joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
@reluctantlyjoe
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scientist, writer. VIROLOGY (Norton, 2022) "dazzling... love essays" -NYTimes Book Review, NBCC & Lambda Literary Finalist.
New York, NY
Joined November 2013
[sorry im going to be super annoying on main for the next month] An incredible, generous, careful, glowing review of VIROLOGY in @PublishersWkly: "Original and bubbling with curiosity, this is a masterful achievement." https://t.co/lSWV0pw0Fs for pre-orders <3 <3
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No secret models No "premium requests" No rate limits Complete control Your productivity tool shouldn't be your biggest productivity problem.
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I don’t know what any of my exes are doing. I don’t know what any of my former friends are doing. and you’re not supposed to! there was a time when you just never saw a person again. I’m nostalgic for those times. disappear like a ghost! woooo!
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every time someone asks me about my dislike and refusal to use AI, i send them this.
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Some things just work, even if you feel as though they should not.
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Sorry I can’t talk rn, it’s loud here outside the vegan anti-cancer drum line performance.
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Hot Honey is bad actually, and I do not want it anywhere near my pepperoni pizza.
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The number of times re rewound and watched this sequence was REMARKABLE just pure joy that I have not felt in months. Need @iamjohnoliver's thoughts immediately.
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Hey man nice signifier. Does its meaning depend on a system of arbitrary differences?
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just casually dipped into a pdf of Adorno's Minima Moralia and had actually forgotten that it's like this
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she does not
“The governor has one vote. Let’s be clear on that,” Mayor Eric Adams says of Gov. Kathy Hochul endorsing Zohran Mamdani for mayor. Says it’s politics and that Hochul called him before she announced the endorsement.
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Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope
order your groceries. saves an extra 1-2 hours a week. compounded, thats 50-100 hours a year. a whole week work of work you gain. i promise that time is more important then the $10 delivery fee
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Last year, this piece moored me. For more than 9 months— and it still does. I get dizzy when I look at it.
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Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?
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Oddly enough, I think we're not hearing much about cases because the stigma of the infection now might be greater than before, when lots of people were talking about their experience. Of course there continues to be a large mpox outbreak in the DRC, too. https://t.co/CG0KLJw621
reliefweb.int
Situation Report in English on Democratic Republic of the Congo and 4 other countries about Health and Epidemic; published on 31 Jul 2025 by WHO
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If you haven't gotten the second dose of your JYNNEOS vaccine, you can head to the Chelsea Sexual Health Clinic run by @nycHealthy anytime for a walk in. https://t.co/lp64oiNyiK
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It's not time to ring any alarms, but just your reminder that MPOX hasn't – and won't – gone away. NYC data shows a summer increase in cases, likely due to increased sexual activity during this time, and potentially waning immunity.
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My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.
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Launched today! Join 6 Nobel Laureates, 27 Members of the US National Academies & the Scientific Advisory Board of the Accountability Journalism Institute in signing this petition demanding RFK Jr.'s resignation. https://t.co/pF5WePJ4rU
change.org
Demand RFK Jr. Resign: Petition for a Healthy America
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TOO LATE I AM ALREADY DOING JUST THAT
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