Is on Our Last Nerve.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Don’t waste your time with AI slop. These albums have what you’ve been searching for, and more, this whole year.
This year, @bittersouth.bsky.social tapped me to write about the best Southern music of 2025. Check it out, and let me know your top five, ten, 20. bittersoutherner.com/best-souther...
This year, @bittersouth.bsky.social tapped me to write about the best Southern music of 2025. Check it out, and let me know your top five, ten, 20. bittersoutherner.com/best-souther...
Our end of year BEST SOUTHERN ALBUMS list dropped today! Ooh, it’s a good one. Are our 20 most favorite records of the year – your favorites? Let us know what you think. 🎧✨🩵 bittersoutherner.com/best-souther...
December 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Our end of year BEST SOUTHERN ALBUMS list dropped today! Ooh, it’s a good one. Are our 20 most favorite records of the year – your favorites? Let us know what you think. 🎧✨🩵 bittersoutherner.com/best-souther...
Now through Tuesday, we’re giving $5 to @feedingamerica every time you place an order‼️🍽️💚 So let’s do this. Let’s fill those food banks so folks don’t go hungry.
*Also 20% off sitewide continues. ( Just use the code SAVE20 at checkout. ) bsgeneralstore.com
*Also 20% off sitewide continues. ( Just use the code SAVE20 at checkout. ) bsgeneralstore.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Now through Tuesday, we’re giving $5 to @feedingamerica every time you place an order‼️🍽️💚 So let’s do this. Let’s fill those food banks so folks don’t go hungry.
*Also 20% off sitewide continues. ( Just use the code SAVE20 at checkout. ) bsgeneralstore.com
*Also 20% off sitewide continues. ( Just use the code SAVE20 at checkout. ) bsgeneralstore.com
EVERY SINGLE ORDER —> We give $5 to @feedingamerica. 🍽️💚
Let’s do this. Let’s fill those food banks so folks don’t go hungry.
Also 20% off sitewide continues! Just use the code SAVE20.
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Let’s do this. Let’s fill those food banks so folks don’t go hungry.
Also 20% off sitewide continues! Just use the code SAVE20.
bsgeneralstore.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
EVERY SINGLE ORDER —> We give $5 to @feedingamerica. 🍽️💚
Let’s do this. Let’s fill those food banks so folks don’t go hungry.
Also 20% off sitewide continues! Just use the code SAVE20.
bsgeneralstore.com
Let’s do this. Let’s fill those food banks so folks don’t go hungry.
Also 20% off sitewide continues! Just use the code SAVE20.
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Let it begin.✨✨✨ Our first holiday deal, and it’s all across our site. Just enter code — SAVE20 — at checkout.
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Note: no discount on our #feedthepeople fundraising collection.
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Note: no discount on our #feedthepeople fundraising collection.
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Let it begin.✨✨✨ Our first holiday deal, and it’s all across our site. Just enter code — SAVE20 — at checkout.
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Note: no discount on our #feedthepeople fundraising collection.
bsgeneralstore.com
Note: no discount on our #feedthepeople fundraising collection.
Our Holiday Minit Market ends at midnight tonight … 39 products … gone, gone, gone. Order quick, y’all! bsgeneralstore.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Our Holiday Minit Market ends at midnight tonight … 39 products … gone, gone, gone. Order quick, y’all! bsgeneralstore.com
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“The atrocities in Charlotte” is a perfectly measured lacerating phrase. Hat’s off to @bittersouth.bsky.social. Love you guys. Never stop fighting the good fight.
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The Bitter Southerner on Instagram: "Today we’re sharing these powerful Jesse Barber photos. Appalachia based, this isn’t Jesse’s usual beat, but over the weekend he was photographing the atrocities i...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“The atrocities in Charlotte” is a perfectly measured lacerating phrase. Hat’s off to @bittersouth.bsky.social. Love you guys. Never stop fighting the good fight.
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This week's Top 5:
* Metal medicine, @highcountrynews.org
* Hyped humanoids, @harpers.bsky.social
* Carnival crossroads, @bittersouth.bsky.social
* Divine defiance, @placesjournal.bsky.social
* Optimization obsession, @aeon.co
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* Metal medicine, @highcountrynews.org
* Hyped humanoids, @harpers.bsky.social
* Carnival crossroads, @bittersouth.bsky.social
* Divine defiance, @placesjournal.bsky.social
* Optimization obsession, @aeon.co
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads
In this edition: metal medicine, hyped humanoids, carnival crossroads, divine defiance, and optimization obsession.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This week's Top 5:
* Metal medicine, @highcountrynews.org
* Hyped humanoids, @harpers.bsky.social
* Carnival crossroads, @bittersouth.bsky.social
* Divine defiance, @placesjournal.bsky.social
* Optimization obsession, @aeon.co
longreads.com/2025/11/21/t...
* Metal medicine, @highcountrynews.org
* Hyped humanoids, @harpers.bsky.social
* Carnival crossroads, @bittersouth.bsky.social
* Divine defiance, @placesjournal.bsky.social
* Optimization obsession, @aeon.co
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For our Holiday Minit Market, we’ve created a Super-Duper-Deluxe Sticker pack that includes all the stickers we currently sell. (We’ve sold 58 of these sticker packs so far today! These big packs are available until next Sunday the 23rd or until we sell out.😊) bsgeneralstore.com/products/sup...
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
For our Holiday Minit Market, we’ve created a Super-Duper-Deluxe Sticker pack that includes all the stickers we currently sell. (We’ve sold 58 of these sticker packs so far today! These big packs are available until next Sunday the 23rd or until we sell out.😊) bsgeneralstore.com/products/sup...
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Choices, choices.
Today we launched our Holiday Minit Market. Sweatshirts, hoodies, tees, towels, stickers and a tote, 10 days only!
