A couple more days of high alert due to the heat wave—which isn’t particularly intense here compared to regions like Sardinia, where temperatures are reportedly reaching 45°C (113°F). No AC and I've to limit my use of the fan, too expensive. I can’t sleep or stay awake, let alone get any work done.

How I respond to WhatsApp chats (translation in ALT text).

I just can't stand having the fan turned off, even though I'm terrified of my next electricity bill. 😥

Weird Horror 12 is free on line! 4 stories recommended by Locus. They're all killer. www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/issue-12

Okay, I was right when I was a kid—the center of the Milky Way is made of cotton candy...

Are bets already being taken on when the US will go to war against NATO?

Lovecraft folks: do you know whether HP read or commented on John Taine's THE GREATEST ADVENTURE (1929)? Uncanny similarities to AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.

"The Advent of the Great Old Ones." Digital photo-montages and frame-by-frame animation, featuring one of my Cthulhu sculptures. #lovecraft #lovecraftian #cthulhu #cthulhumythos #weird #cosmichorror

Verify your age:

The small and little-known island of R'lyeh, in South Pacific, is bidding to host the 2038 FIFA World Cup.

"Recruitment of Mary" instead of "Assumption of Mary." When your local government uses Google Translate instead of paying a translator...

One of those not-so-rare moments when I look around and seriously wonder if it's worth continuing.

"The Advent of the Great Old Ones." Digital photo-montages and frame-by-frame animation, featuring one of my Cthulhu sculptures. #lovecraft #lovecraftian #cthulhu #cthulhumythos #weird #cosmichorror

New Ligotti next year

"In a Foreign Town" short movie #Ligotti youtu.be/k0T4jesL1XE

The Frolic www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_-m... #Ligotti

73 anni di Thomas Ligotti: qui le prime cose apparse in italiano nel 2006/2007.

Thomas Ligotti (July 9, 1953)... The paradox to celebrate the birthday of a convinced antinatalist.

Better yet, ditch Meta and X.

"Inventory of Special Collections: SC47.2. Dr. Francis Morgan, Archaeology Dep. Miskatonic University, Arkham, Mass." A reel from 13 years ago. I hope there's no need to point out again that these are my sculptures, not AI. #Cthulhu #weird #Lovecraftian

Congrats @johnlangan.bsky.social!! Hurray!!! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Don't know how else to tell my Italian fellows: stop using Meta and X. They're no longer social media; they're just tools for fascist propaganda, as demonstrated by X's role in provoking the clashes in Northern Ireland, and—on a smaller scale—by Facebook's role in yesterday's tensions here in Genoa.

Joe. Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (July 5, 1955 – April 24, 2020).

I was thinking that sleeping all day and staying awake at night was the best way to get through the season, but now I've discovered that sleeping all day and also all night is even better. "Depressed mode" still on.

"Miskatonic University Field Research, Central Europe, late 1920s." Video version of a digital photo-montage with one of my Lovecraftian bas-reliefs. This is the last one in the series. And maybe someone will recognize this gentleman. #lovecraft #weird

"Miskatonic University Field Research, Central Europe, late 1920s." Digital photo-montage, with one of my Lovecraftian bas-reliefs. This is the last one in the series. And maybe someone will recognize this gentleman. #lovecraft #weird

"Tibi, Magnum Innominandum, signa stellarum nigrarum et bufaniformis Sadoquae sigillum" (De Vermis Mysteriis).

One day I will not be able to solve a CAPTCHA to access something online, and then I will know that I have definitely become a bot. For now, I will continue to confuse CAPTCHA with Kamchatka.

Sunset view of the port city of Genoa (Italy), with floating creature. Digital montage and frame-by-frame animation. #Lovecraftian #Cthulhu #Genoa #Genova

Genoa Harbor at sunset. Yes, I live in a weird city.

Just a moth: Acherontia Arkhamensis.

Nel nome dei partiti italiani, la parola "nazionale" si pronuncia con le ultime cinque lettere mute.

"I found myself beginning to trust the supernatural as it is [...] As a tool and as a narrative force that doesn’t need to be doubted. [...] The supernatural is now the reality; the supernatural is the literary pact made with the reader." Thank god for Mariana Enriquez.

I'm exhausted, depressed, hungry and totally pennyless again. So, fuck everything at a nuclear level. I'm done.

"Miskatonic University Field Research, Central Europe, end of the 1920s." Video version, digital photo-montage with one of my Cthulhu sculptures. #cthulhu #lovecraft #weird

"Miskatonic University Field Research, Central Europe, end of the 1920s." Digital photo-montage, with one of my Cthulhu sculptures. #cthulhu #lovecraft #weird

I just posted this in an Italian private chat while discussing “remigration,” so I’m sharing it here as well. Context and description in the ALT text.

Following the news leaves me exhausted and increasingly depressed. I'm afraid I need to switch to "cynical asshole" mode and try to avoid it so I don't get overwhelmed.

"The writing of a somber and tragic incident at an Italian Abbey seems virtually tailor-made for [Daniele] Serra; it’s almost too perfect....Honestly, I was enthralled." Read my review of "The Monster of Nivola" at @macabredaily.bsky.social www.macabredaily.com/articles/big...

The heat wave doesn't seem quite as deadly here on the Gulf of Genoa, but from breathing in all this humidity, some of us are starting to grow gills.

"Il sogno e l’incubo: Vita e opere di H.P. Lovecraft." A tribute to H.P. Lovecraft, double Vinyl/double CD, Black Widow Records, 2023. in-tenebris-scriptus.blogspot.com/2023/06/il-s... www.discogs.com/it/master/31... blackwidow.it/index.php?ke...

I almost forgot to wish a Happy Birthday to Ambrose Bierce (June 24, 1842 – c. 1914?)

With the heat wave currently hitting Europe, I have two options: either suffer through the heat for the next two months, or turn on the fan—with the prospect of an increasingly unaffordable electricity bill and the risk of not being able to pay it & having my power cut off in the fall. That's Italy.