I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

I’ve never been so certain Nithya is going to win lol

There are bodies of water that are bigger, deeper, better smelling. But right now, in the summer of 2026, there is no body of water in America that is more talked about than the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. And she knows it. www.chortle.blog/p/exclusive-...

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Humorous Fiction feat. @johnnyamericazine.bsky.social @flashfictiononline.bsky.social @pointsincase.com @chortle.blog et al. https://duotrope.com...

Just over a week left to submit your humor pieces! Cc @duotrope.com

I just posted a new call for submissions! Send me your funny stuff, humor #writers.

It was funny when Taylor Swift ruined everybody’s football games, but now she’s ruining my basketball game. Get outta here, Taylor.

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

Hello, Mister President. It looks like you’ve got me. That’s right, you’ve finally caught the man who rigged California’s primary election.

Just put yourself out there, the more embarrassing it feels, the better you're doing, I swear

After careful consideration, I have made the difficult decision to withdraw Gator’s Tilt-A-Whirl from the Great American State Fair. This event does not align with our principles as an organization that includes one man and several tons of uninsurable machinery.

I’ve started measuring my life with sabermetrics, and I don’t love my stats right now… WAR: -1.2 (Weekends Actually Rested) K%: 18 (Kid, Percent Satisfied) xWIF: .773 (Expected rate at which I irritate my wife)

Lmao this is a great piece

Did you love these Michael Jackson biopic? If so, you’ll definitely enjoy these other non-controversial films!

I wrote about the photo, but I am still very interested in where this particular torch came from and how it was decided that we would be giving it to him on behalf of the city

Wow, a price update! This sounds like an exciting opportunity for me.

This is shocking and embarrassing @mayor.lacity.gov. A smiling photo op with the man who sent ICE into our city? Fuck off, Karen.

Earth Day is this week! Learn about the holiday’s past, present and future right here.

Mae sure you know whether you’re filing your taxes Frantically or Redundantly! www.chortle.blog/p/lesser-kno...

Reposting this @chortle.blog piece from @ninasharmawriter.bsky.social because once again reality is trying to one-up satire. www.chortle.blog/p/college-pr...

Ugh, what a morning. Sorry, I am late for work, but with the Strait of Hormuz closed, it is really throwing everything off. You guys get it, right? www.chortle.blog/p/sorry-im-l...

Every single day Trump acts out in a way that would get you banned from Dave & Busters and the media types up things like “Trump challenges limits of executive theory.”

Kudos to the NCAA for correctly intuiting that when I turn on the Final Four, what I’m hoping to see is two DJs performing.

doing commercials used to be a shameful thing that you had to go to Japan to do

Hell yeah, Nithya is great.

Bass is such a coward. We gotta get rid of her asap.

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El Centro absolutely sucks, so at least we have that. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

LA folks in Echo Park/Silverlake: ICE is staging at Vons on Alvarado, and have kidnapped vendors on Sunset and Alvarado and Sunset and Echo.

Been thinking about this song a lot recently. Two dead in MN. Dave is a real one.

Turns out the concept of a “fresh hell” doesn’t really ring true once all this shit starts blurring together.

What’s a word for being equally heartened and disheartened? I’m in awe of the bravery of Minnesotans and in despair at the thought that this will only escalate.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Whoever this guy is for President.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

I thought the meaning of “ice” was pretty set in stone! It’s always referred to cubes or rinks or occasionally Val Kilmer. It definitely has never meant “a fascist goon squad of five-year high school grads.”

Creative writing will survive humanity's greatest crisis. The robots can never replicate my need for attention

Fiction dead? No one reads anymore? The obituaries they write are their own, not yours! Live más!

I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell

The most illustrative reply I’ve ever seen.

My new theory: A.I. is basically just @kenjennings.bsky.social. Very knowledgeable, useful in many contexts, SHOULD NOT BE IN CHARGE OF THE ECONOMY. www.chortle.blog/p/ai-ken-jen...

The president called this grieving woman and her murdered wife professional agitators. The federal government called them terrorists. We are ruled by irredeemable monsters

Living in America makes me feel disgusted and heartbroken in new ways almost every single day. I really don’t know how to handle it.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

"The Criterion Closet, in direct contravention of this administration’s priorities, acts as an expertly curated sanctuary for foreign films that are criminally difficult to find."