Dude, you would love the Libby app! You can hook your local library card info to it and have access not only to their audio books but the audio selections from whatever larger library network they're also part of. I use it constantly.
libbyapp.com
It is!!!
The world is a terrible place, but the release of this album brings my Gen-X, club-kid-who-never-was heart so much fucking joy.
I am very, very, very jealous of your available breakfast choices, my dude. Dang!
Me: meh, generations don’t actually exist, they are just made up terms that designate cohorts of people born in random 18 year segments
Also me: Xennials are an important micro-generation, with a mostly offline childhood but fully online adulthood. As such, we are uniquely qualified to navigate
My generation needs to be beaten like unruly, redheaded stepchildren.
Shit, Wendy. I'm so sorry about your mom. I hope you and the family are doing as well as possible right now.
Acre Books is looking for creative nonfiction broadly, including #memoir, graphic nonfiction, #essay collections, and narrative #nonfiction. For this call, we’re reading full manuscripts (no query required). Submit through our website at acre-books.com/submissions/ by April 15. #booksky 📚🖊️
[insert obligatory "if you're still in line to throw things at an A.I. tech-bro CEO, stay in line!" skeet here]
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at least I'm living in a time where I might get to watch a chicago pope excommunicate the vice president of the united states
When he finally does pass away someday, whomever writes Hegseth's obituary is going to have a really difficult time dancing around the fact that he succumbed to a chemically-induced priapism. (Either that or autoerotic asphyxiation.)
A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
OH. MY. GOD.
THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!
Thank you for working the polls! Seriously, you all are unsung.
If we do actually wind up all dying this week because a third of you fuckers elected a megalomaniac with an incest kink to be the President, and because another third of you fuckers decided you couldn't be bothered to vote, I'm going to be absolutely pissy that I spent the day grading papers.
Barrelhouse conference in Washington, DC on April 18!
Hey writers come join @barrelhouse.bsky.social and whole lot of other literary magazines and small presses on April 18 for a great day talking craft and publishing at American University in DC! We have about 25 tickets left, so sign up soon! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
When we talk about what the NYT is up to now, it’s actually helpful to be attentive to the fact that they have *always* done shit like this
"You’re not an artist anymore and other people still are, and that’s the price of your laziness."
TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN!
(That’s one of my favorite lines from the story, too.)
Seriously, I can’t thank the good folks at @therumpus.net enough for giving “Hell Is the Absence of God’s Love” such an amazing home. I friggin’ love what Roxane Gay & Debbie Millman have done with the site and how they’re building it up.
Okay but if you want to get serious, you gotta add @hmwendt.bsky.social's HEADING NORTH (the best to EVER write Gay Hocky Books)
www.hollymwendt.com/heading-north
Ryan! Thanks so much, man!
Jen! Thank you so much.
Dude! Thanks so much! (Also, I miss your face!)
A huge, huge thanks to @roxanegay.bsky.social and @therumpus.net for publishing my autoerotic-asphyxiation, porn-in-a-Little-Free-Library short story. (Seriously, I owe those people a lot of beer.)
It's called "Hell Is the Absence of God's Love," & I hope you dig it.
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I’m dying to hear/read this story.
@roxanegay.bsky.social & @debbiemillman.bsky.social are doing some amazing things for writers and readers over at @therumpus.net, and I’m so damn excited about the future of the site. Go see what they’re up to!
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I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.
Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
Holy hell, I hope so. Thanks for reporting this.
