Last one, I promise

UNDERTONE generates an impressive amount of tension with very simple ingredients: a ticking clock, nursery rhymes played backwards, a bit of ominous Googling, and an excellent performance by Nina Kiri. Definitely one to check out in the theater if you can.

When a character in a horror movie looks at their reflection in a mirrored cabinet door, then opens the cabinet so the reflection briefly disappears... baby I am wearing my shoulders as earmuffs

This has genuinely improved my mental health today. All Cops Are Buffoons.

It is good and right that Denver and other cities are canceling César Chávez Day parades and beginning the process to rename parks and buildings, and it would also be great if we could get things rolling like this when it comes to dismantling the legacies of white rapists and abusers.

OH HELL YES.

I think I have reached the point in my life when I will no longer be learning new slang. I don't know what "mogging" is and I don't care to. Thank you.

We as women have to go through so much. Wage gap. Street harassment. Feeling the crotch of your bodysuit come unsnapped while you're teaching and having to stand there and let it dangle under your skirt until you can excuse yourself

I'm going to throw in a day for dark poetry. I have some faves, but I'd love recs if you care to drop some!

tapping the sign again

important novel question: should I have them fuck in a church. maybe in the confessional

just realized my 9th grade horror workshop last year, the syllabus for which I am reusing this year, was 4 weeks long while my current class is 5. brb coming up with an extra week of lesson plans on the fly

Even disregarding the issues with the source material and the people involved... did none of y'all watch Veronica Mars season 4?

no power in the 'verse could make me care about a possible Firefly reboot. talk to me fifteen years, one Gamergate, and several revelations about Whedon's interpersonal behavior ago.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

I've gotten into the habit of showering in the evening, as it's easier with my family's schedule, but today I took a morning shower GODDAMN it hits different. Morning showers are the truth and the light.

the ADHD feeling when there's a buffet of available activities you'd enjoy but you can't get it up to do any of them so you just sit there staring into space: call that smorgasbored

I hate it when someone's like "meme dump" and I start scrolling and it goes funny cat, funny possum, funny thing a toddler mispronounced, COMPLETELY SERIOUS AND UPSETTING HEADLINE ABOUT THE HORRORS OF THIS FUCKIN NIGHTMARE COUNTRY, funny cat

My 7yo's new thing is when I tell her something she doesn't want to listen to, she says "sorry, I think you got the wrong number." Excuse me??? Who raised this child

I apologize for all the times I've referred to AI as Clippy. Clippy was actually trying to fix errors, not blow smoke up our asses and tell us we were right about everything. He didn't deserve to have his name dragged through the mud like that.

Idk man I know it's important to Be Informed About the World but I don't really want to see what people are saying on Twitter. there is already an app for seeing what people are saying on Twitter and I am not on it

I think the ibuprofen in my house is broken

Menstruating! At the Lilith Fair Tribute Concert

add another mark to the "people I've convinced to read THE WORKS OF VERMIN" tally (I assume this will be a factor in whether I get into heaven)

why are you an author if you don't like writing? why are you getting a PhD if you don't like research? if all you want to do is push a button and have a machine do your job isn't there an airline pilot shortage? (I come from an aviation family so I'm allowed to say that)

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

a 2028 campaign ad where the average american voter is represented as the guy from memento but all the tattoos are like “every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east“ or “trump was president during covid”

did you know that you as a fat woman are allowed to enjoy sex and being in love without daydreaming about waiting for all of these things to happen to an imaginary future thin version of yourself?

My dad is in town and we talked about me bringing the kids to his hotel this evening to swim. He just called and said the pool is closed for construction. I suggested we could get dinner instead. He said "I don't know, I was thinking I might go get a tattoo since I don't have plans." Dude???

[Britney voice] my uterus... is killin' me...

AI is hastening climate change, costing people their jobs, stealing art, and making the whole Internet more annoying and useless, and "techno-optimists" still want to scold us for not being excited that it MIGHT do something cool someday.

JESS IS SUCH A FUCKING GOOD EDITOR HOLY GODDAMN. You will love working with her, I guarantee it.

Technology has come a long way since the French Revolution.

No one wants to "turn kids trans." That's not a thing. We just want to see trans kids turn into adults.

Every trans suicide is murder. Do not ever fucking talk to me about "fairness in sports." Do not talk to me about Gavin Newsom. Nothing you have to say matters more than trans children living to adulthood.

My kid did this illustration for that one when they were in High School (I think senior year).

I'm having the 9th graders to read "Father, Son, Holy Rabbit" by @sgj.bsky.social (with an alternate reading for the faint of stomach because I learned THAT lesson last year). One of them said "oh, I know that one! My dad read it to me when I was, like, ten!"

Do the British actually pronounce "lichen" to rhyme with "kitchen," or is that just a quirk of this particular audiobook narrator?

Benny was hit by a drunk driver on his motorcycle before I was born and was paralyzed on one side of his body, and after all these years it was medical complications from his paralysis that eventually killed him, so this seems like as good a time as any to say if you drive drunk then fuck you.

A good friend of my dad's just died, and I know this is very obvious, but ... my parents and their friends are getting older and will not live forever, and that fucking sucks, actually.

Cover reveal day! I'm thrilled to announce my new novel coming from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social, SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT Alien abductions, a break-up from hell, and what we become when our worst enemies are ourselves. Light your skies, October 27th 🛸 www.simonandschuster.com/books/She-Is...

wait. is this my Catholic upbringing or is it my anxiety disorder. (a game I play most days of my life)

I have some kind of deeply rooted Catholic guilt about enjoying unseasonable weather, like if I'm too happy about this 70-degree day in March, I will be spiritually to blame for the hell that befalls me in July

Watching THE MUMMY (1999) and one thing I didn't notice when I was a kid was how bad the Pharaoh's bodyguards cold suck at their jobs. They let their guy waltz into his own murder in the first scene and spend the rest of the movie absolutely stockpiling Ls.

In keeping with my belief that Halloween costumes are primarily an excuse to buy new shoes, I will be dressing as The Bride! this year

Look at me, I'm the king of New York!