Been sharing Jensen Ackles clips to cheer @kerrinsuzanne.bsky.social but cards on the table: I planned to post 99 from Supernatural & #100 would be Chris Evans playing the unrelated character Jenson in The Losers (2010). I’ll never keep track of that so in honor of The Losers returning to streaming:

I meant to add that @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social gave a fascinating presentation at a BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television & Screen Studies) SIG last year (?) about kids making horror films & I think this is all incredibly exciting.

bumping for attention. come hang out Thursday to talk about land use and buses and stuff :)

Please donate to this cool fundraiser to help some horrifying youths (and 1 PhD student) make a film!

Happy book birthday @raforall.bsky.social! 🖤

Wonder how this guy’s day is going. (Nibiru finally dropped off the Sept 23 hit parade in 2017 I think. It’ll be back, but it’s on sabbatical prophecy/wise these days)

listen, like any normal person i already experienced the rapture: when i was seven years old i hid inside a clothing rack at marshalls and then i lost my mom so they had to call her on the loudspeaker to come collect me

If you’d like to unpack all the lies being told to the public right now, here’s your fact valet — Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism&pregnant people w/fever or pain need it. Leucovorin isn’t an autism treatment& the reason they’re trying to sell you that is explained in the attached thread& posts

I feel my age everytime someone reads THE BEWITCHING and tells me they didn't know we had laptops and internet in 1998. Short piece I wrote about technology and perception. www.patreon.com/posts/future...

One of my favorite (accidental) teaching moments ever was leaving my students in the lab w a donated 10 year backrun of Wired & a case of Mountain Dew while I went to a meeting. And, it turned out, scissors & tape. I returned to 2 floor to ceiling collage walls cut from ads & editorial images.

Id love some evidence for the fact that the "community still overwhelmingly leans left"

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This is fun. I took a lot of heat when my my 2002 cyberculture grad students did a presentation analyzing Conservative imagery & ideology in Wired. Then faculty expressed concern about assigning critical work by Borsook b/c it was too radical, paranoid & feminist. The CompSci chair had my back.

I can now control possums with my mind.

Selfish, but I’m glad not to have to be downtown on the 23rd because I did not enjoy the last few sept 23 rapture days (2011 & 2017 I think). They may be absurd & foolish & even hilarious, but people who think they’ve got nothing left to lose & that you’re an enemy/scientist are also scary to me.

Lots of pretentious things to say about how valuable these are for fans, collectors, scholars, libraries blah blah blah woof woof woof but the hell w that, let’s take a moment to cheer for @accordingtojond.bsky.social because what fantastic work & how fucking cool is this!?! 🖤🖤🖤

PSA: It's replaying all day if you missed it

I long for the day when this podcast is no longer relevant. But if you're still trying to understand sex testing and gender in sports, I made this for you. There are transcripts on the site if you don't like listening to stuff.

As always, today is a good day to support writers, artists, creators. If you have the means, buy a book, commission an art piece, go to a live show, subscribe to a Patreon, support an indie game. You can also leave a review, signal boost a creator's work, send a nice comment. Everything helps.

Happy Saturday, @kerrinsuzanne.bsky.social (“Tall Tales, S2) youtu.be/c3IclBfpl_M?...

Folks, make sure you follow @vlatinalondon.bsky.social on IG and check out her recommendations for Latine Heritage Month -- there's so many AMAZING Latine authors who are new to me, in addition to ones I have been fans of for a long time. So many amazing recommendations!! 📚📚📚

Violet Hunt and her amazing cat. #caturday

Yeah, @melissae.bsky.social! I know this was a very long time coming & it’s very exciting to see this volume out in the world. 🖤🖤🖤

I think Sebastian Roché’s run as Balthazar was critically under-appreciated. This may not be his best work on the show, but his casual indifference to the consequences of saving the Titanic makes me laugh. Cc: @kerrinsuzanne.bsky.social youtu.be/kkE1L9XW6Ng?...

I prefer to think of us as bone soup dumplings.

ALX/ARL peeps: if anyone is looking for used tech (esp MacBooks, iPads, networking/wifi, cameras/mics) or office furniture, there is quite a bit of it fairly cheap at the Arlington Independent Media auction which starts closing on Monday rasmus.com/auctions/ZoO...

