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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At the reading last night, performing some of my new piece "Welcome to Cloke!"

Small stage with chair, mic, and speakers, before a wall of displayed books. I am standing there frowning, holding some notecards, and wearing a wrinkled green asymmetrical smock-like garment.

Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the area of Champaign-Urbana this late afternoon / evening? @davidbusboom.bsky.social, Matthew Henshaw, and I are reading, 5pm at Spineless Books, newly opened up at Lincoln Square, my favorite once mostly moribund mall that's undergoing a rebirth as a cool community space.

Sandwich board style sign reading: A Soiree of Strange Terrors - Local Authors Event! Readings by David Busboom, Matthew Henshaw, Caleb Wilson. Friday September 25th and 5:00 PM

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love unexpectedly recognizing the original source of a sample that appears in a song I know well. The art is speaking to itself across the decades in my presence!

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Neighbor practicing saxophone outside! Current tune: Yakety Sax

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 09/09/2026

A reminder that a few brilliant friends & I did a completely free Ligotti tribute anthology. Download free to read my story "Jar Of Arms" and other fine scribblings. dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

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Get your FREE copy of We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower

“The ruined factory stood three stories high in an otherwise featureless landscape…” With these words, Thomas Ligotti begins one of the most influential short stories in the canon of horror and weird ...

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Borderless Journal has today published a brief extract from my new novel THE BISCUIT THIEF. Hopefully this extract will encourage readers to consider buying the novel. The publisher is Telos Publishing 👻 #booksky borderlessjournal.com/2026/08/21/t...

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The Biscuit Thief by Rhys Hughes

Title: The Biscuit Thief Author: Rhys Hughes Publisher: Telos Publishing The bicycle was a new machine but it had been modelled on the penny farthings of old. It had a big front wheel and a small r…

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Very excited for this! A perfect game for these times...

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Analeptic Alzabo.

A scene from Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, in which Severian (front) drinks a strange mind-altering elixir.

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's the birthday of two men, both born in Detroit, who have been singularly committed, in utterly different ways, to their arts. Happy birthday to Thomas Ligotti and Jack White.

Black and white photo of a man standing in silhousette at a door apparently at the top of a staircase. Bright white outside, dark inside. This is, reportedly, Thomas Ligotti.

Cover of Jack White's album "Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016", which is excellent. As much as I like Jack's music (and I do), it's his creation of Third Man Records and, especially, Third Man Books that has changed my life in so many positive ways. (I have the gobsmacking honor of having published the first book from TMB labeled as Horror.)

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

the funny thing about ais revealing that if something just expresses nonstop positivity people invariably come to find that thing indespensible is that dogs hacked human cognition in exactly that way 40k years ago

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

the pond last night at sunset

mist hangs over a small pond surrounded by tall pines under the gentle slopes of the green mountain national forest in central vermont

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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

top 10 "cryptids" - Flatwoods Monster - Fresno Nightcrawlers - Pascagoula Humanoid - Sandown Clown - Loveland Frogman - Enfield Horror - Hopkinsville Goblins - Skunk Ape (distinct from bigfoot!!!) - Mothman - Michigan Dogman

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I feel so bad for this character (whose life I am controlling)

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If you haven't read this... maybe you should! (Very creepy.)

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Slightly diminish a book: "The Book of the Used -- Like New Sun"

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

PIG AT A WEDDING is a one-page TTRPG where you must sneak a pig into a wedding and release it at the most traumatic possible moment. PDF, text-only version, and a largely unrelated dev diary here: www.patreon.com/posts/pig-at...

A complete TTRPG called PIG AT A WEDDING. You can download a text-only version of it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pig-at-wedding-153576626

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Vermonty friends, check this out! (I have driven past the exit in the preview many times)

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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

You have come to a dead end in the mine.

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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Is this one of my best library photos so far? Our library is so well loved, even the neighborhood turkeys are lining up to find their next favorite reads :)

A turkey standing outside a library window.

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Woo, Titanium Court is out! (Long story short, when @catacalypto.bsky.social says a game is special, you have to play it)

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Name your top three favorite guitarists. Genre doesn’t matter, just three guitarists whose work blows you away. * Bill Orcutt * Marc Ribot * Mary Halvorson (Ouch, almost impossibly hard to pick my top three. Sorry, my other favorites...)

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 20/04/2026

If an AI was a good creative co-brain it would say; this bit’s shit; that’s weird; you wrote that metaphor already; who talks like that?; wow the snarky girl suddenly got polite; who cares what a tree looks like; bored now!; that rhymed, cut it; what does this add?; you spoilt the joke…

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Sorry, but I thought the lamp was edible.

