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Joshua Stephens

@joshuastephens.bsky.social

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Writer | Photographer | Antifascist Bookworm. Vegan. Coffee nerd. High school dropout. I’ve written for outlets like AlterNet, Truthout, Gawker, The Blizzard, Standart, & BK Magazine. 🌏 Bangkok ⚽️ Barça, SSC Napoli & Port FC

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Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 19h

Scenes from the neighborhood, tonight, as I walked to check on a friend’s cat.

A worker is seen through the window of a Hong Kong-style chicken diner in Bangkok.

The entrance to a European-style bistro in Bangkok, seen at night. The exterior is tinted blue-green. The interior, seen through the door, is a warm orange with exposed brick and a checkered tile floor.

A man’s silhouette is airborne, mid-stride on a nighttime sidewalk in Bangkok. He his back-lit by a storefront illuminated in a sea-greenish color, nextdoor to a pizza shop with a red-tile motif and neon sign.

Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 1d

Wait. Am I, even unbeknownst to myself, secretly a real fan? I find the franchise unwatchable (not for lack of trying, I swear), but I nonetheless know this to be true. 🤔

Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday roadtrip with the in-laws.

An older Thai-Chinese woman talks with her adult niece, over a cafe table at a window.

A young woman shows her aunt a photo she just took, on her phone.

Two older Thai-Chinese women stand in the stairwell of an old, restored Chinese barn.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads.

These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

Spotify stock graph showing a decrease of $28 in one day (Friday 10/24), the day after Spotify’s boycott became a trending topic on Bluesky. This is a roughly 5% decrease in value.

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Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 3d

Having a miserable day? Here’s our cat, insisting I stop writing to play fetch with him.

Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 3d

Someone should tell him how this worked out for Duterte.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 3d

a man wearing glasses and a black suit is standing in front of a sign that says ' the ' on it

Alt: a man wearing glasses and a black suit is pondering a decision.

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Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 3d

I’m here to help.

Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 3d

How I feel about any Xmas movie, tbh.

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Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 8d

Yasssssssss!

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

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Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 11d

See also: Nietzche, Stacey Peralta, and the Black Panther Party.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12d

#OtD 15 Oct 1966 in Oakland, CA, the Black Panther Party for Self Defence was set up. The Party would exist, despite heavy repression, until 1982 and did things like feed breakfast to children and run community health clinics. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 12d

Right back atcha, sir. 🎉

Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 12d

Did I know that @ajbauer.bsky.social and I share a birthday?

I did not.

Here we were, in the same working group during Occupy, on this very day in 2011, ships passing in the night. My bad, bud.

a man in a green shirt is clapping his hands and laughing

Alt: a man in a green shirt is saluting, clapping his hands, and laughing

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 19d

New Event!
📆7th Oct - 6th Nov

Golden Land Solidarity collective hold mini exhibition telling the stories of the artists & artisans they work with as well as a range of their products on display (& for sale) at 4 seas Nimman cafe in Chiang Mai.

www.instagram.com/p/DPgvKOjEzO0

Find our little exhibition at @4seasnimman from now until November 6th!

We have a sampling of products from the people in our collective on display and available for sale, along with stories from the artisans and from Myanmar.

The exhibit space is open Tuesday - Sundays till November 6th.

Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 20d

No one should do it at Berghain either tbh.

Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 21d

First day back in over 2mos.

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Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 25d

Setting aside the red line of performing in Saudi Arabia, this defense is so bereft of any sophistication about life beyond the US. Yes, people everywhere are just like us. Welcome to the world. That’s precisely why they do not deserve to be enslaved, disappeared, caned, dismembered.

Idiot.

Bill Burr Defends Performing at Controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival: “They’re Just Like Us”

The actor-comedian details his experience at the event: "Definitely one of the top three experiences I've ever had ... I think it's going to lead to a lot of positive things."

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Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · 27d

We love to see it.

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · Sep 25

Black Scare in Asia

freedomnews.org.uk/2025/09/25/b...

Black Scare in Asia: Governments blame “anarchists” for mass discontent - Freedom News

freedomnews.org.uk

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Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · Sep 19

I’m gonna keep saying it:

Dems, run on vengeance and I’ll vote for you. First time in almost 2 decades. Seriously. Promise ruthless pursuit of every fascist fuckstain, lay out a plan for chasing them to the corners of the earth.

I’ll even do the Truffle Shuffle.

Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · Sep 19

Jon Stewart’s emergency slot-in at the Daily Show was a cringe-inducing swing and a miss. A moment to set an example of defiance, rendered both uninspiring and unwatchable. Like nails on a blackboard.

Enough. Either call for talent strikes or NY and CA’s soft-secession, or gtfo.

Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · Sep 18

But also, I could not be less interested in anyone’s hot take at this point. If you’re not actively sharing tactical expertise for sabotage, community self-defense, or doxxing shitheads — I ain’t reading all that.

We are past analysis. Enough. We have eyes.

Talk to me about how we’re using hands.

Joshua Stephens @joshuastephens.bsky.social · Sep 18

My timeline on here now looks a lot like my LinkedIn feed — just with newsletter launch announcements, instead of “I’m thrilled…”

What surplus do you all think is going to be allocated to subscriptions in a nightmarish job market, atop a bubble that’s going to dwarf the dot com crash?