Do yourself a favor and buoy the start of your Friday with this charming, heartwarming read.

Loved this beautiful little gem of a poem. Great on its own, but especially if you have siblings.

James Cook NOT on the field for another huge play 🤷‍♂️

Thirty days to write 100 words. Simple!!! Hope lots of you will consider sending in entries 👇

The Ravens tackling Malik Washington tonight:

Do yourself a favor and read this haunting, beautiful, emotional gut punch of a piece by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social

Hey, everyone! A Bulb update for you! L.M. and I are planning on OPENING SUBMISSIONS in NOVEMBER! No date yet, but as soon as we have one, we'll be shouting it here! And since we're reading for 2026, we'll be considering previously published work, if still online/accessible, from 2024.

With how the #Sabres have played, this comes across like a threat. 😬

Join SmokeLong for a mysterious month between November and December we’ve christened Promptember! We’ll be meeting several times a week online with live write-in and open mic events at various times to suit participants around this spinning globe, 100% free. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

“Grades were due yesterday.” “On-site faculty retreat.” “Annual reviews are approaching.” “Annual cyber-security training.” “Your password is expiring.” “Teams requires an update.” “New opportunities for service.” Ok that’s enough…

Writing Contest Call For Submissions All genres considered, including Romance, because a good story is a good story. #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub #WritersLift #WritingContest #LitMag #ShortFiction #ShortStories #FlashFiction #Multigenre #MoonLitGetaway

Easy peasy touchdown for the Patriots I can’t even be mad, really. The officiating is so demonstrably one sided.

The Buffalo Bills just enjoying life and existing: Shawn Hochuli:

Thanks goodness New England’s coach keeps playing Stevenson over that awesome dude they drafted. What a weirdo, lol

Proof of concept

The refs are doing their best to make sure that Miami covers. The calls have been horrifically one sided tonight.

I like objects where it’s “oh no we solved that problem a long time ago this is the best way to do it”

Bills played without 3 important starters, put out the most vanilla gameplan possible, and were penalized more today than the other three games combined. They also won by two scores, and are the 1 seed in the AFC.

CNF

Doric Literary is open for fiction submissions (1000-8000 words). We're approaching our 1000th submission of the year. Free to submit We nominate for major literary awards Acceptance rate: 2.93% We respond QUICKLY!! We are now #5 @duotrope.com Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/

This is...incredible?????

The Urge is open for poetry and art! Deadline: Sept 22nd! engineidling.net

I absolutely love this story by @ambersparks.bsky.social Recently, I saw a very grumpy call for submissions that listed all the things they did NOT want to see in their queue and this story fits a couple of those. Be open to brilliance and innovation, editors, and you will be rewarded.

**AUDITIONS OPEN IN 14 DAYS** From Sep 20th-27th, auditions for @iambapoet.com open for the first time since 2022 – and for just ONE week! Be ready when the submission form goes live. Head to the journal's Audition page for full details. Good luck with your audition! 🍀 iambapoet.com/audition

We’re back!!!!! #GoNoles

Absolutely loving how disappointed the ESPN announcers are by Alabama’s performance. #GoNoles

This game is incredible!!! #GoNoles!!!

Go Noles!!! FSU is looking pretty strong here at the start!

Really love this hauntingly beautiful story by Scott Ragland on love, loss, and parenthood. It feels especially prescient as I send my kids off for the first day of the school year and all of the hopes and fears that accompany it.

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back. The damage is generational.

Check out Christian Benford in these rankings, #BillsMafia!

Getting a bunch of "Call N. K.!" tags again. This happens every time somebody attempts to blow up/risks blowing up the moon -- which you wouldn't think would happen a lot, but here we are.

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

Thanks to @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing “Sand,” an edgier story that recalls and refashions fragments of nighttime rides around Southwest Florida back in the late 90s and early 2000s.

Fellow millennials (or any other lovers of good poetry), make sure you download this free introspective, emotionally evocative, nostalgia-infused ebook from @the-engine-idling.bsky.social

If anyone has some shorter work ready to go out, can’t recommend @thehooletsnook.bsky.social enough :)

Absolutely loving this year’s @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social book in small windows between summer teaching, child summer activity chauffeuring, and the general chaos of life. Feels tailor-made for academic parents.

Thanks to the Hawai`i Pacific Review for publishing “Signs,” the setting for which draws upon countless trail runs in Tallahassee and SW FL. The story, as a warning, heads in entirely different directions hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/07/17/s...

danez smith IM GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE

"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

I’m lucky to have watched this beautiful piece come together. Please take five minutes to read Matt’s heartbreaking flash ❤️ 🐦‍⬛ #flashfiction

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

I made a book, a very tiny book. On vintage paper with watercolour illustrations and a nonsense verse. If anyone wants to publish it for me I would be overjoyed. This is just a rough to see how it works out

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“What Endures,” a prose poem of mine, is up today in @micromancemagazine.bsky.social. Led by the indefatigable @glynnbrownwrites.bsky.social, it has been generating quite a bit of buzz of late and is a wonderful follow on substack—providing some much-needed levity and light in our jaded world.

Why? Why don't they know? Whose responsibility is it to ensure they know, how are those mechanisms failing, and what can we do to repair or replace them? Those are the questions those who believe in journalism as public service should be asking ourselves. Because 48% is a failing grade.

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

They haven’t yet come over from the other site, but thanks also to Rathalla Review for publishing “Patterns,” a short story of mine on the difficulties of gardening in SW Florida and raising children & navigating life anywhere: www.rathallareview.org They are fantastic folks as well :)

I’m late to the show here, but a huge thanks to @ponderreview.bsky.social for publishing a creative nonfiction piece that emerged from navigating some medical issues over the past year. www.muw.edu/ponderreview/ Loved the pub exp & can’t recommend them enough (the next submission window is open). 👀

david hogg off the top rope on the other site