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joshbales.bsky.social
Writer, raconteur, and dachshund enthusiast based in Dayton, Ohio. Big fan of Space, both Ghost: Coast to Coast and Above and Beyond. Fiction in SLATE and elsewhere. Substack: modernidiot.org Website: joshbales.net
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I can’t enjoy breakout rooms because they feel too contrived and fake. I need to be kidnapped and dumped in an old ramshackle mansion, and only told after the fact that I just escaped a breakout room

got a $10 settlement check in the mail from a theranos lawsuit i didn't know existed, which i assume is compensation from elizabeth holmes personally for making it so i can never wear a black turtleneck again

I’ve been saying “fuck me in the goat ass” for decades, and only just today learned it’s a line from a 30 year old Adam Sandler song

My best fiend got me some plants for my birthday. I am historically not great at keeping green things alive. But the other day I REMEMBERED to check on them. I OBSERVED they were looking a little sad and wilty, so I WATERED them. Today they look full of life again. Simply amazing. Life is beautiful.

It has come to my attention that you can buy the ebook of my novel Love/Aggression for literally ONE dollar on Itch right now! This is the deal of the century for sure traumbooks.itch.io/loveaggression

Rewarding myself for surviving another dental cleaning with lunch from Hate Chicken

GOLDILOCKS: I’m going to break into their house tomorrow

*bursts through the wall* How about you PASDES NUTS.

Almost slowmo rear-ended a ford explorer at a red light because I was staring at a Mexican market and marveling at how boring and basic American brands seem to be by comparison

democrats come up with a political strategy that isn't blaming leftists challenge failed again for the 1000th time

Hear, hear! The people in this boneheaded country deserve to be a able to go for a schvitz every now and again

Let’s hear it for bands with “pussy” somewhere in their name. Alphapussy, Mannequin Pussy, Pussy Riot. Great music, and I would have gladly worn your shirts in high school. Then gotten in trouble for it and forced to put a different shirt on over it. An honor.

At the adult prom last weekend with the greatest of comrades 📸: @meanbill.bsky.social

Turning off the lights in the bedroom so the neighbors don’t see me fighting for my life to fold the sheets

If the CONSTANTINE sequel ever spreads its wings (har har) and gets off the ground, Keanu Reeves should be blonde and have a Cockney accent — no explanation, no acknowledgement. Just “bloody this”, “bollocks that”

I’m watching CONSTANTINE for the first time in forever. I forgot Tilda Swinton is in it. Holy shit. She can stand on my prone body anytime

Me whenever a news alert about Trump or Elon comes across my phone:

whenever someone posts something they perceive as a resounding blow against the man and say "whatever you do, PLEASE don't spread this around or repost it on social media, it would make elmo minkrat and his orange overlord soooooo sad" im like ok 👍 won't

On an impromptu road trip to Columbus to aid FF and Kirby, who are locked out of the house. FF’s keys somehow fell through a crack in the foundation and are under the house? I think?

When the vet tells you to exercise your dog more, but you watch a lot of horror films and misunderstand

He’s got the cutest butt

The Democrats are in my inbox begging for money, like even if they got back in power they’d fucking do anything anyways

[people who went to King’s Island in the 80s, any time they now find themselves in a sprawling parking lot] Alright y’all, don’t forget, we parked in Scrappy Doo 8

I’m watching THE SOPRANOS for the first time and I’m digging it, though it would be neat if something truly dreadful happened to Tony’s mom and Christopher real soon

If you have a podcast and you are consenting to ads being ran for Design dot com and their “AI logo generator”, then I will 100% not be supporting your podcast

Tyler Perry is so fucking good in GONE GIRL. A film franchise built around Tanner Bolt traveling from fucked up case to fucked up case, à la Benoit Blanc, would have been the berries

There’s no reason you can’t have the last of the cotton candy ice cream in your freezer for breakfast, you can grab it and go hog wild

What if we kissed at the intersection of death’s certain victory and the possibilities of art that loves the world

Love the Mel Brooks/David Lynch friendship so much

I’m watching THE SOPRANOS for the first, and this Extremely 1999, Web 1.0 website Meadow uses to educate AJ about their dad’s “other family” is sending me

An incredibly well-researched piece on the horrors of Neil Gaiman. It is extremely upsetting and explicit. Please be careful reading it. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

G’morning. Here’s a little Monday motivation. If you’re feeling down today, remember — you’ve got this

It’s been over half a year since a handful of Neil Gaiman’s targets finally started going public with their individual allegations of coercion, rape, battery, humiliation, bullying, slander, etc. Taken in aggregate, their stories reveal a decades-long, escalating pattern of violent abuse by Neil.

The Social Network (2010)