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joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

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joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

@reluctantlyjoe

scientist, writer. VIROLOGY (Norton, 2022), SPAWNING SEASON (Bloomsbury, May 2026).

New York, NY

Joined November 2013

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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
Remmelt Ellen 🛑
@RemmeltE
Jul 29, 2024
Ooh yes.
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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”?
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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.
joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
@reluctantlyjoe
Jun 2, 2021
Happy pride!
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…
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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.
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?
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?
As Monkeypox Spread in New York, 300,000 Vaccine Doses Sat in Denmark (Published 2022)
From nytimes.com
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.