My poetry submission jam these days is throwing in that random tanka at the end of a 4-6 poem requirement ☺️

"Fixed it. That gurgling is normal."

And always— "Aubade in Autumn" by Peter Everwine www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

I lost my dad last year & it's been one of the hardest, most confusing times in my life. But I wrote this essay in his honor a long time ago. If you need a heart-lift on a hard day, or a good day, take a minute to read it. It'll soften the world a little, I think: radicalsnail.com/2013/12/22/s...

Love someone back. Molly Brodak

If you haven't picked a book for Caturday yet, Roxy would like to highly recommend Kill All Wizards by @jedediahberry.bsky.social It is new & about wizards & barbarians & tea & swords & sorcery & Jane Austen (manners, pls) & a cat appears in the second sentence so you know it is good 🧙🏻‍♀️🗡️🫖

Today is the day! Available wherever fine books are sold—and I'm very happy to sign and personalize copies ordered from my local indie, Book Moon Books: www.bookmoonbooks.com/item/085w9zr...

USA / Paraguay World Cup match just started! U.S. just scored. I'm rooting for Paraguay. I think I have a bit of a past-time for a while. This is great! ⚽️

From the mouth of jury duty—I've been loving this sci-fi collection of stories from Kim Choyeop #IfWeCannotGoAtTheSpeedOfLight #fridayreads 🚀 🌌 👽 📚

Felix Rosenqvist of Sweden wins the closest Indianapolis 500 in history by a margin of 0.0233 seconds.

Seen in Logan Square

Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.

Homage to old school Twitter, Roxy & I are stuck in the police funeral procession hellscape that has taken over the north side of Chicago. Please join the next Critical Mass bike ride. Shut down the whole city for every school shooting, gang related death & domestic violence incident #melttheguns

What do you want to know about the multibillion-dollar Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park? Come ask us!

How can I serve on the Pulitzer Prize Board? It's a serious inquiry.

"I'm an adult. I can do what I want. I need a break from Zoom meetings and 'circling back'. I need a big-ass slice of perfectly moist vanilla cake with rainbow sprinkles inside slathered with vanilla frosting."

There is an acoustic band of elders who cover folk & rock songs on the porch across from my apartment building in the warmer weather & my dad loved them so much when he was here & they are playing right now on this beautiful, sunny, warm spring day & oh my sweet, grieving, serenaded heart.

Okay bluesky I need your help I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home" Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

A wonderful 38ft mural of the late great KURT VONNEGUT - who left us 19yrs ago today - in his hometown of Indianapolis.

Sondra Morin recommends swallowing your pride along with the craft cocktail of the season, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪

Let's not.

The Internet is cooler when it's open source.

Hi! I have a new website. www.radicalsnail.com. You should take a peek. I also have a few poems that will be published this week in @villaineralit.bsky.social 🔪 You should give them a follow! Enjoy! 💖✨✨✨🐌

"The stock markets are closed today due to observance of the Christian holiday, Good Friday." 🐇

This book lays out in a very simple manner why everyone should have the right to choose. The unlikely pairing of the two protagonists is surprising but truly refreshing. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ok, our mobilization language is off. We need to start protesting war. Now. Forever. Always.

If you enter the Lion's Den as the lion, you're probably going to be ok.

Devin Fitzgerald's poems bravely ask where a contemporary Nosferatu can go once all the virgins have been eaten (hint: Los Angeles), today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪

Fuck no!

"To my fellow nominees, I wish I could go back and tell myself, as an even littler bunny, that someday I’d be in the same category as Madeline from 'Madeline' and Poop from 'Everybody Poops.'"

What if I started a solar airplane company called Icarus? ☀️ ✈️ 😎 🔥

All of these upbeat, positive, "we made it, it's March!" quotes & memes jumping up & down in my social feeds—if I'm being honest, I don't think I've survived.

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

Chicago just named a snowplow "Abolish ICE" — here are the other winners: blockclubchi.co/4b6zwaQ

"I love struggling actually. It makes me feel alive." -Alysa Liu Get out there and start falling on your ass!

How the Great Migration — and segregation — built the South Side’s Black-owned lounge culture. blockclubchi.co/3NWZNPP

Wearing this bright pink Book Moon Books "Read Books, Punch Nazis" sweatshirt through TSA is low key getting me VIP treatment. They like it!

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Nation Furious After Realizing Super Bowl Ad For Kindness https://theonion.com/nation-furious-after-realizing-super-bowl-ad-for-kindness/

When I was a kid, the New England Aquarium had a seal named Hoover who could talk: he could say a few sentences with a thick Boston accent. Because a talking seal has, to my knowledge, never happened before or since, it sounds made up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_...

Weather report from Eternal Silence (a.k.a. the cloaked guy at Graceland Cemetery)

If anyone needs reminding, ICE is nazis, cell phones aren't guns, ICU nurses are goddamn angels, & women are not fucking bitches. On air till Noon CT @chirpradio 107.1FM in Chicago, www.chirpradio.org #fuckice #freepalesti̇ne #feministradio 💖 🎧 🐌

Wow, yeah, reddit.com/r/all is a remarkable tapestry of fuck ICE posts

Late to the party, but how cool is it that Halloween II begins in the exact same sequence Halloween ends! #horrorscape 🎃

A West Ridge crossing guard is earning praise after carrying students across a street flooded with icy water due to a water main break. blockclubchi.co/4bb5yD6

When are we going to make the good robots? I'm not kidding.

Trust me, there's no such thing as a rough draft or a final draft. It's just you writing forever.

The right wants the teaching of history to no longer indict power or inspire resistance. But our side won’t submit.

Mariposa, by Alexander Calder, 1951, 📸 by Bruce Ely