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staff writer @theatlantic.com / writing book on friendship in the age of hyperindividualism / creator of The Friendship Files / newsletter: https://julieebeck.beehiiv.com

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Not only are Palestinians starving to death, they are being killed as they try to access food.

03.08.2025 18:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 319    ๐Ÿ” 167    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

nothing like coming up with a crackpot theory based purely on vibes, then digging into the research and discoveringโ€ฆyou may be right

18.07.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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to my fellow lifters looking to improve grip strength, just buy this conditioner

iykyk

11.07.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I miss when I could google something and find information from sources other than โ€œCatholic MatchPlus,โ€ โ€œStyleGirlfriend.com, someoneโ€™s 10-year-old personal blog, and Quora

10.07.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Feminine Pursuit of Swoleness Casey Johnstonโ€™s new book, "A Physical Education," considers how weight lifting can help you unlearn diet culture.

I wrote about @caseyjohnston.bsky.social 's weightlifting memoir, the perks of getting jacked, and why I eat candy at the gym

www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

03.07.2025 14:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 70    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I just realized, just now, at age 34, in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty five, in THIS economy... that the Playstation logo is made up of a P and an S

27.06.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This Pride Month, the Backlash Has Officially Arrived Young LGBTQ people are facing the prospect of losing rights they thought theyโ€™d never have to worry about.

a great story by @emmasarappo.bsky.social that I wish she hadn't needed to write www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

25.06.2025 16:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Wedding Reveals How Much Help Is Really Available to You Big life moments offer permission to ask for assistance. You should seize it.

real thank you notes ARE coming but until then let this serve as a token of gratitude for everyone who helped with our wedding, and a plea to others to let your friends help you!!

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24.06.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know Iโ€™m washed up because the girlies are now wearing leggings with sewn in artificial ass crackโ€ฆI canโ€™t get behind it and I wonโ€™t get it on my behind

21.06.2025 03:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

why didn't anyone tell me that evernote rules

17.06.2025 14:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The New Singlehood Stigma Society tells us we should have a partnerโ€”but we shouldnโ€™t want one.

no one is reporting on modern romance and singlehood quite like @faith-hill.bsky.social. sheโ€™s an astute observer of the vibes and distills them so clearly, I always learn something!

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11.06.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In Defense of the โ€˜Wife Guyโ€™ The phrase has become a pejorative. Why?

let @jeremygordon.bsky.social love his wife you cowards

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

09.06.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
two white cats are snuggling on a pile of blankets. one is laying down with one paw extended, the other is curled up like a powdered donut. Iโ€™m laying down next to them with my face on one cat and my arm around another

two white cats are snuggling on a pile of blankets. one is laying down with one paw extended, the other is curled up like a powdered donut. Iโ€™m laying down next to them with my face on one cat and my arm around another

the art is awesome but it would have been better illustrated with a picture of cherry and ginkgo:

02.06.2025 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You Donโ€™t Know Yourself As Well as You Think You Do And thatโ€™s okay.

this is the story of how I shocked myself by transforming into a cat person, and how, despite the cultural premium on finding yourself, we donโ€™t know ourselves as well as we might think

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

02.06.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

31.05.2025 02:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12291    ๐Ÿ” 4128    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 104    ๐Ÿ“Œ 132
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Food for Gaza decays in Jordan warehouses as Israel restricts aid Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.

Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.

30.05.2025 23:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 686    ๐Ÿ” 373    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 60    ๐Ÿ“Œ 49
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It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gazaโ€™s Children Israelโ€™s limits on aid have put the region at โ€œcritical risk of famine.โ€ Help is within reach. But itโ€™s not enoughโ€”and itโ€™s arriving too slowly.

It should not need to be said, and it should not be controversial to say it, but: Starving children is wrong.

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about the horror of the Palestinian people needlessly starving while food is within reach:

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

23.05.2025 16:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 447    ๐Ÿ” 141    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gazaโ€™s Children Israelโ€™s limits on aid have put the region at โ€œcritical risk of famine.โ€ Help is within reach. But itโ€™s not enoughโ€”and itโ€™s arriving too slowly.

It should not be controversial to say that the starvation of Gazaโ€™s children is wrong, @julieebeck.bsky.social argues:

23.05.2025 19:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 375    ๐Ÿ” 89    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gazaโ€™s Children Israelโ€™s limits on aid have put the region at โ€œcritical risk of famine.โ€ Help is within reach. But itโ€™s not enoughโ€”and itโ€™s arriving too slowly.

It should not need to be said, and it should not be controversial to say it, but: Starving children is wrong.

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about the horror of the Palestinian people needlessly starving while food is within reach:

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

23.05.2025 16:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 447    ๐Ÿ” 141    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

โ€œFor exampleโ€: tired, hackneyed, amateurish, college-essay core

โ€œFor instanceโ€: sophisticated, mature, elegant, send me my Pulitzer now

16.05.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

beyond parody, beyond horrific

16.05.2025 01:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I yearn to become a birder but the trouble is Iโ€™m not observant and I donโ€™t notice things

15.05.2025 22:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜SNLโ€™ Isnโ€™t Really Hot for Your Mom A raunchy sketch ends up reinforcing the stereotype of mothers as frumpy and sexless.

In the Motherโ€™s Day episode of โ€œSaturday Night Live,โ€ Walton Goggins played a flirty waiter hot for moms. But the mothers ended up feeling like the butt of the joke, @julieebeck.bsky.social writes:

11.05.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Totally Unnecessary Way to Stress Parents Out The tyranny of school spirit days

I am back at @theatlantic.com after being away for a year for book leave, and for my first article as a staff writer, I had to take on an institution that has grown far too powerful in modern society... the school spirit day

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

08.05.2025 15:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

they're filming the podcasters now... it upsets the natural order of things. a podcaster is meant to be heard and not seen

06.05.2025 18:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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hard not to see โ€œsovereignty outran journalismโ€ as anything but a bad portent

04.05.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what I personally want to smell like, as I've always said, is a wet rock

24.04.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why does Gen Z smell like sugar? ๏ปฟFrom Dunkinโ€™ deodorant to Sabrina Carpenter perfume, smelling good isnโ€™t enough โ€” itโ€™s all about smelling edible.

absolutely foul

www.vox.com/culture/4052...

24.04.2025 14:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Hi there! I am a reporter at The Atlantic working on a story about how there are too many spirit days / dress up days at schools now--would you be willing to chat with me about your experience for the story? Happy to answer any qs, you can email me at julie @ the atlantic dot com

23.04.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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