Joshua J. Friedman

Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.

Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.

🌉 bridged from 🦋 joshuajfriedman.com, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Last Notes

2026-07-07 23:42:51 UTC

Love to read “Chance of precipitation: 0%” on my weather app while walking in the rain

2026-03-02 22:10:15 UTC

Personal news update: I'm delighted to announce that as of today, I am an actual Bluesky employee! I'll be working to welcome indie media and local govt to Bsky—and supporting those already here.
I'll always want to hear your thoughts on how we can make Bsky the sort of social media we all want!
#nevent1q…pk7f

2025-11-10 00:01:17 UTC

CNN, CBS, others report that at least 8 Dems have reached a deal to end the shutdown
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2025-11-07 14:50:56 UTC

Ziwe’s full interview with Eric Adams, if you can handle the discomfort!
ERIC ADAMS IS AN ICONIC GUEST ...

2025-11-07 06:30:07 UTC

Oh, sorry, another request: Would you go to the app store on your phone and go to the Bluesky Social page and make sure you're updated to the latest version (1.109)?

2025-11-07 05:17:41 UTC

Q: Talk to this camera like it's a shorty from Rockaway. How are you picking them up at the club?
A: See what happened to you, shorty from Rockaway? You should've hooked up with me and you would've been the first lady of the mayor. You didn't. So you're still in Rockaway, taking that A train ...
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2025-11-07 05:04:40 UTC

Q: What do you say to critics who say that maybe a 65-year-old man is too old or embarrassing to go to the club?
A: ... When I get out of the shower and take a look at myself in my six-pack—
Q: Shut up
A: —and the firmness of my body, I'm living the 65 life.
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2025-11-07 04:47:14 UTC

Q: What's your favorite subway stop to stop-and-frisk?
A: All of them! ... When you're on the train with that beautiful outfit you have on—
Q: Oh, ty
A: —and all of a sudden you see someone hanging out, and they have a bulge on their side ...
Q: What are you saying rn?
A: What are you FEELING rn?
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2025-11-07 04:07:59 UTC

Still an essential experience

2025-11-07 04:04:54 UTC

Guess we'll find out!

2025-11-07 02:46:03 UTC

The original criminal is still out there

2025-11-07 00:46:59 UTC

Love to see all the advice and encouragement—within minutes!—in this thread. This is the best side of social media.
#nevent1q…e9ln

2025-11-06 20:00:01 UTC

Remember, Jeanine Pirro won't see your sandwich puns, but your friends who haven't had time for lunch will

2025-11-06 17:21:18 UTC

The Bsky devs tell me that the new experimental feature that hides replies that the system thinks are junk does exclude people you follow

2025-11-06 16:58:52 UTC

(The idea is that some hostile replies may come from people who reply without seeing the whole conversation/context.)

2025-11-06 01:19:38 UTC

(Her argument is that voters will now see how terrible Dems' policies are and how high taxes will be and leave for red states.)

2025-11-05 22:03:30 UTC

@samuel.fm @esb.lol @hailey.at Any advice for someone who keeps trying to delete posts but they won't delete?

2025-11-05 21:57:54 UTC

Also, would you quit and restart the mobile app or hard-refresh the browser just to see if that makes the posts vanish?

2025-11-05 18:20:13 UTC

For the non-Jews, there's a tradition of giving gifts of money in multiples of 18 because that's the numerological value of the letters in the Hebrew word "chai," meaning "life" (it's pronounced with a German-style gutteral "ch" sound).

2025-11-05 18:14:21 UTC

Hmmm, I am being told that you are, in fact, happy

2025-11-05 18:06:59 UTC

I hope you're happy: Alan Dershowitz has been forced to issue a statement on the fake Post headline
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2025-11-05 17:46:10 UTC

(I've never seen a nontraditional pairing of subjective and objective pronoun, but let me know if you think I've been missing them and/or can show me examples!)

