Image now with alt text (please keep bluesky accessible!) (I'm pretty sure it was about as much of an 'edit' as the Canadian broadcaster did with the Reagan speech, i.e., cutting down to a few key moments which correctly portrayed the general intent of the whole speech.)

if the lesson you take from all this is that folk need to “vote better” in one or three or five years, or that we just need to elevate better faces to high places to get your desired result, consider: air travel workers have this leverage all the time not without great effort, but it’s there

utterly blown away by del Toro's Frankenstein

[sits backwards on chair] we have a lot of fun here at midnight pals, but there's nothing funny about failing to read Moonflow, the book that you should all be reading bsky.app/profile/bitt...

Further thoughts: Karen, I mean Carol, is the ultimate US-centric Mary Sue. Not only is she the only person in the world that understands free will is good and collectivism is the opposite of it; she's also prone to temper tantrums which cause millions of deaths but aren't really her fault #pluribus

This sucks. I was hoping imitative "AI" would go away when at least corporate entities* realised it was unprofitable (even if they didn't care it was bad.) But nope. They don't even care that it DOES. NOT. BLOODY. WORK. * which are basically AIs in the pre-2020s sense, implemented in bureaucracy

🎵 spider clown, spider clown sleeps in bed with a speiderdown

How hard can it be to find a grave of somebody who died in 1836? That's only like two Nicholas Parsonses ago

New @midnightpals.bsky.social is out! It's FINALLY Howard's turn at the campfire, and he's doing... Shadow over Innsmouth?? Ugh. Mary took his thesaurus and made a chilling bet. Listen at midnight-pals.simplecast.com

The choices of how to depict Greg Bear, as well as Swanwick and Zelazny, had me howling! It's so good!

OpenAI is well aware of how its products stoke manic, suicidal, psychotic, and other forms of unhealthy behavior, but company leadership insists publicly that the problem with the tech is that it isn’t reaching *enough* people. Bulldozing the vulnerable is corporate strategy

First episode of Pluribus is brilliant. Second is about only the American lady valuing individualism. blech.

As you can see, in writing this episode I did almost as much cultural and geosocial research as Lovecraft himself

This was so much fun 🐸🐸🐸! And the end of the post-credit scene brought a little tear to my eye...

Out now on the @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast: "The Tale of the Shadow Over Innsmouth", available on Apple Podcasts, Youtube, Pocket Cast, or wherever you find podcasts! Howard tells an eldritch space squid story, and goes head to head with Mary Shelley in a high-stakes bet.

The mega-rich are deeply unhappy and catastrophically cruel

This is how we finally get the Star Trek vs Star Wars movie

Once again I am begging podcast listings sites to learn that fiction exists from rephonic's listing of the @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast:

Whoever decided to print the nutritional info on these noodles "per 1/5 pack" and divide the noodles into six cakes, please report for a slap

*clearing my throat meaningfully at Labour*

Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union. Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Bigotry and fascism, its political outcome, will be with us for as long as democratic systems regard hate as a valid outlook. Both have impacted my life, but I still believe that most ppl are essentially reasonable and the just will win through in the end. I'm hopeful we're starting to see that.

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People. "But what if they're on drugs?" Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People "Or not really THAT poor?" Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People "What if they have a phone and nice nails?" SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE

Next time you're at Subway, ask for something from their Point Blank range

The bus is an OG Yellowcoach Z-67, for the Steves out there

Coming this Thursday night/Friday morning on the @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast, it's HP Lovecraft's turn to tell a story! That means you should prepare for STRANGE GOINGS ON in a SMALL TOWN with a DARK SECRET that is ALMOST CERTAINLY A SQUID

The late-dx experience is when someone talks to you for two minutes and casually mentions you're autistic & you're like "motherfucker, that took me 40 years"

✔️snow ✔️about family and redemption ✔️a mysterious bearded man arrives on a sledge Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is a Christmas Movie

I had a magic money tree; Nothing would it bear, Unless you were already A multimillionaire. To stop the pesky commoners From finding this displeasing, I called it convoluted names Like "quantitative easing"

You know he's not actually a real bear though, right?

Voice actor David Monteith: "When I see an audition note that asks for a Black British voice, I think: 'I know how to do that. I just have to do Idris Elba'" #hubfest

It's @audiodramahub.bsky.social Hubfest today! If you won't be there in person, you can still experience the first ever I NEED A MIRACLE live show LIVE on the livestream, at 6.45pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/audio-dram...

We are SO back, it's @midnightpals.bsky.social day and today's BRAND NEW episode is a doozy, in it, the Gang get bullied by the folks at Clarion West and decide to get their revenge by... kidnapping Greg Bear, who is not, to our dismay, a real bear.

The pride is back, baby! Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals: The Podcast is BACK, with a special Halloween treat -- the pals finally get back at those bullies over at Clarion West! midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/the...

Damn, look at all the quality chills and thrills you can find from trans writers this Halloween! And, OH LOOK, Moonflow is there too 👀👀👀

Every time I see a director or creator I respected say “it’s a tool”, what they mean is “what’s in my head is cooler than a professional artist can produce”.

Midnight Pals returns! In this Episode it's Pals slobs versus Clarion snobs in The Tale of Those Bullies at Clarion West. I get to play double duty in this one as August Derleth and Robert Silverberg Find it here on Youtube or wherever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=66oF...

The thing about the AI slop "sitcom" is: say the tech improves overnight & all the things abysmally wrong with it are ironed out (I don't think this is possible, but bear with me) ...it'd be "Friends". And "Friends" ALREADY EXISTS.

I'll be at @audiodramahub.bsky.social Hubfest in High Wycombe on Saturday! Say hello, ask me about the @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast WHICH RETURNS AT MIDNIGHT GMT TONIGHT, also I have some free swags left! Bookmarks, badges, a few T-shirts and keyfob mini Pals

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement • Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright • OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

Tolkien: ah yes pay no attention to George Tolkien: we would be delighted to have such a connoisseur of good fiction here at our campfire! Musk: datsa me! Tolkien: so tell me Tolkien: what did you think of my books? Musk: i lika how they're about how war issa cool and good! Tolkien:

I'm giving a talk at ThinkyCon 2025! thinkygames.com/events/think... Towers of Pen: puzzle experiences that zoom out and out Thursday, November 6th 4:00 - 4:30 pm (Eastern time) Free, streamed online.

the hobbits are quite shocked to find fences at the border of the shire on their return, and spend some quality time dismantling them

how exactly am i supposed to buy a game knowing that the entire team has been laid off before it's even out

It's not the same

A female sex demon is called a succubus. A male sex demon is called an incubus. A non-binary sex demon is called an omnibus.