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Not with a bang, but with an "Error, Try again"

A screenshot of an error message saying "Error / ! / Not Found / Rate Limit Exceeded / Try Again"

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Steve Aylett's The Book Lovers is remarkable. It has the densest occurrence of profound and hilarious one-liners of any book I've ever read (except maybe Steve Aylett's The Heart of the Original, which would be an excellent companion piece).

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I'm reading this now -- so wonderful!

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 13/04/2026

🏰 Upon reading this cryptic message, you can’t help but think that this is a thinly-veiled attempt at teasing an upcoming announcement. Perhaps as soon as tomorrow... 👑

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Just seen on a neighbor’s front door: “THE FORCE IS LIKELY NOT WITH YOU.”

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I found all the recorders! They were in the crushed cardboard box labeled "recorders," but first I had to take out all the boxes on top, one of which was labeled "MISC - PLEASE SORT THIS BOX" (which I had never done and still haven't. But I did take out all the corroded batteries that were in there)

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The "ai is just a tool like any other" argument is so dumb. It's a bad tool. Do you rent your hammers from a creepy tech bro? One who is drooling to jack up that rent once its catastrophic failure rate falls just a bit more? Even it you could make good art with a plagiarism machine, you shouldn't.

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Happy Downfall-of-Sauron Day to you. But remember: "Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again."

From the 1973 Tolkien Calendar, Tim Kirk's painting of Mount Doom erupting. The silhouette of a small hobbitlike figure can be seen against the wave of fire destruction.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 18/03/2026

starting to think this "metaverse" idea doesn't have legs

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

CODING procedural generation is not the same as LLMs lol. What the fuck are we even doing here

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I found this recycled folder, which ended up accidentally labeled "FOUL ORCHIDS", for my manuscript. But now I think I need to call the book Foul Orchids -- better come with a reason for that to make sense

A brown folder on a red couch. There are a few papers in the folder but you can't see what's on them. Several layers of recycled labeling on the folder's tab have led to the label "FOUL ORCHIDS"

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

"Computer-generated prose" is not necessarily LLM-produced prose. Code, created by hand, that combines words in ways that surprise even the author is an art form. (One of the lesser reasons I hate LLMs is my suspicion that they've destroyed that art form)

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Titanium Court is great! I love the graphics and sound (sometimes simple is better than elaborate) and the writing is consistently cracking me up. Looking forward to the full game

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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

You have just located a serious bug.

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Steve Aylett 📚 @steveaylett.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

More grim evidence from my private journals.

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W. Eric Martin @wericmartin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Board Game Beat is officially launched & loaded with content...with more to come as I report on Spielwarenmesse! If you're into independent board game journalism—articles, videos, interviews, news, reviews & more—please check it out and share. www.wericmartin.com #boardgame #spielwarenmesse

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Board Game Beat LLC | W. Eric Martin

Tabletop and board game journalism with deep-dive news, reviews, interviews, videos, and essays, plus rulebook writing and editing services.

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Here it is: Block by Frozen Block is a short, interactive poem I made in Twine as a vessel for ... all the stuff roiling around in my head as everyone here is fighting for our neighbors in big ways and small. adeniro.itch.io/block-by-fro...

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Block by Frozen Block by Anya Johanna DeNiro

an interactive poem from Saint Paul, Minnesota, January 2026

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

🔥COVER REVEAL🔥 Enjoy this first look at the art for @dangerslater.bsky.social's WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE is out this September; illustrated by @mattblairstone.bsky.social No creatures were harmed in the making of WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE, but we can't vouch for its effects on you once you read it🖤☠️

Cover art; an illustrated cross section of a house, in vaporwave greens oranges and yellows.
In the dining room, a woman wields an axe over the head of an unsuspecting individual at the table.
In the kitchen, a man has his hands shoved deep into the sink; blood is splattered on the backsplash. Beneath the sink something fleshy and bulbous.
The bottom half of the illustration is all swollen bulbous fleshy intestines in browns, pale pinks and off-white.
The book title and author are spelled out in blobby fleshy letters

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I lined up my vacation days just right, but this is the last day before going back to work in a while. Spent the afternoon playing loud and unskilled guitar through an amp that emits an evil hum just from being on, perfect!

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Ordered! I've been waiting for this one

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Ken Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Here's your free RPG for #FreeRPGDay: You are a housecat. Whenever you attempt to pull a fast one on your humans, roll 1d6. 1: Spectacular failure; what do you destroy? 2-3: Marginal failure; what do you destroy? 4-5: Marginal success; what do you destroy? 6: Critical success; what do you destroy?

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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