The Criterion Channel's October lineup is 🔥. 🎥 #filmsky #horrorsky www.criterion.com/current/post...

I miss my mom a lot, but especially today b/c I broke out in hives & at 1st one resembled Richard Nixon in profile & we would have enjoyed feeling sorry for me together for having the mark of the beast. OTOH she also would have eaten my sanity w a spoon by asking if I’m still itchy every 5 minutes

"Partner should be a healthy mix of introvert (99 percent) and extrovert (1 percent). Should be compassionate and empathetic, and able to pack that empathy into one concise nod. Bonus points if you appreciate the finer things in life and have no desire to discuss them."

It’s a shame HIM is sounding more & more like a dud, but lemme tell you: @wnwagner.bsky.social’s The Deer Kings is a winner. Vivid characters + a visceral sense of the Pacific Northwest forest as a place alive in ways we can’t ever hope to understand, only withstand. I loved it.

Am I being offered the opportunity to haunt my own house? This sounds like some sort of Beetlejuice-type situation.

Also our own McCarthyism. I published this piece on modern McCarthyism yesterday concerning assaults on Hollywood and academia. My new book (pinned) also explores the history of Hollywood bowing to the pressures of the post-WWII, McCarthy era Cold War and the cultural ramifications of bending to it.

Podcast: 88 years ago today, #Florida author Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, was published. The hosts talk about what makes Hurston's writing so transcendent & why this novel needed a modern-day rescue. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

No new pictures, where are you at mentally?

This movie is so much fun.

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

If you're an HWA member who woke up thinking "I should recommend short non-fiction to the Stoker recommended reading list," please remember my 3126 word essay for Nightmare Magazine (Aug 2025) - "Plumbing the Depths: Archaeology in Horror Fiction." [Reposted so it's not a barnacle on another post]

If you're an HWA member who woke up this morning & thought "I should recommend some short non-fiction to the Stoker recommended reading list," allow me to point you to this 3126 word essay I wrote for Nightmare Magazine (Aug 2025) - "Plumbing the Depths: Archaeology in Horror Fiction."

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On this date in 2009, THE Pilot aired! Written by Dan Harmon and directed by Anthony Russo & Joe Russo, and if watched anywhere but Hulu or when it originally aired (or for that brief moment it was on Amazon), you never saw this. #OriginalAiring

I can't even count the number of times I've seen variants of this directed at archaeologists. "I wouldn't expect archaeologists to know anything about [literally all the things we study in historic contexts]." 🙄 (Usually engineering, though. Apparently we're incapable of knowing about engineering.)

It's been a long & terrible week of Tuesdays already, so for @kerrinsuzanne.bsky.social here's a strange yet enjoyable fan-edit from The Mystery Spot, an episode where Sam keeps reliving a Tuesday in which he has to watch Dean die. The ep is funnier than I make it sound. youtu.be/bDZnSiTu4oI?...

I want to acknowledge the hard work of writing & directing (Michael Varrati), exec producing (Tara Ansley & Abhi Goel) & producing (Armen Aghaeian, Phil Nobile Jr., Michael Varrati, & Rebekah McKendry) but all I can think about is how much I love this dress. Those sleeves were born of & for chaos 😍

Poor skeletons, everything they eat just goes right through them.

This is a cool project & you need to fund if you can b/c I wanna see the finished exhibit. ;-) Seriously, their goals are all vital but building public awareness of shark scientist Eugenie Clark’s connection to Maryland marine biology & inspiring the next gen of women in science is close to my heart

Friends, I am helping the The Natural History Society of Maryland to design a shark science and conservation exhibit, and we can use your help funding it! Learn more about the exhibit and learn how you can donate here: 🧪🦑🌎🦈 #SciComm www.southernfriedscience.com/help-support...

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For Latin American Heritage month give the gift of a review! Reviews sell books. If you liked a book, review it. Even a sentence. If you can't do the one sentence maybe upvote a good review you agree with. In the age of the algorithm we gotta work the system. Upvote, click or share. Thnx.

I can’t tell you how charming & flattering it is that some of my neighbors got so into my latest archaeology & horror essay that they formed a bookclub. They’ve decided to kick things off with @vlatinalondon.bsky.social, which is awesome. But I’m definitely going to need wine lol.

As it's Agatha Christie's birthday, I suppose you're wondering why I've gathered you all here...