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I’m going to start describing myself as a Pulitzer Prize-wanting author

06.03.2026 19:54 👍 45 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

THOSE NEW BARBIE MEMES ARE A.I

THOSE NEW BARBIE MEMES ARE A.I

THOSE NEW BARBIE MEMES ARE A.I

05.03.2026 09:58 👍 28 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0

My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"

04.03.2026 22:09 👍 1782 🔁 190 💬 54 📌 0
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Transgender People, “Gay Conversion,” and “Lesbian Extinction”: What the Data Show A couple days ago (on Christmas, actually), The Telegraph ran a piece with the provocative title: “Lesbians facing ‘extinction’ as…

since The Atlantic is apparently reviving the "a was a feminine gay child, but if I was a kid today they would have 'transed' me" trope, here's an essay I wrote back in 2020 explaining why this is not true & there is no evidence to support it: juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...

03.03.2026 16:52 👍 754 🔁 270 💬 11 📌 8

By any chance do any of you work at qr.io?

03.03.2026 20:46 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Poem by Fanny Howe 'I won't be able to write from the grave'

Poem by Fanny Howe 'I won't be able to write from the grave'

This is essentially one extended sentence. After the colon it opens into a list, an inventory of affection that feels spiritual in tone

It directly contradicts the Romantic idea of poetic immortality

I also love short northern nights, when darkness never fully settles

#poetry
#poemoftheday

03.03.2026 18:24 👍 83 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1
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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

03.03.2026 11:58 👍 3503 🔁 1530 💬 97 📌 282

“The sentence is a unit of sense, but the line is a unit of attention”

-Marianne Boruch, “Line and Room”

02.03.2026 05:36 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote:

"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same."

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

28.02.2026 18:42 👍 4703 🔁 1650 💬 14 📌 29

my sincerest condolences, x

28.02.2026 23:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you see this, post a monster

25.02.2026 04:32 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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House, Body, Bird | Psychopomp Raised in her family’s dollhouse museum, Birdie grew up surrounded by models of perfect daughters that she could never be, haunted by a father who refused to accept her and a mother who wouldn’t prote...

House, Body, Bird is out today! get your copy here: psychopomp.com/house-body-b...

i really liked what @bogiperson.bsky.social did for eir launch of Song of Spores: namely, please comment/repost with your own projects!

i'm so grateful to be among such a ferociously imaginative community. ty 💖👻

24.02.2026 21:03 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

We always hiring DevOps Engineers and application developers in the Princeton, NJ area

#blackjobssky

www.miaxglobal.com/company/abou...

24.02.2026 02:01 👍 16 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0

I'm high but How to Pop Out of Cake would be my highly acclaimed literary novella in second person POV that the Iowa writers workshops would emulate for decades. The literary world has no idea how lucky it is that I don't write fiction

20.02.2026 14:32 👍 32 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death

we are

80%

funded

(if you were curious)

80% of a skeleton cannot lift a thanksgiving turkey

80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear

80% off is a going out of business sale

please keep us in the business of publishing death things 4 u

join us! get fiction!

👇

23.02.2026 20:39 👍 67 🔁 64 💬 1 📌 3
An annotated image of the book cover for 'House, Body, Bird' by Bernie Jean Schiebeling. Gray arrows point to the words in the title on the cover, connecting them to corresponding literal text labels: 'house' points to the word 'HOUSE', 'body' points to 'BODY', and 'bird' points to 'BIRD'. At the bottom, a large black curly bracket encompasses the entire book, labeled with the word 'book'.

An annotated image of the book cover for 'House, Body, Bird' by Bernie Jean Schiebeling. Gray arrows point to the words in the title on the cover, connecting them to corresponding literal text labels: 'house' points to the word 'HOUSE', 'body' points to 'BODY', and 'bird' points to 'BIRD'. At the bottom, a large black curly bracket encompasses the entire book, labeled with the word 'book'.

tomorrow, released

from Psychopomp

by @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social

HOUSE

BODY

BIRD

book

preorder your ebook now and get it as soon as it is released tomorrow!

