"Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

advertising technology in the 1990s: look at this “website” you can “surf”. it has an image of a cat on it advertising technology in the 2020s: you must adopt this now or die. we are going to completely kill you if you don’t download this app immediately

I don't think non-Black people understand how much Black people calculating spaces as to whether they'd be hostile to Black people. It's the same way I think men don't understand that women navigate spaces thinking about whether or not they'd be safe

Calling all writers: can you write a story in 75 words? Exactly 75 words? Paragraph Planet has been publishing one #story every day since 2008. Submit today! (Oh and please share) www.paragraphplanet.com/submission.php

Happy to have two new prose poems in the latest issue of @theprosepoem.bsky.social! Here’s one: theprosepoem.com/issue-43-bru...

Seriously, if you want a relationship to go far: do the dishes without prompting. For bonus points, do the dishes at the parents’ house.

We hit our regular submission cap again because the cool kids keep submitting to us. Regular submissions reopen May 1. If waiting sounds miserable, 24 hr subs are still open for the bold, impatient, and slightly unwell.

even if you don't care about the accompanying writing prompt, I share one unreleased poem here every Sunday morning Recent writers include: Johannes Göransson, Claire Hopple, Tom Snarsky, Vi Khi Nao, Jay Besemer, Zan de Parry, Joanna Ruocco, Todd Dillard, Michael Bazzett neonpajamas.substack.com

Every story I hear from people who've interacted with anyone from there is that they will pre-emptively launch into reasons they aren't evil.

Anyone else want something new and fucking fantastic to read this week? Get anything you want from the Stanchion archives for free. For a limited time.

If you missed our Spring Pop-Up call, here's what's coming next 🦝 Our Summer General submissions open 1st-14th June for Flash (100-750) and Shorts (up to 2000). There's a theme of GREEN BIN STORIES and a mood board to offer inspo: trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/

And private corporations don't have that mandate, so yet another example of why public goods need to be public!

Transformers! More than meets the eye! This VERY ANGRY ROCK is actually a brown box crab (Echidnocerus foraminatus), a king crab found off the Pacific coast of North America. The impressively compact shape is a defense posture, but there's an even neater feature not shown here. (📷:zedasd)

"let us do whatever we want to you because the alternative is so much worse" is textbook abuser talk.

This remains a philosophical account You’re welcome 😎

There's a fine line between comfort clutter and depression squalor and boy do I walk that line like Johnny everloving Cash

This got me started down a rabbit hole on "tree law," and I got extremely excited for this person. Who knew???? It's a fourth degree misdemeanor in Ohio and you awarded triple damages if someone cuts down your trees! 5 figure minimums in damage, often going into six! Don't cut down trees! Love it. 🌱

It's a very fine line between "distracted enough to survive the Horrors" and "too immersed in escapism to band together & defeat the horrors" And may we all walk that line with the poise and grace of a Looney Tunes character who has not yet noticed that they're walking over open air

You should be able to easily file your taxes for free with the IRS. Not only did Trump kill Direct File, the IRS's free tax filing program, but this week, Republicans BLOCKED my bill that would make the program law of the land. That's what you call selling out to TurboTax.

Don’t forget to submit. Subs close April 22. @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Annual Writing Competition $1100.00 in prize money gooseberry-pie.com/gooseberry-p...

Submit to Stanchion on April 27. No fees, bit of cash. www.stanchionzine.com/submissions

This is how you end up married for 20 years...

for sale, pervert glasses, lightly smashed

WE TRIED TO TELL Y'ALL. Leo is just as anti-queer and anti-trans as his predecessor (who, pr aside, *very* much hated queer and trans people).

At least we can outrun the robots for now

Imagine supporting the asshole telling you he’s gonna hurt trans people and then…asking for help when he hurts trans people. Fuck you, Caitlyn Jenner.

Because people are realizing that "convenience" means paying a shitload of money to basically rent a movie or song you never own and everyone is tired of it. I'm not even a physical media stan and I think it's pretty obvious and makes all the sense in the world

because CD players, walkmans, and VCRs usually fucking worked and did precisely what was asked of them without relogging in and syncing and re-entering passwords and getting confirmation codes and doing 2FA with out TV and phone and clicking a fake "remember me" box that's fucking why

Trump is in Vegas. It's Wrestlemania weekend, also in Vegas. There's no way Trump dies in the ring at Wrestlemania. But we can't rule it out.

you could just go make a friend. get out of your house and socialize. there are 7 billion people in this world, surely at least one of them wants to talk to you.

I know leopard eating faces is way overused these days, but if this isn't the textbook definition I don't know what is.

10/10 No notes

very rude of my brain to only think of things to write when I’m sleepy in bed & to go silent when I’m wide awake at a desk

The best time to get off Substack is like two years ago, but the second best time is today!

Submit your hybrid chapbook today 💫 The Small Harbor Publishing Hybrid Open Reading Period is open through June 30—send us your genre-defying, boundary-breaking work. 20–40 pages. Hybrid + art welcome. Unpublished collections only. 👉 www.smallharborpublishing.com/hybrid-open-...

The butterwort has claimed its first victim!

DM me your email if you’re interested in doing a flash nonfiction workshop series with me! The time has come and I’m starting my own damn business! Shares and support welcome 💕

Millions of lapsed Catholics realizing that they have become realigned with the Pope against their will

Authors: what's a press you've worked with that you love? I'm querying for my new collection and I have my own list but really only want to submit to places where I know someone who's had a good experience! Bonus points: if you're comfortable, please DM if you've had a terrible press experience

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

Thrilled to have a story forthcoming in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social!

In order to protect our men, we’ve constructed a labyrinth and trapped Jolene inside it

Our story submission period closes at midnight Eastern time - a little more than 22 hours from now. Please read the guidelines before submitting. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

WE ARE OPEN!!!

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

“the pope is weak on crime” has gotta be one of the funniest things any politician has ever said in history

I want to find and/or reanimate every Dominican nun who shot me a withering glare in high school (usually deserved, always bowel melting) and have them all train their withering glares on this dude, let me have this

We should absolutely let him cook. This is the funniest thing someone in power has done for years and no one's getting harmed but Vance