As of today, I have still received no SNAP funds from the federal government. The state of Vermont, however, did step in and send me $127, which is supposed to cover the next two weeks. Again: Because I need to stay broke to qualify for Medicaid, this is my entire food budget.

Video game people: wow they really want us to pay 70 bucks for a game Lego people: Just got this for $300 what a great deal

I mean this with my whole chest, but if you're someone who is interested in public policy, healthcare and research-- you should be SCREAMING your praise for nurses everywhere. I'm at #PIC2025 (Patient Insight Congress) and a vast majority of people here are *nurses*, followed by MPHs. 1/2

I got to interview author Terese Svoboda about her new memoir, Hitler and My Mother in Law, for @epiphanylit.bsky.social! epiphanyzine.com/features/ter... I love interviews :') I want to do more of them!

lol I have been saying this what Mamdani wants isn’t radical. most of the world does this.

women, are they bitches?

The White House has turned into Versailles. The president’s version of the palatial gardens = country club style concrete and bullshit. Gilded 24k gold everything? Fuck. I miss the French Revolution

I am the type of person who really enjoys when a melody of a song contrasts with its lyrics. The prime example of this is Cheryl Crow’s cover of Post Malone’s Circles. Please listen to it. It’s so fun(ny) like this woman made this song into a cheery pop radio hit

HI FRIENDS daily reminder that the Jamie Lloyd minimalism/expressionist wave should die #BringBacktheMegaMusical

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

bro I can’t wait bring it

I really can’t believe I have to say this but THANK YOU NYC for voting for this man. OUR MAYOR (also I have to point out that the things he wants aren’t THAT radical… basic human decency and community care.) the billionaires don’t have us, WE have EACH OTHER

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

it’s the way I thought I was going to feel about typewriters before I realized they weren’t portable enough. I did buy a typewriter keyboard just in case but 😂 BUT A FOUNTAIN PEN? bring it anywhere! refill it with your favourite ink! I’m eventually going to get caught on the glass and dip pens😭

my newest special interest = fountain pens sorry about it i love them they are my hyperfixation

which one of u is going to teach me how to become a real poet

me: i'm going to work on this novel also me: oh fuck i have so many deadlines for revision due fuck

editing season 🫡 amidst a time where I am also trying to write a novel lmao and yeet my uterus

my next hottest take about theatre is that while I appreciate Jamie Lloyd’s innovation, he must he stopped. Unless he brings back the mega musical 🛑 stop stripping down your leading men and smothering them in blood or paint by the finale 🛑

I am drafting the first bits of the Jonathans by hand in blood red ink 😂 I was testing out the ink after I refilled it. It’s been a beautiful and intentional act to jumpstart me into writing

do i tell the jonathans they inspired my next great story

my even hotter take (which i can’t believe i’m saying) is… BRING BACK THE ERA OF THE MEGA MUSICAL. GIVE ME THE FUN WHIMSY OF THE WEST END. I AM TIRED OF TRIGGERING AVANT GARDE ADAPTATIONS. I NEED FUN. #hottake #broadway #musicals

a #hottake about the broadway revival of #chessmusical: t he hottest take I have about the new CHESS revival on broadway is that there truly is not enough chess for a musical about chess. (ok, it’s about more than that but i’m so tired of concert minimalist avant garde bullshit) 1/2

i can't wait for the metal bois to discover pity the child now that the chess revival is on fr, if you can do the riff as well as adam pascal (even aaron tveit lowered the key bruh) i will pay u so much money (that i don't have)

Four more days to get your submissions in to Blood Tree Literature, the literary magazine where I am a creative non-fiction editor: bloodtreeliterature.submittable.com/submissions We've *already* sent some acceptances out, so please get your work in ASAP!

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Disabled people tried to warn you. When everyone rushed “back to normal” and started adopting eugenicist talking points like “only the vulnerable are at risk from covid”… we said this would happen. It was always about culling the herd. Eliminating the weak. Dismantling public health

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/15/g...

boy have I really learned to love the liminal

i have so much fucking fodder for my essay now

the inspiration for my next piece is all the white women in workshops who hog up all the space ✌🏽 and interrupt and misgender and police me 👁️👄👁️

If you’re going into writing thinking that you can publish a book with a Big Five with only two chapters and want to publish within the year, do I have a rude awakening for you…

also asking for myself: why are you using the past perfect tense in your pieces? tELL MEEEEE

it shocks me when i hear of people who want to write, but don't read?

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

currently sitting in a @tinhouse.bsky.social reading, listening to my workshop facilitator @emnorth.bsky.social wax on about their love for minions, which they identify as their gender. i feel grateful and rich in community. witnessing other's art in its rich, strange, queer euphoria is joyful

Rich white nepo babies who seek leadership positions truly never grow up. Our president is throwing tantrums over criticism and suing left and right. What happened to the First Amendment?

This got lost enough that I, at least, didn't see it. Tr*mp sues Penguin Random House for $15 billion for publishing a book that cast him in a negative light. Going after comedians is indeed terrifying. Going after publishers is at least equally terrifying. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

There is no ethical way to engage with Harry Potter.

Tonight in “war ravaged” Portland… a frog brigade standing guard outside the ICE facility. Trump says there’s “nowhere worse than Portland”… and the frogs magically multiply. They’re showing that he’s not only a liar, but Portland is still safe, still weird and still full of people resisting.

Hi all~ A reminder that I'm one of the CNF editors at Blood Tree Literature and our submissions are open til Oct 30th! www.bloodtreeliterature.com Please submit something--we barely get CNF submissions and I'd to publish your work! (Ask for a fee waiver) #writers #writingcommunity

Part memoir and reportage, SEMIOTICS OF SPACE investigates how chronic pelvic pain and intergenerational trauma shape intimacy in queer, polyamorous life. A study of love as labor, and healing as unfinished work. #DVpit #A #Memoir

as an aside a mash up that i'd like to hear irl that i've been mixing in my head is the pussycat dolls 'when i grow up' and pinkprincess' 'illegal'

Immortality doesn’t make them better at love. Hera bargains with forgiveness. Eros forgets how to love without proof. Persephone learns that spring can’t always return. MYTH CONCEPTIONS reimagines mythology as a study of intimacy where Olympus unravels through longing. #DVpit #A #SF #MythRetelling

WHAT MY BONES KNOW x MORE: A queer, chronically ill Fil-Am writer maps chronic illness and polyamory through attachment theory and c-PTSD. Blending memoir and reportage, SEMIOTICS OF SPACE examines how generational trauma and chronic pain complicate care, desire, and belonging. #DVpit #A #memoir #NF

Eros builds a dating app, then watches algorithms replace devotion. When the divine move online, revelation turns into customer service. MYTH CONCEPTIONS is a linked cycle following gods learning that immortality doesn’t prevent obsolescence. #DVpit #SpecFic #LiteraryFiction #MythRetelling