Jessica Smith

That’s what I told my son — I was like we can BOTH go for that much money

I think it’s in the water

Bwahaha. I'm diagnosing myself as allergic to patriarchy.

Honestly why am *I* the one who has DSM diagnoses when people like this are running the world I live in? Do we pathologize the lab rats for reacting to tests run on them?

I think we need a new DSM category for multi-generational racist sexist sadistic sociopaths

Kind of. The chapter I just finished was about Mary. Cheryl was a side character. Idk what he has done to Cheryl.

CW: just about everything imaginable

ASK NOT The KENNEDYS and the Women They Destroyed by New York Times bestselling author MAUREEN CALLAHAN A book cover with three women’s faces and three red lines. The women are Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette I think?

The chapter on RFK Jr is unhinged

An unfortunate sign of a changing economy: people are surrendering their pets. A shelter in NC says surrenders are up 43%, and NY care centers had to pause intake because they were at a “breaking point.”

a woman wearing a t-shirt with the letter s on it is walking down stairs Alt: a woman wearing a t-shirt is walking down stairs carrying two awkwardly large bags of trash

My dissertation advisor checked in with me lol. Here you go!

The oxytocin of texting your friends instead of just thinking about texting them 😆

I don’t think any of them are on Bluesky but s/o to the universe anyway. A good day for poetry. Today is also the day my son was due and I went into labor, although he wasn’t born till tomorrow.

Happy birthday to one of my favorite poetry elders, Ron Silliman; to my friend and amazing poet Cindy Arrieu-King; and to my hard-working editor at Veliz Books (celebrating its 10th anniversary this month!), an accomplished translator and poet herself, Lau Cesarco Eglin. 💐

Started reading Maureen Callahan's "Ask Not: The Kennedys and The Women They Destroyed" and it's uhh probably exactly what you expect if you don't have your Camelot blinders on

I am hosting a poetry zine workshop that explores all things vegetal on Friday, Aug. 8, at 12pm EST. If you or someone you know is interested in plant poetics, feel encourage them to sign up (or sign up yourself). It's free! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/mrf544ju

I need to make this Venn diagram a poster.

Cooper Lutkenhaus, 16, to become youngest American ever at track and field worlds At just 16, Cooper Lutkenhaus is set to become the youngest American ever to compete at the World Track and Field Championships, which take place next month at Tokyo.

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If you have any fears that your partner’s anger could spill over into violence, or if it ever has, please read this book. It could save your life.

no reading or writing in the lost heart. eat the lost heart in the midst of sociality— microwave Trans sociality is lost sociality They will not speak to me. Become a woman then mask while they reject me in the middle of yearning for people I do not care about.

“eat the lost heart in the midst of sociality—//microwave/it// Trans sociality is lost sociality//
They will not speak to me.”

Formatting Anya Johanna DeNiro’s FROM THE YEW!

<takes notes about how to handle a coup leader>

Thank you everyone here who is kind. It makes me happy

I wish there were more psychological tools that didn’t involve believing in god/eternity

There’s always a trade off

I sent my kid to a normal high school that isn't like this. I see him not getting the same standard of education, but I also see him making friends of all kinds instead of being "tracked" into a specific group.

Haha yup. I remember a girl who took all "regular" classes was ranked like 15. A coup. After attending a dreaded state school, she ended up going to Cornell for grad school. So, she had the secret key to the system.

One Quintillion Ways to Have PTSD Comorbidity: Recommendations for the Disordered DSM-5 - Psychological Injury and Law Galatzer-Levy and Bryant (Perspect Psychol Sci 8:651–662, 2013) have calculated the number of ways that Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5; American Psychiatri...

A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems

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The stress of all the "smart kids" knowing their class rank and GPA down to the hundredths, so if they took a quiz they could recalculate whether their class rank had dropped. (I wasn't ranked highly enough to bother with this competition but it was insane.)

Haha I just posted a question about this! What else is on your reading list? (Thank you!)

Eeee! Congratulations!