The Wendy's album learned to run because @tacobellquarterly.org walked.

William Alexis in ISSUE 30!

the finest small language model we have is the poem

Feeling defeated today.

Y’ever notice how nobody talks about a “trans loneliness epidemic”, an “autistic loneliness epidemic”, an “I can’t afford essentials so I can’t go into paid spaces to meet people loneliness epidemic”? Funny how bad feelings only matter when they happen to cis men lol

The new Phoebe Bridgers album is really really good. That is all.

The light is on for Anne Howkins! @anneh23.bsky.social 💡 “A Ty Without a Tag Isn’t Worth Squat” is the kind of flash fiction you show to people when trying to convert them to the genre. It’s urgent and perfectly composed. Read Anne’s impeccable story over at the site!

A Ty Without a Tag Isn't Worth Squat - Anne Howkins — Bulb Culture Collective

as if toys are born after nine months of hope

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I once said to a friend "you know that feeling when you are incredibly depressed and horny?" And they looked at me like I was certifiably nuts.

Happy international cat day! This is Flint curled up on me as I watch Lost. He's my best furry bud!

I feel like, even in my personal brand of "depression lit," (that whole bit should be read as a deprecating half-joke) that you have to see *some* beauty in the world around you in order to write. That has felt increasingly difficult to find lately.

Driving your kid to their first job certainly does its own small part to break you. I feel so ancient that I'm checking my stone body for cracks.

Making friends as an adult is just impossible. I want to go back to the days of showing someone the action figures in my school bag and if they think they're cool action figures, then hey we are friends now.

Lovely, powerful poem by @maureenlangloss.bsky.social at Sixth Finch: sixthfinch.com/langloss1.html

My son creates god’s spirit animal out of Play-Doh - Eleanor Holmes @eleanorholmes.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2026/07/10/m...

My son creates god’s spirit animal out of Play-Doh – Eleanor Holmes

My son creates god’s spirit animal out of Play-Doh . . Eleanor Holmes is a neurodivergent mother-doctor-writer of poetry & prose. She lives in Spain & works as an NHS GP in the UK. Widely p…

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This touches me somewhere primal every time I read it.

Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social · 2y ago

As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more. This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

it’s hopeful to me that the world is burning but people are trying hard to love each other well

Over the moon to have this flash in Waxwing alongside so many writers I admire. Thank you @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and other editors. waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...

Sad today for disappearances, for distance, disappointment in general.

Thrilled to have this micro up at @crowkeys.bsky.social! Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social and @welkinpress.bsky.social for inspiring me to write this earlier in the year!

Crow & Cross Keys || SUBS OPEN@crowkeys.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We have been receiving curses from the sky. We displeased it and therefore must be punished. You should probably ignore us and read today's flash fiction instead, lest you catch the curse too. "The Sky" by Rachel M. Hollis crowcrosskeys.com/2026/05/30/t...

Why i no longer write much, reason 1,012: I have now spent over half an hour trying to get my desktop to respond to anything other than the "refresh" button. All just to log several rejections *before* i can get to the actual creative bit.

Happy to have this little micro included in the micro issue of @identitytheory.bsky.social! Thank you @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social! www.identitytheory.com/bone-memory/

Bone Memory by Sabrina Hicks - Identity Theory

What have I been doing with my hands for them to be hurting?

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Reposted in the interest of information and grief. I'll have to find a few dozen more baby elephant videos to counterbalance.

Steve Brusatte@stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

the “practice having no fear” mural of alex pretti on nicollet ave in minneapolis is finished, just a few blocks north of where he was killed by border patrol during operation metro surge. the inclusion of a medicine wheel makes me wonder if a native artist did this, couldn’t find a signature

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 6mo ago

new mural going up on nicollet ave in whittier, minneapolis depicting alex pretti filming federal agents with his phone during operation metro surge before he was shot and killed, just 4 blocks south of here

I have a new microfiction about grief & beauty & destruction in Bending Genres. read my story “Dishes” + all of Issue 51 🍽️ 🎨 grateful to @rgvaughan.bsky.social & the @bendinggenres.bsky.social editors ♡ bendinggenres.com/dishes/

"...and now I’m remembering that time you cried in the middle of the Giant Supermarket because there was, in fact, no giant there, and I pushed you past my then-therapist, who was interested in meeting you..." amazing long sentence from Chloe Yelena Miller!! https://www.havehashad.com/5a2v4

The incredible sadness of food shopping by Chloe Yelena Miller

when I see a cart that toddler-you would have begged for – the kind with a little red car which you would have spotted immediately and shouted, “that one,” before running and jumping in and giving…

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Maybe its old man yelling at clouds time, but why has it gotten so impossible to buy tickets to concerts and events? You sign up for notifications, early sales, whatever... get stuck in a virtual queue for hours, only to have everything sold out by the time you are out of said queue.

At @barrelhouse.bsky.social we are having a huge sale-- for a limited time, almost everything in our shop is $5 (excludes our 2 latest books & new print issue). That means only $60 could get you our entire back catalog. For $180, you could get triples. Triples is best. www.barrelhousemag.com/shop

Shop — Barrelhouse

Books, magazines, workshops, and our famous shirts.

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it does seem a little suspicious that when there's not an election, there's 0 votes, and yet when there is an election, a bunch suddenly come out of nowhere. someone should look into this.