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@jpbrammer.bsky.social
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Yaaaaaayyy my essay on Meers Restaurant was part of this package! A silver medal! It's real I bit into it www.eater.com/press-room/9...
A screenshot of the headline "Eater Wins Silver Medal From the Society of American Travel Writers"
September 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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forgot to mention Influencer Smurf
A picture of a hole punched into a wall
August 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I know “2,000+ words on an evil monkey island off the coast of Florida and the niche media drama it inspired” is a big ask but at least I had fun
Screenshot reading “Also June 25, 2001: CRL, refusing to take any of this lying down, releases a statement to the Times. “It is not factually possible to hook a monkey on a fishing pole,'' the statement reads. ''They are much too smart, and too strong, and would not eat in that fashion.” A touching tribute to their captive population of intelligent creatures being bred for scientific experimentation.”
July 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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look at this raccoon I drew
a pencil drawing of a raccoon wearing a bandito mask, cowboy hat, and bandana, smoking a cigarette
May 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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75% sure Chess dot com just now changed their virtual coach to have a somewhat disquieting smile
Screenshot of Chess AI coach, a smiling, bespectacled man, with the text, "You have a chance to beat me. Can you find the checkmate?"
May 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Hahahah I sure do. I considered putting it in the piece but it felt silly to do so for some reason
A photo of two portraits in a museum lobby, Donald Trump on the left, JD Vance on the right
May 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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I couldn't be more excited to share that my essay "How to Eat a Rattlesnake" will be appearing in The Best American Series / The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 collection! I'm just beyond honored to be alongside these amazing writers @marinerbooks.bsky.social
A screenshot of the Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 collection that says "Featuring my essay / On sale October 21"
May 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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you’re telling me I didn’t have to do this
A photo of me taking a picture of my computer screen with my reflection visible and the text “EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MING LEE HOWELL”
May 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I had some pots that broke so I put them outside and now random plants are growing out of them. I suspect one of them of being a tree
Some plant growing out of my pot Some plant growing out a broken pot
May 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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me: "I'm just gonna write a quick piece about this weird reality TV show I watched for my newsletter subscribers"
the piece:
screenshot saying "Post too long for email"
May 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I understand the sentiment here and I believe what this country’s government has done to indigenous people is unforgivable but you do not have to buy into the concept of “blood and soil” to take that position. “blood and soil” is a very specific, pseudoscientific idea
A screenshot of a Bluesky post reading “The only real “blood and soil” American is a Native American Indian. Everyone else is an immigrant. But go on.”
May 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I am down for the “Let’s Fucking GET Them” movement
A bird of prey snatching up a fish sandwich
April 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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kind of libidinal, Chess dot com
a screenshot from chess.com reading "Can you find a way to punish my king?"
April 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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GRANDPA
A fluffy black dog named grandpa
April 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I had to try it! dry as a bone and more like a panini. thank you. Vive le Worcester
Up close photo of the weird “chocolate croissant” I had
April 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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encountered a really interesting and perhaps insulting (certainly at least to the French) interpretation of a “chocolate croissant” here in Worcester, MA
A “chocolate croissant” on a silver dish in a coffee shop that looks a lot more like “a cookie panini”
April 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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good morning does anyone know what I'm supposed to do today
a small baby deer looks at the camera
April 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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ultimately for the best that my more controversial headline was rejected
Screenshot of a text reading My Pope is DEAD. I don’t want a conclave I just want SEX. Click here to see my PUSSY
April 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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mysterious liquid in my Boston taxi cab’s car #mysteriousliquid #Boston #liquid #RedSox #YellowLiquid
Yellow liquid in my cab
April 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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soon
ominous silhouette of a horse through the glass at the front door
April 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Safer Sephiroth from the original Final Fantasy VII game
April 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Veggie Tales and I have been circling each other for my entire life it's giving this
Cloud vs. Sephiroth in the original Final Fantasy VII series
April 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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becoming less clear to me by the day what Quora is cooking
email screenshot reading: Dear Liberals, If Joe Rogan walked up to you at a Dennys, and told you that you could become a MAGA Republican, or he would beat you up in the parking lot, would you finally stop being an evil liberal?
April 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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well everyone be nice to me when I post it pls sdfkjldslkjf
screenshot from Procreate of stats from an artwork reading: Total strokes made: 33921 Tracked time: 38h 13m Total file size: 918.71 MB
April 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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if you're curious here's a summary from a review in the Guardian
Screenshot reading: The weakest essay here is Back in the New Fire, in which Wallace suggests that Aids, because it restores to casual sex the erotically and morally salutary element of danger, might not be such a bad thing. "Aids's gift to us," he writes, "lies in its loud reminder that there's nothing casual about sex at all. This is a gift because human sexuality's power and meaning increase with our recognition of its seriousness." There's a strain of thwarted puritanism than runs through his work as a whole, but this is its crudest and clumsiest expression – at best slightly goofy, at worst vaguely sinister. It's the sort of half-baked thought experiment that would get Martin Amis dragged through the broadsheets by his hair if he'd "adumbrated" it in an interview after a few glasses of wine.
March 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM