Jen Palmares Meadows
@jenpmeadows.bsky.social
Creative Nonfiction Writer. Essays. Memoir in Progress. Work in Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Denver Quarterly, Hobart. Sacramento Valley via SoCal. jenpalmaresmeadows.com
“large parts of the internet are information deserts, in which the only available brain food is junk.”
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“large parts of the internet are information deserts, in which the only available brain food is junk.”
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ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry!
>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com
>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry!
>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com
>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com
For shame, USA. We must do better! Our children deserve better.
“The agency enforces the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the law creating a free and appropriate education for children with disabilities, and funds special education services to the tune of around $15 billion.”
“The agency enforces the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the law creating a free and appropriate education for children with disabilities, and funds special education services to the tune of around $15 billion.”
Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources
The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
For shame, USA. We must do better! Our children deserve better.
“The agency enforces the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the law creating a free and appropriate education for children with disabilities, and funds special education services to the tune of around $15 billion.”
“The agency enforces the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the law creating a free and appropriate education for children with disabilities, and funds special education services to the tune of around $15 billion.”
If you are thinking about asking friends or relatives if they took Tylenol when they were pregnant, STOP. No one has to justify their TYLENOL use, and you are not helping.
September 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you are thinking about asking friends or relatives if they took Tylenol when they were pregnant, STOP. No one has to justify their TYLENOL use, and you are not helping.
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Happy Star Trek Day! forever grateful to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for taking a chance on my sad-jeans Star Trek poem all those years ago www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/y...
Yellowshirt Elegy, by Meghan Phillips — Barrelhouse
Down in engineering you can’t even see the stars. Dad was so proud when I was reassigned— the heart of the ship, the heart of the ship,
www.barrelhousemag.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Happy Star Trek Day! forever grateful to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for taking a chance on my sad-jeans Star Trek poem all those years ago www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/y...
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Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of Art Nouveau and the Glasgow School #WomensArt
September 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of Art Nouveau and the Glasgow School #WomensArt
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No matter what uniform they wear, federal agents and military troops on our streets are bound by the Constitution.
For more information, go to aclu.org/deployment_kyr.
For more information, go to aclu.org/deployment_kyr.
September 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
No matter what uniform they wear, federal agents and military troops on our streets are bound by the Constitution.
For more information, go to aclu.org/deployment_kyr.
For more information, go to aclu.org/deployment_kyr.
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"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom."
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGee
Alexis throws a big party and everyone’s invited. She lives a half-hour drive from her childhood home, the one with the big bay window and the basement where we had sleepovers every other weekend f…
okaydonkeymag.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom."
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
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another "5" list, today from Rachel Beachy, that kinda sneaks up on you and then just knocks you out
"After you wished for a horse for the backyard, I said maybe next year.
You asked if I had fun at Chuck E. Cheese."
https://www.havehashad.com/25jix
"After you wished for a horse for the backyard, I said maybe next year.
You asked if I had fun at Chuck E. Cheese."
https://www.havehashad.com/25jix
Lies I Told the Day You Turned Five by Rachel Beachy
A bird flew into the window and you asked if it was asleep. When I played the video of Dolly Parton singing “Happy Birthday,” you thought she had recorded it just for you. You asked if I put the same…
www.havehashad.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
another "5" list, today from Rachel Beachy, that kinda sneaks up on you and then just knocks you out
"After you wished for a horse for the backyard, I said maybe next year.
You asked if I had fun at Chuck E. Cheese."
https://www.havehashad.com/25jix
"After you wished for a horse for the backyard, I said maybe next year.
You asked if I had fun at Chuck E. Cheese."
https://www.havehashad.com/25jix
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“Thank GOD the National Guard is here while I EAT MY PIZZA,” shouts a woman at Red Light on 14th in DC as yet another trio of guardsmen walk by.
August 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
“Thank GOD the National Guard is here while I EAT MY PIZZA,” shouts a woman at Red Light on 14th in DC as yet another trio of guardsmen walk by.
“With great cunning, Persephone seduced Sisyphus into trying Zeus’s Thunderbolt, a hot new app that promised to mass-unsubscribe him from spam newsletters. But it was a trick, and Zeus’s Thunderbolt instead flooded him with scores of emails hawking meme coins.”
—Hyginus, Fabulae, via Alex Baia
—Hyginus, Fabulae, via Alex Baia
Sisyphus’s Inbox
“And I saw Sisyphus in agonizing torment, drafting a reply to Kayleigh’s ten urgent UX questions. He hit ‘send,’ and immediately received an autore...
www.mcsweeneys.net
August 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“With great cunning, Persephone seduced Sisyphus into trying Zeus’s Thunderbolt, a hot new app that promised to mass-unsubscribe him from spam newsletters. But it was a trick, and Zeus’s Thunderbolt instead flooded him with scores of emails hawking meme coins.”
—Hyginus, Fabulae, via Alex Baia
—Hyginus, Fabulae, via Alex Baia
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Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home:
We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more.
Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more.
Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
August 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home:
We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more.
Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more.
Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
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We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
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Make a Zine! You! Yes, you!
We couldn't agree more, Imogen
GENDERTRASH From Hell Pre-orders close at the end of August 😱
www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/gende...
We couldn't agree more, Imogen
GENDERTRASH From Hell Pre-orders close at the end of August 😱
www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/gende...
August 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Make a Zine! You! Yes, you!
We couldn't agree more, Imogen
GENDERTRASH From Hell Pre-orders close at the end of August 😱
www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/gende...
We couldn't agree more, Imogen
GENDERTRASH From Hell Pre-orders close at the end of August 😱
www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/gende...
Bring back pieing politicians. Sandwiching also works.
Let's Bring Back Pieing Politicians
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Bring back pieing politicians. Sandwiching also works.
For when you are working with students or sending your kids off to school.
Yesterday I had the joy of resharing this fab resource & blog from @reachoutasc about spoon theory and Autistic energy accounting.
"Let’s imagine that the social, sensory and intellectual energy an autistic person has each day can be measured in spoons......"
reachoutasc.com/spoon-theory...
"Let’s imagine that the social, sensory and intellectual energy an autistic person has each day can be measured in spoons......"
reachoutasc.com/spoon-theory...
Spoon Theory and Autism. - Reachout ASC
My friend @AnnMemmott who blogs at http://www.annsautismblog.co.uk first introduced me to the Spoon Theory in relation to autism. It was originally created by Christine Miserandino when asked about...
reachoutasc.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
For when you are working with students or sending your kids off to school.
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Back at the casino.
August 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Back at the casino.
Thank you, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. With gratitude from viewers like me.
Corporation For Public Broadcasting (1996)
YouTube video by PBS Fanatic
m.youtube.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Thank you, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. With gratitude from viewers like me.
At the casino with parents. Mom won a bit at craps and I told her if she handed over 1K we could come back tomorrow. Now she’s just playing with her original seed money.
August 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
At the casino with parents. Mom won a bit at craps and I told her if she handed over 1K we could come back tomorrow. Now she’s just playing with her original seed money.
Dad refuses to eat ramen now because of what he read on “the Facebook.” Also cashews.
August 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Dad refuses to eat ramen now because of what he read on “the Facebook.” Also cashews.
This Tuesday feels like Monday.
July 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This Tuesday feels like Monday.