Many presses are making their reading periods accessible by doing away with mandatory fees. Prizes likewise need to consider their financial accessibility. Presses are not the same weights—Graywolf and River River shouldn’t pay the same entry fee for a title. It makes no sense.

Girlfriend To Stay Underneath Blanket For Next 5 Months https://theonion.com/girlfriend-to-stay-underneath-blanket-for-next-5-months-1819575780/

On this day, Dr. Manhatten first reappears after his atomized destruction in a lab accident. Happy November 10th to all who observe.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Between the Dem sweep of VA and NYC electing Zohran, I haven’t hopemaxxed, bluewaved or libpilled this hard in ages but I think tonight calls for a tasty alcoholic beverage and *2 ice cream cones*

Between the Dem sweep of VA and NYC electing Zohran, I haven’t hopemaxxed, bluewaved or libpilled this hard in ages but I think tonight calls for a tasty alcoholic beverage and *2 ice cream cones*

[Exit Clown.]

the past 4 Mondays I led a youth civic voter program for my day job and man do I feel better knowing Spanberger won the VA governor race. the world isn’t great or good and it’s not gonna fix everything but at least I can let out that breath I’ve been holding for months

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.

they should invent a 2025 that doesn’t just constantly suck

Priceless “unhand me” face from my collection. No date/info.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

playing Pokemon Legends Z-A hits different when in the real world there’s “we don’t want them in our city” hate rhetoric and there’s literal benches in game that are anti-homeless 😩

A friend in Gaza needs urgent financial assistance. I am offering some rewards for sending money to my Venmo @mo-martin-1. Receipts will be available. Rewards are in the picture (with alt text):

Generally speaking I don't want my items to be Futuristic, I want them to work

Did you wake up irrationally angry at how much energy is being used - and CO2 is being emitted - to foist upon us AI technology that most of don't even want?

early voted today ✅

wish I was crafty or talented enough to do a cool costume for Halloween. instead I just went as ambiguously slutty goth witch

I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.

(tim robinson voice) i can't know how to hear any more about ozymandias!

James and I just watched Weapons, and oof. Oof. Dude. The sound design was incredible in how jarring and spectacular it was. never looking at canned soup the same way again

it is 2017 and I’m reading & watching a Jewish kid die in Stephen King’s It it is 2025 and I’m watching a Jewish kid die in It: Welcome to Derry anyway a few years ago I wrote about Stanley Uris & my essay still holds tf up sadly www.heyalma.com/the-only-jew...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

it is 2017 and I’m reading & watching a Jewish kid die in Stephen King’s It it is 2025 and I’m watching a Jewish kid die in It: Welcome to Derry anyway a few years ago I wrote about Stanley Uris & my essay still holds tf up sadly www.heyalma.com/the-only-jew...

Ever since James said that Glen Powell looks like the Babadook I can’t unsee that shit, and it makes no sense. haunts me.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

haven’t looked at my phone too much because Day Job and saw the new bluesky icon. time passes so quickly and yet i stay the same

i want my friends to remember me fondly. and my enemies to remember me as The Creature

don’t have much faith in the world at large lately, but hearing 15 little girls excitedly sing “Golden” from Kpop Demon Hunters made me feel like maybe there’s some silly goodness left in little places.

about to spend a weekend in the woods for work, and considering the state of all things maybe I’ll just stay there

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

The vet introduced my cat to Easy Cheese to calm her down. smh can’t believe vets are in the pocket of Big Cheese now

All day every day

just thrifted a whole outfit for my Mary Sanderson costume 🧙‍♀️ which involved digging through bins of old scarves and tablecloths

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

starting to think bog bodies had the right idea all along. why am I checking emails in a tiny cubicle when I could just walk outside and let the earth envelop me in her peaty embrace

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

made this at 5am idk

dude I could just use more cash tbh

did a double take cause I saw a guy wearing a DOGE shirt in the wild and man. imagine just being in public and straight up advertising that you can’t pleasure a woman or have decent opinions

man I need to find a new hyperfixation now that peacemaker ended and my Thursday nights are open again. I guess I could like, write my essay or horror novel or not

i miss these crazy kids and it’s only been an hour since the season ended 😭

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

starting to think bog bodies had the right idea all along. why am I checking emails in a tiny cubicle when I could just walk outside and let the earth envelop me in her peaty embrace

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop