Ethan Rutherford’s North Sun is so lovely in its weirdness! Also it belongs to a book cluster that has coalesced in my reading life over the last year or so. In my mind, I have titled this cluster “Ships! What Are They Doing?” (read on for the list)

That call and response at the end of Mamdani’s acceptance? All people want is a line to say. All people want is an invitation to participate. More people should do that more.

Filling hungry bellies so they are ready to learn 🥰 coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p...

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

wonderful new ars poetic up on the site today from Alex Carrigan!! https://www.havehashad.com/3im1r

The Grandeur That Was Rome

“Is garbage everything?”

“The distressed of heart will remain here in grey droves for hours.” A poem by Charles Martin.

so @gavingrant.bsky.social just told our kid, who is reading The Great Gatsby, that Trump threw a Great Gatsby-themed party last night & they yelled, at the top of their lungs, “What the fuck!”

the two best not-insane nonfiction books about LA imo are Davis’ City of Quartz and Deverell’s Whitewashed Adobe. taking applications for other materials-based titles to add to the canon

wanting John Ashbery

ALLLIGHT SAVING TIME Turn your clocks sideways to the hour where no- body can get a good clean shot at you. --Kenneth Patchen

How tf is it November

“Well I was a Sun Goddess but my Moon Goddess had to go so now (sigh) I’m just a princess” I love living in a good trick-or-treat neighborhood

“the usual business / of clouds meanwhile”

Some previews from ARMOR, my solo show appearing at Stranger Factory alongside @leslielevings.bsky.social's solo show INSIDES. (I did joke about naming my show OUTSIDES but couldn't go through with it.)

This morning at the press.

Hey! If you are a queer, trans, or non-binary comics creator (print!) and you take ads, or would take an ad (for hot sauce), and you are trying to put out an issue before the end of the year, let me know! Here or at [email protected]

please watch this there are so many things to watch but this is the one you should watch now

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

as a blob (octopus?) once said, “pão pão pão pão pão de queij / isso é tudo que eu desejo” (sorry) youtu.be/1BZ5s6BcvKg

“Caring is the intellectual prerequisite of interpretation and argument. Close reading begins, as we describe it, with noticing: homing in on a detail in a text that piques one’s curiosity or puzzlement. You cannot be curious or puzzled—or excited or angry or disappointed—unless you first care.”

. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I put CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY together to help connect what undergrads do in assignments with what we do as scholars then we found ourselves talking to a lot of high school teachers slate.com/life/2025/10...

Started a novel today. All I could think is, “man, good thing they’re not baking with these pears.” 🍐 💦 👀

Jessica going “pear is a naturally wet fruit” in bake-off episode 4. there are pear dessert problems everywhere for those with eyes to see

Heyyyyy local authors & artists! We don't have the resources to organize something ourselves, but if one of you wants a space for a Fall of Freedom event on the evening of the 22nd, send an email to [email protected]. We might be able to host it. www.falloffreedom.com

Come write with us. It's free. Five events each week between Nov 8 and Dec 14. Promptember will be an energetic promptathon with breakout sessions to awkwardly chat (a tradition at SmokeLong). Do 1 event per week, 3, or all. Donations go to @sundresspub.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

This is a delight of a 🧵 and the plot twists just keep twisting, so read it to get up to speed on the pear-drama and then I guess we’ll all tune back in tomorrow for the next episode??? 🍐🍐🍐

Mark-making . _ __ such a personal and expressive and intimate and fertile act! (See also Emily Dickinson and her dashes/lines/marks, which cannot be replicated by homogenized type.)

Inktober Day 16 Prompt: “Blunder” I misread the prompt, which is appropriate for this prompt, so I can pretend it was intentional. #inktober #inktober2025 #inktober2025blunder #inktoberday16 #inktoberday16blunder #day16 #blunder #blender #vampire #art #drawing #sketch #ink #copic #resistthroughart

This is incredibly satisfying video content

My fashion tip of the day is to reveal something specific when asked how you are. Like, “I’m good; adding a lot more mustard to my flavor profiles,” or, “Fine; trapezoids IN, ovals OUT.” #MJMfashionGuide

I have offered before and will again to train anyone who wants to produce and distribute a small-scale newsletter, in print. not a replacement for what we are losing. a way to add to the world though, so it isn't only made of loss

little 4” x 4” collage on canvas “tell what the sky looked like”

Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom

yall my dad wrote this!! a middle grade book about human evolution ⚡️⚡️⚡️ pre-order a copy for your kiddos! @evoexplorer.bsky.social

Czesław Miłosz

Candice said: water never forgets, Leanne said: water is a map to the future.

I'm looking for a flash fiction piece published in a journal -- I don't remember where, or who, or even the title -- but it's about a mother whose daughter has become a vampire or a zombie and the mother is helping the daughter, at great risk to herself -- does this sound familiar to anyone?

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

Fully open-access peer-reviewed journal, largely open-access biblio, collectively authored by scholars at teaching-centered institutions, pedagogical theory with psychoanalytic & political economic foundations. And, simply on its face, a fascinating essay. www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn...

The federal government kept detailed records of every crop in Amache’s agricultural program, but overlooked the ways incarcerees cultivated personal gardens.

does anybody know if my fall vaccine will offer strong protection against all variants?

Get up to speed on tomorrow's Supreme Court hearing over Colorado's conversion therapy ban. From Purplish:

You’ve been asking… and it’s now! Submissions are open via Submittable for Zine Machine’s Winter ‘26 Edit. All details in bio! 🔥🔥🔥

All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷 zinemachine.com/the-mag

I checked the handbook, this #CountsAsWriting for sure

omg I almost forgot to show y’all the Jeffrey Gibson that’s in the Counter History exhibit