This bit from the NYT Vance story describes basically all of ultra-right-wing chud classics and medievalism: it *feels* ancient or medieval - or what they think that should be - despite actually being very modern, because it fits their neo-fascist ideology.

Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

PIERCING THE VEIL: We're all “SINNERS” https://ow.ly/AhlV50ZcnP7

So we’re clear, Netanyahu’s genocide is preventing Trump from surrendering to Iran.

Right next to the JCPOA guys, DEI may be the most vindicated thing in America. These guys get rid of DEI and immediately *instantly* every position of authority is flooded by a wave of talentless hack mediocrities, each one more corrupt and venal than the last.

She was an incredible artist and voice, and will be missed.

Thrilled to finally share our new paper on giant scorpions from the Early Devonian! Behold Praearcturus gigas! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/S54Y6Y...

trumps birthday party with gladiator fights that he’s throwing with taxpayer money while gas is approaching $6 has the potential to make the american public collectively angrier at a president than theyve ever been

So, aside from all the insanity on display here....has anyone, ever, pronounced "vegan" this way?

It was this.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

If there is a single ideological line that unites every action of the two administrations this failure has run, it's causing unnecessary death through defiant stupidity.

You've got to admit, they did a cracking job patching him up after that incident in opening the Ark of the Covenant.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Candace Nola has spent years not only writing some of the best horror fiction out there, but also editing, publishing, promoting, and all-around supporting other writers and artists; she is a great writer and an even better person, and she needs help now. Please do what you can.

I don't normally share Substack posts but this is an urgent, unique circumstance. Please read & help Candace out if you're able— she's done so much to champion and cheerlead for Horror and indie authors, and now *she* needs some support: gofund.me/b8291018f

Congratulations to @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social on the release of a fabulous collection!!!

Hey friends!! I’m not one to do this. But Candace Nola is one of my favorite people on earth. She’s done so much for the horror community, and she nearly died. Now she needs help paying for iron infusions. If you can give — please. It’s needed. www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-and... #HorrorWriting

Wishing everyone a very happy #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay! 🎉📚❤️ Need some ideas for how to celebrate today? Here are eight easy ideas 🧵

for me “doom scrolling” is actually just the pathological hunt for the first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel

The three fingered guy, the plane that looks like a decepticon, whatever is going on with the three horned angel thingy behind donnie; if the man is consistent about one thing, it's his commitment to quality.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Reminder

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

In an administration characterized by constant, unceasing lies, it really takes a lot for a single lie to stand out, but this one does. I would be willing to bet everything I own that the President hasn't read a single book to completion in the last 25 years, including his own ghostwritten ones.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

my living room is ready for guests. the only thing prohibiting entrance right now is i am blindly firing a 30.06 at my door. should i stop doing that, it will be perfectly safe to enter.

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.