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alaina-johns.bsky.social
Philly-based journalist and crusader for cultural criticism. Editor-in-chief of Broad Street Review, Philly’s home for arts, culture, and conversation. She/her For pitches, praise, and hate-readers: ajohns at broadstreetreview dot com
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Is it just me or are we all buying bottles of detergent that aren’t QUITE full anymore? Every brand on the shelf looks like this. I know far bigger injustices are afoot, including some that’ll probably kill me, but I hate the scale of this scam on consumers.

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I guess the “threat” of mood stabilizers is that people like me are able to have decent productive lives, stay out of the hospital, and protest fascism instead of just dying. (A big welcome to everyone who is just now realizing that yes, these folks just want disabled people dead)

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Emil Bove won’t see your posts about his looks but your friends who drank from the curséd chalice and aged 50 years in the span of a moment will

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I cope with my crushing existential doom by knitting sweaters for my dog. At this point I don’t even know how many she has but I think we can all agree she needs more.

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Cashier at the convenience store on E Passyunk is saying “you too” to everyone who says “Go Birds”

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BRB obsessing over the 1976 knitting manual @retrogambit.bsky.social got me as a Valentine

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It’s really silly that I don’t already own this book. Will order it tomorrow from my fave little neighborhood book shop

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In These Unprecedented Times Kyle V. Hiller (left) & Neil P. Bardhan (@neilpbardhan.bsky.social) may be all that’s keeping me going. We’ve been running Broad Street Review together since 2019.

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If you don’t care about disability on a human rights basis, and you don’t love anyone who is disabled, try remembering that ANYONE CAN BECOME DISABLED AT ANY TIME and fight for your own rights.

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Very fine new art by @retrogambit.bsky.social

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Erin Reed is doing essential work every day reporting on the landscape for trans folks in America.

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Today my therapist gently reminded me that a person who is always, ALWAYS acting like a victim is, in fact, being narcissistic. Maybe you need the reminder today too. Let’s go forth and quit fucking with these people.

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Schadenfreude check: Are we wondering how the Supreme Court feels about crowning King Donald now that they and all their colleagues will be irrelevant by the time Daylight Saving starts? Or are we just sad about our one remaining branch of government

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