Christopher Mark Rose

Is it meant to be ironic that they're playing The Washington Post march?

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

I need to start listening to his speak every day. Boy it's been too long. No there's nothing wrong with my eyes—

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Jeff Stahler
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Anyone who hasn't read this fanfic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the man who administers The Lottery from the Shirley Jackson short story, you should definitely read it!

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Looking northwest from the World Trade Center Baltimore—clear skies, glittering skyline.

Come see Baltimore from a new vantage, as you listen to up-and-coming authors reading fresh new work! At the Top of the World Observatory, World Trade Center Baltimore. 5pm today!

1953. It would appear that absolutely NOTHING has changed

Next Wednesday, join us with guests C.S.E. Cooney & Kristina Ten, for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, Mar 11th, 7pm at the KBG Bar. Come one, come all!

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Strong Women Strange Worlds presents First Friday QuickReads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror by Rachel Rodman Kristina Ten Mina Ikemoto Ghosh Jane Mondrup Mercedes M. Yardley March 6, 12 noon EST Free On Zoom Preregister now at StrongWomenStrangeWorlds.Weebly.Com

Find your next favorite read at this “book tasting” of science fiction, fantasy, & horror stories by women & non-binary writers. It’s fast, furious, and amazing! Plus, there will be prizes / giveaways! And you don’t even have to leave the house! 🌨️ #SWSWQR
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Just a random vote for the guy whose three-panel cartoons most often make me LOL—really, get yourself a copy!

Andrew Hiller reads from his mischievous Jewish fantasy noir, at the Top of the World Observatory (and with a surprise special guest!) Come join us for the highest—measured by altitude—AWP offsite in Baltimore, as we host a Charm City Spec in the sky!
#AWP #AWP2026 #awpoffsites

Free to all! Everybody is welcome! March 4th @ 5pm Charm City Spec and AWP present: ELWIN COTMAN in a live reading with an astonishing program of authors 27th Floor Observatory World Trade Center Baltimore Charm City Spec (Say "Charm City" at the door to gain entry after hours) PLEASE USE THE ELEVATORS

Please use the elevators when you come to hear Elwin Cotman read from the 27th floor observatory! Don't miss this one of a kind event!

(Free to all. Just say "Charm City" at the door to gain entry after hours.)

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

I honestly wonder if she has any real influence on her husband's choices?

Free for all! Everybody is welcome! March 4th at 5:00 pm Charm City Spec and AWP present Chris Campbell, in a live reading at the Top of the World Observatory, 27th story of the World Trade Center Baltimore. PLEASE USE THE ELEVTORS! Just say "Charm City" to get in the door after hours!

Don't miss red-hot writer Chris Campbell when he reads his truths from the highest building in the Inner Harbor. This will be a Charm City Spec like no other. The program is STACKED with talent! Come out and join us!

View facing southeast on a recent snowy day, from the 27th story of the World Trade Center Baltimore.

Don't miss the loftiest literary event ever held in Baltimore, and killer views of the city at sunset! 5-7pm on Wednesday March 4th. Free to all, and everyone is welcome! #AWP2026 #AWPoffsite2026
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#CharmCitySpec

March 4th @ 5pm Charm City Spec and AWP present: live readings by LANTERNFISH PRESS authors James Mater Simmons III reads from his forthcoming novel A GHOST AMONG MAGNOLIAS Andrew Katz reads from VampireGideon's Suicide Hotline Free to all! Everybody is welcome! 27th Floor Observatory World Trade Center Baltimore Charm City Spec

Lanternfish Press authors Andrew Katz and James Slater Simmons III read as part of Charm City Spec's AWP festivities! From the Top of the World Observatory — don't miss it!
#AWP2026 #AWoffsite2026
#CharmCitySpec #AWPBaltimore

The Tit's @ginatron.bsky.social will be there, with some of our besties. Please go! Take photos!

I get a little misty every time I watch that scene.

Do it! This sounds great!

Hero.

Lynn Ann Conway was an American computer scientist, engineer, and transgender rights activist. She worked at IBM and Xerox PARC pioneering microchip design before becoming a professor. After her retirement in 1999 she became an activist for trans rights until her death in 2024.

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Cover for issue 7, Spring 2026, of Trollbreath Magazine. The background art by Aimee Cozza shows a slim figure in a white astronaut suit. They are floating, but the are dramatically arched back as though some violent force has taken them. From the back of their helmet, a black swirl of planets and nebulae spews out and spreads wide.

Welcome to March! In case you missed it just after Midnight (Greenwich Mean Time): Issue 7 is out in the wild! Get your copies now by subscribing.

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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin

Image is of the 28-story-tall World Trade Center Baltimore, on a sunny day in the Inner Harbor. Text says: Charm City Spec, AWP offsite event. 27th floor, Top of the World Observatory, World Trade Center Baltimore, 401 Pratt Street. 5-7pm Wednesday March 4th, 2026. Live readings by: A.C. Wise, Andrew Hiller, Chris Campbell, Elwin Cotman, Gina Tron, James Slater Simmons III, Somto Ihenzue. Say "Charm City" at the door to enter after the building after hours. Free to all—everyone is welcome.

Don't miss the loftiest literary event ever in Baltimore, and killer views of the city at sunset! You won't regret it! #AWP2026 #AWPoffsite2026
#BaltimoreIsLit
#CharmCitySpec

I'll be a part of this reading a week from today on 3/4. If you're in the Baltimore area, it would be lovely to see you there! What a cool location for a reading!

Congratulations Thomas!!

The FIFA Peace Prize selection committee members nod solemnly and say they’ve never been more proud

Hate waking up to find the FIFA peace prize winner trying to start war again