weird menace and excessive bloodletting

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Once more there are so many people I love and respect pulling whole books out of their butts and I'm here struggling to write my second short story of the year ha ha I love my brain ;)

🚨 I don’t know how to describe our hunger: my children await meals. Mahmoud is dying as sepsis and infection ravage his body. Sham is crying from fever and stomach pain.😭 We’re not asking for luxury, just a chance to see another day. Even £5 could help save my family.🫂 chuffed.org/project/omsh...

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

horror should be horny! :D

“Her brother said he didn't see marks on Marin's neck at the hospital. As he took pictures, an immigration officer standing guard tried to make him leave the room and delete the photos. Hospital staff defended his right to stay in the hospital room, he said.” Barbarism.

Longinus is a saint?!?

Raskin: "When historians look back on this miserable period of our history, they might say that the first problem was disregarding all those women who told us back in 2016 that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump."

"Global far-right power grab" is the phrase everyone's looking for, and why we need to stop thinking of fighting them in terms of borders. It's the same like, 200 well-positioned multinational cunts fucking things up, and we need to start thinking of how to excise them wherever they're found

💔 Every day feels harder than the last. I’m trying to care for my family while we live in a tent that can’t protect us from the coming winter. We can’t afford basic necessities, and I’m terrified of what lies ahead. Please help us. Even $10 could make a huge difference. chuffed.org/project/help...

The Lula election may be the most significant of our time. Brazil will be the vanguard against an even more apocalyptic environmental deterioration. Overjoyed that the Amazon remains steadfast.

All right, that's 1000 words of notes to be getting on with and I'm already putting it in the right order. I have a basic sketch.

You're Next is a slick neo-slasher that gives us Sharni Vinson's ferocious Erin, a woman with the secret skills to carve a bloody path www.jezebel.com/youre-next-2...

Watched The Cycle again, because it finally showed up on Crave-Shudder, and DAAAAAAAMN THAT SHIT IS DOPE

My first story collection, GREENER PASTURES, will be reissued in 2027 to mark 10 (!) years with @apexmag.bsky.social. A contemporaneous novelette will be added, new foreword + notes. I’m still so proud of this book, even prouder that readers have never stopped finding it across more than a decade.

So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too

Paul Newman is definitely a contender today my pick is Raul Julia

Once again, it's young Stalin. bsky.app/profile/movi...

Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

THE BLACK TAPES, @libbycudmore.bsky.social and my anthology from @ruadanbooks.bsky.social is now up for pre-order from the publisher. 20% and pre-orders get a mysterious audio surprise and a copy of my play "The Has-Been"! New stories by @docbrite.bsky.social @mollytanzer.bsky.social and more!

but only this particular wolfman

Please share this message from Sakher : "I’m lost between my family, my studies, and life in a tent. My father is sick, winter is coming, and we have no warm clothes, proper shelter, or money for rent. 😢 Please don’t leave me alone in this struggle. Even $10 can help us survive. 🙏" bit.ly/4ib1W5P

Hammam is a volunteer humanitarian nurse treating Gaza’s wounded since the war began. Today, his family is starving, homeless, and desperate for food. His brother has a disability and suffers from severe seizures. Please help us provide food & urgently needed medication chuffed.org/project/1844...

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

Think you could construct a pretty good Mountain Goats song just using UFO Sightings Bot

Yesssssss

Bluesky has four kinds of users

Remembering Lewis Allan Reed,aka Lou Reed, who died today 27th October 2013 "There's a bit of magic in everything And then some loss to even things out." #LouReed #photooftheday 📸 Guido Harari

sure do

No one hates regular Americans more than Trump and Vance

There's so much else wrong with this stupid lawsuit but on this specific point: despite being "busy" with "lives" and "jobs," Alaskans were able to spell M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I when they reelected her to the Senate as a write-in candidate in 2010 after she lost the GOP primary.

New in PN: Living in the long, stupid shadow of the Big Lie "Elections where Trump — or any other Republican — wins are fine, but elections where Republicans lose are corrupt. The only solution, of course, is to let the DOJ intervene both before and after any elections that Trump has fixated on."

my dad only left when I was eight, but it nevertheless makes a lot of sense to me that I would feel some sort of way about The Cycle

Heba: "Hunger is returning to Gaza. Markets are empty and prices are soaring. My children sleep hungry and cry for food. 💔 Please donate whatever you can to help feed my children. Every dollar matters. Please don't let us suffer alone. Don't abandon us! 🙏🇵🇸" gofund.me/c3bf6fb78

Love this mid-80s American advert for OUIJA, marketed as a family game over there. And in the midst of the Satanic Panic, it goes all-in on the idea that, yes, you may indeed be talking to spirits/demons/whatever. "It's just a game... isn't it?"* *Yes, it's just a game.