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Picnic Magazine @picnic-mag.bsky.social · 20h

the draft for the horoscopes in Picnic 3 is five pages long btw

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J HELL P @jlp.systems · 26/09/2026

oblique strategies

a sign by a paved path that says “STAY OFF COURSE”

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE DYKE BAR UP NEW ENGLAND WAY? MASK MANDATE IN 2026, NO KN95, NO ENTRY—BUTCH, FEMME, OR OTHERWISE. ONE OF THE OWNERS UP AND LEFT FOR CLOWN SCHOOL IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT. WHOLE TOWN BLEW A GASKET WHEN THEY CHANGED THE POLICY. INCREDIBLE STUFF!

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ik this is the point but i feel like I'm taking chip damage every time i open the internet and see Senators standing beside signs that say "transgenderism is a mental disease" or whatever the fuck

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A huge part of why I decided not to go back to Condé Nast after my wrongful termination was knowing how much hostility that job opened me up to. Whatever I would get out of being on staff again was outweighed by the hate and vitriol I received as a visible trans woman in the media

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Has DoorDash said anything about how one of their workers was shot by ICE in Austin

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

i’m sorry i was so self-deprecating at the function, i forgot i was goated :(

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trans rights or we all enjoy the camps

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Op-Ed in which Bret Stephens seemingly demands affirmative action for white men in literature

Bret Stephens Op-Ed: the Literary World’s DEI Checklist

Bret Stephens: Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven't reported this, perhaps because they don't think it's noteworthy.
It's as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.
If you're scratching your head at this "news," well, it's because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors' identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world's public honors (and so much else), shouldn't you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right's efforts to politicize the arts, won't you also object when the efforts come from the left?

For a sense of what I mean, let's walk through the National Book Foundation's announcement of the longlist for fiction, 10 books selected out of 451 titles submitted by publishers.
Hannah Lillith Assadi's novel, "Paradiso 17," is
"inspired by the life of her late Palestinian father." Kimberly Blaser, a poet, is the "founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets." Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American writer whose novel "Dèy" reflects on "the many forms of mourning experienced through immigration, gentrification and diasporic identity." Julián Delgado Lopera's novel "Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You," set in 1990s Bogotá, "explores Colombia's queer underground community." Louise Erdrich, the highly acclaimed author of "Python's Kiss," is identified in her N.B.F. biography as "a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa." Marlon James's novel "The Disappearers" is a "queer epic" set in Kingston, Jamaica. Valeria Luiselli is a writer born in Mexico whose "Beginning Middle End" spans "continents, languages and four generations." Kenan Orhan is a Turkish American writer; his first novel, "The Renovation," is a story about a family migrating from Istanbul to Italy.
Morgan Thomas's book "Mad Eden" is about "a trans health care worker" who has been diagnosed with autism.

Oh, there's also Alexander Maksik's novel
"Passengers," a father-daughter story set in an airport. Maksik, who is Jewish, is, to my knowledge, white, male and straight - details that, in a sane world, should have no bearing on whether his book deserves to make the longlist. In this world, sadly, it makes him the lucky token.

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LABOR IS A LIFE-DESTROYING ACTIVITY

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 22/09/2026

fuckass hat that says Richard Wagner made me gay

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

after a decade living in major cities i've come to hate cars but i really, really miss working on cars

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

dj set where they use the Callen Lorde Pharmacy hold music/robotic voice as a beat drop

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i've got the over on Macklemore being mentioned 4x at Brooklyn Friends this Sunday

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Tess Scilipoti @scilipoti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Quakerism bravely asks what if we believed in the divinity of God not out of the bible but because he's the wokest guy we can imagine

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Religious Society of Friends mentioned 😎

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if you’re a well meaning person it’s worth contemplating whether you’re engaging in useful discourse or just hunting for ways to call things problematic

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Stop saying trans rights. They are just rights.
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m writing a book about teaching reading and what it even means to be “a good reader.” I want to talk to as many teachers, librarians, parents, and students as possible. If you have thoughts about reading, please get in touch at readingmachinebook@gmail.com. (And please pass along!)

THE READING MACHINE By Megan Greenwell
Imprint: Dey Street Books
August 10, 2026
Former Deadspin editor-in-chief and author of BAD COMPANY Megan Greenwell's THE READING MACHINE, a narrative investigation into how policy and profit reshaped the relationship between American children and books, changing what literacy is for and leaving millions of students behind in the process, to Libby Burton at Dey Street Books, at auction, by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary (NA).
Rights: kent@neonliterary.com

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

trans roko’s basilisk where the robot is gay and tortures you for all eternity because you didn’t code her estrogen

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i know this TIME cover might seem bleak but in my experience this means that AI won’t be allowed in the bathroom within 5-10 years

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Same Love is the funniest song you can play in basically any scenario btw, sometimes I text the Same Love video to my gay friends and say "wow <3"

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran taking the truly unique “I respect Macklemore as an artist, but not as a person” stance

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"we're intentionally slowing down development so we don't cause the apocalypse" is a cool position for when you've promised revolutionary things to investors that you have no real plans to deliver

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Them @them.us · 14/09/2026

A statement from our editorial team.

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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

trying to abstain from discoursetalk but saw that a term “omnicause” was coined to describe how unreasonable and unserious the unity of all left wing struggles is. girl they coined a better term “solidarity” and it came free with your French Revolution!

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Underrated point here: when you alienate your base, you're not just losing votes. You're losing people who would campaign for you. Who would phone bank for you, knock on doors for you, tell their friends and family to vote for you. Is the hypothetical genital-obsessed centrist gonna do all that?

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am an AI engineer with 20 years of experience designing complex predictive models. I am resigning from Anthropic today because their toilet paper gave me a big stinky diaper rash.

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Picnic Magazine @picnic-mag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Picnic Vol. 3 Personal Ads now available, magazine coming Fall 2026. Promote your album or literary project, find a new lover, sell your mattress, etc. Ads are free and we will publish as many as we can, tho will be selecting based on space and quality. Fill out the form: forms.gle/vpugriNxnCFw...

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

funny bc i've complained plenty about how often trans women get stuck on the trans beat because it's the only thing editors want from us, but it's frustrating when even THOSE opportunities aren't extended to us. we can't even be tokenized anymore!!!

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trans journalism panels with no trans women on them…….

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Picnic Magazine @picnic-mag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Surgery I’m for it.

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BREAKING: Blizzard union workers have ratified a historic contract that has secured guardrails around AI usage, layoff protections, remote/hybrid work benefits, and much more.

gamedeveloper.com

Blizzard union workers ratify contract covering 1,900 employees

Union members have secured guardrails around generative AI usage, layoff protections, remote and hybrid work benefits, and more.

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

me: ugh i hate my shoulders and my face, i can't dress for shit, i feel so weird and bad in my body 37 year old polish man on Seneca ave: hello beaUtiful, would u do me great honor of become my wife

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🦇 SCARE-sha 🦇 @spacethey.gay · 04/09/2026

tech ppl will rly be like "wow ai is becoming sentient we must be aware of their rights" while typing shit like "put my docor appt into calandar" and "make th code better this time"

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 03/09/2026

Big one today. Spoke to folks at The Working World, Seed Commons, and a few worker-owned restaurants and bars about how, exactly, to do the same for your restaurant. And more importantly, why you'd want to. www.weareravenous.com/worker-owned...