I really hoped that cats would be our planetary overlords by now, but I didn't put in the work to help make that happen.

If there is anything you should stop wearing, it's the weight of other people's opinions. And wet socks. Also wet socks.

Thank you to all the awesome parents/moms/nurturers/caregivers! You make a huge difference! It can be a rollercoaster of a day, whether you're celebrating, grieving, anxious, angry, excited, exhausted and running on empty, or totally energized and having a fabulous time.

Does ivermectin even exorcise demon parasites?

A while back, I was walking by a neighbor's "Don't Tread on Me" flag, looked down at the ground, and saw a flattened snake. Few commit to performance art like that these days.

I don't have a secret formula for writing bestsellers. Nobody does. Don't trust anyone who tries to sell you one.

The secret to my success is that, if you don't have any success, you never need to share your secrets. 😁

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By 4 p.m., the NAACP filed in Davidson County Chancery Court for an emergency injuction against the maps. A link to the full filing has been added to our story.

Xicanxfuturism editor Scott Russell Duncan will join writers Rocio Anica and Ernesto Mireles for a reading and conversation about speculative lit, cultural resistance, reclamation, and renewal. Spring Writes Festival 2:15-3:15 PM Ithaca Downtown Conference Center springwrites.org/wp-content/u...

The article itself avoids saying it, but he gunned down his wife and children and then killed himself to avoid consequences for it like these men always do Grim reminder: Roughly one in three women experiences physical violence by an intimate partner in her lifetime according to the NISVS analysis

Pecking your way out of an egg looks exhausting. We really should give birds more credit.

Based on my dream last night, I recommend against producing a crossover episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Law & Order: SVU.

While I have seen no formal endorsements for Chonkers the sea lion as a write-in candidate for CA governor, the Vote Blue No Matter Who crowd should be berating us about the possibility that his candidacy could further split the vote.

The progression of National Poetry Month into May:

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Reposting from Jacob Terán (@nopal_cafe) and @daxsonpublishing on IG. Share with writers who are college students. www.instagram.com/p/DXw9FkbjxQ...

"fr" actually stands for "for raccoons." not many people know this

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Meanwhile, in the library system . . .

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A lovely review of my forthcoming book, The Remedy is the Disease, from @candikat.bsky.social

Carlota Caulfield discusses her latest poetry collection Aligrafias/Wingraphies (Ediciones La Mirada, 2025) baquiana.com/xxvii-137-13...

Online writing workshop, weekends of June 6-7 and 13-14, with @dukescomics.bsky.social, @ernesthogan.bsky.social, Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl, Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo, Ernesto Todd Mireles, and Juan G. Berumen. palabrasdelpueblo.org Info reposted from: www.instagram.com/palabrasdelpuebloworkshop

This is still one of the most memorable consumer reviews I've read while trying to find anything to alleviate pain speaking, smiling, laughing, chewing, swallowing water, and generally being alive. 😂

Coming soon:

Giving away an ARC of NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT, PART II: BACK FOR BLOOD on Instagram if you’re into that kinda thing. Rules are in the caption: www.instagram.com/reel/DXpXyE-... #Indigenous #horror #books

Heard they don’t drink strawberry milk in the manosphere, so fuck all that.

The overwhelming majority of the victims of political violence in this country don't have a secret service detail to protect them, and the majority of that violence is caused by the guy who does.

I’m in this one! I have an essay and three poems published in this major anthology EVERY PLACE ON THE MAP IS DISABLED and you will be amazed at the other authors in this collection of important works. Go buy it asap.

Online writing workshop, weekends of June 6-7 and 13-14, with instructors @dukescomics.bsky.social, @ernesthogan.bsky.social, Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl, Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo, Ernesto Todd Mireles, and Juan G. Berumen. palabrasdelpueblo.org

RFK Jr. needs to make another horror movie with Kid Rock. Best scare I've had in years.

I bet there was a group of assholes in 3000 bc who wanted to ban stone tablets.

April is poetry month, and I have some book recommendations for you, including Praisesong for the People Anthology edited by @amandajohnston.bsky.social Brava by Violeta Garza, while they sleep by Raquel Salas Rivera and Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow by Noor Hindi.

Finished reading this today and wanted to share excerpts, but that would entail photographing the whole book. Always sad to reach the end of a book by Andrea Gibson.

If you like what I post, please read me in long form! I’ve written two books, including a brand new one that has gotten lots of nice reviews :-) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Coming up on Sunday! There are some spots left and the workshop is free!

a teenage boy just made it clear to me that he thought the shirt im wearing was advertising the two separate concepts of guns and of roses

I pride myself on being smarter than a raccoon but I’m afraid if someone left a free pizza in a cage I’d also fall for it

Let's be honest: the only reason the Trump administration is targeting the SPLC is because the Trump administration agrees with the neo-Nazi and neo-confederate organizations that the SPLC exposes.

American Goldfinch sporting his summer colors and a Beatles haircut. #birds

Somebody posted this on a Discord server I frequent. Possibly the most Edwardian feline gentleman I have ever seen. #caturday

SPLC was indicted before anyone in the Epstein files. The purpose of a system is what it does. The legal system is, you know, a system. This is what it does.

After giving a tree a lopsided fire risk mitigation haircut, my hands were shaking. I couldn't grip a pen to record the shaking in a notebook of symptoms my doctor doesn't care about. I used to strive for symmetry and fail. Now my brain can't focus, so I just clip (FAIL, FAIL in denim cargo pants🙄).

Dramatic narrator: "The ginger tea was about to find out that one body's limitations were the very reason it was about to meet an untimely demise."

Spoekie says: "Post your floofs." 🐁 🐈 🐄 🐕 🕷️ 🦔 🦄 🦙

And it could never be worse than this. Am I right? 🐙