Summer evening vibes (sound on for the concert down the street)

Mykonos, Greece 💙💙

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Everyone loves weird fiction now, weird fiction belongs in short stories, all publishers hereby required to redirect their energies to publishing weird short stories

Day 30 of #Coverbirds QUACK magazine publishes an annual Sexiest Duck Alive issue and who else could be on the cover but Ruddy Duck? Any questions? I didn’t think so (1/8) #birds

“We asked the state a simple question: How dead did we have to be to receive healthcare that could save our viable babies and our own lives? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called us ‘woke.’” thebarbedwire.com/2026/05/29/k...

What happened to the Aral Sea is *terrifying* so it's great to hear that there's even a small amount of hope for it globalvoices.org/2026/05/29/h...

I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.

I did an interview with a former GOP operative & to Christian Nationalist last year and I still think about it: "There’s approximately over 1 million homeschooled kids in the US right now that are being most likely trained like I was.” medium.com/read-or-die-...

Can’t wait to tell the network execs “sorry, I can’t use AI on this project, I’m Catholic.”

this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

The newsletter today is an expanded discussion of Zach Gillan's 'Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism' essay and why it articulates so well the kind of stories we look to publish. It continues a loose series of articles on our ethos as an anticapitalist short fiction magazine.

“The increase in Black infant mortality, from 9 to 21 deaths per 1,000 births, means Black infants born in Hamilton County are more at risk than those born in Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Honduras, Libya or Vietnam, according to the World Bank.”

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

I work out so I am ready to beat up anybody throwing rocks at a seal at any moment

Spot the copperhead 👀

Spring 🍃

What readers? Never heard this name in my life

I really think aliens from outer space would find us so interesting. I think about it all the time. Maybe they wouldn't. But I think they would.

This is how to respond when your university starts pushing Gemini on you

When the paperback version of Angel Down hits my local bookstore you won't hear from me for at least 3 business days

Getting called on after zoning out in a meeting and replying "this used to be a vast prairie"

This is the most Sasha Brown of all Sasha Brown stories. This is my final form.

One summer i was working on the bush river and the military had this giant white surveillance blimp that loomed up in the sky over us all summer like a super smooth cloud and then it got free and hit the amish. Last blimp I ever saw

“KitKat and Ogilvy are positioning this invention as an IRL manifestation of KitKat’s iconic ‘Take a Break’ slogan.”

This 5 year old girl lost her father in the Key Bridge collapse & now ICE is deporting her mother. Trump’s ICE operation is going after the weakest, not the worst. This is the kind of inhumanity we must end.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

I wanna see a version of the Pitt but it takes place at the Concentra in Dundalk

It’s here! Volume 2 of @sluggerfiction.bsky.social featuring my story on the proclivity of Chesapeake men to tell you their entire life story with startling immediacy, and many more great stories that I can’t wait to dig into!

It’s here! Volume 2 of @sluggerfiction.bsky.social featuring my story on the proclivity of Chesapeake men to tell you their entire life story with startling immediacy, and many more great stories that I can’t wait to dig into!

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

Coming soon! Inspired by that dude you'll meet at any seafood festival on the Chesapeake. Like the one-legged guy selling alligator nuggets who told twelve-year-old me, 'it counts cuz they're coming on up. give it a hundred years.'

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Coming soon! Inspired by that dude you'll meet at any seafood festival on the Chesapeake. Like the one-legged guy selling alligator nuggets who told twelve-year-old me, 'it counts cuz they're coming on up. give it a hundred years.'

Reposting this meme (with alt text) as a stand alone for any future usage needs where someone might prefer it not being already part of a thread:

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

Really feels like non-grass-touching Bluesky thinks these events are a lot more centrist than they actually are

Baltimore

Massive lines snaked outside BWI airport for the third time this week as travelers continue to arrive three hours ahead their departure. buff.ly/U79Ni0U

Once we had five dollar foot longs

I wrote about a camp, 27 girls who drowned due to astonishing failures to plan, and hundreds of families going back anyway. nymag.com/intelligence...

Golden hour Ruthie Rolling

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

March brings the desnowing of my gardens, and also my most anticipated collection of the year: Gore Poetics by the unmatched @spicycloaca.bsky.social. Samir Sirk Morató is the most important thing happening in horror right now. Morató and nothing else.