imagine if you were the type of person for whom this felt like a meaningful expression of adult love

The goth bar doesn't have ac but I'm thugging it out with a frostie bev

You could buy BACKMASK before the audiobook comes out

The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵

I did not realise how much of BACKMASK was basically just the Nicholas Hush show until I hear Rain read it back to me

It scares me that I don’t have impostors syndrome about my weiting cres anymore. Feels like a Napoleon Complex is waiting to fill the void

I think I have a work wife. she's stealing my office sweater

Robert Eggers can you hear me. We have a merchandising idea

I wonder what the Werwulf popcorn bucket will be

For the Yeager heads (and anyone who grew up in a community like the one in NEGATIVE SPACE)

Media discourse was just as bad pre-internet but there were way fewer avenues to vent so most of the worst takes died on the vine. Any good archive of a collections of Letters to the Editor or From Our Readers is a gold mine of blistering bad reading comprehension.

New Interview on Right Here Write Queer with Carolina Cruz, where we talk about the BACKMASK audiobook, behavior science, and ska. @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @haruspex-audio.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1iAH...

Japanese media was literally the only place you'd see someone on a laptop or cell phone until, like, 2015

Preorders make the world go round, although truthfully by “world” one means “tiny press” and by “go round” one means “not go defunct,” which is considerably less catchy. Below are some books that are available or preorder, all signed by their respective authors.

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

"The Monk By The Sea" by Caspar David Friedrich is my top example when explaining why art is better in person. Only the canvas passes on the information that the monk is understands that the void ofnspace is behind the space ehere the sky and sea blur.

Watching Despicable Me so I can understand American culture better

"Here we finally get a glimpse at how...Thiel’s two-pronged assault on American democracy can square the circle of its seeming contradictions. National conservatism may offer ‘populist’ energy, but authoritarian capitalism...remains the ultimate goal." strangematters.coop/fascist-econ...

Good news, the hierophants have decreed that peasants may in fact still drink water! Unfortunately they have also declared there is a second currency you can only earn through ritual murder

New Interview on Right Here Write Queer with Carolina Cruz, where we talk about the BACKMASK audiobook, behavior science, and ska. @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @haruspex-audio.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1iAH...

This Pride Month, Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein has invited guests to review classic works of gender transition and identity. This week, please enjoy: Ancestors Are Just People—Robert Heinlein’s “‘All You Zombies—’” (1959) by O. F. Cieri deepcuts.blog/2026/06/20/a...

Robert Eggers, listen to me, adapt Confessions of an English Opium Eater and you will be installed in the halls of the ancestors.

Ahhh shit, lads. Dry eye hit before I could get home.

Happy 100th Birthday Mel Brooks!!! #Comedy #Legend

I just found out about Sebastiane by Derek Jarman and have been punching my own thigh for twenty minutes to ride out the euphoria of being on a planet that once held such a magnificent bastard. Derek Jarman you LEGE

The Bride! Is, like, the third movie I've ever seen that makes partying actually look like fun.

More specifically, what spoke to publishers about the book? The fact that it didn't explain anything for over half the book? The fact that chpts changed POV often? How was this presented to M+P? How did launch go? I want details! How did the acquiring ed. make everyone feel confident?

Nutritional Facts Mock the Lord: @deeholloway.bsky.social reviews Edwin Callihan's BACULUM (@weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social)

During a historic period of brave reporting in which many journalists are making a name for themselves by recording the drivers of a moral panic, Slate takes a stand and says; Maybe some moral panics are good

New Chris book review!

The marketing department isn't happy with the effort I'm putting into my audiobook pre-order campaign. I'm the marketing department.

The BACKMASK audiobook will be coming out in a few weeks. Pre-order it now, and if you'd like a review, give this one a read. It's good. haruspex-audio.com/products/bac...

The BACKMASK audiobook will be coming out in a few weeks. Pre-order it now, and if you'd like a review, give this one a read. It's good. haruspex-audio.com/products/bac...

>Go to the metaphysics shop >ask if their occultism is qabalah or manifestation >she doesn't understand >I pull out a chart explaining what is qabalah and what is mesmerism >she laughs and says "It's a good spiritual practice ma'am" >go inside >it's manifestation

This is the kind of tech innovation I want to see. Slightly less convenience (both parties must have their browsers open for the duration of the transfer) for way more peace of mind (nobody else can see, monetize, or train robots off your files).

One day they’re gonna bring that damn podium out and inform us that Larry has died and there will be people wailing in the streets. I will be one of them

Mary Gaitskill's ideal woman gets abs by grinding her teeth

Putting this out ourselves. First copies will be available at @voidcon.bsky.social

Great news! I just spoke to God and he said there's no connection to fictional acts and physical acts. Yeah, none at all. I checked.

While AI slop and Mr. Beast flood YouTube, why do independent journalists literally have to blur out news to ensure they don't face a ban? @hanrahan.tv of @popularfront.co speaks to 404's @josephcox.bsky.social on this week's episode about tech censorship: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf51...

Simi has got me watching The Mandalorian and I'm making her very upset by implying that Grogu keeps eating live animals because Din doesn't feed him

The most damning thing about Millenials, speaking as one myself, is that we all know the algorithm shows you more of the content you're already watching and yet we're all addicted to writing takedowns of that content

Or, to sum up;

The cutting of the Gordian knot here is everyone needs to get way more comfortable going “that’s stupid” & not arguing/getting mad when they see a media illiterate Take. Then we can enjoy art for grown ups AND the delightfully preposterous nonsense the world’s dipshits have to say about it online.

The new formalism, guys, we’re making it happen

Jax if she wasn't a huge piece of shit.

I am more powerful and subtle than 90% of posters because of my great and terrible power to appreciate complex, sometimes even morally reprehensible female characters

34 YEAR OLD WOMAN AT ANIME CON HOTEL PARTY: you sound pretty passionate about that jax character. you know, when i was your age we had similar arguments about a different character, we called it "vriscourse" 22 YEAR OLD WOMAN WHO DIDN'T KNOW SOJU WAS THAT STRONG: could yuo push me down the stairs,,

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.