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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 25/09/2025

24) We don't know if Lovecraft really entertained some Vieux Carré sex workers with witty banter when he went to New Orleans. But I'd like to think so.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 25/09/2025

Need to get out of my headspace for a moment. So let's play a game! 1 like = 1 thing we DON'T know about H. P. Lovecraft

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Mr Jim Moon @hypnogoria.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

A drop of dream fuel - The Shunned House by Virgil Finlay

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Sleeping Village Reviews @sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 13h

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 15h

The Old Dark House (1932) directed by James Whale featuring an ensemble cast that includes Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Raymond Massey and Eva Moore.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h

What Do Authoritarians Do When They Are About to Lose an Election? Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? A reflection on the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation. My new piece:

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What Do Authoritarians Do When They Are About to Lose an Election?

Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? A reflection on the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1888, a graffito was found on a hallway wall in Pompeii. Called CIL 4.5296, this is a love poem, one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts in the city. A poem written by a woman, and addressed to another woman ("pupula", my little doll or darling)

Graffito CIL 4.5296
Regio IX. Pompeii. interpretation of Mau, Augustus; Zangmeister, Karl Friedrich, eds. (1909)

“O utinam liceat collo complexa tenere
braciola et teneris oscula ferre label(l)is
i nunc, ventis tua gaudia, pupula, crede
crede mihi levis est natura virorum
saepe ego cu(m) media vigilare(m) perdita nocte
haec mecum medita(n)s: multos Fortuna quos supstulit alte,
hos modo proiectos subito praecipitesque premit.
sic Venus ut subito coiunxit corpora amantum
dividit lux et se...”

“Oh, if only I could hold your little arms wrapped around my neck
and press kisses to your tender little lips.
Go then, little doll, trust your happiness to the winds.
Believe me, the nature of men is fickle.
Often I would lie awake, lost in the middle of the night,
Thinking to myself: many whom Fortune has lifted up high,
those, suddenly hurled away/abandoned and falling headlong, she then oppresses.
So too, after Venus has unexpectedly joined the bodies of lovers,
daylight divides them and...”

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horrorposterguy1.bsky.social @horrorposterguy1.bsky.social · 15h

Fantastic genre debut from Jack Arnold based on a Ray Bradbury story, an eerily haunting close encounter of the classic kind. 1953. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #classicscifi #scifi #film

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can’t defenestrate when snow attenuates!

A picture of a man falling upside down into snow. The caption “In Kamchatka, Russia, it snowed so much that dudes are jumping out of buildings without injuring themselves.” There’s a quote post saying that this is going to be a huge inconvenience for russian security services

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 15h

The Museum, that was already cleaning the cabinet out of a layer of agin varnish added in the 20th century, decided to remove the paint decor of the inner lid, revealing its original Barniz de Pasto decor: an image of Death, and a series of letters and drawings. A rebus puzzle.

Restored lid of the cabinet, with a Barniz de Pasto image of Death and a rebus puzzle.
Victoria and Albert Museum.

Current state of the cabinet, after its restoration, displaying the original inner lid decor.
Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 15h

Let's talk about a spooky mystery! The V&A museum has this gorgeous 17th century Colombian cabinet, decorated with Barniz de Pasto, using Mopa Mopa. In 2015, the museum X-rayed the cabinet, revealing that there was a secret underneath the inside of the lid, a skeleton that was covered by paint! 💀🔽

Cabinet. South American cedar (Meliaceae Cedrela ordorata) with barniz de Pasto decoration, with iron mounts. Vice-royalty of Peru (Colombia). Made around (1640-1660)
Victoria and Albert Museum

Photo of the opened cabinet, pre-restoration. You can see the painted decoration of the inner lid.
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Inner lid of the cabinet, pre restoration. Unlike the rest of the cabinet, which was decorated with a technique known as Barniz de Pasto, done with a rare plant resin called mopa mopa, this surface was decorated with paint, hiding something underneath.
Victoria and Albert Museum

X-radiography image of the lid, showing an image hidden underneath the paint. An image of an skeleton holding a scythe and a bow and arrows, Death.
Victoria and Albert Museum.

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slugabud 🦠🧣☕ @audaxdreik.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

conversation oubliette introverts can sit in the dark shadows and listen to the distant murmur of conversation. host occasionally lowers cheese trays and deviled eggs for them to nibble on

crude paint illustration of my conversation oubliette idea. a photo of a classic 70's conversation pit with a hand drawn grate leading down to an oubliette in the middle

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

I guess it’s just a coincidence that Elon Musk comes out of the woodwork before every major election and gets handed a government position with major consequences for the American people. 🤔

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The car chase from The Seven-Ups (1973) is a absolute belter www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vAC...

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The Seven-Ups Car Chase (1973)

YouTube video by AmanamanIII

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23h

A great many white readers in 1967 were not ready to accept a brown-skinned hero. But they weren’t expecting one. I didn’t make an issue of it, and you have to be well into the book before you realize that Ged, like most of the characters, isn’t white.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 23h

You have to get it through your head that these things, non-conscious though they are, are essentially automatons *made* of language and notions of language, and as such they can have cultural and political qualities without being conscious, because those things are inherently present in language.

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 23h

Terrifying tale for y'all: Action Park & their unique philosophy of ride design. "The Bailey Ball was…developed & tested, but never opened…as a result of those tests. It consisted of a large steel sphere in which a rider could be secured & then rolled downward." I mean, what could go wrong? But,

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Action Park - Wikipedia

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June Hunter Images @junehunterimages.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

We went hiking in the snow yesterday, hoping (always) to find ravens. It was only back in the fog-filled parking lot that these two landed beside me. I know this couple, having recorded their special duet before. #ravens #birds 🪶

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 04/10/2026

We finished the mushroom fairy hat, and it turned out so good!!!

