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Yaffa is known around the world for its oranges. My grandmother, Khadra, tried to take some oranges with her in 1948, but the shelling was heavy. The oranges fell on the ground, the earth drank their juice. It was sweet, I’m sure. 🍊 🍊 🍊 🍊 🍊

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This is some of the most insightful, sensitive, and effortlessly badass writing about masculinity - as a concept, both highly specific and in relation to everyone it impacts - I’ve read in years.

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This resonated hard as someone who'd had a lot more masculine models of non-American, non- Euro-dominant culture around: you could like a wider range of sports, activities and culture, love your family without imposing authoritarianism, and more. I'm grateful I had that.

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Get Swole - a new blog post about masculinity and insecurity now at Meatthoughts 💜 www.meatthoughts.com/2025/02/21/g...

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February 💜

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Thanks for mentioning Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions - this is a fantastic thread 💜

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Queer writers. It's more important than ever to have our voices out there. For awhile my site Gayly Dreadful did that pretty well. But I have too many competing things to keep up that pace. That said, if you are a queer writer and want a place you can point to for your work, I will gladly host it.

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If you're around Minneapolis tomorrow (Sunday) I'll be tabling all things Weirdpunk at OddMart from 12-4. Come say hi!

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Want to buy some of my art AND make a donation to help those affected by the fires in Los Angeles? You’re in luck! Check out the fundraising event currently held by @artprinterla.bsky.social www.artprintsla.com/artists/mitc...

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Uncanny Love - a little celebration of Junji Ito’s autobiography Uncanny and falling in love with writing again 💜 www.meatthoughts.com/2025/02/14/u...

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When Everything Goes Wrong: new post up at meatthoughts.com 💜

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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

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My computer randomly crashed today. Even if I restore it, I’m going to lose months of work. Grieving and dangerously close to buying another notebook I don’t need.

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Spent some time today with Split Scream vol.2 by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social and @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social (edited by @alexebenstein.bsky.social)! Both novelettes are phenomenal. Wicked beautifully written. Wicked weird :)

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AAAH! The CHASERS ebook got an early exclusive release on godless dot com and is available NOW! Buying the ebook Goddess means more $$ goes Mariah and I and zero dollars goes to Amazon, it's a great way to support indie horror and ofc trans horror 🖤 Get your copy: godless.com/products/cha... 📚💙

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If we accept that “hips don’t lie”, who are the liars? Is it the elbows? I suspect the elbows. Masters of deception.

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You don’t need to be soft in order to be vulnerable. You don’t need to be kind in order to be honest.

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I have a poem (“I’m trans, so”) published online in the citizen trans project run by @newwordspress.bsky.social I hope you read some of these pieces and look at the art and marinate in raw trans emotion for a while 💜 www.newwordspress.com/citizen-tran...

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Substack comes out in favor of Elon. read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

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We Bite Back: A Queer Charity Anthology, is now on sale. All proceeds will be donated to Human Rights Campaign 💜 pridewithabite.com/we-bite-back...

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Oklahoma Senator Dusty Deevers has just introduced SB593, a bill that would criminalize p**rnography in the state of Oklahoma, establishing a 10 year prison term for anyone who makes, distributes or even possesses adult content. oksenate.gov/press-releas...

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The staff of @moviejawn.bsky.social honor David Lynch 💜 www.moviejawn.com/home/2025/1/...

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New words for you at www.meatthoughts.com

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I'm thrilled my story "The Customer Is Always Wrong" got a shout-out in this review of Costs of Living, an anthology edited by Steve Capone, Jr. - Author, out later this year from Whisper House Press: articlesofhorror.com/2025/01/24/b... 🖤🖤🖤

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I said “fuck it” and careened right into that wood. Yellow splinters in my shins for days. Doing great.

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Today is a great day to buy books by trans and nonbinary writers. If you are a trans or nonbinary horror creator who feels safe doing so, go ahead and share links to your work or the best way to support your work.

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Horror books by/incl trans masc authors that came out 2024. Please keep reading and sharing and supporting trans-authored work. I can personally vouch for all of these.

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Whatever, dude. I’m still fucking trans lol 💜 you can’t erase what already exists - you can either respect it or fear it. You chose fear.

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Not many submissions yet, but the call is still going until the middle of February. BIPOC writers--I'd love to read your horror/Weird fiction short story collections! cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Me on dating apps: Not interested in being your Daddy but I would like to be a father 😉

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Hey everyone with displaced dogs in Los Angeles! WAG N' SWAG in SilverLake is offering some free services tomorrow for people affected by the fires, and for first responders. Sorry this is last minute but they are doing some walk-ins! www.instagram.com/wagnswag_gro...

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It’s a twofer! I posted in my blog last week but didn’t share on SM, so now you get two posts at once - more meat for yer thoughts: www.meatthoughts.com

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A gentle reminder that even Weird Art requires the support of an audience. If you find a creator scratchin' an itch you didn't even know you had? BUY from them. That's how you get to have more.

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A small thing in light of this shitty news, but it would be lovely if today were the day this GoFundMe for TWIN PEAKS actor Carel Struycken and his wife, who lost their home in the Eaton Fire, reached its target www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...

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