still can't get over how everyone in public office just decided that letting spammers make all cellphones unusable is just how life has to be

Please know that I am haunted by some stories we have declined. Please know that sometimes one sentence in your story that is not quite right for us lands in my jaw and will live there forever. Please know I realize you are sending us your heart.

JMWW Journal@jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 4d ago

September Submissions Open JMWW is open for submissions September 1st-15th. We are reading all genres (except for Blended & Beyond) this month.

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

Hi, this is your seasonal reminder to back up your computer, your cell phone, your voice recorder, your memory cards, anything you think is important. Make multiple copies, because hard drives fail and are very expensive right now. Sometimes you drop you phone into a lake. Do it sooner than later.

1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

Yeah, you! #FlashMonster submission season is in full swing. Deadline hits October 18th, but we read in order received, so get at it and send in yours early. #flashfiction #writingcontest Read guidelines and submit here: themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...

X-R-A-Y subs will be open tuesday 9/1, at 7pm central thanks xray.submittable.com/submit

Just a reminder that I'm currently reading fiction submissions for @cherrytreelit.bsky.social! I'd love to see some lyrical queer/trans myths or beautifully pissed fables!

holy shit. i didn't know tech companies could design useful features

Bluesky@bsky.app · last wk.

Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.

Dolly Parton's 9to5 film was based on a grassroots organizing labor movement led by women www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'A lost history': the US women who fought for better working conditions

PBS documentary on 9to5 shows how women’s organizing efforts in 1970s to better working conditions echos many of today’s social justice movements

theguardian.com

The thought that much of being a “success” in the publishing industry comes down to luck is simultaneously a relief and anxiety inducing as shit

We're obviously so starved for public figures who aren't pieces of shit

RIP Dolly Parton. She used her fame to do good for humanity. In 2020, she donated $1M to Vanderbilt University to fund the early stages of the Covid vaccine development in collaboration with Moderna. The best Christmas gift to us in 2020. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/w...

Dolly Parton donated $1 million to help develop a coronavirus vaccine. (Gift Article)

nytimes.com

Dolly understood that kindness and compassion are the most real forms of greatness and strength human beings developed. The rest of them believe that power and wealth are greatness, unto themselves. If you look at all the things she did, its hard to miss she was genuinely brilliant. They aint.

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · last wk.

Dolly Parton did what literally no techbro billionaire would even think of doing: filling her life with good deeds that make people mourn her when she dies. Not one of these assholes would even think of this, they are all right now completely and honestly baffled by the outpouring of love for her.

Reminder that every government official works for us, the people. NDAs should be illegal. That's our tax $$

Bill Leibenguth@bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 2w ago

If Data Centers are so great, why are most of them constructed in secret and involve NDA agreements with government officials. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Spirit of the Pacific 🐳🌊✨ One of my pieces in my upcoming solo show, PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY, at GR2 Gallery! Pieces will be available online Saturday August 29th at 12pm; Opening reception will be from 6-9pm same day (I'll be there!) www.giantrobot.com/blogs/gr-new... #art #pottery

ICYMI: I've got a micro about community and perception in Boudin's vignette issue. thereview.mcneese.edu/and-she-stil...

These posters just went up all over every courthouse in New York State, and, man, what an excellent policy.

What’s your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.

John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 2w ago

What's your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.

friend at a big tech co just told me that her company's chatbot and their client's chatbot have been caught in a mutual support loop for several days that has generated nearly 20k emails

If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree.

for the sake of my ankles I’ll tell you to buy my story collection about lesbians and nightmares and getting emotionally wrecked by desires you cannot fathom. it WILL destroy you but at least my ankles will be intact bookshop.org/p/books/nigh...

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2w ago

post more about your books or I'll kick you in the ankles

Night's Rest and Evening's Wonder (1898) by Alphonse Mucha

As MANY people in the comments point out, this article does not mention Long COVID, which affects ~16 million U.S. adults. At a more basic level, the story never states that COVID is airborne and that masking is the best way to prevent getting COVID. What are science journalists even doing here.

NPR@npr.org · 3w ago

Just like all previous summers since the pandemic began, COVID-19 cases are ticking up again, even while other health threats make more headlines. n.pr/45oln5k

Embroidered book covers, fashionable in the 16th and 17th century, the art of embroidering unique covers for books saw a comeback in late 19th-century England, via the Arts and Crafts movement #womensart

Once upon a time I was apathetic to gambling but the rise of online sports betting & prediction markets have changed that. These companies have analytics that show them who is an addict, and they target them with deals. Over 80% of these companies’ revenue comes from 3-5% of gamblers.

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes. Not so swyvinge evil.

Please don't let the people of Puerto Rico get lost in the noise. Keep talking about this. www.reuters.com/pictures/pue...

Puerto Rico is rationing water amid historic drought

Puerto Rico is rationing water across the island in response to intense drought, a plan that forces tens of thousands of people to go without water for 48 hours at a time.

reuters.com

⚡️ COMING SOON! ⚡️ The Rumpus is pleased to announce a new category for submissions, Flash Fridays. We will be accepting fiction and nonfiction, up to 1,000 words, to be included in our weekly newsletter on Fridays. Payment for this work is $200. Keep an eye our for when subs open: buff.ly/l4g69vI

Welcome to the United States! Every other week a new food gets secretly replaced by poison, and all of the medicine is behind a paywall! It has to be this way!