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If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Smart people have already written about the many problems of generative AI better than I could, but I’ll tell you this about the thing I know: writing is about writing. It’s an action. A verb. It’s what we do. I write, you write, they write. Skip that and you’re not a writer.

LISTEN TO BLACK WOMEN: THE WUNMI MOSAKU CINAMATIC UNIVERSE OF BEING CORRECT The Wunmi Mosaku Cinematic Universe of Being Correct traces how horror keeps proving the same truth: when Black women identify danger early and speak plainly, survival depends on whether anyone lis…

Horror keeps proving the same rule: Black women identify danger early. Survival depends on whether anyone listens.

A look at the Wunmi Mosaku Cinematic Universe of Being Correct, where clarity is never the problem. Reception is.
👻📽️ #blackwomeninhorror
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So, so proud of @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social joining this group of writers; the quality of their scholarship and writing is top-tier, and the sheer talent on display in their work is inspiring.

Screen grab of guardian headlines saying the doj did not protect trump when reviewing the epstein files

" 'The DOJ conducted an impartial and politically neutral investigation,' continued the Secretary of Horseshit"

A screenshot from a post from THREADS from user oni.xxkayxx that reads: “Replacing Gregory Bovino with Tom Homan is like shitting your pants and changing your shirt.” Below is a photo of Gregory Bovino overlayed next to a photo of Tom Homan.

10/10 no notes

Mystery tower fossils may be a whole new kind of life Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science

(Wailing Guitars and Fireworks)

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pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions

🌿 Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories is a Southern Gothic collection steeped in memory, repression, and the pull of the swamp itself by @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social

Empathetic, unsettling, and beautifully written.

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#BookReview by @stephellis.bsky.social

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

"many of them don't want to be doing what they've been directed to do"

Oh come on.

These guys are not conscripts, there is no commissar with a pistol behind them looking for signs of wavering.

They can just quit at any time! They can quit today. They can quit tomorrow.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Time to work at the bodega.

Wikipedia sections of an article. 1: early life and career as a pirate. 2: archbishop of York.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Virginia's legislative session only started yesterday, and it was a very big day.

The House already passed four constitutional amendments on Day 1:
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.

Next: Senate.

Minipax was taken, I guess.

Scares That Care

Calling all Women Writers of specific, particularly horror!

Our programming schedule is now up. Tickets are still available - and remember, this is a separate ticketed event from AuthorCon proper.

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This is what appears when a bunch of middle school kids light a candle in a darkened bathroom and chant "Phosphorescent Ham" one hundred times into the mirror.

A screenshot of a cat litter box from Chewy, featuring a very pretty fluffy white cat sitting in a round automatic litter box and staring into the distance like he's about to boldly go

i am shopping for a new cat litter box and i need to share with y'all this lil poopin' cosmonaut preparing to boldly go

a piece of chicken
a piece of broccoli
(a) corn tortilla
one other thing

is that piece of chicken a wing? a leg?

how big is "a piece" of broccoli?

do you just eat your corn tortilla dry?

what's "one other thing"? a dollop of salsa? a rice kernel?

these are deeply unserious, wicked people.

To any ICE agents reading this who are from down south—you have never experienced anything like this cold. Our European climate equivalent is literally Stalingrad. It will hurt to breathe. You will be outside in it. So will we, but we are used to it.

Next week is what will break you.

Obviously the Smithsonian shouldn’t hand over anything but also it’s a bit rich for the White House to be acting like deadlines for producing documents are important to them

So, I guess the whole administration will be 'self-deporting' at some point in the near future?

SO MUCH BLOOD IN THIS EARTH: GENERATIONAL TRAUMA IN SOUTHERN GOTHIC Violence, repression, and bloodshed lurk beneath every Southern story. Of course that horror leached into our literature.

My newest essay on Southern Gothic and generational trauma is up now at @nighttidemag.bsky.social …

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It's now officially 2026, so in honor of the death of 2025 here's our annual list of some cool (new to me) horror (mostly) reading that we did this year. I'm always behind the curve, so most of these books didn't actually debut in 2025, but... well, you get the idea.

Blood Cypress (Elizabeth Broadbent) - a teen searches for her missing autistic brother and uncovers, in the best southern gothic tradition, DARK FAMILY SECRETS & THE WAGES OF GENERATIONAL TRAUMA! the finest vintage of southern gothic where strange things snatch those who wander past the dogwoods!!

Look there is so much more to criticize but Hair Gel's form just sucks. No momentum from the hips, weight is too light, fighting that thing instead of swinging it. As in all things, the guy's an amateur, just pretending he knows what he's doing and looking stupid in the meantime.