I've been offline the first five days of 2026, did I miss anything?

Submitting to today's @havehashad.com call made me realize how desperately I need to organize my desktop. The panic I had looking for a document labeled "three poems???"

Hard cut to me, at work, writing an intro that's an homage to the 1988 classic "They Live" for our mostly Gen Z audience. "Are my references outdated?" "No, it's the children who are wrong."

I’m an atheist, but I’m willing to spend an eternity in hell if I’m wrong so long as every ICE agent is there, too

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Perhaps we treated you too harshly

I think my hottest take is that I don’t care for Hozier

This is very niche to my specific prog rock space opera-oriented interests, but not every Key Entity has to be that dramatic, right? Like surely one is just, like, Key Entity 16 Jeff the Nostalgic and it's just a guy complaining to Sirius that everything was better in the 90s. Someone get Claudio.

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“Horror specifically is good at taking the temperature of where society is at.”

Whatever doesn't kill me really wasn't trying hard enough I am very fragile

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I shouldn't be at work, I should be (plotting an elaborate jewel heist at the Louvre with a ragtag band of misfit Parisians)

Someone brought my father and my mother together on the same couch (Bruce and Flo)

Sometimes I think back to (literally) almost dying in the journalism trenches during the pandemic to what I’m doing now and it’s just 🤯 btw Lily is AMAZING to work with. They are just a gem of a human!

Yeah, credit scores are so real, bro. That's why they decrease when you pay off loans, bro. Don't think about it. Just consume, bro.

Poetry isn't a separate category. All writing is poetry.

Shoutout to the folks over at @butternoparsnips.bsky.social for having me on to talk about #monsters this #spookyseason

I love when a lit mag is like "send us your fucking worst" and then I DO and they're like "this isn't right for us, but the literary world is subjective"

Have you read my weird little chant to the old gods over at @mcsweeneys.net yet?

My wife once asked me what drugs writers take, this is my answer @havehashad.com

Does the existence of Taylor Swift imply the existence of Taylor Slow?

“A system that steadily increases the gulf between the ordinary man and the super-rich, that permits the resources of society to be gathered into personal fortunes is, perhaps, as inimical as anything could be to the American dream.” - James Truslow Adams, coiner of the phrase "American Dream"

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I love Big Thief, but you can't fool me, I know a liberal arts college's English faculty cover band when I see one

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

We cannot allow Charlie Kirk’s horrific shooting to be twisted into a reason for self-censorship. Fascist movements seize on moments like this not to prevent violence, but to weaponize it — to twist it into political advantage, expand repression, punish dissent, and tighten control.

1. You take Mary out for a nice drive. Disaster ensues. 2. Bit by bit, this town is killing you. 3. Two remorseless killers careen across a desert state, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

If you find yourself identifying with someone who feels that antifascism is aligned against them, then brother you’re a fascist.

Don’t think of it as “terrifying” think of it as “terrifyingly motivating”

I've tried my whole life to be a pessimist. But then I hear birdsong, or smell the rain, or see my friend's smile, and, like an idiot, I believe in the world.

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.

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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Honestly so glad I didn’t discover Townes Van Zandt until my early twenties. Teenage me would have made that my WHOLE personality.

Just cracked a third can of Dr. Pepper to add to my table of open cans of Dr. Pepper. I may have a problem. To be clear, the problem is short term memory loss. Not three cans of Dr. Pepper. That’s a delight.

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Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Uncountable nouns are the worst. I know "How does plate tectonics work?" is grammatically correct. But damn I hate it.

I keep seeing kids in their late teens and early 20s romanticize the year 2016. “It’s 2016 and you’re listening to this song…” Guys, nobody liked 2016. Until 2020, it was considered one of the worst years anyone had ever seen. Everyone cool died. It was fucking miserable. Stop it.

Has anyone tried unsupremeing the court??

Springsteen announcing the electric Nebraska feels like the only good news that's come out all year

fantastic delivery on "you too bitch"

Convinced that the good die young and the evil grow old because empathy puts a great deal of stress on the body. That and, you know, capitalism.

Termination and relocation might seem like totally unrelated policies—but they were part of the same disappearing act. In our new video, learn how terminating federal recognition for over 100 Native nations while encouraging Native people to move to cities served the same goals. youtu.be/GYw7BrIhWtg

this is a poem about AI, if you like the sentiment, check out my newest collection "Quantum Entanglement" available now from @mouthfeelpress.bsky.social #poetry #writingcommunity www.barnesandnoble.com/w/quantum-en...

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat