Excited to have a flash piece in this month’s @flashfictiononline.bsky.social A little spooky story about desire, break ups, exorcism, and YMCA classes. Perfect for Valentines.

Morale is currently at “hold me in contempt so I can rest?” Still not low enough

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The floor is really just the beginning.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Here's a wonderful, miraculous ode by Lucile Clifton. poets.org/poem/wont-yo... ....my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

What's funny is these dirt bags not even remotely considering that they are literally on the government's pay roll and that the government will always act kindly with that information.

My kittens when they scream at me while I’m cooking and I tell them they’ve had enough to eat already:

An engineering student studying to work in sewage systems resting in the mountains because of tuberculosis.

Probably doing a lot here.

It’s giving

It happened.

🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇 www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...

“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.” Obit:

So where do we tune into Dershowitz’s televised special?

The writers for Welcome to Derry really find birth scary.

This is the answer to nihilism.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

He’s not renaming shit. He’s giving it a nickname.

What the fuck is the walking jack-o’-lantern talking about?

Imagine going back to 1994 and showing this to someone.

BREAKING: Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks just won their union elections. They are the first national parks to unionize in several years.

Norm McDonald crawling out of Tom Cruise like Laura Flynn Boyle tearing her way through Tangina’s body in Poltergeist 3.

While I don’t enjoy any of this, I do take small comfort from how scared they are. Hope so day they spiral out on their shame, fear, and self loathing.

I'm glad to see this, but it is so weird to me that this wasn't the line from the beginning.

The Halloween costume has arrived

what gif pops up when you type your name?

One of the best theater experiences I’ve ever had was watching Hereditary. The tense quiet in that screening, where you could barely breathe w/o making noise, until the car accident where there was this explosion from the audience. Then people could not keep the sounds inside them until the end.

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In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

Remember qanon? Wild times…

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

they tried to "un-woke a robot and it went full nazi" is something out of a 30 Rock TV show

Can these old fucks just get out of the way already?

What’s funny about this “alt-lit” scene is you can’t walk two feet without falls over these guys in undergrad creative writing education spaces (and even some grad programs). Generally they are too thin skinned and/or unwilling to work at their writing to make it very far.

Whatever happened to that hero/villain that pushed Brittany Broski out of the way at the Charlie XCX concert?

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Not the Sorrow of Moldavia?! What a get.

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚

Here’s my pitch for the Billie Piper/Doctor Who situation: the Doctor’s regeneration ability is glitching. So every couple of episodes we get a new actor as the Doctor, like what they’re doing with Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary. And the next actor to play the Doctor should be Cole Escola.

I think the Catholic Church should do this every day in every city

call your Senators and yell at them to throw this out in the Byrd bath, that this is even a question is unconscionable they're movable on this, I think we'll get them there, but they need to hear from us no ban on gender affirming care in the nightmare bill