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Tonight's spooky season movie was They Live in the Grey (2022), a ghost story wherein a CPS social worker can see ghosts.

Trump won NC by 3.2%. Democrat Josh Stein won governor seat by 14.8%. There is no mandate for the state’s congressional delegation to be 78% GOP. This is simply another anti-democratic power grab.

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

For the intersection of spooky season and Indigenous Peoples Day, may I recommend Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology? I'm about halfway through it at the moment and have liked everything I've read so far.

#MythBustingMonday “Vaccines contain dangerous and toxic ingredients.” This one never dies, so let’s tackle it properly. Yes, vaccines contain multiple components but context, chemistry, and dose matter. Vaccine ingredients have been studied for decades, across trials and billions of doses. A 🧵

Tonight's spooky season movie was The Innocents (2022), in which a group of kids in an apartment complex show each other their psychic abilities. Things get bad. Chilling, intense, excellent. Double feature? Let The Right One In (2008, Swedish original), or Village of the Damned (1960)

Drafting in the CMS

Last night's spooky season movie was Black Roses (1988), a Troma Team Release about demons from Hell forming a rock band and recruiting America's youth through devil music.

From the OBX to Cherokee, NC voters: Have you checked that your voter registration is complete? The State Board of Elections has identified over 100,000 North Carolinians whose voter registrations are missing key information. Visit ncsbe.gov/registrationrepair to check yours!

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we score a run? ESTRAGON: Yes. Let's. They do not score.

Tonight's spooky season movie was The Substance (2025), which I think of as a Jekyll & Hyde story by way of The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Sunset Boulevard, Re-Animator, and Brian Yuzna’s Society. Double feature with: The Neon Demon.

New track "Coils" by the collaboration Axolome Consensus that I'm half of, released today on Bandcamp axolome.bandcamp.com/track/coils

The roof is being replaced. I have finally found a specific use case for noise-canceling earbuds. I wish I had some. With apologies to David Bowie "We could hear quiet, just for one day"

Big PARANOIA "The Computer Is Your Friend" rpg vibes here...

"I'll just put this down on the weird...candle-bread..." Tonight's spooky season movie was Mind Body Spirit (2023). Anya, a yoga video influencer, finds a book of rituals written by her grandmother, and shifts her video series to chronicling her path through the exercises in the book.

Tonight's movie was You Won't Be Alone (2022), set in nineteenth-century rural Macedonia. Described as about witches, the protagonists are serial skinchangers. Not so much a horror movie as an exploration of being human with occasional gory transitions.

New turntable slipmat, from Cold Spring in the UK.

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Tonight's spooky season movie: A Wounded Fawn (2022), featuring the Erinyes, bagh nakhs, tagelharpas, and conch shells - the last two on the film score.

Today’s the first day of Banned Books Week! Take a look at the thread and see if there’s something you can do to protect our freedom to read!

In this spooky season, happy birthdayversary (1941) to Anne Rice.

Fun fact: in the horror movie Bring Her Back (2025), a character watches a videotape, which begins with a flash of a URL. That site is a working website and contains video that could be on the videotape in the movie. www.thisisnotacult.xyz

"Love Cats", The Cure

Spotted the A24 in Bring Her Back (2025).

For spooky season this year, Shudder has released a new Ghoul Log! Screenshot from Revenge of the Ghoul Log (2025). (context: Ghoul Log is a fall tradition of the Shudder horror streaming service, a halloween-themed variant of the "christmas fireplace" video.)

Call me Ishmael. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

For the first time, Disney’s rare, out-of-print gateway horror movie SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983) finally arrived on streaming today, now playing exclusively on Disney+:

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

TGI(stfu)F. Learn the script.

As someone who is a hobbyist archivist I cannot recommend enough making your own physical copies of any queer and trans media that is important to you sooner rather than later.

Calling Netflix 1-866-952-4456 to say "I've been a customer since before 2012 [1] and if Netflix starts removing shows with trans and queer characters from its programming I will cancel my subscription" took me maybe two minutes.

now that the month where people try and cram 31 horror movies into 31 days has started, i thought id share a list of 20 horror movies that rock but feel underwatched/talked about

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

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Three words wonderful to hear in this spooky season: the opening frame of She Will (2021).

I didn't think growing up reading Fahrenheit 451 that we would see it play out so brazenly in our lifetimes this way. If you can cancel your Disney subscriptions, you should speak out against this.

📣 OK, with ~3 hours to go before the midnight government shutdown, I'm going to go through ALL 50 STATES +DC ONE BY ONE to remind everyone of how many Americans healthcare Democrats are fighting to save (and this is just #ACA exchange enrollees; don't forget about Medicaid). Please bear with me.

33. #NORTHCAROLINA: ~945,000 ACA enrollees Avg gross rate change: +28.9% (FINAL) Avg gross 2026 premium: $821/mo NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $100K/yr if enhanced tax credits expire: +355% acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...

Tonight's spooky season movie was DARK MATCH (2024), wherein a sleazy wrestling company manager says yes to a private match for a lot of money in the middle of nowhere. The obvious double feature here is GREEN ROOM (2015).

once again sharing my list of favorite horror movies in case anyone's looking for good shit to watch this October

The deadline is tomorrow!

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

Tonight's movie was The Damned (2024), involving lifeboat ethics, Arctic cold, and draugr.

Tonight's movie is The Devil's Business (2011) which I haven't seen often enough since it screened at the Nevermore Film Festival that year. Nicely atmospheric. Great score.

resist.bot/petitions/PB... so when a GOPer gets elected, it's right away but they want to wait for Grivalja? I call bullshit email with @resist.bot and call your reps at (202) 224-3121. tell them to shut it down until Mike plays ball

The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!

Because I love the music of both David Bowie and Einstürzende Neubauten, it follows that my only complaint with "Blixa Bargeld sings David Bowie" is that it's too short. blixabargeld.bandcamp.com/album/blixa-...

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The bofh Etherkiller diversifies