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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Congrats on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🥳 Contributor @wrefinnej.bsky.social is joining @thirtywestph.com next fall 🙌

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Big congrats @wrefinnej.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

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Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥

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Jennifer Wortman @wrefinnej.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have a new book coming into the world! Many thanks to Thirty West and Josh. I’m thrilled to be in the company of so many great writers.

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Jennifer Wortman @wrefinnej.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have a new book coming into the world! Many thanks to Thirty West and Josh. I’m thrilled to be in the company of so many great writers.

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Stephanie Austin @stephanieaustin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

YAY!!!!! I love this news.

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 21/09/2026

Welcome Jennifer!

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 21/09/2026

Acquisition alert! Jennifer Wortman will be joining Thirty West next fall. A PERSON'S ESSENCE FEELS THE SMALLEST is her 2nd story collection. Welcome! @wrefinnej.bsky.social We are excited to have a year of mostly short stories: the musculature of TW.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wrote about the claim that paying attention to Israel's genocide more than other atrocities is somehow suspicious or antisemitic. It is not. Israel receives more American military aid than any other nation, and has a unique place in american identity. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/whatabouti...

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Whataboutism In Defense of Genocide Is Bad

It ignores Israel’s unique place in American foreign policy and American identity.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 01/09/2026

Next sub call coming in ~48 hours (Wed, 9/2, 9pm central time), from our friends and yours, @lexirosenwrites.bsky.social! *full sub call language in alt text and replies*

Choose Your Own Constraint!

Hey hey, HADders! Lexi Rosen, here. While you can normally find me honking over at Silly Goose Press, Aaron and Crow were kind enough to pass over the keys to the skull pile this week and I can't wait to hand some out! I am SO excited to read your very best, RULE FOLLOWING pieces. I'm interested in constraints, patterns, syllables, rhyme schemes — whatever rules you've decided to follow are fair game for this call. Prose and poetry are welcome, but know that I prefer flash fiction and poems that can stick to one-ish page, and let's limit page counts to 3-5ish. That said, I care way more about the rules you're choosing to follow than the ones I lay out for you. Pretty please with a cherry on top let me know on a separate page (the last page, if possible!) of your attached submission document what rules and parameters you've decided to set (ie, I didn't use the letter E throughout the piece, I only wrote in haiku, every third word is an onomatopoeia, I had to use the word canteloup at least twice, etc), and feel free to include something about why, if you wanna — I love a craft choice and would love even more to hear about your process.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ashon had to have emergency surgery. He's going to be OK, but he's still hospitalized and won't be able to teach this semester as planned—or walk Speckles. The love between Ashon and this dog is so precious. It would mean a lot to be able to tell him that Speckles will be attended to while he heals.

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Donate to Your favorite internet dog niece needs longterm care, organized by Ashon Crawley

your favorite internet dog niece, speckles, needs longterm b… Ashon Crawley needs your support for Your favorite internet dog niece needs longterm care

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I talked with @bcmerchant.bsky.social about AI in the workplace, Google’s decision to ruin its search engine, robotaxis getting people arrested, Flock cameras getting destroyed, the movement against data centers, and what it means to build power against the tech industry.

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The AI Boom Is a Corporate Project. It Can Be Disrupted

“A lot of people are really sitting up and pushing back,” says Brian Merchant.

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Jennifer Wortman @wrefinnej.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Everything I write is nonfiction except for my nonfiction.

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Fun Book Person @alexmiller77.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I spy with my little eye ... my new story in the summer issue of Colorado Review!

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 02/07/2026

"Explain Yourselves" by @wrefinnej.bsky.social is one of my favorite short stories, like in the sense I am reminded of its characters and situations several times in a month.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“you look tired” yeah I haven’t slept well since I was like 10 years old

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If you're pre-ordering books during Bookshop's free shipping sale or during the Barnes & Noble 25% off sale, my first full-length short story collection comes out on September 8th. You can pre-order here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-arts... or here: bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

Black Arts cover (the cover art is The Sitting 2 by Stacey Gillian Abe which features a woman with blue skin under a teal sheet posing for a portrait) The painting is from the author's series on using indigo as a way to represent Black women and thinking about histories and faiths.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing—Raymond Williams

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/06/2026

Sending love to everyone for whom today is hard. 💜

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It’s buy one get one + 4 zines free weekend at the malarkey site. Excludes preorder titles because they don’t exist in physical form yet, but we currently have a lot of backlist titles in stock. A curated sale, meaning I’ll pick a free book that pairs well with your order. malarkeybooks.com/store

