The Needling Online Real Fake Newsroom Workshop begins Wednesday night. Join us! tinyurl.com/bddb6dmt

WHAT. We still have a few tickets available for our October 14th 20th anniversary show!! Get 'em 🌈🦄💖

Every week, there's a lot going on behind the real fake news scenes inspiring The Needling's earnestly inauthentic reporting. There's also interesting reactions to our real fake news - some amazing and some that are ... whew! Listen and get the inside scoop here: tinyurl.com/3xs8zryd

Sound Transit has ordered 1 Line Shuttle buses to replace 1 Line service from U District Station to Stadium Station. Updates will be provided once 1 Line Shuttle buses are available.

Just a little over a week before my Gotto Lecture at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in NYC, at 2pm on Sunday, Sept 28. If you're in the NYC area, you can register at fapc.org/gotto - or you can also join online. Looking forward to this!

Listen to the latest episode of our Artist of the Week #podcast, featuring #JackStrawArtist @civitaveritas.bsky.social, at buff.ly/gwcJmER or subscribe via Apple Podcasts. #JackStrawArtists

Crab Creek Review is open for free submissions! Send us well-crafted prose that exhibits emotional depth, a clear voice, and nuanced reflection that goes beyond a retold memory. Hybrid, lyric, experimental, narrative, & non-traditional forms welcome. Closes 10/15! crabcreekreview.org/contest--sub...

NPR plans to make trims totaling more than $5 million over the course of the coming fiscal year to bring its annual budget into balance. Meanwhile, local stations are asking for more help.

Periodic reminder that we at @mcsweeneys.net ’s have no writing staff (save for the great @shadesofgreaves.bsky.social), and rely on unsolicited submissions for our humor & satire. We respond to each every submission within 7.39 days (but usually much sooner). www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/guidel...

Okay, a few folks have pointed me to the original now. Absolute gaslighting nonsense. Don't use LLMs for search. Don't have "conversations" with LLMs. Do engage with other people. Got an information need that isn't easily Google-able? Visit your local library!

What do you do when CDC no longer gives vaccine advice based on science? YOU BYPASS THEM! West Coast Health Alliance (CA, OR, WA, HI) recs based on facts buff.ly/I4oWZfX New Mexico COVID vax for all buff.ly/84mZXoN Massachusetts insurance must cover COVID vax buff.ly/zAfAZsd #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

Ashanty is my student, and this is her first-ever professional assignment! She’s a ridiculously smart thinker and writer — read her on AI in school instead of all the adults pontificating. 🤗

We'll be doing one last BOOST on Monday (if @suburbanprairie.bsky.social gets her ass back on a phone during the holiday weekend), but in case we forget: NOVEL/NOVELLA SUBMISSIONS CLOSE AT 11:59PM CT on Monday September 1! Yes that is "Labor Day." So LABOR THIS WEEKEND and SEND US YOUR BOOK!

Reading more of the PBS/KNKX excellent reporting on LLM use by municipal governments in WA and it's infuriating. www.knkx.org/government/2... A short thread:

Do you think your book may have been stolen by an AI company? Then you might be entitled to be part of a class action lawsuit!

Poetry from Baffler no. 79: “Loose Exegesis” by Alina Stefanescu.

I read and appreciate every email I get from people who read The Disordered Cosmos and liked it! Thank you! Also while I’m here I might as well remind you all that preorders really help authors and my new book is available for preorders! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Bruce Harrell Quietly Changes LinkedIn Profile to Open to Work: tinyurl.com/436jer4c

Can't afford therapy? Get Dubious Advice instead from a drunk Needling editor this Friday night at CSzSeattle in Fremont: tinyurl.com/2sdxsxz5

When you're riding your bike and cross the border into Bellevue, you should know exactly who to blame for the infrastructure vanishing and the hostility knob turning way up. www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/24/b...

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

One spot left!

Jack Straw's audio workshops with engineer Tom Stiles are the perfect opportunity to improve your studio skills or get that first introduction to the world of audio recording and editing. To sign up or for more information, email [email protected].

This is one of the hardest pieces--both literally and formally--I've written. Started in a class with @civitaveritas.bsky.social, aided through revision with @killerbreeze.bsky.social, now published at TIMBER: it's "Newport, 1991"--my lipogram. timberjournal.org/archive/newp...

