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obligatory link to one of my favorite fanfics ever, Anthony Bourdain in Narnia. archiveofourown.org/works/137185 delightfully the New Yorker blogged it! www.newyorker.com/recommends/r...

*You can't lose interest in historical developments just because everything seems rigidly and relentlessly enshittified *This is what Havel is talking about here *A lot of people click this essay, it's rare for people to read all of it *I read it rather often. medium.com/@bruces/the-...

France launches rewilding project in Dauphiné Alps. It builds on decades of natural species return, aiming to restore herbivores, predators & river systems across mostly forested land, pairing biodiversity recovery with local economic activity & climate resilience buff.ly/jOwrVNc #ShareGoodNewsToo

ok, I think we all need a dose of adorableness today like a NEWBORN GIRAFFE www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

#OtD 6 Feb 1916 the Cabaret Voltaire nightclub opened in Zürich, Switzerland. Described as "history's wildest nightclub" it was the spiritual home of the often radical Dada art movement, formed by artists revolted by the capitalist carnage of WWI stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1060...

I think that Games Workshop should hire James Ellroy to write a WH40K novel. #warhammer #wh40k #bookstagram

I wrote an essay appreciating the works of @horrorsong.blog. I name drop @megapolisomancy.bsky.social, whose Weird scholarship has been a great boon 🖤 please enjoy!

"Hope does not mean saying this is not bad, and it does not mean saying that we can defeat it. It just means saying we will keep showing up. That we will not give up. ...we do not know how it will unfold, and neither do those we oppose." From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's Meditations in an Emergency

#publiclands matter

Fritz Lang. Spione. 1928.

A good reminder of the energy I need to bring to my latest pulp novel.

'I believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.' Susan Cain

Were you aware: Random House has been reprinting the FLIGHT comics anthologies! That award-winning, best-selling comics artist you like? Their earliest work is probably in FLIGHT. bookshop.org/lists/flight...

This is a great intro for people who are not Artaud fiends, as I am. It's ok. If you read this article and follow up, I can forgive you for overlooking Saint Artaud. This time.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

#AICouldNever At the third stop where paths cross, you pause Leave fears behind, let fall all masks Where you are headed, they’ll be of no use The burden lightens, but heavy is the trail ahead www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEiz...

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Eartha Kitt in Istanbul, 1949.

Staff Reads from Executive Editor @ginamei.bsky.social: "A few months ago, the writer Kaleb Horton died. I was lucky to have known him and to have worked with him, and revisiting his writing has been an endless reminder of just how talented and singular he was."

Art by • Philippe Druillet

Gone To The Wolves by John Wray. A great historical novel if you're into heavy metal music. The lives of 3 characters between the late 80s to the early 90s. The beginnings of death metal in Florida, hair vs thrash in LA, and the beginnings of black metal in Norway. bookshop.org/p/books/gone...

Feast of the Pale Leviathan is really good. Highly recommended.

Thanks, Gabino! What I've got is a novel of WW2. Weird War 2. Burn, Nazi Vampire, Burn! GIs vs Nazis Golems vs vampires Kabbalah vs Egyptian necromancy Yahweh vs Set And the Earth shall scream when gods walk in Castle Blood! www.amazon.com/Burn-Nazi-Va...

stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

You can read all of Elfquest through 2012 for free on their website: Elfquest.com/read. The latest two latest arcs, Final Quest and Stargazer’s Hunt, are sold through Dark Horse.

Really good. Fantastic use of the sources. And some really neat data viz layouts to show the relationships among these sad sack loser mercs. And the explanation of all the different currencies is hilariously confusing.

'Manuel Orazi’s Occultist Magic Calendar Mil DCCCXCVI, 1895' flashbak.com/manuel-orazi...

I just bought a Nexus TPB.

Fuck, I hope so.

Just purchased. Since I first watched it so long ago, Naomi Watts has been "Hey, she was in Tank Girl!"

Those wonderful crate diggers from Habibi Funk.

They fight crime! Or... They are here to do crime!

Drawing by Everett Patterson

@funranium.bsky.social Always be stealing Dune memes!

As Beauvoir said: "If the satisfaction of an old man drinking a glass of wine counts for nothing, then production and wealth are only hollow myths; they have meaning only if they are capable of being retrieved in individual and living joy. "

Merry Christmas!

National Liberation Front (NLF) of Vietnam poster in solidarity with the Black Panther Party, 1968

Well, no, I hadn't seen them described that way, but now that I have, no other description will serve. Thank you for the holiday chill.

Nice!

Always reposting Druillet

Happy Solstice ❄️

"Le Fanu inextricably entwined invaders from within and without. Were the ghosts real? Were they hallucinations? None of this mattered. What was important was how the ghost was perceived, and how this perception destroyed the minds of witnesses." markfullerdillon.blogspot.com/2025/12/jim-...

“The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel.” — Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social , 1984. flynnos.org/cyberpunks.h...

That's pretty gosh darned neat. I really like Roth's writing, especially the journalism pieces he did while in Berlin, The Hotel Years, What I Saw. Definitely a place to go if/when I visit Berlin.

For the outdoors person in your life, there might be most excellent gift choices here. And maybe that outdoors person is you! Buy yourself something good and cool.

I'll try. Maybe.