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The week in reviews ends at SH with @ajodasso.bsky.social on Talamasca: The Secret Order, AMC's latest offering in the Immortal Universe franchise: "AMC has proved itself unafraid to take risks at the intersection of horror and speculative fiction. This daring has brought spectacular payoffs."

I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.

they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms

I don't know what I might have done to have this rosebush gift me with this lovely rose in the middle of November, but here it is. On the South Shore of Long Island, New York.

I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever

“What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?” — Hannah Arendt

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

After 7 l-o-n-g weeks, wishing Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva, who is the 158th & final vote to release the EPSTEIN Files, a wonderful Swearing-In Day, although not everyone is all that happy about it. #AccountabilityIsComing

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP. A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify. I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius | Live Science www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I honestly feel horrible having to ask this but, it's the only way we can secure the next 6 months after my father's unexpected passing and also me becoming my mother's only support and care taker as she struggles with late stage cancer. Any support is welcome. gofund.me/b1830615a

"Rats love hearts." And I love Sam. Seriously though, it might be @ajodasso.bsky.social fault that I love Sam Barclay as much as I do! Art by me! #thevampiresam #sambarclay #interviewwiththevampire #iwtv #amciwtv #amcinterviewwiththevampire #iwtvfanart #fanart #sambarclayfanart #ratslovehearts

Orders for hardcover copies of the #interviewwiththevampire #iwtv #devilsminion #fanzine #devilsminionzine are now open! Information and ordering available at the following links: www.tumblr.com/devilsminion... www.blurb.com/bookstore/in...

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck. Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special. "She probably doesn't mean me" I do.

So happy to see my poem, “The Final Trick,” get an honorable mention in the Rhysling Awards! Thanks to everyone who read and voted! Eternally grateful to @ajodasso.bsky.social who gave this poem the perfect home at @strangehorizons.bsky.social. Congrats to all the winners and nominees!

Join us Friday, October 10th on the Main Stage at #NYCC2025 for a joint panel with members of the upcoming series #TALAMASCA: The Secret Order and the cast and executive producers from the highly anticipated new season of #TheVampireLestat, moderated by TV Guide Magazine's Damian Holbrook.

War ravaged Portland

For the Epsteinth time, Tylenol doesn’t cause autism.

Shanah Tovah, y’all!

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

1. Turns out caving to fascists is a terrible fucking business model, never cave to fascists, not even once 2. I am happy this is resolved because now I will be able to watch the final episode of Alien:Earth www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

The writer of Andor, Dan Gilroy, wrote an op-ed in Deadline and it is as good as you might imagine. deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

saw a tiktok of a girl on her first day of law school, which she felt compelled to attend after surviving the shooting at sandy hook they are that old and we’ve done nothing

I may be going on 48hrs of serious GI issues at the end of faculty convocation week, but it hasn’t stopped me from making a handful of updates in order to distract myself. Can’t eat, might pass out, but it’s sure as shit not preventing me from clocking chapters, because what else am I going to do ☠️

got it started! if anyone wants to be added OR removed for any reason please lmk ☺️ go.bsky.app/EzqT797

The most problematic ship? Censorship

I've been seeing a huge uptick in fantasy queries where only the oldest, purest bloodlines have powerful magic, or where the MC is a super special but super illegal "half-breed" and folks, it's 2025. Can we please be more careful with how we engage with eugenics/blood quantum/bloodline purity? Thx.

The best part about being someone who studies women's history in the 1700s is when people tell me that 14 year olds being off limits is a "recent phenomenon", I get to plop down an entire dissertation of reasons why that's wrong AND feel like the 10 years of training to get the phd was 💯 worth it.

#IWTVSPOILERS #TVL #SPOILERS I thought the trailer would be posted by now and am a little scared sharing this but I think it’s all mostly out there now

Now in Tel Aviv: Thousands of Jews and Palestinians are marching together against the starvation in Gaza and for an immediate ceasefire deal to end the annihilation and return the hostages

Even for as vague as this shit is, I’m feeling vindicated for all my endlessly stubborn writing efforts about these two… #iwtv #talamasca #sambarclay #realrashid #sambarclayxrealrashid

@iwtvwriters.bsky.social Here’s a weird question, and I realize it may not be answered. However, it’s a whimsical item of contention among friends: is Lestat the vampire who turned Felix the rat catcher? Most of us assume so, but some folks refuse to believe Lestat could’ve been the one to do it.

WorldCon panels dropped and I guess they've decided to jump on the right wing's train of strawmen about the gay agenda? Please, if anyone in their life has encountered a bookstore giving them half a dozen sapphic recs with 'strong women leads' let me know so I can shop there

Pre-orders for the Art Novel edition #TheGreatGatsby from Bond & Grace open tomorrow! This is the edition I alluded to when I mentioned working on intro and annotations as queer theory specialist with a team of other scholars for a new illustrated edition. I’ve seen proofs; it’s a stunning book.

Happy July 4th! Something you can do to better our country today is to cancel your New York Times and Washington Post subscriptions!

#iwtv #armandaniel #devilsminion #interviewwiththevampire #armand #danielmolloy

Happy Juneteenth! Just updated my list of books by Black intersex authors - www.bogireadstheworld.com/a-list-of-bo... (Aiming for completeness, please let me know if I missed a title!)

Happy JUNETEENTH y'all!!! Support Black creators. Here's a great place to start: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This Juneteenth, I'm thinking about the 1 in 5 Black women in the US who will be evicted during her lifetime. I'm thinking about the Black men for whom police encounters are the sixth leading cause of death. I'm thinking about the Black workers who earn 76 cents on the $1 made by a white worker.

We were the winners of the 2024 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine and The Community Award winners at the inaugural Ignyte Awards! We are also in our 25th year! Our podcast "Strange Horizons at 25" commemorates this milestone, interviewing many authors we've featured in the past.

Strange Horizons is a weekly, online SF magazine publishing short fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. We began publishing in 2000, making us one of the oldest online SF zines in continuous existence. We are also entirely community funded, mostly through these annual fund drives.

We've hit $9000, so here's another poem from the Fund Drive Issue! A Mermaid Falls in Love with Icarus by Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social "IF THE SUN WAS YOUR SCALPEL THE MOON IS MINE" Read it at the link to this year's Fund Drive issue in our bio! Check out the link to donate as well!