"Chatbots regurgitate and rearrange fragments mined from all the text previously written. As plagiarists, they obscure and randomize their sources but do not transcend them. Writing is something else: a creative act,embodied thinking...” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

PARK COIN!

Sen. Maria Cantwell Wishes All the Best for Palestinians She’s Approved Funding to Kill: tinyurl.com/4fkckbnj

Hi! Moving off of Substack has required a little more #hustle and #grind (yuck!) to get my newsletter in front of new people, so if you'd like to receive some jokes and pep talks in your email every Monday, I'd love if you'd subscribe! And I'd double-love if you wanted to pay!

Open letter to the Portland Book Festival “We ask you to say ’no’ to sponsorship from banks that profit from and facilitate the destruction of Palestine.” Consider adding your name: lithub.com/an-open-lett...

We are looking for a new series co-editor for Best Literary Translations! Deadline to apply is Monday, August 4! www.deepvellum.org/news/call-fo...

Grateful to Gabriela Denise Frank and @therumpus.net for this chance to speak about my new poetry collection published by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. 🫶 therumpus.net/2025/07/17/u...

“Heresies are dreamy, to me. They nudge us to think, to imagine, to forsake the given scripts and safety associated with conforming to received beliefs and conventions.” @civitaveritas.bsky.social interviews @alinaetc.bsky.social about My Heresies (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/qCPYFBV

I’ve already made a few updates to this guide since publishing it, and will keep adding as I get more good suggestions!

Excited to share this interview with @alinaetc.bsky.social about "My Heresies" (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social), out now at @therumpus.net. Its radiant skirmish of families & selfhood, countries & allegiances & fraught love will bend you to its glitchy, kitschy will: therumpus.net/2025/07/17/u...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has released a new report "exposing how companies, special interests, and foreign governments may be pledging donations to President Trump's future Presidential Library as a corrupt tool to secure favorable outcomes from his administration." tinyurl.com/4x2wp8a7

Some personal news… @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit

I'm offering my free online course entitled HOW TO WRITE A BOOK OF POEMS. Here it is: Step 1. Write like 450+ really good poems. Step 2. See if like 40 of them hang together formally, conceptually, or imagistically. Step 3. They don't? OK, write like 150 more and check back in.

Got some burning questions about the AI copyright battles? Get them answered at WIRED’s next subscriber-only livestream scheduled for July 16 at 1pm ET, hosted by Reece Rogers with Kate Knibbs. Help us prepare by submitting your questions here. 👇

2/3 full. curious how much longer it'll last, but it's past my bed time. i'll get back to y'all in the morning!

Use code MARIS and you’ll get 15% off my book at Bookshop.org, which is very close to the price offered at Amazon. www.vulture.com/article/best...

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Quick reminder that if you want to put your name into the 2026 March Sadness 1990s Edition Lottery, do it in the next week. Here's the form to do so: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

👇🏼👇🏼 Technologies are not neutral ~ they carry the values of the people who invent them and the context within which they were made. We can’t separate who we are from the tech we make, what we do with it, and what that tech then makes possible.

Poetry Northwest is one of the journals that makes our Pacific Northwest literary ecosystem thrive. I'm delighted that my interview with visual poet Monica Ong about her new book, "Planetaria," found a home there. Gratitude to Alexa Luborsky for her thoughtful edits! www.poetrynw.org/interview-re...

House Minority Leader Jeffries has been speaking for nearly five hours, which buys us more time to put some last-minute pressure on Republicans. Call your GOP representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or plan a visit to your local congressional office: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

I’m on my way back to Washington, DC, to vote HELL NO on the Big Bad Betrayal Bill. Here are the 10 worst things in this bill that Republicans and Trump are trying to jam through.

It's that magic time, novelists + novella-ists! You've got 2mos to send our beloved + well-practiced novel/novella reading team your >100pg books: call it a novella, call it a novel, but we hope you call it READY TO SEND before Sept 1 because we want to read it! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

🚨 The submissions window for Channel's next issue closes tomorrow. Get your submissions in while you can! channelmag.org/submissions/

It’s now Sunday and Trump’s Big Ugly bill is still being read on the Senate floor. We need to use this time to get the word out: -16 million Americans losing health care -premiums skyrocketing -hospitals closing And that's just SOME of what it means for health care. Senators must VOTE NO.