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joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
@reluctantlyjoe
scientist, writer. VIROLOGY (Norton, 2022), SPAWNING SEASON (Bloomsbury, May 2026).
New York, NY
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Dec 11, 2025
    Well! I wrote a book. I've been pretty quiet about it. I'm generally open to a fault: depression, breakups, body issues. But this book charts a part of my life very VERY few people know about. I almost had a kid. And then I didn't have a kid. electricliterature.com/exclusive-cove…
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Jul 29, 2024
    LET THE BUBBLE BURST
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    Remmelt Ellen 🛑
    @RemmeltE
    Jul 29, 2024
    Ooh yes.
    Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn't Making Any Serious Money
"We sense that Wall Street is growing increasingly skeptical."
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Jul 7, 2024
    This sounds fucking awesome. Don’t know why the NYTimes said people find this program “dangerous”?
    The far-left’s proposed platform includes raising France’s monthly minimum wage, lowering the legal retirement age from 64 to 60, building one million new affordable housing units in five years and freezing the prices of basic necessities including food, energy and gas. The state would also pay households all costs associated with their children’s education, including meals at cafeterias, transportation and extracurricular activities.
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Aug 24, 2024
    Replying to @urdadssidepiece
    “The last time you got fucked was by genetics” oh my god
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Dec 6, 2019
    “YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO SAY, IM A POET!” shouted a small boy to his mother, just now, on 14th street, in New York.
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Jun 2, 2021
    Happy pride!
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Jan 11, 2023
    I'm a little confused by the "WHAT SHOULD WE MASK FOREVER?!?!?" argument. SARS-2 will be here forever. I wish that weren't true, but it is. Masking in shared indoor spaces is a low-cost and effective way to prevent infection. Cold/Flu season indoor masking? Maybe it's... good?
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Dec 23, 2023
    Lower East Side residents are trying to close Bluestockings bookstore because they give out narcan, socks, and toothpaste and let unhoused people go to the bathroom. Vile, disgusting behavior from LES gentrifiers. curbed.com/2023/12/bluest…
    headline: Bluestocking is facing eviction for handing out narcan
with a picture of the front of the bookstore
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Oct 30, 2023
    "From the river to the sea" was claimed in the 1960s by the Palestine Liberation Organization in their call for a SECULAR state in which both jewish and non-jewish people would be granted full citizenship. Your history is wrong and supporting genocide.
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    Coturnix Codorniz
    @CCoturnix
    Oct 30, 2023
    Replying to @CCoturnix and @yarbsalocin
    By normalizing language that has a long history of antisemitism (eg. from the river to the sea), it becomes much easier for folks to let their obvert antisemitism fly.
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Jun 28, 2023
    In the last three days, my bf has been called a faggot and spat on and I was just told to “walk like a man” and then threatened with sexual assault on the street. If you think this increase in homophobic street harassment isn’t due to anti queer and trans politics… you’re wrong
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Jun 29, 2021
    What if clinical depression / anxiety is actually a HEALTHY response to global warming and late capitalism?
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Jul 25, 2022
    Holy fuck THIS IS A SCANDAL EVERY CASE OF MONKEYPOX SINCE JUNE IS ON THE HANDS (I wish literally) OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. VACCINE SAT IN FREEZERS OUT OF FEARS... OF A SMALLPOX OUTBREAK in... STRAIGHT PEOPLE? from... BIOTERRORISM, I guess?
    Protesters marched in Manhattan on July 21 to demand a stronger government response to the spread of monkeypox.
    As Monkeypox Spread in New York, 300,000 Vaccine Doses Sat in Denmark (Published 2022)
    From nytimes.com
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    Feb 6, 2024
    For folks who think COVID-19 testing is useless, I just took a pre-travel test without symptoms and... HAVE COVID-19! So instead of going to AWP and DEFINITELY spreading it, I'll be staying home. Have fun without me everyone!!!
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    joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
    @reluctantlyjoe
    May 19, 2022
    There's a LOT wrong here, but among the worst thing is this notion of a SINGLE GENIUS SCIENTIST (usually a man) and how SCIENCE CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT HIM. Research professors haven't done actual experiments in YEARS in most cases. Who actually DOES the science? THE TRAINEES.