oh no I did a marketing and now you're so compelled by this marketing that you'll buy a chapbook from an indie press bottlecap.press/products/lie...

hear me out

The Independent@the-independent.com · 9h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

today’s winners: parks! today’s losers: people who hate democracy and other people having rights

Ruth Joffre@ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 20h ago

I voted today! doing my little part to counter the fuckery in Missouri

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

I voted today! doing my little part to counter the fuckery in Missouri

There's still time to claim your spot in @ruthjoffre.bsky.social's four-session online class, Writing Magic -- which starts TONIGHT! Register now: www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas... #writingcommunity

Writing Magic with Ruth Joffre - StoryStudio Chicago

This class is all about magic and how it can shape a story. We’ll explore various magical systems to understand how they work and what impact they can have in our writing.

storystudiochicago.org

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

all the worst people in the world use AI

just turned in the trickiest revision of my life. and it’s for a dream pub! wish me luck 🤞

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

somehow, it’s August, which means I’ve got a story out in the latest issue of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social! “A Hole in My Heart the Shape of the Multiverse” is about a geographer lost in a house full of portals to parallel universes—and the version of herself using those portals to change history

Submissions close tomorrow! We’re looking for speculative fiction up to 5,000 words by immigrant and diaspora writers, as well as translations from any language into English. Submission guidelines can be found on our website. Share your work with us before the deadline!

oh I would be a menace in the NYRB closet. the totes I would fill!

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2w ago

NYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo

I'm obsessed with my book covers 😍 I especially love how they feel like they're related even though I gave completely different artistic direction for them

we require everyone's gay dollars please process them here (if you have straight dollars we will take them as well but the exchange rate is weird so you should give us twice as many)

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · last wk.

You can back the crowdfund here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

I was just thinking about how "you need to become an influencer to sell books" is ruining everything

Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 5d ago

I hate how what I need to do is write books, and yet I keep thinking, "Maybe if I wore increasingly weird glasses and sat in front of my taxidermy with a bubble pipe and did unhinged houseplant reviews I could go viral and sell some books." Doing the work doesn't feel like enough, some days.

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

last call to sign up for my writing magic class at @storystudiochicago.bsky.social! if you're into earth magic, portals, witches, unusual superpowers, and magical creatures, this class is for you. we'll meet online starting next Tuesday, August 4. see you there!

Writing Magic with Ruth Joffre - StoryStudio Chicago

This class is all about magic and how it can shape a story. We’ll explore various magical systems to understand how they work and what impact they can have in our writing.

storystudiochicago.org

I’m having the travel day from hell but you could cheer me up by buying my chapbook. I will also accept pet photos

Lies I Tell My Children, by Ruth Joffre

Prose poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Almost a decade in the making, Lies I Tell My Children is a collection of surreal and fanciful falsehoods dreamed up by a single mom just doi...

bottlecap.press

flight delayed three times for a total of seven hours before I even got to the airport 🙃

what a nice surprise to click on a link and see my forthcoming @adventitiouswords.bsky.social story “A Hole in My Heart the Shape of the Multiverse” reviewed—and to see so much love for @reckoningmag.bsky.social, where I’m on staff! clearly Jay has excellent taste

Jay@tarvolon.bsky.social · last wk.

Guess what? I've got an *extra* short fiction review this month! I took a look at a handful of stories from Adventitious, Kaleidotrope, and Reckoning. All had stories worth reading, with Reckoning in particular standing out: www.tarvolon.com/2026/07/27/t...

I’m not immune from this even though my work usually falls in the Mostly Average Person engaging in Extremely Unhealthy behaviors and relationships category

@jawless-fish.bsky.social · last wk.

theres this one tumblr post ive seen talking about that phenomenon but w fiction writing that I think about often

People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.

Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.

“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

fuck AI. buy books written by humans. buy weird little art projects people worked on for ten years without ever knowing if they would see the light of day. let the words do their slow work on you until you emerge an entirely different person—someone AI could never dream of

I am heartened by the growing bipartisan concern about Flock cameras. I have no illusions that Congress is going to do anything about this issue anytime soon, but this is a sign that our movement is shifting tectonic plates and radically changing public opinion and political will. Keep going.

Massie bill would bar funding for police using Flock license plate readers

The proposal comes amid growing national debate over automated license plate readers, which have expanded rapidly across the U.S.

newsweek.com

went camping 10,000 feet up a mountain and while I didn't see any bears I did see a marmot on the mount

you guys, I'm reading my contributor copy of the forthcoming issue of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social and it is so good and so delightfully strange! it includes my multiverse story about a geographer lost in a labyrinthine house, where she meets a version of herself changing history in every timeline

Is your story missing something you can't quite put your finger on? Maybe it's some magic! Take this four-session seminar on Zoom with writer Ruth Joffre and learn the fine art of incorporating magic into your fiction. First class is August 4 buff.ly/gJeiM3z #writingcommunity

“They’re blatantly breaking the law,” says Michael Garrity, director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, referring to Trump’s Forest Service. “But they can get away with it if no one sues.” Meet the two “combat biologists” who keep suing — and who keep winning — to delay logging on public lands.

The Combat Biologists

As the Trump administration opens millions of acres of public land to logging, two aging conservationists are fighting back — and winning.

earthisland.org