The Epstein Files:

From my latest:

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/2026-heres... In my final post for the year I reflect on how weird things have gotten, how they are only getting weirder, and offer some Fortean ideas for the future.

A month ago, NYT columnist David Brooks wrote a column decrying the media and political fixation on the Epstein story. This afternoon, House Democrats released a new tranche of photos of an event that Brooks attended with Epstein.

Wonder why Luc Besson was drawn to the story of an immortal bloodsucker who preys on young women

Scarier than any movie that came out this year

You can watch @citymystic.bsky.social 's film on Tubi too!!! tubitv.com/movies/10004...

Wrote about Epstein, the misogynistic culture that protected him, and the banality of evil when it comes to harming women and children. He was not a unique man. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

The coup already happened 25 years ago

if someone that is finance savvy or has liquid cash is willing to partner with me, i want to start a vfx company that specifically embodies an anti-ai/pro human ethos. i am working on my next film and looking to help other filmmakers/bold storytellers that don’t wanna get sucked into the tech cults.

This remains the only true way to watch my movie The Woods, on Tubi:

One of the biggest things I did this year was get distribution for my first feature film, The Woods. At a time where it is becoming harder and harder to get films made, much less distributed, I'm extremely proud of this indie horror film and everyone who worked on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4QA...

People actually expected corporations like Disney to stand up to AI, grow up! They are corporations! The capitalist class has incredible solidarity most people can't begin to comprehend!

That it was known for weeks a person like Altman was going on this show, and there was no attempt to fill the crowd with anti-ai people to boo him down/be disruptive, says a lot about the sad state of activism these days. Anti-ai groups need to start acting like a real political movement.

That it was known for weeks a person like Altman was going on this show, and there was no attempt to fill the crowd with anti-ai people to boo him down/be disruptive, says a lot about the sad state of activism these days. Anti-ai groups need to start acting like a real political movement.

Do you think the DP for Frankenstein had a gun to his head the whole time that would fire the second he stopped moving the camera or

This year I started a blog as a place to express myself creatively, work out ideas, and get over my fear of making stuff online. It's been a lot of fun, and a lot of people seem to like it! I'm gonna make a little threat here of some of my favorite pieces and passages I wrote this year.

"At some point [we] decided spirituality could be chopped up, packaged, & sold. We desecrated the sacred. "...the coming AI poisoning of religion, god, & spirituality is the inevitable outcome of a colonial framework where spirituality can be mixed & matched w/out reverence..."

Wrote about Deepak Chopra’s new AI model, AI guru slop, and how none of this is really shocking because we already turned spirituality into a commodity. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/this-was-i...

Interviewers need to get meaner. Sorry this is scary for you, Olivia, but a bunch of kids are dying of measles and it’s at least a little bit your fault.

jesus fucking christ these people are all the same

Me after watching The Pelican Brief (1993) this week

This is a wonderful list and one of the most thoughtful holiday-themed movie lists I’ve seen yet. It makes me want to see the movies I haven’t seen, even the ones I doubt I’d like.

Yup, that's me in the corner. I bet you're wondering how I got here.

This is a super list.

This is a good list. I’d add 1999’s RAVENOUS

In what may be my opus, I present my list of movies I consider to be, spiritually speaking, Thanksgiving movies. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...

Hell yeah

this piece has the best breakdown of timelines i saw out there. bsky.app/profile/city...

In this post I ask a simple question: was Keith Olbermann dating Olivia Nuzzi when she was 18? houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/was-keith-...

in many ways all of politics, finance, buisness exist specifically to create rape islands for rich men. Everything else is the process by which ppl like Musk, Epstein and Trump are the goal

“there are Epsteins everywhere for those with eyes to see.” literally ask any woman you know. most of us yelled about it in 2017, when it seemed possible for a brief moment that it actually mattered.

“There are Epsteins everywhere for those with eyes to see”

Wrote about Epstein, the misogynistic culture that protected him, and the banality of evil when it comes to harming women and children. He was not a unique man. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

I'm old enough to remember when "moral relativism" was an criticism rightwing people used about leftwing people

Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.

Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported. www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

I know this stuff is funny but it makes me sad as shit. How much money and resources that could actually help people are being burned on stupid over-evaluations like this?

You *could* make this work if you let Bond movies be campy, silly romps again but you are all cowards

This is fun but what's more fun is he reads out "I, as [state your name]"

This piece moved me. I promise it's not only about Zohran Mamdani, there's so much in there that made me feel seen. It's about being scared of being yourself and not doing the things you need to do to let it happen, and that rippling through communities.

I've found that hope tends to disempower me, but I think I found something better.

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm... Wrote about Zohran, being burned too many times to feel hopeful, and how moving through that can lead to something more sustainable: faith.

"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"

do not learn about the phone and its inhabitants. do not keep track of all the different characters, the politicians, the chit chatters who talk about the politicians. learn about metals instead. their properties, their strengths, their stats. control metals and you control fate

Teen Vogue gave me my start, was the first publication to profile me, and was one of the first places to publish my writing. I know so many witches and weirdos who got similar support from TV, and it's really sad to see it get gutted.