Josiah Roberts

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“I hardly knew this old woman, but she was supposed to be important to me somehow.”

From "To Adopt a Grandparent," a new original essay by @josiahroberts.bsky.social.

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You really know if you’re doing well if the patters on the wall start to move

The mornings were reserved for thesis work. Thesis is done. This morning, I beat my record for staring at the wall with a solid hour and a half streak. Conquer one beast, onto the next. Grind never stops people. Shootin for a solid 4 hours. Don’t let anyone stop you from reaching your dreams

You were so helpful!! Thank you!!:)

Thank you @taylorbyas.bsky.social for your amazing editor’s eye and generous soul:)

To Adopt a Grandparent - The Rumpus “In every interaction there’s someone with power and someone without. If you are the latter, your two most important virtues are patience and persistence.”

My first publication is out today with The Rumpus!

It’s a piece about growing up without grandparents and working with a lot of old people at the Apple Store.

You can read it here!

therumpus.net/2025/05/06/t...

So proud of two of our @plnuwritingma.bsky.social students who received @awpwriter.bsky.social Intro Journals Project honors this year.

Nonfiction Winner: @josiahroberts.bsky.social
Poetry Honorable Mention: @itmebugail.bsky.social

Read more here: www.pointloma.edu/news/plnu-ma...

my biggest hater has been spotted at #AWP2025 @josiahroberts.bsky.social @eldiagram.bsky.social

“Boy who cried wolf this!” “Boy who cried wolf that!” What about the boy who just cried? What about him?

What if the boy who cried wolf was just lonely

I’m getting a weird nagging feeling no one’s listening to me…

Not wearing green tomorrow so I can lure the leopard cons in and tell them to stop tricking all the leopards cuz it’s not cool who’s with me

Don’t sleep on it🗣️

Baguette things comin’

The chosen one

Only begotten son

begotten

Bagu

bag get what??

bag get

baguette

I’d be your driving crooner

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Ebers Medical Papyrus, circa 1550 BCE. Oldest attested mention of migraines, as <gs-tp>: "half/side head".

Shows up again in Galen of Pergamon 1700 years later with an identical construction: ἡμικρανία <hēmikranía>

ἡμικρανία > Lat. hemicrania > O. French migraigne > English megrim, migraine

Ow.

Hey look, the @plnuwritingma.bsky.social students started a reading series!

Kudos to @itmebugail.bsky.social and @poetrybyemma.bsky.social for getting FROM THE MAW rolling tomorrow!

detective crashmore quote it’s kind of a cosmic gumbo

RIP Biff

choose your fighter y’all (choose me. I am the cooler nemesis)

2 nemesi

2nite i saw 2 nemesi in their natural habitat @jess1et.bsky.social
@josiahroberts.bsky.social

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sorry lol

It’s right around this time when the dread sets in