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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 09/10/2026

In honor of Guillermo del Toro's birthday, here is a picture of him circa age 9, "pretending to suck blood out of his sister, Susana."

An old photograph of Guillermo del Toro, age nine, perched atop his sister, Susana like a vampire. He's wearing what appears to be one of those "ugly kits" that you could order from the back of comic books - staring eyes and vampire fangs.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some recent dreams: - Shelby and I on a fun date with Hannah Einbinder (slapstick ensued, ended well!) - Shelby and I on vacation (???) in Iran (stressful!) - Cliff Sargent (a sometimes cool/often mildly douchey BookTuber) showing up at my Halloween party and getting farcically drunk (mostly funny!)

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What. The. Fuck. The State shouldn't be executing people anyway, but to gleefully broadcast it to the masses is truly, unambiguously dystopian. The entire Trump regime is a gaggle of bloodthirsty psychopaths.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

fellow authors/artists, stay the hell away from Must Read Magazines (Asimov's, Analog, F&SF)

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Support queer poetry, the weirder and creepier the better.

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just noticed a minor but annoying factual error in a story I've had out on submission for the past few weeks. Inconsequential to the meat of the tale, but frustrating as hell once spotted. I'll fix it before subbing anywhere else, but I hope it doesn't hurt my chances with the place it's at now. :/

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

By Herbert Block, 1949. This could run today.

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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

RELEASE DAY! YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, featuring New Weird Cosmic Horror from 30+ trans & gender nonconforming creators, is OUT NOW WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD. Direct from us: store.tenebrouspress.com Prcoeeds benefit the Trans Doe Task Force & Trans Legal Services Network. Hail the Weird🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️

Cover art by Mx Morgan G Robles, a swan alights on a cosmic sea, flanked by the colors of the trans flag.

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It can't happen soon enough. Maybe it will happen today.

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You know what? It's fine. It's not even a discrepancy because I hadn't written the part that would've made it so, just made notes about it so it felt like I had. But I can do ANYTHING here. I'm the GOD of this little world of small-time Midwest rock bands and washed-up pot farmers with PTSD. Hah!

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Discovered a timeline discrepancy in my WIP tonight, so I just spent most of a 2-hour writing sesh stewing about that. My wife says to ignore it for now and just fix it later. Trying to do that, but man...this needs fixing.

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Getting my COVID and flu vaccines today, just in time for the plague!

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do NOT cut that tree down, Hexxus is in there

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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I consider this the most important topic any of us can discuss right now. Please read. If you agree, share it. If you agree it needs to reach more people, repost it. psychopete1.substack.com/p/election-d...

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There Will Be No Peaceful Transfer of Power

Help me scream it to the world

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This. In a world experiencing a literacy crisis and rising censorship, I get and generally agree with the sentiment that "any reading is good reading," but at the same time it feels like ceded ground to the flattening of all reading into just another mode of consumption. And I kinda hate that.

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the best shots in one of the best movies ever made.

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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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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm buzzing with caffeine and the urge to write, but I'm stuck reading poultry papers for the next few hours and then I've gotta help my dad and stepmom unpack from their recent move. The outlaw bikers crashing a little dive-bar rock concert in my WIP continue to rev their engines in my brain.

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Adding 400 words to the novel after a multi-day writing drought ain't a bad way to end a Thursday evening. Even had another minor epiphany about the story.

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have the plushy, too! It's been sitting on the shelf in my home office. I figure when he's a little older and his mom won't get too mad at me for it, I'll give it to him. Lately he's been talking about Bridge Worm. "Its face isn't a real face! Its real face is all bloody!" I try not to grin.

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is why my nephew is now obsessed with Siren Head (which, while we stan all things @slimyswampghost.bsky.social in my house, is a little intense for his 6yo brain). He's not even allowed on YT, but I guess accesses it thru MineCraft somehow? Didn't even know that was possible.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 01/10/2026

Happy 1st of Halloween, y'all!

You are about to go on a journey into TERROR! Hope you have a strong heart!

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aw, man. "In League with Satan" is a Halloween staple. Hope he's partying it up, sticking a pitchfork in Lindsey Graham. 🤘

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".

A Curse Against Stealers Of Books
For him that
stealth a book from
this place, let it
change into a
serpent in his hand
and rend him.
Let him be struck with
palsy,
& all his members
blasted.
Let him languish in
pain crying aloud for
mercy, & let there be be no surcease to his
agony till he sink to
dissolution.
Let bookworms gnaw
his entrails in token of
the Worm that diets not,
& when at last he
goeth to his final
punishment, let the
flames of
hell consume him
forever & aye.
(Monastery Of San Pedro, Barcelona.)

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In addition to @michaelwehunt.bsky.social's NIGHTJARS, I intend to spend a good chunk of October revisiting the short stories of Charles Beaumont. Scares worth savoring, in both cases.

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I made the grave mistake of donating my paperback copy of J. G. Ballard's CRASH during a fit of decluttering/purging last year, and I've only recently realized how much I need that book back on my shelf. Alas, I've reached my buying limit for the year. So, 2027 will begin with...well, a crash.

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seconding. Finally got around to this one earlier this year. Gemma is among the very best of us.

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm David Busboom, I write weird monster/cosmic horror with (I hope) a literary bent. My favorite music to listen to (especially when writing) is hard rock/heavy metal from the late '60s thru about the mid '90s. I like a lot of prog, folk, and psychedelia, too. #HorrorWritersChat

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David, Robot-Monster Fighter in Thrilling 3D @davidbusboom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, I haven't ever relied on an algorithm to determine my taste. Fuck that. Fuck Spotify. Fuck Claude. You want to broaden your musical horizons? Read a music magazine, go to a record store, talk to a human being whose taste may (or, here's a shock, may not!) align with yours. JFC, it's simple.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153

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