God, these poems are so good.

I really like your poem!

My poem “I’m Talking to my Plants Again” is very dear to me and I’m so thrilled to see it in the new issue of @alocasiamag.bsky.social. Thank you @sarahclark.bsky.social!

You can read the whole poem here alocasia.org/2026/02/15/e...

Cortney Lamar Charleston, IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER. Poems.

We love a book release! 🙌 Contributor @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social’s collection IT’S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER is out NOW from @nupress.bsky.social! buff.ly/LXCVUFh

visual novels should have a lil guy that jumps. even if it doesn't do anything. just in the corner have a lil guy that can jump.

Q: How do horses clap when they don't have hands?
A:

ICYMI

Order your copy of Tales from Manila Ave now!

"In the tradition of Sandra Cisneros and Edwidge Danticat, Patrick Joseph Caoile offers something wholly his own: a new generation’s immigrant experience, where Blue Power Rangers and buko juice coexist." —John McNally sundress-publications.square.site/product/tale...

Love

1. blue starry sky with large blue planet, griffin, transgender glyph, goddess figure, and foglifter logo. text reads, "Queer Mythologies. Call for Submissions. Online Exclusive Issue 1.2. February 15 - April 15."

2. blue planet background. text reads, "Call for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, scripts, visual art, multimedia. foglifter.submittable.com"

3. blue starry sky with blue and purple planets, purple dragon, and foglifter logo. text reads, "Queer Mythologies: a celebration of spirituality, folklore, and queer cosmologies. This open call seeks dreamlike, symbolic, and otherworldly explorations that reimagine mythology through a queer lens—queering gods and monsters, rewriting origin stories, and uncovering hidden lineages of desire, transformation, and devotion. We welcome interpretations of tarot, astrology, ritual, and divination that challenge binaries and expand spiritual narratives beyond the normative, embracing fluidity, mysticism, and personal myth-making. Submissions may be visual, textual, or hybrid, and should evoke a sense of the uncanny, the sacred, and the speculative—worlds where queerness is ancestral, cosmic, and divine."

Call for Submissions: QUEER MYTHOLOGIES: a celebration of spirituality, folklore, and queer cosmologies.

📌 foglifter.submittable.com

A silver book on a grey carpet, with black and purple drawings of tendrils and shapes, and black text saying ‘TENDRILS: ECOPOETICS OF COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE | EDITED BY FIELDNOTES COLLECTIVE’.

Joy in the book post. 💚

I have a poem in TENDRILS: ECOPOETICS OF COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE, edited by the brilliant Fieldnotes Collective (Pratyusha, Jessica J. Lee, Alycia Pirmohamed, Nina Mingya Powles). @silver-press.bsky.social

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"Just this week I told a woman on a first date
I was terrible at keeping houseplants alive.
She liked me. There was no need to lie.
It’s true, last autumn many friends left my life..."

—Tara Labovich :: "Liar"

alocasia.org/2026/02/15/t...

"Each morning I perform an embarrassing ritual where I put each of the books I’ve acquired in a circle and pick one like tarot. Who am I today? Then I read a few pages, morph into the character, and believe I am becoming someone."

—Ruby Wang

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"I was all mare, fawn, & galloped stallion

setting our fields ablaze, wild with want"

—Michal ‘MJ’ Jones

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colin firth, stellan skarsgård and pierce brosnan in mamma mia, looking suspiciously like three middle-aged tv presenters

tonight, on top gear

checking in on the final fantasy twitter account, they've still got it

A child drawing at an easel

A child playing the recorder

Whenever people are like "boooo you're gatekeeping talent by not letting people use AI to make art and music"

Like sorry these 6 year olds are beating your grown ass, bro.

A new Abnormal Mapping this weekend as we talk about a duo of games! We revisited DOOM via the strange PSX port, and then race through NiGHTS into Dreams… for an extra helping of 90s gaming.

We want emails about these and other games! Questions to abnormalmappingpodcast@gmail.com!

one of my fave games of all time, my fave roguelike of all time, and you will simply not fucking believe how well they made it work for handheld controls. you should play caves of qud

The Queer History Behind the Heated Rivalry Soundtrack | The Walrus Surprised? Indie rock was built by queers too

Contributed a little thing in The Walrus as part of a larger Heated Rivalry write up, about the Wolf Parade of it all and queerness in indie rock (that is also largely missing from HR)

thewalrus.ca/heated-rival...

TIL that john krasinski is the back of rainn wilson's head and all their scenes in the office had to be done with green screen and costume changes

painting of a water bear looking scared at a notebook between two cells

water bear worrying about the state of the Internet

Celebrating the Year of the Horse - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Celebrating the Year of the Horse brings together works from The Met collection to explore the horse’s enduring nature and vital place in Chinese civilization.

I'm putting together a list of exhibitions celebrating the #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheHorse, like this one at the Met - if you know of any happening near you, could you DM or email me the info? Thanks!! :)
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Ogawa Kazumasa, Cherry blossom, 1896

One of several Kazumasa photographs available as prints from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/ogawa-kazumasa/

I LOVE THIS!

frogmouth #knight

DOCTOR: What these results show is that you've never experienced insight, reflection, or interiority in your entire life. You can have no deeper thoughts than recognizing whatever you are looking at in any moment, or survival instincts like hunger for food. You are like a lizard, or a frog.
ME: Woow

Lee Smolin pauses working relationship with Perimeter Institute after being named in Epstein files Lee Smolin has been asked to “pause” his work by the Perimeter Institute as they review ties to Jeffrey Epstein

I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had

It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!