how it starts, how it goes

cognitive reframing: I am putting ice cream in my coffee -> I am out of milk because I am disorganized -> negative affect I am putting ice cream in my coffee -> I am making affogato, a sophisticated italian dessert -> positive affect

EXCUSE ME?!

unintentionally Ides-y

maybe the humanities are needed bc without them the rich say things like "people are like horses"

Time to spread the love and also celebrate our 100th issue!!! You can read our gorgeous new issue here: share.google/07x2Bq8UcB5s... Thank you for your continued support for our little mag. We love you all ❤️

cheers to collaboration!!

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

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Fact-Checking Trump On Greenland https://theonion.com/fact-checking-trump-on-greenland/

This book is now a British Science Fiction Association awards longlister! Get it while it's hot! (it's always hot)

Don DeLillo (The Names)

you can tell technology is good when the tech bros start saying things like "but GUYYYYYYYYYyyyyyyYYYYSSSSsssss"

western audiences will never know the struggle of early anime adaptions we had before it became a thing. (it did get better when Manga Video started in the early 90s, but for the most point for the unitiated it was like this a lot of the time) the lost Captain Harlock "english dub"

poet with unproductive habits but fairly whimsical and funny AMA

All words containing 'z' in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in order of occurrence. All mentions of 'Ebenezer' picked out in black.

yes, which tarot card? For me it was Strength, by Guy Cramer. www.tinywrenlit.com/10/strength

maybe the moon is cheese because it improves every poem it's added to

yinz guys are scaring me a little. i was thinkin this'd be a wildly popular concept. we need A LOT more subs to make an issue! pls tell yr friends!

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

these two new smallies today from Guy Cramer are gonna be at least a couple of y'all's new faves! "do you ever get a tiny cut? & then you put some triple antibiotic ointment on it & cover it with a band aid & the next day there’s another tiny cut?" https://www.havehashad.com/v9ugu

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new Mizuki Yamamoto today with that nice tidal pull! https://www.havehashad.com/i2wjr

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hzq... Italian songs and videos kind of explode in my head, at random intervals. Just watch that dress as a prompt.

Oh this short story is (these short stories are) so intense. You pick: ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...

Lol read my poem I guess www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-mic...

I have a new poem in @havehashad.com that answers the burning question of "what is the opposite of an 'eating poems' poem" "it's all coming up now, milkweed and mango..." www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hei...

I read this, I think I am in love with this. Poetry ça va sans dire, but the artwork? Look at that Crazy Town! Look at it! Such a lovely place (to read and perhaps submit to)

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This is the energy I want in November.

My partner read 'sour cream' as *sour crime*, and I think he's onto something.

If you could use your faith in humanity restored, if you could use taking some sheer delight in the human spirit, this is for you: www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/25/d...

The university is not a skills machine and neither should politicians think of themselves of oiling the gears of economic performance. Politics is not just about adapting populations to fit labour market demands.

Sexy emperor tarot meaning

Week 42 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, multiples.

Holy shit! 💩

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart." A lifeline of a read: mailchi.mp/themarginali...

I some times find poems in reviews of mundane things. Or I force them: thanks SPAM. Please enjoy: www.spamzine.co.uk/post/poetry-...

such a fun spiraling out of the polite memo from Ross McCleary! "Fire is raw and cleansing like alcohol. Embrace it like an undeserved promotion." https://www.havehashad.com/voc9j

I am so OBSESSED by these

Hey babes. (I just woke up from a dream where Tilda Swinton told me not to call her babe, so hoping you're not Tilsa Swinton) here is the new issue of @streetcakemag.bsky.social! I've got a piece on memory in, but also, there's so much good. Have a slice! Eat the whole thing!

for #NationalPoetryDay one of my all-time favourites.

Week 39 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a big week for hummus chips.

many of my fave poems and short shorts are these tiny little slices of life, worded and captured so perfectly as to become something so much bigger and more today from Justin Karcher: https://www.havehashad.com/x2r9v

in honor of it getting colder here’s a poem by Nikki Giovanni “about” the cold coming in which is ALSO a fantastic study in enjambment and how to end a poem!!! (this is from her collected works)

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