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Jess Zimmerman
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Bluesky it has come to my attention that you like becoming horrifying to men and also rethinking classical stories about feminine monstrosity (harpies, sirens, gorgons, etc.) and wow GREAT news
Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman: 9780807055540 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all—now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back—an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I turned 40 in March 2020 so you know, not a festive occasion. The only thing I could think of that would make me feel better was making my friends do a Zoom reading of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, like I used to make (other) friends do at lunch in 8th grade. It was the best thing of the pandemic?
Oh no Tom Stoppard, talk about brain tape since young times
November 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Oh no Tom Stoppard, talk about brain tape since young times
November 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I will hand it to AI on exactly one thing which is that a low vision guest at our Thanksgiving has an app that basically provides alt text for the surroundings and it’s QUITE good. I hate uncanny slop made of regurgitated creative work but I love accessibility
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
If you liked my article about Masquerade and you have £20k you have to buy this for me
November 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
My asleep brain came up with a magazine for trumpet players called Parper’s and I’m very proud of it
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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me: they could never make me hate you, the personal essay as a form

the personal essay as a form at this moment in history: bet
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Okay! They’re not. Next
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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the best editor you could literally ever ask for in both the shortform and longform categories is @jesszimmerman.com - and she's freelance, so go hire her!!! www.jesszimmerman.com/editing.html
By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day.

Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.

So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just don’t talk about people’s food choices at all unless they volunteer, I for instance absolutely hate being asked to explain why I don’t eat meat (shut up is why)
No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:

- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating

This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Me after every social interaction
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
<turning up the vulgarity level> everything about this FUCKING might be the FUCKING saddest thing I’ve ever seen! Am I funny yet
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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any time i see someone interacting with chatgpt
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Mama
Just killed a man
There is no pain
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
What’s a career
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Naturally I have this memorized and occasionally recite it to myself for calming purposes
Saturday morning timeline cleanse: Tenement, probably the greatest sketch The State did on their all too short run on MTV vimeo.com/346231299
Tenement
This is "Tenement" by David Wain on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I was worried this was a trap but actually yes, go google this instead of whatever else you were about to google
I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The continuing bamboo metaphor is like…a child’s fingerpaint version of a braided essay. Bamboo was invented by Steven Bamboo
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If you guys don’t drag me on here kicking and screaming when it happens, I swear to god. I don’t care if I’m “doing” “work”
I’m starting to get the sense I should have been more online today
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I’m starting to get the sense I should have been more online today
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Did they find any
House votes to denounce ‘horrors’ of socialism ahead of Mamdani-Trump meeting
House votes to denounce ‘horrors’ of socialism ahead of Mamdani-Trump meeting
The House voted 285-98 to approve a resolution condemning the “horrors of socialism” Friday morning, just hours before President Donald Trump is set to meet with New York’s incoming democratic socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani. Eighty-six Democrats joined with Republicans to approve the measure. Two others voted present. No Republican voted to oppose it. Speaker Mike Johnson and House GOP leaders have decried Mamdani’s election as the next mayor of the country’s largest city, citing his left-wing politics and arguing he is the new, radical face of the Democratic Party. They’ve vowed to make him a centerpiece of their attacks against Democrats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Democrats on Capitol Hill have dismissed the Republicans broadsides over Mamdani, and party leaders criticized the GOP-written measure ahead of Friday’s vote, saying it “selectively lists certain despotic leaders and the harms of totalitarian regimes self-labeled as ‘socialist.’” They did not, however, formally recommend a no vote. A swath of moderate Democrats, especially from New York, are uncomfortable with Mamdani’s rise in their party. The debate over the symbolic measure was derailed for about 10 minutes after Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) verbally attacked Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on the floor, accusing her of being a “friend” of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro despite traveling to the country and seeing the abuses of his regime. Waters asked for Salazar’s words to be taken down, but Salazer instead withdrew her remarks, allowing the debate to continue.
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM