Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsThe Rumpus @therumpus.net · 27/02/2026"Adrift in hollowed out artificial logs, we trailed our fingers in the chlorinated river, then stood, arms wide, daring the darkness to strike us." From "Knott's Berry Farm, 1996," a new essay by @jenpmeadows.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/n6pbseP 061
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Thanks especially to @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social for his keen edits, and to @roxanegay.bsky.social for pulling my work from the slush a decade ago! 010
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I’m deeply proud to share my essay, “Knott’s Berry Farm, 1996.” Thanks so much to @therumpus.net for their continued support of my writing. This essay is 30 years in the making and a love letter to the time, to the age, to all the girls, and to that place, Knott’s 1996.therumpus.netKnott’s Berry Farm, 1996 - The RumpusAt thirteen, we were not afraid to speak aloud what we already knew—we would rather die than let them see the secrets of our bodies exposed. They had taught us enough about hiya, that we feared the we... 261
Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsStop AAPI Hate Action @stopaapihateaction.org · 20/01/2026It's more important than ever to know what to do if ICE shows up at your door. Head to our website now to access our Know Your Rights guides and other multilingual resources. ⬇️ stopaapihate.org/community-resourcesstopaapihate.orgCommunity Resources - Stop AAPI HateThis is a central hub for information, training, and direct services for Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and AA/PI-serving advocates and organizations. If you can’t find what you’re looking for,… 075
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 19/10/2025“large parts of the internet are information deserts, in which the only available brain food is junk.”theguardian.comAre we living in a golden age of stupidity?From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently … 010
Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 15/10/2025ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry! >>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1 >>> anmly.submittable.com 24429
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 12/10/2025For shame, USA. We must do better! Our children deserve better. “The agency enforces the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the law creating a free and appropriate education for children with disabilities, and funds special education services to the tune of around $15 billion.”abcnews.go.comSpecial education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: SourcesThe nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News. 020
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Asking people if they took Tylenol when they were pregnant is not helpful. It is perpetuating a stigma against autistics. 000
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 22/09/2025If you are thinking about asking friends or relatives if they took Tylenol when they were pregnant, STOP. No one has to justify their TYLENOL use, and you are not helping. 110
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 13/09/2025This is so interesting to me and can be applied in so many ways. How is our moral health impacted when we ignore injustice around us, when we don’t speak out or speak up for others? 1220
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 10/09/2025lol. Read the flavor aloud to my 11yo and his one word reply: No. 110
Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsMeghan Phillips @mcarphil.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Happy Star Trek Day! forever grateful to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for taking a chance on my sad-jeans Star Trek poem all those years ago www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/y...barrelhousemag.comYellowshirt Elegy, by Meghan Phillips — BarrelhouseDown in engineering you can’t even see the stars. Dad was so proud when I was reassigned— the heart of the ship, the heart of the ship, 0107
Reposted by Jen Palmares Meadowswomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of Art Nouveau and the Glasgow School #WomensArt 01024149
Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsACLU @aclu.org · 06/09/2025No matter what uniform they wear, federal agents and military troops on our streets are bound by the Constitution. For more information, go to aclu.org/deployment_kyr. 19725298
Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsOkay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 05/09/2025"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom." "All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝okaydonkeymag.comAll the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGeeAlexis throws a big party and everyone’s invited. She lives a half-hour drive from her childhood home, the one with the big bay window and the basement where we had sleepovers every other weekend f… 2115
Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsHAD @havehashad.com · 05/09/2025another "5" list, today from Rachel Beachy, that kinda sneaks up on you and then just knocks you out "After you wished for a horse for the backyard, I said maybe next year. You asked if I had fun at Chuck E. Cheese." www.havehashad.com/25jixhavehashad.comLies I Told the Day You Turned Five by Rachel BeachyA bird flew into the window and you asked if it was asleep. When I played the video of Dolly Parton singing “Happy Birthday,” you thought she had recorded it just for you. You asked if I put the same… 0198
Reposted by Jen Palmares Meadowsamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 24/08/2025“Thank GOD the National Guard is here while I EAT MY PIZZA,” shouts a woman at Red Light on 14th in DC as yet another trio of guardsmen walk by. 5872971227
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 21/08/2025“With great cunning, Persephone seduced Sisyphus into trying Zeus’s Thunderbolt, a hot new app that promised to mass-unsubscribe him from spam newsletters. But it was a trick, and Zeus’s Thunderbolt instead flooded him with scores of emails hawking meme coins.” —Hyginus, Fabulae, via Alex Baiamcsweeneys.netSisyphus’s Inbox“And I saw Sisyphus in agonizing torment, drafting a reply to Kayleigh’s ten urgent UX questions. He hit ‘send,’ and immediately received an autore... 020
Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsSplit/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 20/08/2025Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home: We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more. Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are: 27954
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 19/08/2025I hate getting a new phone and transferring info, uploading new apps and logging in to everything. It’s the worst. I don’t get people who really enjoy new devices. I just want my phone to work and stay working. 030
Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsJapanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation. 5969822922
Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsLittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 15/08/2025Make a Zine! You! Yes, you! We couldn't agree more, Imogen GENDERTRASH From Hell Pre-orders close at the end of August 😱 www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/gende... 14221
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Bring back pieing politicians. Sandwiching also works.jezebel.comLet's Bring Back Pieing PoliticiansSince 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 030
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 13/08/2025For when you are working with students or sending your kids off to school. 011
Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsPapa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 06/08/2025 49126
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Thank you, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. With gratitude from viewers like me.m.youtube.comCorporation For Public Broadcasting (1996)YouTube video by PBS Fanatic 020
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 03/08/2025The plan is to hide from her until it’s time to leave or else tell her I left her winnings in the car. 000
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 03/08/2025At the casino with parents. Mom won a bit at craps and I told her if she handed over 1K we could come back tomorrow. Now she’s just playing with her original seed money. 100
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Dad refuses to eat ramen now because of what he read on “the Facebook.” Also cashews. 000
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Blasting some Rush at 11 would really improve my mood/outlook right now, but the fear of exacerbating my tinnitus stops me.m.youtube.comSpirit of Radio Rush Official Video (1980)YouTube video by Itzy Izna Babymonster 000
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 18/07/2025“We were saying, “Art is not enough; do something more.” When we did it, we were thinking, art is not enough; fundraising is not enough; memorials are not enough. You know, it was a call to people to get off their asses and do something more.” - Mark Simpson of Gran Fury 011
Reposted by Jen Palmares MeadowsJinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com · 26/06/2025What people want with AI is not literature, it’s products. What people often want to create with AI is not art, it’s a product that they would’ve bought or commissioned from an artist, but these companies now provide this workaround for you so you can bypass the process altogether. 132
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social · 23/06/2025That’s what sticky fingered filchers do. 120