my days of being over-stubborn about "I read what EYE like, and NOBODY tells me WHAT that is" are finished, I have weathered into a semi-permeable cell-membrane, it's better this way most of the time. 😂

Maybe all we need to do to win is just keep going. youtu.be/Q5maxnYgNU4

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Anti-Data Center organizing is really ramping up especially in the South.

How do you do right by your child when you feel like you're the very thing that will steer her wrong? That’s the question at the heart of my new story in @reckoningmag.bsky.social : “In the Foothills”

Every Diana Wynne Jones book I read makes me more shocked that there’s not a Marvel Studios-sized film industry built around adaptations of her work

Talked to a friend in the airline industry this week & would say the mood there is 'deeply worried.'

The very definition of "how your email finds me." (Alt-text: a large ruffled owl looks round at the camera with a 'what now' expression, not altering its stooped position on a log.)

How could I possibly quit kdramas right now.

*sigh* 1. That's not a direct quote. If you're going to put something in quotation marks and then go, "Wow. He just came right out and said it," it should be a direct quote. 2. This speech is from 2018. Don't present it as new/recent. 3. The actual content of the speech is bad enough.

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

The very definition of "how your email finds me." (Alt-text: a large ruffled owl looks round at the camera with a 'what now' expression, not altering its stooped position on a log.)

Hookland has a long tradition of winged-dogs known as Feorhunds. Even the stone representations of them have a reputation for unbidden climbing and flying. Some say the nets hung around St. Agatha at Belford Darrow are to counter their proclivities for zooming around its tower.

I feel like yelling FOX when you see a FOX is in the same category as saying "biiiiig stretch" when your pet stretches, i.e. mandatory.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

I am a gay dad and this is FUCKED UP

FOX

WORDS TEND TO BE INADEQUATE

A found poem from one of Flaubert's letters to Turgenev . . . because my notes on their correspondence turned into short poems, as poetry is a language of inquiry into language.

Start your day off with this gorgeous poem from CP Nwankwo in @reckoningmag.bsky.social : reckoning.press/once-i-retur...

Wicker Galore! (1949) Life on a small Scottish island is changed forever after a ship full of wicker runs aground on the coast, and proves too much of a temptation of the local inhabitants.

love an article that will do a historical deep dive. www.pastemagazine.com/music/bts/bt...

Hahaha yes sickos .jpg

Hepatica glamour shot

i want to say i think it's really, really sad that fundraising for palestinians has been so fraught on this site and i just want to say if any mutuals have questions about maha they can feel free to DM me. i will never stop fundraising for her bc i know exactly who she is, and have for years now.

I wish her health, happiness, and all success, and I will remain forever furious about what my fucking government put her through.

New from Reckoning X, our collectively edited 10th anniversary issue: "Once, I returned Tulip, Once I became", a poem by CP Nwankwo which does amazing things with language, rhythm, and enjambment. You'll want to spend some time with this one reckoning.press/once-i-retur...

The more LLM writing gets pushed at us, the deeper into the dark woods of syntax my prose will go. I'm reading older and older books the more they push this generic window pane style. I will use semicolons in ways LLMs can't even imagine.

there's so much to read

Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.

Just absolutely delighted to see this car, astonished by cherry blossom petals, in a Cambridge parking garage tonight.

She flees, pursued by joy.

I don't know y'all. The fact that this platform is pro-AI--

I'm thrilled to have this in audio form! Thank you @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social for reading this so beautifully.

I'm proud to get to read this one because I miss doing audio narration, and also because I'm a lapsed Catholic and this story digs into the deep, abiding conflict in that whole "dominion over the earth" question, the imperative to do as Christ would, and the strictures of obedience to authority

Good morning! As promised, a new podcast episode has dropped, featuring publisher and erstwhile host @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social reading @slharris.bsky.social's Gulf Coast oil monster story "The Pelican in its Piety" from Reckoning 9: reckoning.press/podcast-epis...

We talk about fuel and food prices. We talk about the economy. What we don’t talk about enough because it isn’t happening on our soil is the impact of war on the human beings where the actual attacks are happening.

welp. Back to doing what I can. And hopefully some gardening today.

It's that time already. The link to submit is forms.gle/fv67hsVVid2W.... Guidelines in the delicate emissions LinkTree. My favorite thing I do is putting together this zine. It's expensive as hell to produce and nobody gets paid but I will take care of and cherish your work.

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My poem “Bloodroot” in this fall’s issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social. Love to think of all the ephemerals preparing for spring beneath the soil. It won’t be long. It’s never long. Spring will come.

By training, she is preternaturally observant. Not without cause, the cook is a rabbit among hares.

Authors: what's a press you've worked with that you love? I'm querying for my new collection and I have my own list but really only want to submit to places where I know someone who's had a good experience! Bonus points: if you're comfortable, please DM if you've had a terrible press experience

ICE had 6 fucking vehicles at my local courthouse in Massachusetts this morning. They're here and they're terrorizing people. Just because the tactics have changed doesn't mean their impact on our communities has changed. The Massachusetts Senate needs to pass the PROTECT Act ASAP.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Not now, 5.6 million cemetery bees

Pause for blue.

Very happy this morning that I got to write about the great @rachelhartmanbooks.com again arcmag.org/listening-to...