Most of the maple seeds have dropped now, replaced with the buds of fresh green leaves. So many robins. So many songbirds.

"The more the [Mark Zuckerbergs, Jeff Bezoses, and Elon Musks of the world] control [the Internet] and the more they can limit user choice and options, the more power they have, but the less useful the internet is as an enabling tool."

As we wait for a verdict that only impacts trans people, and in which no trans people were allowed to speak, I remind you of the last year in the Mail, Times, Telegraph and Guardian when it comes to trans people. None of these were written by trans people

The largest paying crowd in the history of Wrigley Field was the day Jackie Robinson made his debut. Wrigley is the only park left Jackie played a game in. Mike Ryoko was a kid at that ballpark that day and he wrote about it. Take a minute and read this today. press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...

HAPPY TAX DAY! How much would you spend on a year of tornado warnings? The average US taxpayer spends only $4 a year to help fund the NWS. It’s a smart investment—every $1 invested in NWS yields approx. $73 in social benefits. 🌪️❄️ Support science. Support the NWS. Stay tuned for more this #TaxDay

Why does this remind me of the Outer Worlds posters?

it doesn't matter at all, but the fact that the people they've abducted a bunch of very gentle and extremely innocent people helps demonstrate how hollow their pretexts are. they're lying about our students, friends, neighbors, & family, calling them all threats, and we can refute the lies easily

Glanced outside just in time to see an ephemeral dance of pink maple seeds twirling their way towards the ground.

Perhaps the most exciting thing happening in the world right now: solar power reliably doubling its deployment every three years. My question for you, looking at this chart, is simple: what do you think is going to happen next?

Ahhhh yes, my old pal, hyperfixation #BluePrince

When I was a kid, I played HOURS of Myst and Riven (back when it came on a whole 7-disk set, no less). Blue Prince is scratching that exact itch.

Hey friend, don’t forget to do your physical therapy. Stay strong and mobile and ready to fight!

open in JUST under an hour. link will be live AT noon ET. I imagine call will be full and closed and the link dead within minutes... if that long. see y'all soon! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/32513...

For the first time in 18+ months, we (finally) have a call for open submissions again (for one month)! autofocuslit.submittable.com/submit

The United Videogame Workers union is open to any gaming worker in the US and Canada and will focus on industry-wide job loss.

SECRET SUBMISSION CALL!! By which we me mean... a "SECRETS" themed submission call. In ~48 hours. Saturday, 4/12, 12pm (noon) ET. Sub call capped at 150 submissions. Guest editors? Team hex (Kate, Danny, Joe)!

This article was the first I’d heard about this game and I bought it the second it came out this morning. It sounds that good.

Vibe tariffs

I’d rather burn my face with a road flare

Your worst stories are good and worthy. Your unsellable books rejected by every agent are good and worthy. You have more creativity in your pinky than every single power monger trying their damndest to steer this country into the new dark ages.

DC friends: free workshop this month! A panel and series of workshops about the how/why/when of writing about caregiving. If you care for children, aging parents, a sibling, or even through your work: we'd love to write with you. ♥️ writer.org/event/caregi...

Each year INCH publishes four issues: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and a fourth highlighting an NC author (any of the three genres). Submissions are open until April 15! #Submissions www.readinch.com

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Suggestions for interim actions: ✅Make/distribute flyers + stickers to spread info offline ✅Volunteer time or money for mutual aid--food banks, libraries, legal aid, whatever! ✅Check in on ppl, esp. elderly, disabled, immigrants, trans folks + new parents ✅Start a garden ✅Call your reps ✅Make art!

More on that 3.5% number:

Check your name, your friends, your family, and your neighbors: thegriffinlist.com And please spread the word across North Carolina.

During the pandy, I had lost all sense of myself as an artist, but I’ve realized lately that creating for the sake of creating is worthwhile resistance. These people only know how to destroy things. We don’t need to make it easy for them by devaluing ourselves.

I put a plot twist in these 14k words that I deeply do not remember writing and wow, I’m not the worst writer ever!

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Judy Blume…spoke against the bills…saying book bans hurt students. Adults are afraid, she added, that books will prompt too many questions or make children change. “Books don’t make kids become anybody else. Books make kids think.” www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/04/05/f...

Great timing for mobilizing Nintendo’s fanbase.

FYI, for Nintendo online ppl, sign up for early pre-orders here: www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-sy...

Nintendo’s new business model is “when the world is burning, we’re here to distract you” and honestly, they’ve got me.

so great to get to meet Anna Vangala Jones at AWP this week. one of my fave writers I've gotten to publish across journals. and now to get to pub a new absolute banger! "I do think of my favorite stranger sometimes and my undeclared love for him from afar." https://www.havehashad.com/9gfin

Tomorrow is OPENING DAY for our Open Prose Chapbook reading period, so put those last touches on your 60-100pg darlings...

thinking about this in relation to archival technology and infrastructure. If you haven't been to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, you might not know just how carefully it is built -- in a challenging location and terrain. 1/?

I’d rather be writing through it than not.

Two kids braver than two of the biggest and richest law firms in the U.S.

Somehow found 14k words of a manuscript I don’t remember writing. Early covid days sure were a blur.

Hey y’all. We’re a smol, still new goth/punk/antifascist print-only zine. If you want to put your angst about this shit into art/poetry/fiction/CNF/flash/or hybrid firms, please and sit to us. We’re open til 4/1. It’s a small thing we’re doing but I hope it helps. Submission guidelines below:

I have done none of the things I intended to do today (dishes, laundry, work) but I have written a poem, so

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

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the idea ai would become sentient and kill us all was always a ridiculous shiny object to distract from the vastly more obvious outcome that humans would simply exploit ai as a dumb tool for killing with no accountability

We have a couple slots left for creative nonfiction. How's it going for you, piloting this meatship through spacetime? Tell us about it! outlooksprings.submittable.com/submit/32359...

The boys decided to open a diner in the kitchen and make everyone breakfast and I hope their lifelong ambition remains feeding the people they love.

It’s me! I got this when my dad died! We used it to fund such evil activities as buying groceries!

Pretty much had enough of Microsoft prompting or just plain re-activating copilot without my permission every time I open Word.