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WORD FACT To “pandiculate” is to instinctively stretch the torso and upper limbs, typically while yawning. The word lends itself nicely to this palindrome: Pandiculate: go get a lucid nap. #palindrome

This is what left the visible physical world at about 3pm yesterday. The two concrete spiral staircases were my favourite bit. Going to do a run of C-Type prints of this if anyone is interested. Not my best in terms of quality, but it’s does that thing it needs to do.

Unbelievable!!! I just won the World Fantasy Award for Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology! Congratulations to my fellow nominees and all the other winners! (I’ve included a thread—actually my speech—explaining the fuel that drove this project.)

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the fact of overcrowding does not justify the belief in jostling

New blog post: Lynd Ward's Haunted Omnibus

Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish (1929-2005), Untitled (AB80), 1980, oil on fiberboard, 87 x 87 cm, Muzeum Historyczne w Sanoku, Poland

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/untitled-1954

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Italian horror movies, sometimes called “Giallo films,” produced many unique, campy soundtracks. Over the years, these releases have become collector’s gold. Explore our favorite Italian horror soundtracks: https://disc.gs/3UKkbaD Which of these are in your Halloween rotation?

Today's Daily Mothra! 🦋 🎥 "Godzilla vs. Mothra" (1992)

Ok but can I show you this 17th century Dutch memorial medallion and funeral spoon (everyone will receive one at my eventual funeral, don't you worry) I spotted yesterday at Bath's Holburne Museum...

David A. Hardy ‘Planet of Beta Lyrae’ from The New Challenge of the Stars by Patrick Moore & David A. Hardy, 1977

From the Fall, 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained.

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Afternoons and Early Evenings by Louise Glück www.divasofverse.com/2026/10/afte...

Things tribalism is not the answer to: everything that's a real problem.

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In *theory*, burning historical structures is bad, objectively, sure. But if you'd told the Allies in 1945 that Hitler's mountain retreat was going to remain intact and become a *popular restaurant* I think they would've used enough high explosive to turn the mountain into a sea-level parking lot.

#treizain

The updated Uzbek alphabet has been officially approved and will come into force on 22 April 2027. Add a reminder to you calendars

Here's a classic of speculative poetry: Science fiction author Poul Anderson's "Route-Song of the Winged Folk" from his novel "The People of the Wind". An invented stanza form to fit an alien culture, and content and metaphors fitting for a species of winged hunter. alliteration.net/poetry/route...

This mystical shrine called Aritagawa-cho known as the crude shrine. Lost in the mountains of Wakayama prefecture, Japan. This shrine is 989 years old.

Here's a petition to save the Granada on Lower Greenville in Dallas. Will it work? I don't know. We must try. If it only convinces the city to preserve it as a historical site, it will be worth it. I saw many movies there. My tradition of The Life of Bryan began there.

Trump turned Sagan’s prediction into a reality.

7-day forecast 31.10.2026 WE DID IT The world will cross the +2c threshold And the N Hemisphere will cross the +2.8C mark The chart is the #Climate event of the decade #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis

Coyly mistressing. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/coyly-mist...

Oh my god these are exquisite.

Not miles of sea nor mountain snow Could cool this constant fire; The moth knows not the lamp's far flame Yet circles its desire, And I, a smaller creature still, Beat wings against your pyre. #vss365

“Trump’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory.” - Barack Obama in Ohio.

A superman movie but the whole thing is just Clark Kent fighting story deadlines and newspaper funding cuts

I love that 19th-C France's greatest poet is pronounced the same as the subcompact hatchback produced by Yugoslav manufacturer Zastava Automobiles in the 1980s, popular in the UK as a cheaper, if crappier, car: the Yugo. Anyway, here's one of his pomes: adamroberts.micro.blog/2026/10/24/v...

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Today's Daily Mothra! 🦋 Production from 🎥 "Mothra vs. Godzilla" (1964)

*AI replacing art critics *What if they do a much better job, tho hyperallergic.com/dear-art-wor...

A few more from the demolition of Anglia Square from the day before yesterday. Two wings left now. It’s a very strange and quite a sad sight for anyone who lives in this area and even vaguely understands the community.

You Shall Not Speak www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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An Outer Space Memory https://www.wikiart.org/en/maria-primachenko/an-outer-space-memory-1977

Talking about Leonard Cohen made me think about this love letter I wrote to mark his death which came hours before Trump's 1st election. I think the sentiments hold up 10 years on, even if we had no idea what was coming. His work still reminds us to look for beauty & good amidst ugliness and evil.

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (Mrk3). RGB Filters: 1500, 770, 560 PI: Armus, Lee, program 07140. CRVAL: 93.927466, 71.060924 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

By Haruka Kawakami