Don’t know what to make of it, good or bad omen wise.

I told a student that citing their sources in an essay is roughly equivalent to showing your work on a math problem, and I’m still feeling pretty good about that one.

I figure Bullseye was like, ‘Yes! I finally get to use the “you’re welcome” knife!’

I have this theory that warm water dehydrates you somehow.

My Thomas Pynchon character name would be Jimmy Chonga.

Hold tight Wait 'til the party's over Hold tight We're in for nasty weather There has got to be a way Burning down the Reichstag

It was about slavery.

How do you stand people paying attention to you?

One thing that was striking about the Nazis is how often they seemed to understand that what they were doing was evil because they felt the need to mask it in some way through lies and/or subterfuge. A lot like what is happening now in our politics.

So I realized recently that my desire to go arguing online is the part of my neurodivergence that's always hunting for dopamine, anywhere and anyhow I can get it. Need all the dopamine. Crave it. Hunger for it.

'hey what are you up to over there? wow thats pretty cool.'

I have got to stop telling editors they will "rue the day" after they reject my work.

This fucking creeps.

It's nuts to me that @alban-fischer.bsky.social has just sort of created his own personal McSweeney's with all kinds of fun packaging concepts (previous issues packaged like ground beef, for example). Few in the literary world have had as much fun with presentation. trnsfrbooks.com/new-index#/i...

Shout out to my boy, Professor Daniel Immerwahr, speaking on US foreign policy on NPR this morning.

Curious George Saunders. I say again.

the problem for Siena and High Point is that polling schools have to win by a margin of at least 3 points or it's technically too close to call

I get the same rapturous confusion from Thomas Pynchon that I do from Joy Williams.

Ugh just heard a reporter on NPR use obfuscate when they meant obviate. Don’t you hate it when?

A "targeting error" simply does not account for the fact that this school was hit multiple times. Whoever is connected with it (yes, including the people behind the AI) should be tried for war crimes.

Seems significant

It’s wild how badly they’ve failed to create a cult of personality around Trump that appeals to anyone sane.

Jesus fuckin christ

Geez, why does everything have to be so evil?

Stunning Max Landis grew up to be a huge piece of shit when his dad is also a huge piece of shit who got Vic Morrow and two children killed on his set.

READ MORE BOOKS, AMERICA!

Excited to follow up with this and say TRNSFR Issue 8 is officially available for purchase. I can attest, with only a modicum of bias, that there is so much to like in this issue. And it's aesthetically gorgeous. See for yourself! trnsfrbooks.com/new-index#/i...

A wonderful day! I have a new and highly odd piece up at @hexliterary.bsky.social today. It's about how we treat the elderly, and it's about how they have treated the young. It's about stuffed-animal-esque arms. These arms are for embracing. But when is too much embrace? hexliterary.com?p=3134

This cannot be reformed.

Just once, I would like a form rejection to be followed up with a breathless (somehow) apology email indicating it had all been a terrible mistake, some error in the system, or some fool that failed to recognize literary greatness being allowed the reins of their queue, but no. To date, I am vexed.

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

I’m writing way more stories with obvious bad guys who deserve to lose. I won’t be gaslit that those people don’t really exist any longer.

A wonderful day! I have a new and highly odd piece up at @hexliterary.bsky.social today. It's about how we treat the elderly, and it's about how they have treated the young. It's about stuffed-animal-esque arms. These arms are for embracing. But when is too much embrace? hexliterary.com?p=3134

My rage knows no bounds. This one has gutted me since I first heard about it.

Nice Nazis.

Just endless insanity and cruelty: toronto.citynews.ca/2026/02/10/c...

ICE detention in Texas: www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...

CBS censored Stephen Colbert's interview with rising Democratic Texas star, James Talarico? That's fascism. But it's on YouTube. If Trump and his fascist media minions are so afraid of Talarico, that means we should watch and share the interview everywhere. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

What would we do without baby concentration camps? Just have babies receive love, food, and medical care?

Titles of short stories are either one word or at least a whole goddamn sentence. I don't make the rules.

We need stories. We need to try to know each other better. Fighting against fascism means exploring our emotional and rational selves deeply. Sharing my latest attempt at that in @bulbregion.bsky.social. Many thanks to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving it a home: bulbregion.com/You-Can-Keep...

This story at @necessaryfiction.com by Ivan Davenny is absoutely outstanding, "Horse Girl" - necessaryfiction.com/stories/hors...

I'm extremely excited to have a piece coming out in the latest (and final in this format) issue of TRNSFR. I've loved TRNSFR from the earliest days of my budding literary adventures. Thank you, @alban-fischer.bsky.social! Here is a sneak peek of my story:

I'm so fucking tired of these Trump bigots.

I love this one by Joe Aguilar.a great best of micros list by Scaffold, once again: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/thr...

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

It really sucks that we have a man who’s named something like 3000 times in the files on a super predator pedophile while also being adjudicated as liable for sexual assault and who is nakedly, abusively racist and sexist as president. I hate anyone who enabled or continues to enable this.

Oh you don’t have the first issue of @electricliterature.com?