all of this. It’s impossible to teach somebody to find information when it’s locked behind a billion fragmented apps and passwords, let alone teach them how to retain it.

You who are not responsible for this war You who did not specially want it to happen Who do not see me as your enemy I have started driving into the darkness because you cannot --Jennifer Lewin plumepoetry.com/driving-thro...

The Critic #2026IgnyteAward finalists are: @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social @gabino.bsky.social @mariahaskins.com @skiffyandfanty.com @vanessafogg.bsky.social

Gerrit Dou, Dog at Rest, 1650, Oil on panel 16.5 x 21.6 cm (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

You who are not responsible for this war You who did not specially want it to happen Who do not see me as your enemy I have started driving into the darkness because you cannot --Jennifer Lewin plumepoetry.com/driving-thro...

who's going to publish my weird short poem about 7th c. Anglisc garnet jewelry challenge.

That said, part of why Korean conservatism is so insane at the moment is (like everywhere else) because of AI brainrot and a general disregard for truth

this is true and real

Unfortunately I ended up in the hospital again yesterday... Not ready to share details, but if you haven't shared or donated to my GoFundMe yet, I would appreciate the extra support right now Thank you to everyone helping me through this ordeal

I'm starting to think that the Great Man theory of history is more real than we want to admit but the fact that it is real is extremely, extremely bad actually.

A regional order organized around Israeli impunity requires levels of coercion that are accelerating American decline. The Gulf states understand this, though each nation is drawing different conclusions. www.bostonreview.net/articles/obj...

Today's activity was accosting strangers with flyers about Citizens Bank, who are involved in funding ICE detention centers. Exhausting but useful.

Uhh I think I've been spotted.

Your regular reminder that we're able to do what we do because of generous donations. There are lots of great ways to support us, including Patreon, merch, buying our issues, etc.

I’m not sure this is true. I think that trans & genderqueer spaces in particular have a lot of different positive visions for masculinity. The challenge is getting straight people to see them as a model.

Today's poem from issue 23 is "The Naming" by Sara Hovda Read the whole poem at the link variantlit.com/the-naming/

final day!!!!

some dude was workshopping his car drive-by insults at a standout today: when laughed at the first time, he circled around and added a "fucking" to otherwise identical language, C-, see me after class.

I doubt anyone will read this on. Friday night, but also: There’s no buffer against the perils of parenthood. There’s no magic fix that will keep your kids typical or safe. Your typical child can become disabled later. You should learn how to accept and face disability rather than than fear it

How’s everyone? You doing okay? Do you need a drink of water? Here’s Tori to help. #MusicSky

obsessed with this poem by Yuki Tanaka

my nam is trol and wen i see a skete that dos not tend to me i rant and ror i run amok i am a bor i get the blok

listen, I learned the term "sky-raisin" _today_. www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBei...

if you go on safari in history looking for yourself, you'll inevitably distort the past enough to find it

At around 5am, after voting all night, Senate Republicans voted to give ICE $70 BILLION more in your taxpayer dollars. No reforms or changes made.  We can still fight this.

(Former English teacher here) And that is exactly why “citing AI” doesn’t work. You cannot find the same thing again.

shit's hard sometimes

Down the orchard aisles, in the thick, new, wet grass, the little girl ran for the joy of running.

laid two peonies on the cut stump of a neighborhood tree nobody wanted taken down: today there's a pile of others' flowers too. MTSPA, make the suburbs pagan again.

distraction-watch right now is #SomethingInTheRain, which I thought would be light, but the depiction of constant mid-to-high-grade workplace sexual harassment is harrowing.

Wtf RIP Marianne

Such a good book.

With time slipping away to make this work, looking for any size gigs to help get me closer to that $375 in arrears.

me: are you writing in your notebook these days? kid: no me: why? kid: well, when I write things down and go back to look at them later I'm embarrassed. so I stopped. me: *turns around with a wild look and then pushes a pile of marked-up poem drafts at them* ok so -- kid: uh-oh

if the dnc does not know by now how little I want to hear from nancy pelosi, that is really on them.

This is the reality. Any politics or politician or movement that isn’t saying this plainly is a false god, inviting you to your own destruction. America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

BATTLE AWAITS. HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

“Art works at the particle level. Tiny fragments of graphite in a pencil, tiny fragments of pigment suspended in oil. The thrill is manipulating these hundred billion little bits of stone into an image that will please you.” - @isaac-fellman.bsky.social , ‘Notes From A Regicide’ (1/2)

So frigging happy to have a story in @flashfrog.bsky.social! And this art is absolutely perfect.

Sneaking this announcement out before the weekend: We are pleased to announce the ToC and share the cover for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025! www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...

why can't we all just live in friend-communes (rhetorical) (unless)

Stand With MN is currently encouraging folks to support the good folks protesting in NJ in their fight against ICE: www.standwithminnesota.com/jersey

a Pride-month reminder that I wrote a micro-chapbook of poems 'after' Our Flag Means Death, and you can find it through @the-ethelzine.bsky.social, here: www.ethelzine.com/shop/pre-ord...

Happy Pride to everyone. Thinking about how my late uncle Aveek (lost to the pandemic), who was the first openly queer person I knew, gently told me I was queer many years before I realised it myself (I denied it at the time). I think it was not long after the below book was published.

Good morning from Lucille Clifton.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... #Hungary might be the first current member of the EU to introduce a new wealth tax since the 1980s. Magyar said the move was “not a punishment but a sign of social justice and solidarity in a functioning and humane country”.

Teach your students to discern what is good Help them understand what they desire and the difference between that and manufactured want Teach them how to imagine

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"On November 6 we went to the open mic at Harvey Milk’s Bookshelf. The store was festooned with glittering streamers for the celebration everyone thought was coming but now our voices were an elegy..." pitheadchapel.com/ostriches-at... #SpeculativeFiction #FlashLit #ShortStory #Writing