If @tacobellquarterly.org rejects my submission after eleven months, it'll still be the second most painful thing associated with the words 'Taco Bell' this year.
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Every time we get a thunderstorm now, I'm extremely tense because all I can think about is the possibility of water damage. I can't decide if this makes me paranoid or mature.
Read the full intro note & the rest of the issue here: wildroofjournal.com/issue-34 Thanks to @lisadellaporta.bsky.social for setting the scene!
I'm thrilled to have my short piece 'Colors' out in the new issue of @wildroofjournal.bsky.social today. Plus, I was honored to be asked to write the introductory note for the whole issue. Click through to read both here: wildroofjournal.com/issue-34/
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Before and after. The shrinking of greens hits harder when you grow them yourself.
Painting walls comes with three distinct phases: I don't know if I like this color. Oh man I actually hate this color. I have exhausted myself from painting, do not care anymore, and now will live with this color for the next ten years.
Tonight I met a goat named Teddy, roughly the size of a Great Dane. He peed on my foot but I love him anyway.
Building is at capacity and standing room only at the Upper Merion Township meeting about a proposal to build 5 data centers. Zoom streaming link is also at capacity - at 600 people.
Catching up on my movie backlog through the rainy weekend. I have survived Wuthering Heights. Why was this made. No.
Where can you recycle AA batteries anymore? Target and Whole Foods both cut their programs.
I have work out in New Letters' just released issue. 'Libras' is the most personal thing I've had published to date and I would love for you to read it. www.newletters.org/current-issu...
Current Issue – New Letters
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COVID wastewater positivity is currently at its lowest level since 2021, so I am blitz-scheduling all the repair people to work on the house repair backlog. Bathroom fan, replacing a window that was leaky after this winter, etc.
Just realizing I have scheduled PT on May The 4th. Is it bad form to wear a wookie onesie to your appointment. Will all the sports jocks think I'm cool.
I can't decide if this is an odd or brilliant choice given the specialty, but the waiting room at the gynecologist has SVU on.
It's an important election year in Philly, which means I have canvassers knocking on my door at all hours. Officially at the stare-through-the-window-and-close-the-blinds-while-making-eye-contact part of the campaign. I know who I'm voting for. I have never missed a primary. Please go away.
Past me thought it was a good idea to sign up for a semester-long course on Tuesday nights after work. Present me is absolutely brain melted after 5pm and just wants to lie down on the sofa and stare at the wall.
They keep talking about needing to check for noxious gasses coming from the astronauts and every time I hear it I giggle because inside I am a 5th grader.
Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia
Suss-- 🥌@suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 9mo agoin which american city do we hold the new nuremberg-style trials in 2029? personally I think this is a job for cincinnati
I woke up to two acceptances in my inbox this morning, which is the dream, except that today is April Fools day, and I have been preconditioned to believe everything is a lie.
How long does it take you to eat a loaf of home made bread? Asking for a friend 😅
This post is very popular on Reddit today and I figured some people here might like to see it TL;DR a woman was detained by ICE and later one of the detaining officers reached out to her in and attempt to take her on a date He said she he found her attractive because she was "cute" and "obedient"
![I was detained by ICE, one of the agents asked me out on a date and I feel scared
I (26.f) am originally from Russia (Russian mom/Ukrainian dad) and a couple weeks ago at a Target parking lot, I was on my phone speaking in Russian to my mom when two guys in masks, wearing Border Patrol uniforms stopped me.
They asked if I spoke English, I said yes, demanded to see my ID so I gave them my driver's license and passport card.
They asked me questions like what am I doing here, what is my legal status (yes I am a citizen but they should have known that given I just gave them my passport card), what do I do for work (I work for the VA) and how long I've been here, etc. They told me to sit and wait in the back of their vehicle while they checked my IDs.
While I was detained, one of the agents who stopped me told me to unlock my phone and give it to him so I complied. He checked it for a few minutes then gave it back to me.
Now last Thursday night, last week, I got a text from a number I didn't recognize but as I was expecting a call that week, I answered it.
When I answered the guy on the other line asked me "am I speaking with [my name]" and I said yes. He then tried making small talk, asking how my day was, etc and I answered his questions.
I then asked him who he was and how he got my number but he seemed to try and dodge those questions.
He then asked if I'd be free on Friday night or Saturday night.
I told him something along the lines of "maybe but I don't know you". I then pressed him again, asking him how he got my number, how does he know me, etc.
He then admitted that he was one of the Border Patrol agents who detained me and checked my phone. He went on to say that when he was going through my phone, he noticed I had Bumble and Tinder so thought he'd just take my number and try to contact me directly.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s2jiq5q6f5uhl7ywqbxtsvmu/bafkreigmxvuleocz2q5pvcze3mviph6bvhumrz2xuwjba6cnp6o7qp6a64)
This week, in the state park in the town I grew up in, they found human remains. Then two days later the coroner issued a retraction - sorry, actually it was a deer. How.
a man says " it 's not the same thing " in a star talk video
ALT: a man says " it 's not the same thing " in a star talk video
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Sage advice for anyone else in their 30's surviving shoveling this winter: get the XL heating pad. Not the little wimpy one with an auto shut off. The one sized like a bath mat that could burn your house down if left unattended.
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
I read this in one sitting and can't stop thinking about it. Usually I have a hard time connecting with translated books - something feels awkward and distant. But this time that may have even improved the read.
