Can't wait!

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

not a novel not a short story but a secret third thing (a super satisfying novella)

It is very difficult to work in an environment where you and your profession is under constant suspicion stoked by those who have little to no experience on the inside. This is the life of teachers and the suspicious are everywhere.

anyway so i’m gonna go 🌿✨

Feedback is not just feedback! It is relationship-building! This should be obvious! Hire more teachers so they/we can do our jobs properly!

"That's AI."

As an 8th grade teacher, this is a new insult the kids have been using this year, even on things unrelated to writing.

Someone does something stupid, or ridiculous, or cruel: "Ugh, you're AI."

As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird

I am horrified by the prospect of a future in which *I* have become one of the smartest people on the planet simply because I continually refused to use an obviously stupid computer program

what an incredibly short sighted abdication of your role, what a profound failure to understand the stakes here, and such a catastrophic failure of the students whose welfare should be foremost in your list of priorities.

Ann Harbuz started painting when she was about 60

If you want to do something, dive in -- it's never too late

STRENGTH | Tiny Wren Lit

Thinking about submitting? Take a moment to read some of our tiny gems, such as Guy Cramer's "Strength," part of our tiny wren tarot deck.

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Elaine Equi

work in progress — but thanks!

it is, it is

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Down on my knees testing notes with my teeth, always knew a day’d come I’d put my wings out and fly.

Nathaniel Mackey

So thrilled to have two new pieces published in The Bulb Region today. What a gorgeous journal! Thanks to editor Sarp Sozdinler! 💙

I dove down my mental lake fear and love: first fear then under it love: I could see you, Brilliance, at the bottom. Trust you stillness in the last red inside place. Then past the middle of the earth it got light again.

Jean Valentine

Even After You’re Gone, by K.C. Mead-Brewer — The Bulb Region Even After You’re Gone — K.C. Mead-Brewer RIPLEY’S CAT IS A SMALL CAT. Here,...

beyond delighted to share my new story "Even After You're Gone," fresh now with the lovely @bulbregion.bsky.social! check it out 🦇⚡

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Exciting!

If you were into @identitytheory.bsky.social’s March Equinox micro issue, send us something to read! We are always open for micro subs and are reading for the June Solstice issue now.

And if you haven’t read our latest yet, what are you waiting for??

Snow in April Winter, you are the worst kind of lover--soon as I hope for good you're gone you return--cold in hand-- bringing no flowers

Kevin Young

McSweeney's Internet Tendency Daily humor almost every day since 1998.

The Believer/McSweeney's is now accepting applications for paid, part-time editorial interns. Our application window will end on April 24. For more details:

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Get those gorgeously quiet and softly healing pieces ready, folks!

Literary Namjooning will be opening for subs in June!!

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love this poem