We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡 We want to read your previously published wonders! Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past! Full Guidelines can be found Here:

Are you using AI, as a professional? Check your insurance cover, because a lot of the big insurers are about to pull out of insuring it. Which means that if you let it write your stuff or control your operations, you are potentially personally liable for its errors...

A story draft is done and out to friends to read 🙏 This is #3 of 5 premises that have come to me the past year or so, which is the most in a very long time

Choosing! I flunked outta engineering school

Honestly it made me a little emotional just how well executed of a vision it is - I kept thinking a good way to describe it is "evil Dr. Seuss" and apparently I'm very invested in the idea of someone even wanting to do that, going for it, and then absolutely sticking the landing.

A completely inscrutable anime OVA from 1985 was in the US box office top 5 for a couple of days, congrats angels egg www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0208...

I don't understand the scolds who are assigning any manner of political failures to people laughing about this? The "oh so you like him/are giving him brownie points now?" take is basically illiteracy

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

Angel's Egg restored in a movie theater is one of the best things I've ever seen

Listening to the Leanne Morgan episode of Mike Birbiglia's podcast as a non-frequent listener and - had we already established the lore that he's a strip club guy??

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

My favorite Yugioh archetype 🙏

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

For as specific as I am about the taste of everything else, I can't really discern coffee quality unless it's *really* pronounced So having Americanos all over the place whenever I travel feels very patrician

Me: "You don't like the waffles we got?" My kid: "Well, I do like poking through them."

FB slop world has really taken the Clinton thing and run with it, they're absolutely ecstatic

Huge congratulations to our former flash editor @eshanisurya.bsky.social on her debut book RAVISHING!🎉

They're just trying to manipulate Bayer stock like they were with the Tylenol guys, aren't they? Just going down the list? And in 2 months it's "nevermind it's a fine drug lol."

Personally I think if you had these documents in hand you should not have backed down out of any fucking shutdown fight

"We have included an advance copy of the hardcover edition of your diary, which Simon & Schuster will be releasing this winter. We think the photo of the time you laughed so hard in the school cafeteria that milk came out of your nose makes for a perfect cover."

Absolutely over the moon that Nini Berndt's Split Lip story made it onto the Distinguished list in Best American Short Stories! I think this might be a first for our mag. A HUGE milestone. From the moment I read it in our queue, I knew WINGDINGS was very very special. I love it so.

Please for the love of god let the Lakers triangle die, it's so bad

A new one for me in my old age - text sizing! I can't read half this shit anymore

We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟

Journal rejected me in the messages but left it In Progress otherwise, sorry that's a penalty and you have to publish it now, I don't make the rules

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

This kind of stuff is always very ironic, because there hasn't been a single moment of my life where they liked NYC at all

I've been thinking a lot lately about how so much federal (and corporate) policy is now about removing non-white people from just... daily life, and I'm glad to know white supremacists are just apoplectic tonight.

What a coincidence, I'm tired of the juiceless ones

This is the most backhanded shit I've ever seen, and I love it

stoked to have an extra hour to think about how bad everything is

Guess I gotta watch baseball tonight, huh

"The funding lapse threatens the food security of 11% of DE’s population...In fiscal year 2024, more than 66% of SNAP recipients in DE were families with children..." We've donated but I'm happy my former-mayor-now-governor did this. People deserve food. spotlightdelaware.org/2025/10/29/m...

I got these books for my daughter since I remembered loving them as a kid and the vocab is surprisingly elevated, by like at least 5+ more years than I was expecting

Do Philly folks know that Saturday is one of the best days of the year in your city??? It's Philly Zine Fest Day! Stop by! 150 artists and exhibitors sharing their zines: www.phillyzinefest.org

My own mother confused me for a Dodgers fan

Got a rejection letter during a very enthusiastic meeting full of good vibes, good lookin' out universe

Whenever I see an announcement about a literary choose-your-own-adventure book I think of my friend who was actively discouraged and shamed from doing that very thing in a workshop She never really wrote after graduation and I'm sure there are plenty other reasons for that but idk it makes me sad

Honestly you've all been psy-opped into hating Arby's

My student loans, which last I checked were going to come back due in November, are now pushed to 2028? (Everyone should probably check, it was a surprise). Seems like they should just cancel 'em tbh.

Another thing about the AI face insertion - the idea would be that they know how well specific actors work in specific territories, so they'd bump up distribution projections. Hasselhoff in Germany kind of thing. ...but this actively degrades the effect, because it's just shipping basically a gif?

Soon every movie will be like those Jennifer Coolidge commercials where you can tell the other actress was never actually in the room with her.

A new era of monochrome chapbooks are coming soon from Thirty West & we're ready to read. Submit your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction chapbooks from Halloween (10/31) until New Year's Eve (12/31). Together, we shall stop at nothing to escape the mundane in 2026. thirtywestph.com/submit

Also, another friendly reminder: if you're an indie author and want to do a book signing/book talk here in Buffalo, NY, we're building out our events calendar for the next few months and would be happy to chat with you about hosting! Our events have been really lovely so far

My current wip has stalled out, all whistles no bells

It's a very important time to support queer and trans authors. I hope you will read this collection of truly stellar work by our talented contributors. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

The AI sales rep appears to Suzanne Somers widowed husband in his study