NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.

love getting together with the girlies to gab about our hopes & dreams, our sorrows, how hallucinated word salads are emitted by venture capital-backed plagiarism slop machines that accelerate the decimation of the one habitable planet we know about but we’re supposed to be into it for some reason 💁🏼‍♀️

I am fascinated by America's humiliation ritual. This is really it.

Stone Circle contributor Chiara Di Lello (@chiaradilello.bsky.social) is reading from her new chapbook Thursday 6/6 @ Philly's Tattooed Mom. She will be joined by Alina Pleskova (@alinapleskova.bsky.social) and Raena Shirali (@raenainthemorning.bsky.social) www.tattooedmomphilly.com/event/poetry...

People will be running from the shame of supporting this the rest of their lives.

one week from today 〰️

Ok not exactly what I had in mind but I'm listening

me: sorry for the late response, i got caught up doing research the research in question:

Counterpoint: No I will not

BREAKING: Global Sumud Flotilla activists released from Israeli custody after Israel seized an aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters, say they were tortured, sexually assaulted and denied basic legal rights. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/finz9n

i have a structured settlement but i need cash ass or grass now

we’re all trying to find the guys who can do literally anything about any of this

a dear friend here in Philly is organizing support for Waseem, a 24 y/o in 🇵🇸 who is trying to keep his multigenerational household of 12 family members alive. please boost widely & donate if you're able!! www.gofundme.com/f/hope-and-h...

apropos of nothing, thinking about the poetry of a specific russian phrase for going mushroom foraging— тихая охота, which translates to 'silent hunt'

Philly! CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL is headed your way on June 4! Come hear @alinapleskova.bsky.social, @raenainthemorning.bsky.social and myself at Tattooed Mom, and enjoy 75￠ pirogi while you're at it! www.tattooedmomphilly.com/event/poetry...

An interesting thing I learned in this great Tom McGrath story is that Philadelphia's immigrant population—the driving force behind many of the best parts of life here—is the highest percentage of the city's population since the 1940s.

inside me are two wolves

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Shout out @alinapleskova.bsky.social

in the 90’s, computers would scream every time you went online. that‘s called foreshadowing

just bought a book about gargoyles & grotesques on thrift books dot com, how are YOU

ICYMI: brief but pithy reflections on an immense topic in Zona Motel 〰️

was reading Harpers in a waiting room & came across this re: data center opposition. the people are, ofc, way out ahead of most politicians. this is NOT a minority view; we can't be duped into hallucinating (like, ahem, LLMs) that immense backlash doesn't exist, that people don’t perceive the harm

EAT SHIT CHERELLE PARKER EAT SHIT CORY BOOKER

not to be the free will police, but "asked the AI if the AI was AI" has got to be a bottom tier use of your human consciousness

no one: a gemini:

I’m back in @bulbregion.bsky.social with “Unsent Love Letters (& Other Regrets)” ♡ grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social + all of you who read this story 💌 📬 bulbregion.com/Unsent-Love-...

almost 40 earth years old & still have auto-capitalization turned off on my phone keyboard & it's like, too far along to quit the bit now.... guess i'll be in my 70s, would that i live so long, still typing 'wyd' to my friends when i wanna go play bridge

Oh cool, I was worried that I hated it as much as I could.

stoked for the next Track Changes event on June 2 with Emma Copley Eisenberg & Monika Ostrowska! 🎟️ & more info: june-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com 🗞️ newsletter with misc. reflections & playlist from the last event: track-changes-series.beehiiv.com/p/track-chan...

Delighted to be back in @hexliterary.bsky.social!!

Hi, friends. Some news! My debut chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain,” is out now from Bottlecap Press! It’s got 12 micro & flash stories: lost ghosts, immortal siblings & haunted lovers. I poured years of my heart into this book. So proud & thrilled to see it in the world! bottlecap.press/products/gho...

let's goooo Philly

if you need one (1) truly joyful fact to hold in your heart today: John Waters used to work for Mary Oliver at her bookstore in Ptown

stoked for the next Track Changes event on June 2 with Emma Copley Eisenberg & Monika Ostrowska! 🎟️ & more info: june-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com 🗞️ newsletter with misc. reflections & playlist from the last event: track-changes-series.beehiiv.com/p/track-chan...

& meanwhile, federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25/hour since 2009…. the longest period without a national increase in U.S history

not me being invited to read a poem at a Philly museum's 220th anniversary/am*rica's semiquincentennial event & needing to wedge a comparison of our cheesesteak rivalry to the two-party system into said poem

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

none of us were meant to talk to anyone about anything this much i stg

TOMORROW!

we heard you hate AI, so at LFP we've been making resources for turning off AI features across the web. but we also don't think AI problems can be solved at an individual level, so we included some of our fav tools for community resistance as well. more to download free at libraryfreedom.org

🪩 one week from today in Philly! the first Track Changes reading/listening/convo series event in its beautiful new home at Solar Myth, ft. the stellar Kirwyn Sutherland (Philly) + Steffan Tripplett (Pittsburgh) reading & discussing their fave music join us! 🎟️ may-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

🪩 one week from today in Philly! the first Track Changes reading/listening/convo series event in its beautiful new home at Solar Myth, ft. the stellar Kirwyn Sutherland (Philly) + Steffan Tripplett (Pittsburgh) reading & discussing their fave music join us! 🎟️ may-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com

Note to selves: 🪺

in my next incarnation, i want to come back as an axolotl (cute, mythical, neotenic), one of those super deep sea fish (unbothered, elusive, otherworldly), or a woman who doesn't spend a not-insignificant portion of her adult life saying "just checking in about this!" for any reason (please....)

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a more compelling & useful inquiry than “why aren’t you having kids?” is “why does our society have such narrow views of caregiving, family, & community?” I interviewed @chiaradilello.bsky.social about her chapbook Childless Millennial, which delves into exactly that 🌱 substack.com/home/post/p-...