Gonna be honest, I didn't realize Alan Dershowitz wasn't already a republican...

AAHH it's official! I am a Hugo Award Finalist for Best Poem, for "The World To Come"! I can't believe my name is there with so many writers I admire 🥹😭 Thank you so much to everyone who nominated, and to everyone who reads spec poetry! 💙

DOG OF WAR:

Zhuzha often attends trainings and conferences with her owner, a Ukrainian human rights defender. It’s windy outside, so she is wearing her stylish warm sweater.

I know there was just disc horse about this, but I unironically want to be the type of person who always has a little dog* with them. Work? Dog with me. Library? Dog with me. Speaking engagement? Dog with me.

*well-trained, ofc

An image of a fake Wikipedia trading card for Escort (the magazine). The card art is of a front cover of Escort feature two women in their underwear and the headline: "Hot NAKED Wives!" The card text reads: "Wscort is a Bristish men's softcore adult magazine featuring erotica published monthly by Blue Active Media Ltd. It is published by Paul Raymond Publications, a company that also publishes a number..." It has stats at the bottom of the card as well: 3993 attack, and 1163 defense

This was the very first card in the first pack I opened

It’s not cute, J’s are only silent when they’re scared

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Happy 80th to John Waters and his poppers birthday cake

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.

www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

gonzo the muppet wearing a suit. he is inside an ornate floral frame. below the frame is text that reads "gender failure". the image is textured to look grainy and printed.

gender failure gonzo

'We Palestinians Are Not Going Away' is a zine made up of first-person accounts of the war / genocide in Gaza, Palestine.

Download it (it's free), print it and distribute it ✨

Available to download from the Little Zine Revolution site: lzr.life/zine/we-pale...

‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawling networks. The impact on trans people's lives is devastat...

Crossing state borders for HRT. Insurance denials. Missed surgeries.

U.S. Catholic bishops imposed a ban on all trans healthcare throughout the church's massive networks. That's left working class trans people struggling even more.

Our latest, by @davidforbes.bsky.social are some of their stories:

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

Reese Witherspoon? The NFT evangelist?

Hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah

bluesky is down and it's going to stay down. bluesky is gone forever. it's gone forever and you're high. you're high and everyone knows it and you're going to be high forever too

The micro blog is dying, and the maxi blog struggles to be born

As if literacy were not already on life support, Tucker Carlson is starting a publishing imprint with books by Russell Brand, Milo Yianno-yabba-dabba-do and others.

people tell me the same thing btw. that i’m too controversial for athleisure

I occasionally get disparaged falling off positive habits (exercising, reading) but we get endless restarts. "Blah, blah, discipline, routine" just try again whenever. The next day, the same day, fuck it

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta

Already a big fan. My first role was an anomaly

Owning a pet is a series of $400 vet bills where the diagnosis is “your pet is on one rn”

The cover "artists" name is Stuart Bache, and he makes YouTube videos about making AI covers for authors

The current mantasy discourse reminds me of when I was in Toronto and my husband said “I’d like a package… but for a man” and I turned around and a store called Mackage was right behind me

the saint of bright doors by vajra chandrasekera

chain gang all stars by nana kwame adjei-brenyah

a strange and stubborn endurance by foz meadows

the woods all black by lee mandelo

the thing is there's a ton of excellent fantasy by and about men right now but they're apparently not the type of men ""mantasy"" is referring to! hm!

What Israel is doing in Lebanon is obscene. What they’re doing on every front is obscene. A country that will fall apart if they stop being in perpetual war.