This absolute obsession with Dorian Greying your face is so depressing to me, generations of women passing up the opportunity to pass into their powerful crone years

We are hiring now for our spring internships! These remote, volunteer positions offer hands-on experience with editing, writing, and contributing to the social media of a nationally recognized independent literary press. Applications are due 11/21/2025! www.sundresspublications.com/openings/

Last week, the New York Times’ “Interesting Times” podcast asked, “Did women ruin the workplace?” The headline changed twice — but the real issue wasn’t the wording. It was the premise.

Never recovering from this page

The hater in me sees the hater in you

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

Every $1 donation provides 4 or 5 meals from food banks. Even a donation of $5 right now can feed up to two dozen people. No, we shouldn’t have to do this. But we can.

Seeing a weird turn in some of the online criticisms leveled against us for our unwillingness to allow "AI" in any way at Clarkesworld. Now they are claiming our decision comes from a place of being "traumatized" by the bad people using "AI" and that we just need time to recover. Keep dreaming.

Kelly !!!!!! @kellylink.bsky.social

"Fourteen minutes later, Deadspin replied from its official account: “@realDonaldTrump Go fuck yourself.” "

it's your last chance to register for next wednesday's workshop, centered around submitting to literary magazines! natraum.com/workshops

Slots are full for the moment, but I may be able to open a few more by the weekend! If you know anyone wanting an in-depth star chart analysis, point them my way!

I have had my chart read by her! Highly recommend 💫

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

hi folks, i'm here to plug my workshops again. even if you have no experience doing any of these things, they will be very fun and you should sign up for one or maybe all of them.

I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️

Thank you, @debutiful.bsky.social! debutiful.net/2025/10/01/1...

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch. I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America. On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that. www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

I did not know this! JSTOR is a fantastic resource, I used it all the time in college and it's great to have access to it again. www.jstor.org

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

This is the way. Re-pledged to PBS, as well.

This took me years of being a published writer to understand: To the people who only know you by your work, you are like the blank screen at the front of a movie theater. You have your own physical reality, but they only see what's projected. They are talking and reacting to the light and shadow.

hi squad, i am hoping to supplement my unexpectedly reduced income with some gig work, including the first of a few workshops! tix: forms.gle/AHW4sQLEJh5v...

I read the transcript of Ezra Klein talking to Ben Shapiro, because I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what they were trying to accomplish. I read rather than listened because I can’t stand the sound of BS’s pinched little voice. 🧵

This exchange says it all.

The other #watercolor piece from my @janetpulcho.bsky.social workshop: gourds. These were very fun to paint. #ArtYear

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

5 centos! Woo-hoo! Thank you Genrepunk 🥰

VENUS a mini comic about girls night uniting us all 1/2

This is so bizarre because no one who loves film will see this, and anyone who would see an AI generated film would never watch The Magnificent Ambersons - but like I guess so much of AI art, the audience is somehow not the point

you gotta read—& gotta SEE—AMAZING new nat raum today! I.i am A. writing 1. an ars poetica i. in which i bury you, ii. in which i close the widest point of the wound myself, 2. a farewell. https://www.havehashad.com/t727h

Denis Johnson - Three Rules to Write By: Write naked. That means to write what you would never say. Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can’t waste it. Write in exile, as if you are never going to get home again, and you have to call back every detail.

Just saw Jaws in the theater, which was unbelievably cool and also terrifying? And also confirmed my opinion that it’s Spielberg’s best film, hands down

Sales associates Mr. Kool and Mr.Gang are available to help during working hours.

... lovely @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social meditation on embracing accident in our writing: substack.com/@maggiesmith...

Boiled down my AI policy this semester --

Nature is beautiful...

Maggie Smith: "If we’re going to withstand the rise of AI, I think we need to double down on our humanity. We can do things that generative AI can’t do, because we have experiences that AI can’t have. We can dream and imagine. We can second-guess ourselves, doubt, regret. We can hope and grieve."

art is so hard but im too stupid to stop

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

From this month's edition of The Onion.