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"The list of things Mike could fix shrank. There was a time when Mike would fix computers. Hulking CPU towers with whirring fans" Wonderful piece from @maeganpoland.bsky.social about a character struggling in an ever-changing world ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

no one ever tells you this but don't buy tables with a sloped, single leg to support the table top if you have a roomba unless you want to watch your robotic house sucker spend its entire battery dry humping a table all day

“KFF analysis of federal data found that the average increase in out-of-pocket coverage cost would be 79%, with state-by-state average increases ranging from 49% to 195%.”

I had a nightmare that I was lecturing my class about The Tale of Genji and I told them the author was Sei Shōnagon.

for film franchises to no longer exist

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

i know we have to "push back" or whatever but this administration has us saying the goofiest, most obvious shit. late night hosts are allowed to make jokes. actually, WE pay tariffs. no, that's not how tylenol works. could be solving climate change but instead we're debunking middle school rumors

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

"Tell this new stranger to save you." Read this @maeganpoland.bsky.social story in Monkey Bicycle. The best flash makes you hold your breath until the end. monkeybicycle.net/empty-houses/

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

Issue 89 with new CNF by Aimee Bender, our first featured author in our Master Series, is live! Work by established writers and those new to the form rubbing elbows in this issue. All rare gems by writers from around the globe. So proud of everyone in this issue. www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

My 18 year old is in career life transition services right now …

Would you, yes you, like to review this pretty book at your favorite venue? Or, perhaps, interview its very pleasant* author? *Ymmv

Every time I hear or read advice about learning to say no, I go, “Pfffft. Of course you gotta learn when to say to no, obvious person.” Then, a day or two later, I call myself an idiot for not learning when to say no.

Well, this beautifully written story just gutted me.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

I have a new tiny story in @havehashad.com today about fleeting connections. thanks as always to @aaronburch.bsky.social, one of the best editors around, & to all of you who read this one ♡ 💀 🪦 ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...

in the local mom group someone just posted that their OBGYN has suddenly decided to no longer prescribe contraceptives wtf, 2025

I got my eyes dilated at exam, took dilation reversal drops, and stopped in the grocery to grab pirates booty for my toddler and felt like I was given such strange looks... And now, looking in the mirror, I see my eyes -- red and dilated and half lidded -- and realize, I look EXTREMELY high.

These science hating buffoons are going to unleash a new wave of diseases that have been kept at bay for decades by vaccines. Fools are flushing us all down the drain.

Florida is ending childhood vaccine requirements for school entry. This is going to have a massive negative impact on the health of children in Florida and throughout the United States. Florida will now be ground zero for infectious disease outbreaks. H/t @bethlinas.bsky.social.

Reorganizing our entire lives to schedule my colonoscopy since we have a small child and no local family or support. Even when things are going well, Crohn's is a pain in the ass.

I'm literally writing a story about this now

Love this weird little story: "After we saw the devil, we wanted to bring Salem Night back, mainly because we felt so lonely. We missed sitting in the Circle of Accusation." monkeybicycle.net/little-devil/ "Little Devil" in Monkeybicycle by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social!

Read "Mr. Fixit" written by @maeganpoland.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "He wasn’t much of a computer guy, but he could find a blueprint or diagram and tinker well enough that he got things where they needed to be. Now, he can’t even fix a car radio..." tinyurl.com/5b748tkn

I have a story in Ghost Parachute today alongside this beautiful artwork by Brett J Barr. Will be reading the whole September issue on my back porch for the next hour with coffee. ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

Our September newsletter is out now! This month, OKD Fiction Reader @eleanorball.bsky.social offers some encouragement and tips on getting back into a writing routine when it feels like your 2025 goals are long past attainable:

The September 2025 issue of Ghost Parachute is here! Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/2psm79n5

My flash "Mr. Fixit" is out in the newest issue of Ghost Parachute. Thrilled to be in this issue with such great company. There's an accompanying drawing by Brett J Barr too!

Me: yay, there's a package for me! Toddler: what is it? Me: a book! Toddler: what's it called? Me, staring at title, unsure what to say...

Here’s your chance to send a little note to human dial tone Bill Cassidy, y’all.

Frustrated about the difficulty in getting a COVID19 shot and wondering who to blame? It’s not healthcare workers, pharmacies, public health or Big Pharma. It is Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and every Republican Senator who voted to confirm him, especially Bill Cassidy.

No new news huh?

Must go to sleep but I've spent way too much time reading about this absurd pizza tracker...

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yet again, I found myself driving across the swamp through zero visibility rain with my hazards on. My nerves are shot.

Rereading this wonderful flash today with students.

They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.

Boiled down my AI policy this semester --

"Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction." - Flannery O'Connor

"Writing is facing your deepest fears and all your failures, including how hard it is to write... When it totally sucks, pause, look out the window (there should always be a window) and say, I’m doing exactly what I want to be doing." ~ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Our nearly three year old in hot Louisiana, running away from me as he screams, I don't want to go for a walk! I want to go to an inside place!

I have two new poems in @soflopojo.bsky.social's August issue! Check them out! Excerpt from one: "Mars could be habitable by 2050 is a headline to a pop science article I might read or title to a poem I could write as Earth turns in circles & circles the sun & we just keep fucking up."

Accountability post: Got my toddler to sleep and attempted to catch up on writing. Wrote 750 words. Did not finish my third longer story of the summer yet. I begin teaching for the fall semester on Tuesday, so maybe I'll still manage to finish this draft before the academic summer is truly over?

Delighted to reveal the cover for my forthcoming book from @jacklegpress.bsky.social with huge thanks to amazing editor @fulmerford.com

if you applied I swear to you this is the year you would have gotten it, and the only thing to do now is (1) rest easy in this knowledge & (2) organize & uphold democracy however you can.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

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