it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

There is a nearly endless litany of more important things going on in the world but God damn it can my sweet dumb dog not have a single sliver of good luck?? We are probably heading back to the vet tomorrow or Monday. My poor girl.

So many cool writers posting their lifting victories and I wanted in. Back at it baybeee, and for the first time in months! Much lighter weight than my last workout, but weightlifting is an ongoing exercise in caring for my body and its limits, so that's just fine. Strength is a long game.

Free link to the online version of Morpho. Gives artist tutorials and directions on drawing fat and skin folds for fat bodies. Now you don't have an excuse to not draw fat bodies. #fatisfine #fatart #plussizeart www.scribd.com/document/616...

RSS has been around for decades, but it’s still one of the most powerful tools around to take control of your media and social consumption. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

A rare Texas win! Hell yeah!

The Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Back home to this face.

RIP to a legend ▫️Survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki ▫️Pioneered drag culture in Japan and was one of the first openly gay celebrities there ▫️Had a relationship with Yukio Mishima and became his muse ▫️Delighted Hayao Miyazaki in the recording booth for Princess Mononoke #voiceacting

Perhaps unsurprisingly, wrapping up a challenging generative poetry workshop and a beach trip at the same time has resulted in some capital F Feelings.

I just wrote a very weird, surreal, funny and depressing poem about Myst so yeah I think the workshop was worth it lol

Today on Backlist Lit, a roundup of astounding queer work in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social @manyworlds.place @beestung.bsky.social and more! backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/p...

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Spread out in a queen sized bed propped up on half a dozen pillows, about to write some poems at the beach like some sort of Victorian consumptive. I am living the absolute dream.

Today over breakfast: baby's first ars poetica

This is going to sound so stupid but on the off chance it helps someone else, gonna be vulnerable for a second. Something this workshop is making abundantly clear is that I am only an Okay poet, in large part because I have spent the last decade devoted to learning *completely unrelated skills.*

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Hey it’s Make a Terrible Comic day! Be nice to yourself or else #makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026

Now to select the books I will bring all the way to the beach and have neither time nor energy to read, as is tradition.

You ever look up the technical or medical word for something while writing a poem, certain you're about to add some real zest to a piece, and end up disappointed? Here's mine: the bit of skin at the edges of your nail is the "lateral nail fold." Where's the musicality in that!! Sheesh!

It is vital you buy your small child (or the small child you know) that cheap, shitty watercolor set and that cheap, shitty colored pencil set and that cheap, shitty sketchbook Don't even wait for a reason, just bring it home one night That stuff is transformative in ways you've totally forgotten

Possibly one of the best things I have ever read.

This should terrify absolutely every American.

Someone remind me why I thought it would be a good idea to do this workshop, I am so bad at writing poems in response to prompts!!!!! Trying to view the experience less as an obligation to produce my best work and more as pure learning but everyone in my cohort is ridiculously talented lolsob 🥲

BUT STILL KICKEN ASSSSS - dashare.zone ADMIN

Had to physically restrain myself from going "I'm always saying this" out loud in the theatre today

Lotta good stuff in video games these days but God of War: Ragnarok is unmatched for Big Animal Friends. Big bird? Big dog? Big snake??? This game has it all!

Crunchyroll, Netflix, et al are enshittifying subtitles in an effort to make a worldwide standard, and the heroes Gkids are out here using yellow subs and left-justified cyan supertitles in the year 2026

YOU - I'm currently in-between names.

Oh boy the first prompts for the fancy writing workshop went to my spam folder so now I have to write a handful of poems in less than 48 hours!!!! Eeeeek! This on top of a very involved job application, planning for two out of town trips and parenting. Off to a great start!!!! 🥲

*slamming the gas in my ancient SUV after watching "Adolescence of Utena" on the big screen* Hell yeah! I'm going to the outside world !!!

My dog is improving, but still won't put weight on her bad leg. On our walk today an older woman passed us and said, "you know there's something wrong with his leg, right?" Took every ounce of self control not to say "I do! So does her orthopedic surgeon who we have seen a dozen times this year!"

I missed the submission window for the journal I was mega super excited about and now I am overwhelmed trying to decide where I should send my work. 🥲 Who's into chronic illness and sad moms or something new and messy about burning out?

It's also fine to just do stuff you suck at and keep sucking at it forever. I think one of the downsides of the internet is that it somehow convinced us we need to be good at everything we do. We don't. We need to enjoy what we do.

I want to hear about all the contemporary poetry you're reading. Reply or repost with a poem or a collection or a chapbook or whatever and tell me why you loved it!

“if politicians REALLY wanted to take care of kids…” they don’t. It is now and has always been a blatant lie, and I’m sick of playing along with the premise that they might.

Laid off girl summer continues with coffee cake, blueberries and Return of the King. The soundtrack still kicks so much ass.

We love a poem that starts light-hearted and ends by drop kicking you straight back into your baby gay high school self. @fklein907.bsky.social does it again!!!

Devoured @nightgleaming.bsky.social's "Living Fossils" tonight. Picked it up twice at the bookstore and finally could not resist its call. Love love love the language, the use of natural phenomena and geologic time as a lens for the human and deeply personal. Gorgeous. Loved every page.

“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it

@innuendostudios.bsky.social This is kind of dorky but I just watched "A Guide to Flaming Out" and I really needed it, and it helped me a lot, so thank you for making it and sharing it and putting what I assume to be a lot of love and care into that video.

THE ONLY DATA CENTERS WE NEED TO BUILD ARE LIBRARIES!!! SHIRT AVALABLE AT dashare.zone ALONG WITH TANK TOP'S, HOODYS ETC - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

Hi hello poetry bsky? I have some natural phenomena you have to hear about IMMEDIATELY

You ever write a poem processing something and then shock yourself with what you can get down on the page but can't fully admit to yourself?

TOM BOMBADIL, TECH SUPPORTE: Hey dol, merry dol! Floweres and starres and rayne! Turne off your machyne and wayte, then turne it on agayne!

The incredible (and incredibly challenging) job interviewed for recently would put me back in research/academia and while that space definitely has its issues I could not be more excited by that prospect!!!

I got into the fancypants writing workshop!!!! I hemmed and hawed for a full week about whether to go or not (it coincides with our beach trip! It is expensive!) but. BUT. I got in! I'm gonna do it! I'm really hoping it feels worthwhile. Now I just need to hear back from the fancy chapbook contest.

This (among a million other reasons) is the reason for libraries.

Trans people have always been and will always be.