“AI wins not when it becomes more human, but when humans become more like AI: disengaged and devoid of original thought.” This hit me like a ton of corporeal, not copied, not stolen bricks. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

E celebrates international cat day

Amiri Baraka

Which Oriole should walk up to the opening of Supersonic and how do we make it happen???

DEMOCRACY: “We need to become a powerful majority to turn back bigotry & inhumanity amid this fierce urgency of now—not as a coalition of humanity that agrees all the time, but one united to save democracy & to finally realize the dream of so many who gave their lives to save us,” Donna Ladd writes.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

one of the hardest things for me has been coming up with honest yet not terrifying answers when my kids ask if everything is going to be alright

Alan interviewed me about the writing (10%) and metal (90%) just for fun. Remember fun? @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social

I have once again missed X-ray’s short story submission window. But you should send them something!

Have we tried giving billionaires more tax cuts? I think if they had more money, they would then rule us more benevolently.

Big thanks to the Mississippi Arts Commission and the NEA.

I cannot emphasize enough how much I love this book so far. @cbwell.bsky.social is a writer you should be following closely.

some books you should grab on #IndieBookstoreDay! (that's today!) 🧵

it’s a PERE UBU day. youtu.be/RxgkTS4qWxI?...

Absolutely thrilled to have a story published with Smokelong Quarterly! Thank you so much to all of the editors! You can read or listen to it here: https://www.smokelong.com/stories/miss-texas-considers-talking-about-her-tooth/

New York, friends! Something fun, artistic, & renewing to the soul happening in your town tonight! @silviapark.bsky.social ⚡️⚡️⚡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/silvia-par...

Here’s a new short story called “After Passaic” @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social farewelltransmission.net/2025/04/afte...

Completely knocked out that one of my longer short stories, "All the Small Things," will be included in Issue 18 of Stanchion Magazine (@stanchion.bsky.social) next month. They're taking discounted pre-orders if you're so inclined: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Really proud to have been making Stanchion Magazine for 5 years now. Also really proud of Issue 18 feat. writing & visual art by 25 contributors from around the world. Please consider pre-ordering a copy today. You'll have it in hand in late April. 🖤🤍 www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

He’s so close to getting it

youtu.be/6qfBuSld9j4?... Some MWS music: “Blue Star” Available in the gettin’ places.

Just a huge fucking slut for public goods and services

We would love to read your work. Please submit for our Summer Issue using the link below. While you're at it, please consider becoming a sustaining member of our little community. Membership includes voting rights and a complimentary year-end print edition of the journal. tinyurl.com/Grit-Quarter...

Extended Interview: Mark Graham on Internet Archive's Work Preserving the Web as Gov't Sites Go Dark

🚨 60,000 followers of @mississippifreepress.org as of today! This is a LOT for local media in US. Thank you, ow @bsky.app folk for being so good to us here!

Consumers are being sold an illusion of ownership. "Buy" a digital movie, an e-book, or a game today? Tomorrow, it could vanish. 🕳️ Senator @wyden.senate.gov is calling on the FTC to crack down on this digital "bait-and-switch." ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/28/w... What's at stake? 🧵

Honored to have a story in this upcoming Hitchcock anthology, edited by Maxim Jakubowski. What an incredible TOC. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797579...

Alan interviewed me about the writing (10%) and metal (90%) just for fun. Remember fun? @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social

Today we have an interview w @maxissippi.bsky.social up @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social Major rager thanks to @emilylauracosta.bsky.social for the early read and feedback. farewelltransmission.net/2025/02/maxi...

"I’ve always been drawn to people who were a little banged up, a little wobbly on their feet. I think, most likely, because I’ve always felt that way. I’ve always been balancing on the edge of trying and giving up." @frank212.bsky.social #willyvlautin mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

ONE MORE DAY 🙌🏻

Listen: I just taught a class where students discussed short stories AND poems. We’re gonna win this thing!

every hack you see online, your grandma already knows. she knows all the secret best ways to do everything. it's nanatechnology

Getting excited about this new collection coming out on cowboy jams @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s famed SWASTICAR dreams of self-driving on an April day in Mexico City. “Tesla Crushed by an Olmec Head”, by artist Chavis Mármol, 2024. #swasticar #swastikkkar

Made a thing

Happening TODAY, beginning at 5 www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Catcher: I’ve been looking for that!

Hope all of you have a good week ahead!

Today is the birthday of Virginia Woolf, Etta James, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Masters of language all in their way. “How can we combine the old words in new orders so that they survive, so that they create beauty, so that they tell the truth? That is the question.” -Virginia Woolf

today i got a root canal and watched WILD AT HEART again

I started January with jelly in my purse & a broken sewer pipe. Ending w/my first inclusion in BMF is SO much better! 😍 Big thanks to Gary, Meg & Dawn & @lit-namjooning.bsky.social! Congratulations to everyone on the list & to those who wrote big or small or got jelly out of their purse or 🚿 again!

I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.

I saw his Dune in the theater when I was 7 and was hooked. Wild at Heart is still my fav. Lucky enough to catch his incredible art exhibit in Paris in 2007. What a loss.

a tremendous, wild at heart, white horses, closed-diner loss. I can’t explain how much David Lynch’s art means to me. May he be with the robins now 💙

Gonna try and list the stories I read this year:

so delighted to share my review of Diana Oropeza’s incredible debut AN INCOMPLETE CATALOG OF DISAPPEARANCE @smokelong.bsky.social (Special thanks to the editorial magic of @erinvachon.bsky.social!)

I was lucky to have two new pubs this year, which helped confirm I can create an actual linked collection of the stories that have grown out of "Burnpile" (from West Branch last year). A third new story even almost made it out there before the year ended, but we'll save that for 2025!

FRANK'S BEST READS of 2024: I read more in 2024 than the last two years. It feels good to be reading on the regular again. In no real order outside 1-6. The book didn't have to come out in 2024. It only had to be new to me. Half of these books were quick reads. It was the year of the slim novel.