This fantastic essay by @maxgladstone.bsky.social precisely and elegantly captures the feeling that the Internet has moved beyond "eternal September," but as a natural consequence of its attention capitalizing nature.

There are ghosts here.

Have now discovered who paid the ferryman.

We often speak of you.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it

Question: How did you score that @clarkesworldmagazine.com gig? Did you contact the editor? Did your agent do it? I'm going to answer this in public, since 3 separate people have asked me. I went through the submission pathway just like anybody else. No agent involvement. You can do the same.

It's officially launch day for Blood In The Bricks! It's folk horror, but right here in our towns and cities, written by some of my absolute favourite contemporary writers. Get it now (or They'll pay you a visit). www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Young people must feel deeply disappointed knowing they won't have the same freedom to live, study, or work in the EU as we once did. It's no surprise morale is low in the UK, given this inward focus and total lack of ambition.

Truth

Forty years after he first visited as a student, historian @willdalrymple.bsky.social takes a road trip across Eastern Anatolia in Turkey, finding restored monuments, new museums and archaeological digs that shed fresh light on the region’s complex past. Read more on.ft.com/437BgMJ

Antibes - 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110190

'Fireworks, Cremorne Gardens, London' (1859) by Walter Greaves (Private collection)

Tungsten film is tricky but when it works it is like finding a lost album of ambient music

Remembering Buster Keaton on his birthday 🎂 📷 George Hurrell, c. 1931 "Keaton’s face ranked almost with Lincoln’s as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was also irreducibly funny." - James Agee

National Trust members! You have until 2359pm tonight to cast your vote for NT Council. It's imperative that you use your vote to keep out the Restore Trust entryists!

Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music. If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.

London Backwater, near St Pancras', Woburn Walk by James Finlay Watson (1898–1981) (Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens)

The government has decided to withdraw funding that enables state colleges like Varndean to teach the International Baccalaureate. Today Varndean’s Principal Donna-Marie Janson joined me in Parliament to demand that the government reconsider. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeD...

A thread about how artists are treated more like a natural resource to be mined by others, rather than as valued workers in the industries based on their work.

If you'd like a copy of Darkened Hill & Dale AND are attending World Fantasy Con in Brighton later this week, you can avoid shipping costs and collect it from me in person there! Use code WFC2025 at checkout by Thurs lunchtime, and I'll be in touch to arrange a handover. 😎📦 shop.patchworkfez.games

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

'A Lambeth Alley' (1920s) by Douglas Percy Bliss (Private collection)

I for one would watch the hell out of Slow Muppets. This is an idea of genius!

Home through the rain (1969) Artist: John Berry

Baron Nathan, the celebrity dance teacher of the 1850s who danced the hornpipe blindfolded, surrounded by eggs. There's something SO malevolent about this image. It's powerfully frightening.

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore 22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm @conwayhall.bsky.social and online Jeremy Harte: The Devil in Church 'a dragon, a fiend, a black pig or dog' www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve... 4/10 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @strangeattractor.bsky.social

Cover by Pete Costanza.

Cliffs near Dieppe - 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9730

'A Window in St John's Wood' (c.1932) by Harold Knight (Glasgow Museums Resource Centre)

“Make Brexit work” by raising taxes to stem the ongoing losses. Slavish devotion to failed ideology has a very high price.

beyond sad about the death of D'Angelo. Voodoo completely changed music for me. Ended up writing a thing about it this evening: www.stevelawson.net/2025/10/dang...

I’ll be speaking at the fantastic Haunted Landscape in London again this year. Always a wonderful event. Come and join me @conwayhall.bsky.social - details below

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Somerset saved my sanity. Don McCullin at 90 in pictures. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/oct/09/somerset-saved-my-sanity-don-mccullin-at-90-in-pictures

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

It's a dream I always have.

Filippo Lippi's wonderfully strange double portrait, 1440. He's not looking at her but into the empty space behind her. Her sleeve spells Faithful - but to whom? Great enigmas on Lippi's day.

Curiosity killed the cats. Gary Larson, FarSide

John Northcote Nash • The Storm •

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

This bad boy has just been sent to print! I’m simultaneously nervous and excited. After 6 years publishing non-fiction, an anthology feels a bit intimidating. Very grateful to these hugely talented authors for trusting me. Tales of Occult Britain is available to pre-order on helleborezine.com.

I hope you approve of the new Bishop.

Elseneur / Elsinore - 1944 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112572

Brighton’s only calendar made in the sea! The 2026 edition of my ‘Sea Views’ calendar arrived yesterday and very lovely it is too. 14 pictures taken during year round sea swims, a tide table, and free salty sea air with every one. www.brightonphotography.com/brighton-sea-views-calendar/buy

Catedral of Freiburg in the Switzerland, 1914 #macke #augustmacke

The best way to improve your photography is to stop reading articles about there being x ways to improve your photography. Read this book, choose a subject, then go out and take a lot of photos. Be a doer not a browser.