Making a rose tree by grafting

Longtime Barrelhouse observers will note that I am slowly turning our brand from laser-eye cats to cryptids skateboarding and I think we can all agree that something about it just works.

This is not normal.🧵
A candidate for president is explaining how a worm ate part of his brain while a rival who’s an ex-president is “cursing audibly” in court while listening to a porn star describe lousy sex with him while a key supporter who wants to be the ex-president’s …

I won. I won my appeal.

The Luxembourg court has ruled that Jeff Dieschburg infringed upon my copyright when he used my work without consent.

Using a different medium was irrelevant. My work being 'available online' was irrelevant. Consent was necessary. 1/

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The fact that any of this even needs to be said--and that certain folks still don't care what kind of pain and injury they're enabling

Children should not be forced to bear children

No person should be forced to bear children

Still time to sign up for our next online workshop! 4 weeks with K. Hank Jost, discussing revision in fiction. $200, weekly Zoom meetings. Weekly lectures + writing exercises + working through revisions on your work

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Hey folks, wanna hear some weirdness?

Join me and Julie McGalliard at Two Hour Transport on May 22

Free and online for everyone to enjoy!

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Thank you for including my flowchart #flashfiction Electric Literature in this super insightful lesson on hermit crab flash, alongside these flash masters!

Please know before you watch that this is distressing - but it’s vital people know what’s happening

omigosh I'm teaching this #onlineclass for Hugo House on Saturday & there are still some slots left:

A Little Weird Can Go A Long Way
A (non-AI) generative writing class, 3 new ways of creating stories

Sign up here: hugohouse.org/product/a-litt…

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Make sure to sign up for Tara Campbell's class 'A Little Weird Can Go a Long Way' this Saturday at 1:10pm PT, hosted by Hugo House! buff.ly/4dBOnJR

Preorder CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES by Tara Campbell here: buff.ly/3UpFgmH
Susan Schulman IPGbook

What George said.

House Republicans have introduced legislation to repeal the $35 monthly cap on Insulin for seniors on Medicare.

This is a reminder that with Republicans, the cruelty is always the point, and Mike Johnson cannot ever be counted on to do the right thing.
#FreshUnity
#FlipTheHouse

Pretty rad review of SPLICE OF LIFE at Amazon.

A little love like this goes a long way to support great authors like SPLICE OF LIFE out now 🎉:

Dug the book? Please say so!

I got nailed with this scam. There's a lot of reasons why I got suckered (my wife doesn't respond to texts, she was in the area they mentioned), because it's a good scam. I was lucky and lost no money, for a variety of reasons, but I WOULD have lost money. Be wary of this one.

Reminder that we open for subs next week