White guy Beyonce opinion CW but Daddy Lessons, and maybe even like 2/3s of all of Lemonade, is about eldest child stuff

Bluesky person: WE ARE RAISING A GENERATION COMPLETELY INCAPABLE OF THOUGHT!!!!! Me, looking at my kids: Is that a fact?

Every day on here I read doomer posts about students and AI that I've never heard a single one of my teacher/professor friends echo in real life. Mostly they're like "pssssh the kids are alright."

They’re going to kill kids. Because they’d rather have a dead kid than an autistic kid THEY’RE GOING TO KILL KIDS

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

French tucking my nonprofit t-shirt into my unbelted jeans like a little slut

Real Chekhov's Zip-Cuffs hours out here

Their mother, Jackie, has never been charged with a crime, yet she remains in ICE detention. Jackie wrote a note in a coloring book for the kids to hold onto, not knowing if she would ever see her children in this country again. That’s the cruelty of this system.

For those who missed it, here's my obituary for Charlie Kirk, a man who made the world worse every day he drew breath. www.patreon.com/posts/on-vio...

"She asked if she could take it home with her. I smiled and kissed her upon the neck, leaving a lipstick stain and told her no. That privilege was for those above our station." I'll never not love the perfect faith @johnchrostek.com places in his readers, his little mysteries, precise as lingerie

PAUL ÉLUARD (1895-1952) Translated by William Carlos Williams

The wild god

Anyone have thoughts on what the role of the artist under fascism should be?

Avicii songs all sound dumb until you remember that the people who filled the clubs dancing to them were all twenty-two-year-olds fired hours ago from their jobs with two lifetimes of debt in their back pocket. Then they sound beautiful.

Can you imagine if a new, 70s-style serial killer were to emerge now?

Honestly cannot believe how successful SFUltra Sean has been at psyop-ing Americans into saying “fellas.”

The only good thing about summer is when I post watering pics for attention

I think middle-aged Britney Spears is so pretty.

There has never been a good tv show. But there is still a little time left

Today on the blog, I consider Gretchen Felker-Martin being removed from Red Hood over her Charlie Kirk joke and why DC doesn't get to call Superman a punk if they're going to collaborate with fascists. harmcox.ghost.io/death-or-glo...

I think I would know if Charlie Kirk died

Bluesky really working through the death of Charlie Kirk.

The Sniper remains a mythopoetic archetype in American culture. Many 6yos know what a sniper is.

Wow babe, this story is so legible. All the characters have names and the sentences are so short!

Milan Kundera arguably describing a Hatman dream he had (a younger Hatman? Hatman origins?).

My wife hates them. "No - don't put Santa hats on them, or bunny ears - take down your trash!" Probably it's the tackiness upsetting her but I hear, as well, a warning akin to the Otherworld episode where the spiritualist couple were like, "DON'T offer gifts to garden gnomes!! Things will escalate!

Those 10' yard skeletons that people increasingly just leave up all year around in their yards are clearly some sort of time-is-a-circle ritual to summon and cultivate Nephilim giants.

Literary fiction writers love to talk about art online just like everyone else but are weirdly compelled to start their own thirteen-post response-threads to the big topic with weird Puritan disclaimers of, "Ugh, are we really doing 'The Discourse' again? Not that I care - or know - anything, but-"

Why? Well, for starters, 300 ICE agents have been moved to Chicago, leaving only about 300 in LA County which is about what we had before Trump took office. Why are they leaving? Because LA made their jobs TOO FUCKING HARD. LA Organized. LA sat on corners outside Home Depots with radios. 5/

”Suspicious of oneself” is the ultimate green flag though

literary fiction today is about how yr student debt has turned into a giraffe. Oh no now yr parents are asking how you’ll feed the giraffe. The town comes. They turn yr giraffe into a failing Coldstone. When you try to serve butter pecan, the town says you killed the giraffe. You are still in debt

Literary ficiton today is about meeting up for beers with your childhood friend who is inexplicably named Tummer or Benjo right after your divorce. Benjo tells you a story about a waitress with a huge birthmark, then he takes you to a secret pier where sea lions are singing.

A format online writing has reduced to a braided piece social media post is “shaggy dog story w/ big subtext,” to the point where it has become the invasive kudzu of litblogs, a phenomenon @aubrirose.bsky.social‘s piece is sure to only exacerbate since her execution of it is so effortless & perfect.

Every week, I get literally tens of DMs, at least half of which take the form of: “Show us where you write your beautiful stories“ or “hey, reveal your writing set-up, handsome!” Fine. Here is where I write. under the trampoline that @theunread.bsky.social helped me put build. Just like Don Delillo.

Submit to The Dodge, they will will double-check your load-bearing commas. For real, though.

The future belongs to business majors who admire the joker

My latest newsletter's out, with my much-much-much-delayed review of @bleakhousing.bsky.social's INTO THE PEERLESS aaaaaaaand a new flash piece by yours truly (first printed by @cursedmorsels.bsky.social ) buttondown.com/crosshatches...

Every teacher worth a damn makes Pedagogy Of The Oppressed mandatory reading

standing with glinner? no. i'm SITTING for DINNER. with my wife, who has not left me,

Indie writers fear of literary criticism feels rooted to me in a soul-deep but misunderstood longing to be read by someone who cares about writing but years of forced, social media self-promotion has left them posting as if they are an enthusiastic talking head in a prestige doc about their own work

Historically, SO many great artists have been murdered by The State -- do you have what it takes to keep going?

US artists posting how you feel sheepish promoting art amidst the GOP finally doing their fascist military dictatorship: you've got it backwards. Consider Isak Babel (arrested and killed by Stalin) or Felix "Dance of the Skeletons" Nussbaum (murdered by Nazis) and promote! You're in good company.

Best way to get my stoic, resting-man-faced Uncle Bill going was to trick him into talking about his 60s Long Beach pool hall days, pouncing on a mention that he had "played some One Hole with Philadelphia's own Willie Mosconi." "Willie Mosconi?" I'd say. "So you've heard of him," Uncle Bill said.

My wife's cousins once took an hour on his birthday (December 26th) setting up a scenario where my father-in-law, a long-haul trucker for five years, could play this game. He wound up watching them play because he refused to really get his truck going saying he had too many safety checks left to do

You guys…………… ……..I think the climate is changing.

Today’s the day! FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, my first novel, is officially out! Pre-orders are signed and getting shipped, you can request this at your local shop or library, you can get it off @bookshop.org, you can buy copies at Evening House (sites down atm for maintenance, but soon!)

Doing the roleplay where I'm having the fake adverse vaccine reaction that causes my legs to shake and tremble and my wife is watching disdainfully, saying stuff like, "I thought that only happened to girls..."

"A divorce," Jared said, "You know: when our union of marriage will be dissolved by the legal system." "Yes," Jennifer said, "Of course. I learned about divorce within our solemn halls of learning, also known as University."

every time someone compares the administration to NK i think of this all-timer

Home ownership is the seat of all colonial violence no cap