I learned from trans culture how to make medicalization work for me without subscribing to its language or its model. Applying that to my mental health stuff as well was a game-changer.

I completely forgot I wrote this

all the cool hot people have their copies of again, harder already so don’t you want to join us

next one is in TORONTO on FRIDAY, followed by nyc, Baltimore, dc and Boston come say hiiiiiii

What a delight to attend @catfitzpatrick.net’s book launch last night and get to see and hear readings from @caseyplett.com and Sybil Lamb! + fun and funny musings on love and general good company 💕

some trans people are extremely annoying and/or aggressively nasty online. the goal is to get a backyard with them and smoke cigarettes

Toronto I am reading at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social with @nikostratis.com this Friday! Come see us for a night of romance, literature and probably slapstick

Our publishers hard at work

reading with Sybil and Casey last night in Windsor was exactly as much chaos as you might expect // catch me in toronto on Friday for probably more of the same

Irish ppl always have the addiction gene, in some cases they have been known to be addicted to milking cows . They will wake up extra early just to milk the cow. There’s no rehab for that one

It's almost as if the Legacy Commission was not really set up to deliver truth recovery for people in NI, but to end legal avenues for redress that were embarrassing to a government in London. It's such a wonder that this story isn't getting news attention outside NI: share.google/uRk9SBtEzbAN...

“Don’t you dare skip this David A. Ashton, you fucking wanker,” said William Blake in a 2026 seance.

"Freedom is just another word for complimentary booze" - @sybillamb.bsky.social

"Kraft dinner martini: gin vermouth bitters olive olive brine Kraft dinner" - @sybillamb.bsky.social

apparently trans Achilles is having an algorithmic moment. anyway, buy wrath goddess sing.

millennial marketing: gen z marketing: trite observations on trite observations on generational differences generational differences only serve to obfuscate only serve to obfuscate class solidarity class solidarity. 67

There was supposed to be a photo with that.

Wait @catfitzpatrick.net is doing an event with @allshewrotebks.bsky.social? OMG, y’all all should attend!

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an easy way to spot when the good shit hits the mailbox @littlepuss.net

So @pastemagazine.bsky.social asked if I would write about God Only Knows , and then I had a pain flare up and lost my mind trying to do it www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-be...

🥂YOU KNOW IT, YOU LOVE IT🥂 We are happy to announce the return of the LITTLEPUSS😸 SUMMER🍹 SALON👩‍🎨 This year we'll be celebrating FIVE YEARS of our delightfully diminutive feline press!🎉 There will be booze, books, and there could be YOU

this is a correct opinion it rules

short story girlies: reminder that you *need* to put 'again, harder' by @astoehr.bsky.social on your bookstore shopping list there is humor & terror & anguish & sex & discomfort & a truly remarkable amount of love. it's a collection that syncs with your heartbeat, maybe even resets it #booksky 💙📚

somehow this is the most I have ever felt Seen

Windsor and environs (Detroit! Toledo! London?) this is TONIGHT 7pm at the biblioasis bookstore ME VS HOUSE OF LAMB 3 enter probably 3 leave but you never know

Can't believe MY BAD comes out in just two weeks! Join me and @sabs.bsky.social at the launch? www.strandbooks.com/hugh-ryan-my...

angels

however excited you are for this book....be more

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there's like no point in weighing in on this but it's crazy that all the defining millennial song choices I keep seeing are just like white people karaoke songs instead of music that was topping charts btwn 2000-2010. how is it not like Single Ladies or Irreplaceable or Umbrella or Low or Hey Ya

NEW YORK good morning happy Monday I am launching a book at the excellent hive mind books NEXT WEEK with that redoubtable roué and rake Rainer Diana Hamilton // we will be indulging in the evanescent pleasures of love and the senses come join usssssss...

sings or says

Isn’t this wonderful? The head of a stalk of Rye grass, presumably used as a bookmark in this twelfth-century Bodleian MS from Cirencester. Just lovely.

Four translations of a poem by Basho.

I was listening to Television and Joy Division when I was 18 in 1999, and I'm extremely normal,

I am teaching an online course on humour and there are bonus points for making a funny joke and one of the students made a paper doll version of the rollerskating scene from modern times but with me and Soren Kierkegaard to mock me for loving Kierkegaard so much

“this is fine”

Can confirm

Cat and I listening to this right now and it rules

New evidence suggests that Larkin got the date for the beginning of sexual intercourse in England badly wrong

I just woke up and I couldn’t think of a normal celebrity

MIXTAPE

I just want to say I do not endorse this frankly anti-canadian behaviour from my publishers I love Canada and have watched both corner gas and the green and red show

Reading in Windsor on Tuesday for Cat's beautiful fucking book about love (not kidding) called THE DINNER PARTY (which I am a character in, also not kidding). Come out/have drinks after at the DH which is at 3140 Sandwich St NOT Wyandotte @sevenstories.bsky.social this is your official callout post

At the end of the month I am throwing a party at MY HOUSE in New York City to celebrate the fact I committed another book please do come, there will be wine xoxoxo

5. Have a dark heart 💜

Violet's Suggestions For Enjoying the Novel Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen: 1. Read slowly and aloud, preferably in a non-rhotic old Atlanta accent. 2. It is a game, not a puzzle. There is no answer but the act of answering. 3. Spot the hidden Mickeys!! 4. Love the act of reading in itself

BALTIMORE TODAY IS THE DAY YOU WILL HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE

The first punk/rock concert I went to (15yo) was a day of bands at Carleton University. One of the bands had large costumes made out of cardboard and smashed cardboard and that cardboard? was sybil lamb