This is delicious.

Saw The Turin Horse at NYFF with Bela Tarr Q&A. Audience member asks "Why is this your final film?." Tarr stares at her for a bit, turns around to look at the movie screen, then turns back to her and shouts "What the fuck is there left to say!?" RIP to one of the greatest.

A Sam Raimi movie in 3D? Cinema is back.

Buy Nat’s book!

Ontario people: now that I live here, I would love to host and moderate your cultural events, panels and interviews!

Good morning

“You should smile more”

Just the thought of @meakoopa.bsky.social on stage in a fursuit looking out over a packed house and shouting LOOK AT ALL THE BEAVERS makes me want to hop on a plane in the dead Canadian winter

Very honored that @cadenmgardner.bsky.social & I were nominated for Best New Commentary Track at the Shelf Shock Awards for our work on EVA MAN. Vote for us if you'd like.💙 freeonlinesurveys.com/s/QHMfG0JP/i...

And here we are The final essay in my TWIN PEAKS series. Episode 18. Let's return home. www.patreon.com/posts/147251...

Anybody interested in my personal awards for films/television that came out in 2025?

I'm not hyperventilating YOU'RE hyperventilating ITCH! comes out in EIGHT DAYS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I feel like I've been waiting forever and a day. Soon, my pretties, SOOOOOONNNN 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜 www.mobiusbooksus.com/itch?rq=itch!

"A king? Because you put your ass on purple cushions?" How timely. It's a new year, and a new round of Sunday Scaries. buttondown.com/daviddemchuk...

Oh hey, Indigo has Mercutio among its "most anticipated books of 2026", so it is 30% off until Jan. 11. ($18.89 CAD for the paperback, which comes out in August). I'd love this novel to find its readers, and pre-orders help, so Canadians, please check it out if you can www.indigo.ca/en-ca/mercut...

"A king? Because you put your ass on purple cushions?" How timely. It's a new year, and a new round of Sunday Scaries. buttondown.com/daviddemchuk...

Happy to see 13 stories from issues 8 & 9 of Weird Horror magazine make Ellen Datlow's recommendation list: ellendatlow.com/category/news/

I am very happy to see that my short story The Black Fox from the @undertow.bsky.social anthology Northern Nights received a recommendation in Best Horror of the Year #17. Thank you @datlow.bsky.social 🖤 ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f...

Everything going well.

@premeemohamed.com have you been making weasels

I started this series in 2020 to stay sane during the pandemic, and I've been going through the show episode by episode since. It has been my heart and soul. I love Twin Peaks, and I love David Lynch. I hope that your appreciation of the series has grown with my analysis. Thank you <3

“LLMs basically are a dead end when it comes to superintelligence” you don’t say.

Serious thing for folks to consider is, particularly for marginalized people, Grudges Are Self-Defense. What you may be interpreting as pettiness is probably closer aligned to "You have demonstrated you're not to be trusted." And knowing who REALLY has your back is more important that ever.

Hi, I’m a genetic metabolic paralytic neuromuscular disorder found in 1 out of 100,000 people (though not often of this severity), most of them Asian, that no one in your family seems to have except possibly an uncle on your father’s side who fell down a well when he was 20. Surprise!

Writers! Vol. 2 of 'The Best Weird Fiction of the Year' is open to your submissions. Please adhere to the guidelines. undertowpublications.com/best-weird-f...

Even as a humble language teacher, this feels resonant. AI translation is all fine if all you want is a cup of coffee. But if you're looking to convey or receive meaning, it's never going to REALLY get it. Especially not with anything akin to humanity. www.politico.eu/article/when...

Picture of the staff who operate my account

my story “you visit a witch” is out now in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social 🧙‍♀️🌱 one of the first stories i wrote, nearly 5 years ago, it’s much cozier (for lack of a better word) than most of my works, but it also still asks how we can bear to live in this world kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

To many many more! 🍷🍿

How I am walking out of 2025

Gee, Apple, this doesn’t sound like The Lavender Hill Mob to me (and I don’t think that’s Alec Guinness)

B’ys, we have four and a half hours til midnight wtf

Chaos 🖤

US readers: Barnes & Noble has a members 25% off pre-order sale running, and the upcoming paperback of The Butcher’s Daughter (April 14) is eligible. For all the details, check out the product page! It’s a tasty deal! 🥧 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-butche...

I came out in high school in Winnipeg at age 16 in 1978 (in grade 11, which meant I had one more year of high school when I was fully out so I expect my medal is in the mail). I am 63 and yes, I am still coming out, to new people in new places, even more now that I live in a small and far away city.

"Taco Bell Traffic Advisory" is now a part of our townie heritage

Leather Night at the Eagle:

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

@ptklein.com Happy birthday! Have a great day and a wonderful year 🤗

Agreed. I am a hater. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Listen, I’m sure this person is very nice, but her AI advocacy for writing tasks adjacent to creation (including, of all things, contracts) is deeply misguided at best and willfully ignorant at worst. That she used AI to assist her writing of it is the icing on the cake. (Not linking, for sanity.)

Watched a tiktok where an Irishman described Newfoundlanders as: "Feral Irish pirates". Sounds about right.

As a 60+ 5’8” 175 lb gay man with no ass to speak of, looking forward to my Heated Rivalry Halloween costume next year

This is another reminder for you to watch North of North. (I think it’s on Netflix in the US?)

After five difficult painful years I found and rethreaded the drawstring through the waistband of my favourite/only pair of sweatpants please clap

Ok, since this has come up four times in the last three days: REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY. IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.

If you can steal some time away in the dark with a pair of headphones, you won’t regret it. (Or maybe you will!)

a cosy Christmas treat from @nathanburgoine.bsky.social ❄️

this shit is fancy landfill

"Yes, it ended one way – yet it could have been otherwise and the implication is, as true as this was for that time and that place, it remains equally true for us today." thehaunt.blog/2025/11/10/t...

My ghost story for Christmas is the underseen film The Awakening, about a post-WWI spiritualism debunker (Rebecca Hall) called to a traumatized boy’s school where her education and modern ways are a subject of uneasy fascination, and her beliefs are challenged by an apparently irrefutable specter.