AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH CURLING!!!!

Oh my goodness!! 8th place in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Rhyming Story Challenge finals! 1,597 people entered R1 (I got 4th in my group, getting me to R2) 432 made it to R2 (I got 1st! in my group, making to the finals) 56 folks made the finals, 1st-10th win $$... And I got 8th! I'm so excited!

Being a writer is the most embarrassing thing in the world! I write down the entire contents of my soul for validation! And then some editor will just be like no thanks!

Had anyone gotten a response from their submissions to @brokenantlermag.bsky.social ? Wondering if there is a spam issue going on?

Make a $15 donation to an MSP organization helping feed people or protecting people’s rights and email it to me hello [at] foofaraw [dot] press, I’ll give you a free year of Foofaraw’s premium tier. Make it $25 and I’ll send you copies of our two novelettes.

This was Alex Pretti at work at the VA honoring a veteran who had passed. This is who they're trying to falsely smear as a terrorist and assassin.

Jeopardy is fully using clues to make it clear that the current regime is dumb and fascist. And I am so here for it.

If anyone would like to support Guinevere and her Cookie selling this year, she would appreciate it! If you leave nearby, we can deliver, otherwise, select shipping :) digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/guinev...

The old constitutional order is gone, and we should be straightforward about that. It’s becoming obvious that, whatever else is on the reconstruction agenda, ICE abolition must be included. For goodness’ sake, Bill Kristol is in favor of it. Can you really not get there? trib.al/rPjQYKp

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

This story is a DELIGHT Please read. It is so much fun

Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school. 📸: Jerry Holt

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Worth pointing out, i think, that if your first words after shooting a stranger in the face four times are "fucking bitch," you might have an anger management issue. Or youre just a fucking misogynist with a tiny, limp dick. Likely both.

Been thinking about this for a little while. Even with all the current context, I'm still genuinely shocked how many people are trying to argue a different truth than what we can all see from very clear video of the incident. It's genuinely Orwellian. Straight out of 1984.

Laws in the USA only apply to the poor, not those in power. They are specifically structured so as to not apply to those in power, actually.

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Rat Bag Lit @ratbaglit.bsky.social ⭐ is accepting submissions (some fees) through Duosuma. #WritingCommunity

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

My response when an agent of the state says there's a chance they might die if they don't execute a citizen that they haven't confirmed is a threat...

Make it viral.

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

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

1st full year of comitting time to writing, competitions, & submitting for publication. In 2024 I entered my 1st comp. I ended up doing 3 comps (writing a total of 6 stories), & submitting 3 stories for publication consideration (got 1 near miss and no acceptances). Here are my 2025 stats!

My wife had the idea we should have a special issue every month like the Vogue September issue, so I’m going to open up submissions in a bit again as I want to make March our special double issue—so at least four additional stories. Not sure if I want them themed or anything like that yet… may

"And Mickey 17, who did NOT die..."

The Ghost of Christmas Future Perfect: “You will have been visited by me.”

🛸🛸hey guess what 🛸🛸 Night Shades will open for submissions on December 26 🛸🛸 all speculative, pro+ pay, 500 words max, sim subs ok 🛸🛸 please read the guidelines carefully! www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

Please check out this cool new flash fiction writing contest and consider joining in the fun! Prompts will drop on Jan 30th. www.oddembers.com

We're kindling a new flash fiction writing contest, with unique prompts to spark your creativity. Join us on January 30?

Hey, look at us! Not bad for a bunch of rats. Thank you for your votes! We'd like to thank you humans who contributed your work, and of course cheese. We must always thank cheese. There are more great Lit Mags on this list, and others lists with great Lit Mags made by @chillsubs.bsky.social!

Newsletter going out later today—places to read my recent stories, craft talk, and, of course, a word from these adorable doggos. Sign up as a free member of my Patreon to get everything in your inbox when it drops later today! www.patreon.com/c/chrisdotyd...

Every once in a while I think "maybe I'll give WWE another shot" and then they do shit like have Cena tap out in his last ever match on a ring mat that says "Riyadh Season" and I remember that I don't watch WWE because they are trash.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

so, @foofarawpress.bsky.social: if—hypothetically—one couldn't remember if they submitted a story for The Foofs already, would one email to check? Submit again, though it might create a duplicate? Again, SUPER hypothetical. Definitely not a neurospicy brain facing the consequences of its own actions

Today's story is "Putting the "Fun" in Funeral" by Butch Farrell. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #funeraryracoons #funeraryraccoons ratbaglit.substack.com/p/putting-th...

Best showing in Writing Battle to date! Top 8 out of 331 submitted stories, taken out by the story that won it all (and was written by a dear friend and is also a banger), and some truly amazing comments about the story. Not too shabby!

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

I am proud to have a story published with Rat Bag. Awesome team to work with, and I would recommend them to any author.

If you have internet access, you will literally never run out of reading material. Just between public domain works and AO3 alone, ffs. "Oh well I can't get every exact book I want the exact moment I want it" Okay??? Me either??? Have some gd patience & read something else???

"But I--" I literally do not fucking care. If you can access a pirate site, you can access legit ways to get free books. Fuck off into the sun.

I do not even want to know why this is Discourse again, but book pirates are crapweasels and if you steal books you've done a bad thing and should feel bad about yourself.

So is @notquitewrite.com gonna ruin Thanksgiving for a bunch of USians or what? 😅 When is that longlist gonna drop? 👀

I have a story out in the wild. Take a peek at "Arrangement in Gray and Yellow" in Stygian Lepus #29 www.stygianlepus.com/r/1cc5c468?m...

I'm just never gonna get to do the January @notquitewrite.com round, which means I'm going to miss the first round of the new format, and that makes me sad 😭

Rat Bag Lit @ratbaglit.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Poetry - Print Issue #2 (some fees). #CallforSubmissions

Can't believe the @democrats.senate.gov are so openly advocating for more 3rd party candidates. No red, no blue in 2026. Literally anyone else

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.