2025-11-05 15:51:19 UTC

Oops, CJ Roberts accidentally called Justice Kagan Justice Sotomayor and she called him on it.
Makes me recall the time when Justice O'Connor and Justice Ginsburg were the first and only women to serve on the court and attorneys would address one by the other's name CONSTANTLY. It was painful.

2025-11-05 04:34:39 UTC

Mamdani name-checks "the trans community"

2025-11-05 04:31:48 UTC

Mamdani: "Thanks to all of those who sacrificed so much, we are breathing in the air of a city that has been reborn."

2025-11-05 03:58:24 UTC

Chuck Schumer statement, via NYT's Michael Gold
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2025-11-05 03:49:17 UTC

Cuomo: "Congratulations to Zohran Mandami [sic]—" (crowd boos loudly) "No, that's not right. That is not right, and that is not us."

2025-11-05 03:47:16 UTC

Cuomo, speaking at his election party, says it's important to note that nearly half of the electorate DIDN'T vote for Mamdani. Then he says that "our strength is our unity." (?)

2025-11-05 03:34:13 UTC

@hellgatenyc.com ends its broadcast day
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2025-11-05 03:21:15 UTC

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
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2025-11-05 02:38:15 UTC

NBC, The New York Times, and most importantly @hellgatenyc.com call the NYC mayoral race for Zohran Mamdani.
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2025-11-05 02:33:37 UTC

More ballots in, and Mamdani's lead is up closer to 9%: 50% Mamdani, 41% Cuomo
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2025-11-05 02:23:48 UTC

Still 1M votes to be counted, but the Mamdani–Cuomo margin is narrowing: Mamdani 50%, Cuomo 42% web.enrboenyc.us/OF11CY0PY3.h...
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2025-11-05 02:14:45 UTC

BREAKING: @jessyedwards.bsky.social is now wearing a different beret at the Curtis Sliwa election party for @hellgatenyc.com
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2025-11-05 02:11:04 UTC

DecisionDeskHQ has already heard enough and projects Mamdani as the winner! (I'm going to keep holding my breath and watch the returns come in.)
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2025-11-05 02:08:42 UTC

Here's the early vote in the NYC mayor's race: 52% Mamdani, 40% Cuomo, 8% Sliwa. Stay tuned! web.enrboenyc.us/OF11CY0PY3.h...
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2025-11-05 02:00:45 UTC

NYC hits 2 million votes, breaking the 1989 record (1.9M) and taking us back to records set in the 1960s!
(1969: 2.4M; 1965: 2.6M)
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2025-11-05 01:47:07 UTC

A glimpse from the Andrew Cuomo official watch party at Ziegfeld Ballroom, via NYPost's Matthew Fischetti
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2025-11-05 01:37:53 UTC

The great @jessyedwards.bsky.social is reporting from the Curtis Sliwa election party for @hellgatenyc.com in a tasteful beret of her own! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKA4...
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2025-11-05 01:19:21 UTC

Every time I see a photo of Abigail Spanberger, I get excited because I think @leahlitman.bsky.social was elected to something

2025-11-04 22:02:53 UTC

"'I seem to be the only person that’s figured out that this is legal here,' a grounded Warren lamented ... 'I’ve been a model aviator in New York City.'
"An NYPD spokesperson ... said the 'Fan Man' breaks numerous local laws with each flight, but did not specify which ones."
NYC's flying 'Fan Man' demands...

2025-11-04 19:28:09 UTC

I cannot
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2025-11-04 18:53:09 UTC

"Move over, boy, I got better things to do. I got plans, and they don’t include you."
#nevent1q…e084

2025-11-04 17:14:46 UTC

Want your photo included in the feed? Just use the phrase "I voted" or "Just voted" in the post or alt text!
(Using alt text is a great way to make sure your post is accessible to all Bluesky users, including those with visual and cognitive impairments! It's also fun to write)

2025-11-04 16:58:10 UTC

So much excitement on the I VOTED! feed today! I'll be checking it all day, and I hope you will be too bsky.app/profile/did:...
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2025-11-04 02:46:05 UTC

