Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves

Keep posting sky pictures, I like being reminded that we're all piles of carbon screaming through space on a rock and we're all just hanging on and hoping for the best.

good things today seattle mayor the sky

I'm supporting @scarleteen.org with their annual fundraising appeal. This year, we're funding health benefits for staff and volunteers and I have GREAT NEWS: We've got some matching donors in the house! Donations through my fundraising page are doubled up to $1,000...

Love to see the feed broken up by tons of pics of the northern lights The best moments of my life happened under a sky full to bursting with the stars, man don’t forget to seek out the cosmos when you’re feeling wrecked

Wow! Do a search for "aurora" on Bluesky. Amazing photos tonight.

“i’m waiting for a few folks // i love dearly to die so i can be myself. / please don’t make me say who.” — Danez Smith . . . This poem appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, No. 15, Summer 2017. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“It’s November / again & most of us are still alive. This makes me so glad except / for the fact that it has to be said.” — Talin Tahajian . . . This poem appeared in the Inferior Planets. Shared here with deep gratitude.

We are teaching a groundbreaking class at USC titled “Bridging the Media Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists” trying to create a new style of ethical hybrid reporting that will usher in this brave new era of journalism. A letter from our editor: lataco.com/usc-class-la...

Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.

Greta Gerwig dances back to the Frida, Nov 7-10 for some 21st Century Cult screenings of FRANCES HA 🏙️ 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/coming-soon/

Our FREE annual homage to one of the most controversial and celebrated filmmakers of the 21st century is back for a third time! This super secret double feature of the M. Night Shyamalan’s work starts at 7:30PM on Nov 20th! RSVP at: thefridacinema.org/movies/night...

Edgar Wright's SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ, and THE WORLD'S END aka The Cornetto Trilogy aka The Blood & Ice Cream Trilogy, screening in a bloody triple feature at The Frida on Nov 29th! 3 films for 1 ticket. Doors @ 5pm 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/shaun... 🎨: @mattferguson.bsky.social

We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

The piece is excellent, but I want to highlight a valuable thought early in it: Literature does not change people. Life events change people. Trauma changes people. Catharsis changes people. Literature provides new mindsets to shape those changes, and outlets through which to choose how to change.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

They should invent a California where you can afford to live

“I’ve spent my life studying my profession & I’ve come to feel that one lifetime is not enough. When it works well there is something shamanistic about it, but in order to invite that, for lack of a better word, inspiration into your life requires a tremendous amount of discipline” HBD Ethan Hawke

Something to read while we wait to see if SCOTUS upholds Trump’s mission to starve people

ChatGPT is doing everything 80s parents thought heavy metal and D&D did and I wish this was hyperbole

“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...

the "proliferation of AI...in library and education spaces would not be possible...without the precedent of book bans...once you have a culture in which all expertise is denigrated & considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish” www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong “Dream a Little Dream of Me” youtu.be/OAVZuSoP8dk?... #Jazz #Music #JazzSky #MusicSky #NowPlaying

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

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this story is horrifying and universities NEED to accept that ChatGPT is actively harmful

ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful. Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least. It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people. And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.

Let's write together in 2026! If you're looking to jumpstart your memoir project—or are already underway & want some support to maintain momentum or figure out next steps—this @thewriterscenter.bsky.social workshop is for you. We'll meet twice a month, starting in February; learn more + apply here:

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books in a Scottish Highlands cottage during a pouring rain whilst enjoying a plate of emotional support scones?

@maris.bsky.social on AI, the future, and the ongoing devaluation of the arts: “For years we’ve been grappling with the collapse of the creative middle class due to corporate greed.”

@ambsmcbride.bsky.social recommends 10 novels in verse by Anne Carson, Ibi Zoboi, Jason Reynolds, and more!

#submissions are open and free! As a reminder, SHINE condemns plagiarism and does not accept (partial or fully) AI-generated poems. By submitting work to SHINE, you certify your words are your own. #shinepoetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #writingcommunity #internationalcommunity

Friends, I'm grateful to have a poem from my forthcoming book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, in this week's New Yorker. 🤍

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Snatches Multiple People in Salvadoran Corridor Raid, Including a U.S. Citizen 🧵 2 parts

Border Patrol Takes One U.S. Citizen and Four Day Laborers From Westlake Home Depot

DAILY MEMO: Feds Rip Through Election Day, Taking At Least 25, Including Elderly, a Toddler, and Her U.S. Citizen Father 🧵 2 parts

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Big day for people who care about other people

What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses

It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️

My book The Great Work comes out today! Still can't quite believe this is a thing that is happening. Special thanks to my extremely talented editor @jesszimmerman.com and my wonderful agent @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social, both of whom were steadfast champions for this very weird novel.

"We will starve children unless you let us take away their healthcare" seems like a pretty good way to describe what's happening right now.

Much love to @versharma.bsky.social, who did the lord’s work at @teenvogue.com. What a loss for our industry.