But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

I care more about whether our brothers and sisters in Iran will live than whether or not my prices go up.

one of the kiddos at easter brunch yesterday told their friend "Axel's trustworthy." I recommend the experience of being vouched for by an eleven year old queer kid. Excellent confirmation I'm doing some things right.

you likely don't know my person, Evan, but he is a truly marvelous man. he exudes gentleness without surrendering his teeth. he is an artist and a philosopher. he left his job at our local veterinary clinic to take care of his parents as their various cancers ate them alive. +

Without a home, without steady access to food or clean water, without shelter from the cold or heat, Sama'a and her family have survived years of genocidal violence. Please give what you can to help them. chuffed.org/project/157569

Okay, I finally finished reading all of your beautiful pieces from last year and now I just have to unceremoniously cut 2000 of them down to around 25 and then tell them I love them and want to publish them and give them money, and give everyone else a devastatingly neutral "no thanks!"

This helps me out twofold because I also need to make some room on my bookshelves

I need to find creative ways to make May's rent. Would anyone be interested in a hand picked blind book date from my shelf for a flat $20 including shipping within the US? Tell me what you like and I'll hook you up with a book and a hand written note explaining my choice. Fic, nonfic, poetry.

I need to find creative ways to make May's rent. Would anyone be interested in a hand picked blind book date from my shelf for a flat $20 including shipping within the US? Tell me what you like and I'll hook you up with a book and a hand written note explaining my choice. Fic, nonfic, poetry.

"Part of what has made fighting ICE the mass antifascist movement of the decade is that the tactics are simple; they just need to replicate and grow." @shaneburley.bsky.social on the new antifascist consensus. inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

I had a lovely conversation with Sophie about writing, Taco Bell Quarterly, and community. Check it out.

How lucky am I? Got to interview @sadboyslowjams.bsky.social for Write Something Weird! www.youtube.com/watch?v=98VB...

If you read horror you gotta read this book.

Trans Day Of Visibility. Here's your reminder that Taco Bell Quarterly is run by two trans guys. At our AWP table a woman saw our trans flag and told me her daughter is trans. I said, "How lucky for you." If you have trans people in your life you are blessed. Give them your money.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Maybe God is mad at us because we had the hubris to claim we could build bears.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Please call Mayor Ryan and County Exec Poloncarz to thank them for speaking at No Kings, & ask them to follow through w policy - specifically, ask the Mayor to stop the Cop City project at the former Matt Urban Center, and CE to take actions to address the Sheriff's involvement in Shah Alam's death.

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

Someday, in a better world, Sama'a and I will drink coffee while her girls play with my nephew, but that world doesn't exist yet, and my friend and her family are struggling. Please give what you can to help. chuffed.org/project/157569

🚨 new nat raum!! 🥳 🥳 https://www.havehashad.com/ypnbq

A computer can never pack a bowl therefore a computer must never make a playlist

The weather in Gaza is still harsh, and with Israel's renewed blockades food is scarce and very expensive. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/157569

I'm helping organize this four day arts event. Early on we submitted fake proposals to our system to test it. I submitted a fake proposal called "butts." This week, with all the real proposals in, my co-organizer kept asking me if butts was real. Anyway, now I have to write a long poem about butts.

one of my all time favorite books

"Smoldering at the intersection of trans, queer, and Xicanx poetics, the poems in SG Huerta’s first full-length collection announce the arrival of an important new voice in American poetry." –Cecily Parks sundress-publications.square.site/product/burn...

I wrote a vulnerable 2,000 word unedited essay about my childhood and now I'm trying to get strangers scrolling by to read it because that's how hard we roll over at Lit Stack. Happy Friday y'all! open.substack.com/pub/tacobell...

"I'd go to church if Josh Allen were the preacher."

drinking water and eating dinner alone is restoring my HP today

friendly reminder we only sell bangers and we ship across the US eveninghousebooks.com

This is next Thursday. Short story "club" on zoom where whoever is interested logs in and we chat & rave about a story we all read. This month I mixed it up and chose 3 stories from Brian Evenson. Lemme know if you're interested, and I'll send you Zoom info (and also links to PDFs of the stories).

(finding a bushel) holy shit this would be the PERFECT thing to hide my light under

MARCH SADNESS 90s NEW GAMES ARE UP THREAD (1/4): Soul Asylum, "Runaway Train" / @emilylauracosta.bsky.social VS Lee Ann Womack, "You Don't Even Know Who I Am" / @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social Read, Listen, Vote by 9am 3/11: marchxness.com/1stround-sou...

I’d love to interview someone who does game design/storytelling for my literary YouTube show. If you have a friend, or if you are the friend, please DM me!

You do not need the robots to creatively prompt you! Just try to take the most violent bite of yourself possible. Try to swallow yourself whole

the government doesn’t want you to realize that you can participate in this world’s continuing act of creation which is why you should make art and be a transsexual

had some success this morning with novel plotlines clicking into focus. I owe my writing partner so many pages because I moved and then immediately flew to AWP.

someday when TBQ opens for submissions again I am going to want to see your best Abolish ICE submissions. I want even more immigrant submissions than we already receive. I want your utopias and I want your recipes for resisting fascism. We also accept pieces in Spanish no translation necessary.

My copy of Persona from @littlepuss.net delivered while I was in Baltimore. I've been looking forward to this one for actual months.

I only bought one book from the book fair, Burns Burns Burns by SG Huerta. Go buy your own copy here: sundress-publications.square.site/product/burn...

We HAVE to support each other because the world generally does not give a shit if we live or die.

So THIS poem of mine got posted while I was at #AWP in Baltimore this weekend! I have long wanted to have a poem in HAD; now it has happened. (Yeah, I see what I did there.) Thanks, @havehashad.com for making my weekend.

make art with your friends, be sincere, treat people with kindness and you will discover something precious. something priceless. Live más.

The Taco Bell Quarterly guy just shook hands with the pulitzer prize guy at the TBQ booth

AWP repost, find us @ T704 hanging out w/ Bullshit Lit! $5 copies of a special print issue while they last, I'm on a panel Friday if you're into that kind of freaky shit, AND if you're around early tomorrow, I'm going to tell you exactly what's wrong with me at Metro Baltimore.

Get this magnificent book:

Instead of hate reading some nonsense essay about gender by some very hateable fella, you could read my book full of essays that are also about gender, and labour, and death, and addiction, and music, but in a much more curious and much more fun way bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I haven't seen this circulating on Bluesky yet- vetted GoFundMe for the family of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, the Rohingya refugee who was killed by CBP and state violence in Buffalo. Funds will help with immediate expenses and to reunite with their sons. Donate and share. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w...