Justin

@virtualjustin

Washingtonian (the non-state Washington), bulldog lover 🐶, and avid reader 🏳️‍🌈

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Justin@virtualjustin· 1d

I just started reading David Graeber and David Wengrow’s “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” and I literally busted out laughing when I read this line about why Oscar Wilde was an advocate of socialism. (Thanks to @onlydans.bsky.social and @aussie-himbo.bsky.social for the book!)

Page 20 of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.”

Justin@virtualjustin· 7d

This is who you’re referring to when you say that.

A newborn baby being cradled in their mother’s arms shortly after being born.

Justin@virtualjustin· 7d

Whaaat? This is the first perfect pokémon that I’ve ever captured in Pokémon GO that’s actually decent! 😦🥹

Screen capture from the Pokémon GO mobile app. A captured Mewtwo assessed with perfect stats.

Justin@virtualjustin· 18d

Update: it’s working

Electric blue Iomega Z100USB external Zip drive with a Zip 100 disk inside of its window pane.

Justin@virtualjustin· 18d

It would have cost you $8.00 to see Jurassic Park 3 in a movie theater when it was released in July 2001.

A movie theater ticket stub from 20 July 2001 for Jurassic Park 3.

Justin@virtualjustin· Jul 14

I had my 25th high school reunion this past weekend. 👴🏻

A group of ten adults pose together on a green lawn in front of the Patuxent River.

A steaming bucket filled with live Chesapeake Bay blue crabs.

A table covered with newspapers and freshly steamed blue crabs from the Chesapeake Bay. The steamed crabs are now red in color.

A table covered in the picked remains of a crab feast.

Justin@virtualjustin· Jul 14

My Pantone Birth Chart Palette pantonecolors.net/pantone-birth-chart Now if only I had the *slightest* clue what any of this actually means… 🤔

My Big 3 + Venus Pantone palette: Aquarius Sun, Capricorn Moon, Pisces Rising, Pisces Venus - #2FA7C9 #5C6571 #87C8C5 #B6A4D8

Justin@virtualjustin· Jun 9

Take me back to this past weekend’s pool session 🥲

A man takes a selfie while sitting on the ledge of an in-ground pool. There are green trees, grass, and shrubs behind him.

Two men pose for a selfie in the foreground; next to them is a wooden coffee table with snacks on top of it. In the background is an in-ground pool filled with revelers.

A man takes a selfie while sticking his tongue out and sitting on the ledge of an in-ground pool. There are green trees, grass, and shrubs behind him.

Justin@virtualjustin· Jun 5

Happy Pride from the LeDroit Park neighborhood archway! 🌈

Two men stand underneath a neighborhood sign covered in hanging flowers of different colors. In the foreground, another man is taking their picture.

Justin@virtualjustin· May 29

Post a photo from 2019, you say? 🤔

A man wearing a forest green puffer jacket standing in front of a mirror taking a selfie. West Elm furniture displays are scattered throughout the background.

Justin@virtualjustin· May 28

Managed to pull this guy out of my very first Paradox Drive pack!

Justin@virtualjustin· May 8

My Stonewall DC bocce league team finished out the regular season 4-4! All that’s left is the close-out tournament next Saturday!

A collection of nine individuals grouped together celebrating the end of their bocce league regular spring season. They’re wearing a uniform of orange t-shirts.

Justin@virtualjustin· May 6

Wyna no 😖

Screen capture of The New York Times Connections Puzzle No. 1060.

Justin@virtualjustin· May 6

*Every* time I FaceTime by three-year old nephew, he has to cycle through at least ten different Memoji face filters 🤦‍♂️

Screen capture of a young boy sitting at a white countertop with a Tyrannosaurus rex Memoji filter applied to his head.

Screen capture of a young boy sitting at a white countertop with a rainbow-colored unicorn Memoji filter applied to his head.

Screen capture of a young boy sitting at a white countertop with a monkey Memoji filter applied to his head.

Screen capture of a young boy sitting at a white countertop with a robot Memoji filter applied to his head.

Justin@virtualjustin· Mar 30

Today I went to The Phillips Collection in Dupont Circle to see their “Miró and the United States” special exhibition! I also learned that Alexander Calder and Joan Miró were such close friends that Calder made a wire mobile of Miró’s likeness and gave it to him as a gift!

Alexander Calder (b. 1898, Lawnton, PA-d. 1976, New York, NY)

JOAN MIRÓ (1930)
Wire

Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, on loan from a private collection.

Justin@virtualjustin· Mar 30

Stumbled upon the infamous Georgetown Transformers sculptures while walking through the neighborhood today! I’m usually never in this part of town and I’d never actually seen them in person before!

Man standing in front of a sculpture depicting Optimus Prime, the Autobot Transformer.

Sculpture depicting Bumblebee, the Autobot Transformer.

