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Julia Ingalls

@juliaingalls.bsky.social

Essayist, primarily. My work appears in The Los Angeles Times, Dwell, Guernica, Salon, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and occasionally on the airwaves.

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Brb just writing a screenplay about a struggling inflatable costume factory in a wholesome but dying American small town that unexpectedly helps save democracy, and democracy saves it right back.

18.10.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3548    πŸ” 659    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 38
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Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

11.10.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 10528    πŸ” 2119    πŸ’¬ 303    πŸ“Œ 127
Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

10.10.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 13598    πŸ” 3047    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 173
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it’s really good when β€œtechnology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

02.10.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 7664    πŸ” 1541    πŸ’¬ 166    πŸ“Œ 83
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧡)

24.09.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 29636    πŸ” 9969    πŸ’¬ 731    πŸ“Œ 1548

Every SCOTUS ruling feels like America slowly writing its own obituary in Comic Sans.

22.09.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1812    πŸ” 353    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 0
Front cover of book, I Knew 3000 Lunatics by Victor R.Small, 1935, Farrar & Rinehart.

Front cover of book, I Knew 3000 Lunatics by Victor R.Small, 1935, Farrar & Rinehart.

Feeling's mutual

15.09.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

well and truly one of the best. what a loss, man.

01.09.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 514    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 6
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Chicago keeping art alive:

29.08.2025 11:33 β€” πŸ‘ 28298    πŸ” 5656    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 177

The koan of adulthood: how to be excited about things you are not excited about

26.08.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

kitchen table issue: stop kidnapping my neighbors!

24.08.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4105    πŸ” 816    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 11

Pivot to alcohol

13.08.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
β€œA life taken over can be wonderful. But it can also be sappy and stupid and dramatic. A play directed by God is many people’s stage of choice.”

β€œA life taken over can be wonderful. But it can also be sappy and stupid and dramatic. A play directed by God is many people’s stage of choice.”

From Rita Bullwinkel’s novel β€œHeadshot,” about the drive to be the best at a given pursuit:

10.08.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just finished β€œHeadshot” by Rita Bullwinkel, and that is a stunner of a novel.

10.08.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

08.08.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3192    πŸ” 821    πŸ’¬ 449    πŸ“Œ 763

It's so crazy we live in a world where female athletes are striking for better wages and dodging sex toys being thrown at them, while trans athletes are being accused of evil scheming so they can play women's sports, which pays well and is highly dignified. It's almost like someone's full of shit

08.08.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1714    πŸ” 467    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

If one journalist was just bold enough to ask him, β€œwere you just not rich enough to be invited to the island”, he would crack.

06.08.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1001    πŸ” 222    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 27

Hope it all turns out well, Wendy! ❀️

07.08.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Motherfucking wind farms…

30.07.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 46992    πŸ” 17683    πŸ’¬ 1149    πŸ“Œ 2381

adding in case you/your followers find this helpful:

28.07.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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VidiotsΒ Launches Initiative to Preserve Rare VHS, with 1,500 Tapes Identified So Far Vidiots and BAVC are partnering to digitize rare VHS from Vidiots' legacy collection β€” starting with the first 100 of 1,500 titles.

Physical media forever πŸ“Ό

23.07.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 786    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 14

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If women submitting to men was a natural way of being, they would not have needed laws, religion & violence to get them to do it.

15.07.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 19060    πŸ” 3878    πŸ’¬ 336    πŸ“Œ 201

Echo chamber? ECHO CHAMBER?!? This site has BOTH people who think Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written AND people who know the real GOAT is Middlemarch!!

11.07.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 514    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 51

being in predominately american internet spaces is like hearing your coworker audibly sobbing at their desk and every 10 minutes they get another text that makes them sob harder

04.02.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 444    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

It’s almost like these people are so used to using money as a power tool they’ve forgotten that people exist who don’t have to be bought, but rather actually WANT to help others: not for a payday, but out of genuine love for their community. They simply can’t process authenticity.

02.07.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times

timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

02.07.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7497    πŸ” 3710    πŸ’¬ 166    πŸ“Œ 187
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Second Coming No. 160 β€” June 28, 2025 A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime

The latest from the always astonishing @brendanconstantine.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/indolent...

28.06.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Deep Space Nine community! Mila, a.k.a Juliana McCarthy, needs your help. Check out this GoFundMe from her son below; any help is greatly appreciated!
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