Shining the bat signal directly over @libbycudmore.bsky.social's house to let her know, if she somehow didn't already, that this movie exists

Saddened to report that the song I was really into at the gym today, featuring vocals by Mace and Biggie and a Bowie sample, was in fact by Puff Daddy

"The black bear Dela and the mother brought home this morning is cut on the kitchen floor." >>> An incantation, a myth, a troubled dream >>> Gina Hay's "Simia, Cupid" >>> new today at AC

You've got (checks watch) four hours, thirty-two minutes Wait, now it's thirty-one

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

when you think about it, ezra klein is a type of large language model

"For example, I like using it in emails with someone I’m rather annoyed with, as a flex. Like yes: I do, in point of fact, know exactly how to use the semicolon; I’m that person."

Diane Seuss, from the Summer 2025 issue of Blackbird

"Chad immediately and without saying anything backflips onto the roof of the limo, landing with a horrible crunch that leaves four indents in the metal roof. Cries of alarm and shock echo in the empty Los Angeles air." 2 pieces from Jack Lennon, including "High Value Male" >>> New today at AC

Happy Sept 1! Here's your reminder that we remain open to submissions until Sept 15 (and also, no pressure, but things are filling up fast...) Details here >>> www.alwayscrashing.com/submissions

*Extremely* mad that the never-Trumpers are somehow better leftists than Schumer and Jeffries I feel like we deserve to be able to be able to clown on anybody who voted for George W., but apparently we don't even get THAT in this hellworld

he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.

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when people say "everything app" i hear "infinite attack surface"

I do feel like the worst things to post are things that people are not sure whether they agree or disagree with, which are generally the things I want to post

On the one hand, I'm opposed to the abrogation of fair use, and this seems like a clear example. On the other hand, I'm pretty much universally in favor of rich people giving me money. Honestly pretty torn here

I assume, though am not sure, that the Holzer bsky account is automated

INHERITANCE MUST BE ABOLISHED

Honestly it's such a temptation not to title everything "[number] [thing]": 5 fictions, 3 autobiographies, 4 works of malevolence, 60 stories, etc

Went to MA, swung by the house from Ghosthouse

I am beyond delighted that my long poem, “Postrock,” is now in @alwayscrashing.bsky.social. I am forever indebted to @inauthenticity.bsky.social and the other editors of AC for their ongoing support of my work. www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

Today's AC email edition features new work by @bradleyfest.bsky.social, something from the archive by Dana Raja Wahab, updates on Javeria Hasnain, @badbadpoet.bsky.social, @neonpajamas.bsky.social alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com/p/depart-and...

"There were reasons. Now we have space for it." >>> NEW TODAY AT AC >>> A wall of text for a wall of sound, Bradley J. Fest's (@bradleyfest.bsky.social) massive, sprawling, architectural poem "Postrock"

Meeting Notes: Wrestling; GUCCI Grimace; How many AWP is too many AWP; merch?; THE SQUONK

Yo I have way too many of these, I'm honestly not even sure where to begin

TONIGHT Durham, Mettlesome Theater, free reading event with James Tadd Adcox with Eliza Benbow, Allison Kirkland, & Golden Age Comedy | doors open 6.45p buff.ly/pAsO0JB

DO YOU KNOW WHO MY FATHER IS

Tomorrow!

>>> This Saturday at 7pm AC managing editor @inauthenticity.bsky.social reads for Bull City Press Presents in Durham >>> come say hi

Was listening to this song while working and my wife, no joke, called it from *less than one second* of the intro

Feels like there's a widespread conspiracy to make every possible interaction into a customer service job

"God is a row of numbers, out of order, becoming smaller as they go." NEW TODAY AT AC >>> "A Wheel Slowly Catching Fire" by Devan Murphy >>> Blackout/excision poetry about God, the body, numbers, feathers, what is cut and what remains

most writing advice is terrible but this is truly helpful: find a sensitive rat and let him ride your head. allow him to pull your forelocks and thus guide your typing. do not ever let anyone else know about the rat. you also have to be French

🎙️This Saturday, August 9th, BCP PRESENTS: James Tadd Adcox with Eliza Benbow, Allison Kirkland, & Golden Age Comedy at Mettlesome Theater | 7p buff.ly/TS7GPkF

I'm reading this Saturday in Durham along with Eliza Benbow and Allison Kirkland at @bullcitypress.com Presents! // 7pm, Mettlesome Theater, w/a post-reading show by Golden Age Comedy

Jason Lutes (Perilous Wilds/Freebooters/etc.) sent me this photo of @possibleworlds.bsky.social at GenCon, selling the new edition of Tacklebox -- alongside Tyler's own game Better Strangers and other high-quality entertainments. Major thanks to Tyler, @inauthenticity.bsky.social, & our backers!

the least interesting way for games to be art is to be like novels

You're doing my girl Birdo dirty. She transitioned in the early 80s so she's a veteran of actual organizing, mutual aid, and community building. She's a thriving trans elder DSA auntie who's trying to pull the Dems left but votes for them in November.

Honestly, when someone just lists out all the things that happen in my first novel, I'm like, damn, I guess I *would* like to read that

the playhouse was truly an ocean of beefcakes we all swam through on saturday morning

John Waters and Cookie Mueller

Honestly, when someone just lists out all the things that happen in my first novel, I'm like, damn, I guess I *would* like to read that

Apparently I am in the (UK) National Poetry Library

Hey, I'm reading in Durham for the next @bullcitypress.com Presents on August 9th -- come see me read about death (maybe), the treachery of language (maybe), exploding Teslas (absolutely)

"the notable quirks and failure modes of LLMs are reliable synecdoches for the personalities of their employees" theory seems pretty solid right now

AS WE SPEAK my students are reading works from @angelluiscolon.com, @pauljgarth.bsky.social, @inauthenticity.bsky.social @tacobellquarterly.org @theptessadactyl.bsky.social @shotgunhoney.com @macarrick.bsky.social @melissaragsly.bsky.social and others!

It's a good night for doing slightly-too-complicated layout

Now at AC // www.alwayscrashing.com/current

Apparently I am in the (UK) National Poetry Library