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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 20h

There's a surprise visitor under the stairs too!

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

10p cult fighting the good fight 💀🤘🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵🤘💀

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Feel this one deep in the marrow 😅

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of course! I'm sure Clash's site has it. I just know bookshop(dot)org tends to reach a lot of folks too!

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of my favorite people on the planet has a book coming out in about two weeks. Tatratea by @alexwoodroe.com is a hallucinatory & cerebral exploration on isolation, & y'all shouldn't sleep on it. Romanian eco-horror. The good shit. 10/20/26 @clashbooks.bsky.social bookshop.org/beta-search?...

bookshop.org

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"One of my favorite books of the year" is one of those quotes that feeds me. Thanks, dude! @greasygoat.bsky.social Looking forward to hanging at Void4 💀💜🤘

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Getting some quality MtG time in with a buddy. Just playing some standard Jumpstart decks. Been a minute since I've played standard.

A table with magic decks and mats. One is the screaming cat meme and the other is a Giant Senor Cactuar mat.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I highly recommend it. Added some reading time in there. Just a little extra spice for an already good day.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Got a little writing done and then checked out a zine fair. Thinking it's about nap time. Have I unlocked the secret to a good Sunday?

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Came here to say The Coffee Table as well.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Once we could drive, we'd close out the Village Inn after consuming our weight in coffee and pancakes. Hit the Hastings and blow our money on CDs...and yet we'd still find time to throw walnuts or AOL discs at houses 💀

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's homecoming at work (school) and I've had students ask if I went to homecoming and I'm not sure how to tell them that instead of going to dances, my buddies and I would make disgusting amounts of nuggets, play the STUNT track on RUSH 2 for hours and then throw walnuts at houses at 3am.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

While you wait for season two of #Cyberpunk #Edgerunners, maybe fill that neural static with a copy of MIDWESTERN CHROME. @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. 💀Mysterious android heads in bags 🦾Tech-enhanced hit men + augment addicted prizefighters 💜Dreamers. Lovers. Sociopathic big tech

"Midwestern Chrome" glitches in overlapping purple and yellow font. A neon soaked street, bathed in blue and purple hues. In the foreground, a man with sunglasses perched on his head holds a decapitated head, a bag at his side. The head stares with electric blue eyes. A passerby in a dark trench coat gazes over his shoulder. Art by AriBo.

Plus kind blurbs from Michael Moreci and Sean Doolittle and a QR code that goes to Tenebrous Press website.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My stories often steep for months or years before I write them. I had a name written on a Post-It for over two years. Eventually, it became apparent who it belonged to. Enter Harlan Brandt, the protagonist of Our Bird Trills Mechanical. Find it in Midwestern Chrome @tenebrouspress.bsky.social 🦾💀🚬

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Michael Boulerice @michaelboulerice.com · 19/09/2026

Baby's First Local Horror Event: I've been invited to sign copies of INHALATION and FEEDING THE WHEEL over at Throwback Brewery in North Hampton, NH on October 8th at 6:00 pm. Tickets are free. Come buy some books and drink eleven pints with me. Party www.eventbrite.com/e/masters-of...

A promo graphic that reads: Reedmor Books & Brews and Throwback Brewery present: MASTERS OF MACABRE, a celebration of New England BOOOks and BOOOze. Thursday, October 8th at 6pm at Throwback Brewery

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Didn't know it existed during Void1, went to Void2, missed last year, but I'm gonna be there this year for Void4. Something about even numbered years, I guess... Been working on a DIY project to debut at @voidcon.bsky.social this year as well! 🤘💜💀

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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Full cover reveal for Cozy in the Apocalypse. Available October 6th! angrygablepress.com/2026/09/29/c...

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Cozy in the Apocalypse: Full Cover Reveal

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These people have no concept of the creative process or how to interact with art. (To oversimplify) Art is personalized by the creator. We react to it. You want personalized art - learn to fucking make something on your own. Fucks sake these people are sad.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unchecked wealth does some mighty heinous shit and irreparable damage. Hopefully it isn't as irreparable as I think.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Group texts though? Man, they are a nightmare to me.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The way I try to frame why AI is shit (other than some obvious ones), but specifically in a creative context - it steals YOUR voice/vision. Creatively, your voice, experience, vision, is all we have. So I always ask people who use it if it's worth losing that. Anyway, AI is ass.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's (almost) time: On October 1, BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 5 submissions open! 📣BNW is a reprint-only antho, of pieces published—indie & self—in the previous calendar year. Full instructions to come 10/1📣 Wanna get in the Weird mood early? Vol. 4 is 33% off now in our webstore🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/46pvw69b

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BRAVE NEW WEIRD Volume Four (print + eBook)

Twenty-three creators converge to deliver the Bravest, Newest, and Weirdest fiction of 2025! You are the nexus of evolution. You have reached the ideal. A grateful humanity gazes upon you in admiratio...

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In my line of work it's for accountability 😅

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Recently made a move over to Instagram. If you're over there and wanna follow, I'm at the same handled @ beardedbetts. I'm old and don't have it on my phone or else I'd never get anything done, but I will post there. Find me. Send me silly stuff. I'll still be here though 🤘💜💀

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Both are good choices. Ranch was what I had the most growing up.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My friend - your poor teeth 😅 But also, which flavor? Used to munch on these all the time growing up.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's excellent - congratulations! 🔥

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not that I know every band on the planet, but between my interests and my friends, I'd have thought I'd have at least heard about them.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I didn't know about em either! First learned of them about 6 months before I saw them only to learn they've been around nearly 30 years! So baffling I'd never even heard the name before.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's so good! Had the chance to see them over the summer and holy shit - if you ever get the chance, don't pass it up!

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remember you don't need permission to create something.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi! I wanted to mention The Barre Incidents could really use some online ratings/reviews if you’ve read it and have an account you post reviews on. Every little bit helps, I think!

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Two years ago today, TRVE CVLT crawled from the abyss. Thank you to everyone who helped make this thing so special, from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social @echoechoillu.bsky.social to all the readers, reviewers, cvlt fans, & artistic collabs @rynstonecowboy.bsky.social Valkyrie Loughcrewe. 💀💜🤘

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I can't wait to have a great bad time.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tempting me with too good of a time. It's gotta have the right snap tho.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's nothing quite like the first meal after a dental appointment and I fucking wasted it on oatmeal. What a fool I am. Should sunk these bad boys into a breakfast burrito.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You're welcome! Well, metaphorically killer. Gentle...gentle...I'm thinking a classic ham n Swiss on gently toasted rye. A smear of spicy brown mustard or perhaps a smidge of horseradish for kick. Light bed of arugula. But it's not my birthday, so I'd say dealer's choice is best.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy birthday, cowboy. Hope you get yourself a killer sandwich @danielelkin.bsky.social

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Damn, it sure is tough to be creative some days.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Honestly, I thought I was already a bit insufferable 😆 💀💜🤘 @greasygoat.bsky.social But for real, hearing folks are liking Midwestern Chrome means the world. I loved writing this thing. Johnny Mnemonic meets Fargo meets In Bruges with some Alexander Payne in there. Only @tenebrouspress.bsky.social

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