The Trump administration’s release of the Epstein grand jury documents are entirely redacted. It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles.

open.substack.com/pub/andreasc... I've written another article! This one explores how grief is a unifying lens behind the most effective horror stories, such as Silent Hill 2 and the Descent. Check it out! #horror #media #analysis #gaming #movies #books

Hey, so the Trump administration created a bunch of BlueSky accounts for the sole purpose of harassing left leaning accounts. Here's a link to the full blocklist bsky.app/profile/did:... #america #usa #politics #leftsky

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

Found a good post on leaflet about moss. “They’re like tiny forests” betweencollapseandbloom.leaflet.pub/3lyilstxjgc2n

Skylight Social’s latest update! We’ve created an FYP, featuring creator-made feeds! ⬆️Swipe up for discovery ⬅️ Swipe left (or tap right) to stay on that feed/topic Shoutouts: @richferro.com #skylightsocial #skylight

Hey all! I'm investing more time in my passion for writing, which means more info about the world of Parafyx coming soon! #writing #books #thecycleofthestars

This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

Look, Count of Monte Cristo will always be my favorite book. But WOW there are moments in it that you want to resurrect Dumas and ask "really? That's really what you thought would make a character cooler?" YES THIS IS ABOUT HAYDEÉ #books #montecristo #fiction #writer

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

AI is not just a symptom of an unfair society, it is the symbol of it. It is designed to actively make the average Joe who uses it dumber while making the men who own it richer, consuming billions of gallons in drinkable water every year. The very *idea* of Generative AI must be slaughtered. #ai

Behold, the map of my fantasy series! Been working on The Cycle of the Stars for ten years and got my IP copyright filing approved with the USCO! #books #fantasy #writer

The most pathetic, pitiable thing about the billionaire class is that even with all the wealth in the world, they have nothing. No burning convictions so dear they compel them to act, no great truths that they clutch to their hearts like they do gold. They are WEAKER for their wealth #eatterich

Ozzy's death hits hard. Joke all you want about his oddities, but the man built one of the most revolutionary genres in music with nothing but his buddies, passion, and a shit-ton of drugs. Even now, it feels fake to say he's dead. Even in death, he's an immortal legend. #ozzy #rock #metal

As someone who studied and read Lovecraft extensively as an English major...the guy was NOT good at writing. He was just prolific. He borrowed from much better writers like Bierce, Chambers, and Poe without understanding anything about what made their work good.

As a horror junkie, it's shocking to me how many movies I can't watch anymore now that i'm a father. Like, my god there are a LOT of movies that are very okay with horrific violence towards children in the name of genre expectation. YES, DAMIEN LEONE, I'm talking to you. #horror

Any government which forces toddlers to represent themselves alone in court is evil beyond forgiveness, beyond redemption, and beyond humanity.

Good night to everyone except: -Splatterpunk writers who use SA for shock factor -fantasy authors who write about fighting imperialism while supporting real world imperialism. - People who use generative AI for any reason. -people who think hope is an immature narrative theme. #writing

What happened to Mikayla Raines, owner and operator of Save-A-Fox charity, was monstrous. There are no excuses or justifications for the sustained campaign of lies and brigading against her on social media which drove her to this.

No gods No kings No dogma Only humanity Only compassion Only the love of our world.

Brands during Pride month: 🌈 Exxon: no matter who you love, we’ll make sure your children don’t have a livable planet 🌈 Amazon: we treat all of our warehouse workers like dirt, regardless of their sexual orientation 🌈 Raytheon: our tomahawk missiles don’t discriminate

Happy #Pride Month. This is your reminder that LGBT+ rights were earned in the blood of fighters like Ms. Marsha P Johnson, and sometimes throwing heavy shit really does solve the problem

Also, AI is not an "accessibility aid" to art. Disabled people have been making art for centuries and not needed a machine to do it for them. Either learn your craft or admit you don't have what it takes. #ai #aiart #art #artists

"But I only use AI to get ideas" then you are not creative. You are not an artist. Literally the most fundamental element of the creative process is coming up with the idea yourself. That is where we get the word "creative" from. If you cannot create, you cannot make art. #art #aiart #artists

The entire purpose of AI image and text generation is to produce the end product of the artistic process, without actually including any of the artistic process vital to creating the end product. It is an attempt to turn art into solely a commodity. Ergo, it is not art #aiart #art #writing #artists

Chief Keef could survive the eclipse, but Guts could never survive O Block #berserk #chicago

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas is something I wish more horror authors would be willing to do with the haunted house: namely, let the Haunted House drop bodies and actually meet the stakes set for it. #horror #books

The only issue Dems need to be running on for the next 4 years is this: an unwavering promise to imprison every active ICE officer for human trafficking And since we now know ICE is tracking everyone who criticizes them: suck my American born-and-bred fat one, you Nazis #ice #America

I think my biggest problem with Arcane S2 is that it throws away literally all of the most compelling pieces of the plot from Season 1, and then REFUSES (aggressively, I might add) to have any discussion about the sociopolitical conflict that was the main driving factor of the story #arcane

I have no issue with romantasy. There is a dedicated shelf specifically for it in my wife and I's home library. What I have an issue with is the total reduction of popular fantasy into loosely strung together tropes that are incapable of telling their own stories.

Emma Frost in Rivals is just the Zoomer generation's version of that one milf from Bleach, I said what I said. #marvelrivals #bleach #shitpost

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Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’ Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...

Puppets…

Legit! #writers #booksky #writingcommunity

It is mind-boggling to me that every time the Democrats lose a major political fight, the lesson they take away isn't "we should appeal more to the working class and our activists". It's always "we should double down on being ineffectual and staying centrist in an increasingly fascist country."

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

This by Ezra Klein is really spot on: “You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.” It looks like a power grab. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

It’s the job of every congressional democrat to grind the gears of government to a stop. Right now. Block everything. Slow walk every committee. Call every vote. Filibuster every post office name change. State Dems need to build parallel institutions to protect the people at home. GET TO WORK.

It's honestly wild how easily China have set themselves up to win over the USA and Russia. >Refuse to overextend yourself politically or militarily >Allow other nations to come to YOU for financial help without significantly indebting yourself (1/2)

Y'know, the last time we went to war with Canada, they burnt a LOT of our government to the ground. Just saying

Hey, when I say eat the rich, I'm not talking to the furries. I've seen what you want to do with that statement, and God came to me in a dream saying he will smite you for that kink.

Unrelated to modern news, I finished Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart today. I've been playing these games since "Goin' Commando" in 2003, and this was the first one I've ever played that was just completely disappointing. No wow factor on the guns, the levels, nothing. #ps5 #gaming #ratchetandclank