Power went out briefly at our host’s house. Easter dinner is hanging by a thread. 🙏

i asked a magic 8 ball if everything was going to be ok and it collapsed in on itself like a dying star is that good

The threat to the arts from LLMs and image generators has nothing to do with the texts or images produced and their quality— which is bad and not art or literature. The threat is the same one we’ve been facing since before their invention: Devaluation of labor. And in this, art is not alone

A graphic featuring the cover of The Killing of a Chestnut Tree by Oliver K. Langmead, which has a tree stump with an ax in it, surrounded by roses. Meanwhile, behind it, is a tree growing out of a church.

ICYMI: Behold the cover of The Killing of a Chestnut Tree by @oliverklangmead.bsky.social! Coming October 27, 2026.

This cozy, fantastical mystery introduces Havelock Harper, an all-new queer gentleman detective in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes.

Be gay, solve crimes!

One of my neighbors is a clear cutter, like they’re on the prairie. Always disconcerting.

Sending healing vibes your way

now that is a poem title

Oh no. Hope you feel better soon!

Cover of an upcoming anthology called "Poetry for Pets" with a black pug looking over his shoulder smugly. He's wearing a red white and blue shirt. There is a pink/orange water color background. He is a very good boy.

I'm at 33 poems and I'd like to have a minimum of 40. Who's got some pet poetry for me??
#dogpoems #catpoems #petpoems #adoptdontshop #rescue #fundraiser #poetry

Decades of conservation are actually working! Green sea turtles have officially been upgraded from "Endangered" to "Least Concern."

Turns out if we stop eating their eggs and destroying their homes, they quite like being alive.

Nature: 1, Human Chaos: 0. 🐢🌊 #Conservation #GoodNews

Fucking ugh

I usually don’t have much follow-through on these ambitions, but feel free to hold me accountable with mockery or encouragement.

My 2026 goal is 500 rejections. You’re me ahead of me.

Depression Villanelle by J.C. Reilly

From earlier in the year, though I only just saw it had been published....
#poetry

THE RESULTS ARE IN 🏆
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.

For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

A cat named gizmo poses with a copy of the poetry collection Blood Harmony by Bruce Snider.

December’s Leopard Aesthetics Book Club Selection and Gizmo.

computer going to take my job? no. i’ll pour water on it

a red illustration of shelley duvall as Wendy Torrance in the shining, holding a bat. the background is green with cream swirls and she has a warm golden halo

saint shelley

A think tank inside of a consulting firm. What a world.

Omens from the universe. Gross ones too.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

My father passed about seven years ago, and recently I realized I needed him, that I was entering a part of my life that I was unequipped to navigate. Instead of embracing our ancestors, we are offered a parasocial digital ofrenda with a monthly subscription. It’s not peace, it’s distraction.

So sorry to hear that. ❤️

Toddler just stormed our house, unappeased by our offering of candy.

Gross. Sorry that happened to you. I would read that graphic novel.