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[Faria Basher @fariabasher]

My freaky little short story, "Clayman's Terms," has found a home for itself in Issue 4 of The Core Review by Fork Apple Press (@forkapplepress)! https://t.co/mGwb1FXcAM

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

Wendy Cope, at her most Larkinesque

[Moonstruck❤️‍🔥 @godspeed_aflame]

very insulting to Sylvia Plath’s memory to suggest that she would say something so trite

[Commonwealth Foundation Creatives @cwfcreatives]

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize takes the allegations of AI use in the 2026 Prize seriously. Looking ahead, we are committed to reviewing our processes to better consider the rapidly evolving risk of AI. We recognise the upset felt by our community, and reiterate our support for all of our writers, alumni, judges and partners.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/MKigVk4JX1

[Ms.K @mskmalibu]

Ever since I was a little girl I knew I didn’t respect authority figures

[Soleil @soleiljolina]

Microdosing hell by being aware and literate

[Art Guide @ArtGuide_db]

Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1510

One of the most bizarre and fascinating visions of paradise and hell ever painted.

[Independent Women @IWF]

HORRIFIC: The Taliban recognizes child marriage under new law, permitting the forced marriage of girls as young as 9 years old.

@mobbs_mentality: “In Afghanistan, the Taliban has now codified child marriage into law, reducing young girls to property to be controlled, exchanged, and violated under the authority of the state. Afghan girls have been denied education, erased from public life, stripped of basic freedoms, and subjected to a system built on fear, coercion, and authoritarian control.

The Taliban’s continued assault on women and girls in Afghanistan is one of the clearest and most systematic examples of sex-based repression in the modern world. And the silence of the international community has become part of the tragedy.

Under Taliban rule, girls are handed over through forced and child marriages while so-called “consent” can be inferred from silence. A child’s inability to resist is being redefined as permission.

Childhood, dignity, autonomy, and safety are being systematically stripped away from Afghan girls in full view of the world.

Let us speak plainly about what this means in practice: state-sanctioned sexual abuse of children. At Independent Women, we refuse to look away.

We stand with the women and girls of Afghanistan. Their voices matter. Their freedom matters. And civilized nations must have the moral courage to say clearly that any ideology that normalizes the rape and forced marriage of little girls it is incompatible with Western civilization."

[⊹ ࣪ pam ˖✦ @pamvonhadder]

summer is bougainvillea season in the philippines

[poordesign @PoorDesign]

comic about nothing

[safi @safispoken]

just finished reading a breath of life by clarice lispector and oh okay

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Do. not. stop.

Thoreau

[Faria Basher @fariabasher]

Just terrifying from a child rights and child safeguarding perspective. Children deserve the truth about the world as it really is, a right to a liberated secular existence, and the development of reason- and logic-based critical thinking. Anything less is a human rights failure.

[Faria Basher @fariabasher]

The entire "let people believe in whatever religion they want to" argument is an inherently weak one as when the continuation of such religious belief occurs, it occurs heavily through the indoctrination of children, whose minds are malleable and therefore extremely manipulable.

[Faria Basher @fariabasher]

Photos from Dhamma Phala in Tiaong, Quezon Province, Philippines. I spent the past ten days here practicing Vipassana meditation, as taught by S.N. Goenka. Grateful for the opportunity.

The malady is universal but so is the remedy. Bhavatu sabba mangalam 🪷🩵

[Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint]

The Daily Worker, New York, May 4, 1927

[yas @livftbc]

someone commented why are leftists suddenly pro free market when its women's bodies and it made me think of this

[Faria Basher @fariabasher]

Started it. Brilliant as expected. And now this labyrinth must make sense of its labyrinthine self without her.

[Faria Basher @fariabasher]

Been putting off reading 'Mother Mary Comes to Me' for weeks because I'm pretty certain it'll emotionally obliterate me.

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

Clarice Lispector: one of the best.