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I'm begging my American friends to resist your urge to "get the last word" and chase rage bait for clout and just STOP reposting alt-right bullshit

Y'all like to make jokes, but studies have shown that people with unmedicated adult ADHD are 10% more likely to "fumble a baddie"

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

I’m not “mining my life for content” you assfuck I’m transubstantiating my internal experience of the world into artistic expression, the only pursuit that makes existing on this stupid rock worth doing. you fucking dipshit

Wish there was a gender neutral phrase as powerful as addressing the people gathered in a room with "gentlemen,"

Other writers who follow me (I say as though there's more than, like, one): How do y'all get over submissions fatigue? I can be okay at sending things out semi-regularly for about a month or two tops before I get burnt out on it.

Man....root vegetables in curry sauce with half a baguette...

Recently told a guy I was from Virginia and he said unprompted "Virginia is the darkest and most twisted place I've ever been" and like what did he mean by that

Everyone is (rightly) clowning on the Book of Life guy for getting in bed with the AI crowd, but there's a danger that the dopamine hit of outrage overwhelms good news. Like, I've seen dozens of posts about Gutierrez and only one or two about this. We need to be as loud about the good as the bad.

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Wormonism, where instead of going to America, Jesus becomes a worm for a few years

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

While I understand that being tall af has a lot of advantages in a lot of ways, sometimes it's such a pain in the ass to get my nutrition. I was underweight for MANY years, and while being tall wasn't the only reason for that, having a lot more body to feed made reaching a healthy weight a pain

letterboxd for hamburgers

You know, I've been off and on about black metal and a fan of doom metal for a minute now, but aside from where it overlaps with those, I've listened to basically no death metal. Where to start?

Lowkey getting kind of into this curling thing

Writer friends who follow me, where are y'all submitting to?

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Adhd vs multi-step problem solving deathmatch

Had a dream where half the population couldn't read, so people started printing pirated board books of phonetics for them. Meanwhile the libs still on Twitter were like "uhm. I get that illiteracy is bad but dont u know stealing is wrong?" Anyway, that's where I'm at rn

Glad to see the news that more artists are cancelling on Richard Grenell dadadrummer.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

We need to permanently retire "get that bag" and bring back the shame of selling out!! Sorry!!

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

. From 'The Most Sacred Mountain' (1916) —Eunice Tietjens #ForgottenPoets #poetry #poem

I know I haven't posted much of anything on here yet, but if you haven't seen, please check out my latest poetry publication in The Potomac Review.

If you care about women’s equality and dignity, one of the best things you can do is advocate for more childcare. If there isn’t affordable, high-quality childcare available, women wind up dropping out of public life when they have kids. With it, they can keep their careers and independence.