Oh man I rewatched this recently, it’s a fun time.

Periodic reminder I am a weird sff/crime/horror writer & sometimes essayist in love with the void. Get more @ costak.wordpress.com

A couple more days until nominations for the Nebulas close! If you've already read "Blanquitos" please consider it for nomination in the short story category If you've not read it yet, there's still time: www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/

Instead of watching…whatever, we went to a screening of the director’s cut of del Toro’s MIMIC. Man, I always love this movie.

One destructive himbo idiot and once handsome little grand vizier.

1. The homie 2. My man (non-gendered) 3. A Dad (also, non-gendered) 4. Parking lot attendant

Oh, don't know who needs to hear this, but the American Max Headroom series is back up on Tubi. Don't sleep on some of the best SF of the 80s (which got roundly mocked because it was so ridiculous and as I look around, nope, it got more right than wrong.)

Do it for him

he keeps showing how being a good mayor is simple when you want to be a good mayor and not just a collection point for special interest 'donations'

LMAO, loser tech for loser weirdos (derogatory) stay losing.

“I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda” lives rent-free in my brain forever. The delivery of it is just perfect.

Remember folks, the AI is not *actually* doing this; it is querying its training-data for statistically-likely things to appear to do under the given conditions, and replicating the highest-probability outcome.

Face reveal, wrong answers only.

oh god of course they're all into woo-woo shit too

New cocktail dropped

The pinto was considered so legendarily dangerous that people joked about it blowing up at the slightest touch well over a decade after the line was discontinued, and almost two decades after it started getting that reputation. The Cybertruck is LITERALLY *ORDERS* OF MAGNITUDE more deadly.

Review: In the late 1960s and early ’70s, when Eggleston began photographing in color, he traveled to what he described as the “foreign landscapes” of the American South. William Eggleston: The Last Dyes, exhibition is a suite of the final dye-transfer prints ever to be made from his negatives

FICTION: I Have the Key to All of This by Tiernan Blanchard www.typebarmagazine.com/fiction-i-ha...

I’m on camera and talking all day as my regular job. Do not make me do it for my writing. And definitely don’t tell me to pivot to video essays.

There's a few knocking around in my brain, including a historical crime one and a sci-fi one about mecha.

this is actually how you should treat all press all the time me included. don't let them forget your talking points!

Transmission #656 from Topaz 3 (EXPERIMENTAL) 1. Valley of Consciousness 2. Missing Time

I know that this is largely a reflection of my privilege, but my dad told me that when I went to college, I was there to not only learn but to expand my world. It's what I still emphasize still in my classrooms, to this day.

Not many people know that the song I Saw The Sign by Ace of Base is actually inspired by Robert W. Chamber’s The King in Yellow

The real question is why isn't EXHUMA or MASTER AND COMMANDER in the Criterion collection?

new Kraken Busters: with word that San Francisco Bay is full of sea monster eggs, Harry Truman must consider the unthinkable keithpille.com/the-kraken-b... #comicoop

This is what Henry David Thoreau was talking about in his chapter "Winter" from his 1854 book Walden.

I don’t have any hot takes, I’m just constantly correct and incredibly-humble about it. Brilliance is a curse, really.

Dragonfruit. Do not lie to me that it’s anything other than an elaborate prank played on us by Mother Nature. It looks like a dog toy and tastes like water.

i feel like anybody who cares about bluesky's "relevance" is missing the reason like anybody uses this website, which is that it is a place for me to hang out with my friends

This is really good!

Boy it sure as hell is

Still time to get my two weird sci-fi/dark fantasy short story collections NO CASTLES and STRONGER THAN SWORDS for $0 (that's free!) over at Itchio as e-book downloads! -

Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.

FICTION: Blanquitos By Karlo Yeager Rodríguez

Got the directions for the next road trip homies. Let’s go.

UNCUT GEMS (excellent film that had me nonstop anxious), REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (ugh, no thanks), IRREVERSIBLE (fucking never again).

Can I get the President of Chicago to weigh in on this, @wolter.bsky.social?

This past year I learned that a lot of medieval paper was apparently reused, including in books as well that the poorer/non-nobility would use, in stuff like a book of hours (a personal prayer book). And I find that fascinating.

[“I’ve always had at least one cat. At the moment I have seven. I love them dearly, but I sometimes feel they're largely an irritation, and I seem to spend most of my time screaming at them not to do things, not that it does any good.” —Edward Gorey, born on this day 101 years ago]

This is so sweet :)

I'm still looking at this in awe. How do they do it?

Still time to get my two weird sci-fi/dark fantasy short story collections NO CASTLES and STRONGER THAN SWORDS for $0 (that's free!) over at Itchio as e-book downloads! -

no Bermuda for our boy!

The Shadow of the Torturer.

Equality Phil sounds like either a Thomas Pynchon hero or someone on late night TV trying to sell me car insurance.

5 authors I’ve read 5 books by; William Gibson Kinky Friedman Raymond Feist Robin Hobb Kurt Vonnegut

Randomly-reminded human beings willingly eat chia seeds, like, not as a joke. The first time someone offered them to me I honestly thought it was some kind of prank (it was at work).

Anyway, I'm still giving away my two short story collections, NO CASTLES and STRONGER THAN SWORDS, a mix of weird dark fantasy and crime-tinged cyberpunk sci-fi. Get 'em as downloadable .PDFs on Itchio -