I think for me why the post-apocalypse can be so resonant here in the midwest is that it’s always a post apocalyptic landscaoe From white settlers. Nearly every tree east of the mississippi was clear cut; the prairie is almost wholly gone. every soybean field is a mass grave for an ecosystem.

playing today's edition of 'where the fuck is my cat??' indoor cat, but where the fuck is she???

One of those middle-of-the-age transsexuals, let me tell you

Look, we all bust on capitalism, but the thing about so much techbro bullshit now is *it’s not even good capitalism.*

“We have created mid-level spy action thrillers with $ 1 billion dollars of AI investment!” “Cool, we gave this lonely weirdo a camera, some juice boxes and the internet and got back an ROI of infinity.”

Celebrate pride by sending money to trans people in need. We’re one of the poorest demographics facing some of the highest employment discrimination and public life is increasingly being placed out of reach for many of us.

Thread that fucking needle, lady, I tell myself

There's a character in this book who is a crab named Coldwater Handswash and every time I wash my hands since I came up with him I think about him and I'm looking forward to infecting all of you with this as well.

Happy Pride

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Watch out, it’s hot Boards of Canada summer

This is great and I won’t trust any politician who doesn’t articulate some version of it.

I found this in a secondhand art supply shop. however unhinged you might think this is (and believe me, it is), it’s even MORE racist!

What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers bookriot.com/queer-books-...

There’s plenty to say about the AI story that ran in Granta, but the most interesting part to me was how its nonsense prose went undetected by successfully emulating stories that are written with a tone of significance or profundity

will they write an equivalent "James Talarico attacked Ken Paxton for releasing a child rapist, putting release of pedophiles front and center in the race" piece or do they only amplify GOP attacks for some reason?

my one story published last year. I will have at least one (space opera!) published later in the year. and two poems. ok. graywolflab.org/2025/08/22/i...

Oh is that how it works? One candidate is such a corrupt criminal that his own party tried to purge him, a crook who pardoned a pedophile and is loathed wide and far. But he plays the man card and now it's "front and center" in the race? "Sorry, folks, the crook said we have to talk gender!"

Is this the same guy who painted banks on fire while he was across the street from the banks ?

machete + mids = Manos: The Hands of Fate

There will be no bird activity in the Gold Jaw Barrier tonight.

“Allen makes Jimmy Fallon look like Eugene Debs” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Everyone needs to see this. www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...

RIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...

Sometimes I remember out of the blue that two of the five people in my poetry MFA class have died, and it’s still devastating. Reetika and Sjohnna were such close friends; but one was one of the kindest people I ever met and th other turned out to be a monster. I still don’t know what to do with it

Evergreen

It might be too much and I’ve said this before but the sf novel that ‘feels’ most like now is Chris Brown’s Tropic of Kansas. the opening has a DMZ with Canada on the Minnesota border (formed BY CANADa) and a detention center in international falls inside of an abandoned strip mall

apropos of nothing: I feel very glad to be alive and reading the works of @adeniro.bsky.social. OKPsyche is the terror and the love, the grinding everyday and the elysian sublime, the absolute, stripped, glistening, glittering stuff of life. She is so, so so, so good. bookshop.org/p/books/okps...

Upzoning or “the best music scenes for jangle rock in the mid-80s”????

Not doing great today!

The one except to this is Piers Anthony. Really don’t want to see the adult behind the book there

I just found out Matthew BRoderick killed two women in a car accident that was clearly his fault. He got a light fine

⭐ Cameron Reed's first sci-fi novel in 25 years is a tour-de-force in deep worldbuilding, xenobiology, and principled slow-paced prose. Just don't go in expecting a plot-forward read. I really enjoyed this one!

Found the good shit (queer Episcopalian discord)

please watch this and donate to UR if you can. it is crucial to where we are right now

Work / mirror / dress

In the ‘have a decent job but selling stuff to help with longstanding debt and make rent” torture nexus

Reminder if you are not trans do not say nerd

I just watched the Mad Men episode in which a Dr. Feelgood gave a shot of amphetimines to everyone in the office and Don thought the Rosetta Stone to his current business problems was an oatmeal ad from 1958, and this guy kind of sounds like that

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I … just finished writing a short story? For the first time in more than a year? And it’s cosmic horror? 3,500 words in a weekend, not sure what came over me (except uninterrupted time) but I’m grateful 🥹

Dude will give u this pablum but all his political arm does is vilify anyone demanding actual police accountability. (I know this from personal experience) Frey doesn’t bravely confront painful truths, he attacks painful truth tellers.

Memory should not be called knowledge. Many have original Minds who do not think it; they are led away by Custom. Now it appears to me that almost any Man may like the Spider spin from his own inwards his own airy Citadel. -John Keats, letter to J.H. Reynolds

(CW: suicide) One of my friend’s trans stepdaughter died by suicide this week. my heart is so heavy for her. Please, hold onto each other. You are needed here on this earth.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYYK... Sunday listening

Off to see “They were little women” at the Guthrie today

"It is easy to lose, through meddling or neglect, an entire aspect of existence. And sometimes, to cultivate a single new thought, you need not only silence but an entirely new life." - Jennifer Moxley, "The Atrophy of Private Life"

In light of this week’s reinforcement of the UK’s hostile environment to trans people. Please buy books by trans authors, and if possible, from queer booksellers.

Counter-revolutionary edgelords in children's entertainment have ruined us.