Please keep the suffering, displaced Gazans in your hearts. Bear witness. And give if you can. They rely entirely on our direct donations to survive. Give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can take care of her children. And to others. 🙏💕 chuffed.org/project/1587...

Share a great female villain.

Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, a good day to buy Feast of the Innocents if you haven't already.

The hardest thing about being a writer is just doing your thing, whether anyone cares about it or not.

Some nice person urged me to post links to some of my stories published in 2025 and I probably will, but I think I'll post links to some friends' work first or instead of. Please add your own or others. See thread to follow, which I'll add to (and you should too.)

And hey, you need to be reading @lordsteerpike.bsky.social if you love gothic horror. Colin is amazing. www.amazon.com/stores/Colin...

My family spoiled me this Christmas!

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

[The original classic by Gahan Wilson.]

Christmas trees in Eyes Wide Shut

Lynch remains kind of a model for me in a lot of ways for how you can write unflinchingly about human evil while maintaining the worth of human goodness

Happy Christmas Eve, courtesy of the great Gahan Wilson 🎄

Every 2026 Democrat should have "We're going to shut down the AI Data Centers that make the billionaires richer while raising your power bills" as a part of their platform

One of my TV Picks of the Day from Radio Times: A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower (BBC Two, 10.00pm) #AGhostStoryForChristmas

but seriously if you want to know how the Trump Kennedy Center Honors went here’s my report from the night-of

It's not so much a vibecession as economic actors as the government (and prices) introducing uncertainty at every point. The irony is that without that the same exact economy with the same indicators would be seen as good.

BREAKING: by an apparent vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court has *denied* President Trump‘s plea to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago

It’s crazy that we’re having a vibecession discourse on this app when we’ve spent the last year watching the federal government lay off workers in droves and private industry lay off or threaten to lay off workers due to the tenuous promise of AI. And yet economic unhappiness is just vibes? Please.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Why would people feel worse off living in a society where bridges are collapsing Vs living in one where bridges are being built? A total mystery.

You can't count a park in income figures, or a pub. But they matter. Universal services, social security, all this stuff was being fought for and won, and now we're at the end of a process of taking it away.

The neoliberal state has spent 50 years systematically dismantling state capacity, selling off the public sphere, taking away all the things that substitute for wages in society, like public space, healthcare, social care, even free time. And then it complains people don't feel well off.

One big difference between the 1960s and now is that the state was doing stuff. It was building, developing, improving. Councils were building houses, track was being laid. There was a sense that stuff could be done. And now doing stuff is impossible and illegal, nothing is affordable.

Know there was a crime boom in #WW2 London? Gangsters, killers, black marketeers and other villains made hay in the bombed-out capital. For a fictional take on wartime criminality try #DeathOfAnOfficer, the new #FrankMerlin detective thriller. For facts try #BoomTime, my new WW2 true crime history.

My new piece in the great US mystery and crime fiction publication The Strand magazine. Subject: Ten Great Crime Novels Set In London. See what you think of my list. www.mystery enter.com/2025/08/25/strand-magazine-article-ten-great-crime-novels-set-in-london/

these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election. we are in december of year one.

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

i’ll just say that this isn’t the behavior of people who think their allies are on the verge of establishing a thousand year reich, much less holding control of the national legislature next year

Thinking about the tweet where Dylan reveals himself to be a big Arthur Machen fan and furthermore apparently dabbles in weird/horror fiction. First time I read it I thought maybe I'd been right in high-school and I actually am the protagonist of reality

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

Big tech companies like Amazon and Meta may be passing the costs of building and operating their data centers on to YOU. That’s right. You could be bankrolling the electricity costs of trillion-dollar tech companies. I'm launching an investigation.

Caleb Williams (1794), William Godwin's timely exposé of fake news, dirty tricks, and all the truth-twisting deceptions by which authoritarian governments maintain power, is now trending on Bluesky. (Image from 19c. reprint)

#RIPManWithPez 🕯️ Some of you have asked to see Bryan's obituary, which quotes some of your comments -- so yes, your words have meaning to his wife and daughter. ♥️ Here is a version his wife said I can share, where I've scrubbed their entire family's personal details for their privacy. (4 screens)

is that good

Shout out to the man, the myth, the legend (yes, I chose a picture of him with his shirt open because I can) #FrightClub

awfully rich of JD to call someone out for being inauthentic. a yalie whose law prof helped him write a memoir where he threw his family under the bus in order to craft his up-from-appalachia persona before he toddled off to be a venture capitalist

It's genuinely remarkable how the DHS socials manage to find new levels of depravity

Such an awesome time, #FrightClub Thank you @lordsteerpike.bsky.social for the awesome selections! Hasta la vista…

Always in our hearts #FrightClub

Thank you all so much #FrightClub. It was a joy to watch #Terminator and #Terminator2 with this audience! Much appreciation to Colin for choosing the features. And I am in love with every one of your pets! 🐈🐕🐈‍⬛ We are back Sunday night with our tribute to Rob Reiner, Stand By Me (1986).

That was awesome, gang. Thanks so much for hosting this, #FrightClub! You guys are the absolute best. Just want to give a shout-out to @manwithpez.bsky.social, whose memory will always be with us, whose commentary on this would have been hilarious and insightful, and who will always be missed.

T-800 death scene, HAL getting shut off in 2001, and Spock dying in The Wrath of Khan really stuck in my head as a kid (yeah, I was a nerd) #FrightClub

I really hate this part with the T-800 having to die... #FrightClub

The way he does the finger wag is so hot, I'm so sorry #FrightClub