the monster perpendicularly flitted his tail forty feet into the air, and then sank out of sight like a tower swallowed up

In today's episode of 'BBC journalists misunderstanding stuff': at the start of this article I wondered what the price of the wetsuit had to do with it, then towards the end all became clear. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FWIW some first-hand advice for siphoning petrol: if you've sucked & it's not coming out, *do not* empty your lungs & do it again, but harder. You will get a very nasty surprise. Of course, this advice applies to other things in life, too.

uh oh -- reactor magazine, march 25th ... a totalitarian fairy tale from a treasury of classic Alak folklore

Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

Read this novella, some of the best Weird/SFnal/fantastika horror going, bar none. The imagination blazes actinic, the writing is deathly beautiful but it's his *humanity* I love best, elegies to what we lose & have lost as the future rolls over us. One of my favourite current short story writers.

And don't forget to have the villain look up from killing fifty people to say "But even I believe in queer joy!"

Brb going to make a post about how Alien is classist while showing a hint of bumcheek

Never have the dormant loins of so many tired 50 year old men in hats stirred in such perfect synchronicity.

Saw The Bride! The sort of film that Lux Interior would've enjoyed smashed into the sort of half-chewed agit-prop your younger sister might make after listening to a Bikini Kill record: Bale veers into Tom Waits pastiche & Buckley is great. Messy, malformed & incoherent but I fucking *loved* it.

one google data center in virginia two million gallons of water per day information only released under court order & risk of contempt

@sebdoubinsky.bsky.social Fuck yeah man, congrats!

Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"

I must say Americans dream up such awful horrors.

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

We're Toni-Morrison-maxxing, people, it's the wave of the future

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

TIL that the country of Iceland had to take the company Iceland to court because it had trademarked the name Iceland and it was preventing companies from Iceland doing business in the EU. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

JG Ballard would’ve had something to say about this, I reckon

Some quick back-of-the-envelope arithmetic indicates that this "cash boost" will support the National Year of Reading by giving each public library enough money for a one-time purchase of two (2) additional books for their collections or cover approximately three (3) man-hours of staffing.

It's called Operation Epic Fury because Hegseth can't spell Immanetize the Eschaton jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

Turning 24 today! 🧙‍♂️ Shares of my art are very much appreciated 🌛

One must enjoy seven servings of weird in these dark and weird times, especially now. Enjoy this feast of weird wonders, these outliers from the norm of other magazines.

Nice to be clamping down on refugees just when we’re participating in a war that will create hundreds of thousands of new refugees.

Hunger — Willem van Schaik, 1917

We might have FINALLY met our match… #WorldBollardAssociation

Today's Mail on Sunday is going full-on MAGA with a claim that "foreign-born voters" stole the Gorton and Denton by-election... With advertising from Staysure, Trailfinders, Sky, British Gas, Boots, P&O, Great Western Railway, Tesco, Holland&Barrett, Gtech, Artemis, Cruise Club, Avalon, Insure&Go

If there is another book out there that packs more startling imagery, deep wonder, wide possibilities and surreal imagination into just 300 pages? Let alone ones weaving through narrow streets, bare squares and cramped rooms? (But his vast skies.) Simply extraordinary.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

read The Marigold

listen to Blood Work

#OtD 1 Mar 1912 over 1 million British coal miners went on strike for a nationwide minimum wage for coal miners. 37 days into the strike the government caved and passed the Coal Mines Act, establishing a minimum wage for the first time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8106...

The millions killed by US/European sanctions alone in recent decades—I mean not even counting the wars and the bombings—aren't usually counted as the death toll of a great war. In fact, they don't even rise to the level of "distraction." Mass death is just the background noise of late capitalism.

An act of pure wickedness.

Midway across the river the duckling stings the pizza, dooming them both. When asked why, the duckling points out that this is its nature.

Hopping aboard the art train, thanks @jorgeperal.net ! Choo choo @artofcaustic.bsky.social @azuremeraki.bsky.social @zeburnay.bsky.social @mentat0209.bsky.social

anyone who hates communists more than fascists will, on a long enough timeline, become a fascist.

I take it the Greens have won then, because we are instantly on our bullshit

Black Abstraction by Georgia O'Keefe. 1927. She painted the visual sensation of going under anesthesia when she got a benign tumor removed from her breast.

I'm really curious about how people who write this stuff internalise the revelation of a group of billionaires, politicians and their assorted hangers on who were very clearly putting their thumbs on every scale with the intention of making the world worse for everyone except them.

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

I love that the NHS is now explicitly an arm of the DWP, so now all my answers to NHS staff are going to be "no comment" :)

Imagining a world where Ed Roth did the artwork for all of Nick Cave’s albums, not just Junkyard

Weird Horror #12 is alive! Another fab ToC! Thank you to everyone who preordered. I will get your copy out soon. You can grab a copy direct from us (or elsewhere). Our friends @weightlessbooks.bsky.social have the official digital subscription. Thx! undertowpublications.com/shop/weird-h...