51 is way too damn young. 😢

This is terrifying on so many levels.

So it actually was gang violence.

Y'all don't understand, that's their emotional support banning of Gretchen Felker-Martin.

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

Wishing everyone great success in the Hobonichi Wars. I managed to score some Tomie items, but it was a whole coordinated effort among multiple people.

If you were a user or admirer of NOAA’s amazing climate.gov website - which has had all the good stuff (e.g., actual data and climate monitoring indices) removed by government - some web and data gurus/guerrillas are about to launch a recreation at climate.us. Follow @climate.us for launch updates.

Louisiana didn’t kill this project, Louisiana politicians did (specifically Landry). On the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, what we won’t be doing is using language that implicitly puts Louisiana residents at fault.

So I guess killing seniors during Covid was just Cuomo on the long con to save pizza money?

One of my biggest fears is the thought of being a Wish I Had Written Ghost.

The world would be a much better place if more people realized that there’s no such thing as being the smartest person in the room.

I had my eyes dilated for an eye exam and it’s been two and a half hours and everything is still blurry, am I dying?

Of the many, many things wrong with using “AI” participants for user research, one is that you will only ever get answers to the questions you ask, and nothing more.

The deliberate killing of five Al Jazeera staff has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war to 237, according to Gaza's Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates:

Imagine looking like this and having the sheer audacity to tell ANYONE AT ALL that they look tired.

If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death

Josh Johnson has a Jon Stewart in his attic getting older looking and unfunnier by the day.

When I was a kid, anytime you asked my grandmother where we were going, her response was “to hell if we’re not careful” and I think that really shaped me as a person. Not towards any kind of religion or anything, but just in answering questions with unrelated warnings.

AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI. For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you. Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.

But please tell me more about how sad ICE agents are about their job right now @theatlantic.com

The Texas floods were not a 1000-year event. They weren’t a 500-year event. That area is known for flooding; anyone familiar with it would tell you so. Of all the crazy-making things that come out of this administration, the blatant lies about the weather are up there.

The Texas Floods underscore America's preference for a certain kind of victim. Entire RV parks were swept away, but they're hardly mentioned.

So much candy is getting crushed tonight by NYPD, on the taxpayer’s dime.

Tesla is looking like the worst investment since beanie babies.

I’m starting to think that Trump might not actually love Teslur.

Die más. Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix. tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...

Is this a safe space? Because I ranked Paperboy Love Prince. (Mamdani first of course)

The amount of fliers/ phone calls/ text messages I've gotten supporting that sex pest Cuomo is too damn high!

I did not break out of the hellscape that is Texas for these temps in New York, even if it is feels like.

This motherfucker saying “We love you God” after dropping bombs and no one batting an eye is why I refuse to entertain Christianity.

Upholding white supremacy through cruelty and debasing yourself for proximal power to men doesn't do a thing to stop allergies, it turns out.

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

Please, for the love of fuck. Don't rank Cuomo.

This Mexican flag discourse is actually just people telling on themselves about their dislike of Mexicans.

The LA protests, in contrast with the acquiescence and, at times, straight-up collusion in New York, make me think I picked the wrong city.

COOL!

Remembering this trans man for Pride. Mexican Revolutionary Amelio Robles Ávila, who threatened to shoot anyone who misgendered him and said "he did not want to die without being known as a man,” lived his life as a man after transitioning. One of Zapata’s top commanders. We have always been here.

Do Stephens and Stevens have beef with each other like I do with Mellisas?

Marathons in Brooklyn are basically zombie hordes with racing bibs.

Genuinely considering working up a talk on community based disaster response that takes govt out of the cpnversation, but I can't be the first person to think of it. #greysky @samlmontano.bsky.social any specific resources?

Whomst amongst us can’t say the same?? I love that @thatemilymunro.bsky.social is actually doing something about it!

You can just become a writer. There is no bespoke knowledge that one finally receives at the top of the pyramid scheme as each of Charles Scribner's sons gives you a tiny kiss on the forehead.

The lit world is having another one of its extinction level events with the loss of funding for so many lit mags and orgs but that's exactly why it's the right time to become a writer! Start screaming with us!

A call for papers about the movie Sinners. Absolutely love it! academichoodoo.com/2025/04/25/c...

Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon theonion.com/woman-r...

I’d think being this Antichrist coded was intentional but we all know he has never read the Bible.

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"