Happy Valentine’s Day! 🖤

Exciting news! My science fiction horror story THE SIN EATER is featured in the newest episode of Nocturnal Transmissions, brought to life by the sinister voice talents of Kristin Holland! Enter a world of neon shadows, corruption, and a man with a literal addiction to murder...

#OTD 14 Feb. 1793: philosophical anarchist William Godwin published his celebrated love letter to the world, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, in which he envisaged a society based on justice, equality, tolerance, benevolence, & mutual moral accountability. #Valentine’sDay #LoveThyNeighbour

funny fact amidst the AI stuff is that non-tech white collar job growth is in the least-bad position in more than two years right now, mostly because we've staunched the bleeding at temp agencies and hiring has picked up at law firms and consultancies

It's amazing how ugly this man is, both inside and out.

Finally playing a Fallout game! I couldn’t play New Vegas without a subscription on my PlayStation, so Fallout 4 it is!

When I was younger, I would have read this and thought “this is so romantic.” Now I read it and think “sounds like she has really bad taste 🥴”

Every time I hear about Harlan Ellison, I can't help but think of 'City on the Edge of Forever'. 🖖🙂

ST VALENTINE is the holy guardian of lovers but not many people know that after death his skull became a decorated floral relic, one of the most gothic items to be found in a Roman reliquary. Shown here in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin #ValentinesDay

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Google gave ICE the sensitive personal data of a student journalist, including his bank account and credit card info, without even letting him know. The company is also helping bankroll Trump’s vanity ballroom project. Google is enabling fascism — all to protect its bottom line.

It's amazing how gross this guy is, like he almost makes Dr. Hill in Re-Animator look like a paragon of restraint.

One of my most vivid memories of Baltimore from when I lived there was crossing the street in the crosswalk and one of the oncoming drivers speeding up and honking when they saw me. Man, I miss Baltimore.

“This is a picture of Harlan Ellison.” So this man straight up knew he was hot.

Put this together with today's announcement of a full withdrawal from Minnesota and yesterday's defeat on tariffs and you've got an administration clearly in retreat

congratulations to everyone who wanted to live in the cyberpunk future: we’re here

Van Der Beek dead at 48, leaving his family (SIX kids and a wife) broke because of the evil insurance system THIS fucking hag took a leading role in perpetuating

May be of interest to my #FrightClub pals!

I don't actually have to debate the merits of a product made by assholes who stole my (and everyone else's) work. That's not something I have to do. And it's pretty fucked up to expect anyone to do that. And I'm not shocked that "give AI a chance" weirdos also turn out to be debate pervs.

A reasonable discussion about AI would come to the conclusion that this tech is damaging to humanity in virtually every way a tech can be damaging. But I'd rather have an emotional discussion and point out that this tech is shit made by assholes, and it stole from me, personally, so fuck it.

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If you believe this, then you should call for the destruction of the "A.i." industry via regulation, boycott, and defunding.

Have we learned nothing from Frank Herbert?!

Here's the thing: the worst case scenario for AI is ultimately *bad for AI* more than it's bad for workers. Do people not realize that if AI actually stole every white collar job, that the fastest route to power for a politician would be to promise that they would personally smash every data center?

Exciting news! My science fiction horror story THE SIN EATER is featured in the newest episode of Nocturnal Transmissions, brought to life by the sinister voice talents of Kristin Holland! Enter a world of neon shadows, corruption, and a man with a literal addiction to murder...

the burden of proof is on the mother-fucker asserting something.

Rep. Becca Balint's grandfather died in the Nazis' Mauthausen concentration camp. Pam Bondi just suggested Balint was antisemitic.

Bondi laughing at the end is the real pièce de résistance. This is all just a big joke to her.

Guys. Fuck. It's Reggie. I know times are absolute shit, but if you're not in the shit at the moment, please consider helping. Dude is a legend and a big part of why Horror is where it is.

A "glass teat," if you will

Pascal’s Wager or Roko’s Basilisk are not the best way to think about AI. The logic relies on assuming a sufficiently high probability of another technological leap not currently in evidence. And some do take seriously the possibility of AI-caused disruption. The writers/actors strike for example.

The same AI technology that deleted 15 years of photos from a tech bro's wife's hard drive?

Good thread. I'll also add this: the way I see it, I don't want my readers to just read my work. I want them to become obsessed with it, impassioned with it. I want them to want to re-read it, to love the characters, to imagine themselves in my worlds.

This is such an amazing and inspiring thought. I know there have been many such creatives for me.

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Context: my heroine meets her favorite author.

"rich asshole who stops a multi-billion dollar project and causes an international incident to protect his lucrative duty-free gasoline concession" is really the perfect exemplar of parasitic trumpism. think of how wealthy the american people would be if we shook off all these bloodsuckers.

Man, if the best you’ve got is “the jobs report is bad because everyone we’re deporting has a job,” you are turbo fucked.

Feeling FOMO because I just do not care about the new Wuthering Heights and the non-hot Heathcliff.

Why does he look like a Dark Shadows antagonist who shows up in Collinsport to annoy Barnabas Collins by launching a psychedelic neo-Rosicrucian cult because it turns out he’s the reincarnation of an 18th century sorcerer?

My number one Valentine's Day tip this year is: go drop $40 on a bottle of Produttori del Barbaresco 2021 at Costco, and then spend another $40 (elsewhere) on ingredients for a nice dinner. You'll have a transcendent experience for what a decent restaurant would charge you for the wine alone.

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“all we’re saying is just be good uwu” “it takes zero effort to be kind :)” as it turns out, vague, constantly shifting, and opportunistically enforced cultural sanctions on behavior are a boon for abusers

Gaiman is, inter alia, the originator of the "what's so hard about not being an asshole" twee meme

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I find myself in need of £130 to join a trade union with, so here I am, shilling books with a hopeful expression. ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671

Okay, folks, as promised... My top 10 favorite short stories by this random guy named Harlan Ellison. sublimeterror.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/m...

It is the Year of Our Lord 2026 I am searching for jobs in the worst job market since the 2008 recession. The President withholds funds because he wants Dulles Airport renamed Trump Airport. I log onto Pinterest and hear Harlan Ellison singing about peanut butter. This is the highlight of my day.