Have neighbors named them yet?

During Trumps first admin I interviewed Carlson and talked to him about how his rhetoric specifically hurt my life and he treated it like a big joke. Remorse that only comes when it’s convenient isn’t remorse at all.

"The night grows late, the woods are deep and wild
Blind stars shine dimly as I seek to find
The woman buried deep within the child"

A villanelle for you this morning, from @gothamwriters.bsky.social's instructor Carole Buggé:
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"The streets are flooded
with the tears of the privileged,
are filthy with them."

Read "Filthy" by @gothamwriters.bsky.social instructor Mary Donnelly, which is even stranger and lovelier than its start implies.

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Before Sunday ends, here’s today’s thread once more. Please share widely if you see this and are able, to get all this great work out to all of the folks. 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Oooh! My Name Means Fire by Atash Yaghmaian

!!!!!!!!!!

Pops loves the beach, but wasn't sold on that thick Florida grass...

Congratulations!

A poem for writers, by @gothamwriters.bsky.social's own David Berner:

Upon my mat

before a candle

incense drawn from flame

a woodpecker working

in the half-night of pine

its rattle and crack...

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And the music you heard in the original versions of movies and TV shows is still there when you go to re-watch them!

BIG congratulations to @gothamwriters.bsky.social's own @scottalexanderhess.bsky.social, whose novel Drought won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction last night!

Well deserved, Scott! 🎉 📚 🥂 📚 🎊 📚 🏆

Y'all go read his book now! www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

I covered a case at another big Michigan employer where a woman sued because her bosses refused to protect her from a co-worker who was stalking her.

I should say I *tried* to cover the story. My (male) editor spiked the story, and told me to "stop picking on the guy."

I would really like to see a "declouding" movement where consumers demand any software that doesn't strictly need to be in the cloud, be downloadable to run locally on their own hardware.

The way that things used to be.

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Not only was Samuel L. Jackson's delivery better, he wore a jacket that actually fit him.

Mamdami’s pied a terre tax is just going to further squeeze working class commuters who had to buy a Greenwich Village row house to avoid paying the congestion charge every day.

Ep15: Lisa Namdar Kaufman - March Podcast Episode · Voices of Tikkun · July 13, 2023 · 3m

My left eye is a puddle of blood.
Thursday morning, I woke up that way.
My husband took my blood pressure.
Stop talking, he said, which made me
Laugh, and the digital cuff flashed, terror.

Listen to Lisa Namdar Kaufman's "March"
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Screenshot of Bluesky error message, white letters on red background, reading, "Not Enough Resources."

Tell me about it, Bluesky.

You're truly your brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children.

Once again, Jonathan knows what news consumers really desire.

You know who didn’t sign up for this? Bears.

AGAIN, there are candidates — real, credible candidates — running for the Democratic nomination besides the oyster Nazi and Janet Mills.

Right, @andrealaflamme.bsky.social?
Right, @davidcostello.bsky.social?

Re-upping this Scratch interview for anyone feeling bad about taxes/themselves today, especially freelancers. I hope it finds those who need it most.

"A parrot perched on the rod of a laundromat cart...
its head counts those who fold, and those who wait."

Read the rest of Key West Laundromat by @gothamwriters.bsky.social's own Adela Brito, to see who else sings.

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"The ghost heart was created by scientists
whose soap solution

(more brine than froth and foam)
burst all the living cells..."

A Ghost Heart Is a Real Thing by @gothamwriters.bsky.social's own Kate Angus—what a twist at the end!

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