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Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
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"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

lol

I can't be the only person for whom BAP = Best American Poetry and I had some questions

We're open for @barrelhouse.bsky.social nonfiction subs for another 9 days. I've only got 47 submissions so far, and would love to see way more. Please make my life more difficult, thank you barrelhouse.submittable.com

If you want to find where to sign the repeal petition, volunteer to gather signatures, or donate to the campaign: ohsb1petition.com

Ohio! This is happening—underdogs fighting back against a higher ed law that will regulate classroom discussions on “controversial beliefs,” including climate policy, marriage, immigration and electoral politics; plus weakens union efforts and strikes DEI. salon.com/2025/06/07/j...

It's New Guy Saturday! Here are your New Guys: 1) A guy who says "Wink!" out loud every time they wink at you, which is often 2) Ham Butler (self-explanatory) 3) Guy who waits for your self-checkout machine even though there's two other open self-checkout machines right next to you

"The Goonies" is still a guide to surviving hard times www.salon.com/2025/06/07/4...

this book is TERRIFIC, highly recommend

@amandamarcotte.bsky.social talking Mar-a-Lago Face on Standing Room Only today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoqA...

Cannot wait to read this.

Heyyyyyy ... my book RUNAWAY is on sale today! Haven't you wanted to read an incredible true story about a 13 year old girl who lived on those counterculture streets in the 1970s and lived to tell about it? www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/978...?

One sure sign Trump is losing it is he keeps forgetting he's supposed to pretend he is against the Nazis.

“After living through the first Trump administration and seeing how wild covering it on a daily basis was, I can tell you the second administration is so bad it makes the first Trump administration look nearly competent,” @briankarem.bsky.social writes.

Heyyyyyy ... my book RUNAWAY is on sale today! Haven't you wanted to read an incredible true story about a 13 year old girl who lived on those counterculture streets in the 1970s and lived to tell about it? www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/978...?

ELMER FUDD: *inside the criterion closet* miwwahs cwossing... twahmendous, just a twahmendous film ah ha ha ha .. here we go.... muwurhvern cawwahl

[bats eyelashes coquettishly] I, too, would like to be scooped up by a foreign power who recognizes my true genius and offers me funding for 20 years Anyone? Anyone?

Substack reinvented the blogosphere as a main hustle but the trick is blogs were always minor league ball and everyone making the leap to the majors had to adjust their skill up (most especially in "being a team player" and "making claims legal can defend") but now the majors are revising skill down

For the 50th anniversary of Born to Run, a track-by-track breakdown of the evolution of each of the songs on the record. Here's the story of "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" :

Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” comment wasn’t a gaffe — which is why she is refusing to apologize. It’s part of the larger Christian right war on empathy. www.salon.com/2025/06/04/j...

Salon’s writers, editors and contributors are here on Bluesky! Check out our starter pack and follow along for bold reporting and fearless storytelling. go.bsky.app/6nErUGa

Wonderful piece on Football Sissy in The Daily Mail. "One thing I wanted to say was if you're in the LGBTQ community, and you want to help other people in it, you can do so by coming out." -Jack Brennan Happy pride, folks 🏳️‍🌈 www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/ar...

Yep.

Non-creeps who are rich should also take note!

RIP Mr. White.

The particular road trip satisfaction of flipping the paper page on the AAA triptik.

We’re picking a new ice cream truck song today! youtube.com/watch?v=NfOH...

Danny McBride launched a tequila brand last year called Don Gato, so Modern Cat Magazine (!) interviewed him about "cats and tequila" in a section called "The Scoop" (!!!) This is the humanity we're being told we must forfeit so ChatGPT can help more robot-fuckers rip off Studio Ghibli for fascism.

"This year, in a rare twist, the #PRIDE scale seems to be moving a bit on the side that holds lesbian and lesbian coded content."

BONG

just flashed back to side gigging as a “chacha guide.” people would text stupid questions they wanted googled to 242-242, and i’d answer them for $.03/query, apparently $2.50/hour (~half texas minimum wage at that time). anyway i was wayyyyy better at googling than AI. bring back chacha guides

what's going on over there

the em dash has grown in popularity over the last 20 years or so and is thus over represented in the data sets they trained the fraud machine on and now we are supposed to tell people to stop using them because they were finding them useful, it's idiocy all the way down

It's the third anniversary of Depp v. Heard. Not here to relitigate it for my readers, who are smart folks and get that it was a farce. But I'm looking back because, in retrospect, it predicted Trump's win. An analysis. www.salon.com/2025/06/02/j...

sometimes knowledge is a curse

*Eagle screech* 🦅🏳️‍🌈