Kay Vaindal

New story with STP now free to read! It’s another weird one 👽

Table of contents announcement! Cursed Morsels: A Food Systems Horror Anthology is going to be a banger, y'all. The image below features Giuseppe Arcimboldo's painting "Summer." The anthology's cover art will be in the works soon!

Takashi Miike talking about VISITOR Q (2001). There’s a subsection of film fandom that really really needs to try and internalize this mode of creation/understanding.

I’ve never eaten at a Cheesecake Factory. Tried to once with my appalachian-Bronx grandma at the one in harborplace but it was some anime convention and she had dementia and was freaked out by all the costumed people she called sickly so we bailed out and went to pizzeria uno instead

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Every day is eco-weird when you’re eco-weird

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

Brazil was of two huge election results today—alongside the defeat of the nationalist, authoritarian leader of Serbia: "the slate of candidates selected by protesting students had won at least 135 seats in Serbia’s 250-member legislature" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

I haven’t slept a full night in three weeks ahead of the polls opening in Brazil today. I might be shouting into a void here, but if you can spare a few seconds to send good energy towards our elections today and for the largest country in South America to beat fascism, please do so. 🇧🇷

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

i miss when Biden had that dog that would bite everyone

I have a story in this! Like everything I write, it is a cozy feel good jaunt that celebrates our present age 😊

One of those rare photos that makes you stop in your tracks and whisper, "Wow..." "Lochaber at Night" - wintery scene of Loch Linnhe, Caol Shore and Ben Nevis, taken from Corpach Pier by Mark Gillies.

An Influencer Asks A Very Sunburnt Middle-Aged Man How He Affords His Rolls-Royce Spectre by @kayv.bsky.social published in SLUGGER Vol. 2. Art by Emma Fujikawa

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs

After nearly a decade of work, California has banned child marriage without exception. The law shows what can happen when survivors, advocates and lawmakers keep working together, even when change takes time.

"500 people in a Coastal Georgia immigration detention center are on a hunger strike, protesting conditions at the facility as well as what they say are violations of asylum protocols by U.S. authorities." #Georgia #USA #Food #Protest #Asylum #Water #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

WaPo published my letter, but first they censored it. Here’s the story . . 1/

This is clearly not acceptable

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

“girl cats are mean” “girl cats are standoffish” “girl cats are —“ my girl cat is constantly trying to put her nose inside my nose so have you considered that it’s a you problem

What is Mr bean supposed to be? Is he a human, or something more?

Working my way through the latest issue of Weird Horror from @undertow.bsky.social and this piece from @kayv.bsky.social is an absolute banger. Timely, poignant, and filled with vivid, weird prose. www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/kettleman

I was talking to my friend Mae today about how I wish more people cared about and read short stories. A great short story will take only twenty minutes to read but stick with you for twenty years. Wildly powerful artform! What's a short story that fits that description for y'all?

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

WAVE (1994) Acrylic on Canvas - 48” x 48” Of all the paintings hanging in my home, this one probably elicits the most comments. #art

Don’t you just want to drink it

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I think one major way you can miss seeing this as a man is all the work women around you are doing to navigate misogyny is invisible to you. There's a minefield that you only see when it blows up, and you wonder, how did that get there. "How did Bob turn into that."

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

Fellas, has this ever happened to you?!?

My special Tuesday lunch

I don’t even know what to say anymore jessica.substack.com/p/her-baby-h...

This weekend thousands of American patriots stood up to Trump's attacks on the Kennedy Center with a simple message: HANDS OFF.   This & every monument in America belong to the people, not to any President. We must continue to speak out; silence only emboldens Trump's lawbreaking.

I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.

Ruthie Cat 2028: the hero we need