vyacheslav belov -- passersby

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

Secret tips to visual effects artists: give your kids flashlights, washing machine, forget to check pockets, profit

*massive epstein files release* *paedophiles and sexual predators everywhere* Neil Gaiman: Ah! The perfect time for my return as the victim!

Pecking order obvious

Daily dose of ice art. Abolish ICE

Simple custom cloth slipcase finally ready. Thanks @DASBookbinding for the excellent video tutorials. Materials: 🐇2.4 mm binder's board 🦊Canson Iris Vivaldi 240 gsm glued to both sides of binder's board 🐱Brillianta bookcloth 🦝Book binding glue

What the hell is going on right now

Moomin reading marathon still live: areena.yle.fi/1-76936731 Such an awesome event. Almost 30 hours of Moomin books read (in Finnish) by 130 famous Finnish media personalities, authors, etc. Listen for free! Moomin Pappa at Sea my clear favorite. Tove knew how to write weird/horror! #moomins

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

Caged #homeshadowhome (collects random events and objects created by light observed at home)

Spotted a reality point mutation in the backyard, possibly connected to temperature which feels absolute zero... superconductivity, catalysis (or catabasis?)

subduing cold frozen forest stuck in my stronghold not getting out

It's called artificial intelligence because it's a plagiarism bot that fucks everything it touches while making its users feel artificially intelligent.

With eyelids, absolute horror

My kids aren't convinced when I say that Legos were originally designed for daddies and mommies for their boring (not my word choice, theirs) crafting hobbies. 90-degree corner clamps, silicon molds... any other bright ideas to abuse Legos?🤪 Slipcase for an awesome book needs only cloth and rdy

Daughter sick and sleeping. More winter art by nature. Flowers and a bird

It's cooold outside (heating inside barely keeps up). Winter art by nature

Yes, please! An omnibus or three separate hardcovers or a Gulpepper tv-series / movie, preferably all of them, pretty please🍄‍🟫🍄

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Saw the Libby AI statement (spoiler alert: it sucks) and so I'm back on my Incandescent With Rage Over AI Wagon (I've never been off it) and I just want to point out--what I thought--were some glaringly obvious things for these companies making these BS statements over their AI use. (1/9)

1 month today until THE RISE... rises. Have you got your pre-order in? Find the ebook and paperback wherever you buy books (or pre-order directly from me at alanbaxter.com.au ) Please help me spread the word. 🖤 #WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky

We already have them thoughhhh, we have cosmic horror, Eldritch horror, weird horror We don't need to refer to anyone in particular; we can be universal and unspecified and undefinable and free 😩

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Just over 1 month until THE RISE: Tales From The Gulp 3 drops. Pre-order yours now! #WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky

Seen in a Chiroptera Press newsletter: "Laird Barrion, The Broadsword: Best Early Works of Laird Barron - April". This with the upcoming Isaiah Coleridge omnibus from MidWorld Press aaannnd the the limited edition hardcover of Not a Speck of Light from Bad Hand Books which has a new story... oh my

I don't know the book they are talking about, but clearly not about my first read of the year which happens to be written by Alan and doesn't lack talent. It contains the dark and very emotional short story Shadows of the Lonely Dead. One of the best I've read.

Favourite ghost sighting of the year was January in Ramsgate #ghosts #haunting

I am waiting for one, literally ONE major company, to lean hard into AI counter programming with their products and marketing. It’s RIGHT THERE. It’s worth a FORTUNE. “Hate ‘AI’ in everything? We got you!” But they Will. Not. Do it. Lemmings and cowards and greedy visionless hacks, all of ‘em.

Just a reminder that I block anyone who uses generative AI. Nothing personal. You're just an ass.

Any article observing that the AI bubble is about to burst *but then suggesting AI is too important to our financial systems to be allowed to fail* is missing the point. Generative AI is a massive fraud and a brain drain on humanity, even leaving theft and resource issues aside.

Publishers Weekly is sponsoring an AI for Publishing Bootcamp on their PW Learning platform. This is so disgusting and unacceptable. There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same. pwlearninglab.com

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

The first official review of THE RISE is in, from Horror Reads, and it's a 5-star! "The novella length tales in here are super creepy, extremely tense, and terrifying... In this town, no one is safe and your first trip could be your last. I highly recommend it." Hooray!

"A mountain walked or stumbled." Wanted to finally do an interpretation of Cthulhu from H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu!

Here’s a full list of recent articles from respectable sources explaining how wonderful AI has been for companies, culture, the environment, human psychology, government, and cognitive development as well as how it has improved online discourse and everyone loves it:

If it's true, if the US is willing to allow borders to be redrawn by force and let aggressors be rewarded, then the gates of hell are about to be opened. This may prove to be the single most destabilizing and conflict-spawning decision of the 21st century. A truly Black Friday.

I just want to say that I’m personally disgusted by most US policies right now. We should be fully supporting Ukraine, insisting on justice for Palestine, turning away from fossil fuels, making healthcare and education accessible to everyone, and treating immigrants humanely. Fuck this.

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Black Friday is capitalism gone mad, but you know what IS a great deal? Buying great horror books. Especially SIGNED great horror books direct from the author. Just saying.

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Honestly, aren't we all just partially muscled skeletons standing by a fence screaming?

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

I rarely read anything other than weird horror and SFF, but decided to give crime fiction a go. King of Ashes is the best book I've read this year; it was difficult to put down, perfectly sculpted characters, tense, dark, it made me cry Out of comfort zone often pays off. Ordered more S. A. Cosby

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Find this story in Laird’s collection, NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT!