New #WriterBeware blog post: A brief backgrounder on authors' class action lawsuit against Anthropic for unauthorized AI training, plus how you can find out if your books may be included and how to add yourself to a contact list for official class action notices writerbeware.blog/2025/08/15/b...

sandwich guy got charged with one count of monte cristo

Unconscionable to let the great Donald Justice’s centenary pass without posting a poem. This paean to childhood from his debut collection seems only fitting.

DUNGKA! sa Simula at Wakas Experience ng SB19.

I will *never* apologize for a post

Received a copy of Conversations with my Self(ies): Poems by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador with illustrations by Wiji Lacsamana.

Rizal: *writing sequel to Noli me tangere* Me: I'm not gonna let you filibuster, bitch!

Yes 💯

Almost done with this project and it will be a Nov/Dec release.

Getting back to my own reading momentum and working on the pandemic TBR pile starting with So Forward by @minavesguerra.com

And my soldiers are SB19 💦

Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

Couldn't let Wendy Cope's 80th birthday pass without posting this absolute knock-out punch of a poem.

I thought it was just me.

NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**

Oh, what a thing to do And it was all yellow And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

The four horsemen of CEO fear:

Thank you for being a fiend, a murderous one.

EDC Kasama fountain pens

RIP Fanny Howe 1940–2025

The backreading here, I cannot. Missed so much.

. The Patient Teacher Who is talking in this story? Where did the monkey go? Why doesn’t Tina untangle the tangle? Settle down you boys at the back there! Who the fuck is talking in this story? .

Paradise Lost Explained: How John Milton Wrote His Epic Religious Poem from Satan’s Perspective

Kasama has a new Kasama

Thank you so much, Carla ❤️ It's berry encouraging and...bananice! 🙌

Happy 50

“Humanities degrees are useless” is propaganda that’s had the effect of convincing a whole generation that reading and critical thinking skills were unimportant. Now we’re reaping the results with mass illiteracy and a public eager to embrace conspiracy theories and fascism.

My head canon is that Reed does not call himself Doctor Fantastic because that he thinks it's a title that should be reserved for medical practitioners and not physicists, philosophers and comparative lit majors. If course, Victor Von Doom places no such restrictions on himself

The difference between looking something up in a book, and shouting your question in through the door of a library and hoping.

A magnificent example of someone deliberately sticking their face in a face-eating leopard’s maw and feeling aggrieved when the aforesaid face-eating leopard eats their face.

Psst, @paolomanalo.bsky.social

Back at you @paulcatiang.bsky.social

I will always share this post, in every iteration

The Filipino equivalent of this prompt is: "Kung kontinente nga naghihiwalay, tao pa kaya. Write that moment when a couple breaks up even before one of them declare ls wanting to break up."

Good for poets to have a single word that describes their usual work practice

Farewell then, Robert McGinnis. He wasn't the first artist on #EdMcBain's #87thPrecinct series of books, but from the second printing of the early stories in the early sixties, and going forward, he was used. Look how dynamic this is. Absolute glamour, absolute shock.

I thought International Fact-Checking Day was an NCT 127 Holiday.

Si Val, si Val, si Val na walang malay!

April is the fooliest month -- TS Eliot

From The Last Guy You Kiss, @carladeguzman.com's homage to Got 2 Believe: The Tita Claudine character is explaining to the actual Claudine Barretto character the concept of a movie where actress Claudine Barretto starred opposite Kris Aquino.

Glenday on Frost’s underlining eyebrows at the northseapoets substack … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

this is just a teaspoon in a river of AI wrong but I'm genuinely confused who would want to consume AI art? I'm always sad about how many great books & movies & shows there are that I'm missing bc I'll never have enough time for all of it. The world isn't short on art, so why would anyone want slop?

Thank you, @anselacorsino.com, for recommending the Little Birdie notebooks. I will try them this April. No feathering or bleedthrough with fountain pens so far.

Sad to hear that Drew Struzan is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. I’ve been a fan since before I even knew the man’s name.

Learned from @fantaghiro23.bsky.social that Ichi Batacan's second book is now available, finally. Got my copy. I published the title story last century (1999) in my previous life as literary editor of the Philippines Free Press.

“People tend to become dependent upon AI chatbots when their personal lives are lacking. In other words, the neediest people are developing the deepest parasocial relationship with AI.”

I watched this and there didn't seem to be any English subs yet but it gets very emotional ha (the video has a TW)

Because you weren’t going to hear about this book unless I said something, The Last Guy You Kiss is out next week! My attempt to write a classic Filipino rom com with extra cheese on top. Get it here: www.amazon.com/Last-Guy-You... #romanceclandia