A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

My hair hurts… Monica Vitti as Giuliana in Antonioni’s Red Desert 1964

A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. While he was there he found a knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.

I hate that I understood this post.

You can keep your Poirots and your Marples, the greatest murder mystery moment on tv is when John Nettles discovers Selina Cadell has been popped into a tumble drier

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

Baby Great Horned Owl checks out our cam!

An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Every year my husband takes my son to the thrift store and lets him pick whatever he thinks I need for Mother’s Day, which this year is a straw hat and book of sea shanties

Every CFO at every Canvas institution should put a stop payment on the next SaaS withdrawal. Things do not get better from here.

Mom, you sure about this haircut?

The definition of 86 definitively explained.

"[T]he productive person had to pay the price of vulnerability--" (B. Brecht)

"And that's when I realized Sweet Home Alabama and Werewolves of London are in the same key and that also you can just rhyme 'things' with 'things.'"

The Best Place in the World. #BookSky

Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

I've often said: I'd rather write an entire book, any day, than a 1000 word pitch for a book. The books that sound sexy & marketable as a pitch are just the kind I don't want to write. I'm not writing a book because I know what it's about, or how it ends. I'm writing it precisely to find that out.

Only a week away from Walpurgis Night, aka Hexennacht, when our evil powers will be at their zenith. Has everyone registered for their isolated mountain range locale? I hope so, the good ones fill up fast. No one wants to have their forbidden rites on top of a Denny's, but every year it happens.

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

Come think with us at the Alain Locke Gallery about Exhibiting Art from the French- and Creole-Speaking Caribbean and Amazonia with a ✨✨ roster of speakers Program here 👉🏽 www-tinyurl.com/889850aa

Michael Jackson was an obvious, flaunting-it-in-society's-face serial predator of children. It was in plain sight. It is an act on par with Orwellian double-think, or flat-earth/Sandy-Hook-denialism to assume he was innocent & every accuser lying. If you wanna understand Trump cultism, look at the—

How do you write in response to the world in real time? Sign up for our summer flash fiction workshop: URGENT WRITING with @catemcgowan.com! Part craft talk, part generative writing session. Thursday, August 13, 2026 at 7 pm ET. Details and register: www.glossyplanetmag.com/urgent-writi...

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? ~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 🖋 📖 #greenwitch #books #learning #reading #stephenking #truth #facts #sciencefiction #peace

The main thing in art and entertainment to keep your finger on the pulse of the fans and what they want, their feedback is so important.

When you submit to one of our writing challenges, you'll hear back within 2-4 weeks of contest close dates. That's partially because of our monthly contest schedule, and partially because our EIC once waited a year to get a decision on a piece, and that's just bananas.

"Writing is the escape route." Cate McGowan @catemcgowan.com is our featured author this week. Read Michael Czyzniejewski's interview with the author at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

I am not interested in being a person on Instagram, doing collaborative posts with people or filming myself talking to the camera. I want to be a person who fucks off away from the noise and works hard and writes better and better books for the rest of his life and then dies. Why is that not ok?

It is, allegedly, the 136th anniversary of a news story whose last line I don’t think you’ll be able to predict appearing in the Woodford (Kentucky) Sun

Excited to share our new findings in @science.org on how the DRT3 bacterial defense system uses a reverse transcriptase that builds DNA repeats without a nucleic acid template. Microbes never cease to amaze! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet:

Exactly 💯

"The fruit showed in July. Not apples. Pale pods with a seam. Along each seam a name pressed faintly, as if by a thumb..." Don't miss this magical, mysterious spring harvest by @catemcgowan.com, new on hex today! 🔥🌳💌🔥👇

Yep

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

F-15 WSO recovered alive. Was escaping and evading. Massive fire fight on tgt. Iranians were actively looking for him in the area.

Just scrolled past a post that said, "Please stop anthropomorphizing other people!" and I'm starting to think that dictionaries should be distributed free the way phone books used to be. Words have meaning, y'all. That's kind of how language works.

this is how men stand at tailoring shops

He words me, girls, he words me

How I read your posts on the weekend:

Very exciting. There’s still many new fungi yet to be identified and recorded in the UK and the more who get into the subject, the more will be found, plus a greater public awareness of the importance of habitat preservation.

Help Wanted! Anyone know of contemporary contrapuntal poems treating Narcissus and Echo (other than Fred Chappell's)? Looking for samples for a workshop.

I can't unsee those godawful concrete blocks.

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.