I’m really happy because I finally perfected my homemade donut recipe! And I’m also excited because my new video exploring Area X will drop around this time next week. With this newest book, Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer is definitely setting the standard for modern cosmic horror!

Predator Badlands is the most fun I've had watching a movie in a long time.

Every time I think I've outsmarted the broken system, I find that it's broken in an even stupider way. The system is too stupid to outsmart.

Headsup, this isn’t me. But it does look like me. bsky.app/profile/step...

Godzilla Minus One was one of the best films of 2023, so we're pretty excited that it's getting a follow-up: prepare yourselves for Godzilla Minus Zero! reactormag.com/godzilla-min...

I really thought they were going to call it Godzilla Minus Two.

The tension between maintaining tradition & embracing change thrums through Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA (1st in a new epic fantasy trilogy inspired by Tlingit culture), as storyteller Elan's fate takes a turn, drawing him into a quest to save his homeland. https://geni.us/doorsea

Hybrid Child has a condo in my mind. Occasionally it steps out the front door to remind me it is still there.

👻🎃📚 Final stretch! 30% off books in our Ghosts and Monsters collection with code MN93980. www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif.

Happy Halloween

It's a Guyver 2 Dark Hero kind of Halloween movie night.

Perhaps best known for cult classic tv series Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, the enigmatic horror author has a new tome out today: This Bursted Earth! And you can catch the man himself here on book tour on 13th Nov at the Corn Exchange 😱 ipswichtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/gar... 💙📚🪐 #Horrorsky

Get some yellow in your life this Halloween...

If we learn any lesson from the Biden years I hope it is that next time the criminals all need to go to jail

This is not a drill: GHC (the #Haskell compiler) now runs in your browser. See the announcement (and please report any bugs) here: discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-now-ru...

drop some transformations.

the most popular smartphone maker in history literally had to stop using "AI" because it would constantly just make things up and had zero contextual "understanding" of what it was doing

I got to read this early and was not prepared for just how well it goes from goofy to creepy to tugging-on-heartstrings and then borderline terrifying. It if fantastic on SO many levels and you don't want to miss it.

Ever wish The Thing was a little more...well...sensual? @mcflycahill90.bsky.social reviews Sarah Gailey's sexy, paranoid, erotic horror Spread Me–a book that'll shock you to your core (one way or another): reactormag.com/book-review-...

Daniel H. Wilson has blended cosmic horror with indigenous folklore into a unique novel of first contact with extraterrestrials. The unknown within us is just as scary as the unknown in outer space. Highly recommend Hole in the Sky. #booksky #scifi #horror #aliens

good morning

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

There's probably multiple reasons Roger Davis isn't married anymore.

Happy publication day to Illusions of Presence from @johnnymains.co.uk! It's another beautifully produced hardback from @blpublishing.bsky.social of fantastic forgotten seasonal ghost stories from the Victorian & Edwardian eras. A perfect gift for your spooky friends! 💙📚🪐 #GhostStories #Horrorsky

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits. I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

Thinking of all the people who insisted that this admin was serious about "ending antisemitism on college campuses."

I feel like hedonism is too active -- a pursuit rather than a languid lie-back-and-let-the-nothing-wash-over-you.

The mathematician Pasha Galashin recently proved that the amplituhedron, a shape that encodes particle interactions, can be built from patterns that arise in origami. www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...

I could say the same about the Cult of Mac.

"We're saving God from Colin Kaepernik" is a pretty good distillation of Republican thought

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn. www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

OK but are we talking about like manufacturing robots or rubber robots

always asking the important questions

Just figured out my TED Talk: The sci-fi plot device that lets The Dude enter The Grid in Tron is the same teleportation tech Jeff Goldblum built in The Fly.

Meet the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park Deciphering enemy code during the second world war was arguably the first role for women in tech by Suzanne Bearne (from the archives) www.theguardian.com/careers/2018... #womenInStem

Have you seen The Yellow Sign? #booksky #horror #joking

Honestly, I think we don't talk enough about how the technofascists in power are following the Ayn Rand playbook of systematically collapsing society with their own safe refuges to retreat to in order to prevent decentralization of the economy. They all think they are John Galt.

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

Rewatching the original and realizing Bruce Boxleitner had the only intelligent line in that movie too. When presented with the particle suspension beam laser, he asks when it will send him to Hawaii. Literally the only reasonably reaction to seeing an object being disintegrated and reintegrated

Tron Ares: nonsensical nostalgia bait wrapped in bright neon ribbons. About as charming as the AI tools I hope didn't write it (but movie execs likely abused during the creative process).

We need something like a “Fascistpedia” to keep track of those who collaborated with the regime. Later, they'll be scurrying to hide their cowardice and moral rot. A permanent record will guarantee enduring shame. Let’s give them their own museum.

"...not a single human character is hurt during the movie." /sad Predator noises/

Twenty books, one series, endless possibilities for your long weekend. Dive into the Radium Age collection: mitpress.mit.edu/series/radiu... 💙 📚

'Encourage your students to be more authentic writers with Grammerly' Authentic?

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title: John Carpenter's Return to Oz