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Rose Judson

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Award-winning writer, stray cat magnet, host of the Books of All Time podcast (@booksofalltime.bsky.social), contributor at Balloon-Juice.com. Someone's mom. She/her.

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 9d

this is a good podcast episode, but it's not THE good podcast episode, if you know what I mean #philosophy #booksky

Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 9d

NEW EPISODE! We continue our trilogy on Plato's Republic with an episode exploring the latter half of the work, which includes philosophical ideas like universal forms, the nature of knowledge, and the Good (capital G), as well as Plato's dissection of the five types of states... #booksky #podcasts

Diagram of the scene described in Plato's allegory of the cave, with a superimposed text bubble from one of the prisoners watching the shadows. He asks "chat is this real"

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Hell Ray-ser @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · Mar 25

I propose a new system of government where the people roll everything and everyone in Washington DC up into a ball and shoot it into space. I call it Katamari Democracy.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 4h

this is fair but we need olivia nuzzi so that we can get sharp, incisive articles like "here's my close personal friend steve bannon who i'm close personal friends with"

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

if anybody from the middle or lower classes with real journalistic chops sexted a source they'd be shitcanned and marginalized so quickly they'd get concussed

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 5h

Excellent distillation of the phenomenon: "The contradiction resolves . . . if you understand that tradwives are submitting to traditional patriarchal norms in order to reap the entitlements of whiteness. Slaveholding women in the antebellum South . . . received sweeping power over Black people."

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 5h

At Dame I wrote about tradwives and white women choosing white patriarchy because whiteness gives them power. www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/15/t...

“Tradwives” Is Just Influencer Speak for Patriarchal Subordination - Dame Magazine

A blonde woman in a low-cut flowery dress and immaculately shaped eyelashes speaks softly to the camera while gentle music plays in the background. “I’m here to make a clarification video because of t...

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 5h

listen...

you do not have to be smarter than your intimate partner

you dont have to make more than them

or have a greater social status

The purpose of the relationship is not to reinforce your ego

The purpose of the relationship is care

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 19h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 6h

Today in Other People's Cats: Engage Flirt Mode

A chestnut brown tabby cat with white bits reclines extravagantly on top of a pillar in a low brick wall.

A chestnut brown tabby cat with white bits reclines extravagantly on top of a pillar in a low brick wall, but with its face toward the camera.

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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · Nov 25

@reniadeb
in england, they don't say i'll kick
your ass, they say i'll see you on the

(photo of a sign)

Public Footpath
to Butt Lane

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25d

I can explain the term "the woke right." The logic:

1) I denounced "wokeness" for years, proclaiming it dire threat to free speech, a civilizational danger
2) This fascism I was downplaying while focused on wokeness seems actually bad
3) Since I am by definition never wrong, the fascism is wokeness

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 12h

This is, in fact, not a problem. This is the ideal society

Cyprus has a cat problem: One feline for every resident

Cyprus has a cat problem. Officials estimate the small island nation in the Mediterranean has about one cat for every one of its approximately 1 million human population.

apnews.com

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 13h

"You boy! Could you summon medical assistance?"

Scrooge leaning out of a window meme image

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

they’re still flying this shit over my apartment every night, and i am less afraid of them than ever.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5d

go ahead. keep flying blackhawks over my apartment. it only makes my opinions WORSE

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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no earthquake (cultural tutor) @noearthquake.bsky.social · 15h

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, but where is the cat in this photo? I only see a glorious cloud.

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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 1d

We'd have more great writing if we had UBI.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 1d

this explains a lot

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 1d

me: okay, I've caught and released the mouse, re-read my outline, time to start—

the cat: beloved mistress, I HUNGER

Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 1d

me: okay, I've finished the outline; time to start drafting this article I've been procrastinating on

the cat: beloved mistress, I have brought you a mouse to chase

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 1d

me: okay, I've finished the outline; time to start drafting this article I've been procrastinating on

the cat: beloved mistress, I have brought you a mouse to chase