Rare cosmic horror Nancy drop

Then, Dave examines the origin of the inner planets of the solar system and the very real possibility that there might have been life on other planets than Earth. But if there was, what happened to it? Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (2/2)

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick reveals the shocking surprise explorers discovered in a cave on the Greece-Albania border: the world's biggest spiderweb, home to over 100,000 spiders and part of a fascinating and bizarre ecosystem. (1/2)

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

The Scottish Tories dedicated themselves more to transphobia than anyone. They've been wrecked in Scotland, losing nearly two thirds of their seats. The Scottish Greens and LibDems stood in solidarity with trans people and doubled their seats. No major news outlet will comment on this dynamic.

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You can get the ebook edition of my first novel for only $2.99. Today only! www.amazon.com/Monster-Isla...

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Come see me and a host of other great writers on July 21st in Brooklyn! Hosted by @cgolden.bsky.social and the Twisted Spine!

@davidwellington.bsky.social makes clever use of this for a werewolf-slayer character in his novel OVERWINTER! www.amazon.com/Overwinter-W...

I mean, a Democrat party whose entire platform was “We’re going to focus on not hurting people in the name of computers anymore, and not throwing human lives into the money furnace, that would be good,” would be a real start.

Normal people also have gay and trans friends and stuff though. The overemphasis on money is not voter service, it’s donor service

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

You know what they say about people who presume.

My hot Star Wars take for today: In time, ANDOR will resolve into the primary text, and all the Star Wars stuff will end up like precursors mentioned in footnotes to critical editions. The original trilogy will probably endure as a curiosity, sort of like VARNEY THE VAMPIRE in relation to DRACULA.

I kinda want to know what the Plus is

Writers are like: this protagonist is cool and sexy. He's an alcoholic writer and he's divorced.

True story: today in the cemetery a man walked up to me and asked if I was a ghost. Or was I human? He asked if I could see him. I laughed and said, yes, I could see him. He walked away but after a minute he looked back at me. I waved. He seemed reassured.

So which is the harder cognitive test: the gom jabbar, or actually posting something to Instagram after the latest redesign?

Me every time I open the internet and am forced to look at a picture of Elon Musk or The Guy

I want you to know there's a new season of Superego and it's real good: share.google/3ixsm4uBimw2...

Happy May Day, or, for the apolitical among you, Blessed Beltane!

I’m fucking horrified that folk 100s of years from now are going to refer to this period as the Trumpian Age or some shit and I’m gonna be lumped in with all the dumb extremist dicks. Solidarity with dead people from the 19th century who thought empire was for arseholes and now get called Victorians

i work for a company that makes stickers. each month there's a surprise inspection where my boss takes one of my stickers at random and if the backing can be removed in less than 20 minutes without destroying the sticker a member of my family is murdered

Me reading the 87th anecdote about a rich person who says they earned it through hard work

Dr Frankenstein: it’s alive! Igor: great! what should we name him Dr frankenstein: uh we won’t igor: I dunno, might lead to some confusion Dr frankenstein: it will literally never come up

I honestly think that one of the drivers of racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia in this country is tier-list videos.

The Labord’s Chaneleon spends more time in its egg than it does out of it—just a few months, the shortest lifespan of any four-legged vertebrate. Just before it dies it shimmers with a hundred colors in a final, dazzling display. There’s no moral here. The story just moved me enough to share.

I hate it when the snack you want is hiding on the top shelf

Alert! The e-book of Richard Matheson's A STIR OF ECHOES, which was made into a movie with Kevin Bacon, is on sale for just $1.99!

Then, Dave introduces us to NASA's Parker Solar Probe, an incredible but little-known feat of engineering built to withstand millions of degrees as it passes through the sun's corona. Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (2/2)

New episode!

AI has been a catastrophe for science communication. It used to be you could tell instinctively what was a real photograph and what was an artist’s interpretation. The number of Instagram accounts now posting AI images and claiming that they’re photos has made it impossible to trust any image.

Got to meet @pftompkins.bsky.social last night at the Bell House! What an incredible talent—the Vincent Price of our time! If you get a chance to see #Varietopia don’t hesitate!

Varietopia at the Bell House!

Birthday week continues!

This Independent Bookstore Day, I'm throwing some love to my new favorite indie, the Twisted Spine!

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Hello, friends! My newest collection of horror stories and weird fiction, MONUMENTS IN DARKNESS, could use some love. It contains some of my best work to date but I'm sorry to say it's languishing in obscurity. (1/3)

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges Photo: Sara Facio, Jorge Luis Borges, Biblioteca Nacional, 1968

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

I’m 55 years old today, and still when I see a report of a new archeological site with fascinating, revelatory relics, my first thought is the same: “Am I gonna get to see a cool skeleton?”

This St. George's Day, why not pick up a paperback or e-book of CHASING THE DRAGON, the Thriller Award and Shirley Jackson Award finalist that follows the last living descendant of St. George as she struggles against her addictions to slay the same dragon her ancestor was supposed to.