The best way to wrap your head around the “it’s all a distraction thing” is Nemik’s 40 atrocities speech from Andor. It’s not “just a distraction”, it’s that each atrocity distracts from all the other atrocities.

Oh she’s phenomenal. This is Sophia Chang.

BRAVO, NEW MEXICO!

Free micro submissions are open at X-R-A-Y, they close fast so submit your #writing today: xray.submittable.com/submit #WritingCommunity

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

One of the things bothering me about how people are responding to the Epstein files is that there are tons of conspiracies being created and spread about what’s in them, rather than people just believing the victims like they could have been doing for years now

Sometimes my state grows a spine...

Are we?

last night, government agents, undercover of the authority of the president, launched chemical attacks against American protestors. I got nothing more pithy than “fuck this,” but fuck this. power to the people.

Not a bad Christmas haul...

Every creative person, across the world, is making these choices right now. We have to fight on so many fronts. Avoid despair.

Im in a recliner with a warm cat purring on my lap. I have never wanted to make myself go work less. If my coffee cup wasn't empty, I might just stay here all day.

Normalize saying "im just really sad and tired of this whole world" when people ask how you are.

You know those albums that (definitely weren't but) feel like they were written for *you?* those albums you wishbyou could force others to listen to? I don't think I will ever get over Little Beast by @lucywainwright.bsky.social - it destroys me in the most wonderful way every time I listen to it.

Every once in awhile, those personal rejections sting harder than the forms.

They’re going to regulate whistles before guns aren’t they?

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

Stop and frisk laid the groundwork for this moment and many many people ignored that stop and frisk was and is a real problem.

WATCH - @tarapalmeri.bsky.social : “Hey Megyn Kelly… you want to hear the sound of one of the girls recruited from her nearby high school by Epstein? It is pedophilia. I would recommend you go listen to the audio from the police reports.”

The cure's most recent album is really good. For a band I've been up and down on from time to time, I find myself revisiting them a lot lately because of it...

In this thesis I will attempt to prove that modern poems are all covers of Jack and Diane....

When I was younger, I was always most jealous of brevity. Of those who could say so much with little. One of my favorite songs was "little conversations" by concrete blonde. I suppose I still am. I always say it's the last pathetic text I'll send. But it never is.

Enjoying the view out my window as I work today.

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The news really sucks today. Instead of boosting a harmful Supreme Court decision, here’s something better: a practical guide on how to support the LGBTQ+ youth in your life. Because they deserve our attention, our protection, and our love. 💖🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/ar...

sure, the world is going up in flames, there's unrest in the streets, and America has become a global punchline, but at least Trump voters made the handful of trans athletes in the country feel extra bad

In line at the dept if transportation to get my daughter's learning permit. A. I am old. B. The world just keeps moving no matter how much is burning around us and I don't know whether to love or hate that.

I still *want* to write. It has just been a really long time and I feel lost somewhere below the surface of being able to descibe much of anything.

Harriet Hageman got booed to oblivion last night in her own town hall for pumping up Doge so hard that even her loyal suckers woke up and smelled the bullshit—about five months too late!

It is interesting how few people I met at the old place are still people that I communicate with. I don't know if that says more about them (sometimes) or me (probably a lot of the time) but it is interesting since I found what felt like community there.

I'm not very good at breaking laws (heck, I even drive the speed limit) but i think i want to start a national littering as civil disobedience movement. I mean, if they're wanting to turn the country into a garbage dump... I mean this in jest, of course, but it has sort of an allure to it.

I feel like the only thing I've written in ages are letters to my representatives. And those are always form rejections in this state.

ICYMI: new essay up In Short inshortjournal.com/andrew-berta...

Thrilled to have this #flash #cnf piece out in @phoebejournal.bsky.social today. It is one of the most personal stories I have ever published, and I would be honored if you read it. phoebejournal.com/Commencement/

Finally about to start this collection by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social - can't wait to dive in!

Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.

⚠️RFK Jr just told the US Senate that he does not know if COVID vaccines saved millions of lives. 2.4 million lives were saved by the COVID vaccines in the first 8 months alone. COVID vaccines prevented >18.5 million US hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved $1.15 trillion in the US alone

I occasionally have to wear compression sleeves/braces on my hand/arm. Today, they have created my new bio. C.c. russell: can do words.

I feel this story in my bones. Read this. Just do.

We need to support journalists & pubs who don't bow down to Trump, who search for truth instead of gaslighting us. Let's actively follow, share, subscribe, donate. I've seen good work in Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, ProPublica, The Guardian, The Contrarian, New Republic, N+1... Who else?

Just trying to breathe today. It's a start.

Just took a neuroticism test. I'm worried I may have failed it.

Two rejections this morning within 5 minutes of one another. Might be a new record!

Anyone else having a lot of submittable submissions showing up as rejected with no corresponding emails? I logged a rejection this morning and figured I would check on older submissions. Had 5 rejections logged in submittable that I could not locate an email for at all.

Had nightmares last night - fell back into them every time I went back to sleep. Exhausted today. I blame green chili.

Our December issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2024/12/01/v... Words: MICHELLE ROSS JAMES KEITH SMITH ANNE LOUISE PEPPER ANDREW ROE JOSHUA VIGIL @lucywilde.bksy.social JEFFREY HERMANN @ccrussell.bsky.social @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social Cover: LAURIE HOLLMAN

You can tell it's the day after Thanksgiving simply by the number of ads for fitness products on any random site.

I have to have a small outpatient procedure and this is the most i have ever looked forward to anesthesia in my life.