look, I could continue to labor in near-complete obscurity, or I could win the Nobel Prize for Literature, who’s to say? all outcomes are equally likely

why do they keep making campaign ads for Democrats

In today’s Editor Pick, the Ouija board gets an upgrade—and a body count. From the dusty patents of 1891 to a modern neural-network séance, this story drags the talking board into the digital afterlife. Airvalve Semilunar Astern by Nick Mamatas: read it for free on gavagai.com!

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

the past is prologue running runs in the family

I was once 9lbs and about 1' 6". Does the Supreme Court expect me to list that instead of my current height and weight?

Lar always meets the moment

remember how I said that misogynist women were correct, but only about themselves? same thing here—robotic people think that the robots are like people

absolute banger from @davidgerard.co.uk today if you’re not following his channel, you’re missing out m.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYZ... #AIScam #LLMHell

Anybody interested in spending 5 bucks for a chance to win a basketball signed by last years #celtics team? A teacher at our school got a friend to donate one to the PTA. Please support our fundraiser! givebutter.com/7b7fKv

on Them today, my most room-temperature take of all time: democrats can, in fact, win elections without cynically abandoning trans civil rights at the first sign of trouble www.them.us/story/2025-e...

consolation trophy

A WHIRLWIND NOIR FANTASIA follows a jaded private eye on an Milwaukee to Budapest adventure, with Mafiosi , cheese cartels, golems, U-Boats, and other pyrotechnical weirdnesses along the way. Thomas Pynchon at his most richly allusive since V. A MINUS bookshop.org/p/books/shad... 💙📚 #bookreviews

Ezra’s cooked, done to a crisp, boiled into a featureless purée centrism: not even once

that was a lot of baseball in this World Series of Baseball never before has there been so much baseball you now need two wheelbarrows full of baseball to buy a simple loaf of bread

“These future leaders of the right aren’t going anywhere; they’ll be taking the reins soon, and there’s little room for the ‘Judeo’ in their vision of the Christian West.” My latest in @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/whit...

Between this and the terrorism against Latinos who are mainly Catholic, the US has become the leading persecutor of Christians.

::slaps roof:: you can fit SO MANY guillotines in here

In 30 minutes! We at @flophousepodcast.com will be live on your computer screens (if you tune in) talking about the 1980 laser-rollerskate-Greek-myth musical XANADU! theflophouse.simpletix.com #FlopTV

#FilmSky #tcm #tcmparty

these people “love” the Jews like a fisherman loves worms—as bait for The Big One

hello, journalist friends! interview Matthew, former SNAP recipient, trained chef, and author of a critically acclaimed cookbook Matthew knows this topic from deep and broad experience #JournalismSky #SNAP

"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

::sad trombone::

scariest thing I’ve seen all evening 😱

Happy Halloween! 🎃🐈‍⬛🧙🏻‍♀️🍭🍫🍬🍫🍭🍬 and here is my terrifying costume…

dear Bluesky, I am taking a month off of social media I will be back for Halloween to see everybody’s costume (including dogs, cats, turtles, goats, whoever is dressing up) see you soon 💕💕

BRUTALLY CANDID, WITTY, eloquent memoir about the pressures of infertility, divorce, being a writer, being a woman, being queer, simply existing as a person in the world. Charming and spare prose complements the daring frankness. B PLUS 💙📚 #bookreviews bookshop.org/p/books/tryi...

LOVE, MAGIC, HORROR and the hot sun of inland California bake up a compelling tale of a long lineage of women with special powers and the havoc they unwittingly create. Sharp and evocative writing. B PLUS 💙📚 #HorrorSky #bookreviews #SmallPressSunday www.horrorsmithpublishing.com/collections/...

man, I WISH

at last, some Hammer Horses #HorrorWatch

@marisakabas.bsky.social @sarahjeong.bsky.social @chrishayesg.bsky.social @taliajane.bsky.social

here’s somebody doing the thing instead of whining about “distractions”

I don’t understand Lee’s hair and facial hair here, but it’s kind of giving Sam Elliott #HorrorWatch

I love her so much

You have to fight.

AN EXHILARATING, COMPLICATED, IMPOSSIBLE first love between two girls in rural 1990s Ireland, and everything that followed, beautifully detailed in a powerfully evocative novel. B PLUS 💙📚 #bookreviews bookshop.org/p/books/sunb...

put your thumb on the scale and hand somebody an election, get prosecuted by that same somebody nine years later Comey fucked around, too bad the rest of us have had to find out

WITTY, BLEAK, OBSERVANT novel draws on classic tropes of both the Gothic and Hollywood to create a low-key, slow burn horror tale about self-invention, alienation, and the innate weirdness of humankind. David Lynch meets Don DeLillo? B PLUS 💙📚 #bookreviews bookshop.org/p/books/fore...

austeritarian authoritarians: all we have is a hammer, and no, we’re not looking for any nails we’re just going to hit people* with the hammer until morale improves *billionaires are not people, so they don’t get hit

APPEALING ROMANTIC SUSPENSE thriller with a high-octane plot and great protagonists: an ecologist and an FBI arson investigator who team up to uncover the secrets behind a sabotaged wildlife study. Cozy vibe, yet intense. B PLUS 💙📚 #bookreviews #SelfPublishedSunday ktleeauthor.com/riverbend-k-...

Bluesky the organization thinks that pointing out poor content moderation decisions is “rude” even when it’s done with the utmost politeness

TV’s Frank has the mots justes

no lies detected

"Upon reflection and with the advice of colleagues I have come to the conclusion that calling for the murder of all homeless people is bad for business. So I retract my call for murder."

this is the quintessence of Fascism

Yes, Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden’s execution. But he called for it in the right way.

sometimes 2025 has absolutely delightful surprises!

Cushing is so amazing, he sells every line #HorrorWatch

MORE HOPPING! UNDEAD HOPPING MINIONS WITH FARM IMPLEMENTS! #HorrorWatch