A little fun with some new cups. These will go back in the kiln soonish; hopefully this weekend? 🥰🎉

I make all my feelings. Joy cups take forever. And they’re a real drag. What does that say about my experience of joy? @_@

I am making cups. It’s slow. My hand hurts. These are my first in over a year, since my accident and hand surgery. I can make 2/day right now. But I’m working on it. It’s very humid in the studio so trimming is not really happening yet, but hopefully soon.

"I often tell people that craft is how you survive the writing of the thing." @emilyfmaloney.bsky.social's interview with @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social on "Spawning Season" (Bloomsbury Publishing) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/06/18/s...

Observing ICE activity is not a crime. This is another attempt from Trump’s authoritarian regime to try and suppress free speech and dissent. But we will never stop exercising our constitutional right to legally observe the federal government’s illegal activities.

i turned in my book to my editor. pls clap

In theory, "advanced placement" course in high schools are meant to give students a head start on college-level work, but in practice these courses serve as *replacements* for that college-level work, and very poor ones at that.

My therapist of almost 4 years abruptly could not see me anymore and said they would talk to new therapist re: my history so I didn’t have to rehash everything. I signed a release. New therapist is now unable to get in touch with former therapist. I know they’re dealing with a lot rn. I’m just sad.

watching the video of the guy in the marblehead town meeting is genuinely restorative and hilarious. this man is the physical embodiment of massachusetts. 10/10 recommend

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

This perfect book will obliterate you, on all available platforms.

The New York Times writes far more stories about the trans community than any other US print outlet, and is the least likely to quote a trans person when it does. Seems bad?

This morning, we went to the vet and paid $150 to find out she doesn’t have a UTI. She just feels we’re not paying enough attention to her.

nobody is surprised

If you're a trans person based in Austin (or elsewhere in Texas for that matter) and have struggled to access gender-affirming care due to changes in insurance coverage OR because of trans healthcare bans at Catholic-owned medical centers, please reach out. DM or email kitoconnell at pobox dot com.

Just go ahead and make a thing. Even though you have no idea what you're doing. That's the whole point of all of it

The fact that John Waters is, at 80, still vital and funny and just as forward-thinking as ever and no one will give him money to make a movie is proof this world is broken.

theirs was a love that could never be

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"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."

Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality is finally out in the world! Combining nationwide survey evidence, state administrative data, and 111 interviews with patients, physicians & others, it tells the long-overdue story of coverage barriers and their deepening of burden an inequity.

I have space open in my editing calendar. I work with novellas and novels in a variety of genres. Mostly developmental editing, although I do limited line edits as well. More info here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing I'm always happy to answer questions.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Scream Fest! 04/18/2026 Little Island Plaza, NYC Furious, disgusted, and outraged, a group came together today to scream it all out. Seriously, screaming at the top of their lungs in collective rage.

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

big ruling from the Montana supreme court. as bolts reported last year, this court in Montana has been a backstop against all sorts of conservative policies: boltsmag.org/montana-supr...

Good news!

"Is this cemetery haunted?" "No, don't worry. It's just 5.6 million bees."

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg

I simply can’t believe Congress and the cabinet are sitting around, totally fine with what is absolutely demented behavior from the president.

Movements to shut down or ban data centers are amassing power and notching victories. Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content in articles. Publishers and entertainment studios are being pushed to reject AI-produced content outright. In other words: It's open season for refusing AI.

Every week I see a post like “well, Silicon Valley has built a dick-breaking machine. No matter how you feel about getting your dick broken, it’s our responsibility to integrate mechanical dick-breaking into our schools.”

at the point in the semester where I’m trying to quit therapy again IT’S FINE, I’M FINE (I will not quit therapy)

I know I’m repeating myself by re-praising this book still again, but @jeffsharlet.bsky.social’s This Brilliant Darkness is a book that demands your attention. And by Euclid’s equation of transitive properties, therefore, demands more attention from all readers. 😬

Today in 1977 began the 504 sit-ins by disabled people. The protest was the longest occupation of a federal building and a reminder that our human rights and access protections were not gifts from the ableds, but fought for by us, and in this instance with a big assist from the Black Panther party.

Getting the word out about a book is HARD, but I’ve still been sort of mystified by the low level of local attention GOING RACKLESS has received. It’s a great piece of long form narrative journalism, that follows several Chicago teams to the APA championships. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Perfect no notes

Do we need a #Horsecake feed now? @joshuajfriedman.com

Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents!

Just write anything. It literally doesn't have to make sense even to you. If you're any good at this, you will be the last person to ever know

I’m in one group chat where the whole thing is that we exclusively talk about and share poetry we like and somebody shared this in the chat today and we were all like “yes, absolutely right, this belongs in here alongside John Ashbery”

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes: