Kirin Khan @kirinjaan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Nabil was more than a brother. He was a mirror, a twin spirit. We understood each other. 4 out of the 7 of my family are gone now. I’m 42. I don’t know what to do. 2180
Kirin Khan @kirinjaan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026My brother Nabil has died. As you know, we lost our dad in 2013, brother Qayyum in 2020, and mom just last year. Losing Nabil under suspicious circumstances is a nightmare. An investigation is ongoing. We will share burial service details asap as the official process allows us to move forward. 101
Reposted by Kirin KhanLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/03/2026There's hope yet for my haters www.newscientist.com/article/2519...newscientist.comSingle-celled organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learningA trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism seems able to predict one thing will follow another, hinting that such associative learning emerged long before multicellular nervous systems 0352
Reposted by Kirin KhanAskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 30/01/2026With much love RIP Catherine O'Hara. 13929124
Reposted by Kirin Khanscare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 01/07/2025happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve. 954551741
Reposted by Kirin KhanAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The bees from My Girl have endorsed Cuomo 1416323914
Reposted by Kirin KhanBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 24/06/2025“It is interesting that countries that call themselves democracies—India, Israel, and the United States—are busy running military occupations.” An interview with Arundhati Roy:bostonreview.netHow to Think About Empire - Boston ReviewAn interview with Arundhati Roy on censorship, storytelling, and her problem with the term "postcolonialism." 15623
Reposted by Kirin KhanThe Onion @theonion.com · 10/06/2025ICE Releases Gavin Newsom Beheading Videotheonion.comICE Releases Gavin Newsom Beheading VideoWASHINGTON—Disseminating grainy footage of the California Democrat meeting his disturbing and bloody end, Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a video Tuesday in which Gov. Gavin Newsom is see... 1935136765
Reposted by Kirin KhanMatt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 09/06/2025"Someone once said that God offers man the choice between repose and truth: he cannot have both." —Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard 1345
Reposted by Kirin KhanVictoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 09/06/2025#PromptCombo thank you @rfsmith.bsky.social for excellent hosting last week ❤️ This week I'm looking for poems on #Decay. Is decay inevitable? Can you find the beauty in it? If you get right up close to it - what does it look, smell, feel like? Replies may be a little delayed as I've a busy week. 3011425
Reposted by Kirin KhanDr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Consent isn't consent when you're scared out of your mind, deprived of vital information, or not in a position to realistically survive if you say "no." And "survival" has multiple dimensions beyond physical. That's not an "excuse," that's reality. 318329
Reposted by Kirin KhanMomma Dart @mommadart.bsky.social · 08/06/2025These kids aren't afraid of fake bullets. They've been faced with the threat of real ones since kindergarten. 844337
Reposted by Kirin KhanAlan Cummings’ Traitors Outfits @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 31/05/2025media.tenor.coma black and white photo of a man wearing a suit and tie .ALT: a black and white photo of a man wearing a suit and tie . 031
Reposted by Kirin KhanRusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 29/05/2025Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree. 21102553392
Reposted by Kirin KhanPoetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 26/05/2025📣 We are hiring! Poetry Ireland are seeking a passionate, qualified Librarian to lead the development of the new Seamus Heaney Poetry Library at No. 11 Parnell Square. ℹ️ Find full information and application details here: www.poetryireland.ie/news/poetry-... 🚨Deadline: Friday 30 May, 5pm #JobFairy 12819
Reposted by Kirin KhanAndré Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I went to a farm in the Netherlands that cares for #dementia patients. Here’s what I learned about a good life - and a good death, by Fay Martin www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com #eldercarethestar.comI went to a farm in the Netherlands that cares for dementia patients. Here’s what I learned about a good life - and a good deathAlternative living arrangements provide an option from long-term care homes that focuses on providing life with purpose 07523
Reposted by Kirin KhanMeg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Hanif Abdurraqib just quoted this poem in a theater, and I needed it so bad. He said “the way that I want to love is not fully legible in a world like this one.” www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...poetryfoundation.orgIntifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND REACTION I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED MUSIC OUT THE WINDOWS I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED N... 19119
Reposted by Kirin KhanAfter Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 22/05/2025If you are a teacher and assign one of our stories for your students to read, I'm happy to video conference into your class as the editor of After Dinner Conversation magazine to discuss the story and discussion questions with your class! 03110
Reposted by Kirin KhanSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.newyorker.comIn Defense of DespairThe feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so. 711543455
Reposted by Kirin KhanSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 19/05/2025If taking it to hell is an art form i wanna be da Vinci 19916
Reposted by Kirin KhanSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 19/05/2025"i wouldn't wish ____ on my worst enemy" not me... i "be" wishing it 27645156
