Proposal: next year everyone send me your weird/horror short stories, I’ll make a list of the ones I think are coolest, and I won’t support a genocide while doing so

The best of 2025 : Accountabiility.

Stranger Things hits upon a very specific school of plot and character writing that emerged as a direct result of online fandom discourse and fishing for social media engagement that I’m not sure anyone has described quite in a way I feel is accurate and I can only call “The Blorbo Machine.”

Apropos for something we're cooking up.

always knew the burrito taxi industry was scummy but this is the most unfathomably evil, cartoon villain shit I’ve read in a while. jfc

I just ordered mine.

Greetings, I am Tetanus Booster.

It's dekopon season! If you need me I'll be getting my US RDA of vitamin C for a change.

I would like to direct all speeders to this chart

For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction

"Yeah, any time I have free time, I create projects. If I stop moving, I'll fall apart." - me

“many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers” is deep wisdom and you don’t need to reproduce to embrace it!

Nobody was around to tell me not to start a new online horror and sci-fi magazine, so. Stay tuned.

You FUCKED UP, your LEFTY politics have ALIENATED the BILLIONAIRES who run the CHILD BONE EXTRACTION FACTORIES and now they will do a MASS EXODUS from your STATE or CITY. Don’t CRY to ME when you no longer see their CHILD CATCHING VANS in your STATE or CITY, YOU IDIOT

Roderick Heath is one of the best film critics you probably haven't read.

Nobody was around to tell me not to start a new online horror and sci-fi magazine, so. Stay tuned.

Every post from @sffreview.bsky.social - which I’ve now blocked - reads like genAI, and based on their posts, is an outlet no one should support in any way.

I'm just saying that most small-town doctors don't have an acid bath in their basements.

My nine favorite albums of 2025. Pink Pantheress - Fancy That Bar Italia - Some Like It Hot Amber Mark - Pretty Idea Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out Lorde - Virgin WNC Whopbezzy & 70th Street Carlos - Out the Blue Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla Eric Church - Evangeline vs. the Machine Rico Nasty - Lethal

My nine favorite new-to-me older albums (more than 20 years old) I listened to for the first time this year: Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day (1970) Syreeta - Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta (1974) Asha Puthli - The Devil Is Loose (1976) Martha and the Muffins - Trance and Dance (1980)

I love buying French translations of American sci-fi from les bouquinistes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/t...

My nine favorite new-to-me older albums (more than 20 years old) I listened to for the first time this year: Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day (1970) Syreeta - Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta (1974) Asha Puthli - The Devil Is Loose (1976) Martha and the Muffins - Trance and Dance (1980)

In Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, the deeds are done and done again as my life is done in Tiny Tim, who did NOT die.

Delete that shit right now friends.

Underdiscussed point: how much responsibility Substack bears for Bari Weiss being in the position she is now in. Fuck substack

Since I just started a chonky book that I won't finish before 2026, my 12 favorite reads of 2025 (in publication order): Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes (1926) Nathanael West, A Cool Million (1934) Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time (1951) Tewfik Al-Hakim, The Tree Climber (1962)

Since I just started a chonky book that I won't finish before 2026, my 12 favorite reads of 2025 (in publication order): Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes (1926) Nathanael West, A Cool Million (1934) Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time (1951) Tewfik Al-Hakim, The Tree Climber (1962)

All I want for Christmas is to not wake up with Tonic's "If You Could Only See" stuck in my head anymore. It's been six days. Send help.

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

This strikes me as just a way to let LLM in the door over at SFWA. You do not a survey to craft a no generative AI policy.

Lookit this regal lil dude. The official dog of From Beyond Press.

Lookit this regal lil dude. The official dog of From Beyond Press.

I've seen some people saying that the new SFWA rule on "AI" in the Nebulas will prevent people from being transparent about their LLM use. Newsflash: They wouldn't have been anyway. It would cost them readers. It would cost them votes. It would potentially cost them opportunities with publishers.

It appears as though SFWA has had a very quick change of heart and is now back on the right side of this. Shouldn't have happened in the first place. New Nebula Awards eligibility rules for generated text are now:

Jesus fucking fraidycat christ, grow a backbone. Writers don't have to say whether they used the plagiarism machine until AFTER THEY'VE BEEN NOMINATED?!?! So they can steal spots from people who actually do the work? Fuck this very much. And shame on you.

Other publishers: have you paid someone to write an introduction? If you wouldn't mind sharing, please DM me how much you paid them. You don't have to say who. I'm trying to make sure I don't lowball someone.

Before satellite mega-constellations began taking off in 2019, satellites used to go months without risking a collision in orbit. Now they have less than a week to take evasive maneuvers, and the window keeps shrinking. My @sciam.bsky.social story below. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sate...

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

A) expressing ideas is literally the fucking job B) if you can’t communicate it with doodles, words, or messy photoshop, the idea isn’t fully baked and you need to explore it more, not use the plagiarizing lie machine that poisons neighborhoods to do the thinking for you.

Almost exactly six years ago, I emailed Kealan Patrick Burke and Corinne Halbert to ask if Kealan could write a story and Corinne could illustrate it. That was the beginning of From Beyond Press, although it would take a few years to take its current form. Thanks for believing in me.

I hate making non-cat posts. I hate "discourse". But the number of comments I've seen degrading and dehumanizing sex workers because of that Melania trailer is appalling. That ghoulish woman will never see your "whore" jokes but they absolutely contribute to the stigma that gets sex workers killed.

File COPA complaints when you see CPD assisting immigration officers

Kyle Winkler's ENTER THE PEERLESS is in 30 libraries on four continents. What on earth. I'm so glad that weird, magnificent book is finding an audience. "Like Stephen King snorted Cormac McCarthy’s funerary ash." - guy on Goodreads. frombeyondpress.com/books/enter-...

Via @chicagotribune.com Tribune-- Chicagoan of the Year in Books: If you’re into horror, thank the librarian Becky Spratford: raforall.blogspot.com/2025/12/via-...

Any indies have SF/F/H books coming out in January? I'm building next month's new release post, and there's room for new titles! You can submit the book info using the form below 😊 #booksky #writingcommunity docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Kyle Winkler's ENTER THE PEERLESS is in 30 libraries on four continents. What on earth. I'm so glad that weird, magnificent book is finding an audience. "Like Stephen King snorted Cormac McCarthy’s funerary ash." - guy on Goodreads. frombeyondpress.com/books/enter-...

Check out my new essay on Thomas Burnett Swann's "controversial" 1974 novel HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN, a gay retelling of the story of King David. Like all of Swann's novels it is strange, beautiful, contemplative. It offers a sharp critique of homophobia and a celebration of queer love.

Out today! Jennifer Lee Rossman's ALLOSAURUS IN WONDERLAND, featuring cowgirls riding dinosaurs, Amelia Earhart and DB Cooper, queer love under medieval LARPer authoritarianism. Lor Gislason calls it "a buckwild and inventive interconnected set of stories." Get it at frombeyondpress.com

Out today! Jennifer Lee Rossman's ALLOSAURUS IN WONDERLAND, featuring cowgirls riding dinosaurs, Amelia Earhart and DB Cooper, queer love under medieval LARPer authoritarianism. Lor Gislason calls it "a buckwild and inventive interconnected set of stories." Get it at frombeyondpress.com