For #WomenInHorrorMonth, treat yourself to a book written and edited by women, and the incredible cover art was by a woman. The 2000s are in again, look back at the influential horror of that decade. Paperback, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook available. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1960...

There's a story going viral about how a U.S. commander told troops the Iran war is part of a religious battle to "cause Armageddon.” It’s explosive. It’s terrifying. It’s also based on a single unverified source. I have questions. 👇 www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you...

New York City has been home to a remarkable breadth of transformative women, and the scene of innumerable movements for women’s equality and empowerment.

Happy Women in Horror Month! Here's a roundup of some of the fabulous interviews, spotlight series, and events that are happening throughout March and beyond! www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/roundup...

Fun fact: the dining room at Mar-a-Lago, built in the mid-1920s, was dubbed "the Mussolini room" by its designer because it was intentionally modeled after Rome's Chigi Palace that was occupied at the time by Il Duce.

This is despicable in its own right, and also a great example of how the SAVE act will make voting inaccessible to marginalized communities. Tell your senators to oppose voter suppression: americanhumanist.org/saveact

I see text emoji's in this ornament from an eighteenth century news print. #textemoji #newshistory

Good Christmas horror news!

Gallup says "We think you may enjoy being one of the first to be polled by an Al interviewer." The polling company is very wrong about that!

Just a reminder that the Stop Insider Trading Act is a farce that provides members of Congress with loopholes so that they can continue to enrich themselves. To get serious about banning congressional stock trading, pass the Restore Trust in Congress Act.

Our national parks deserve to be protected and to thrive. ✅ While the administration considers the #stateoftheunion, we’re considering the state of our parks. Here is what is top of mind for 2026.💡 Stand up for parks: https://bit.ly/4sT4E4v

Read the full press release, and learn more about the case, on our website. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

In this week’s guide: a new indie horror film set in Medieval England, a relationship drama, the films of Jocelyne Saab, the 4K restoration of Cate Shortland’s debut feature film, a screening of an experimental masterwork from Haley Elizabeth Anderson, and a middling biopic of Emily Brontë.

Pretty infrequently. Bell Top Elementary, Rensselaer County NY 1970s: Paddle to the Sea (1966) Song of the South (1946) Oliver! (1968) BCMS, Albany County, NY: Math: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) BCHS: Gothic Lit: Lady in White (1988) Lit of the Future: parts of A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The Sandhamn Murders, Swedish show on MHz Choice, had someone ask for "cleaning yarn". Not sure what that might have been as it was not shown, nor its use specified?

Ok, here’s a proof of the 2nd layer, which adapts a broadside published in April of 1854 to warn Black residents of Boston about slave-catchers in the city, following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act www.nps.gov/articles/000...

As seen in the opening clip of my BHM video edit (top post in this thread): COW-COW BOOGIE 1942 Starring Dorothy Dandridge First time I saw this musical short, I was mesmerized. It made an impact. Not only was it one of my fave "boogie" songs, but the style of this all-Black short was inspiring.

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NYS Black History grant opportunity! Too many of the FB comments on WTEN's story (not linking it) about this grant program are dismaying and leave one wondering whether they should just turn comments off.

Oh, it’s Presidents Day? Perfect. We’ve got a president for that. Meet Candace R. M. Gorham, LCMHC, President of the American Humanist Association. Counselor, author of The Ebony Exodus Project, former minister turned humanist leader. While some presidents get monuments, ours gets things done.

Coming in November! Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers, 1929-55. Stories of daring rogues, alien encounters, zombies, future technologies, and punching racists. Co-edited by Timothy R. Granger (aka Timaeus Bloom) and Mike Phillips. frombeyondpress.com/books/black-...

The Canal Society of New York State completed a multi‑year effort to move the full‑scale replica 1860s‑era canal boat Lois McClure to a land berth at Erie Canal Heritage Park in Port Byron in Cayuga County, NY, on December 23, 2025.

Really interesting documentary about film preservation and restoration, not least because it looks at efforts around the entire world. And it's on Tubi and Kanopy! Added a number of films to watch to my watchlist as a result of it.

Outdoor thermometer had enough last night with this upstate NY weather.

Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...