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Choices, choices.
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"Bless your heart" sweatshirt is cleannnnn
Today we launched our Holiday Minit Market. Sweatshirts, hoodies, tees, towels, stickers and a tote, 10 days only!
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"Bless your heart" sweatshirt is cleannnnn
Today we launched our Holiday Minit Market. Sweatshirts, hoodies, tees, towels, stickers and a tote, 10 days only!
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Today we launched our Holiday Minit Market. Sweatshirts, hoodies, tees, towels, stickers and a tote, 10 days only!
Today, we publish (online) LIFE & DEATH AT THE COUNTY FAIR by Mike Adno. It’s a gorgeous story and it has already been picked up by Longreads. You can also read it in Issue No 12 of our magazine. bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Today, we publish (online) LIFE & DEATH AT THE COUNTY FAIR by Mike Adno. It’s a gorgeous story and it has already been picked up by Longreads. You can also read it in Issue No 12 of our magazine. bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
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My great-grandmother was a lunch lady in rural Georgia and was just as tough, resourceful, and caring as all of these wonderful ladies. Thank you for lifting them up, @bittersouth.bsky.social! 🥹 bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
All Praise to the Lunch Ladies — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My great-grandmother was a lunch lady in rural Georgia and was just as tough, resourceful, and caring as all of these wonderful ladies. Thank you for lifting them up, @bittersouth.bsky.social! 🥹 bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
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"Life and Death at the County Fair"
Words & Photos by Michael Adno
November 12, 2025
Via @bittersouth.bsky.social
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Words & Photos by Michael Adno
November 12, 2025
Via @bittersouth.bsky.social
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Life and Death at the County Fair — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
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November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Life and Death at the County Fair"
Words & Photos by Michael Adno
November 12, 2025
Via @bittersouth.bsky.social
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Words & Photos by Michael Adno
November 12, 2025
Via @bittersouth.bsky.social
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"The cast of eccentric people here renews my hope one night and reaffirms all my doubts the next." —Michael Adno for @bittersouth.bsky.social
Life and Death at the County Fair — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
A new kind of magazine for a new kind of South.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"The cast of eccentric people here renews my hope one night and reaffirms all my doubts the next." —Michael Adno for @bittersouth.bsky.social
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"Through the gates, past the gator wrestler, real-life cowboys, and make-believe cowboys, the scent of warm dough beneath a fog of powdered sugar carries me up the midway." A #Florida writer on the joys & pain of his hometown fair. bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/... via @bittersouth.bsky.social
Life and Death at the County Fair — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
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November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"Through the gates, past the gator wrestler, real-life cowboys, and make-believe cowboys, the scent of warm dough beneath a fog of powdered sugar carries me up the midway." A #Florida writer on the joys & pain of his hometown fair. bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/... via @bittersouth.bsky.social
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"In reflecting on her now, I wanted to check in with modern-day heroes of the school lunch line."—Jennifer Justus for @bittersouth.bsky.social
All Praise to the Lunch Ladies — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"In reflecting on her now, I wanted to check in with modern-day heroes of the school lunch line."—Jennifer Justus for @bittersouth.bsky.social
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@bittersouth.bsky.social is doing some of the best and most important work in US food and justice journalism, you should subscribe
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@bittersouth.bsky.social is doing some of the best and most important work in US food and justice journalism, you should subscribe
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"All Praise to the Lunch Ladies" in @bittersouth.bsky.social is moving & illuminating. School nutrition depts. do so much w/ VERY LITTLE. Want to see an efficiently run government feeding program in action? Start w/ the National School Lunch Program. bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
All Praise to the Lunch Ladies — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"All Praise to the Lunch Ladies" in @bittersouth.bsky.social is moving & illuminating. School nutrition depts. do so much w/ VERY LITTLE. Want to see an efficiently run government feeding program in action? Start w/ the National School Lunch Program. bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
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Buy a t-shirt. Fill a food bank. From the good folk at @bittersouth.bsky.social
Feed The People
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October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Buy a t-shirt. Fill a food bank. From the good folk at @bittersouth.bsky.social
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always be reposting this on halloween, my very favorite ghost story from the @bittersouth.bsky.social bittersoutherner.com/we-salted-na...
We Salted Nannie: A True Southern Ghost Story — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
In 2014, Tom Maxwell rented a historic home for cheap. Nine months later, he and his family ran away as fast as they could, fleeing a parade of spirits and apparitions. Today, three centuries of bad mojo in a house called Nannie.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
always be reposting this on halloween, my very favorite ghost story from the @bittersouth.bsky.social bittersoutherner.com/we-salted-na...
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"When you’re Black, every place here might be where you’re from, a forgotten ancestor beneath the soil, all of them pulling on you: Come to us. So, I listened."
Nylah Iqbal Muhammad for @bittersouth.bsky.social: bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
📸: Jaida Grey Eagle & Camille Farrah Lenain
Nylah Iqbal Muhammad for @bittersouth.bsky.social: bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
📸: Jaida Grey Eagle & Camille Farrah Lenain
An Optimistic Quest in Apocalyptic Times — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Navigating an uncertain future by connecting to Mother Earth
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October 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"When you’re Black, every place here might be where you’re from, a forgotten ancestor beneath the soil, all of them pulling on you: Come to us. So, I listened."
Nylah Iqbal Muhammad for @bittersouth.bsky.social: bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
📸: Jaida Grey Eagle & Camille Farrah Lenain
Nylah Iqbal Muhammad for @bittersouth.bsky.social: bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
📸: Jaida Grey Eagle & Camille Farrah Lenain
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I had to have this one. My mom recently declared my collards are better than hers.
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I had to have this one. My mom recently declared my collards are better than hers.