One of my favorite rewards in the SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM Kickstarter is two (2) signed books by a writer who saved my life as a teenager, Poppy Z. Brite. Having Billy say yes to this anthology is the high point of my publishing career. www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

the rise of political transphobia is inextricably linked to the fetishization of trans women, because they were in fact both intentionally engineered by the same group of cis white billionaire men all the evidence is in the essay and you may be wondering WHY they’d do that WELL

One of my favorite rewards in the SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM Kickstarter is two (2) signed books by a writer who saved my life as a teenager, Poppy Z. Brite. Having Billy say yes to this anthology is the high point of my publishing career. www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

Not only do Substack platform Nazis; they lie about how easy it is to leave the site and take your subscriber list with you (as I did last summer). Every time I get one of these, it's Substack's fault, and it threatens my livelihood. This will tell you why: tomcox.substack.com/p/an-explana...

Delighted to announce that my Midwestern Weird short story “Ohio Sinks, and the Earth Is Fed Again” will appear in a future issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social!

Remember that when you use fake italics in your posts, you're making that text unreadable for people who rely on screen readers. Do better!

So my list of foods & ingredients available in Medieval Europe is getting a bit out of hand, so I'm giving it it's own article, you can find it here: fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/05/10/f...

I took myself to see Chicago. A random man on the street said my pants were cool. It's a good evening.

A certain pig thinks you should back the SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM Kickstarter. We cannot name her for fear of getting sued. www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

Not to mention that Black people did leave the south in droves during the first half of the 20th century and they invented redlining and de facto segregation via covenant neighborhoods instead of de jure Jim Crow.

My Walkman was not inconvenient. I bought a tape of music, I didn't pay for streaming services. The music couldn't be taken from me after that by the place I bought it or the publisher. I put it in the Walkman. I pressed play. Often I did this while going for a walk. The music played.

We need some heroes over at the SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM Kickstarter. Heroes with credit cards who want to read scary stories about the extra work we do to survive. Swords optional. www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

We need some heroes over at the SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM Kickstarter. Heroes with credit cards who want to read scary stories about the extra work we do to survive. Swords optional. www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

The eternal quandary: to block a grifter who admits to using AI in their writing, thus outing themselves as worth approximately a sip from a chaw spit jar (look it up if you're not from the sticks), or to keep them around so I don't forget what they're worth.

“[My readers] want more material from me. As long as [that material] has been graced by my presence and I have curated it and edited it thoroughly, I don’t think they would care if there is an AI involved at any point in its creation.” — Cassie Alexander at Worldcon's AI panel

Your weekly shopping list just dropped.

BAGGER: (spilling my groceries on the floor) Oh God. I'm so sorry. This isn't what I'm supposed to do. ME: How are you supposed to do it? MANAGER: She means she was gonna be a fox. In the woods and shit. But something happened and she got stuck. BAGGER: (crying) Got so stuck.

It's obvious that when Burger King chose "have it your way" as a motto, they were talking about all of the different reward combinations available at the SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM Kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

Four-legged creatures in my house and whether they eat cat poop right out of the litter box: Gary (gecko) - no Stripey (cat) - no Spritz (cat) - no Chewie (dog) - yes

It's obvious that when Burger King chose "have it your way" as a motto, they were talking about all of the different reward combinations available at the SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM Kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

Amusement Park Arcana, my little horror novella coming July 15, 2026 now has a few PAPERBACK PREORDER links! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 to celebrate, please enjoy this blurb by @pauljessup.com 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 🎢🎡🎠 books2read.com/AmusementPar...

How are people making the Burger King memes? Google fails me.

Occult haberdashery.

New publisher listing for: side hustle: horror stories for late capitalism @agitapublishing.bsky.social (Fiction; Horror, SF; pays). #WritingCommunity

SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM opens for submissions in nine days! Send us your horror and dark sci-fi stories about the extra work we do to stay afloat. Regular call = May 15 to June 14 Extended period for marginalized authors: June 15 to June 21 agitapublishing.com/submissions/

SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM opens for submissions in nine days! Send us your horror and dark sci-fi stories about the extra work we do to stay afloat. Regular call = May 15 to June 14 Extended period for marginalized authors: June 15 to June 21 agitapublishing.com/submissions/

New followers! Eventually I'll disappear from social media so please follow me on my free newsletter. It's the proper thing to do! landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/lan...

Day 2 of our Kickstarter for SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM. Did we mention that invited author Lauren Bolger will be signing two copies of her book THE BARRE INCIDENTS, and those are available as rewards? Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

A reminder that one of the rewards in our SIDE HUSTLE Kickstarter is a signed copy of Lauren Bolger's THE BARRE INCIDENTS. Get in here!

I'm sure I'm not the first to note this, but my theory on why fandom has gotten so toxic recently is the confluence of these factors: 1) collapse of culture criticism as a profession, 2) fandom becoming mainstream, 3) rise of parasocial attitudes due to social media, and 4) drop in media literacy.

For the afternoon crowd!

The rising 'children need to get used to being uncomfortable' anti-neurodiversity discourse is at once evidence of improved visibility & understanding (which always provokes dissent), & also lazy, pathologically incurious, harmful propaganda, mostly not from frontline teachers, pushed by the media.

Day 2 of our Kickstarter for SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM. Did we mention that invited author Lauren Bolger will be signing two copies of her book THE BARRE INCIDENTS, and those are available as rewards? Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

People are ditching the nazi bar in droves. Be like people!

For the evening crowd!

It, uh. It says here that @danielkraus.com just won the FUCKING PULITZER PRIZE. Nobody deserves it more. www.pulitzer.org/winners/dani...

For the afternoon crowd: we're raising cash for an anthology of horror and dark sci-fi stories about the extra work we do to survive.

Happy Monday! Today we launch a fundraiser to help defray the costs of our forthcoming anthology SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM. Oodles of great rewards including signed books by our invited authors Lauren Bolger, Poppy Z. Brite, and Mae Murray. Open call for subs coming in 10 days.

Meditating on the bleeding edge of pulp scholarship.

Happy Monday! Today we launch a fundraiser to help defray the costs of our forthcoming anthology SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM. Oodles of great rewards including signed books by our invited authors Lauren Bolger, Poppy Z. Brite, and Mae Murray. Open call for subs coming in 10 days.

oh no i had more thoughts (1/2)

Sometimes she rests her forehead against my hand and falls asleep.

I need someone who owns a kazoo.

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

the first issue of Agita, the new magazine of flash horror and sci-fi from @agitapublishing.bsky.social, is live! co-edited and with an intro by yers truly, it's a pretty great collection of three fantastic little tales of BAD SCIENCE! check it out! agitamag.com/issue/issue-...

The first issue of Agita is live!

I have been publishing YA novels for 20 years. I have seen a lot of nonsense written about the category, but this HarperCollins imprint has set a new bar. If anything is “cynical” or tailored for “shock value,” it’s this campaign, which might as well be from Moms for Liberty. This is loathsome.

The first issue of Agita is live!