millennial oppenheimer:

Thanks to @emilyhughes.bsky.social ‘s rec, I made the strawberry summer sheet cake from @smittenkitchen.bsky.social and it came out truly amazing. Puddles of jammy strawberries embedded in a moist vanilla cake with a sugared crust on top. Super easy, too! Recipe: smittenkitchen.com/2019/06/stra...

if you get a blood test and the doctor tells you they’ll only call if something’s wrong, it should be illegal for them to hit you with an automated customer service feedback call three days later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

there’s a butterfly conservatory in our area that’s been trying to branch out in the realm of programming and I’m all for it but uh. I do have some notes on the marketing.

it is time to stop writing to please the least fun person in the room

Today marks 81 years since the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945: the Trinity test. Here's a selection of Bulletin articles examining the event and its wide-ranging impact.

We lost a horror icon with the passing of Sam Neill. If the remembrances have you thinking it's time to have a memorial marathon of his work in the horror genre, we've got you. Many are available for free. (Kanopy and Hoopla - through your library.) So here's what we recommend and where to find it:

This is really great defector.com/pen-americas...

Our buddy @bjcolangelo.bsky.social needs a little help from her friends (and I'm a bully). BJ needs what is, essentially, a full mouth replacement thanks to cancer radiation. We can't eliminate the dental trauma, but we can help with the life-altering debt. www.gofundme.com/f/bj-needs-a...

hello did you know about @darkertimes.bsky.social? $7/month or $70/year gets you full access to everything we publish plus commenting privileges, our monthly book club, and more. big things coming from the site starting next week 👀

everyone get ready for the new website *I* am going to have. it will be called normal website and the things I put on it will be normal

Not to be vulnerable on main but the hyper skinniness that’s everywhere is like really getting to me bad

If I hear someone say “meeting in Bronx” I will kick them in nuts

This is where I land. Homogeneity in fiction is an issue. I love weird fic, especially in the semipro/token mags that vary the landscape. But if you think there aren't tropes, patterns, weaknesses that the subgenre gets sucked into, we're all gonna get taken for a fuckin ride. It's in our house too.

I reviewed BACKROOMS, a strange and elliptical film about placelessness, self, and memory. I liked it quite a bit, and appreciated how much it left up to the viewer's interpretation. www.patreon.com/scumbelievab...

If you have some space to plant something that pollinators like—even just a pot of flowers on your windowsill—it is really fun to watch the bees eventually find your plants and bring their friends. They’ll return every day! And you’ll help them find more plants around you.

unfortunately now I have to turn the breakthrough into a legible artifact that others can understand. yay

Brave New Weird Vol. 4 is out today! Grab a copy. It has my story “The Sunflower Farmer” and so many other great strange horror stories. Have fun.

what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked

give me fat Carrie White or give me death!!!

ICE killed another person.

update: Liam bit into a cuke, looked at me with wonder, and said “is this what a cucumber tastes like???”

Don't forget, I'll be at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social on Saturday as part of their First Contact event, talking about alien bodies! movingimage.org/event/first-...

Mike Flanagan get AWAY from CARRIE. GET A JOB.

370lbs deadlift PR today 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

growing cucumbers for the first time and I love them but was not prepared for the SPIKES aghhh

J. K. Rowling posting an upskirt photo of a trans woman and then claiming she was "asking for it" because of the way she was dressed... you'd get laughed out of the writer's room if you tried to do it in an Armando Ianucci show.

this reboot is completely unnecessary in every regard and I shan't be watching it but I do enjoy that she's reading Thomas Olde Heuvelt's HEX in the still below

SEATED

Looks like I was onto something www.weareravenous.com/restaurants-...

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season

do you ever think about death

“I don’t celebrate death” okay well skill issue

i stand corrected

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

“Lindsey Graham taught me that it was okay to be dead.” - Mitch McConnell

my college boyfriend thought there was nothing more sublimely funny in the entire universe than steve-o having a tattoo of his own face on his back. and you know what? he was right. fair play to my college boyfriend.

trauma plot? no, sorry, you misheard me, I'm describing a Troma plot. yeah. yeah, hence the penis monster, yup.

I'm not even joking when I say that, as a former writing teacher, I think even the act of bullshitting through a 10-page paper on a book you only skimmed is also incredibly valuable learning.

peak strawberry season around here so it’s time to make The Cake smittenkitchen.com/2019/06/stra...

the future is worker-owned outlets like @weareravenous.com and @darkertimes.bsky.social where standards come before blind greed and idiotic trend-chasing.

the new lizzo album eating shit is really funny. i flipped through the singles on apple music and they all had that feeling of “this is a song you would hear when one of the suspects on law & order is a musician”

Sometimes you see people act like you have to read between the lines to understand Paul Atreides is meant to be a villain or that’s a woke modern interpretation and meanwhile in the book he explicitly compares himself to Hitler

the odyssey is clearly tenet 2 where a pincer move has gone horribly wrong via a blackhole bookshelf in Boston and that's why they say daddy, in this essay i will

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.

The Ones Who Walk Away From Discourse

this is the kind of shit that used to send me spiraling about my career prospects but you know what? I started a magazine about it instead. @darkertimes.bsky.social, where everything we publish is AI-free and actually edited!