Drill baby drill.

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

whoa somehow a whole-ass fortnight has gone by and i still havent shared the August newsletter here where i talk about stuff from @kayv.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social and more buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Judith Butler responds to Berkeley's sending names: "When Universities Become Informants: A Practice from the McCarthy Era Makes an Ugly Return" www.chronicle.com/article/when...

I was inspired to begin my first painting in like 4 years

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Oh noo

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Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy

Blood Sun ?

for those who haven’t been following: the people who bought Asimov’s, F&SF, et al. have a new contract that’s basically a rights grab and have treated authors who pushed back on it like shit, stringing them along, gaslighting them, etc. I don’t recommend submitting to any of their mags at this time

Watermen by @kayv.bsky.social in which a young waterman, growing up by the bay, finds human life encroaching despite the harsh rule of King Malcolm. translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...

psyched to have a shoutout in @nmwhitley.bsky.social's August 2025 Short Story Rex, and - more importantly - to be alongside @kayv.bsky.social in it (whose ergot. story discussed here absolutely rules)

Port at 6 am ☀️

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

How long does it take you to spot the heron

THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮 @marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿 Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design

Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting

America now

Enormous #HurricaneErin is about 700 miles wide... Its tropical-storm-force winds extend up to 320 miles from its center. It would basically fill the space from Ohio to New Jersey south to South Carolina. It's a good thing it's centered 210 miles east of Cape Hatteras.

What I’m doing during ur 2 h submission window

Does it help if we include the link? translunartravelerslounge.com

this is andrew cuomos current campaign strategist, this is revealing in real time just how much vote blue no matter who is a statement centrists use as a weapon to get the left in line

CANCEL YOUR PLANS, KAY VAINDAL'S GOT ANOTHER BANGER OUT

The new issue of Translunar Travelers Lounge is live, issue number lucky 13 for August 2025 with 14 brand new stories

Issue 13 is out now! Check out my story about Chesapeake mermaids and fuckboy literature translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores baltimorebeat.com/prose-to-the...

Big Tech will kill you for a few pennies worth of app engagement. www.reuters.com/investigates...

The philosophical justification for what’s happening in DC is basically this Reddit post

Why has this been sent to every address in the city of Baltimore

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

Girls of all races and children of color of all genders get diagnosed later and get fewer academic and social supports because poor impulse control, disorganization, anger management, and low social acuity are simply *not tolerated,* let alone accommodated or lauded as signs of genius.

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Bridesmaid or upcoming pro boxer?

Kay Vaindal's got a new story out in ergot. and it's fucking class. One of the best at just throwing out some batshit scenario and letting it play out with no explanation. Here's an omniscient baby in a cactus, roll with it.

"It occurs to us at once the things we should have asked the baby. A cure for cancer, you suggest. An end to war, I suggest. Hunger, says someone else. Pain, I say." Today on ergot.: 'THE THINGS WE SHOULD HAVE ASKED THE BABY' by @kayv.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Kay_...

Once upon a time i worked in southern Idaho, monitoring plants. It was a very formative time in my life. This story (my first ever published flash, i think) comes from that time. Now out at ergot.! 👶🌵

"Look! A cactus! Like a cup on the ground. It holds a little pool of water. In the little pool of water is a malformed baby, too small, but it knows everything." Today on ergot.: 'THE THINGS WE SHOULD HAVE ASKED THE BABY' by Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Kay_...

Tomorrow on ergot.: getting some advice from baby in the cheatgrass plane with Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social

TOMORROW 👀👀👀

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

Anne Arundel County has 533 miles of shoreline. One mile is for public swimming.

Pub day is here! My debut cosmic horror novella FEEDING THE WHEEL is officially out on store shelves and digital marketplaces all over the world. Instead of droning on about how proud I am of this work and how fulfilled I feel as a writer, I'd like to take a sec to thank everybody who made this real

After FEMA axed aid, is an Eastern Shore town lost to the bay?

What about the books w weak women leads