Hotbox the blanket fort with me if it's real

Status report, "Shilling For Heating Oil [REDUX]:" Have just changed local suppliers & am hoping to fill the tank w/enough to hold me till the fall (and geopolitics [ideally] be damned). Want to assist? Grab nine books about young #wizards, cheapish! (Not in the UK, sorry.) bit.ly/YWNMESET (1/2)

Every time I have to hear somebody's media opinion that's just about how exactly something matches the source material I'm going to start bleeding from the eyes

Workers' rights and climate rights are part of the same grand struggle, Kim Kelly explains in our Spring issue, WORKING THE LAND. Extraction—of labor, of resources—benefits exactly one group of people, and it’s not the worker.

Submissions open April 1st. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our submissions guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/8Kvm3QP #writingcommunity #writersky #amwriting

Rent in Providence is up 40%, and its leaders are calling it “reasonable.” RFS candidate David Morales isn’t buying it. He makes it clear: This crisis is political and fixable. He’s running because working people deserve more than spin. https://bit.ly/4bVVttP

We're still planning, but we mostly have A SmokeLong Summer 26 sorted. We'll update our events calendar as things solidify. This summer is about community and communities. A SmokeLong Summer 26 celebrates The Global Flash Village! Write with us! And bring a friend! www.smokelong.com/product/a-sm...

Do we know if this is also the furthest nutella has gone?

Bsky today

If you’ve been cheering people at Boston University for putting up pride flags in defiance of the administration’s prohibitions, you should know that you can donate DIRECTLY to the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality program! 100% of your gift goes to WGS (not some random uni account) ⬇️⬇️⬇️

MAGAZINE MONDAY | Middle-earth. Lilliput. Treasure Island. The Land of Oz. There are some 230 literary maps held in the Library's Geography and Map Division. Read more in the current issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. lcm.loc.gov/issue/march-...

i dont need bluesky to grow but i do need it basically work

Starbucks announced it will expand tipping to make it easier for customers to tip baristas across the US. The company is also adding bonuses in stores that meet certain goals. Except for union baristas. /1

Some of you can host lemonade stands as part of Libraries and Lemonade: www.librariesforthepeople.org/lemonade

Did you hear they wrote "gullible" on the other side of the moon??

Congratulations today to Jesus for making his half birthday a real thing

The post is an abomination but if I'm honest I keep picturing him fighting with autocorrect over duckin

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -James Baldwin

OTHERSIDE is getting flooded by AI poetry submissions this morning, one every few minutes. (Not the subtle kind, the “prompt got left in the cover letter” kind.) Are you a queer writer and also an actual real human? Our poetry editors would love to read your work. othersidespec.com/guidelines/

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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

The 6 arrested yesterday, along with the 9 arrested Wednesday, brings the total to 15 arrested at the Idaho State Capitol building this week in Boise while resisting the extreme anti trans bathroom ban, Idaho HB 752. This law is the most extreme in the country but citizens are not going silently.

Moby Dick First Upload Ch 1-5 angst, adventure, same bed fic, cw language around race ERA APPROPRIATE dldr

Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,

Ok now that it's not Friday anymore... What a day 🫠 two appointments for the morning that should have taken maybe an hour between them, and mayyybe an hour of travel if I got caught in traffic. Instead: all day

Bypassing search engines and treating Wikipedia as my home page

I appreciate the little charade the phlebotomist and I have been doing since I moved here where she stares at my veins for too long and never says they suck but always asks if I ate and drank enough and every time I'm like "haha oh wait no I didn't"

For all our coverage on Flock cameras, what they do, how they work, who has access to them and how they're used, click here: www.rangemedia.co/flock/

While Spokane County has turned off their Flock cameras, at least temporarily, our quest to map active Flock cameras in the region continues. Thanks to a public records request on MuckRock, we now know that Deer Park, WA has 14 Flock cameras, at least as of early 2025.

Dear people I know irl who aren't creative professionals: do you understand that the minute you share with me that you've used genAI for something, I will literally never trust or respect you again? Is it worth permanently being on my Shit List just to make an ugly video that no one likes?

these people aren't young enough to pretend they didn't learn non-algorithm social media first tbh

got up for a drink of water and can't fall back asleep after remembering how weird everyone got about the word "like" back when

The xfiles and everything's the same except all the government conspiracy stuff that ties back to Mulder's family is the result of an increasingly convoluted scheme by Mulder's parents and their friends to keep him from learning that they're swingers

I know it's been like half a decade already but I do still want to know literally anything about the mother or mothers from knives out Whole movie about dad dying never mentioning mom

#RepostYourArt Day 2 is: Bloom Has to be this lovely black eyed Susan with a clouded sulphur #butterfly perched on it! #flower #insect #art #DigitalArt 🐡

We're still a few submissions short of our monthly quota–send more weird nature!

There are a lot of good options but I think if I could universally delete one therapy term that's been horribly bastardized by shitheads it'd be "tone policing" in reference to someone asking a person not to yell/swear/use slurs/be mean generally

Inside you are two teenage brain mentalities One is I'm 14 and this is deep The other is I'm 16 and nothing is deep It's very important to remember they're both stupid kids and ignore them

Frog drank the tea, and then he said, “Tell me a story while I am resting.”

It's supposed to be day two of spring clean/deep clean/catch up but the old man cat is sleeping on me so I guess it'll all wait

I would pull you into the bog

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

How Can I Help? - 4 truly beautiful words.

OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

This is not a joke. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series! And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

April is National Poetry Month. 💕 Tell us your favorite poems & poets, fam! We'll be sharing our own favorites throughout the month!

ok I'm trying to tackle the cleaning I've been procrastinating and meanwhile I would request that people drop their favorite pokemon in the comments 🥰

grief is a beautiful honor which is also stupid and I hate

Vote-by-mail is safe, and Massachusetts law is clear. The President does not have the authority to override states' authority on elections or interfere with your right to vote. We'll see him in court.

We open to submissions at midnight (EST) tonight. Send us your unknowable terrains and horrific habitats