I've been wondering why Andrew Cuomo likes to call himself "a cool dude in a loose mood" and was delighted to discover that its origin is the 1980 novelty song "Eugene" by Crazy Joe & the Variable Speed Band (cowritten by Ace Frehley of Kiss). Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRF7...
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2025-11-04 01:37:00 UTC

I really love them www.ramaduwaji.com/ceramics
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2025-11-04 00:37:23 UTC

Oh those boys of ours
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2025-11-04 00:28:21 UTC

This makes me want pizzelle beer

2025-11-04 00:14:58 UTC

30 hours of Wong Kar-wai! INTO MY VEINS www.criterionchannel.com/blossoms-sha...
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2025-11-03 22:02:03 UTC

It’s not quite a bill of particulars, but it’s clarifying

2025-11-03 22:00:57 UTC

Anyone interested in the details of Jim Comey’s conversations with Dan Richman and Richman’s conversations with reporters should read this new govt brief. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-11-03 16:29:32 UTC

🚘 🥰 🌖
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2025-11-03 15:36:35 UTC

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
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2025-11-03 01:39:42 UTC

(But I don't know anything—I just can't resist a good online research project)

2025-11-02 21:21:54 UTC

(Not that anyone's asking me to lol)

2025-11-02 20:22:56 UTC

There are some phrases in which either the possessive or the "attributive" form works, even if editors have a preference—e.g., teachers' union, teachers union—and others in which it would sound too strange to use one—e.g., men room, lady room. But it's more about convention than logic!

2025-11-02 19:55:04 UTC

(And "master's degree" but "master of science degree")

2025-11-02 16:33:52 UTC

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've only seen it as a zine, and here's the original source
Pilsen Arts & Community House

2025-11-01 01:24:17 UTC

@rachelholliday.bsky.social @katiehonan.bsky.social

2025-10-31 21:10:30 UTC

Happy Halloween from the Park Slope Food Coop, your lovable hippie neighbor since 1973 @foodcoop.bsky.social
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2025-10-31 19:04:50 UTC

These sound like worthwhile experiments by the Bluesky team to improve reply quality.
And I'm certain that even though the post talks about prioritizing certain types of replies, that's just the default; you'll still be able to choose a different sort option if you prefer (they're under settings).
#nevent1q…wxgk
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2025-10-31 03:59:48 UTC

I forget: do you have a migraine drug that works for you?

2025-10-31 01:10:27 UTC

If only you knew how horribly he's aged in 12 years
13 Mugshots Of The Hottest Guy...

2025-10-31 01:08:39 UTC

Congratulations to everyone for rediscovering Buzzfeed's 2013 listicle "13 Mugshots of the Hottest Guys Ever Arrested"
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2025-10-30 23:25:29 UTC

Though to be fair, it did serve as excellent evidence for the truth: that love is not, in fact, blind!

2025-10-30 21:09:47 UTC

This is such a hit job of an interview www.tarapalmeri.com/p/congressio...
#nevent1q…6e4p

2025-10-30 21:03:40 UTC

It's pretty funny that she trimmed the clip to omit her last hard-hitting question: Is Kat is concerned that being sentenced to 6 to 8 years in prison could get in the way of her serving in Congress?
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2025-10-30 20:23:02 UTC

NEW: Comey also asks the court to disclose transcripts and audio of grand-jury proceedings so he can probe potential evidence of Lindsey Halligan's misconduct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-10-30 20:19:47 UTC

NEW: As expected, Comey also asks for a "bill of particulars" specifying what exactly he is accused of doing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-10-30 18:45:34 UTC

(It's common for people of, ahem, Bluesky age to have a pair of glasses that they use just for the computer)

2025-10-30 17:51:57 UTC

UPDATES (🧵):
#nevent1q…tun6

2025-07-18 22:55:44 UTC

WSJ claimed the Trump–Epstein article was an “exclusive.” But what if I told you they fully intended to show it to people? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-04-10 20:16:44 UTC

What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
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