"How I Did It." #Cthulhu #Lovecraftian #sculpture

Looking for some bucks for food and bills.

Slept for 12 hours, woke up and felt worse than before. Once again, I am unable to pay all my bills or buy food until the next food charity parcel arrives. The prospect is that I will end up offline next month, and then disappear altogether.

"Just another archaeological find from the Miskatonic University Collection." My sculpture, Dark Green Cthulhu. Modelling clay on metal wire, with removable 15mm. glass marble, 2025, cm. 17x9x7,5. #lovecraft #weird

"Miskatonic University Classified Collection, Middle-East Expeditions, 1900-1936." My digital photo-montages and Lovecraftian sculptures as usual, in a six-and-a-half-minute video linked from YouTube because it is too long to post here. youtu.be/E26l1_2iq9Y #cthulhu #weird

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

15°C at home, every day I wake up with mild hypothermia and feel stunned for hours. Cold, pain in my hands, arms & chest. Feel my heartbeat in my ear. No more cash for food & bills. It's a kind of endless agony, I'm exhausted, there's no way out. I'll be online throughout February, then who knows.

Post a ship that's not #StarTrek or #StarWars

"Miskatonic University Expedition, Middle East, 1921." Video version, digital photo-montage with one of my Lovecraftian sculptures. #lovecraft #cthulhu #weird

"Miskatonic University Expedition, Middle East, 1921." Digital photo-montage with one of my Lovecraftian sculptures. #lovecraft #cthulhu #weird

Anyways get a tentacle pot to help you through these trying times i guess

More authoritarian laws for the new Italy that salutes with an outstretched arm. Now they can detain you for hours to prevent you from participating in a demonstration, if you are considered a trouble-maker. "Preventive detention is not a measure that kills freedom," said the minister.

An old postcard from the Ligurian Riviera. #cthulhu #camogli

The social media are overflowing with AI pretending to be people. Now they're opening a social media platform just for artificial intelligence, and it's overflowing with people pretending to be AI.

After a quarter of a century, my old website is finally dead: the provider that hosted it has deleted everything. Its ghost, however, can still be visited on the pages saved by the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20240324...

I Have A Special Plan For This World, by Thomas Ligotti (music & narration by 'Kuma') #ThomasLigotti #Poetry #PhilosophicalPessimism #CosmicPessimism

I can't afford Patreon or the like, but if you like to buy me a cup of coffee, to support my weird art and in order to keep the wolf from the door... www.paypal.com/donate/?host... Thanks!

Two plush wild boars supervise the work on my old laptop.

Exhausted. 😑 I've been trying to repair the water tank and drain in my house for two days, hanging from a ladder and without tools or spare parts. I can't afford a plumber, of course.

“Dei Culti Oscuri” (Dark Cults), by Giovanni Gabello. In octavo, Genova, 1791. My Lovecraftian grimoire made in 1991 with Amiga and dot matrix printer. Free PDF download from my blog in-tenebris-scriptus.blogspot.com/2014/08/dei-... (and, if you like, a small PayPal donation if you enjoyed it).

Italy is the country where everything ends up as a farce.

Over the last few years I have recorded several supernatural tales for the excellent Cadabra Records. I have a few spare copies that I am selling. All readings feature the live musical accompaniment of composer Chris Bozzone. This is what's available... 1/3

"Miskatonic University: Just a specimen preserved in a jar." No AI, just frame-by-frame animation and my Lovecraftian sculpture. #lovecraft #cthulhu #weirdart

"Miskatonic University Expedition, Middle East, 1910s desert snapshot." Video version of another silly digital photo-montage with a couple of my Lovecraftian sculptures. #cthulhu #weird

"Miskatonic University Expedition, Middle East, 1910s desert snapshot." Another silly digital photo-montage with a couple of my Lovecraftian sculptures. #lovecraft #cthulhu #weird

😑 Maybe I should go back to posting only Weird Fiction and fantasy art, like I used to... But it's hard to survive while ignoring everything else, especially when that "everything else" threatens your very existence.

With the Constitution in hand, members of the Italian Parliament's opposition occupied the press room of the Chamber of Deputies to block a conference on remigration by the extreme far-right group CasaPound. Fascists in the Italian Chamber... My father and grandparents are turning in their graves.

Laird Barron ha finalmente una pagina di Wikipedia in italiano. Appena scoperto grazie agli avvisi di Google sul mio nome come traduttore. Laird Barron finally has an Italian Wikipedia page. I just discovered it thanks to Google alerts on my name as a translator. it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laird_B...

Just an hour of news and social media, and I'm already in need of eight hours of sleep to recovery.

Don't expect a warm welcome from people on the streets in Italy.

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"Berlin Police Supernatural Division - Zero: The Evil God Empire" by Ken Asamatsu, a new Cthulhu Mythos horror story set in the German capital during the rise of the Nazis. #cthulhu #lovecraftian #weird www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4775322621

Unfortunately still alive. And now I'm looking at what I've missed in the last few days.

"I giorni della merla" ma con la D.

The cold without heating at home worsens the effects of my high blood pressure, the monthly food parcel from the charity is late, bills are coming and, as the song says, "the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had." Expect increasingly gloomy posts.

Y'ha-nthlei, I suppose. #lovecraftian

Contradictory reports about the presence of ICE in Italy as an escort for the US delegation to the 2026 Winter Olympics. The government denies it, while the governor of Lombardy region says they will escort Vance and Rubio. Why on earth would an anti-immigration force be deployed as security abroad?

My hunt for a wsocial.eu invitation is on. #wsocial

Even Italian newspapers are opening their eyes to what is happening.

The "Board of Peace" chaired by Trump will award a special commemorative ring to its first 19 founding members: 3 for key collaborators, 5 for the inner circle of associates, and 9 for other early members. Unconfirmed rumors suggest that a twentieth ring will be reserved for the President himself.

"Miskatonic University Expedition, Middle East, 1910s. The Black Ziqqurat." Video version of another silly digital photo-montage with a detail from one of my Lovecraftian sculptures. #cthulhu #weird

Need a @lairdbarron.bsky.social primer? Even if you don't, you can read about his work. @gemmafiles.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @victorlavalle.bsky.social and me sing his praises in the piece as well. the-line-up.com/laird-baron-...

"Miskatonic University Expedition, Middle East, 1910s. The Black Ziqqurat." Another silly digital photo-montage with a detail from one of my Lovecraftian sculptures. #lovecraft #cthulhu #weird

They never tell you these are the sort of risks that come with privatisation, wrestling with bloody ancient-god-tentacles when you want a bloody cup of tea.

Trump's "Board of Peace" is a subversive act aimed at replacing international law with the law of the strongest. And Italy CANNOT join it because this would constitute a violation of Article 11 of the Constitution, which stipulates that Italy shall act only "on equal terms with other States."

At times like this, simply relax by observing nature unfolding just outside your window.

"Something slithering." Slate stone bas-relief. Frame-by-frame animation. #lovecraft #cthulhu #weird

They asked me for a short biographical note in Italian, and I don't know what on earth to write.