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Interesting. My doctor was telling me that there are six different classes of eyedrops so most people can find one that works if another starts to fail. What do you do when the laser surgery's effects wear off?

Thanks! I'm definitely not questioning the worth of it.

This is good to hear. I've yet to witness an uptick in anti Trump rants in Lafayette but I'm hoping

I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with strangers or people I just like, barely know, who are ready and willing to go off about Trump, which is not often the case here in Louisiana. People are PISSED.

Anyone else taking eye drops for glaucoma? Did it feel like no big deal to you? I'm feeling a bit sad because I've had so many health issues lately and this feels like one issue too many. But maybe if others tell me it's no big deal, I won't feel as sad as I do right now.

A SmokeLong Summer 26 - SmokeLong Quarterly A SmokeLong Summer 26 is closer than you think. This year we’re starting early and staying late. The summer just got longer. As always, at the heart of A SmokeLong Summer is our peer-review workshop i...

Write-Ins, Hybrid events, Open mics, webinars, a book launch, and an author event with none other than Amy Hempel! And these are just the live online events. The heart of A SmokeLong Summer 26 is our peer-review workshop on steroids! Book by May 23rd! www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...

"Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question, with one report finding that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer."

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Today I am unfollowing and blocking ProPublica in support of the strike.

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.

They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

So apparently the ceasefire deal includes Iran continuing to charge tolls (split with Oman) on transit through the Strait, as reported by the NYT, AP and others.

If that's true, I have a hard time seeing this as anything other than a capitulation by Trump. Just abject surrender.

Who are the happiest canonical or influential (historical or contemporary) writers you know? Looking for a counterpoint...

Upon leaving New York, my three year old cried over the lack of black and white cookies on the plane.

Last Saturday we flew to NY, I caught up with my SIL and friends, watched my husband win a PEN award, flew back the next day to Louisiana, taught and worked all day the next day, and today we unpacked and then packed for Florida to visit family. Tired. Grateful.

And now Michael won the PEN award for poetry in translation!

pen.org/2026-literar...

I accidentally still had tiger balm on my hands when I moisturized my face. Will this be fun or very, very bad?

Banner for hex literary, featuring the hex logo and text that says: Recent Contributors Z.K. Abraham * Stephanie Feldman * Julian Martinez Awards: Best Microfiction * Best Small Fictions * Brave New Weird hexliterary.submittable.com/submit

we open in 2 1/2 hours! 200 cap. would love to consider whatever you'd like to share 👇

not my Catholic MIL using scare quotes around the word "secular" as she responds to my kid's Easter plans

I reread The Upstairs House by Julia Fine for the class I'm teaching today, a 300-level lit class on literature by women with the theme "Monstrous Motherhood." It's such an impressive novel in terms of prose style and form, but also deeply relatable regarding the isolation of postpartum.

Three Poems #1, by Todd Dillard — The Bulb Region Three Poems — Todd Dillard Zombie Extras Visit 7-11 Every night they...

"The moon is a white bowl
the God of Children Finally Asleep
has given me to dry."

man, I love @toddedillard.bsky.social's poetry

@bulbregion.bsky.social

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt-out expertoptout@superhuman.com.

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

"The plans are lofty but offer little guidance on what professors are supposed to do with students who can’t read more than a couple paragraphs at a time or turn in essays generated in seconds by a machine."

"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.

The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.

Link to the full resolution below.

I'm at home in Louisiana getting credit card alerts from the AWP book fair, a very nerdy form of tracing my husband's whereabouts.

Just found out my son is eligible to be a Canadian citizen 🎉🇨🇦🎉

I need to up my Skyrizi dose from once very eight weeks to once every four weeks but insurance said nope. Appeal in progress. Bracing for a big ole nope.

One good thing about getting older is that my notgiveafuckness has grown significantly. I’ll get on social media, see some dumbass talking about how writers don’t need to read, and I’ll keep scrolling, not even mad. Like, fuck you but with a chuckle, you know?

I am extremely not surprised that Walter Kirn is doing this.

Millions of people died!