David Busboom

YouTube video by Chthonica Chthonica #14: With guests Nathan Ballingrud and Michael Wehunt!

Watch @nathanballingrud.bsky.social and me while away a lovely Chthonica evening with @igreggreene.bsky.social and Edward Meehan. We discuss Nathan'sCathedral of the Drowned (book 2 of the Lunar Gothic Trilogy) and my novel, The October Film Haunt. youtu.be/xMdZpBlrYww?...

Neil Young rules, Lynyrd Skynyrd drools.

You can nominate all through the year. Feed the maw, friends.

It’s interesting the way that the world these days seems to make us feel that we need to have an opinion on everything, even when having a certain opinion may not change anything we do, or anything about the way the world responds. We seem to be losing the ability or desire to just be silent on certain questions. (Silent and sad; silent and interested; silent and alert.)

Wisdom from George Saunders, in his newsletter:

will never understand the need to blow leaves off the grass. like peeling the cheese off a pizza. buddy, you're missing the point.

"we have to use AI because it's not going away" is such a weak-ass justification. because like, no we don't. what are you talking about. do you rush out to try every incurable disease too

A horror event where authors have to being their own books and pay a table fee, but the venue claims 40% of sales and requires you to inflate the price of the books "because authors will be signing them"? No fucking thank you. Nobody should agree to that. Don't let cons/fests exploit you.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

sally in the back of the truck at the end of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. a bloody woman laughing and screaming at the same time. sally never had to learn how discord works, so who is the victim here exactly?

pov: every artist and writer you know realizing that social media is collapsing into a bog of rich arrogant dumb-dumbs, leaving us the option of continuing to exploit ourselves on the extremely off-chance we go "viral" OR opting out and resigning ourselves to regional lit mag poverty and obscurity

Thanks, New Yorker

The United States president, who is a pedophile, is currently leading a government shutdown because he is semi-illiterate and professionally destitute in the basic functions of civil government and his lackeys are refusing to remediate this because it would reveal that said president is a pedophile.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

We can’t out-Republican Republicans, nor should we want to.

Democrats need to say what they believe — and actually believe in something.
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behold!

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

A must-read of contemporary horror letters

YESSSS

One reason I donate to #Wikipedia.

More, though, is that without doubt, it's going to hit by a tsunami of suppression very soon, as it's anathema to all that the Trumpist regime and its techbro billionaire fanboys stand for.

Without global support, it will be destroyed.

1/4

Dr. Jane Goodall was a gift to humanity

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

I've heard it said you couldn't establish public libraries in today's political climate because some assembly of CHUDs would call it socialism. That's an indirect way to say we MUST protect the integrity of our libraries to curate their collections free of government influence or intimidation!

I supported NPR. I hope everyone else here does as well, if they can

The hosts may not be loud, or brash, or fully on board with your brand of politics

But their programming is honest and sincere

In today’s day and age, that means a lot

I'm so fucking sick of Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Hakeem Jeffries, and the entire Democratic party leadership. They HAVE the power to stop all this, and they're choosing to fiddle while the US burns.

Pete Hegseth just supported Israel's complete and utter destruction of Gaza with this speech.

Hegseth also gave China the green light to take Taiwan by force with this speech.

He blatantly said the Geneva Convention does not apply.

Hegseth does not believe in peace. He believes in occupation.

Today, Pete Hegseth laid out his vision of transforming the Department of Defense to the Department of War Crimes.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?

From the very first cave paintings humans have ached to see themselves reflected in the mirror of consciousness, to pass the world through a prism of common experience and make meaning from the threads of our shared humanity. Our entire economy now hinges on the idea that people don't