When did The Voice become overproduced karaoke? God this is unwatchable.

And honestly Ralph Fiennes is a terrible Voldemort.

It's so weird to rewatch the Harry Potter movies. First to consider how much we all speculated and made theories with the books. But maybe more importantly second how Rowling has missed the plot of her own story with her TERF turn.

This new WoW housing. Holy smokes. Just amazing.

On one hand, Garden State hasn't really held up. On the other, its soundtrack is still one of the best.

Have to admit Patricia Routledge's death stings a bit more than I expected. What a talent. Keeping Up Appearances is such an excellent show. I will hold a candlelight supper in her honor.

James Franklin is an idiot. If I have to work for a football team that has an education hobby, could we at least have a decent head coach?

Every day is a new example of how incredibly stupid MAGAts are. It would be worth studying their brains if they weren't just scoops of Cracker Barrel mashed potatoes.

The rewriting of Charlie Kirk's career and rhetoric is astonishing and also completely expected. If God truly cared about the affairs of mortals, Mike Johnson would have choked on his words last night.

Maybe the rest of the world should just stand firm that white, Christian, American culture is a flaming sack of dog shit and should be shamed out of existence through boycotts and legislation.

I know everything is awful, but if you work in early performance studies, consider submitting an abstract for next year's International Congress on Medieval Studies. #academicsky #conference #cfp #medieval #earlymodern

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Any elected Dem who expresses anything more sympathetic than “eat shit in hell you fascist fuck” should be treated with suspicion. If they’re worried about a bad reaction they can stay silent or deflect and talk about working families and the economy or something like they always do on tough issues

If Newsom truly wanted to be a visionary, he would direct the CA redistricting efforts to ignore the Congressional Reapportionment Act of 1929. Create 186 districts.* Send 186 new Representatives to Congress. Demand they all be seated. Maxim chaos.

Our Meet Your Maker episode with @sadiehartmann.bsky.social is OUT NOW! Mother Horror is, indeed, MOTHER. redcircle.com/shows/979960... #horrorsky #horror #horrorpod #horrorjoy #motherhorror

I'm back on the @horrorjoypod.bsky.social with Brian and Jeff to talk about 2022's The Menu and my upcoming novel, Where The Soul Goes. The intersections of food and horror, finding joy in both... It's all packed into this fun 45 minutes. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Today’s the day! FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, my first novel, is officially out! Pre-orders are signed and getting shipped, you can request this at your local shop or library, you can get it off @bookshop.org, you can buy copies at Evening House (sites down atm for maintenance, but soon!)

I'm also reminded that John gives us some really powerful words about looking at evil head-on and how horror helps us to do that. #horrortherapy

Our Meet Your Maker episode with @johnchrostek.com is out today. John's new book, Feast of the Pale Leviathan, just came out on Tuesday. We talk about his excellent collection, Boxcutters, too! #horrorsky #booksky #horrorfans redcircle.com/shows/979960...

I'm neglecting my personal account. Sorry, yinz! I'm so busy sharing the good news of horror over at @horrorjoypod.bsky.social. Check out our latest Meet Your Maker episodes and the main series episode that dropped Monday with @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social talking The Menu and Where the Soul Goes.

This is one of the nicest things a writer can wake up to during their birthday week. Thank you so much, @jeffgstoyanoff.bsky.social and @horrorjoypod.bsky.social.🖤

I just saw a story about sorority recruiting at southern US universities. JFC, I want to die.

Motherfucking wind farms…

You know, I really try to not engage in even the smallest amount of misogyny, but white conservative women are really some of the most ill-informed, willing pawns in this world. It's disgusting.

The fallacye that "higher ed degree must leade to a job wyth same name" ys deeplye harmful to present-daye societye. A philosophye major kan do businesse just as well as a businesse major. Yn some wayes perhaps even bettir. Thys fallacye ys useful onlye to those who seeke to kill higher ed.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and a monster. He should be thrown into jail or executed by a firing squad- I'm not picky.