REALLY

psychopomp.com/product/hous...

23.02.2026 20:10 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Poem 'Epitaph on a tyrant' by WH Auden

Poem 'Epitaph on a tyrant' by WH Auden

W H Auden (1939) responding to the rise of fascism

The final couplet is brutal and brilliant

The juxtaposition of laughing & crying, his tears are not empathy but triggers of violence

Not naming the tyrants make this feel less like history, more like prophecy

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#AntiFascist

21.02.2026 10:04 👍 181 🔁 67 💬 7 📌 0
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Get more from OTHERSIDE on Patreon a magazine of the queer fantastic.

If you want to read the issue two weeks early on March 1st, become a patron at the $2 tier or up—which also gets you forever access to our Discord community! (We are only FOUR patrons away from the milestone of 100 Patreon subs + would love to get there by March!)

👀 www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

20.02.2026 16:18 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

In honor of the crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS, which desperately needs your spacebucks to get over the finish line, we have the ultimate question:

🚀 What neckline is the most space opera and why? 🚀

17.02.2026 15:51 👍 43 🔁 23 💬 17 📌 2

Omg you guys didn’t have to get me anything for a Valentine’s Day! but that’s so sweet, I love it 🥰

14.02.2026 12:37 👍 2106 🔁 278 💬 15 📌 0
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The High Priestess Writes a Love Letter to The Magician - Uncanny Magazine Your magick is this:            kindness and shadow, fireflies of hope                        burning like embers—            everything you touch signs a raven song, a fairytale,            a reminde...

Happy Valentine’s Day, darlings! Here is a love poem. I wrote a few years ago, which was published by @uncannymagazine.bsky.social :

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

14.02.2026 18:00 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

not to mention it's friday the thirteenth, sigh

13.02.2026 10:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.

10.02.2026 21:30 👍 36 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
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Night Beast Check out Night Beast - A masterful collection from an important new voice in American fiction, <i>Night Beast</i> is a gorgeously written work of profound originality and vision. These doomed love st...

hello hundreds of new followers! 👋 I’m glad you’re here. I thought I’d introduce myself: I’m a queer Bolivian American writer, birder, teacher, and photographer currently based in the Midwest. my ethos is be gay and FUCK ICE! check out my book Night Beast or the ~100 stories I’ve published since

10.02.2026 00:02 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
a square digital illustration featuring a navy blue pair of Oarfish with merged heads and their bodies entwined, with eyes all along them. It is framed by an orange ring, and an outer pink square border with rainbow hued eyes around it.

a square digital illustration featuring a navy blue pair of Oarfish with merged heads and their bodies entwined, with eyes all along them. It is framed by an orange ring, and an outer pink square border with rainbow hued eyes around it.

Here's the Oarfish print from the campaign! :D
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

#ArtShop #illustration #digitalArt

05.02.2026 23:06 👍 39 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

09.02.2026 05:14 👍 904 🔁 521 💬 25 📌 17

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

08.02.2026 22:45 👍 6283 🔁 1435 💬 55 📌 61

What made it such a great show is that it was entertaining and layered and explicitly political with excellent music, delightful surprise guests, stunning sets, a clear narrative, a shout out to ALL of the Americas and a cameo from Belcalis.

09.02.2026 01:45 👍 1267 🔁 95 💬 5 📌 1

⚔️ We here at NESS have had good fortune that we'd like to pay forward by helping our sword-siblings @swordsagainst.bsky.social get their new S&S magazine off the ground via a collab-crowdfund! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Learn more by checking out their sign-up page here👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

06.02.2026 17:04 👍 49 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 1
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Submission Calls OPEN Zine call (January 28th through February 14th) Zine PromptsFor this zine bundle, I’m looking for written pieces about these five prompts: -Cunty Horrors (cunty horror microfiction and mi…

Submissions for our zine call have been a little slow, so I've extended the call to February 14th. Check out our themes and guidelines here:
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

06.02.2026 18:50 👍 80 🔁 56 💬 8 📌 6