Matt Jakubowski (he/him)
@mattjakubowski.bsky.social
Multi-genre writer.
Forthcoming: Gone Lawn, elsewhere magazine, scaffold lit, Temple in a City. Flash fiction: Your Impossible Voice, Variant Lit, JAKE, Best Microfiction 2024, Milk Candy Review.
www.mattjakubowski.com/fiction/
Forthcoming: Gone Lawn, elsewhere magazine, scaffold lit, Temple in a City. Flash fiction: Your Impossible Voice, Variant Lit, JAKE, Best Microfiction 2024, Milk Candy Review.
www.mattjakubowski.com/fiction/
tiny-dog content timeline cleanse
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
tiny-dog content timeline cleanse
Bill Pulte deserves to go to jail quick!
“The suit…argues that Mr. Pulte “abused his position by scouring databases” of mortgage records, selectively looking for records with which to “concoct fanciful allegations of mortgage fraud”” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
“The suit…argues that Mr. Pulte “abused his position by scouring databases” of mortgage records, selectively looking for records with which to “concoct fanciful allegations of mortgage fraud”” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Swalwell Files Suit Against Housing Official, Claiming Privacy Law Violations
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Bill Pulte deserves to go to jail quick!
“The suit…argues that Mr. Pulte “abused his position by scouring databases” of mortgage records, selectively looking for records with which to “concoct fanciful allegations of mortgage fraud”” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
“The suit…argues that Mr. Pulte “abused his position by scouring databases” of mortgage records, selectively looking for records with which to “concoct fanciful allegations of mortgage fraud”” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
this frame from The Big Sleep cracks me up
I don’t know how he kept a straight face in this scene
I don’t know how he kept a straight face in this scene
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
this frame from The Big Sleep cracks me up
I don’t know how he kept a straight face in this scene
I don’t know how he kept a straight face in this scene
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Our Founding Editor is running an asynchronous mid-December generative "retreat" for at home writers.. megpokrass.substack.com/p/winter-wri...
Winter Writing Retreat (At Home) with Meg
December 13th and 14th
megpokrass.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Our Founding Editor is running an asynchronous mid-December generative "retreat" for at home writers.. megpokrass.substack.com/p/winter-wri...
Reposted by Matt Jakubowski (he/him)
We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
Submission Guidelines — Bulb Culture Collective
www.bulbculturecollective.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
Reposted by Matt Jakubowski (he/him)
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
Reposted by Matt Jakubowski (he/him)
Coming soon (4 December), another issue of Gone Lawn, this one puffed up with fiction. Great stuff! We can't wait to show it to you all. In the meantime, send us you stuff, especially if you have novel/novella excerpts (≤200 words) you think we'd love, for #63
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
gonelawn.net
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Coming soon (4 December), another issue of Gone Lawn, this one puffed up with fiction. Great stuff! We can't wait to show it to you all. In the meantime, send us you stuff, especially if you have novel/novella excerpts (≤200 words) you think we'd love, for #63
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
The bit in the headline about old-fashioned web search made me, an old, sort of think of Charlotte’s Web even tho that’s silly
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
buff.ly
November 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The bit in the headline about old-fashioned web search made me, an old, sort of think of Charlotte’s Web even tho that’s silly
My middle school kid is reading Maus, which prompted me, a slightly braggadocious former A&E journalist, to say oh hey I interviewed Art Spiegelman back before you were born. My kid seemed impressed, then said, “Wait—is Maus THAT old of a book?!”
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My middle school kid is reading Maus, which prompted me, a slightly braggadocious former A&E journalist, to say oh hey I interviewed Art Spiegelman back before you were born. My kid seemed impressed, then said, “Wait—is Maus THAT old of a book?!”
In a couple weeks I’m going to have a moody little quirk of a story in @gonelawn.bsky.social and I’m getting so excited ✨
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In a couple weeks I’m going to have a moody little quirk of a story in @gonelawn.bsky.social and I’m getting so excited ✨
A year ago for my 50th birthday I went to California to see the redwoods. It changed me & how I think about the world. I can’t wait to go back again someday.
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
A year ago for my 50th birthday I went to California to see the redwoods. It changed me & how I think about the world. I can’t wait to go back again someday.
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ok so this series only [re]started in October, but i still get to say, with gravitas, that the final Track Changes of the year is upon us!!! closing it out on 12/2 with ultra-talented writers Austyn Wohlers (Baltimore) & Sam Heaps (Philly)!
🎶 🎶 🎶: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
🎶 🎶 🎶: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ok so this series only [re]started in October, but i still get to say, with gravitas, that the final Track Changes of the year is upon us!!! closing it out on 12/2 with ultra-talented writers Austyn Wohlers (Baltimore) & Sam Heaps (Philly)!
