Kay Sage, Watching the Clock, 1958 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136026

This one. I was 19 and I still can’t forget it and would want to see it again. “Paper Boat” from the series Drawing-Wire, by Vik Muniz (1995) Boston Museum of Fine Arts

fellow authors, without any context, what’s the first line of your WIP? "Sloane had been stealing trays for longer than most of the crew had been alive, and had made her peace with the disapproval of the mess hall staff."

BREAKING: FIFA has suspended Ned Stark's death sentence

Long ago, someone told me a group of hybrid human-animals I’d written about weren’t believable because they could still be happy, even while being othered/used/targeted. I should really start sending that one out again.

It's once again time for me to extol the virtues of the "Laura Palmer," a refreshing blend of lemonade and cold brew coffee. In all my travels I have yet to find a better beverage for a hot summer morning. It's also the best method I have personally found for accidentally consuming 400mg of caffeine

live from the great american state fair

In-fucking-deed.

Tonight’s Twilight Zone zinger: He has all the drive of a broken camshaft, and the aggressive vinegar of a corpse.

Poetry acceptance today for a poem I’ve had floating around for a long time. Feels good. Very much looking forward to sharing this one.

we all feel you, star that almost exploded in 2024 and might still explode, we all feel you.

Ultimate Biff Tannen shit

it really does just kind of underline how many people are one sycophantic rimjob away from delusions of grandeur

WRITERS: SAVE YOUR WORK. DO NOT TRUST THE MACHINE. SAVE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE. PRINT IT ON YOUR SKIN. Signed, Someone who trusted the machine and has lost 3 weeks of work

Back on my Tranströmer kick (tr. by Bly, of course) for this #smallpoemsunday. Also one from me.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

Bluesky users be like

Back on my Tranströmer kick (tr. by Bly, of course) for this #smallpoemsunday. Also one from me.

Happy Pride. May your joy be fierce.

I would be so terribly indecisive. Going to have to throw a whole party for our new overlords. Electro/Jazz/Classical. Things to show the math and then the humans underneath it all.

While I was out earlier I was on a busy street, and I had the great fortune to be the third of four cars that all hit their brakes so a very scared young squirrel could get across safely.

One from Aracelis Girmay and one from me for this #smallpoemsunday.

If Mary Oliver were here to give us her take on AI, I think she'd simply point to this poem. #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

One from Aracelis Girmay and one from me for this #smallpoemsunday.

Sunday raindrops 1/2 May 24, 2026 📷 Nikon N6006 🎞️ @ilfordphoto.com Kentmere 200 ⚗️ 510-pyro 1:100 8.5' #believeinfim #bnwmacro

Hey, look, it’s Salem-Keizer.

Lived in ABQ for four years. NM for six. The promises made to help provide for the unhoused and the actions taken did not ever remotely line up. Keller is a stain. APD has so many scandals. None of this is surprising.

Stunning ode to Miles. On his centennial

Submitted more fiction and more poems today. Working on a short story. Doing novelette revisions (x2!!!) Apparently, I have many things to say. I feel really great about being productive on this level again. It has been a long time.

A little something from me for this #smallpoemsunday.

This is so cool, and includes some images I've never seen before

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Property Line” by Elena Rotzokou is now up! Art by Ruri Kato flash-frog.com/2026/05/18/p...

A little something for #smallpoemsunday. One from me, one from Amanda Berenguer (tr. Gillian Brassil and Alex Verdolini).

A little something for #smallpoemsunday. One from me, one from Amanda Berenguer (tr. Gillian Brassil and Alex Verdolini).

The Waves by Virginia Woolf Embassytown by China Miéville Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

“Submitting to markets is tough, and every day I succeed at getting a story out is a day I feel better. Writing new stories is tough, and every day I succeed at getting another story written, I feel better too.” 😀

HOLY SHIT WE ARE BACK TO MAKE MORE PHOTOS WITH SHIT CAMERAS! NO-ONE COULE HAVE PREDICTED THIS! WE WILL SAVE YOUR ASSES FROM YOURSELVES! ANOTHER FUCKING #SHITTYCAMERACHALLENGE IS COMING! JULY 1ST TILL SEPTEMBER 30TH DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT, BUT BEST DO IT WITH A CAMERA THAT SUCKS SHIT!

Crazy scam email about a story of mine in an anthology a DECADE ago (under my given name). Troubling, actually. In part because the work is dated. In part because many authors I appeared with have huge award nominations/wins to their names now. In part because it’s another sick, predatory use of AI.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Daucus Carrota Scanning Electron Microscope. Sample was collected fresh and fixed and critically point dried, coated in Au/Pd and imaged at 2kV with an ETD (for your microscope people) #sciart Horizontal Field Width of the full image is 5mm (edge to edge)

Ahh yes. Surely religion will fix the slop machines.

I remember when the ban on “The Republic” was discussed. The longer list is… wild. Awful. Expected. But awful.

Reading this morning about the Del Monte bankruptcy. The closing of the Modesto cannery. The fallout in CA. I am livid over so much about this story. But mostly I am struggling to fathom the food waste & nearly half a million trees getting ripped out & burning in the dumpster fire of our economy.

One from me and one from Jane Hirshfield for this first #smallpoemsunday of May.

One from me and one from Jane Hirshfield for this first #smallpoemsunday of May.

Going to be back on my poems soon. Sending some work out this afternoon. Have been revising and rewriting old work. Expanded one story from 4K to 17K and it breathes better and I am proud of myself.

1. Large white trillium, which is so hard to find in this part of New York. 2. Jack-in-the-pulpit. 3. Ostrich ferns unfurling. 4. Dryad’s saddle mushroom.

Spring ephemerals today along the Erie Canal. 1. Red trillium. 2. Large-flowered bellwort. 3. Canadian wild ginger. 4. Early blue cohosh.

You've never seen human anatomy like this before. Using a particle accelerator, the Human Organ Atlas is producing 3D scans of our organs in unprecedented detail! You can look through different layers of tissue and even zoom in on the cells for the heart, lungs, eyes, kidneys, and more.