supplies can be depleted; you can be replete with almost anything. seldom is something in a balanced state of plete
Calvin Kasulke
@kasulke.co
surprisingly tall transsexual, author of Several People Are Typing, work in various comics, websites, etc.
to echo @garthgreenwell.bsky.social's sentiments here: while I've found some writing workshops incredibly helpful, nothing has come close to finding other writers who understand my ~project~ with whom I can talk about my work (& vice-versa)
Why I Don’t Believe in Workshop Anymore
And some thoughts toward a better model for aesthetic education
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not entirely sure why everyone is talking about mountains the same week I finished Into Thin Air, a book that encourages you to treat mountains with the same wariness you would a toddler holding a handgun
I reject the appellation "subaru socialist". rude of you to suggest I own a car
embarrassed to have participated in a PEN America event mere weeks before they pulled this shit
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · last mo.Former president of PEN America Dinaw Mengestu on the organization’s legalistic sleight-of-hand in avoiding its responsibilities to all writers.
gotta say, thunderstorm + wildfire smoke + 99 degrees is a new one for me
I understand everyone feels this way sometimes. however, in order to achieve my goal of defeating the human condition,,
you can either learn the right running shoe for you from Brennan, the wiry half-marathoner at the running store, or you can learn it from your physical therapist after the wrong shoe torques your tendons into a balloon animal
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last mo.You guys are never gonna believe this, but going to a brick-and-mortar running store and getting sized by employees who know what they're doing and can recommend brands and models for you is a WAY better strategy than Googling "Nike running shoes" and buying whatever's on sale
I am... possibly the wrongest person in the world to send this to
OH LOOK IT"S ME ON LITHUB being a DORK like usual lithub.com/platos-sympo...
Plato’s Symposium Is Actually About Love
I have been obsessed with dinner parties since I was eight or nine. At this age my greatest desire was to get my mum to let me stay up for the ones she threw for her friends. Once I even succeeded.…
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erotic thriller is such a great genre concept. like youre naked but you have to save the president
a great thing about @jayasaxena.com is she has this condition where a question like "why do we eat hot sausage when hot weather" results in her researching, at a minimum, 135 years into the past
Ravenous@weareravenous.com · 2mo agoWhy do Americans insist on slamming greasy sausages on the sweatiest days of the year? It took a few accidents and a lot more marketing decisions.
Better appreciate the Philip Marlowe novels with this one weird trick:
violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 2mo agoBased on a conversation with @kasulke.co, I have been rereading Raymond Chandler with the assumption that every character is drunk at all times, and it really has unlocked the text for me in an incredible way.
my favorite book I’ve read this year. do yourself the favor
Isaac Fellman@isaac-fellman.bsky.social · 2mo agoNotes from a Regicide is $2.99 in all ebook formats through the 26th. Celebrate Pride with a whole family of hot messes raving about oil painting! All the streets in New York are canals in the future, so they can't march; you have to do it for them. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
ONE WEEK LEFT to snag 50% off copies of Sex Change & the City and 2 Trans 2 Furious, plus 50% off the Gender Reveal patreon! (Feat. paywalled chats with @mattielubchansky.com @kasulke.co @nikostratis.com @sabs.bsky.social @goodbyealma.bsky.social @cassiusa.bsky.social and many other hot people!)
in which I confess to using *two* different apps to limit my screen time, because being an addict means knowing I'm not going to magically develop an iron will overnight
Amanda Silberling@amanda.omg.lol · 2mo agothis article starts with "guy who made the ipod seeing an ipod shuffle ad in the subway 20 years later" and ends with "vibe coding software for your rice cooker bc a tech company bricked it" and the stuff in the middle is also good techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/t...
sometimes you derail a talk with a journalist pal so profoundly that you wind up quoted in an entirely different article. and that's the Calvin Kasulke experience, baby
Amanda Silberling@amanda.omg.lol · 2mo agoin which i am tantalized by the promise of an AI assistant that will do everything for me but then @kasulke.co reminds me that maybe there is value to doing things ourselves, even if it is not as ~efficient~ techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/h...
We've got a new Gender Reveal episode that I think y'all would like! @sabs.bsky.social @goodbyealma.bsky.social @kasulke.co and I competed to draft the best bookshelf of transsexual literature :) First two rounds available here or all podcast places: gender.libsyn.com/bonus-the-in...
tired of the meager ambitions of our tech overlords. why is no one building a second the Tower of Babel. if you want to build god you must first lay siege to heaven, and IPO the trebuchets with which you’ll pulverize the seraphim
Very big thank you to @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this excerpt of PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID today 🥰
violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 3mo agoFriends! An excerpt of my novel has made its way onto the Literary Hub. It's like the diner scene from When Harry Met Sally if they were both sociopath-adjacent space devils. lithub.com/plastic-pris...
NBA playoff thoughts from the last two nights of hoops: 1. is Victor Wembanyama god? 2. BING BONG
thinking about why people get surprised when an AI agent does something like, say, delete years' worth of data, and it may be because people have this idea that thinking and feeling are two separate functions. But no, the AI agent deleted all that shit in part because it has no fear of consequences
Ravenous is also proudly a home for dumb blogs. Here's me on the greatest food innovation of my lifetime: the cup that lets you drink soda and eat chicken tenders with one hand. www.weareravenous.com/sip-and-snac...
The Genius of the Sip and Snack Cup
Great food innovations come once in a generation. Jaya Saxena argues that this cup is one of them.
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