"BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS" The award-winning game/glitchy art program @smestorp.bsky.social and I made in 2013 has now been rereleased on Itch for modern OSes. Try it out!, and make sure to tell any friends you want to play a weird prank on mermaidindustries.itch.io/become-a-gre...

the flies in my house know what i am and they don’t want to die

not coping great with the whole we don’t have title ix anymore thing

knockdown center

Ten minutes with the whitfe and kkkids got npr issuing retractions

photography is so stupid you’re telling me i have to buy lighter fluid

I understand SCOTUS, know who they are, & by all rational accounts it feels so naive to say: "I can't believe 4 of 9 justices said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship." And yet, I can't believe 4 of 9 justices just said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship.

I’m playing around in the shallow end of the abyss

these are the days my friends

people complaining about gay guys at t4tluvnrg fail to understand they're a keystone species. although it may feel like dolls are gazelles getting crowded out by wildebeest at the watering hole, they help ward off our natural predators (chasers, feeld/house of yes het couples, nyu undergrads)

a lot of genres of music and culture that valued authenticity above everything else are just signifiers that rich people throw around now. they're things to dress themselves in, objects to wield to beat the people down coming up below them.

Trying to repro livable conditions for moose in captivity is like the Borges map makers’ paradox. To get them to stop dying—as if on principle—in captivity @ *half* their est avg wild lifespan, you’d have to recreate the vast multi-biome ranges they browse almost 1:1. Can you cage the alpine forest?

Moose—incredible animal. Bulls reach 7 ft tall @ shoulder. Powerful prehensile lips. Pleistocene megafauna seen looming in city outskirts. Only hippos injure more humans per year. Attack not just when threatened but *when annoyed.* They find us offensive! Each one a walking landscape.

'Tabac Opposite Palais de Justice' ( c.1956) one of the many pen and ink sketches by US poet Sylvia Plath #WomensArt

ok i forgot everyone just gets naked at this one

it‘s so weird how because of the ubiquity of photography itself via smartphones and social media, the standalone cameras that are fashionable are the ones where you look hot using them

brooklyn transplant vibe check: how comfortable do you feel setting up a chair on the sidewalk

as a writer i need to spend less time thinking about form and more time reading about plants and buildings

pride weekend for some is about embracing being white trash

i’ve got a noxious bodega preroll, my second sugar-free red bull of the day, a dress where my dick is clearly outlined if i stand up straight, and a point-and-shoot film camera. i’m ready to dance in the direct sun on sloped gravel for four hours

wow

for my bday I'm going to be self-indulgent and link to some pieces I published this year. I reviewed two short story collections from trans authors for The Metropolitan Review, arguing for a critical lens that splits from the discourse of representation substack.com/@metropolita...

this sage sohier photograph

‘Surely any book is lovable that has Tolstoy 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦 to Chekhov?’ Adam Thirlwell on Maxim Gorky’s reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Leonid Andreyev. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

just out of curiosity, does anyone know if there are there legal restrictions on the formatting of a book’s copyright page? could you get away with doing a really typographically weird one?

wait the dolls didn’t win tvd lol ??

I own thy speechless, placeless power

back on formalism for a while i fear

call me LBJ the way i need new pants

im always at the function looking nauseous

Nintendo - Doctor Mario commercial (USA, 1992) : 22s

back to our regularly scheduled programming

zohran mamdani please make alcohol illegal

I'm at ALA! Booth #4854 for @littlepuss.net come find me slinging Pussbooks and say hello and I will give you a cool postcard with a lady drinking a beer.

“you gotta know your girlfriend’s measurements“ “i’ll just grab the waist of the clothes and i’ll know”

plastic, prism, void by violet allen

I am no longer a Brechtian. Once, I was a true believer that through the art of alienation I might uplift my fellow man, but the scales have fallen from my eyes, and I have put away childish things. Now I am hostile to the audience simply for the love of the game.

working at a film lab is a type of temple priestess

pure blueskyism when people refuse to engage this premise outright. the debate over queer/trans visibility has been fought for as long as we've formed self-conscious political communities. the culture of the 2010s has obviously proved weak against undisguised phobia

pride week shit is happening to me

Conveniently right before they're supposed to give writers whose books they stole what is proportionally a rumpled five dollar bill the writer has to split with their publisher

When we say “Pay-what-you-want,” we mean it. We’d much rather you pay $0 and read these lovely stories and poems than skip them altogether, BUT every dollar you give us goes right to paying trans artists to write, draw, shoot photography, etc. picnicmagazine.itch.io/picnic-mag-s...

In other news, Picnic Spring 2026 is now available for digital download on our itch dot io shop! pay-what-you-want for a pdf of our magazine :) picnicmagazine.itch.io/picnic-mag-s...

good morning new york city

How Anthropic’s new tool, Claude Design, is creating overnight web-design clichés. www.newyorker.com/the-ai-desig...

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