Sculpture depicting Optimus Prime, the Autobot Transformer.

Justin@virtualjustin· Feb 23

This group text was really going through it this afternoon. It was probably the 7th name change in 24 hours by this point!

A cropped screen capture of an Apple iOS iMessage group text. Between 02:15 pm and 03:35 pm, iMessage notifies all members that the name of the group text has been changed no less than four times.

Justin@virtualjustin· Feb 19

A story told in two photos:

An image of a half-step with yellow and black caution stripes and telling restaurant patrons “Watch Your Step.”

Just some of the soda that a random lady flung into the air and spilling on my food, table, and face when she did not, in fact, watch her step.

Justin@virtualjustin· Feb 4

Tell me, Daniel!

Justin@virtualjustin· Jan 30

An image of Canadian actress Katherine O’Hara as the Schitt’s Creek character Moira Rose, providing the following advice: “Take a thousand naked pictures of yourself now. You may currently think, “Oh, I’m too spooky.” Or, “nobody wants to see these tiny boobies.” But, believe me, one day you will look at those photos with much kinder eyes.”

Justin@virtualjustin· Jan 26

My (almost!) 3-year old nephew insisted on giving me these for Christmas. I don’t have the heart to get rid of them, but what on earth am I going to do with eight ugly dolls in my apartment?? 😩

A brown cardboard box that contains a variety of Fuggler (Funny Ugly Monster) figurines. Each figurine is different, multicolored, and displays a variety of unsightly rictuses, mottled fur, and garish colors.

Justin@virtualjustin· Jan 18

@aussie-himbo.bsky.social reporting his second-tier children

A man sits on the floor and repots snake plants in small containers.

Justin@virtualjustin· Jan 18

Thank you for my once-a-year cappuccino, @onlydans.bsky.social! ☕️ (Celebrity guest appearance inside of his own home by @aussie-himbo.bsky.social)

A large coffee cup filled with foam is in the foreground. In the background, a man lays on his back on a couch while scrolling through his smartphone.

Justin@virtualjustin· Jan 17

Film director John Waters being interviewed and saying “I know a lot of perverts”

Justin@virtualjustin· Jan 16

I think that it’s kind of hilarious how derezzed the image from 2006 is. This one is a lot clearer.

A man wearing a black crew neck sweater stares into a camera with a stupid askew expression on his face.

Justin@virtualjustin· Jan 16

It turns out I participated in the ten-year challenge back in 2016, so here is me in 2006 (left) and then 2016 (right).

Side-by-side selfies of the same man. The left-side image is a man wearing a black crew neck sweater; the right-side image is a man wearing a red, green, and blue plaid shirt.

Justin@virtualjustin· Jan 1

About last night. Happy new year, everyone!

A man with dark brown hair takes a selfie in a bathroom mirror. He is wearing a blue and white striped shirt and wearing a pair of paper eyeglasses with a paper crown affixed to its “bridge.”

Celebratory paper garland hanging on a living room wall. The garland says “H-A-P-P-Y-N-E-W-Y-E-A-R-2-0-2-6.”

Custom printed Oreo cookies with an image of a dog on its back in front of the US Capitol Building.

A kitchen table with a variety of snacks on top of it.

Justin@virtualjustin· Dec 31

I managed to read 31 books this year. Most were from @foreignaffairs.com’s Best of 2024 list that they released last December. With few exceptions (I’m primarily looking at you, “What Is Queer Food” 😒), I enjoyed or loved every book I mashed to get through in 2025!

Front cover images for the following books:
Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum
Why War by Richard Overy
Underground Empire, by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
Paper Soldiers by Saleha Mohsin
The Last Colony by Philippe Sands
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
The Privatization of Everythjng by Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian

Front cover images for the following books:
Let Only Red Flowers Bloom by Emily Feng
How the World Ran Out of Everything by Peter S. Goodman
The Mesopotamian Riddle by Joshua Hammer
Anansi’s Gold by Yepoka Yeebo
The Golden Road by William Dalrymple
When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris
Takeover by Timothy W. Ryback
Tequila Wars by Ted Genoways
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Front covers of the following books:
Strangers in the Land by Michael Luo
A Great Disorder by Richard Slotkin
The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
The Rebel’s Clinic by Adam Shatz
What is Queer Food by John Birdsall
Proto by Laura Spinney
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

Front book covers of the following books:
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
‘Tis by Frank McCourt
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Justin@virtualjustin· Dec 29

Happy birthday! 🎂

The Perry Bible Fellowship comic of a man jumping out of bed and declaring “Today’s my birthday!” The final panel show the corporeal manifestation of Death sliding a counter one bead closer to the Birthday Boy’s demise.

Justin@virtualjustin· Dec 29

No, but seriously: was this because I blew my nose into a tissue last night? 😢😩