I asked a former coworker I haven’t seen in a decade if she wanted to go lie in the grass and cry with me and she said yes enthusiastically so I think I will start asking other people this rather than drinks/coffee
Cat Ingrid Leeches
@leeches.bsky.social
Writer, weird stuff enthusiast. Nonbinary (they/them). I love zines and bad-bad art. If it is not bad enough, I will not love it.
"The Earl of Cattenborough will be Pleased to Partake of a Potato." Europa's Fairy Book. Joseph Jacobs, New York, 1916.
You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:
The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe
A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening
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“Plunge. Me. Daddy. I’ve never. Met an iceberg. I didn’t want / to swallow / whole, never / met a half- / woman I didn’t / want to cultivate / a garden with. You know the metaphor, right?” —Zoë Fay-Stindt beestungmag.com/issue15/thre...
Three Poems by Zoë Fay-Stindt – beestung
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"Eventually, I hope she gives up on wanting to rip herself, on seeing the shredder as a secret kind of weapon." 3 stories by Kara Crawford (@kara-c.bsky.social): "Corporate Life," "Co-Work," & "Slumber Party!" / New today at AC
KARA CRAWFORD / 3 STORIES — always crashing
Corporate Life In the downtown office building, the marketing intern is tasked with shredding sensitive documents. This is not marketing, but she has to do it anyway. All the important people in thei...
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"William Faulkner says kill your darlings. I say drag your dead darlings around with you everywhere you go and try to prop them up in everything you write and see how they do as ghosts." - Sabrina Orah Mark
AI in academia conversation is completely warped by how only professors platformed to write about it are tenured at elite schools. What works in a 12-person Princeton classroom has basically no relationship to your average college's 40 person online class taught by an underpaid adjunct...
is karl ove knausgaard the most normal norwegian because if so then boy howdy are yall in trouble
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6mo agonew most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...
MN state is being denied access to evidence It is not metaphorical or hyperbolic to say that this country is now run by, and functions wholly to foster, fascism If they continue to be allowed to act w this level of corruption & impunity— which has been the case for awhile now— many more will die
Minneapolis ICE shooting updates: State denied access to evidence
The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, captured on video, sparked widespread anger over immigration enforcement in Minneapolis and the country.
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New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
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Fuck ICE. Fuck Nazis. Fuck fascism, capitalism, and white supremacy.
We’ve been playing hide and seek for quite some time, and I think I’ve been defeated by a master.
I read a lot of short story collections but I can’t think of any that are fucked up enough for this syllabus, but maybe a practitioner can @hughsheehy.bsky.social @maeganpoland.bsky.social @leeches.bsky.social
Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social. I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today. My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.
Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social. I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today. My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.
Prefacing that I liked Bugonia but this is wayyyy more interesting
i mean i wouldn't be mad... cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social 💜💜💜
Chill Subs@chillsubs.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt’s back 😏 Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
there’s a new charmin commercial where the teenage daughter of the shitting bear family is an influencer reviewing charmin for her channel or whatever. i don’t approve of this. why can’t the shitting bear child be a surgeon. or a celebrated academic
brb going on book tour with my emotional support imodium
PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 9mo agoThere has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are
Found this in a notebook today & couldn’t remember what prompted me to write it, or even what meeting I was in when I wrote it.
I had a nightmare that was a mash up between The Summer I Turned Pretty and Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild. 😬