Kara Rota

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

Super excited to share this belated Valentine's Day deal! Can't wait to work with Dr. Marina Rosenthal on this important book, and big thanks to @karalearota.bsky.social and @thompsonlitagency.bsky.social! Deal of the Day!✨

I liked this one too!

Ending voting for women is a core part of the Evangelical plan for the country. They have even considered implementing “household” voting where each family only casts one vote (and we know who decides). This is the first step.

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a curled up fox, looking down to the right, surrounded by blackberry blossoms, a crescent moon in the right top corner. Linocut, dark blue and white lines, Maria Strutz

Fox Dreaming of Spring 🤍🌿🐾

Having had drain flies this fall I can tell you this really is exactly what it’s like

it's the first of the month & subs are open: xraylitmag.com/submissions/

A not particularly clear picture of a crescent moon with a bright dot of Venus to the upper right. The sky behind is a deepening blue.

Venus and the Moon are gorgeous tonight 😍

News, as they say. Granted, there’s enough news. But this one is personal. Books to be made, especially during these times. Now as an agent representing non-fiction of all kinds.

shoutout to how songs you like are a gift you can give

If the trees in my yard can enter dormancy and sleep for months why can’t I?

saw people complaining about the font choice on the new lucy dacus album cover so i looked it up and you would never ever not in a million years before seeing it guess the totally normal font and context like i thought it was going to be papyrus or something

Notes Notes is the first book collaboration between Dirt and Night Gallery. A tribute to the humble iPhone note, the collection features 100 phone notes from 100 creative contributors. Ranging from packing ...

Ranging from packing lists to unsaid romantic confessions, Notes shows the full spectrum of human experience encapsulated in one irreplaceable app.

The book ships February 27th. Preorder on @metalabel.bsky.social! nightgallery.metalabel.com/notes?varian...

Are you in New York City on 2/27/25?

Come celebrate the launch of Notes at @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social's Seaport location. Tickets are $30 and include a copy of Notes, a drink and a printout of your own note. 🍷 www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/022720...

Introducing...Notes 📱🗒️

Notes is the first book collaboration between Dirt and Night Gallery. A tribute to the humble iPhone note, the collection features 100 phone notes from 100 creative contributors.

Card decks in the old Windows Solitaire game

My astrological belief is that your personality is determined by the solitaire deck you always picked.

Two Fairy Tales Once upon a time.

"She looked straight ahead. She had her headphones in. Her mouth was the color of lipstick and she made it flat and hard."

New flash fiction from @karalearota.bsky.social dirt.fyi/article/2025...

PEGGY by Daisy Alioto Peggy got down on her knees and asked God to send her a good man. She thought she had one in Jack but her friends told her that he wasn’t a good man, or if he was, he was good in the way that men are ...

today we have a story by Daisy Alioto @princessdaisy.bsky.social !! it's about Peggy, a woman trying to find a good man

xraylitmag.com/peggy-by-dai...

back down to earth no sky visions but these clouds red air above the Sierras by Nevada City this pool of water this fountain built by beavers two bodies playing on the rocks a muskrat swimming upstream the extraordinary again common learning to count: aspen calendula eucalyptus pine

the extraordinary again common

Ron Schreiber

club chalamet being 58 is so all fours group chat

“i am running into a new year” by Lucille Clifton i am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that i catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what i said to myself about myself when i was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six even thirty-six but i am running into a new year and i beg what i love and i leave to forgive me

Lucille Clifton, always.

‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas. Critics say these cases are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care.

Texas--with one of the country's strictest abortion bans, highest maternal mortality rates, and the most women without health insurance--faces an "epidemic" of abandoned babies, some being found in ditches and dumpsters wapo.st/3ZXDbks

SOLSTICE We laugh to think the Romans lit great fires in December to persuade the sun to come back. To persuade the sun!

Elizabeth Arnold