Slugger volume 2 cover featuring art of a pink skull with wires scraping its dome
Picture of my story featuring original art and the first page
Itās here! Volume 2 of @sluggerfiction.bsky.social featuring my story on the proclivity of Chesapeake men to tell you their entire life story with startling immediacy, and many more great stories that I canāt wait to dig into!
Slugger volume 2 cover featuring art of a pink skull with wires scraping its dome
Picture of my story featuring original art and the first page
Itās here! Volume 2 of @sluggerfiction.bsky.social featuring my story on the proclivity of Chesapeake men to tell you their entire life story with startling immediacy, and many more great stories that I canāt wait to dig into!
1. My grandfather, an avid Fox News and Limbaugh consumer, spent his final years terrified Obama was funding ISIS agents to cross the Mexican border and invade his dinky farm town in Wisconsin. When he died I found guns hidden around the house. 2. Last year I was speaking in a tiny town in the Wisconsin up north and spoke with a woman, a Medicaid recipient with a disability, who told me about how she got her rabid Trump-supporting family to vote for Harris in 2024 ā by explaining to them what a Trump presidency would mean for her life. 3. I think it's perfectly fine to yell 'Do Something!' at elected officials and leave it to them to figure out what that 'something' is. You're the best and brightest; act like it. 4. I wonder to what extent the biannual, multibillion-dollar, eighteen-month election cycle stultifies the American political animal. 5. I think the great American archetype is not the cowboy. It is the shut-in. 6. If it weren't the phones, it would be something else. But I think it's the phones.
here are this morning's thoughts
Washington Post Trump warns āa whole civilization will dieā if Iran doesnāt make a deal The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders donāt comply. April 7, 2026 at 9:22 a.m. EDT26 minutes ago 2 min
Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.
iāve been thinking about this quote a lot lately.
Coming soon! Inspired by that dude you'll meet at any seafood festival on the Chesapeake. Like the one-legged guy selling alligator nuggets who told twelve-year-old me, 'it counts cuz they're coming on up. give it a hundred years.'
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
Coming soon! Inspired by that dude you'll meet at any seafood festival on the Chesapeake. Like the one-legged guy selling alligator nuggets who told twelve-year-old me, 'it counts cuz they're coming on up. give it a hundred years.'
Got too hype and almost crashed on the way to the race tho
A screen shot from one of the Thor films (Thor: Ragnarok), with a dark haired pale skinned woman wearing dark eye makeup and clothing (Cate Blanchett playing Hela, Thor's elder sister) holding her arm straight out, braced against Thor's hammer that has been thrown at her. The scene is over a green field under a cloudy gray sky. The hammer is labeled "It's basic biology". She is labeled "Advanced Biology".
Reposting this meme (with alt text) as a stand alone for any future usage needs where someone might prefer it not being already part of a thread:
There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.
Really feels like non-grass-touching Bluesky thinks these events are a lot more centrist than they actually are
Somebody has created a paper mache trump and cyber truck thing attached to a bike. It says āwank panzerā and thereās a bag on board sticker
Crowd of people with flags in city park
Baltimore city hall with scaffolding around dome and tarps out front. Various signs and people
More people in front of city hall. Prominent sign says āTrump is a traitorā
Baltimore
Massive lines snaked outside BWI airport for the third time this week as travelers continue to arrive three hours ahead their departure. buff.ly/U79Ni0U
Stock photo of an old man from my Google search of the phrase, āold manā. I donāt know who he is or what he stands for, sorry
Once we had five dollar foot longs
I wrote about a camp, 27 girls who drowned due to astonishing failures to plan, and hundreds of families going back anyway. nymag.com/intelligence...
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat rolls around a cement landing of a stairwell. Backside of rowhomes and dusky skies behind her
Golden hour Ruthie Rolling
just this week:
-- OpenAI killed Sora
-- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI
-- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content
...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?
I posed this gross book in the clutter of my yucca because they are both spiky and dangerous
March brings the desnowing of my gardens, and also my most anticipated collection of the year: Gore Poetics by the unmatched @spicycloaca.bsky.social. Samir Sirk MoratĆ³ is the most important thing happening in horror right now. MoratĆ³ and nothing else.
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat lays behind my laptop looking dubious
It was fantastic! Live Ruthie reaction to grandmas laughter šµ
GET OUTTA MY SWAMP!!!!!!!!
oil refinery burning
glad i take 5 minute showers instead of ten minute showers to save the planet
A controversial statue of Christoper Columbus Baltimoreans dumped into the Inner Harbor in 2020 has found a home on White House grounds.
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Screenshot of Microsoft word counter. It says "74417 words".
The novel is drafted š²
THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside.
On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors.
She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.
Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the governmentās payroll that he could find.
Now? š¤·š¾āāļø
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat stands at attention in a sea of tissue paper
When I give her her wet food, I like to say, āfancy feast for a fancy beast!ā
billionaire being interviewed: i havent listened to a single note of music in 27 years. think about it, music was basically invented, what, maybe 50 years ago?
interviewer: this is really interesting
