Hate having to do this but my kittens' vet checkup last week ate up most of my disposable income for this month, my balance is now negative due to an autopayment I'd forgotten about, I don't get paid until a week from today, and I need $ to pick up my old-man cat's kidney pills:

Looking for some weekend reads?

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

Not going to lie, this book is doing me psychic damage. I thought I'd tear through it but I'm having to go at it quite slowly. Perhaps the structure lends itself to this small mercy? Just to be clear: it's brilliant, but... oof.

As a reminder, Texas Fusion Center is monitoring all Bluesky activity, investigating, arresting and charging Bluesky users. No amount of blocking government accounts can stop it, they're monitoring the AT Protocol stream and there's no way to stop it. So watch what you say.

The CL Hellisen book that reviews called 'woke cannibal erotica' has a friend. ;) Just over a month to go before the sequel to The Shape of Monsters hits audio! Buy from audio book retailers or listen free with Audible plus

All your favorite stories together in one book. The Deadlands Omnibus features Undead Folk, Dead Folk, and Nothingland plus two brand new short stories, new jacket cover art, and new laminate cover art beneath. This is a limited edition, signed and numbered. Grab yours here: tinyurl.com/bdcsr54u

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

ICYMI, my horror short 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2, Nightfire), now free to read as a reprint. A woman in her 30s is dragged to a late night winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & regrets it even more than expected. Here be monsters, mundane & not:

I actually do think the deeply toxic US version of ‘free speech’ being enforced digitally all over the world with very little regulation has been deeply detrimental to the rest of society. This form of digital imperialism has no place in the world.

Dangerous Creeps, a short collection.

If you let them, the horrors will devour you whole. Making space to live and smile is an act of resistance. So is helping others to do the same. If you’re an artist in this time, remember that what you’re doing is part of the emotional support infrastructure. They want you silent. 1/2

hey #portfolioday my name is Yorgos and i make book covers for a living.

hello again, #PortfolioDay! I'm Torres, a freelance artist and illustrator. I love medieval fantasy, fairy tales and whimsical vibes. I'm always on the lookout for new projects in book publishing, TTRPGs or TCGs 🔸Portfolio: ddbtorres.carrd.co 🔸E-mail: [email protected]

I submitted to this call, and you can too (at least for the next couple of days) if you have a longer piece between 4 and 10k words. Good luck!

Companies cant fuck artists over if their audience supports them directly.

I'm begging Jensen Huang to go fuck himself. Very hard. Twice.

Iran is an Islamic theocracy because of the US. Iran had a democratic government which the US and UK overthrew to install a brutal pro western dictatorship for oil. The 79 revolution was a direct consequence of this. People pretend the government is anti-US for no reason

Everyone's talking about "X", while being totally amnesiac about the evils of the Meta corporation - all owned by Zuckerberg. Threads, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp. Here's just some of the dishonest and harmful things they were up to in the decade up to 2021: www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...

Watch this. All of it.

My goodness, just LOOK AT THIS 👀🤯👀

I guess the adult porn sites forgot to bribe them 🤷‍♂️

Replies on this are just 😘👌 Tears in my eyes over here

poetry won’t bring you happiness but it will teach you how to recognize its scent

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last. www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 20/20: SPIRITUS EX MACHINA by LC von Hessen.

One of my first reads of the year is a little anthology called Rough Seas & Strange Yarns, co-edited by my good friend @uteorgassa.bsky.social, comprised of members of her group, Pen & Pier. You can find the book here: www.amazon.com/Rough-Seas-S... 1/🧵

Looking for some rage-filled horror that's also queer & feminist? My collection is now up on NetGalley! This is my first new book in two years, so I'm super excited for it to make its way into the world! Ghosts, vampires, sentient board games, oh my! 👻🧛‍♂️🏚️🖤 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

If only there was as much effort put into improving youth services, making sports, arts and crafts available and affordable, and making the physical environment more 'teen-friendly' as there is for banning kids from social media or taking their phones away.

it doesn't matter if that one topic you want to draw has been made millions of times already. only YOU can create it in your style and that makes the art unique. also just draw that damn thing because you enjoy it!!!! it's actually the only reason you need

The fox's shadow at twilight has a life of its own 🦊🌀🌗 #FoxFriday

If you want to get better at drawing people fast the Morpho books are going out their weight in gold. If I had to recommend just one to newbies I would say this one: Simplified forms

If you've ever wondered what life in the UK would be like without the NHS: "Vets have told BBC Panorama they feel under increasing pressure to make money for the big companies that employ them - and worry about the costly financial impact on pet owners..."

I've misplaced it, but Frank Bill's second novel THE SAVAGE was about a post-government collapse USA where all the men seemed to survive on nothing but meth, guns, and barbecued deer and squirrel meat - cant help thinking this is RFK's wet dream.

if it was artists, chefs, musicians, writers, community organisers, charity workers, volunteers, teachers, academics, literally anyone with skin in the game, talking about protecting culture, I would listen

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 19/20: RVR by Jamie Delano and Richard James.

"Everyone uses AI in their daily life" No I fucking don't actually. 2026 and I still have no clue how to even access chatGPT, never touched any Gen AI, never got into the stupid Ghibli pfp trend, and I scroll pass the AI Summary every time I google anything.

10/1/26 - nocturn

We haven't had many entries for this, so we're extending it another week in case people have been away for Xmas & New Years. Entries now close Sunday 11th Jan and we'll announce a winner afterwards.

If you're taking to the streets to protest, know your rights.

First doodle of 2026. Weird sisters, unite 🌘 (It's kinda amazing how your brain wakes up when you draw. I was dopey af all day until I picked up a pencil...) Graphite on a tiny Artefex sample panel, sealed with matte varnish. #DarkArt #OriginalArt #FantasyArt #MiniatureArt

So. We need to fill our feed out a little. Tell us who we should be following for the good genre and genre adjacent stuff. Authors, reviewers, commentators, all the good people. Fun, serious, wry, excitable - bring them all.

It's no secret many authors are boneyard loiterers. It's where we go to steal names from tombs and grave markers to clothe our characters. What's less known, is how many of us authors hear certain stones sing their names, whisper their stories. We tend to keep quiet on that. – #CLNolan #Writing

The thing that depresses me in the whole AI revolution in my industry (I’m a literary translator and publisher) is that the question is not whether machines can replace human translators, but how will we deal with the fallout after machines are forcibly introduced regardless.

In between appointments and a fair bit of driving today, I managed to read 2 ghost stories: Laughter Among the Trees by Suzan Palumbo, and An Oral History of the Greater London Exorcism Authority by Ray Newman. Both excellent, both quietly devastating. 1/?

I'm gonna start being an insufferable self-promoting knobhead for the foreseeable, would be ace if we could get #GetKeshed trending at some point before Feb.

remember kids: generative AI is created by, in service to, and directly feeds the Fascism Machine. if you use generative AI, you are directly supporting and feeding said Fascism Machine.

Now more than ever - and for reasons besides that it's just the right thing to do - credit your artists, credit your translators, credit your designers and layout people. Credit any and every human hand that works on your project wherever you can.