GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

Zohran Mamdani AOC Yungblud Devin Townsend Lzzy Hale Barack and Michelle Obama David Gilmour Patti Harrison I could go on and on...

anyone suggesting tests like this is a freak and we should go full peasant village on them complete with torches and pitchforks because none of this will ever matter in the grand scheme of things and these dipshits need to either get a clue or face exile.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

Enjoy 20% PIXERINA (a Haunting) by @joanneanderton.bsky.social when you shop our FLASH SALE through Sunday. Illustrated by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. Can a person haunt a ghost? badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...

So many trans people and drag queens in the Epstein Files oh my... wait... there's none actually. Huh.

One week to go until THE RISE: Tales From The Gulp 3 is out. Get your pre-orders in (they really help small fry like me get noticed by the evil alcoriddims). I'm also doing special bundles of all three (print and ebook) through my website. Please help me spread the word! 🖤 #WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky

I want people to understand this. For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence. This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Hey everyone! Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today! But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold. I just resorted our list to put those on the top. Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

interesting how one can find jk rowling rubbing shoulders with every notable fascist and pedophile currently alive, but never in the same room as anyone who actually fights for women’s rights or marginalised people. at some point the charade has to be up with these people…

Booking travel and accommodation for a few things coming up this year. More when I'm allowed to share. Only within Australia at the moment, not sure when I'll get overseas again. If anyone wants to invite me to anything...

SCORPION: take me across the river FROG: if I do that, you'll sting me S: if I sting you, we'll both drown F: ok, that makes sense *halfway across the river* F: so? S: so what? F: sting me S: what? F: sting me, like you promised S: no F: sting me so we'll both drown S: *crying* what is happening?

Another copy of THE RISE in the wild!

People who pre-ordered directly from me are getting their copies a week early. Official release date is next Friday 13th. My new book is alive! #WelcomeToTheGulp

Good bookmail day, thanks to @alanbaxter.bsky.social

This is fascinating and informative. If you don't watch the whole thing, the first twenty minutes or less is still worthwhile. It gets a bit technical towards the end.

Somewhere in 2016 some fool asked, "How bad can it really get?" and a monkey's paw curled up its last finger.

Fellow writers/directors/producers: It is vitally important not only to secure the ladder behind you while you ascend, but also to make sure there are many women on it as well. Mentorship without strings is essential and there are so few real opportunities for women...because of this exact problem.

The two best shitposters on Bluesky secretly pine for each other. Skeeted Rivalry

Somewhere in 2016 some fool asked, "How bad can it really get?" and a monkey's paw curled up its last finger.

Now we finally find out who's a good boy.

This is why these people embrace ai. They themselves have as much soul and humanity as the spicy autocorrect machine. They're just the same.

This is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.

remember when everything was possibly cake and we were driven mad by the possibility that everything was cake? don't you wish everything was possibly cake now instead of probably ai? we were such fools to squander a cake-based reality.

The Struggles Of Elon Musk 😔

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Money can't buy happiness, Musk opines. Yet anyone struggling to meet their bills knows damn well that enough money would definitely alleviate misery. The richest man in the world is such a thoroughly unlikeable crybaby loser.

I am also giving away my ARC of THE RISE on the horror blog. Library workers can enter now and they are entered going forward: raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2026/02/horr...

Wonderful!

Alan Baxter's ( @alanbaxter.bsky.social ) trilogy sounds like each book will have me up 'till the wee hours because I just can't put it down! Can't wait!! #booksky #WelcomeToTheGulp

This is a fantastic story world. Amazing work. Also, tbh, some of these stories freaked me the fuck out

There's a brand new episode of The Muppet Show on Disney+ and it's so nostalgic! Back in the theatre, just like the original series. Man, that took me back. Loved it.

One week to go until THE RISE: Tales From The Gulp 3 is out. Get your pre-orders in (they really help small fry like me get noticed by the evil alcoriddims). I'm also doing special bundles of all three (print and ebook) through my website. Please help me spread the word! 🖤 #WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky

Reading and writing more to get better a writing? Practicing the thing to get better at the thing? Surely not. Who ever heard of such nonsense?!

Excellent thread here.

Well, the countdown is definitely on! Five days until the launch of A Forest, Darkly at the Thomas Dixon Centre. Bookings via @pulpfictionbks pulpfiction.com.au/c/events-f2b... #aforestdarkly #agslatter #booklaunch

This is the way.

Trump is mentioned in the Epstein Files about 38 times more often than Jesus is mentioned in the Bible.

when you sigh and a moment later your dog sighs too... it's like a little blessing

MAGAts are absolutely unhinged lunatics, unsafe around kids. But the kids are gonna keep winning. (I particularly enjoyed the kid with the Minecraft backpack stepping up at the end to flip the bird.)

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

That moment when you lie still and every muscle switches off...

Secure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)

Friends, I'm getting weird messages from Wordpress. If you have a moment, could you please have a quick look around my site and let me know if anything seems broken? Thanks! alanbaxter.com.au

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

These fucking idiots honestly.