josh (with parentheses)

@joshwithparenthes.es

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my body is a machine that takes THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS and turns them into HEADACHES AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE VIDEO ESSAYS youtube.com/@joshwithparentheses contributing irritant for @theessaylibrary.com

screenshot of discord dms Pillar of Garbage said, “I recognize the ai speech pattern of course but I can’t make heads or tails of Mrowr” I reply, “okay would it be more or less comprehensible were replaced by me holding a bat’leth screaming “I’ll f*kin kill u” at the cat what is my life pillar that I must ask such questions I once was a normal man”
The cover image for Sports Night, a hella good show nobody remembers.
my logo, which inexplicably is still an atom, and my channel name, josh (with parentheses), followed by the text “14,999 total subscribers”
A screenshot of a New York Magazine headline reading “Who’ll be the next YouTuber to make a Backrooms-Level Hit?”
A screenshot of a YouTube video from LastWeekTonight. The video is titled "Structured Settlements & Factoring Companies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)." In the screenshot, a man in a vest and tie is sitting at a desk in a cubicle, facing a computer on an L-shaped desk. Next to him, laying on the desk, is an actor dressed as a viking. Behind the halfwall, three vocalists are singing. The caption reads, "Why is there a viking here?"
A closed caption reading [friendly dog-jumping-off-a-roof music]
Air Bud dunks a basketball with the ChatGPT logo on it into the enormous gaping maw of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
A discord DM from Sam saying “I do not know what the f**k to do for visuals in this one.”
Have you seen the new show? It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It's on Poob. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.
A picture of Ben Chang from Community. Chang is surrounded by the Changlorious Bastards, a group of middle-school aged boys dressed up like a SWAT team. (Taken from S03E18.)
A tag on a fitted sheet. The tag says “TOP OR BOTTOM”
Garrett from the TV show Community from the Season 3 episode about the Model UN
A wordcloud of my bsky posts. The most prominent words are “video,” “not,” and “its.”
Damien Owens @OwensDamien • Follow I'm 50. All celebrity news looks like this: 'CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT'
A google search bar where I have typed "clown but more evil"
A zoomed in version of the photo of a signed screenshot from the above post. Jacob Geller’s autograph does not resemble any human language known to me. Nevertheless, it is highlighted as if it were text and there is a popout menu with the options “Copy,” “Select All,” “Look Up,” and “Translate.”
The bird of infinite water. Once attuned, this seemingly normal crow can always be found within your movement distance. If the crow can be caught, it will immediately vomit one cubic meter of fluid on the person who catches it. If the person is the attuned, the fluid is pure, clean water. If the person is not the attuned, the fluid is vomit.
a bag of sugar
A piece of construction equipment is in the middle of absolutely wrecking the White House's shit, dear god. The facade of the East Wing is in tatters. There's a dude with a hose hosing down the area where the machinery is working. It is impossible to describe how awful this image feels. Arguably the proudest and most well-known image of American ideals is getting knocked down by a Volvo crane. They couldn't even use a Bobcat? Why does it feel worse that the White House is being knocked down by a piece of Swedish construction equipment? I don't know, but it does. This is not the sort of neutral stance that alt text deserves but if you are reading this description and not able to look at the image it is important to me that you understand the spiraling, fractal, chaotic way in which this image just feels fucking awful.
A paragraph from a word processing file: "Surely, you might be thinking, there are rules against a rutabaga being an airline pilot. But I’m 100% sure that Federal Aviation Administration does not have a “rutabaga policy.” What they do have is requirements that prospective pilots earn a series of certificates, which requires a bare minimum of 250 hours of flight time, as well as a bunch of other stuff, all of which is enumerated in Part 61 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations which does not include the word “rutabaga” anywhere."
A heading in a word processing file: "Dog Sports Are Real But Dog Sports Can't Hurt You"
A screenshot of a word processing document. The heading reads "I'm not talking about Thalidomide dammit" and the body shows an incomplete sentence beginning "But if i were"
a discord message dated August 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM. josh (done my beer): when the game launches it will just be this image An image of Hornet from Hollow Knight sitting on a bench wearing a rainbow colored bozo the clown wig with a big red clown nose. Another user: silksong real I can't believe it i thought itwas a hoax josh (done my beer): i will believe it to be a hoax until I roll credits
An email from Patreon headed “A whole world to explore.” It reads, “As a member of Ian Danskin’s Patreon, you now have a whole world of exclusive posts and community at your fingertips. Check out all the amazing work you’ve just unlocked.” It presents a sample of the posts I might now have access to on Danskin’s Patreon. The example it chose is a picture of Danskin’s face captioned with the words “indefinite hiatus - sorry”
A quote from a Discord DM. josh says, "And just because it's fun to say this: this reading of a rudyard kipling poem about vikings is for the video about AI and Air Bud, not for the one about Suicide Squad (2016)."
A discord message from josh (mewing will fix him) saying: currently I am at LLMs + St Jerome + Shelley + Moneyball + Air Bud = Something Some poor fool who has josh nonsense Stockholm syndrome has reacted with the 🔥 emoji
A screenshot of Discord DMs. josh: "a script is beginning. all i needed was imogen heap." Sam: "Omg hype hype hype" josh: "let's not get ahead of ourselves"
The same damn socks that Phil posted with the same kind of patch in the same spot, though with a different color yarn
A panel from Go Dog Go by PD Eastman. A pink poodle is wearing a blue hat with a flower. Their tail is wagging. They are speaking to a yellow dog with a haughty expression. The poodle asks, “Do you like my hat?” The yellow dog replies, “I do not.” The body language of the yellow dog communicates abject disgust.
Steve, Cool. “The Life & Times Of: Before and After.” FanFiction.net, 7 Apr. 2005, https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2340523/6/.
A text message conversation. My partner asks, “Do you want a powerline popcorn bucket?” I respond “Obviously yes, what kinda question is that?”
A discord conversation. Sam (Afterthoughts): this is the problem when your passion is convincing someone that your thoughts are interesting. josh (blarhrhgbrharbgra): my thoughts are interesting, but literally nobody would believe that based on what they are And then two people have reacted to my comment with the crying laughing emoji because I’m a very funny person according to at least two insightful readers
a model sheet labeled "the goofy movie - max." the character max is drawn in eleven different poses representing different emotional states. a caption reads "tag urself i'm 'so grouchy i could poop'" with an arrow pointing to one of the drawings, which let's be real looks like max is just so grouchy he could poop
a Discord screenshot in which maxo says "oh we're back on goofy"
A screenshot of a discord conversation
A quotation from “The Magicians”: “Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.”