still haunted by the time I was walking in the lower east side and some guy stepped out of a bar, looked me dead in the eye, and just said "thick librarian"

🗳️🚨Over 25,000 people voted today, the highest single-day advance turnout on record. Next chance to vote is this Saturday, Oct. 10th, 8am to 8pm. #EvictKenSim

turns out the record store guys don’t like it when YOU infodump on THEM

In a solemn, sacred-feeling moment under the rain and trees at the Big Thief concert as the distortion from Adrianne Lenker’s guitar settled I turned to my friend and said “what if they start playing Weezer?”

The produce-shaped vibrators are battling it out in my targeted ads

being a writer is ridiculous. what do you mean I have to finish my poem about Nicole Kidman in time to perform it at the Gala tomorrow?

In Canada every farmer’s market is required by law to have a boomer man play Neil Young‘s “Harvest Moon” on an acoustic steel string guitar before anyone is allowed to purchase vegetables.

leave me to my red wolverine Nooworks jumpsuit like the elder millennial queer femme I am

one of your responsibilities is to learn you're not responsible for everything

repressing grief represses joy... and that is why whiteness is so humourless

this playlist sounds like it was made by your high school stoner boyfriend who is now a dad

everyone always talks about the dog but no one talks about how we've been watching yoga with adrienne's yoga compound lushly expand over the years

don’t forget there are pick me queers, too

accuntibility

I really do just need the seaside cure

As a millennial it’s been amusing to watch which of my peers have updated their style to incorporate Gen Z tastes and how and which have been like NOPE and stuck it out

James Murphy is Taylor Swift for aging Gen X white hipster men

fuck "which one of you is the boy and which one of you is the girl?" try "which one of you is the academic and which one of you is the healthcare worker?"

I need to get a face tattoo so I remember to put sunscreen on my face

This essay is a double-winner thanks to @thenewquarterly.bsky.social and @canadamediaawards.bsky.social. Thank you for honouring an essay about domestic violence--how mundane and complicated it is and the hard, strange questions it engenders

National Media Awards Foundation@canadamediaawards.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Personal Journalism / @thenewquarterly.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/PCuPn #NMA26 #CanadianLiterature

Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Personal Journalism / @thenewquarterly.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/PCuPn #NMA26 #CanadianLiterature

Here’s your morning (and forever) mood, courtesy of Ainsley Drew.

🖊️ The 49th National Magazine Awards — Personal Journalism: Gold: "Perhaps a Wolf & a Lamb," @thenewquarterly.bsky.social Silver: "Paper Trail," @thewalrus.ca #NMA26

Maybe if Vancouver Coastal Health rebranded it the FIFA Overdose Prevention Site the mayor would support it.

Photobombing is an art

I don't even know what this means. I'm just stimming in my head

The dreamy counterpart to Queer Little Nightmares is coming and we want you to submit! @adelebarclay.bsky.social and I will be filling QUEER LITTLE DAYDREAMS with writing that purposefully plays with the strange and surreal. Full details: arsenalpulp.com/News/2026/Qu...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: @davidlywrites.bsky.social and I are looking for queer speculative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for the anthology Queer Little Daydreams @arsenalpulp.bsky.social. Deadline August 1. Start dreaming and writing, babes! ✨💭🔮 arsenalpulp.com/News/2026/Qu...

Queer Little Daydreams: Call for Submissions (Deadline: August 1, 2026)

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Nominee highlight for One-of-a-Kind Storytelling #NMA26 : How to build a mobile free store Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social See all the 2026 nominees: zurl.co/gb9A4