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I just found out my kid dared another kid to eat his own ear wax. I will not recover.

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This is not sustainable and it's just absolutely RIDICULOUS that someone hasn't just given $1 million to this fund. They CANNOT continue to have to raise money IN ADDITION to all the work they have to do. This is a fund run by VOLUNTEERS. And I'm sorry but the Left(s) talk about mutual aid a lot &

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Passive aggressively paying me for work that you have no way of knowing I’m behind on.

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I just carried my phone in the hand attached to an armload of laundry I was carrying to the already running washing machine because I like danger.

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I don’t want to feel so annoyed by well intentioned people having ideas to stop the horrible things happening. But the way they think it’s all so easy and someone else (not them!) should just quickly put it together. Oh, stop paying taxes. Easy peasy! And let’s do a general strike. No big deal!

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I think it’s kind of miraculous how my fingers might confidently type whole sentences from the wrong place on the keyboard.

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Post number 4 of the Lit!Commons takeover of my craft column! It's Aimee Johnson's fantastic analysis of "You Too Can Have a Pass Rate Like Mine" by Swati Sudarsan. @aimee13.bsky.social @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social @hexliterary.bsky.social

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Do we think the odds of that asteroid thing are really zero or they just fired the people who do math?

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When Angela Chase can’t eat dinner because it would make her mom too happy.

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Whatever you think of either statement, the following two sentences do not say the same thing: “Democrats lost because they support genocide.” “Don’t vote for democrats because they support genocide.”

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Last week I: 1. Ate the plums in the ice box 2. Remembered you were saving them for breakfast 3. Felt bad for a moment but it was too late 4. Savored their deliciousness: so sweet, so cold 5. Wrote a poem about the experience

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1. Deleted a comma 2. Put it back 3. Deleted it again 4. Put it back 5. Deleted that comma

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"We’re all monstrous in one way or another, and I like exploring that." This time last year we published @allisonwyss.bsky.social in conversation with @sillysyntax.bsky.social . Read this interview in our archives: https://buff.ly/3SEz8Gc

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It’s a very good idea to be cautious. It’s also a longstanding strategy of legitimate and trustworthy organizers to build lists to communicate with supporters of their cause. I’m not saying to give your name! Maybe you shouldn’t! But being asked for it is not the automatic red flag some claim.

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Hear me out: a hooded sweatshirt but the hood is a pillow

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I swear to god the more an egg costs, the more likely I am to flip it right off the pan.

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It does take skill to be funny. But it doesn’t take much to know when something is not funny. It doesn’t take that much skill to know when a “joke” is oppressive or mean spirited and not actually funny at all. If you have trouble with this, what you want to fix is your values.

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Seems totally sci fi to me that the snow I tracked in a few hours ago has yet to melt.

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People want to say “Gotcha! That plan will really backfire!” But who cares if everything also front fires and side fires and up fires and down fires?

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The fact that he is declaring himself a nondemocratic ruler is in fact an important piece of context about those actions.

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The idea (bad joke?) that the US left welcomes Trump’s threat to take over Canada because Canadians would checks notes vote better? Can we (US folks) all renounce that loudly? Of course it is: 1. Not how it would play out 2. arrogant, entitled, nobody-outside-of-the-US-matters, rude bullshit.

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I, a working artist who once very much hoped for an NEA grant, will never ever sign an Assurance of Compliance. Imagine what kind of “art” you’ll get from the people who will.

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If ai could help me by figuring out how to turn itself off I still wouldn't give it the fucking satisfaction.

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I don’t (yet?) block for it, but if you post about your substack, I unfollow you. If I see a post about your newsletter on any other platform, I click, read, and quite often subscribe. (Oh yeah and I absolutely block if I see ai.)

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"Google it" used to be such a great way to say "Go screw," but now it's like complicated and unethical and it IS hard to find information. ai ruins everything everything everything.

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They should go ahead and add an obstacle course to summer camp signups, make us battle other parents with american gladiator weapons, wear costumes, mud pits, maybe some live snakes.

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Sucks that the kid grew out of gummy bears in chocolate ice cream not a minute before she grew into finishing her ice cream.

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My kid: “You’re hard to draw because I don’t want to insult you.”

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Lots of people saw all of this coming and worked really hard to prevent it or warn others. Those people are great. But if you claim to have seen it all coming and obviously did absolutely nothing with that knowledge—then I don’t know why you think that is something to brag about.

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Like, my nostalgia is not for how the past was, but for how I used to envision the future.

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I remember worrying (waaaaaaaaay back) that maybe I shouldn’t put medical debt in a story because it would be dated by the time I finished and published it. That hope for a better future was sure something, huh?

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Ten years ago I celebrated Valentine’s Day by showing up 12 days overdue pregnant at the restaurant where my husband was chef, sitting at the bar, and blubbering real loud and messy.

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