It’s not that things don’t make sense; it’s that the sense they make doesn’t make any sense

Have any of you ever been completely ghosted by your own publisher and if so how did you cope

I just got a message that chicken tenders are now called chicken TOUGHS and that I’m not man enough to eat one

Terrifying but stupid but appalling but embarrassing but alarming but absurd

Now that I have outlived Emily Dickinson it’s time to live like Emily Dickinson

Acquiescence to being interviewed by Chotiner proves that Thanatos is real

If I do not speak to you it may be because I listened to you

Apologizing to random songbirds for the sin of human persons

Start of the semester is always busy but it would be easier if I didn’t have to turn off all the AI features my institution has stuffed, unbidden, into every aspect of my work life

It’s a very low priority but if I could find a publisher for this weird book that would be super neat, send vibes pls

When moral obligation requires ethical compromise

Dhalgren. It had a regular ol’ science fiction cover! What could go wrong!

“Too much” was so, so long ago

I was never tempted to be a public intellectual because I could not resist the lure of being a private weirdo

That contagion essay by David Wallace-Wells is going right in my evidence file of human life as a net negative for the very possibility of life at all

We need a radical improvement in human character but at this point I will welcome even the slightest increase in decency

Thanks to At Length for publishing this essay about Micronauts and other stuff! I wonder if @kellylink.bsky.social and @gavingrant.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social remember these… atlengthmag.com/nemo/

I’m tired of evil’s petulant insistence that it be treated with respect.

If you’ve heard about the horror of this “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp, please remember another Alligator: Halpatter Tustenughee. A hero of the Battle of Lake Okeechobee in 1837, he helped beat the living hell out of Zachary Taylor and the U.S. Army. Resistance is never futile.

Between fighting demons and refueling to fight more demons, please take a look at the essay I have here. Is it better to be a toy than a boy? Find out!

There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems

Let’s get some Quakers and assert their claims that this entire administration is compromising their free exercise rights

A pity, that accuracy should so be heard / as hyperbole

Do you know what you should have handy at all times? Bolt cutters. Available at many retail chains and your local hardware store, I bet! Anyway, you’re welcome, more tomorrow!

How can the fact that other people are real still be so elusive

Last week, I sent an open records request for some pretty basic and targeted records to 20 major public universities across the country. Records have begun to flow in, none with a charge, except for one: @umich.edu wants $367 and will do their best to get it to me within 60 days.

“I’m really interested in anything that people have strong opinions about. I’m a Florida writer, and people have a lot of strong opinions about Florida.” Up on the WLT Weekly, Debbie Ou interviews Kristen Arnett. @kristenarnett.bsky.social‬ worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/intervi...

There’s a point at which merely suffering one moral injury after another begins to make one injurious

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Accepting the presidency of the University of Florida under current conditions is an admission that you are not qualified to be president of any institution nominally committed to teaching and learning

The number of people who will suffer or die because this cadre of fools could not, absolutely could not accept that they are anything less than exceptional

I feel like the only reason I use Bluesky is to routinely shout that to persecute trans people is to reveal absolute lack of character or decency

Did I mention that in the capitulation letter our admin told us we shouldn’t feel sore because soon we are going to deliver awesome services like personalized AI tutors for every student? Please fling yourselves directly into the sun

Maybe the University of Toronto would like to open a few dozen satellite campuses

Whenever I am angry my natal regional syntax and diction kick in which is why my empty house is ringing with shouts of “Ain’t none y’all mfers ever been in a fight before”

A craven, humiliating day for the University of Michigan.

I am sure my institution will not crown itself in glory, but Columbia, you have humiliated yourself perhaps beyond recovery

I very much hope the book of mine they used poisons the entire process. That’s verse, you idiots: the syntax that destroys its own utility. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Please support the truest and best of Florida: @kristenarnett.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/revi...

I don’t know what they think will happen once they deprive people of all legal means of redress but I don’t think they’re going to like it

Phrases like “weak-ass bullshit” are appearing more frequently in my correspondence with elected officials than I suspect they like but

I sure hope the reason I cannot complete a call to either Gary Peters’ DC office or his Detroit office is because so many other people are burning up the lines

My sister just shared her book club’s most recent selection and I immediately suggested abandoning it and reading @pronounced-ing.bsky.social instead. You’re welcome, book club, I’m just here to help!

I’ve been forced to use the word “feckless” so much more than I ever could have anticipated

Reagan’s election exalted cruelty and greed and I remember well the sensation of an enormous swath of the country happily, gleefully embracing malignant fantasies and lies. Nostalgia for that is just a legacy of those lies.

It’s a small thing in the midst of this madness but I am finding a real peace in my writing project. Now that I know its content prohibits it from ever being published, I can focus entirely on saying only what I I want to say and only in the forms I want to say it.

Still very relevant--and now available again thanks to New Directions--the poems of Essex Hemphill, essential reading for LGBTQ community (and allies!) Pre-order with your local bookstore because you know it's gonna sell through fast and the fascists will be trying to ban it. Comes out March 2025.

I do not think there’s adequate respect for the speed with which people just trying to live their lives can be made to feel like they have nothing to lose and start to act accordingly

Because you were not met with absolute deferral and infinite affection you committed to destroying everything you encounter. What kind of person is that? Embarrassing, lethal.

The self-ignorance required to even accept a Cabinet nomination from Trump is itself disqualifying