Tom Howard
@dcprose.bsky.social
Mostly goo. Books: Invisibilia, Fierce Pretty Things.
tomhowardfiction.com
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Guardian’s shade game is top notch.
February 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Guardian’s shade game is top notch.
Vote April 21 to make it happen if you’re in VA
would love to not be represented by a chud
February 7, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Vote April 21 to make it happen if you’re in VA
But how will it look futuristic then
China to become first country to ban hidden car door handles. This due to safety concerns after EV accidents where electronic doors reportedly failed to operate and trapped passengers inside.
Sky News
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Sky News
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China to become first country to ban hidden door handles — Sky News
From next year, new car models will have to have both exterior and interior handles with mechanical releases.
apple.news
February 4, 2026 at 10:11 PM
But how will it look futuristic then
One thing that goes undermentioned (maybe?) is Trump’s 19th century essayist capitalization style. Random nouns capitalized for emphasis. This is intentional - you have to work to make this happen with texts and posts. By now it’s a brand but I wonder what really drives it.
the president is psychotic. in reality, his numbers are near all-time lows.
February 3, 2026 at 11:42 PM
One thing that goes undermentioned (maybe?) is Trump’s 19th century essayist capitalization style. Random nouns capitalized for emphasis. This is intentional - you have to work to make this happen with texts and posts. By now it’s a brand but I wonder what really drives it.
“Benjamin Franklin, who turns up during episode two, is particularly nightmarish. He looks as if someone has genetically spliced Hugh Laurie with Anthony Hopkins, and then covered the resulting monstrosity in a thin layer of roving liver spots.”
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror
The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online series
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
“Benjamin Franklin, who turns up during episode two, is particularly nightmarish. He looks as if someone has genetically spliced Hugh Laurie with Anthony Hopkins, and then covered the resulting monstrosity in a thin layer of roving liver spots.”
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
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telling my adorable daughter i'm not putting the drawing she made on the fridge because it's toddlerslop
January 30, 2026 at 11:02 PM
telling my adorable daughter i'm not putting the drawing she made on the fridge because it's toddlerslop
It’s like the live action Schoolhouse Rock characters running the city and it warms my soul
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 9:58 PM
It’s like the live action Schoolhouse Rock characters running the city and it warms my soul
This is an abomination, yes, but it also shows the promise of AI, which is the promise of abominations
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 7:14 PM
This is an abomination, yes, but it also shows the promise of AI, which is the promise of abominations
I just can’t get over the weird thank you for your attention to this matter thing. It’s deranged.
Trump: “Dear Prime Minister Carney:
Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
January 24, 2026 at 12:34 AM
I just can’t get over the weird thank you for your attention to this matter thing. It’s deranged.
So a quarter of Republicans are concerned there hasn't been *quite* enough murder and kidnapping. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
Voters Are Split on Deportations but Disapprove of ICE, Poll Finds
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:10 PM
So a quarter of Republicans are concerned there hasn't been *quite* enough murder and kidnapping. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
This is the kind of dorky government-can-work vibe that I can get behind
January 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM
This is the kind of dorky government-can-work vibe that I can get behind
Weird because it’s ALL optics, the whole operation. He just wants to pick and choose the eyeballs that see it.
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn
So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.
newrepublic.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Weird because it’s ALL optics, the whole operation. He just wants to pick and choose the eyeballs that see it.
ARC and cover drop. Invisibilia, coming from Slant Books in April. Coffee is extra.
#booksky
#writingcommunity #coverdrop
#shortstories
#booksky
#writingcommunity #coverdrop
#shortstories
January 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM
ARC and cover drop. Invisibilia, coming from Slant Books in April. Coffee is extra.
#booksky
#writingcommunity #coverdrop
#shortstories
#booksky
#writingcommunity #coverdrop
#shortstories
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
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On only hours notice, hundreds of New Yorkers are gathering in Foley Square to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good
January 7, 2026 at 11:06 PM
On only hours notice, hundreds of New Yorkers are gathering in Foley Square to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good
Agree, it doesn’t matter at all if she was a citizen. It’s bad framing.
I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.
January 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Agree, it doesn’t matter at all if she was a citizen. It’s bad framing.
This is important - it can't just be about abolishing ICE, there has to be the guarantee of prosecutions, even if that happens down the road. Everyone signing up for ICE now has to know what's waiting for them. It's not a real job and there is no immunity.
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
January 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
This is important - it can't just be about abolishing ICE, there has to be the guarantee of prosecutions, even if that happens down the road. Everyone signing up for ICE now has to know what's waiting for them. It's not a real job and there is no immunity.
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Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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We don't have to live like this.
January 7, 2026 at 5:59 PM
We don't have to live like this.
Ah so it’s just about priorities
The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland.
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
January 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Ah so it’s just about priorities
Just a shoutout to the graphic designer who did the Gary Busey icon here.
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theonion.com/why-are-we-d...
January 6, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Just a shoutout to the graphic designer who did the Gary Busey icon here.
theonion.com/why-are-we-d...
theonion.com/why-are-we-d...
A screaming park where all anyone does is scream into the void alongside others is an idea from a chilling dystopian hellscape but still amazing. I’d do it.
my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.
January 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
A screaming park where all anyone does is scream into the void alongside others is an idea from a chilling dystopian hellscape but still amazing. I’d do it.
The first thing that made me laugh out loud in four days
January 6, 2026 at 10:51 PM
The first thing that made me laugh out loud in four days
I, not a poet, just wrote about Mary Oliver and enjambments on Substack, a site I know nothing about.
open.substack.com/pub/dcprose/...
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On poetry cliffhangers
Not long ago I picked up a copy of Mary Oliver’s Why I Wake Early (from The Strand on the Upper West Side, in the spot where the old Shakespeare & Co.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I, not a poet, just wrote about Mary Oliver and enjambments on Substack, a site I know nothing about.
open.substack.com/pub/dcprose/...
open.substack.com/pub/dcprose/...
my people
I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
January 3, 2026 at 10:19 PM
my people