And because Black Horror Month should never truly end, I have a substack interview with the divine @pauladashe.bsky.social today! (And she never disappoints): substack.com/@elizabethbr...

Imma make some people angry and I don’t care open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Smart people have already written about the many problems of generative AI better than I could, but I’ll tell you this about the thing I know: writing is about writing. It’s an action. A verb. It’s what we do. I write, you write, they write. Skip that and you’re not a writer.

Horror keeps proving the same rule: Black women identify danger early. Survival depends on whether anyone listens. A look at the Wunmi Mosaku Cinematic Universe of Being Correct, where clarity is never the problem. Reception is. 👻📽️ #blackwomeninhorror nighttidemag.com/2026/02/01/s...

So, so proud of @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social joining this group of writers; the quality of their scholarship and writing is top-tier, and the sheer talent on display in their work is inspiring.

" 'The DOJ conducted an impartial and politically neutral investigation,' continued the Secretary of Horseshit"

10/10 no notes

(Wailing Guitars and Fireworks) www.scientificamerican.com/article/myst...

pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions

🌿 Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories is a Southern Gothic collection steeped in memory, repression, and the pull of the swamp itself by @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social Empathetic, unsettling, and beautifully written. horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #BookReview by @stephellis.bsky.social

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

"many of them don't want to be doing what they've been directed to do" Oh come on. These guys are not conscripts, there is no commissar with a pistol behind them looking for signs of wavering. They can just quit at any time! They can quit today. They can quit tomorrow.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to work at the bodega.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Virginia's legislative session only started yesterday, and it was a very big day. The House already passed four constitutional amendments on Day 1: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. Next: Senate.

Minipax was taken, I guess.

Calling all Women Writers of specific, particularly horror! Our programming schedule is now up. Tickets are still available - and remember, this is a separate ticketed event from AuthorCon proper. scaresthatcare.org/womens-sympo....

This is what appears when a bunch of middle school kids light a candle in a darkened bathroom and chant "Phosphorescent Ham" one hundred times into the mirror.

i am shopping for a new cat litter box and i need to share with y'all this lil poopin' cosmonaut preparing to boldly go

a piece of chicken a piece of broccoli (a) corn tortilla one other thing is that piece of chicken a wing? a leg? how big is "a piece" of broccoli? do you just eat your corn tortilla dry? what's "one other thing"? a dollop of salsa? a rice kernel? these are deeply unserious, wicked people.

To any ICE agents reading this who are from down south—you have never experienced anything like this cold. Our European climate equivalent is literally Stalingrad. It will hurt to breathe. You will be outside in it. So will we, but we are used to it. Next week is what will break you.

Obviously the Smithsonian shouldn’t hand over anything but also it’s a bit rich for the White House to be acting like deadlines for producing documents are important to them

So, I guess the whole administration will be 'self-deporting' at some point in the near future?

My newest essay on Southern Gothic and generational trauma is up now at @nighttidemag.bsky.social … nighttidemag.com/2025/11/28/g...

It's now officially 2026, so in honor of the death of 2025 here's our annual list of some cool (new to me) horror (mostly) reading that we did this year. I'm always behind the curve, so most of these books didn't actually debut in 2025, but... well, you get the idea.

Blood Cypress (Elizabeth Broadbent) - a teen searches for her missing autistic brother and uncovers, in the best southern gothic tradition, DARK FAMILY SECRETS & THE WAGES OF GENERATIONAL TRAUMA! the finest vintage of southern gothic where strange things snatch those who wander past the dogwoods!!

Look there is so much more to criticize but Hair Gel's form just sucks. No momentum from the hips, weight is too light, fighting that thing instead of swinging it. As in all things, the guy's an amateur, just pretending he knows what he's doing and looking stupid in the meantime.

I am very aware he knows that the 'paid agitator' narrative is a lie; I do believe that he would be confused by the shock, horror, and involuntary screams of witnessing a murder, though, because he seems genuinely ignorant of how emotion should work. He's a broken man hellbent on breaking a country.

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Currently enjoying the claustrophobic heat of @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social short story collection Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories for @undertakerbooks.bsky.social #FridayReads #booksky

I have found myself in positions where I was deeply unqualified to be performing the task assigned to me, but I can say confidently that I have never been as bad at any job as Noem is at hers.

Jacob Frey: "I mean, let's call a spade a spade here. I was listening to Kristi Noem speak minutes ago, and it sounded to me like someone that didn't believe a word that they themselves were saying. Let's be straightforward about this: this is not about safety, this is about terrorizing people."

The fact that this lie, like all the others, is so ridiculously unbelievable and implausible is the whole point. This administration and its enablers desperately want to hold a monopoly on reality.

I think we are seeing that the government does believe it has the right to murder US citizens as it sees fit. If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

One week into 2026.

Everyone should see this. apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Vile

The most effective way to resist this modern brand of fascism isn't to completely immerse yourself in its propaganda. You're actually helping their message spread. Go and make art or read a book or spend time with offline people. You can't marinate in the horror and emerge unscathed.

Seeing that Captain America panel posted everywhere again. The next two panels are worth checking out too. From Daredevil #283 (1990) by Ann Nocenti and Mark Bagley.

CNN just pointed it out, but since no one has posted it yet, I'll be that guy. Here's today's round of Kill Your Inner Mercator: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Venezuela in a way your brain can handle

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

“Thus he came alone to Angband’s gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat. And Morgoth came.”   (Tolkien “The Silmarillion – of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin”)   🎨 P. Amachree   #bookwormsat

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.