my boss at the southern reach told me expeditions keep going missing in area x so i asked how many theyve sent in and my boss said they just find new people afterwards and i said it sounds like theyre just feeding people to area x and lowry started crying

Sure escaping the eternal cycle of cosmic rebirth is nice, but have you tried hitting the "Kill All AI" button in your Firefox browser

Good afternoon to all but esp. the dude sunbathing in the park who has brought his little potplant out to enjoy the day too

We're not actually required to embrace a technology just because it's being pushed by a bunch of venture capitalists.

oh no

Author, first page, cover 😊

I wanna see @bpgregory.bsky.social 's Flora & Jim as a movie. That should do it.

With The Last Days on Mars trending, it's a good time to bring up my essay on the difficulties of putting zombies IN SPAAAAAAACE: www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-t... (Not to mention my own story about an alien philosophical zombie apocalypse...: www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Progr...)

I have the indeterminate flu which means my face is somehow both too wet and too dry

My partner pointed out Death Stranding 2 is basically just trying to set up the NBN and I cannot 😭

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Got a new pair of glasses and now I'm stuck walking like a dressage pony because the ground is a weird distance away

I have an avalanche of faults, but one thing I'm proud of is being a person who friends can message saying "I'm sending you this book asap it gave me horrible nightmares"

Somehow I always manage to forget that risotto is only good if your hobbies include Standing at the Stove

Pls enjoy this photo my partner took in the hallway outside our apartment that made me scream ... ... turns out it's just the neighbour's fluffly dog sitting behind their door 😂

That time I was feeling sad and my cat could somehow tell so she came over and put her butt on my face 😭

Yo fam new horrors just dropped Hats off to these brands for actually putting their names against this grotesquerie that clearly nobody took two seconds to actually look at

She's a ten but when she gets out of bed first thing in the morning she makes that The Lady From The Grudge sound

Culinary Class Wars: The ingredient is lobster! Me: *BURSTING to tell my partner that lobsters communicate by peeing out their forehead onto each others' faces*

Have you ever been so angry at AI you ate 57 artworks ..?

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The nicest thing about the horror writing community is if you feel a bit sad about your stories you can tell yourself "No, Steve Stred wouldn't want this for me"

Imagine you were about to appear at a writers' festival to talk about your first book... then the whole thing fell apart. I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.

Shoutout the protective services people assisting an older gent who took a tumble on Healeys Lane you are doing a good job

Look, ok then

They say write what you know, and not to brag but I'm a horror writer who has genuinely stepped into quicksand on an isolated beach

doctor (writing): i'm putting you on lexapro, 10mg a day. in a couple of weeks we'll get you back in here and see if we need to adjust the dosage but this should do the trick pagliacci: thank you

We've got a couple of 38 - 42 degree celcius days in Aus this week so a quick reminder that you don't have to pay to sit in your local library's air con and they have lots of fun things for kids to do

Found in the wild in Australia (and sneakily turned face-out) @michaelwehunt.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog

Reading a perfect paragraph in Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties and having to put the book down to sip my coffee and feel some feels

Doing the Sailor Moon transformation but it's turning instantly into my parents because I told a toddler "We look with our eyes not our hands"

Minimise hangovers, maximise coffee, let's go 2026!

I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

Today is Final Ham Day when we must eat the last of the holiday ham or die trying

It's hardly Christmas until my parents accuse me of being an untrustworthy gannet for hanging around the kitchen while food is being plated, even though it's clearly my Dad who's stolen far more slices of ham than I could ever aspire to

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, discovered that during the night he had been transformed into a monstrous bug

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, said he would buy the flowers himself

Merry petsmas

This Christmas I am grateful that my nieces and nephews are old enough to only want cash, because I do not wish to learn what a roblox is

Armpits is a very normal word but legpits has cursed energy

Consuming caffeine and folding proteins are very important jobs

Pre-order offer! If you pre-order our new antho, ENCOUNTERS, you'll be in with a chance of winning one of five paperback copies on release day. Either post your order confirmation or email it to [email protected]. Fifteen monstrous stories. Out 02/14/26 www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4BLN1GR.

Join a meeting early, you better be ready to listen to me telling my cat she's such a little baby and why is she such a little baby

Classic Melbourne My friend and I heading down a stinky little alley to a bar we know serves the coldest martinis We see an even smaller branching alley PACKED w/ people queueing Rando guy guarding the entrance to a circus tent: They're queueing for tacos! Me: Are they any good? Guy: *shrugs*

What a great headline

almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.

There's a woman of my approximate vintage out on the street teaching her dad how to ride a bike and if this isn't just the most wholesome thing I've ever seen

#Reading Michael Wehunt's The October Film Haunt and the NOISE I made on discovering the special guest appearance - the flight attendant who came to check on me was not impressed