Coming soon from me is a zine about the significance of David Walker's Appeal published in 1829. Hard to overstate how incendiary it was. It engendered a censorship frenzy in Southern states. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ap...

Fragmentation occurs when natural or human processes break large contiguous areas of open space into ever-smaller, isolated patches.

The more recent dysfunction of the Google Advanced Book Search is weird. Regular search can turn up things from Google Books that ABS cannot. (Though even regular search denies exact search has any results before giving results that do fulfill the exact search.)

On the latest episode of THE WHITE MEAT PODCAST we talk to the amazing writer/director Eunice Levis about building worlds in horror and sci-fi, getting shorts onto Netflix, and the best music to listen to while writing. open.spotify.com/episode/3GLS... #BlackSky #FilmSky #HorrorSky

SCOTUS’ MAGA justices seem ready to give Trump even more power by letting him fire leaders of independent federal agencies in defiance of laws passed by Congress. This would give Trump unprecedented control over these agencies, ignoring over a century of protections against abuse of power.

Possibly "F. S. W. T. G. A." by Silverfish, and "Scrub Me Mama (With that Boogie Beat)", a cover on the same short E.P., is also a good one.

I carry so much internalized shame and guilt from not understanding why I couldn’t do anything right as a kid. (Not only an ADHD thing, but a common experience with it.) Prints / Comic archive adhd-alien.com Patreon patreon.com/adhd_alien/

One of my favorite parts of Black History Month: sign up to receive an email with a specific curated piece of Black history. Every single one is fascinating. I think this started in 2020 or 2021, and I love it every year. www.28daysofblackhistory.com

This Rare Roman Figurine of a Cat With Its Paws Atop a Severed Head Is One of Britain's Newest Treasures www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

"This is killing for sport, it's killing for theater and it's utterly lawless. We need a court of law to rein in this administration and provide some accountability to the families." — Legal director Baher Azmy www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g...

From defending individuals impacted by hate and extremism to uplifting communities that are trying to better their areas, the SPLC has stood firm in working to dismantle white supremacy in the U.S. Read up on some of our latest work: https://bit.ly/3XTZibA #StopHate

"NOTE TO ALL NAZIS FASCISTS AND KLANSMEN" — Langston Hughes You delight, So it would seem, At making mince-meat Of my dream. If you keep on, Before you're through, I'll make mince-meat Out of you.

It's Black History month, and a good time to remember the many Black creators who have added to, reimagined, reworked, and reflected on the Mythos that Lovecraft created. deepcuts.blog/2023/09/30/a...

Remember when it leaked that Trump had chronically paid $0 in federal income taxes? He's now suing the IRS over the leak. He's going to take $10 BILLION from an agency his party has already defunded. But who cares about making sure billionaires pay their fair share, I guess.

• Methods of Reasoning • Physics of Light and Art • Fictions and Cyberpunk • “Unspeakable Words Unspoken”: Trauma in American Women’s Writing from 1980 to Present • Soviet and Russian Cinema Methods of Reasoning was one of the most useful along with Creative Writing, and Analytical Writing.

"Melania giggled. 'There are not many names for me, but in the Philippines I’m called the manananggal,' she said in sultry tones. 'Have you ever heard that word before?'"

Contemporary Indigenous Horror (University Press of Mississippi, 2027) solicits original, unpublished short horror fiction, poetry, and experimental works by self-identifying Indigenous creatives. No work produced with AI will be accepted. See details: www.cfplist.com/CFP/46993

The ASCII design of this! <3

Going through my bookshelves and found this that I'd meant to send to a historical society years ago. I bought it at an antiques store in the Adirondacks cheap. Love the note on the cover. He'd been a Johnstown NY City Charter committee member & slightly resembled Arthur Conan Doyle in appearance.

Check this out. If we wanted to get back to the wealth distribution of the 1980s, the richest 0.1% would have to transfer $10 TRILLION to the bottom 90%. Each household would get $82,000. And the rich would still have over $100 million on average. "Trickle down" broke us.

Love to see a little girl holding a decapitated head and smiling with glee! This is Florence, one of the horror loving children I interviewed for my PhD documentary today!

Who do you think is the best investigative reporter exposing corruption today? We'd like your opinion as we look for our 10th annual winner of the Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting. Send to [email protected] The Museum of Political Corruption "Making corruption history!"

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