Wild how they sort out the war every single month juuuuust before the EOD trading deadline for the month to juke everyone's portfolios and then the week after is just complete chaos.

This is honestly so strange. I have heard this exact same story--about that Sopranos episode specifically--from about 5 different people. And one time I tried to watch it with a friend sharing a room with me and it was THAT EPISODE. I love the Sopranos deeply but why did that episode travel so far?!

Truly pinching myself that I get to be in the presence of certified good book guys like Mitch and Ron!!

Immensely proud that @hubcitypress.bsky.social, @sarabandebooks.bsky.social, and @deepvellum.bsky.social are in this initial cohort and feel a tiny bit of pride in convincing the literary world at large that the south has something to say.

The @literaryartsfund.bsky.social support is a wonderful recognition of our whole team's efforts and it will offset some operating costs in the next few years. To help us build on this momentum, you can support of our efforts by making a one-time or monthly contribution at hubcity.org/support.

Delighted for these nonprofit presses that won first-round Literary Arts Fund grants. Surprised—though we don't know who did and didn't apply—not to see Archipelago, FC2 Milkweed

We are honored to be part of the inaugural @literaryartsfund.bsky.social grant recipient group! literaryartsfund.org/announcing-t...

So proud @hubcitypress.bsky.social is in this incredible inaugural funding group with eight of our peer presses! literaryartsfund.org/announcing-t...

My business card was compromised yesterday and the bots tried 664 $1.99 transactions in five minutes(!). I get 20+ AI emails about business funding per day and I just deleted a Zoom invite on my calendar (happening all the time now). But yeah, tell me again how AI is making work more "efficient."

You know that thing where a social media starts and proves its value over time and then slowly enshittifies into a toxic hellhole of harassment and inanity? Yeah, threads skipped the first part and went immediately to the second.

if you cover national or regional [southern] culture news [all three of you lol] and are not already receiving the like 1.5 newsy emails I send annually, please lmk.

The new cycle has really illuminated the two different ways that Americans say the word "data."

I've been saying it for a while but something is happening in south carolina. www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/sc-news/2026...

GUYS I hockey shitposted too close to the sun and RAFFI (icon, montreal canadiens fan) followed me on threads? I take back every bad word I've said about that place.

this thing where their guy is reprehensible, which somehow inoculates them from attacks and instead allows them to make up worse stuff about the opponent (and somehow THAT'S what sticks) is driving me absolutely insane.

i know there are a lot of sports happening but are folks seeing what's happening in the western conference of the nhl? because it's strange and disheartening.

I'm trying to contain my hubris (bc I've been voting in this country for a while) but I truly don't understand the numbers behind this gop strategy of universal party commitment to unlikeable and broadly unappealing candidates. But I'm going to let them continue and watch what happens!

Here's what else.........youneedtoknowtoday

called it. Btw here in state this loss is being praised as "saving taxpayer dollars. Whatever gets you through the night, bozos.

On one hand, with terminator 2 you get the better chase scenes (imo) and the terminator is more kind and human, on the other hand, the most annoying kid ever put to film.

As a certified "hater of seeing other people's feet" Instagram is a rough time for me rn

"I think he took that man's wallet!"

I know this will get one tenth of the national coverage that SC GOP SEEKS TO REMOVE CLYBURN got l, but I maintain this redistricting plan was DOA. www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-...

A data center squeaked through approvals last year--spoiler alert, councilmen and developers said explicitly that it was "not a data center," which should have legal ramifications!--and the community is now outraged. P&C nails the irony in this headline. www.postandcourier.com/spartanburg/...

It's outrageous that a fetus in America has more rights than both its mother and its trans teen sister.

The total and complete comeuppance these "parents' rights" people are going to see, personally and politically, in about 10-12 years, is going to be earth-shattering.

If they just added sentence fragments and improper comma usage to AI models, no one would ever be able to detect AI writing again.

Everything's terrible and nothing matters. what a combo!

i'm sorry, what

I feel like I'm going to puke but goddamn those habs can play some hockey.

My body would simply rather do anything other than be put through a game 7 OT, but here we are.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

There is so much Canadian hockey happening today, I feel like the country is going to explode.

I've been trying to track the ambient level of simpsons references that come up in my house everyday and it's....more than I even would have believed. I just walked down the hallway and called my dog by saying, "Come along, bort!"

I can't quit the Montreal Canadiens because every time someone does something absolutely spectacular the TSN announcers are like, "No other Hab has scored two plus goals in 9 seconds in the second period since centerman Pip Gagnon in 1929!"

up two goals, I am finally unwinding (a bit)

I had an extremely long, extremely busy and stressful day. Plan was to turn on the ol habs/sabres game to unwind while I cook. 😬

🚨🚨 @hubcitypress.bsky.social is opening up for queries this weekend! I break down what we're looking for in my latest newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/megireid...

Anyone on here have any success getting a Canadian passport photo at an American chain like Walgreens etc? Last time I tried it was rejected and I don't want to use a real studio unless I have to (though honestly, should take the excuse and fly to mtl...)

My most pollyanna take is that this complete inability to combat slop is going to tank Amazon's market share of books sold and drive folks back to in-person shopping at bookstores.

I live in SC and am zero percent surprised! The majority leader sad last week at a press conference that he had no appetite for it and it risked more democrats getting in. The about face was just to show trump they tried and give cover to all the GOP candidates. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

Successfully worked through my 13th consecutive Confederate Memorial Day. Eff all those traitors.

re: lots of kidlit is really bad, actually

This is the first Certified Threads Dust-up® that I've seen escape containment. When what he said isn't even that crazy--since half a million kids books are published each year, this means 25,000 of them are what he would call, "not crud." I'd feel fine applying that to the industry as a whole?

Let’s be real about what’s going on here: people are trying to punish Barnett in order to chill speech they find disagreeable, and using Right wing censorship as a bogeyman to excuse it. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Been talking about this over on substack a little bit but earlier this week someone impersonated a (pretty major) literary agent I'm working with and asked for pages. Which was weird because the author had sent them to both of us. Then I noticed the emails were coming from Italy! So I responded.

This Montreal/Buffalo playoff series is the only positive thing happening in 2026 foreign affairs.

The GOP doubling down on taxation without representation while yelling about America 250 would almost be funny if it wasn't so dispiriting.

Meanwhile, today in South Carolina.