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Traveled WAY too far to deliver today, which I will try not to do again, but it was kind of an adventure, so I'm glad I did it once. I was also fairly compensated, so it's not like I have resentment on top of everything else.

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My nephew is an absolutely moppet, and I'm afraid he's come into his power way too early in life.

I really want to keep making transgressive, indulgent, queer comics.
Call your congresspeople if you want to have a future where art, eroticism, and queer self expression is possible. This is the shit they were plotting in project 2025. Say NO to KOSA, No to SCREEN and NO to IODA.

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Anyone wowed by generative AI should be given a teddy ruxpin with an assortment of ted talk cassettes and a quiet place to marvel at its wisdom

Submissions | PseudoPod PseudoPod is always looking for quality fiction to feed our listeners. If you’re a writer with a short horror story that you’d like to hear narrated by one of our talented performers, we’d like to see...

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So if you got something good, get that good gotten to us while the getting is good. (This sentence somehow makes sense because English is the true horror.)

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Next up from my physical tbr is One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire. Highly recommend October Daye if you haven't read this series yet. I won this set from DAW. Highly recommend October Daye if you like Urban Fantasy and haven't read this series yet. @seananmcguire.bsky.social #booksky #favoriteseries

RFK Jr: “We're developing a universal vaccine at NIH which is a vaccine that addresses the entire phylum of viruses.” “It's a vaccine that mimics natural immunity and it is effective against any kind of mutation.” “We believe it's gonna be effective against not only coronaviruses but also flu.” “And it's gonna be a much safer and a much more effective vaccine.”

RFK has announced that he is developing a vaccine against all viruses. Yes, every single one. The whole, uh, "phylum"

Not too hot for cake: Friday Update Photo by Abhinav Goswami on Pexels.com Due to some problems in transit (now I know better how to transport this particular cake, which has unique issues in comparison to others), I had to buy a new…

What's going on, Friday blog update: amandamblake.com/2025/08/08/n...

Had a slice. It was delicious. Damn it.

Bad delivery day. Had to replace an item damaged in delivery, which is money out of my time and money out of my pocket. But at least I got a tres leches cake (with messed up icing) out of it, which is probably why I didn't have a meltdown.

Charles Dance in The Last Action Hero.

Share one of your favorite movie villains

Have you seen The Sudbury Devil yet?

hey @bsky.app why was @scumbelievable.bsky.social suspended? considering the timing (she just put a new book out) it feels like someone is weaponizing your safety features in a targeted manner

I shared my quintessential creature feature last week, so today I'll share my first, DEEP DOWN, in which a man and his dog enter a cave during an apocalypse with no intention of leaving. The only thing to do is go deeper: www.amazon.com/Deep-Down-Am...

Wearing a gas mask and rubber suit and bearing a flamethrower, MC makes her way to the lounge, where she turns the karaoke machine up to full volume and risks exposure to shriek out "Dream On" until their ears bleed, too. Flesh-eaters with vertigo are much easier to quell.

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Ian, are you okay? :)

Okay, zombie chickens I can't eat or kill... There would probably be some tree- or roof-climbing until they went to roost. Maybe I'd open up that part of the fence that kept the coyotes and foxes out and pray the zombie virus doesn't cross species.

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Davy Crockett's Mysterious Encounter with Bigfoot in Texas Davy Crockett, the famous statesman and frontiersman has many truths and legends attached to his name. But there is one that has gone unreported for decades: his encounter with Bigfoot in the dense fo...

I think I knew we had some stories (East Texas is perfect Bigfoot country and shares regions with the Fouke monster of Boggy Creek), but I didn't know the accounts of encounters were so widespread. Also, Davy Crockett might have seen (or hallucinated) one! texashillcountry.com/davy-crocket...

Most of my people love Lost Boys, but I fell in love with the deeply predatory vampire depiction in Fright Night (original and remake). I don't think I've ever seen something so effectively depict how 'hot human' is the vampire's camouflage.

Ooh, I've been reading about Texas Bigfoot stories, so while I would usually say a group of coyote-feral children, I think tonight I've been visited by a seven-foot-tall hairy humanoid who lost its way and was conjured by my midnight light like a moth to the moon.

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Amanda M. Blake, writer of dark things, because the shadows have to go somewhere.

I love a cosmic monster or inexplicable hybrid (The Blob, Mimic, Relic...). I've written 2 creature features and have beasts aplenty in the Thorns series. So much fun, esp those very not human.

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I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

#horror The Horror Writers Association is pleased to announce that the Scholarship Committee will be reviewing applications for Diversity Grants.

Membership is not required to apply for any HWA Diversity Grants.

Each Grant is worth $500

also you'd be noticed a bit more.

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