Alex C. Telander

Cover of The Rise showing a creepy road at night (art by Halinka Orszulok) and the text reads: “In The Rise, Alan Baxter returns to Gulpepper, and there’s something about this small town that draws you in. Wouldn’t want to live there, not sure it’s the safest holiday destination either, but I’m still thrilled to set foot on its disturbing streets once again. These five new novellas balance masterfully between heartbreaking, horrific, and out-right action packed. Whether you’re a hardened local, or visiting for the first time, any trip to The Gulp is an experience you’ll never forget.” – Joanne Anderton, author of Pixerina: A Haunting and The Bone Chime Song.

More humbling praise for THE RISE: Tales From The Gulp 3 (coming in February 2026) this time from the amazing @joanneanderton.bsky.social Thank you!
#WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky

I'VE BEEN SAYING

Guardian headline: 'Demonic' Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey

Our Piper at the Gates of Dawn jumper stirred a bit of Satanic Panic! Thank you, @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, for covering this story for The Guardian.

By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...

@macrogers.bsky.social it’s fucking happening, just like you said in LifeAfter!

Sounds like a great turnout motivator.

Informer, by Snow

pluribus rocks holy shit lol

Repost of IT cover design I made for school that I still very much love.

#stephenking #illustration #horror #IT #bookcover #bookillustrator #horrorclown #surrealism #digitalart

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Bach, you have to stop. Your clavier is too well-tempered. Your concertos too Brandenburg. They’ll kill you

My feed right now:

Epstein
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Golden State Warriors
Epstein
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at no point while reading this did i have any idea what the next word would be

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:

wapo.st/448fDw6

Musk: joyce carol oates? she a very meana lady!
Musk: she usa too many semicolons!
Mortal Kombat Announcer: FINISH HIM
Oates: i hear you have a cool daughter
Oates: a normal dad would be very proud
Mortal Kombat Announcer: FATALITY

Hunter Fence, Hunter Whence, and Hunter O'Gainst were also considered.

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

“Mr. Epstein emailed Ms. Maxwell in 2011 calling Mr. Trump the ‘dog that didn’t bark’” (gift link)

I once attended a panel of top robot scientists and someone asked them if they were afraid of robots rising up against humanity and one of them said “you have any idea how long it takes to build a robot that can successfully cross a room?”

Whenever I hear Trump, Johnson, or any other Republican complain about SNAP, or try to regulate what hungry people are allowed to buy I think of something Oscar Wilde said: “…to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”

Religious sisters announce land return to Wisconsin Native American tribe The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration announced the transfer of land back to the Lac du Flambeau Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa tribe on its website.

Someone’s read the Buffalo Hunter Hunter @sgj.bsky.social

www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267649/...

James Bond discourse reminds me that an ex's nan sat in solemn silence through the whole of Austin Powers, then said "Well I don't see how he gets all those women"

Slightly related: I would pay at least a dollar extra for every Amazon order if I knew that it was going toward things like "liveable wages" and "not working warehouse workers to death." Two dollars extra. Hell, five dollars. Call it the woke tax and let people opt out of it, I don't care.

The Giants made it official: Bruce Bochy is back as a Special Advisor to Baseball Operations (the department run by his former catcher).

Bochy: “This organization and city mean a lot to me and my family, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute in any way I can.”

Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it

C'est tres bon.

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

NEW: The First Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the Trump admin's efforts to stop the release of full funding for November's SNAP benefits payments as ordered by a lower court judge.

The Supreme Court's administrative stay will now expire 48 hours after the 1st Circuit's ruling.

Interesting point regarding Chicago winters. Are we gone see ice dressed up in polar camo snow suits trying to arrest people in a foot of snow? Will they have snow shoes or skis, like in a James Bond movie? Maybe snow mobiles like die hard 2? Fucking Ice jokers bused in from Florida have no idea.

NOT NOW PREVIOUSLY BURIED 1700s OBVIOUSLY VERY CURSED AND HAUNTED STONE CRYPT UNCOVERED BY AN UNEXPECTED GRAVEYARD TOMB COLLAPSE NOT NOW

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.

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