The reckless hope of putting new tires on a car with 230k miles 🐺

It's kind of depressing how much I'm getting specific and glowing emails that are just trying to get me to pay them to get my books into bookclubs. I'd be less bummed about it if they didn't feel so familiar with the work, but it's almost certainly just a good use of AI mining reviews.

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If life is a rollercoaster, I am definitely never going to ride a freaking rollercoaster.

Very affirming to be talking to my therapist about young JES's romantic misadventures and be told that it all sounded "very lesbian"

I just want to read things I've never read before that make me recognize and give shape to things I've felt all along

Well, at least they are redirecting literary grant money to "foster AI competency" (clearly lacking in this AI generated 2nd paragraph), support for the military (as all true literature should do), and disaster recovery (books as sandbags?)

Being an adult is spending $30 dollars to buy a big rock on the internet.

Shuttlecock 3

At least there was light.

Big yawn

I picked up @jestintzi.bsky.social's "Junebat" years ago, and I'm kind of glad I waited to read it until now, when it feels like I *need* these poems. They are aching and tender and gorgeous, and my god, the last lines!! A gift, this whole collection.

A very “night walk in kansas city” kind of selfie

Traveling for (book) work is cool and all but I think I might need to make the demand that whenever I am invited to a festival/book thing, that Grendel is also invited.

Started this book on the plane...pretty good so far...anyone else read this??

When in Rome* *Canada (I must get my fill of poutine)

It is slightly amazing how much less bleak my life feels now that I am using some paid time off and also going somewhere else (Saskatchewan!) for a few days. In other news if you're in Saskatchewan, come see me in Moose Jaw for the Festival of Words! I'll be there for the whole fest!

Reposting for the morning crowd, since this went up just before midnight lady night.

Also out of nowhere I am #95 on this list on Substack, so you should follow me there and see what all the hubub is about

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you should write not for money or fame but so detectives can start asking for your help in solving murders

i've gotta stop posting and sending messages while suffering heat exhaustion

Old couple wished me a "happy fourth of July" today, noting that I was "wearing the outfit" which to their ignorance is a tank top with stars on it representing the victims of the Pulse shooting...

A reminder to get BAD HOUSES and also DISOBEDIENCE (which I edited!)

Jesse Singal should never get another night's sleep

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

Daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: A Body More Tolerable, poems by @jayesimpson.bsky.social arsenalpulp.com/Books/A/a-bo... & Bad Houses, stories by @jestintzi.bsky.social arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Bad-... (both @arsenalpulp.bsky.social) Alt-text=details. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚

I am going hard into my Steinbeck reading era this last year, and have realized that his middle name is Ernst, so we are both, in fact, JES.

Me watching, waiting for you to buy my books.

If you comment on any of my posts that Red states deserved to be destroyed by disasters I will block you so fucking fast. You don’t get to lose your humanity just because a bunch of fascists have. Just pretend you’re smart enough to understand the complexities of politics, dweebs.

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DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

hoo BOY the book world could stand to internalize this one

While playing Red Dead Redemption 2 today I came across a guy preaching Eugenics on the streets of the city and I beat him up with many witnesses and didn't get in trouble with the law 😍

if a guy says theyre CIA and they want you to DM every girl you ever jacked off to and apologize, Its a scam. Just ruined my life. Thank you

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

Excited to start my night shift job so that I can officially have an excuse to become the cryptid recluse I've always wanted to become.

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

Me: *sees Grendel [my dog]" Me:

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

I fear that I am on track to having two novel manuscripts completed within 1 year (to add to the novel I already have that I need to try and sell). Might just have to sell them to Costco.

Some flowers

Nothing like paying an egregious amount of tax and then needing to take your car to the shop. 😀👍 Pray for Constance (my car).

Phyllis Webb from Peacock Blue #NationalPoetryMonth #PoemSky #CanLit #TodaysPoem

5 years ago I published these two books. They are still among my favorite things I’ve ever put into the world. Please consider checking them out if you missed them (as they came out at the beginning of the pandemic!).

If I ever publish this new novel of mine, and if you ever read it and discover the trans character I named Crayon, please know that I did it out of love for the bizarre names some of us tend to give ourselves.

This is an amazingly generous and astute review of BAD HOUSES! If this doesn't convince you to get the book, I'm not sure what will!