PICNIC MAG IS BACK! Just in time for things to heat up, we have a steamy, sensual new collection of fiction, essays, and poetry from your favorite NYC transexual literary magazine and culture rag

the review this gorgeous book deserves 🦌

Good one from @daveydavis.bsky.social today. open.substack.com/pub/itsdavid...

my muse, la gretchen ❤️

Tonight, 7:30pm, at All She Wrote Books, me and @daveydavis.bsky.social talk CASANOVA 20. Davey's third novel is his best yet, a lyrical exploration of desire, self-image, isolation, and emptiness. It's going to be a great evening. Come and join us!

@daveydavis.bsky.social's CASANOVA 20 is a best book of December according to @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social! "An achievement in intimacy and desire, conjuring a tender story about two men loving against all hope in a world that is in equal parts beautiful and cruel." buff.ly/XIW3zpH

and i said i didn’t want to be in bsky anymore but i think this merits a return!❤️

CASANOVA 20 by Davey Davis is a December 2025 ABA #IndieNext Pick!!! Huge thanks to all of the booksellers who nominated us, we appreciate you immensely! 🫶 Preorder here! books.catapult.co/books/casano...

ICYMI, in December we're publishing CASANOVA 20: Or, Hot World, the new novel by Davey Davis. An exploration of art, desire, and mortality, it follows a young man isolated by his extraordinary beauty and his strange friendship with an older painter. Read more:

wrote about edgeplay & exigent sadism 💋

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade. And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

generally speaking :)

checking grindr in dr. hazen’s office as a tribute to her work

i want to know more about his porn conviction

Talia was born today in one of Gaza's last hospitals. Her mother, my friend Sama'a, needs all the help we can give to keep her safe and healthy. Even a small donation makes a difference. www.gofundme.com/f/brgdd-help...

made tom kha 🥣🍋‍🟩🌶️🧄🧅🥥

🗣️ “we have to let go of the comforts of both self-castigation and defensiveness” @reproutopia.bsky.social in “Enemy Feminisms”

Might be a good time to know that there is a GI Rights Hotline that can counsel people trying to get out of the military. girightshotline.org

do i look like i need a man w a snatched waist!!

Is the Magic 8Ball sentient? We asked the Magic 8Ball, the company that are raking it in from the toy & the players who are using it rather than going to therapy. An LLM is a predictive algorithm that replicates the most common or likely response. It's like asking if a fruit machine is suffering.

Are we planning to watch Israel murder every journalist in Palestine while still making sure we're being careful not to single out Israel because it makes it feel bad? What is the fucking plan? Who are you calling today? Where are you sending money today? What meeting are you signing up for today?

cruel demoralizing and unfair

gmail is like “we know you blocked shaun king but we’ll show you the email anyway with the option to unblock” i wonder how shaun pays for that feature

my 2 favorite flavors of trans guy if i'm being honest

“‘Am I going to risk the storm or risk endangering my family at the shelter?’ said Dominique O’Connor, an organizer at the Farmworker Association of Florida. ‘You’re going to meet enforcement either way.’”

WEAPONS was like RASHOMON meets AUNTIE MAME

my neighbor is blasting Sam Smith so i'm returning fire with Scott 3

"Feeling like you are in this weird ideological cold war with the culture you live in can also numb you out and make it hard to think." meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...

does john boyne think human history started 2000 years ago

what cis people very bravely saying what they’d do if someone confronted them in a bathroom are forgetting is that they can usually prove they’re cis

my partners’ birthdays are within 2 weeks of each other 🤪

In which I share my books' sales and kind words of wisdom from @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @rumaan.bsky.social @mysoncool.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, @jayasaxena.com, @islemcelroy.bsky.social, and @lydiakiesling.bsky.social meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...

Many of these are debut authors. Please check out their books also.

Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.

Sebald, 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘻 (2001)

discovered that neil gorsuch’s mom was the first woman to take a hammer to the EPA

yesterday i bought a can of black eyed peas and now i can’t find it?

what is cameron crowe’s problem

Xóchitl was detained by border patrol at the airport despite presenting a valid work authorization. She is a longtime organizer and needs help. There’s more info about what happened on this gofundme for her legal support. Please help out if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

"Did you not realize what this would be, being f*cking Gestapo? Quit your job. It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming...anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!” A rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in #Kansas. www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/americans-...

Passing the electronic hat for Walid and his family again. As a reminder, most people in Gaza have been unable to work for an income due to repeated forced relocations and bombings: chuffed.org/project/1253...

on twitter i was constantly muting bots, fascists, creeps. on bluesky it’s bc people are annoying

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

truly wild to see people just repeat “the harms of pornography” without elaboration,

More and more this seems like the book of the year both because it's wonderful and because its message is so crystal clear. bookshop.org/p/books/one-...

london friends at trans pride ♥️

This is all lies, and I don’t know what else I can add: Human beings are being dehumanized as “disorder” to be managed, punished, or disappeared.

I am outraged as I type this. As the famine grows worse day by day, Bluesky moderation has deleted Sama'a's account repeatedly. Please give what you can to help my friend and her family survive. www.gofundme.com/f/brgdd-help...