R.J. Huneke

“Huneke sweeps readers into short stories and poems that span the realm of the supernatural, technological advancements, and chilling notions” — Publishers Weekly rjhuneke.com/ants-waking/

IN A WORLD OF HER OWN (2016) Acrylic on Canvas - 36" x 48" This painting arose from musing on an interview that Stanley Kubrick gave in 1968, a source of inspiration I have gone back to over the years, revisiting comments made by the director. #art

RIP Walter Koenig, author of DC Comics Star Trek #19, October 1985. "Chekov's choice". Chekov incites the crew of the Enterprise to mutiny while the ship is out of control and on a collision course for an asteroid. Stardate 6714.3

“So you have folks around the world who have to read paragraph after paragraph of AI-produced child pornography, bestiality, violent content…just to try to train AI to be safe.”..the essence of AI colonialism — the extraction of difficult, low-paid labor from the Global South for profit in the West”

🖖TRIBUTE – #StarTrek’s Walter Koenig 💖 Walter Koenig, the beloved actor best known as Star Trek’s Pavel Chekov, died at his home in North Hollywood at age 90. trekcentral.net/tribute-star...

Where Faithless Elector found the zeitgeist 10 years ago, its sequels, Dark Network and Emergency Powers may come to define the future post midterms. bit.ly/3DyRMpx Special Kindle deal, too!

It's the hope that kills you. New, on Substack jamesmccrone.substack.com/p/its-the-ho...

VINCENT PRICE (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) www.tumblr.com/christopherl...

It’s the kind of day when R2 takes out his guitar to play his version of Niamos! 🎵

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

Heidi Wong's Halloween costume (instagram) is as the Shimmer from the Annihilation movie, with a purse using my novel. Really clever, looks good affixed to the purse.

Generally, the more you read, the better you get as a writer. It's critical! One exception is that if I'm in the middle of writing something very specific and I hear about a project that's superficially similar, I may avoid checking that other thing out until I'm done with mine.

How I'm posting this month

Philip K. Dick’s The Cosmic Puppets Via Centipede Press Wows theforgottenfiction.com/philip-k-dic...

Background paintings for Space Ace (1983), dir. Don Bluth, Bluth Group

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We are at our favorite local museum and spotted this jack o’lantern based on my favorite cat painting here, Minnie from the Outskirts of the Village. ❤️

The process of reading and re-reading someone else's imperfect work and devoting mental energy to figuring out what's not working in it and how to fix it is how you develop the creative instincts that allow you to automatically, unconsciously avoid pitfalls and make breakthroughs in your own work.

Cory Doctorow's thoughts on the value of peer critique workshops to developing writers echo my own. pluralistic.net/2026/10/23/bet…

Did you know that horses are hard to draw? Well: andrelimaaraujo.substack.com/p/horses-are...

'a large mock-up of the game boy at a videogame shop in tokyo.' (2014) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

October Cover Challenge #octobercoverchallenge #comicsky Day 23: A Hero Turned Evil Jim Starlin

Clearly the mystery actor auditioning for the next James Bond is Gary Oldman. The others are just red herrings.

I admit it, I am the mystery fourth candidate for the James Bond gig

Good news, Libby users! You can now filter AI out of your next read. 🚫🤖 Open Menu → Settings → Content Controls → AI Contributions Choose “Human only” for each category Make sure “Deep search only” is OFF Drop a 🙌 once your settings are updated!

The constellation in Van Gogh’s The Starry Night may be based on a real cluster of stars in the Taurus constellation. Researchers make a compelling case with evidence from astronomy, weather analysis and Van Gogh’s letters. sciam.com/article/astr...

Chaotic Ink

Akira Toriyama

“Jurors… found Meta liable for over 43 million violations of New Mexico consumer protection laws for making misleading public statements about how it handled users’ personal data... Cambridge Analytica harvested Facebook data to generate targeted political ads during the 2016 election season”

"I can’t think of a better way to celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday than with the most modern American comic book going today.” — @aiptcomics.com THE TOXIC AVENGER Volume 3: TOXIE GOES TO WASHINGTON by @mattbors.bsky.social and @deadredfred.bsky.social lands in stores everywhere today!

TRON design by Moebius, hand-colored by Peter Lloyd. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8310981...

This is astonishing levels of doublespeak. "We handed attackers a freely-available exploit tool, which means we gave defenders time to prepare". Those two things directly contradict each other!

If you self-host and run PHP on it (which is very likely) you NEED to update it later today, ASAP. A major vulnerability that affects PHP versions since 5 has been found, which allows remote code execution (very bad). You MUST retweet and share with friends who self-host. THIS IS CRITICAL. ⚠️

“So the question this week is this: do you know where all your PHP is running? If yes, this is an afternoon of updates. If no, the risk is in the systems you’ve forgotten: an old marketing site, a hosting control panel, a device with PHP built in. And speed matters more than ever.”'

Bulla regia is a wonderful site to visit. I went in March,when it's still cool. For that matter, every site I visited was magnificent. BR is the most unusual with its spacious underground villas. Here's my fave photo of Sbeitla. (1997).

Let’s Go KNICKS!!

The happiest of book birthdays to The Slantwise Histories: Collected Stories by @alixeharrow.bsky.social, a dazzling collection of short fiction!

Enki Bilal