HOY!

I love a Saturday issue drop because we can stay in our pajamas, drink coffee, and READ all morning! I hope you LOVE this spectacular NEW ISSUE of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social as much as I do. Thank you to our contributors & staff for all the work & love that went into making this issue shine! 💫

should I buy some cheap pearls? for, you know, clutching?

I haven’t been on in awhile but OMG DIVA WAKE UP NEW EPISODE OF @splitlipthemag.bsky.social IS OUT TODAY !!!!!! I so hope you check out my @theoffingmag.bsky.social colleague Lauren’s interview with Jesse Mechanic on his graphic memoir. It’s so thoughtful & I’m so glad to see it with SLM ♥️✨🫦

“There is in us simultaneously, in our conscious and unconscious, something of the old man and of the child but also of the man of the twenty-first century, of the fifth century BCE, of Cro-Magnon man and the Neanderthal, of the great ape, the tiger, the squirrel. Who are you?” Jacques Derrida

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Peter Reading

accepting submissions for people who make some kind of donation again, now and for the next ~51 minutes!

Our OCTOBER ISSUE hits the archives tomorrow, fam. Give it a read if you haven't already! We're pretty proud of these authors and their work. 🥰 buff.ly/PLKRM5J

'Can't get that tune out of my head,' can't get that tree out of some place in me. And don't want to Denise Levertov, An Ancient Tree

New Almodóvar film dropping

The Ceramic Chevalière’s c*nty walk.

you all are the best. so heartwarming to see your generosity pour through. first wave: $919.56+ raised (a handful didn't show amounts, others were recurring!) let's see if the second wave can beat em, opening again in 5 hours! If they crack $1k, we'll give away 2 merch prizes

a prose poem of mine in the newest issue of Water~Stone Review

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Be honest, is Frankenstein gonna be boring? Why do I feel pre-bored?

Happy HAD Friday! 2 submission windows today for those who make some kind of donation to a cause! Link will work from 10-11am and 7-8pm Eastern. Where are you donating? havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34166...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Lapidation is a lovely word.

Emmanuel Hocquard, tr. Norma Cole

My writing callus is tingling. There must be a rejection on the horizon.

Even their syntax is depraved

NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)

guilty

New Rosalia album is a bop. God, I adore a heavily researched concept album!

Missing every romantic choice in Dispatch trying to force homosexuality on Robert.

I’m leaning on honey. — Tomaž Šalamun (tr. Jeffrey Young & Katarina Vladimirov Young) From “Andes” @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social

👀 www.freud.org.uk/event/psycho...

crow emoji! 🐦‍⬛

a fox ran thru the yard, pursued by 4 crows. interpret?

Studying the NYC Draft Riots of 1863 (which I had NEVER heard of while living in NYC for 15 yrs): "Other targets included the office of the New York Times. The mob was turned back at the Times office by staff manning Gatling guns, including Times founder Henry Jarvis Raymond."

The graphic says it all. Please do not give up until time is up. Call. Email. Keep fighting. #alleyesontremanewood

It’s my birthday today. [Cue 8-bit Super Mario fireworks.] 🎆👾 I would love if you donated to The Sameer Project.

i also found this one valuable for historical context: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1990-a...

Makin’ moves in Mibu Village

Who here lives in the Bronx, Westchester, <waves hands at the general area north of Manhattan>? Come hang tomorrow night!! ❤️

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

I often find sciencey non-fiction super boring (I'm more into literary fiction) but I had such a ball reading @gretchenmcc.bsky.social's book, cover to cover, in a few sittings it was so fun!! many moments of spark-of-recognition, nostalgia, whoas, etc. And many lols, including the loud kind

diagnosed with ADHD at 42!

sad minds think alike, Mary Ruefle

PLEASE BASTION, GIVE ME A NEW NAME!

I would like to skip the ringside seat at this debauched circus and go straight to the empty field where the tent once stood.

It's our editor's/founder's/designer's 40th birthday on Friday so today through Sunday, issues 2 and 3 are 40% off! Pick up your copies here: postcardlit.com/store

The best short ghost story ever.

To me this article is like when an anthropologist "stoops" to understand a sub-culture, and sensing their condescension, the members of that group take them for a bit of a ride, which the anthropologist then reports as absolute fact: harpers.org/archive/2025...

oh my youtu.be/t0B8sjxR7Mo?...

Obsessing over a Linda Gregg poem again “I don't expect the light / to save me, but I do believe / in the ritual.” #poetry

I’m leaning on honey. — Tomaž Šalamun (tr. Jeffrey Young & Katarina Vladimirov Young) From “Andes” @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social