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Jesse Thorn

@jessethorn.bsky.social

Host of NPR's Bullseye, Judge John Hodgman and Jordan Jesse Go. Founder and worker-owner of Maximum Fun. Four-time professional actor. “Still bringin’ satin for them draws, velvet for the mic and got a pound for the cause.”

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If Judge John were ever asked to throw the first pitch at a baseball game, he would simply hand the ball to Bailiff @jessethorn.bsky.social

07.03.2026 19:46 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

If there's media you care about, it's hard to overstate how important it is that you subscribe to it. Ad rates are garbage, and the changes to search mean fewer new folks discovering sites they didn't already visit.

07.03.2026 18:15 — 👍 190    🔁 64    💬 5    📌 4
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Community Spirit - Why Choose with Jordan Morris and Jesse Thorn! | Maximum Fun Brea and Mallory dive deep with Jordan Morris and Jesse Thorn to discuss Queenie and the Krakens, mermen, the appeal of why-choose books, and jeans boners.

Me n' @jessethorn.bsky.social reviewed a fish-person-biker-gang-polycule-sex-thriller for the delightful and filthy READING SMUT podcast! maximumfun.org/episodes/rea...

06.03.2026 20:50 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Democracy’s back

06.03.2026 17:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm out here eating cottage cheese out of a dessert bowl like I was at a health spa in 1976

06.03.2026 14:21 — 👍 34    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0
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Go suck a lemon?

06.03.2026 13:07 — 👍 55    🔁 0    💬 10    📌 0

THANKS FOR SAYING IT AGAIN

06.03.2026 03:38 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We love when Judge @hodgman.bsky.social gets an episode about sports! Bailiff @jessethorn.bsky.social especially loves it the most.

06.03.2026 01:08 — 👍 36    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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REVIEW: Fighting the Predator for Healthcare in Predator: Bloodshed #1 — Comic Book Clique Initial Thoughts on Predator: Bloodshed #1 Predator: Bloodshed #1 continues this new era of unique and interesting takes on the classic movie property, Predator. While not all of the adaptations ...

"Predator: Bloodshed #1 was as strong a foundational, world-building first issue as it gets, mixing real-world social commentary covered in a bloody, sci-fi shell."

A great review of PREDATOR: BLOODSHED #1, written by @jordanmorris.bsky.social!

05.03.2026 23:39 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Joyce Manor are always growing up - Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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I’m pretty sure that the band Joyce Manor still consider their home club to be an unused room behind a Japanese convenience store in Torrance. I had such a great time talking with them.

youtu.be/EIlRBc2or68?...

05.03.2026 12:59 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I feel like maybe two out of three is but I guess that’s why I’m not a poetess

05.03.2026 02:48 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Nikka Costa - Like A Feather
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05.03.2026 02:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I figured out how to fit a week's clothes for cold, wet New York into a 32L backpack so I could roll a 50-pound electric blue checked bag full of merch and stagecraft onto the Long Island Railroad, so I hope if you are in Brooklyn you are coming to @judgejohnhodgman.bsky.social at the Bell House.

04.03.2026 23:04 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Noé Montes proves it’s never too late to become an artist - Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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my interview with Jesse Thorn on Bullseye

youtu.be/gotHH8qlKhc?...

04.03.2026 18:33 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The honest truth is that given the best evidence, given a child with consistent and persistent gender difference and the consistent and persistent desire for medical intervention, the conservative path is to offer care. The radical choice is to deny it, based on ideology or stubbornness or cruelty.

04.03.2026 22:35 — 👍 39    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

To offer gender-affirming care or to deny care are both serious, permanent choices. There is no avoiding the choice. The question is whether the choice respects the life and health of the human being involved, or an imagined world where they are someone else.

04.03.2026 22:31 — 👍 43    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

This so much. All choices carry consequences, no choice is certain. No medical intervention of any kind is perfectly safe or perfectly effective. But gender-affirming care works. It is a caring choice by committed caregivers who listen to and respect the humanity of kids.

04.03.2026 22:28 — 👍 107    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

He once posted a similar sort of flight of fancy imagination (not labeled as such) about my family on Twitter, after a tweet I wrote about having a trans kid went viral. It really sucked. He deleted it after a while but never acknowledged it or apologized.

04.03.2026 22:20 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Get ready NYC I have a new light sweater for flights

04.03.2026 18:08 — 👍 35    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Get ready NYC I have a new light sweater for flights

04.03.2026 18:08 — 👍 35    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Huh

04.03.2026 16:37 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Jesse singal literally wrote a whole article about an imaginary me and then asked people to be furious at his fantasy version of me.

04.03.2026 12:05 — 👍 2343    🔁 366    💬 62    📌 34
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I’m headed to NYC today to prep for Judge John Hodgman: Night Court at the Bell House. Friday and Saturday night! Special guests, games, humor jokes. I hope you’re coming.

04.03.2026 13:44 — 👍 30    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Bit.ly/JJHOBELL for tickets im def going

03.03.2026 23:52 — 👍 31    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I guess it's back to the A's for 2018 first round pick Kyler Murray.

04.03.2026 00:57 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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Give us your wildest, weirdest, & most controversial opinions for our new LIVE segment, AFTER DARK! This time we'll rule on ANYTHING, not just disputes. So if you have a problem with a product, a movie, or society in general, drop it in the replies! We'll answer them LIVE on stage at NIGHT COURT

03.03.2026 20:15 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAMER

03.03.2026 23:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One more from our most recent episode, on Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

www.flophousepodcast.com/2026/02/epis...

03.03.2026 19:18 — 👍 23    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Routes my whole morning through the dollar store and despite an extended helium balloon inflation delay at the counter have managed to secure safe, Berryful passage to NYC. See you Friday and Saturday at the Bell House.

03.03.2026 18:31 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

I really can’t emphasize enough that the queer community in this country stands so emphatically with the trans people among them. Institutionally. Personally. Collectively. At every turn I have felt active support from cis queer people. Nobody is buying this bullshit except opinion editors.

03.03.2026 18:23 — 👍 33    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0