🎶 🎶 🎶: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
🎶 🎶 🎶: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
Updated my website. I’ve had a very lucky year of hustling revising submitting nonstop. Very excited to share these stories with the world ✨ mattjakubowski.com/about/fiction/
![A list of forthcoming stories on my website:
Cut Shapes Cut from Raindrops | Gone Lawn [forthcoming]
The River Birch | scaffold literary [forthcoming]
This Kind of Freedom | Temple in a City [forthcoming]
Alight, Astray | Temple in a City [forthcoming]
Leave It | elsewhere magazine [forthcoming]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4v5pidkctp2mwrww7sfgujzw/bafkreihw2cugomxgisblrzpq2o7w6bohg5l4474droz6d2o6nxin2pht4y@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Updated my website. I’ve had a very lucky year of hustling revising submitting nonstop. Very excited to share these stories with the world ✨ mattjakubowski.com/about/fiction/
I know I should probably play it cool but I can’t — I’ve had 10 acceptances this year. My best year ever (& I’ll be 51 soon). I’ve got 5 pieces forthcoming in 4 journals. I’m not ok. I’m bordering on great. And as a Scorpio I’m usually moody or meh. But wow. Today I’m happily agog. And so grateful 🌿
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I know I should probably play it cool but I can’t — I’ve had 10 acceptances this year. My best year ever (& I’ll be 51 soon). I’ve got 5 pieces forthcoming in 4 journals. I’m not ok. I’m bordering on great. And as a Scorpio I’m usually moody or meh. But wow. Today I’m happily agog. And so grateful 🌿
Acceptance post! 🎉🎉 Super excited to say I have 2 micros forthcoming from @templeinacity.bsky.social.
If you haven’t checked out the journal lately, their current issue is a knockout. Also, they’re open for submissions until Nov. 15!
templeinacity.com
If you haven’t checked out the journal lately, their current issue is a knockout. Also, they’re open for submissions until Nov. 15!
templeinacity.com
Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Acceptance post! 🎉🎉 Super excited to say I have 2 micros forthcoming from @templeinacity.bsky.social.
If you haven’t checked out the journal lately, their current issue is a knockout. Also, they’re open for submissions until Nov. 15!
templeinacity.com
If you haven’t checked out the journal lately, their current issue is a knockout. Also, they’re open for submissions until Nov. 15!
templeinacity.com
Philly! Please vote tomorrow.
It’s one of those big ballots and many boxes are yes/no, not just GOP or DNC. Here are some links to help you navigate it. Very important to vote YES to retain all three PA Supreme Court judges, as shown below:
www.reclaimphiladelphia.org/blog/2025/10...
It’s one of those big ballots and many boxes are yes/no, not just GOP or DNC. Here are some links to help you navigate it. Very important to vote YES to retain all three PA Supreme Court judges, as shown below:
www.reclaimphiladelphia.org/blog/2025/10...
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Philly! Please vote tomorrow.
It’s one of those big ballots and many boxes are yes/no, not just GOP or DNC. Here are some links to help you navigate it. Very important to vote YES to retain all three PA Supreme Court judges, as shown below:
www.reclaimphiladelphia.org/blog/2025/10...
It’s one of those big ballots and many boxes are yes/no, not just GOP or DNC. Here are some links to help you navigate it. Very important to vote YES to retain all three PA Supreme Court judges, as shown below:
www.reclaimphiladelphia.org/blog/2025/10...
In fall even the dying weeds look all lush and sort of regal
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
In fall even the dying weeds look all lush and sort of regal
Resting post Halloween skull face
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Resting post Halloween skull face
I re-read this fantastic book of flash fiction in October and realized it’s been 10 years since it was published. I also recalled hosting Helen for a reading from it ages ago at Tattooed Mom in Philly. Which is all to say —Happy 10-year Book Birthday to @helenmcclory.bsky.social 🎉
November 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I re-read this fantastic book of flash fiction in October and realized it’s been 10 years since it was published. I also recalled hosting Helen for a reading from it ages ago at Tattooed Mom in Philly. Which is all to say —Happy 10-year Book Birthday to @helenmcclory.bsky.social 🎉
On top of today being an amazing celebration of candy excess and people wearing masks for joyous and scary non-fascist reasons, I cast my ballot by mail today and it felt very meh and normal, the way democracy should be.
November 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
On top of today being an amazing celebration of candy excess and people wearing masks for joyous and scary non-fascist reasons, I cast my ballot by mail today and it felt very meh and normal, the way democracy should be.
my kid made this costume this year and my favorite take on a name for it was after it got dark a woman approached us and said no nope I don’t like that and turned around 😄
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
my kid made this costume this year and my favorite take on a name for it was after it got dark a woman approached us and said no nope I don’t like that and turned around 😄
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Big news: The Citizen just bought storied @phillymag.com Here’s why.
Learn more: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/bought-phila...
Learn more: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/bought-phila...
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Big news: The Citizen just bought storied @phillymag.com Here’s why.
Learn more: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/bought-phila...
Learn more: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/bought-phila...
I know the political news is, by GOP design, hitting people like a firehose each day. But on top of the shutdown, and the impending end of SNAP benefits, and ICE terror in our streets, the DOGE cuts are still happening too, just more quietly than before. Musk and DOGE should live in infamy.
October 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I know the political news is, by GOP design, hitting people like a firehose each day. But on top of the shutdown, and the impending end of SNAP benefits, and ICE terror in our streets, the DOGE cuts are still happening too, just more quietly than before. Musk and DOGE should live in infamy.
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Gone Lawn is one of those foundational lit mags that’s been around since before I started publishing & consistently puts out interesting work. If you can donate something to keep it viable, now’s the time.
Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : About
gonelawn.net
October 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Gone Lawn is one of those foundational lit mags that’s been around since before I started publishing & consistently puts out interesting work. If you can donate something to keep it viable, now’s the time.