City Lights mourns the loss of our friend and former coworker, Richard Berman. Richie worked at City Lights from the 1970s to the early 2000s, and was our store manager for most of that time.
Richard Berman. January 17, 1945 — April 17, 2026
Coward.
Info dumping my rabbit hole dives is my primary communication strategy
You had me at 'cyberpunk'!
the Iranian memes are so good
Think of all the terrible writing that has come before, you almost literally cannot be worse without trying!
I got new health insurance three months ago but the process of making a new doctor's appointment is so asinine I haven't done it yet, despite a few good reasons to do so lol
That's awesome, welcome back!
Not going to lie, it's been a pretty shit week for me but I got a thousand words into a new short story tonight that I think might have legs and I'll take the win.
A digital illustration of two japanese lesbians flirting in a queer underground bar in the 80s. One of them wears a blue jacket, the other a suit, while in the background there's liquor and a multitude of little stickers and illustrations of lesbian and queer marks.
The full illustration I did for @taplingzines.bsky.social "We've Always Been Here"
The zine depicts queer couples throughout cultures and history and I had the honours of portraying a Japanese lesbian couple in an underground bar during the 80s✨
#queer #lesbians #illustration
I wanna have the kind of Saturday you're having.
Proofing my newer, weirder, vaguely speculative postapocalyptic poetry for submissions thinking it's all too weird and no one will ever publish it & also am I okay?
I wouldn't move to Ohio even for you, Morty
Anyone else have a designated stall in the bathroom for dayjob crying? Just me?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh?!
BREAKING: Louisiana has advanced one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country. It would force homeless people to choose between jail and involuntary treatment, make them pay for it, and if they can't pay, force them to perform unpaid labor. buff.ly/d6rXj5h
Bear mace.
I feel like this is a just punishment for posting on LinkedIn in the first place.
My review of Yoav Blum's THE COINCIDENCE MAKERS, tr from the Hebrew by Ira Moskowitz, from St. Martin's Press:
#SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=16733
'Faster than expected' strikes again
This is so exciting! 🙏🏼
Oops, I misread. Very close to the coolest building, anyway.
Yes please! This would be such a treasure, in the coolest building.
Dystopian world
Painting study
I never post selfies but I think my hair looks so nice today after wrestling with it all morning
....I think Robert has a point here.
I just wanna see what's under his hat, and let it consume me.
I'm very fond of that movie. I was surprised, honestly.
You just think that because you've so many devout worshippers 🙏🏼
Yeah, we're all pretty insufferable in our 20s but not many of us get put permanently under that kind of microscope. I'd lose my mind.