so maybe it’s not (just) about the oil 🧐 (see also: Greenland) ht @lorifreshwater.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/inte...

esp since the pandemic, we’ve been extra good at growing 2 things: poverty & billionaires

📢 REMINDER FOR WRITERS: If you submitted during our fall open window in 2025, you do NOT need to resubmit! Our slush readers are working through submissions as quickly as possible (we received over 2.1K short stories!) and will notify you once your story has been read. Thank you!! 🖤👽

#snow in #Paris #video update #France #meteo #weather #photography #winter

this may be the snowiest i’ve seen #Paris in a while 🙏❄️🌨️☃️ #France #meteo #photography

thrilled to have my #flash #fiction story “Judgment Day,” published in Emerge Literary Journal, now competing with some of the finest works of short-form #writing on the planet! good luck to all my fellow SL fam 👏👏👏 www.smokelong.com/december-wor...

just sharing this definition of viceroy for anyone not up on the term (e.g., people who live in a democracy)

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love this! & yes @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social there must be something special going on up there in MA with words & bros & young folks in general, amirite 🧐

i feel like this should have more likes

Are you looking ahead for submission opportunities? We have THREE this Spring 🦝 February - New Writers, Preloved Words trashcatlit.com/spring-2026/ March - Microfiction for the Mini Bin trashcatlit.com/microfiction... April - Prompted Flash Challenge trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop... #submissions

happy first #snow of the #NewYear in #Paris #France to all who celebrate #photography #BonneAnnee

why should companies get a pass if their products are defective just because they are AI-generated 🧐

@rachellaverdiere.bsky.social hey there! ça va bien? bonne année!!!

Nadella is like hey let’s “develop a new equilibrium in terms of our ‘theory of the mind’ that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other” um i prefer my artisanal bespoke organic mind, thank u very much 😜 www.theverge.com/news/852630/...

@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social love this!!! who among us has not wanted to be this person. or cat. 😸 bravo!!! trashcatlit.com/down-goes-th...

@bsherm36.bsky.social can’t believe you don’t have a cat you have captured their understanding of the uncanny oh so well! trashcatlit.com/the-night-vi...

@shiramusicant.bsky.social just adored your new story in @trashcatlit.bsky.social today! relatable & enjoyable!!! trashcatlit.com/second-novel...

so thrilled to share my kitty tale 😸out today on @trashcatlit.bsky.social 👇 trashcatlit.com/the-last-lif...

it’s here, it’s here 👏😻👏!!! #flash #trash & #cats — what more could you ask for 😜

big week for two NY mayors 👏👏👏

i will spend 2026 fixing the problems of missing socks in the laundry, gas-powered leaf blowers and people who stay in the far left lane when they’re only going 50 by using the strength and dexterity of crypto, as one does 😜

hey tech lords! maybe just work on products that make the real world a better place!

Happy New Year, humans. It’s raining here. ☔️ Claudine is getting antsy. Send her something to reeeeeeead! Subs are officially open.

GOOD MORNING!!! It's a NEW YEAR, and that means it's a NEW OPPORTUNITY for you short fictioneers to find your book a home! We're now OPEN for your short story and flash fiction books. Our SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social + our fantastic SS/FF reading team are eager to read your book, so SEND IT!

awwwww 🥹 ht @sciencedawn.bsky.social

lucky me! happened upon a bag of dried black-eyed peas (French grown) & you betcha, i cooked them today! #NewYearsDay #Paris #France @ranchogordo.bsky.social, one legume down, many more to find!

happy new year indeed 😁

goodbye & good riddance #2025 #Paris #photography #NewYearsEve

ah remembering Udo again 🥹 who i had the pleasure of hosting at my place in LA in the 90s when i was a new indy film director

#flash #writer folks, check out this wonderful bin/journal—two paws up!!! 😻

today’s reading from 1 John 2:18-21 hits hard in this time of lies @lorifreshwater.bsky.social “I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth.” PS, it starts with a mention of antichrists. Of course. 😜

And just like that and without any fanfare … Neither Fish Nor Foul is open for submissions. Closes 1 March 2026 or when 150 subs reached. 100-500 words, no theme. Likely will take a while to respond this time - up to 90 days. Agonising, sorry. duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

skeeps, i just my first AI glasses in the wild 🙀 a guy on the paris metro wearing Ray-ban Meta ones & no i did not take a pic because two wrongs do not make AI-enabled glasses right 😳

Star War #MakeAFilmCheaper

oooh i might have to move here 😻

Friend in Westchester NY is trying to place a very friendly cat that hangs out in their yard. The cat is good with other cats. Please spread the word. They’ll have to go to aspca if it gets much colder (yes they built a temp shelter plz read the screenshot). #adoptdontshop #Westchester #PeekskillNY

pizza money ass well, i had pizza for dinner so 🧐

love love this 😻

Just a reminder that Wednesday the 31st is the last day to submit for our peer review section winter quarter deadline. Start 2026 off right by publishing your work with us.

handy list of new names for tech businesses (feel free to add your own) Satan, Inc. Evilest Empire Frozen Hell Give Us All Your Money, LLC We Will Take Your Jobs, LLC You Will Use AI Or Else, LLP

can attest—these are friendly, welcoming & talented #writer folks 👇

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t. www.wired.com/story/people...

Teasing our cat-themed issue - coming 2nd Jan 🦝 @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social gives us a love triangle with an intimate POV @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's MC is at a low ebb when Dirk delivers another blow In @bsherm36.bsky.social's spooky piece, a beloved cat must save her Dave

just made this easy & delish recipe by @nigella.bsky.social & wow the whole place smells amazing, too! (garlic in olive oil—my fave aroma 😋) www.nigella.com/recipes/sard...

oh *that* explains the why i haven’t written a book yet

good #Caturday night to all 😻💤 #Paris #cats #chamedi #chats

@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social finally got to read your piece in this collection & mon Dieu such beauty in grief 🥹 necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

@nightshades what a way to start my day! i mean Yasmeen Fahmy’s story “The Wound I Watch”—yikes & eek!!! also 👏👏👏

if you’re looking for #writing community, precision of craft & next level challenge, check it #flash #writing skeeps 👇