Art by Rosaire Appel. Intersecting freewritten lines mixed with pieces of text collage over paper bag texture.
petrichor 30, our 10th Anniversary issue, is here! feat. CAConrad, Rosaire Appel, Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Sy Hoahwah, Orchid Tierney and many more!
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A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.
You will hide this reply but she will still be a plant, you tumor.
SINGLE MOTHER I am the Easter Bunny. I am Santa Claus.
Mairéad Byrne
Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn't afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How 'bout some coffee? Don't mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.
My traditional Easter reading, from James Tate.
Imagine if empire cared about life as much as it cares about death and destruction. Late capitalism's prophet is Schumpeter; its guru is Heinlein; its soul is cyborg-tweaking.
if you're in the white house press pool and your first question to trump isn't about kristi noem's husband you should be fired and permabanned from the profession
This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.
It's the whole "their free speech supersedes" someone else's very being and existence that is total horseshit hater nonsense quasi-religious claptrap.
Maybe it's time to start using our 1st Amendment rights to tell them all how fucking stupid they are. By they I mean rightwing and religious nuts.
philosophy killed essentialism long ago. the scientific method killed it again, and all the major strains of philosophy, psychology, sociology kill it over and over as well. but you need it for white supremacy and fascism, so...
That part is written on the buried sphinx.
"I found this one too but honestly? Mid. I am lord of the sedge and the bee. Here comes the dump truck."
Photograph of George Bush being informed of the second plane. Below it a text message reading "A second sphinx has been discovered below the sands of giza"
Where wings take dream
When I'm president reboots will be illegal but food will be free
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
Did he kill and throw the angel off a boat too?
ICE will soon be "policing" everything, won't it? That's their wet dream. What a spectacularly stupid thing America did to itself.
Klassy Karrot
Holtville, CA
my people are being rounded up and sent to camps right now.
as in scooping up native americans, not just natives from mexico or immigrant brown folk.
icymi
I am 36 years old.
No rizz
0 clout
Look at him
Aura drought
wilderness survival by Jennessa Hester petrichor be prepared to freeze scout master says or you might not survive beyond us mist crawls along the skin of a pond he says to breathe it in big breaths like a man and taste the fresh cuts it leaves along the inside of your throat let your body quiver as your blood bleaches the fine air red i stand frozen beside the master my throat
My poem "wilderness survival," originally published by @petrichorlit.bsky.social, was one of the inaugural winners of the Monarch Queer Literary Award.
That means it is now available to read in the @monarch.gay anthology. So incredibly grateful 💕
Read the anthology here: monarch.gay/monarch-2026/
I'm the reason the Social Security program won't be around when you're old enough to retire! EXCUSE ME???? I'M ALSO THE REASON? BUT THAT'S FINE???
the reason
Send ICE to Iran!
That’ll take care of two issues!
Half this app is bemoaning the fact that pizza hut no longer gives kids free pizza for doing a summer reading challenge but seriously check with your local library because ours gives out free zoo tickets and minor league baseball tickets for their summer reading prizes which is a much better deal.
The reason English spelling is full of inconsistencies and silent letters is because it’s not simply encoding how words sound.
If English spelling were aiming to represent sound it would indeed be a total failure.
But English spelling encodes words' meaning and history as well.
bradford beach bath house, lincoln memorial drive, milwaukee, wisconsin, 1977
bradford beach bath house, lincoln memorial drive, milwaukee, wisconsin, 1977
Intellectual curiosity made being “uncool” irrelevant. Fiction kept me lit for the gaps and the crevices of sociality. Graffiti and trees offered counterexamples to the aesthetic Girl Plots. I still bite my nails. I still chase the butterflies i can‘t resist. I never grew “out of” it. :)
RIP Country Joe McDonald, who died yesterday at 84.
Here he is in 1969 at the original Woodstock, singing the Vietnam Song aka “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag.”
Absolutely NO relevance to today’s situation. NONE.
youtu.be/ft0vkKCadgk