Someone said "ciao ciao," I wanted to say "tchüss," and what came out because brain 2 slow was "choo choo"

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If you live near Providence, you know the collective power of the Brown students, especially over the last few years. This is devastating on so many levels.

Thrilled to have made it to this year's @smokelong.bsky.social micro competition shortlist! 🎉

5x a week German classes have completely obliterated my writing schedule, but I now have So Much Energy to get going again

So incredibly creative.

I'm the worst at keeping up with social media, but here are two of my new pieces!

One is very somber.
crowcrosskeys.com/2025/10/11/l...

One is decidedly not.
www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

Call it the duality of the writer. (Or the writer being hangry for one of these -- guess which.)

I have a debut short story now published @ricepapermag.bsky.social!

ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/08/the-...

"Protecting" the populace from depressing, ugly, & "confusing" art (& representing it as contagion) has been a feature of more than one authoritarian regime, and whether folks like Isabel realize it of not, they are siding with deeply anti-democratic ideas when they engage in this type of rhetoric.

wow. I'd been lazing about & procrastinating on reading, but after this I'm inspired to procrastinate no more @bridgetlowe.bsky.social

Fifty-two seconds without air. A record. Has to be. I set the stopwatch back on the edge of the pool, refilling my lungs with oxygen. “It’s okay to be jealous of my breath-holding abilities,”

Today on ergot.: 'Inside It Now' by Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Chri...

Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents

Leader tells other frogs not to worry. Healthy, hard-working frogs are fine. They can climb out of the pot whenever they want.

The US Secretary of Health says that boiling water is actually good for frogs. It keeps them from turning gay.

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sig...

get swept up with us today into today's square from Ivy Grimes

"...he said he had news. He was going to ask our mutual friend to be his girlfriend. It was the first time I'd ever been alone with R. "Why are you telling me this?" I said."
https://www.havehashad.com/ud9j6

thinking about how our tour guide casually said "and over here is a leftist bar that a group of nazis attacked last week, which i've never seen before in my twenty five years of living here. feel free to buy stuff and support them. anyway"

cat so orange he likes lettuce

We are officially in the Third Red Scare. This letter from Josh Hawley to the @pslweb.bsky.social is absolutely chilling.

a neighbor has decided to learn the recorder. In unrelated news I'm not sure I support the arts anymore

I asked my SO if we had mayo, and he said 没有. I regret multiculturalism