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Bookstore — Malarkey

You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"The Grief Shop is nothing less than a triumph over the worst in and of us", says @wrefinnej.bsky.social in their new interview with @alessandrostardust.bsky.social for @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

"Yet through the dystopia of The Grief Shop runs a deep vein of humanity, and social media also has that vein: friendships can blossom there, and I consider Alex a friend. What I admire in Alex, I admire in their writing. Alex’s body of work, which includes two memoirs, a novel, and a previous story collection, shines with moral clarity while grappling with the complexity of existing in this broken world. Alex put this moral clarity into practice after the 2024 election, when they quit a dream job in protest of their publisher employer’s new ultra-right-wing imprint—an act that came at great financial and personal cost. Yet they, like their characters, carry on, and Alex’s art continues to thrive: The Grief Shop is nothing less than a triumph over the worst in and of us."

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BOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

@alessandrostardust.bsky.social, interviewed by writer @wrefinnej.bsky.social, discusses their short story collection, “The Grief Shop” (@sevenstories.bsky.social, 2026), about numbness, labor, survival, and the radical act of imagining a better world.

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BOMB Magazine | Alex DiFrancesco by Jennifer Wortman

Short stories on numbness, labor, and survival—and the radical act of imagining a better world.

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Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

Photo of the Dark Horse Workers United statement.

For ALT TEXT readers, the statement is too long to fit into ALT TEXT. Please find the full statement on the DHWU website, linked in our bios

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

And so we have a cover. Thank you so much @alkratz.bsky.social for sharing your oil pastel for the cover and thank you Silverbacked Punk for publishing Song from the Blimp Ruins, which will be available on June 8. ❤️

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

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Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs

UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 08/04/2026

A huge welcome to the newest member of the SLP family, Haitian-born psychiatrist and writer Jonas Attilus and WHAT THE GROUND COULDN'T SHAKE, his memoir of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the collective trauma and displacement that followed survivors through the aftermath. Coming in August 2027!

Welcome to the Split/Lip Family Aug. 2027: WHAT THE GROUND COULDN'T SHAKE. B&W photo of a Black man (Jonas's bio photo) and his bio: Jonas Attilus is a Haitian-born psychiatrist practicing in Minnesota. He earned his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), a Master of Public Health from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and completed his psychiatric residency at the University of Minnesota. He has studied internationally in France, Greece, Germany, and Poland.
Jonas is a member of the Minnesota Refugee and Immigrant Writers Group. He writes in Haitian Creole, French, Spanish, and English. He is a 2014 Spanish-language winner of the United Nations’ Many Languages, One World (MLOW) essay contest. What the Ground Couldn’t Shake is his debut memoir.

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Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Gonna drop the gimmick for a second and explain, as a therapist. What you're describing is a phenomenon called Revenge Bedtime Procrastination. It's a subconscious habit that develops in which a person seeks dopamine-releasing behavior at night to exact "revenge" on the day which deprived them

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

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The Rumpus - El Alboroto

El Alboroto es una nueva sección en español que forma parte de The Rumpus. La revista busca publicar voces innovadoras y textos que quizás no encajan en publicaciones más tradicionales. Nos interesa e...

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Need everyone to appreciate this picture @ketchiklein.bsky.social sent me

A picture of the Goya painting Saturn devouring his son. Instead of a baby Saturn is holding a coffee mug that says “don’t talk to me until I’ve had my son”

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

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Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Cover art reveal! Out April 7! Thank you, Adam @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social!

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer

Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

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Trent Brown @joshuatrentbrown.com · 07/02/2026

Two beautiful books for the price of one!

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

If we could write perfectly, writing wouldn't be any fun.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

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Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

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Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark

On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 03/02/2026

today is the last day i will ask you to donate to people’s rent this month. we are trying very hard to meet a $30,000 goal today to help the last few families on our list before their rent grace period ends.

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Venmo | SouthMpls RentSupport

Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/02/2026

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

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Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota

Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Please examine what body cams *didn’t do* to stop police violence over the last decade plus since they were initially touted as a solution and understand that some of you are now rallying behind a false solution that will be a tool of criminalization more often than anything else.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026

We are all drowning in a pool of systemic propaganda so I understand why the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti feel esp shocking and I think it is important to do the internal work of asking yourself, if this applies to you, why the deaths of immigrants/Black folks don't shock in the same way

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

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