Psst.. check out misfit magic: www.zoeticpress.com/an-14-misfit... @zoeticpress.bsky.social

This editing job is due by close of business. Beta is having none of it.

This morning, I told my husband about the dream that made me wake up unnecessarily grumpy. He came home with this.

Cupid has had it with us. open.substack.com/pub/ratbagli...

New poetry and fiction soon in AJN, Book XI journal, and RatBag.

My cat is 100 percent sure I control the weather and he’s mad at me about the snow.

Should be cleaning my house. Instead I’m writing drabbles for @ratbaglit.bsky.social weird fiction themed call, “Saving Daylight.” I wrote two more than I can submit, so I’m posting one here instead of locking it in the vault forever. Enjoy the temporal horror until the sun sets on this one too.

REMINDER 📢 voting for the 2025 Apex Magazine Reader's Choice Awards closes tomorrow at midnight EST! Give your favorite Apex authors and cover artists some love and submit your ballot below ⬇️🗳️ www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Coming this Monday, humans! 🐈‍⬛🔥🐈‍⬛ @sudhab.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social

Ever fall in love with your own words? Cutting a 2k-word story that begged to be microfiction instead. Sad about losing two sentences that sung. I’ll let you know where it lands In the mean time, go check out @claudineliterary.bsky.social for tight, gorgeous fiction. www.claudineliterary.net

Today's story is "Threadbare" by ML Strijdom. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros ratbaglit.substack.com/p/threadbare

Akhil Sharma was unimpressed when he first read “The Sun Also Rises.” Then he began “to experience Hemingway’s language in the way that I think it was intended to be experienced,” he writes. “By the end of the book, I was a different person.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mGib6D

Like short bursts of weird fiction? Check out @ratbaglit.bsky.social

Trump pardoned Ex-Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández 31 days ago. JOH was serving 45yrs for weapons & conspiring to import 400+ tons of cocaine. If you believe the party line that #Maduro’s arrest is abt drugs & not oil or a #distraction from #Epstein files & T’s pedophilia,you may be in a cult.

Hot damn.. yesterday took me 1:07. I shaved off 42 seconds, got a personal best, and don’t know how. I should probably do something requiring real thinking today! Shuffalo, 0m 25s 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

A viroid-like RNA “obelisk” has been discovered across species, including in human microbiomes. They challenge traditional views of viruses and life, encoding proteins called Oblins. The world is amazing. Science is bad-ass. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. www.science.org/content/arti...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

New Writer Spotlight 💡 “There’s an application half-finished on my laptop for an MFA program, but I can’t make myself click submit. Sometimes, being small and still feels like the only intelligent choice.” @javajnkie.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/mariharrison

Finally fully migrating..giving Elon the bird right back!

Old man Winston is happy it’s electric blanket season.

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

I have worked the polls for years & have never seen the kind of turnout for local elections like I did tonight. Amazing! Keep it up America.. Midterms are coming!!

A dystopian drama. In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, the illustrator reimagines Elon Musk and his cohorts at the Department of Government Efficiency as the antihero droogs in “A Clockwork Orange.” www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bli...

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.