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Got a story you want to tell? Cool. If you're in the Birmingham, Alabama area, come to my short story class starting June 2 at the Hoover Library and learn the ropes from an award-winning (and award-losing, dammit) author.

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In the latest edition of the @latguild.bsky.social Eagle, we say goodbye to more colleagues through short-sighted layoffs. If you're looking for ways to help the impacted journalists, please read to the end: latguild.com/news/2025/3/...

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That was fast. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

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Well, hell. RIP to perhaps the greatest one-liner delivery machine in TV history.

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Hey, here’s some more books I liked. You might like them too. Go on, get some @lauramchugh.bsky.social @curtisippolito.bsky.social @robwhart.bsky.social @nkolakowski.bsky.social @bamawriter.bsky.social @steveweddle.bsky.social and @meaganlucas.bsky.social Fun was had! #BookSky 📚🪓 #SummerRecs

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A stellar piece on the legacy of the Boston Celtics from Wright Thompson. Longform journalism on ESPN??? Who knew? www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

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Reading the story about the woman in Georgia who is brain dead and on a vent but not allowed to die with dignity because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead. Even in death, our bodies are not our own. State-owned property.

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I’m shocked to hear that the guy who swam in rock creek park in jeans is lying.

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9/11 First Responders: “The Secretary (RFK JR) is uniquely unqualified… This is 20 years of bullshit… nobody apologized after 9/11 — instead we created the World Trade Center Health program. And then to gut it? You took your own apology away from us… Kennedy is an id*ot.”

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I absolutely despise the Baltimore Ravens and hope Art Modell occupies a special place in hell. But I am incredibly happy for Derrick Henry, who is a generational talent. So fuck the Ravens, but Roll Tide.

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NEW FICTION. This might get weird. Thanks to @reckonreview.bsky.social for publishing this twisted little tale "Call Me Mr. Black." I hope you like it. The ending is, in my opinion, probably my best. reckonreview.com/call-me-mr-b...

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hard same tbh

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Stop using genAI.

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@nicjam25.bsky.social

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Although born in the US, he left America when he was 30 & became a Peruvian citizen & Cardinal living in Peru for 39 year's. He is very critical of shady vance & pope trump.... www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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We need educators like this

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“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

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Directly downstream of recasting college as a work credential than a site of learning.

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"Carl Hiaasen is great!" He is. But Donald Westlake did everything Hiaasen did, did it better, and did it first.

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Just saying...

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When people ask "Who influenced you as a writer?" have fun with the question. Sometimes I'll say "Seabury Quinn" and imagine the interviewer going off to find a series of really fucked-up short stories in Weird Tales and becoming a fan.

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June 10th Everything Burns All hail The King #KINGOFASHES

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Mark your calendar

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When you’re used to being the center of the universe, equality feels like oppression—and accountability feels like persecution. Republican panic.

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A single bat can eat a thousand bugs in an hour. If your art is small but mighty, we are ready for it. Now open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Translation, and Art! thedodgemag.com/submissions

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I saw a post — can't find it now — which asked "Did Gen X really do _______?" Whatever the question, YES, we likely did it. • Had smoking pits for students at the high school • Drank from a garden hose regularly • Spent hours without our parents or other adults knowing exactly where we were +

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So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other. Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

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‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

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Trump's firing spree has hit the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity that disperses federal funds to public TV and radio stations across the country. There's only one problem: Under the 1967 law that created the private corporation, Trump does not have the authority to fire them.

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Pretty bad look by the MWA to have AI-generated video for their presentations last night.

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I don't know... I'm no amateur crastinator. But you should place your votes today. Nominate these titles: Best Antho/Collection Negative Tilt: Stories by Bobby Mathews Burning Down the House edited by Michel Lee Garrett At the Edge of Darkness edited by Keith Rosson and Ron Earl Phillips (me).

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