Scientists and artists practicing their craft until the very end at the eruption of Mt St Helens. For all the STEM vs humanities discourse, today's stories of geologists and photographers are a reminder that we're all just trying to get a little closer to understanding something about the world.

Thor being turned into a frog is the kind of shit you can only get away with in a comic book, and something you will certainly never see in a MCU movie.

Why this works is b/c comic writers are on deadline & must give-in to their imaginations as a source of continuing story. This kind of creation is why I look to comics for inspiration more often than not. Next are the SF writers of the 50/60s & Weird Tales authors. It was just full-tilt boogie.

Stoked to be returning to @typebarmagazine.bsky.social with a new flash piece! Unsure about when it'll be out, precisely, so watch this space

Whether Nazir's story is slop or merely bad (I lean slop, because his self-published books of poems from the pre-AI era don't suggest that this is his natural style) it's sort of hilarious that we talk about romantasy or whatever as rigidly formulaic without recognizing Granta-fit poco lit also

My main beef with 'superhero' as a genre is that it glazes over the fact that a 'superhero' used to be a character who could exist in every genre that ever existed

And to your left you'll see someone who doesn't understand cultural production trying to apply the logic of automation to it

The nostalgia of 1930s floor tiles and stamped tin

Have you signed up for this talk yet? It's on Saturday. Come explore early tales of Egyptian horror, Egyptomania, and women getting vengeance

There is a gofundme linked in this story. They need money to pay for their education www.gofundme.com/f/help-max-a...

I am as always looking for a succinct elevator pitch for this beast

We often rightfully scoff at white men with opinions. But Tichy rarely misses.

There’s reasonable theories of why writers used to be able to hostile to the public and the industry in ways they aren’t now but the only real reason is they’ve starved us into acquiescence. No one wants to call out dogshit books and organizations because the leash is short and the pickings are lean

They push that Royal Kingdom app like it's a national investment

I’m listening to goth rock

I've been noticing a shift in language away from 'AI' and 'LLMs' and into 'data centers' and I'm trying to figure out if that's just for optics or if AI as a consumer product is a failed experiment and they're reworking it to back-end data management

You know who I don't see around anymore these days? Free Speech Activists

I don't care how much you like Good Omens or Sandman or Coraline or whatever - do not support this fucking horror of a man's works.

I still have criticism of Nolan's Odyssey but I'm gonna take a second to congratulate Elliot Page for nabbing the ultimate transmasc icon, going back to antiquity, for a role

Hector fights to the death to honor his country, wife and son, which is what conservative men idealize and fantasize about. Achilles mostly sulks and has gay sex with his cousin, which is more in line with what conservative men actually do.

The fantasy genre is full of maps, constructed languages, nations and religions created by their authors. That tradition has its roots in the birth of the social sciences. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Yeah that's a good advertisement, I'll follow

please remember all of us who will dislike Nolan's Odyssey for non-chud reasons.

Rocker privilege is getting an old beat up Mötorhead shirt cause your friend is moving to Florida. I don't even know if I'm stealing valor in this thing

"What if a computer could write poetry," used to be a soul-rendering philosophical question that was unfortunately answered by bean counters who figured out that poetry has a rhythm they could count and now we know that answer is "it would suck shit no matter what"

I know Q Hayashida is a rocker because her work nails that fragile dichotomy between outrageous visuals that aren't afraid to be ugly with the emotional veritism of making the best from a bad situation.

"The germans are not white." Benjy Franklin

Faeries/spirits are usually surviving mythology, cryptids/aliens are usually unexplained phenomenon

This is an esoteric beef but someone should hire me to write an actual tribute to the impact of Dorothy Parker this year. Lots of essays say she could have been one of the great writers, but check out this hot take: she literally is one of the great writers.

Rejoice, my minions! It's time again for fresh delights!

The fantasy genre is full of maps, constructed languages, nations and religions created by their authors. That tradition has its roots in the birth of the social sciences. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Be sure to stay for the last two sentences. The future of the Smithsonian, what its museums are and do post-Trump, remains an open, under-discussed question.

Tonight’s post shift weirdness is ‘Olyoke’ by @endwellian.bsky.social (and the fine folk @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ). Fragmented storytelling anchored by slow (candle) burning high strangeness - AND it has a cursed theme park. Fuck yeah!

Love fantasy's deep roots in the social sciences strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Ah crumbs, I knew this was coming and it still hurts: David Burke has left us.

“what if [man] took over [responsibilities for booking women in wrestling]?” I know it’s scary but we can give women leadership roles

i wrote about this feeling in my book too

If I grow up I want to write this well www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...

The new Costume Institute is an incredible testament to curation, more of a showcase of what the curator can do than the craftsman. Still, no disrespect to the craftsman. The constant comparison to representational art feels a little bricolage but some sections nail the cross-medium artistry

I'm not over the Met's incredibly haunted Venetian Saccredo bedchamber crawling with putti. Makes me want some Amadeus horror

Everybody look at this mean-ass chihuahua

It looks like my audiobook is stuck as its own seperate listing away from the book's main listing. Are there any Goodreads librarians on bsky who can fix that? #goodreads www.goodreads.com/search?q=Loc...

Thanks as always to hex and hex editors and hex supporters and hex fiduciaries, you just can't get enough hex

I'm not sure what people mean by surreal anymore when most movies I've seen with that label feel like they would be completely legible if there was a car chase in it. Zardoz is a top example of this for me.

“Come on you stupid apes. Get mad and click that fucker” —New Yorker editor

I’m so excited to share this Haruspex-Slashic Horror Press 10-audiobook deal! Narrators, watch this space for auditions, 🏳️‍🌈 especially

80s nostalgia sucked. There was no discussion of adult art, just Duck Hunt and drinking out of the hose and going to the mall. Occasionally there was a top 100 list of pop hits with zero context. Leave the grave unmarked, I'm not revisiting it.

Here's my message to Kickstarter if you need something to start with.

I know @voidcon.bsky.social is famous because we've been getting non-stop Google Teams video chats from somebody tryong desperately to give us 300 million dollars as soon as we upload our bank information