🎉Happy birthday to the sensational Swedish illustrator, John Bauer, who was born on this day in 1882.🧵

In this month's editorial at Nightmare Mag, I explain that when life gives you an abundance of mouth horror, you make mouth horror lemonade. Yes, every story and poem this month is about teeth and/or mouths!!! www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

You know what you need today? A story about ancestors, injustice, and the power of biting racists. DO NOT MISS OUT on "What Grows Back" by @aishatuado.bsky.social!!! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/what...

still probably one of my favorite articles I've ever written. Thanks, @wnwagner.bsky.social for publishing it! www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/h...

Washington Smoke Blog is being updated for this year’s fire/smoke season :(. I have come to rely on it quite a bit. wasmoke.blogspot.com #wawx

Omg! Huge breakthrough in Huntington’s disease treatment! youtu.be/bhExSMZt1zs?...

This is a helpful guide! If you haven’t made a comment yet, please do! Even—especially—if you’re not a scientist!

Hasbro is truly evil. solidarity to all the Wizards Of The Coast workers dealing with this transphobic nonsense.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but starting today Burger King has the crown-shaped chicken nuggets back

Fck Data Centers!!

Want to read some Eco-Horror??? Featuring: @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @wnwagner.bsky.social @afsulli.bsky.social @tiffmorris.bsky.social @ericraglin1992.bsky.social And me :) (Ignore the typo)

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Working in my backyard this afternoon, and I've seen a pair of spotted towhees, a cute hummingbird, and heard the neighborhood bald eagle! This time of year, it's so nice to be out here.

Hey, it's my birthday, and a great present would be supporting my work by subscribing to my Patreon! I review movies and TV, post original fiction, and curate and screen a collection of films every month! www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

Worked on a short story at my favorite caffeination station (it's Portal Tea in Sellwood -- dubbed "the Teaboose" by @rstefoff.bsky.social) and then ran/walked home while smelling flowers & meeting dogs. Basically the best possible morning!

Zuck, attempting to look like he just did the Murph Challenge. Barf.

This journalist believes the Trump administrations new National Design Studio is a dangerous tool collecting people's most critical information -- and it's operating completely outside government oversight. Where at? How about "passports.gov" for a start?

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

Hey university professor types! Please nominate the good people of Minneapolis for a Nobel Peace Prize! 💜 You're eligible to do so!

Obviously my reward for this was researching future trail running shoe purchases.

Today I wrote 2 paragraphs of a new short story! It is the first time I have written anything for close to 3 months. It didn't feel amazing, but it also didn't make me want to throw it or myself into a dumpster. WIN!

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

The *best* way to get more into coffee is to have a partner who works for a coffee company so you can cheaply & efficiently acquire fun kinds of coffee & coffee gizmos so you can decide what you like. The second best is watching James Hoffman videos.

One of my favorite people has a rare skillset in leftist land and could maybe be useful to you...

QRP for the link that I did not know existed but definitely need

Call me Izzy. Some years ago- I dunno how long ago exactly- my Venmo was empty, and I was bored as shit. I thought I would take out my Sea-Doo and check out The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Hope no asshole whales comes for me!

really tragic day in longview, wa with one dead and nine still unaccounted for in paper mill incident www.opb.org/article/2026...

Fango is sad to learn of the passing of director and special effects artist Yoshihiro Nishimura. Known as the ‘Tom Savini of Japan’, Nishimura’s bloody, bizarre films helped usher in a new era of Japanese hypersplatter following the J-horror boom of the 1990s.

TLDR: call your house reps to demand they vote NO on 8705 and 7661 Call your senators to demand they vote NO on 2616 All three seek to ban books nationally. All three are the fever dream of bigots. All three must be stopped.

I never thought of the Vatican as relevant or that I'd ever be in agreement with them, but we live in this weird timeline, so ...

After spending like 4 hours weeding yesterday I have a great idea for the next viral full body workout.

Sharing a real time request sent by a friend. MASS CALL FOR BODIES AT DELANEY HALL. ICE IS ATTEMPTING TO TRANSFER THE HUNGER STRIKE ORGANIZERS OUT OF THE FACILITY.

On Thursday, we went to see SUNA NO ONNA (Woman in the Dunes, 1964) at the Hollywood Theater. Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara & adapted by Kobo Abe from his own novel, it was an amazing work of art offering many kinds of interpretations & lots of questions. One of the best films I've ever seen!

I think people from outside of Oregon have no idea how much the rest of the state absolutely loathes Portland.

Author @wnwagner.bsky.social, in her newsletter (which you should sign up for), recommends holding something that makes you happy to deal with the crushing, relentless horror that is our time. I think it tells you so much about me that this is my little source of joy:

It's so cool to see my book baby sandwiched between works by my two favorite Chucks!

JFC. Good to know that for every scientific horror I can dream up, actual science is waaaaaay out in front of me.

Lousy news about a magazine that's been an important leader in genre fiction and an important engine of change.

WHAT THE FCC? "the FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to 'transgender and gender non-binary programming' and 'the discussion or promotion of gender identity themes.'" glaad.org/fcc

IMPORTANT NEWS RE: ANTHROPIC AI SETTLEMENT According to PW, the Authors Guild is collecting information from authors whose publishers failed to register their books with the U.S. Copyright Office, and who believe they were excluded from the class action settlement as a result. (1/2)

My most famous friend had me on his podcast! You can listen to our chat on MY FAVORITE THINGS (available on all the usual podcast platforms and YouTube), but here's the website for the episode, which includes links to the stuff we talked about. semi-rad.com/2026/05/my-f...

Today at Nightmare Mag, we're running a 2,089-word experimental creative essay called "Art the Clown attends the Jane Hirschfield poetry reading at the Anchorage Museum" by Audrey Coble. It's thought-provoking, weird, and a little creepy! www.nightmare-magazine.com/creative-non...

Just read an interview with the CEO of News Corp, the owner of Harper Collins. Some takeaways: 1. News Corp boasts the company is an "AI input" company. 2. NC boasts book publishing had double-digit growth last year. 3. NC boasts of the "vast amount of unique repurposable data" produced by HC.

“On Tuesday, Wahl said that Kaziha and Awad drew the attention of the attackers and drew them ‘back out into the parking lot area.’” “Without distracting the attention, without delaying the actions of these two individuals, without question, there would have been many more fatalities.”

We're just $1400 away from making the retrospective sketchbook 150% larger! www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

Boycott Barnes and Noble. Loudly. Right fucking now. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Reading this book made me feel the same way Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine books did back in high school. Rare feeling these days. You should read it.

tony gnome that lives invisibly on your shoulder and whispers "you're hungry now, you won't regret eating lunch at 10:45" whenever your spirit is weak