New poem! "No Kings / No Soldiers" by A.M. Tuomala! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/no-k...

The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.

Time is a flat circle.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

some Linda Pastan for #smallpoemsunday

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

new quarter century more art more good

Always worth a post

Catcalled on the streets of Chicago, "DAMN GIRL YOU LOOK SMART IN THOSE GLASSES"

all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do

I have read this book and cosign! It IS a good book, and you, too, should read it, especially if you think about the climate, family, grief, and what makes for bonds between living creatures when the world is ending.

Shameless self-promotion at the end of the year: my second book of poetry, WE THE DESTROYERS, came out from @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social in your throat this year: riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t... I am obviously biased but it's a pretty good book and you should read it!

Found a bookstore that stocks your novels

Please answer the questions in this thread:

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them

In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

Cheers, @sweetmachine.bsky.social, already enjoying it so much.

Gonna be a holly dang jolly Riot in Your Throat kind of winter break this year, I tell you what

We are thrilled to see two UNM Press books on the PEN longlists! 💙📚 🥳 a chronology of blood by Teo Shannon and Delusions and Grandeur by Mark Sundeen

My response to anything over the next two weeks

very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime

If I had to ask the Louvre's permission it would 'kill' my high-end jewelry business!

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

I can't listen to the song without thinking of

It's that time of year again

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

Every American should have this in their wallet:

"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse" "Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots." snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...

Final Curve, Langston Hughes #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Descriptivist in the streets, prescriptivist in the sheets

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

Fun poem by @kelliagodon.bsky.social starting with the title and all the way through “your gurgling stanzas, your lyric sigh.” #poetry

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

There are more of us than there are of them.

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

[Exit Clown.]