Reposted by Kirin KhanMatt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 16/05/2025A favorite revision trick that almost always brings a dull scene to better life: transform anything the protagonist thinks into something they say aloud and then just write what happens next. 5618
Reposted by Kirin KhanJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 16/05/2025All the books I ordered last week just arrived! Can't wait to pour myself a drink, relax, be too tired to read and play around on my phone all night 1453856221
Reposted by Kirin KhanAli Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 13/05/2025"I asked ChatGPT, and--" ...the ghost of Ada Lovelace appeared and punched you in the face, I hope. 272582556
Reposted by Kirin KhanJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025complaining about my day means I’m in a decent mood. if I say some shit like “just practicing gratitude today” I’m probably at rock bottom and contemplating illegal activity 5808150
Reposted by Kirin KhanAfter Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 11/05/2025"Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." - Groucho Marx 19216
Reposted by Kirin KhanAdam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB. DMs are open, email is adam@thefrontlist.org. 3141135
Kirin Khan @kirinjaan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025I’m subscribing to as many literary journals that have lost their NEA grants as I can. Literary journals are so important for writers, readers, and to literature as a whole, and are mostly volunteer run, with tiny budgets. Every time we lose one, we lose unique voices & perspectives we so need. 000
Reposted by Kirin KhanSmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 07/05/2025It’s Wednesday. The Smokey deadline is midnight, NYC, Saturday. It’s time to step away from that comma, now. That’s right. Eaaaasy does it. No, I don’t know if it should “maybe be an em-dash”. Did you drink water today? You seem to have an olive in your hair. C’mon. That story is DONE. Send it. 12110
Reposted by Kirin KhanAli Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Darlings, a moment. Don’t give up on your dreams. Or, if you do, remember that you can choose to pursue them again. We often get down on ourselves. Let the world creep in. Too much has happened. Not enough has happened. We’re too this or too that. That’s crap. It’s not too late until you’re dead. 4519
Reposted by Kirin KhanBob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Feeling extremely seen by @asherperlman.bsky.social today... #booklove #emotionalsupportbook 514332
Reposted by Kirin KhanBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/05/2025It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit. 1220346124784
Reposted by Kirin KhanMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Happy May Day, don’t be a scab. 52539671
Reposted by Kirin Khan🦋 Bluesky Support 🦋 (unofficial) @bsky.support · 25/04/2025we will never let you edit posts. you must wear each typo as an albatross. you will bear the weight of your hubris 41279131532
Reposted by Kirin KhanJim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025My painting TIDAL WETLANDS 1010427814028
Reposted by Kirin KhanSmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 24/04/2025The first winner of "The Smokey" in 2018 was Alvin Park @chipmnk.bsky.social with his rich, moving "Whale Fall". It still slays us every time we read it. The 2025 deadline for The Smokey is May 10! Send us something you love. www.smokelong.com/stories/whal...smokelong.comWhale Fall - SmokeLong QuarterlyShe and I were one year married when we made the decision and waited for the papers to remove the priest’s words and our vows. I told myself we could fix this, that it was because of the village’s new... 2151
Reposted by Kirin KhanDr Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I was just told that my launch event in Glasgow was going to be cancelled because I don't have *enough* tickets sold. Humiliating—not least because I worked my butt off for this book & went to other people's launches. If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.waterstones.comLindz McLeod launches The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | WaterstonesEvents at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Lindz McLeod launches The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet today. 31198244
Reposted by Kirin KhanSmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 22/04/2025How is time ticking down so fast? Just 18 days and 21 hours now to enter. The Smokey. Our fifth year. $4700 in the prize pot, maybe more. If you're an earthling over 18 you can enter. Send us work you love. Your name should appear ONLY in your cover letter. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...smokelong.comThe SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025 - SmokeLong QuarterlyThe SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) is now an annual competition that celebrates and compensates excellence in flash. Our first grand prize winner in 2018 was “Whale Fall” by ... 0115
Reposted by Kirin KhanMORGUES @mxmorgan.com · 16/04/2025Here's an alternate fantasy author who isn't an absolute cunt: Ursula K Le Guin 295141059
Reposted by Kirin KhanElectric Literature @electricliterature.com · 13/04/2025These Indonesian authors defy that societal conventions around shame that would silence them.buff.ly7 Indonesian Novels in Translation That Push Boundaries - Electric LiteratureDias Novita Wuri, author of "Birth Canal" recommends Nusantara fiction that shines a light on the taboo 084
Kirin Khan @kirinjaan.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Sigh. Tried to invite a guy over to hookup but instead I said “read books together” soooo if you’re wondering how long it’s been…it’s been a very long time 😭 100
Kirin Khan @kirinjaan.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Been having a hard time for awhile now. I keep wanting to talk to my parents but they are still dead. 130
Reposted by Kirin KhanHAD @havehashad.com · 10/04/2025SECRET SUBMISSION CALL!! By which we me mean... a "SECRETS" themed submission call. In ~48 hours. Saturday, 4/12, 12pm (noon) ET. Sub call capped at 150 submissions. Guest editors? Team hex (Kate, Danny, Joe)! 58123
Reposted by Kirin KhanIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period. 812425767264