On September 19, 1985, Congress held an entire hearing based on the distant possibility that metal music was inspiring teens to commit suicide.

If you see this post, share a smile. cw: gross rotting stuff spoiler: final scene of a movie youtu.be/9ggFZOPSVvM?...

Words of wisdom!

“focus will be a ghost” is a super helpful reminder

Butlerian Jihad takes many forms

How I'm walking out of 2025 🖤

At the sanctuary where I work we have volunteers who feed animals and clean, but others who work on the website, do grant writing, donate artwork, financial consultation, etc. all kind of things that don't require physical presence! There are many kinds of volunteers!

NARROW WAY (1984) Acrylic on Canvas - 30” x 20” The greatest measure of my satisfaction as an illustrator comes when I produce an artwork that reflects my artistic concerns just as much as it illustrates the book. This painting is one of the best examples of that happy condition. 1/3

FYI: All classic episodes of BBC's A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS are streaming on Shudder! Not sure where to start? We've got you covered.

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TIL that Gavin Newsom arguably failed a literal Voigt-Kampff test gizmodo.com/when-a-newsp...

explain your username It’s my first name, “Andrew,” then my middle initial, “M” (for “Martin,” named after the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.), followed by my surname, “Reichart,” all kinda mooshed together into a single unbroken text string.

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it was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me

Art by • David Wyatt

"I profess that I am still a human being holding onto his love as if it were a flaming torch. And I will remain steadfast in that love—I will continue to love you all, for it is love and love only that remains my sole victory over my jailers" Walid Daqqa "On Parallel Time" mizna.org/mizna-online...

Got a call just now from a loved one in prison. Nobody freaking out. Nobody in the unit having holiday depression actually Just the usual swapping of books, handling of their business, tryna make some calls before evrybody gets put back in cells "Parallel time" Cut off, can't even see the sky.

amplifying

Name That Tune: surprised to learn that I can clock this song in about 1.5 seconds. Hank Williams, “ Honky Tonkin’” (1947) youtu.be/LrJkzd2oLb8?...

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"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.

Ever wake up with a song in your head? This was mine today. Generation X, “King Rocker,” Valley of the Dolls (1979) youtu.be/pXW7QcWa8gg?...

Easily among my 1000 favorite songs ever, tbh. Leif, or L31f, or Kalifa; “Black Magic” (2008?) youtu.be/PWQqZNV0vxY?...

Agreed. As ever, on a variety of topics in the writing world, there are a certain percentage of dipshits, cowards, folks who want to hedge their bets, fundamentalist converts, grifters, and sheep.

another morsel for Níðhöggr down in Náströnd

Woke up with this song in my head today. Meat Puppets, “New Gods,” Meat Puppets II (1984) youtu.be/Wm1owFVDELc?...

new Torment Nexus just dropped

This holiday season is the perfect time to binge-read (or re-read) Volume 1 of Weird Luck, in preparation for the January launch of Volume 2! #comics #webcomics #indiecomics #books #urbanfantasy #scifi #espionage #crime #humor #weirdness #oc #ocsky #comicsky #booksky weirdluck.net/weird-luck-c...

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nice work if you can get it

THREAD.

Ankylosaurus

extreme niche BIFAR and I’m here for it

Thank you Bay Area Book Fest and Two Pitchers Brewing for a fun event today. It's a pleasure to connect with the community and meet more publishers.

TIL the source of all goodness in the universe will torture most people for eternity and now I can’t tell the difference between good and evil, halp

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a creature in the transition stage—neither caterpillar nor butterfly

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Discussing the oeuvre of the great @kevinwada.bsky.social with my spouse This portrait might be my favorite non-canonical Magneto ever drawn

Queer holiday #reading recommendations, you say? Check out Volume 1 of the Weird Luck webcomic! It's free, and if you read it over the holidays you'll be all set for the launch of Volume 2 in January! #comics #books #queer #LGBTQ #sapphic #fantasy #scifi #weird #oc weirdluck.net/weird-luck-c...

Since it came up recently, I have (obviously) written a lot about movies, and am actively looking for work doing extras for Blu-ray releases and the like, if anyone ever needs anything like that.

Sass machine! Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Fascist activist Bari Weiss is doing what her billionaire benefactors recruited her for: to turn CBS News into an ongoing infomercial for Hitler Youth.

If there's one lesson that the modern history of Norse Paganism teaches, it's that making excuses to keep Nazis in your spaces inevitably means you either turn into a Nazi space or will wind up spending years doggedly fighting to get rid of them. The only good solution is never letting them in.

writers, destroy chatgpt by embracing your inner weirdo pervert. it will never be able to replicate true freak shit.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

There’s a lesson to be learned here. That lesson is: FUCK THE USE OF AI TO SUPPLANT THE ARTS, and anyone who attempts to use it to replace human creativity should be mocked and ridiculed to the degree that no one would dare attempt to follow in their footsteps 🖤☠️

duolingo translates “schlimazel” as “loser” and… ok yeah, actually, literally; not bad

The best part of this skeet is that William Carlos Williams' day job was as a family doctor.

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