Horror Joy's first episode of Meet Your Maker with Jake Tri is available TODAY! Please listen to learn more about Nightmare Soup (a Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark-esque collection). Share with your friends and fellow Horror fans. #horrorsky #horrorpod #Horror redcircle.com/shows/979960...

We are excited for yinz to Meet Your Maker(s)! @claymcleod.bsky.social @authordileo.bsky.social @victoriadalpe.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @sadiehartmann.bsky.social @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social @afsulli.bsky.social Jake Tri & Matthew Trifan (among others!) #horrorsky youtu.be/s5aVW6Cv47E?...

I don't know if it's allergies or a summer cold, but good lord am I glad I bought tissues at the store the other day. 🤧

With the reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer out in theaters now (Go check on Nicole Kidman at your local AMC! Take her some water!), there is no better time to listen to our episode on 90s Teen Slashers: redcircle.com/shows/979960... #horrorsky #horrorpod #ikwydls #horrormovies

“Oh no, not Bill Clinton” I say as I ready the trebuchet I specifically built to launch Bill Clinton into an active volcano.

Our latest episode with @kevinwetmore.bsky.social is a retrospective on one year of Horror Joy, horror post-9/11, and what horrors stand the test of time. #horrorsky #horrorpod #horror #horrorjoy redcircle.com/shows/979960...

I really enjoyed co-writing this (brief) introduction. It was a nice break from drafting the academic book and made me want to get back into creative writing. 🙂

Rocking my @malarkeybooks.bsky.social t-shirt. Thanks, yinz!

I'm officially open for freelance book design work! This is something I've been wanting to do for a while. Diversifying my income with projects like these will help me put more funds into Evening House to help us grow. You can find out more at this link on my site: johnchrostek.com/design-work/

Just read Adrian Sobol's poetry collection, Hair Shirt, from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. Awesome stuff. #litsky #poemsky #poetry

Horror Joy Meet Your Maker is creeping to wherever you get your podcasts. Download, listen, like, review, subscribe, and share. More horror, more joy, more Horror Joy. #horrorpod #horrorsky #horrorjoy redcircle.com/shows/979960...

Our latest episode dropped yesterday. We celebrate ONE YEAR of Horror Joy with guest @kevinwetmore.bsky.social. Download, listen, like, review, subscribe, and share! #horrorpod #horrorsky #horrorjoy redcircle.com/shows/979960...

Preorder this book. Bolger's work is excellent. Malarkey publishes great stuff. #horrorsky #horrorbooks

Maybe Donald Cuck is finally bleeding. Like for real and not from a WWF-style blood packet. Here for it.

First time they aren’t buying that it is either FAKE NEWS! or Obama’s fault.

With 28 Years Later out, it might be a good time to revisit some of the history of zombie movies. Our episode with Kelly J. Baker from July of last year might scratch that itch: redcircle.com/shows/979960... #horrorsky #horrorpod #zombiesky

during our recording just now the @horrorjoypod.bsky.social guys suggested a Horror for Weenies sequel anchored by the big-dick zombie in 28 Years Later: Horror for Wieners

I (Jeff) became a patron of Malarkey Books after learning about them from @johnchrostek.com sharing links for his short story collection. They are the type of press we need now more than ever. I haven't read detective fiction in a minute, but I'm looking forward to Detective Novel! #booksky

Reading @stephenking.bsky.social's Never Flinch right now. Can't put it down. Look for a Horror Joy Recommends "3 Things" from me in the next week or so with my thoughts. #horrorsky #horrorpod #horrorjoy #horrorfans

Just to accurately lay out the course of events, people were yelling at him because his auto-responding robot that was trained on Twitter’s userbase still displayed — against all odds — a modicum of empathy. He then made the robot speak like him and within hours it was calling itself Mechahitler.

Counterpoint: LLMs do not understand anything. They produce patterns of text that statistically resemble their training corpus, without actual thought or comprehension or any ideas about meaning, or anything else. What's happening is that Grok's model is heavily weighted towards mask-off Nazis.

the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective

The cycle is: Enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so the legislature says terminate the program.