Happy Publication Day to the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee, @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social, and the long awaited, never duplicated HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY!!! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

HAIL QUEEN CELINE. It’s an honor to have fallen to these champs!

THAT'S THE BUZZER! MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION HAS CROWNED A NEW CHAMPION! FINAL SCORE: CELINE DION, "My Heart Will Go On" and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social 784, Ben Folds Five, "Brick" and @cicilybennion.bsky.social 474. Congratulations to both our finalists for an outstanding game.

518 Zine Fest tomorrow! I turned my @marchxness.bsky.social essay into a zine and I'll have some copies there ❤️‍🔥

TIE GAME 275-275 with 100' to play. Get ye vote on if you have any feelings in you: marchxness.com#/final4-fold...

TOMORROW FRENZ IT IS THE FINAL FOUR / BATTLE OF THE 1-SEEDS. GNR VS CELINE. PREPARE THYSELVES.

Last night I shot a music video on the blacked-out beach for my synth'd out "Glycerine" cover. Big thanks to Dave Rosman for the violin, big thanks to YOU for voting Bush on to the Final Four of @marchxness.bsky.social! youtu.be/E1DOPrrgCgg

Sending our condolences to and appreciation of @jygravley.bsky.social and @emryal91.bsky.social for their excellent essays and deep March Sadness runs. We salute you and your work!

What whirlwind! This has been so fun and I'm delighted to have made it to the sweet sixteen. Kind of can't believe this is what has got me playing the uke again! Congratulations to @thejasonthayer.bsky.social I'm so excited to cheer for you in the next round!

This Blink/Bush matchup is the heartbreaker of my Xennial dreams. Sixteen Stone was one of my favorite albums as a thirteen-year-old, but Adam’s Song was my saddest 90s pop punk anthem, and when I saw Blink for the first time a couple years ago man did I weep. Blink forever!

MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION SWEET 16 DAY 4 SCORES, 120’ to go: Glycerine 131, Adam’s Song 91 You Had Time 119, Sappy 92 Nirvana and Blink-182 on the ROPES Read, listen, vote by 9am today at marchxness.com to register your preferred sadness!

ADAMS SONG AND SAPPY HIVE WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!!!!

In high school I crowd surfed at a Blink 182 concert (very not my nature, but, exhilarating!). My gateway to Blink was MxPx, who I also loved dearly. There's still time to help Blink make it to the next round! marchxness.com/schedule

Feels very meta to tear up a bit at this! If I go out this round (and it sure is looking like it) how lovely to get to cheer for @thejasonthayer.bsky.social and Bush!

I've been given to understand this is a @marchxness.bsky.social Sweet 16 tradition? As a millennial representing a millennial song, what I lack in musical skill I more than make up for in ukulele! Would love it if you read my Blink-182 essay and voted! marchxness.com#/sweet16-bus...

Let's get today's SWEET 16 games up: (8) Blink-182 vs (5) Bush / (8) Nirvana vs (13) Ani DiFranco! Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/21 at marchxness.com

I am a little obsessed with the Gen X / elder Millennial generational split in this tournament (and many Xness tournaments!)

ROUNNNND TWOOOOOOOOO honestly it's been so fun reading all these and listening to some sad sad songs! Please go read! Go listen! Go vote! Crazy how much joy all our sadness has brought me!

Also just need to say this: the best television show the Selection Committee has seen in the last 10 years is probably Deadloch (streaming on Prime for free). Plus bonus March Sadness 90s Edition content. Don't sleep on it. New season comes out this month!

For real! What a gift to be able to debate which of these excellent essays and memorable songs hit us squarely in the right soft spot to pull one ever-so-slightly ahead of another ... I learn so much about the songs, the artists, and how people engage with them every year.

It's HAPPENING!!!! Please vote for my sadness and Blink-182! And go read and vote for more essays about sad 90's songs marchxness.com#/1stround-bl...

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ... "Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

And donate. Every time they kill one of us, help us make the resistance even stronger.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

ICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses.

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

We have a long road ahead of us but our team is built for this moment. Thanks for the support! 🌾

uh holy SHIT?

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Love working with @ecotheo.bsky.social to get this piece together for publication! Check it out here: www.ecotheo.org/etreview/nat...

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

So excited about this/very aware I picked a song that has BEEN written about. If any of y'all have stories you wanna share about Adam's Song this is me officially saying I'd love to hear them!

Man I’m just so fucking proud of all the people who didn’t give up and aren’t going to give up

I wrote a pep talk? I started with how I actually feel powerful that an expensive computer program that ate all of my work and that of all writers is still not as good as all of us it stole from. Then I went a few places. Anyway, it's here. mailchi.mp/e87ac78bc7b7...

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nominations for Best Microfiction 2025 @bestmicrofiction Congrats and good luck! * Fractions by JoAnna Scandiffio @opalstar5 * Sweet Nothings Are a Diary… by Keith J. Powell @keithj_powell * The Ball by Lance Manion * Burnt Lemon by Emma Allmann @emryal91 * My Head by Paul Allatson

𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 for our upcoming issue 𝐕𝐨𝐥. 𝟓, 𝐢.𝟐: #inkinthirdspublished 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥/𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒: 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄 Paul Allatson, Emma Allmann, Lynn Bey, Andy Bodinger, Kelli Short Borges, Nicole Brogdon, C.W. Bryan...

Hey, look, yet another campus settling this peacefully. It's almost like the university presidents that called in armed police to their campuses to handle their own students made an incredibly stupid mistake and should be forever banned from leading an educational institution.

All of this is true, and in addition, when we stop using AI art, it stops using water and electricity, but if we stop using human artists, the human still exists and has needs that must be met.

A bit of a digression, but Scientific American has been one of the biggest supporters of trans existence and trans rights of any major media org that exists and props to them for that.