LET'S TALK VOICE. See you at AWP?

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

For the 2nd year in a row, I will not be attending the President’s State of the Union address. See my full statement below. #STOU #Boycott

Dinner and a movement: Baltimore chefs take on erasure of Black history

Thinking about #AWP2026 again.

Wrote about hidden Black History in Baltimore with a local historian about how much more you are connected with a story if you can breathe the air where it happened. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

The 13th Annual Rock and Roll Reading returns to AWP at 6 p.m. March 4 at Metro Baltimore, @metrobaltimore.bsky.social. Fifteen writers from across the country will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots), each for just the length of a song. #AWP #AWP26

Today, in No Writing Technology Is Ideologically Neutral:

I'll be in Baltimore with my favorite writers and internet friends two weeks from today! Here's a schedule of where to find me at @awpwriter.org. Say hi, get book swag, show me photos of your pets!

One of my economic indicators is how birthday freebies have gotten worse over time. Used to be Red Robin would give you a free burger, *and* you could order it for takeout. Now, they offer a free milkshake, dine-in only, after spending $4.99. This is what they've taken from every single American.

We need another Burnout. No, Burnout Paradise didn't count.

Writing can be frustrating and exhausting, and sometimes it can feel like flying. Being able to articulate what I mean in words all the time has made me smarter and happier too. Writing a lot is deeply important and will change your life. Even if you think it sucks! It probably does at first!

What is the deal with trying to quantify writing like this? What are we even doing here?

Fuck no.

my cat every day at 4 pm

SCOOP: Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year and has been praised by the press and the Trump administration, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation find sometimes do “more harm than good."

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Hey, so, my sister-in-law released a music single today! You can find it on YouTube, too, as well as most streaming platforms. dinarose.bandcamp.com/track/happie...

Roses are red Violets are blue Don't let AI Take the em dash from you

RFK Jr. is dangerous for families and I won’t stop talking about it. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Shout out Vaccaro's rainbow cake.

Still about 400 pages left in Les Miserables at this point, but this passage -- from an appendix chapter, no less! -- is gonna stick with me for a while. And I suppose that I appreciate Victor Hugo's optimism.

Wait, wait. Tame Impala is doing TWO nights in Baltimore?!

Announcing the 2026 Pac-12 football schedule the best way we know how... #Pac12AfterDark style! 😎 #BackThePac

Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Folks, Tame Impala is coming to Baltimore, which is big news for people like me who think that "Currents" is something like the best album of the last decade or so.

Let me guess: The moon catapult will have a rock-hurling defense system, too.

Seems kind of telling to me that, two weeks post-snowstorm, Baltimore City somehow found the time to clear Thames Street of snow, curb to curb, but still hasn't been bothered to clear out multiple left-turn lanes along North Avenue.

Considering I've had to go to dang West Virginia to find an honest-to-goodness tri-tip sandwich in these parts, that's my pick. I know Baltimore has pit beef, but that's one of the few things I really miss about Fresno.

More like Drake Maye-be Not

I don't know anything about Bad Bumny other than that he was Wolf in Bullet Train, but I dig this music!

This Super Bowl sucks ass.

Thank goodness for the Super Bowl. You'd never know otherwise that you are in America.

What is even the point of this?

This Super Bowl Sunday, I'm just rooting for Seahawks and Patriots fans to be snarled in traffic on the 101 for hours.

March Sadness 90s Edition Bracket is Live: marchxness.com

Currently experiencing one of the worst trivia nights I've ever been involved with. 90s Nickelodeon stuff that somehow had two questions about My Life As A Teenage Robot, one about Jimmy Neutron, and one about... Ariana Grande?

Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates

One thing I'd really like is if Baltimore Bluesky can pick it up over the next month and let me know about all of the different off-site readings that have already been scheduled for AWP in March, please and thank you.

The fellowship is designed to close employment gaps within the city while preparing the next generation of HBCU leaders to fill critical vacancies across city government. baltimorebeat.com/from-campus-...

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

Given his past stance on writing columns for the Post despite past ominous developments, which I thought was fair at the time, I can't help but be curious about @stevengodfrey.bsky.social's thoughts on this.

Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.

I wrote, and also listicled, about Melania

The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...

That's my alma mater right there. Go Pates.

Your best work comes from those moments in which you hate yourself the most. You've got this