I don’t know what led you to try it. Maybe you’re a tree-hugging vegan. Maybe you’re a trad parent worried that processed food might contain woke chemicals. By @katieburgess.bsky.social medium.com/frazzled/its...

I wrote about vegan hot dogs and ancient philosophy because I KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT: medium.com/frazzled/its...

I have a new piece in Jane Austen's Wastebasket today: medium.com/jane-austens... #Hegseth #PulpFiction #Poop

Amazing.

when babies are old enough to sit up on a blanket sometimes people will put another baby there and say they're friends. this is disrespectful

Goldfish 1: knock knock Goldfish 2: who's there Goldfish 1: who's where Goldfish 2: what

Pleased that my essay, "This Is a Drill," will be in this CNF anthology from @hippocampusmag.bsky.social www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/big-...

Instead of counting sheep I like to imagine squirrels piloting rickety homemade zeppelins over a river of piping-hot béchamel sauce. This doesn't help me get to sleep, in fact it leaves me feeling confused and visibly agitated

And check out this beautiful & beautifully disturbing prose poem by @bettysueblue.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social : pitheadchapel.com/xi/

Also in the new @pitheadchapel.bsky.social -- this great story by @bizzycoy.bsky.social: pitheadchapel.com/any-mans-bet... Such a wonderfully weird setting, would especially recommend to fans of Kevin Wilson

I have a new story in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social , entitled "Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog." There are no dogs in it. pitheadchapel.com/dog-dog-dog/

The October issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issue-10/ Words: @bizzycoy.bsky.social @katieburgess.bsky.social @johnwaddy.bsky.social JEFFREY FEINGOLD SARAH HARLEY ELIZABETH HASHIMURA BETH GILSTRAP SARP SOZDINLER YASHASVI VACHHANI Art: NATALIE NEE

James Dobson is dead, was a monster: defector.com/james-dobson...

Nirvana's Nevermind cover but the baby is Baby Sinclair from the 90s sitcom Dinosaurs As requested by Morgan

This is what integrity looks like.

Today's self-care reminders: - You deserve to go in the bog - Nobody can stop you from going in the bog - The bog is where you belong

My bumper sticker: “Who rescued who?” My dog’s bumper sticker: “It’s who rescued 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘮, you illiterate swine.”

The vampire bats here are easy to spot. They have funny accents & little silk capes.

Nietzsche: “If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.” 2025: “What kind of nerd only /gazes/ into the abyss?? You gotta put your whole body in there.”

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Just in time for the heat dome, my story of summer & monsters in @yourimpossiblevoice.com.

Average blue state Dem politician: sex offender, basically a Republican, re-elected with 98.7% of the vote Average red state Dem politician: preacher and civil rights activist who lifted 50,000 children out of poverty and won by 1 vote last election against a child rapist with a swastika tattoo

I hope all those students I taught Persepolis to in 2019 & 2020 are out there educating some folx this week.

Fav sign in Greenville, SC today #NoKingsDay

Amazing. Respect the lede.

In which @clareblackwood.bsky.social takes on the Trump/Musk feud. I mean, the figment of your imagination.

"It's just a distraction." As if we would otherwise be solving the pressing issues of the day here on Bluesky, home of Alf's Hog.

Thei are goinge to put AI yn a toastere and it will tell lyes about bread

No, @nytimes.com, an anti-vaxx grifter is no longer recommending #Covid vaccines. Many of us in the US with actual medical credentials still recommend it.

Thinking of every academic who has had to apply for grants to cover the cost of requesting and licensing images for their books with zero assistance from a publisher

Blue sky is awesome because a bunch of people who like to make jokes and a bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke are forced to share space

"You just soft-boil an egg then use a syringe to extract the yolk and replace it with room-temperature tap water" - me explaining Wet Eggs to a horrified postman

But in all seriousness, Alcatraz has all the wrong vibes for a big scary federal prison. It’s got great views, beautiful flora, funny looking birds. I’ve been to like a dozen prisons and jails in 4 states and every single one of them is way scarier and more depressing than this.

I have a new story in Saw Palm; it's about face tattoos and the power of positive thinking

increasingly sympathetic to the revolutionary tribunals of the french revolutions (at least in popular imagination)

WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism. Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.

One of the only two Board of Education members to vote against the latest SC book bans was a guy who was in my Christian clown troupe back when we were both in seventh grade, and--I don't know. I don't what to do with this information. www.aclusc.org/en/press-rel...

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

it won't happen but for a brief, shining moment, i imagined RFK, jr. shitting himself to death and it was a moment of incredible bliss

For those failing to get the "copilot" AI off their Microsoft Word -- If you proceed with canceling Microsoft Office, you'll get a "wait wait don't go!" screen where they suddenly offer you "Microsoft 365 Personal Classic" -- which *doesn't include AI* and is actually cheaper! Weird workaround.

you know so many stupid fish are trying to nibble on an F-18 right now and getting absolutely bupkis out of it. but if just one of them figures out how to fly that thing we're fucked

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

"If you're not angry, you're not paying attention." "Literally everyone I know is angry." "Well… good. This is the world I wanted."

okay this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:

ZOOKEEPER: So this snake is 3.14 metres long ME: *way too loud* A pi-thon ZOOKEEPER: *pulling out his tazer* look away kids

I do love them trying to invoke Star Wars and not knowing what a red lightsaber means.

I mean just scrape at their prose a bit and there it is

Pretty rude how my new security guard friend keeps referring to me as "a situation in the pet food aisle"