It's time to read @aaronburch.bsky.social's "Home for the Holidays." xraylitmag.com/home-for-the...

i think the pittsburgh penguins should trade erik karlsson.

finished my friend @jenbannan.bsky.social's new collection yesterday & really, really enjoyed it! sharp, socially-charged stories that happen at the intersection of feminism & place. they're all good ones, but i think "you must not return to your childhood room" was my favorite story of the bunch:

Hey, you should watch Christmas Evil (1980). Despite sounding like a generic killer Santa movie in the vein of Silent Night, Deadly Night, it's actually a lot more like Martin Scorsese (in King of Comedy / Taxi Driver mode) making a Christmas horror character study.

my great grandfather published a couple books of poetry and there have been a bunch of copies of this one on my dad's bookshelf for i think my whole life but i only just now read it...here's my favorite in the book.

my great grandfather published a couple books of poetry and there have been a bunch of copies of this one on my dad's bookshelf for i think my whole life but i only just now read it...here's my favorite in the book.

2025 end-of-year thread:

my baby has a fever which means i get to call off work and stay home watching loony tunes all day.

truly one of the lamest things i can possibly imagine.

something for the late night freaks: like 6 years ago (?), i got bored and spent a few months making little paper cut-out animations. i don't think this one has ever seen the light of day. youtu.be/yqM5gNsFqqQ?...

they should make another short story collection by donald antrim.

almost missed my bus to work cause i was excitedly rewriting the opening 5 pages of this. feels good to be writing again 😌

is this stupid copilot AI shit just a permanent unchangeable feature of microsoft word now?

just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"

How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’

Happy 15th anniversary to this legendary Carlo Colaiacovo moment

Do you want to bid on a FRAMED photo of mine recently featured in a show to benefit a local community darkroom? Do so here! givebutter.com/c/gogo25/auc...

okay.

great opportunity to nab Sleepovers, one of my favorite story collections of the past several years!

dog heaven by stephanie vaughn the five forty-eight by john cheever mother by andrea lee train choir by jon raymond feeling good, feeling fine by george garrett a dark night, by edward p jones pet milk by stuart dybek ...basically everything by denis johnson ...basically everything by paul yoon

this is an appreciation post for the brendan fraser comedy film Bedazzled (2000).

the pittsburgh penguins are the worst third period team i've ever seen.

One of my visual poems from "Classic Crimes," done with embroidery. I didn't promote my book, which came out late May, because of some awful personal stuff that hopefully someday will end. ANYWAY, if you're so inclined & buy my book I will happily send you a collage postcard to thank you. You pick.

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

help i need to be defibrillated 🪦

i have heard that when a baby is really bad at sleeping, it is supposedly a sign of intelligence. lord, please, i am begging you to make my baby stupider.

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ACAB all cops are bicyclist-endangerers

has there ever been a truck commercial where a guy just helps his buddy move a mattress or are they all always about driving up the side of a mountain

finished catch-22 wow they were right it's a good wild book

i hate only having time to play hockey once a week. i am ready to score a hat trick NOW.

this person is a fucking idiot.

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ICE arrests in the Pittsburgh region peaked in July and August. They have dipped since, but remain three times higher than 2024 for the year.

still riding the high of having my book appear on @electricliterature.com's list of best story collections of the year.

it has been like 5 years since this plant has flowered, let's fuckin go!!!!!!!

"She believed, like the adults in my family, that a fact was something solid and useful, like a penknife you could put in your pocket in case of emergency." — "Dog Heaven," Stephanie Vaughn

pyrex - "conditioner" youtu.be/cqwlrIUOlXI?...

haunted mansion - "fake money" unlawfulassembly.bandcamp.com/track/fake-m...

mutated void - "abandoned" youtu.be/Y5MWIq59bAI?...

naatlo sutila - "voices" naatlosutila.bandcamp.com/track/voices

took the carton of egg nog out of the fridge and waved it around over my head for a second and the baby gave me a big huge smile. she's a natural-born noghead.

can anyone recommend a good anthology of short stories by trans authors that isn't exclusively in the fantasy or sci-fi genres?

“Train in the Snow” by Claude Monet

GIRL ON GIRL has been out for one year today 💚 thank you @rejectionlit.bsky.social 💚 thank you to everyone who has read it 💚 asterismbooks.com/product/girl...