The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold and I am a mushroom. My gills expand, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough strands of a mycelium network. She must have transformed into spores and floated out the window with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping

Loving this beautiful work by @ezhang77.bsky.social today 🌬️

Happy Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested Day to all those who celebrate. Can't wait for the localized North American version of this new holiday! www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

Found the new album I will listen to on repeat for the next month youtu.be/pOxwCEL0Kyg?...

This poem was the antidote to my bad day at work, maybe it will work for you too ~~

A beautiful delight, this one

Wait.... There are MEN'S sports at the Olympics??? I thought it was just for girls

All the book reviews I write are positive because I don't really finish books I don't like. Still like some better than others but yeah, life is too short to finish a really painful read

#bookreview no.4: Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa. Pornographic and as much a work of theory as of literature. A story of power relations told through the lens of sexuality & the close embodied reality of the disabled experience. a showcase of the brilliance & ingenuity the ableist world overlooks.

Like literally for years if I have to do certain things on a keyboard I have to physically position my non-working arm on the keys before typing or stretch my left hand across the entire keyboard. Why does no one ever teach you these things as a kid??? All these horrible, punishing typing classes

The stickykeys thingy popped & I complained to my partner, "what even is sticky keys? does anyone ever use it??" And they're like, it's for disabled people who can't hold one button while pressing another. And I'm like, so, literally me?? A person with one working arm? Who can't do Ctrl+alt+del?

#bookreview no.3 Private Rites by Julia Armfield. Like the water rising in the city throughout the course of the novel, our three protagonists don't realize the action is upon them until it's up to their necks. A well-crafted anti-thriller with outstanding prose and tricky, subtle pacing.

Last night I dreamed I went to a standup comedy special by Stephen Colbert and Noam Chomsky. Chomsky was telling all these linguistics jokes which absolutely bombed and the crowd started heckling him about the Epstein Files.

We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest. We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.

Olympics broadcasting is wild. Why don't they take the cameras off Lindsey Vonn? Have some empathy. Hope she's ok :(

"I am my own original sin. One someone is always willing to forgive. Until enough of you demand that I be better."

A hockey puck is a Scheibe auf Deutsch? Klingt einfach wrong 🍞

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

Good Afternoon! Fiction and poetry submissions will reopen next week following our special issue, starting Sunday. Check out our website, linked in bio, for further details.

I had a nightmare last night in which I submitted some flash fiction stories to a magazine in 2021 when I had just started writing and forgotten about it & five years later they accepted and published them and they were so bad and reading them in my dream was so cringe it woke me up

I hate AI generated text so much. I hate the stupid little chatGPT emojis. I hate shitty bulleted lists. I hate the weird saccharine pseudo-informative tone. I hate the fact that it's a singular and very distinctive voice and it's absolutely everywhere.

Omg. This is so pretty and I'm so excited!!!!!

My bookstore has a sale, 15% off all English books in January, so I may have gone a little insane with the pre-ordering. Probably stocked on books until December at this rate. Are writers the ones keeping the publishing industry alive? Am I the ouroboros, eating my own tail? Who can say.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Crazy beautiful.

I love you Minneapolis.

Trump administration is lying and claiming he had a gun. In the videos it's clear that all he had was a phone. They shot him seven times.

#bookreview no.2, Clear by Carys Davies. Sweet & beautiful. As a polyglot writer I love a story which handles language acquisition and the difficulties of translation. As a queer I love a gay happy ending. this book felt light and pleasant instead of heavy and devastating, like most of what I read 😅

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

I really want a walking pad so I can read while walking without worrying about being hit by a car

Chants of sennaar faked me out so bad. I almost cried lmao

BLACK SEADEVIL ANGLERFISH (Twenty-five-years-old, monogamous, wants children) What I’m looking for: A confident, independent female roughly twenty times my size with a dangly, glowing orb attached to her forehead.

The most unrealistic part of Heated Rivalry is that no one is missing any teeth

It's touching but kinda sad to hear all these statements of loyalty from chicagoans. Like it's heartwarming that you still support your franchise thru 20 years of losing but um... They're literally moving to Gary!!!! Don't 4get to respect urself babes

I've lived in Germany for over a decade but still every time I walk down Unter den Linden in Berlin I hear Rick Steves' bad German pronunciation of it from the episode of his show my parents watched with me the night before I moved away

I have posted too much today, but cannot get this photo out of my head. This must stop.

Ok heated rivalry is fun but I'm 2 episodes in and they haven't talked about their feelings yet and it's making me sad

Last night, The Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 signed on to the call for a Jan 23 shutdown. That brings total labor support to: the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28, and the MFE 59

No he didn't. He walked away entirely unharmed after he murdered someone. It's on video.

#bookreview no.1 of 2026! The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister. extractivism, patriarchy, & the ritual way a child seeking love approaches their abusive parent. The disturbing isolation of this family & their haunting rituals is balanced with the richness of the sense-of-place, making this novel sublime.

Such a cute and funny story in hex this week!!

These are absolutely monstrous people "Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"

Yoga with Adriene is just Miss Rachel for adults

I always think it's funny when authors decide to name their fictional place names generic nouns but in a foreign language? Oh really? The mountain village is called Bergdorf? Which means mountain village? But in German? How creative.

Just a reminder that ICE need a JUDICIAL WARRANT, signed by a judge, to enter a private home or business. They frequently show ADMINISTRATIVE WARRANTS, which they fill out and sign themselves, which have absolutely zero power to compel private citizens.. Don’t fall for it. Don’t let them in.

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To everyone suffering from Weltschmerz at the moment, a tiny joy: