Saw a poll recently showing Donald Trump’s lowest approval rating ever. JD Vance polled significantly better, largely because a lot of respondents said they didn’t know enough about him. Don’t let people forget Vance and is just as shitty.

I hear that three or more people in a room watching Jimmy Kimmel now counts as an antifa meeting. They will never catch us!

Nothing says worthy of the Nobel prize like asking for the Nobel prize.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Here is a pallet of bricks and the hindquarters of a dog. Pick up the new issue of Outlook Springs today. www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

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Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

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the skewer seems loosening out of the middle of the world

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Every few months Dark Owl Publishing does something bad and every few months I come here and remind people that shitty indie presses run by racists always do bad things.

let me throw some fuel on the fire that is the discourse about boys getting laid!!! current-day manopshere content is not good at getting boys laid and that's an effect of the incentives at play. you cannot build an audience of resentful little virgins if you succeed at helping them to have sex

Kill your darlings. Bring them back to life. Oh shit. Snarling zombie darlings. Darlings kill you. Circle complete. Enjoy the infinite void.

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Ours is indeed and age of extremity. We live under continual threat of two equally fearful destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. Susan Sontag (1966)

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

Doesn't this @outlooksprings.bsky.social cover look amazing? Big thanks to EIC @jeremyjohnparker.bsky.social for publishing my "Stupid Wolves" in this gorgeous coloring book slash litmag.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

Here is a pallet of bricks and the hindquarters of a dog. Pick up the new issue of Outlook Springs today. www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

Analog media for the win! Touching paper is almost as good as touching grass (touch cellulose, motherfuckers!) interpret symbols on flattened wood pulp! Seriously though, there is a very good fiction, essays, and poems in here!

Periodic reminder to get your hands/eyes/prosthetics on the latest issue of Outlook Springs! The strangeness is stranging in the strangest way for you! www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

This issue is Sailor Grampa approved and has great writing like this essay by the inestimable Rolli! www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

“…there is a little satisfaction in the contemplation of heaven for oneself if one cannot simultaneously contemplate the horrors of hell for others.” — PD James, The Children of Men

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

Oh my oh my! Get your hands on one! www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

Wayback Wednesday! All the way back from Issue 6! www.outlooksprings.com/stories/litt...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Can we stop using "destroy" to describe middling rebuttals? No one has been destroyed. Nothing was even mildly fractured. Nary a rime of dust has been shook.

David Barber's story "The Things We Lose" is haunting (literally?) as Mr. Peters sheds his possessions and self until only rumors remain. www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

I've been negligent in actually posting a pic of JUST the cover of my book. Mega-thanks to @jeremyjohnparker.bsky.social for such a great cover! Available for pre-order at @badhandbooks.bsky.social

Just ordered a copy!

ICYMI (Ice Cream You Might Ingest), new issue is out! Don't disappoint this little peanut who really wants you to read the words in the issue.

In addition to the best wordwork around, this issue also has colorable illustrations of landmarks in Outlook Springs as well as local history and characters! www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

Order this so you can read it (and color all over it.)

Gabriella Giambanco's essay, "Tale of Two Brains" dissects the gut as our “second brain,” that produces 95% of our serotonin, shaping our emotions, anxiety, and intuition. www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

Outlook Springs Issue 9: The Unauthorized Coloring Book has arrived! Fantastic fiction, heart-cartographic essays, poemy poems, and uncolored images await you inside! Support small presses and writers. Order yours today!

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You should order this, read it, read my story ("Stupid Wolves"), then say hey man that was a fine story and a worthy use of my time.

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The new issue is available! Order it! Read it! Color all over it! And it's 25% off through the 27th with code GOALS25.

Apparently I’ve been sleeping on Storygraph’s summaries. For the first time ever I did a New Year’s resolution. I said I would read more this year since last year I only read four books for fun. I am at like 53 books so far this year. And here they are, month by month! Five more months to go!

Here’s the final lineup for the Contemporary Literature course I’m teaching this fall. Theme: End of the World.

When you grew up in a family that had shitty old cars that might break down at any moment, & your first few cars would cack at the slightest provocation, I still have a moment of panic when something leaks onto the ground from beneath my vehicle only to realize it’s condensation from the AC unit.

OK writers, I want to politely ask you to nomenclate your chapters. I am trying to finalize my syllabus for the contemporary literature class I am teaching this fall, and it would be so much easier if everyone’s books had chapter titles or numbers.

We had our annual bat visitation yesterday. This fierce buddy obviously came by to brag about the advanced state of bat dentistry.

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

This is my friend's video from Santa Ana, CA in OC. The Santa Ana PD had this situation totally under control. It was peaceful. Then ICE came in to provoke & attack. ICE is a terrorist secret police Gestapo-style band of thugs, posers, mercenaries & miscreants Speak up Call Congress: 202-224-3121

Who the fuck is publishing this slop?