Front view of the mushroom hat with white felt dots on red velvet with ribbon trim

Under side view showing the blousy chiffon mushroom "gills"

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Briefly breaking the no AI repost rule bc these two fake movies (text descriptions only!) are hilarious. Formulaic in deranged mad-libs ways. Very, um character-based storytelling.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the thing about impeaching Vought is that it will ruin his life. pull his kids and wife in for sixteen hour depositions. refer them all for perjury. scream in his face. when you're done, if it didn't work, do it again.

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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are numerous elevators

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026

Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Philip K Dick ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: Signet Paperback First Edition Cover Art, 1969 #PhilipKDick

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jessica Harper in SUSPIRIA (1977) She was BOTD in 1949

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

RETVRN to when this was a movie studio’s idea of an expensive folly

Bernadette Peters. Jessica Harper and Steve Martin in Pennies From Heaven singing a tune

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 04/10/2026

depends on which side of a timezone you live in

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In KSR's Mars trilogy, the first residents resolve Mars' longer day by keeping Earth time units but adding a 'timeslip' of 39 minutes or so at midnight—the clocks strike Zero, cake is served, & 12:01am is delayed. Excellent for parties. If we do that here, days will ambulate around the clock. Cool?

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 04/10/2026

I want noon when the sun is at its zenith every day and we figure everything else out with computers or whatever. Why else do we have computers!

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Ian rudderbutt @reasonablemustelid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rico Charges @NoChorus

Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up.

Rico Charges @NoChorus • Sep 29, 2021

My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very happy to hear that the Maryland Dinosaur Park's discovery trail is now open! Congratulations to everyone there for *finally* making this happen. The sculptures by Tristan Crum look phenomenal—can't wait to see them in person in a couple weeks. Photos borrowed from JP Hodnett. #FossilFriday

Minimalist outdoor metal sculpture of a juvenile sauropod skeleton

Minimalist outdoor metal sculpture of a giant ankylosaur skeleton

Minimalist outdoor metal sculpture of a crocodile skeleton

Man stands under a metal nodosaur skeleton with a face mask and portable welder

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This line by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com might be the best short description of "originalism" I've read yet.

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Spooky Sara (Endless Halloween🔪🩸🪦) @pashion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good Morning

Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American horror film as well as the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film Frankenstein. The color photo is of Elsa Lanchester an actor and she is applying her own makeup or at the very least finishing her makeup her hair is very tall with a shock of white up the middle and she is wearing a white gown of sorts Happy Halloween, horror, scary movies

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

found a fundraiser for these local hippies who want to build a gigantic like human-scale beehive to honor menopause. that's the type of shit rural oregon is up to lately

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The first poster featuring the Michelin Man, aka Bibendum, designed by O'Galop in 1898. The slogan "Nunc est bibendum" means "Now is the time to drink." Bibendum toasts with a goblet of nails and broken glass while rival tires slump beside him, because the Michelin tire "drinks up the obstacle."

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was a wee child but the Salt Vampire story had me captivated because of the unrequited love and what the characters would do for that love or simply the memory of it

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Piper Paige @pipermintz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mouse girl sits in chaise and explains in a very blaise manner “ Yeah so basically I'm like a 100% binary trans girl but me and my gf have sex where we pretend to be boys but it's like we're
closeted gay boys so we have to take turns being girls cuz I mean,/ it's not gay if one of the
boys is pretending to be a girl, y'know? So we're like trans girls pretending to be boys pretending to be girls but the whole thing is just like, processing trauma or w/e. Also we're
sisters and brothers and i'm her daughter”

Freud frowns

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Grim "deaccessioning specimens collected from federal lands w/o proper permission…let alone selling them [is] illegal…every specimen…in the museum’s ‘permanent collections’…carefully vetted…scientifically significant [& judged] worth saving for Kansans/the global scientific community in perpetuity"

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Guy on lichess had a Netanyahu themed username so I checkmated them with a pawn

A chess position - the long and short of it is that black has castled and is up a lot of material, whereas white's king is exposed in the middle of the board with nothing. Black also has mate in one after black moved king to f4.

More detailed: White has a king on f4 (lmao), a queen on a4 a rook on a1, a bishop on c1, a knight on d2, and pawns on a2, b3, c4, e4, f3, and h2. Black has a king on g8, a queen on g1, rooks on a8 and f8, bishops on d7 and e7, knights on c6 and f6, pawns on a7, b7, c7, d6, f7, g7, and h7.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is something Mamdani can do that no female politician could ever do: give right wing dudes “permission” to surrender to a more dominant dude who happens to be more left/progressive

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is huge! Another cancer responds well to immunotherapy. A child had metastatic liver cancer. The patient had chemotherapy & a liver resection. No avail. Then: Two infusions, eight weeks apart. Doctors saw complete regression. No systemic toxicity. 🧪 www.bcm.edu/news/care-st...

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CARE study reports complete regression of liver cancer in a child treated with novel immunotherapy

A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Seattle Children’s...

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026

Also plugging this rather handy diagram that shows just how huge and messy this whole thing is bsky.app/profile/wowb...

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026

I think one of the biggest hurdles to Healthy Discourse re: AI is that the real groundbreaking uses (mostly in scientific and medical research) are largely invisible outside of specialist circles, and the most infuriating/scammiest ones (customer service chatbots, etc) are super visible to EVERYONE.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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