Shocker: Bari Weiss lied.

They should invent tiny speakers that can fit inside a person’s ear so that person can watch videos without other people having to hear everything.

🚨NEW DAN CARLIN NEW DAN CARLIN 🚨

Wanna read about the 50-something new albums I loved this year? I THOUGHT SO HERE YOU GO. (Album of the year, of course, goes to Brian Dunne, but it was a damn fine year all around.) open.substack.com/pub/natcassi...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

the vice president is a klansman

So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other. Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

Koji Shiraishi's ABOUT A PLACE IN THE KINKI REGION is staggering horror cinema–putting traditional narrative and found footage through the digital meat grinder to unearth disturbing existential and emotional truths. Naturally, I went long on this wild-as-hell movie on @cinapse.bsky.social:

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

When you ask yourself, why would they go ahead and do things like this, changing signage when there's a question of the legality, you have to remember that it will cost money to undo it, and when people try to do so, they will be met with complaints that they're looking backwards and wasting money

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

The order of the TOC has changed like three times since these were printed, and will likely change again, because I am a monster to work with, but that also makes these even more collectible, right? (Also, @alandistro.bsky.social is a goddamn design genius.)

A pdf of DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP lives. I’m so excited for you all to read it and hopefully have fun the design and text shenanigans. (Ignore laptop screen that apparently needs to be cleaned)

Wrote about how Reiner’s moral center manifested on-screen and off, as so many of his friends have testified today. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...

I still remember the night they banned smoking inside NYC bars and restaurants. So many articles claiming it would be the end of NYC nightlife. It was 2003. Things can change. Faster than you might think.

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

What a depressingly accurate indictment of the Roberts Court.

From me & mine to thee & thine. ❤️❤️❤️

A review does not have to be long or sophisticated either! Just say you liked it, or something you liked about it! One of the best reviews of all time was that one-liner on ye olde Twitter from *checks notes* bigolas dickolas It does matter, it does help.

whoa, it's @gradyhendrix.bsky.social AND @catrionaward.bsky.social’s bdays TODAY?! Two of our very best contemporary horror writers, born on the same day?! AND Shirley Jackson, too?!?! That's some cosmic alignment shit right there. Go buy a Cat book & a Grady book (and, hey, a Shirley book) today!

Me, the instant the theme song to ATTACK ON TITAN starts playing:

Sometimes I get to do cool things, like attend a special screening of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER with PTA himself 🤩…

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

My editor is currently reading the first draft of my AI-related horror novel & she says she has to keep putting it down because it's so bleak. On one hand, I'm like, "I better lighten it up a bit in the next draft." Then, I read each day's bit of AI-related news and I'm like, "MUST ADD MORE BLEAK."

The beginning

The Year End @talkscaredpod.bsky.social episode has become one of my favorite traditions, but holy hell, they said such kind things about WOLF that I honestly disassociated a little bit. Thank you, Neil, @annarosereads.bsky.social, @georgesreads.bsky.social, and @emilyhughes.bsky.social! 😭❤️🙏

hello i am hearing rumors of certain gift-giving holidays occurring around this monthly region. if that is true might i remind you that signed, personalized horrorbooks are available as gift options and they are way better than expensive jewelry???

It really can’t be overemphasized that a major operant force within the MAGA movement is a bunch of old, whiny pissbabies screaming about how anything different from what they’re used to is bad.

listen for: me & Neil realizing how damn old we are, George saying "I love an ankle sock," and Anna being more polished and professional than the rest of us put together! plus, if you make it to the end, there's a lil announcement from me...

I never know if these sortsa posts do anything, but at least it offers me another opp to say how stratospherically grateful I am to everyone who made these releases possible this year.❤️🙏 And if you’re some sort of Awards Creature who requires an OFFICIAL eligibility post to feed, well: supper’s on.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Oh, I bet this’ll be pretty funny— <fifteen seconds later> 😭😭😭😭😭

“We had to kill them because they refused to die.”

Not quite the point of this post, I know, but every now and then it’s really bracing to re-confront how we’re living through the absolute fucking worst presidency by, like, a factor of five.

Again and again and again and again and again, the lower courts do the work, issue thorough and well-considered rulings, and then the Supreme Court just goes, “Nah.”

I don’t use Spotify, but my Apple Music account is happy to continue outing me as a cliched, white, middle aged, classic rock dork.

Working on the final new addition for this and, oh hey, have I mentioned it’s 🚨AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER??🚨 Over a dozen stories, including the Stoker Award-nominated novella, “Rest Stop.” Available in print + e-book (@shortwavebooks.bsky.social) as well as audio. May 5, 2026. 📖🗝️ Come with me …

My book of the year. Hits the ground running and doesn’t let you take a beat. Also has one of the most disturbing deaths I’ve read for years. Absolute masterpiece @natcassidy.bsky.social

It’s so funny to imagine Patience and Prudence recording their sweet little bobby-socks-n-saddle-shoes songs in the 1950s, having zero idea how many nasty horror filmmakers would later use them to creep people out.

Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by @claymcleod.bsky.social is on sale for $2.99 digitally.

One of the most important works of literature in my life. This play opened my eyes to what was possible in drama, in comedy, in philosophy, in performance, in conversation with the past. My first play was an almost direct homage and I’ve been chasing it ever since. RIP to a true genius.

How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal. Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military. Pure, mindless, barbarism. www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Give Trump the splashy headline and credit then wait five paragraphs to mention these deals were only possible because of Biden's legislation. Paper of Record! 🙄