The energy I bring to Bluesky

Happy birthday Doctor! ❤️❤️ #DoctorWho

"As the White Walkers marched inexorably south, nearly 90 percent of the Realm insisted on calling them monsters, abominations, and evil incarnate. The Democrats of the Seven Kingdoms cautioned against such language." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

*taps the sign* people who argue with you about terminology actually aren't interested in solving the root problem.

I’m not sure “sometimes works in your favour as a magic 8 ball” is a solid argument for the environmentally destructive plagiarism lying machine, really?

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

🚨”If everyone who came before me had just complied and complied and complied, then I probably would have entered this theater, any theater, through a colored section. Every good thing you have in your life is a product of someone else’s struggle.” ~ Josh Johnson Message: Do Not Comply

I know SCRATCH MOSS isn't even out yet but I've been given the go-ahead to share the cover design (by the always excellent Sarah Whittaker) for the fourth book in my folk horror series, TWISTED PIKE. Scheduled for October, this is one you won't want to miss as we return to a certain Withered Hill...

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

Celebrate Edgar Allan Poe's birthday with thoughts on the paintings in Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films! culturalgutter.com/2024/06/06/s...

When he was elected in 2016, I wrote a review of In the Mouth of Madness to cope, and that is pretty much exactly how I feel today.

I know that times are ridiculously shitty, but I just want to say that I'm starting an edit on a new project today, and I'm grateful for every Romancelandia manuscript that crosses my path. Art and creation are always important, and especially so in ugly eras.

Celebrate Martin Luther King Day with a 1958 comic about him and the Civil Rights Movement! www.crmvet.org/docs/ms_for_...

Reposting through it

Share a television show that raised you

Let the representative's, senator's or leader's entire office listen to the grinding of their old fax machines. I suggest 1 fax per issue per day.

Florida Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood https://theonion.com/florida-passes-law-granting-viruses-personhood/

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Ungfio.

“No no we’re the experts. Don’t overreact, like us. Talk about other, different, milder things, like us. We know how to resist them effectively” says the army of honor roll students who have manifestly failed to resist them effectively. Who have failed so completely the country has all but collapsed

All I want to do is fight this insanity, there are so many people like me, and it feels like most of the actual elected leaders who are supposed to be channeling this desire to resist are sitting on my head scolding me. PUT US IN THE GAME

As a classically Appalachian instrument it would frankly be more surprising if Dolly didn't know the dulcimer, the view of Dolly as an exception to what the south sometimes is when she is actually the thesis of what it has always been oh hey I'm essaying too that's easy huh

MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Our culture has such a reliance on art, mixed with so much disdain for artists' lives. Someone throws soup at a painting in a gallery or whatever and everyone acts like it's a literal murder, but that level of sympathy is for the object, almost never for the living conditions of artists.

If you need an escape from the ghastliness, James Whale's THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) is streaming free w/ a library card on Kanopy. Boris Karloff, Gloria Stuart, and Lilian Bond #BOTD lead a stellar cast in this darkly comic horror, beautifully restored by Cohen Media in 2017. #FilmSky

I mean I was an 80s trailer park kid, and I have never related so hard to the FF7 slums as now

Gallego ("moderate" Dem) is going with "ICE needs to be totally torn down" (not "reform and retrain"). This is a pivot point for the country on immigration. You have been seeing this in the data for a while, and now officials are snapping to the public opinion www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...

Old ICE Agents sharing war stories in a bar: "Remember when we killed that mom," "Or when we teargassed an infant," "Dragged a disabled woman out of a car," "And when the Minnesota cold give us the excuse to blame our small dicks on shrinky dink..."

I love being flanked by my dogs and watching them both startle in unison to things my human senses utterly fail to report.

Being A Detective Who Talks To Ghosts Not As Exciting As TV

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

The Long Neolithic is continuity with our fundamental nature. To step into a stone circles is to know we are pattern makers, season markers. It is a knowing we have always looked to sky, always had our rituals and mysteries of death. We are lithic. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or here on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Tomorrow's episode is about hauntings at the Higgins Bedford, the site is more than a museum and art gallery though, it includes Bedford Castle Mound also. Could this ancient military site (there was a siege there in the early C13) shed light on the paranormal activity reported? 1/2

Is it a weird dogwhistle thing that he capitalizes nouns like in German?

Attention UK fans: @scaryasfolk.bsky.social (one half of the Crossroads editorial team) is presenting a very special watch party in support of RABBIT TRAP, his favorite film of 2025, ahead of its UK release on January 30. The party is also for a great cause! Read the thread for more details.

A haunting elegy for David Lynch by George Szirtes.

Stole my spinach wrap, no regrets #dogsofbluesky #brazenthievesofbluesky

Join #FrightClub and post along Saturday's double feature starting with 28 Days Later (2002) at 10:00 PM ET. Available on Netflix, Shudder, & Pluto. Then join us at 12:10 AM ET for 28 Weeks Later (2007). Available on Shudder & Hulu. You waited long enough. It's here!

I started my Hitchcock zine with a statement for Tippi Hedren. I think people should read her autobio, it's a great book even if harrowing at times. This zine is about 1/4th Tippi fanzine tbh. sara-century.square.site

It's a shame more white men over 35 aren't yelling at them then. Get to work.

Saturday night on MeTV- we turn loose the Sven Squad to air traffic control a frightening flight piloted by the supernatural! Board “Flight 7500”- 8 pm eastern/ pacific, 7 central time.

Discworld QOTD, from Eric “‘There’s a door.’ ‘Where does it go?’ ‘It stays where it is, I think.’”

I love finding maps in books so when I wrote Villager, I decided the inclusion of a map was vital. I sent a sketch of what I wanted to my dad, Mick, and this is what he came up with. I think he did a grand job.

I am incredibly excited to be doing an online talk all about my Research into Ann Morgan, The Wenlock Witch! We will be exploring the complex place the witch has in Shropshire and their cultural importance as well as exploring Ann Morgan's story in detail. www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

"But he's a perfect candidate except for-" No. Stop. Read what Jed said, and then read it again. Even if you're not trans, an anti-trans politician inherently believes he has the right to control your body and tell you how to live.

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.