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They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.

Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

With Primetime set to blow up it would be an awesome time for a lucky and smart publisher to snatch up my vampire novel that is To Catch a Predator x Interview with the Vampire

Scene from Byzantium. Vampire murdering man, but sexy. Banner reads To Catch a Predator

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today was the best day. The world is coming apart but damn if a capybara on your lap chirping away doesn’t shut all that bad stuff up for a moment. These guys are supernaturally chill and invite the chill in anyone subject to their field of serotonin. Magical.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anduril, Which Was “Incubated” at Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, “Joins List Of Key Army Suppliers, Wins $20 Billion Contract” - March 2026 … 1/

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Anduril Joins List Of Key Army Suppliers, Wins $20 Billion Contract

Drone-maker Anduril lands $20 billion Army contract. Huntington tapped for aircraft carrier decommissioning. RTX lands $2 billion award.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A good rule of thumb is that anyone who goes to bat for crypto is either criminally stupid or criminally malicious… or both

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026

The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.

A line chart showing temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean, compared to a 30-year rolling base period since 1982.

A gold line shows temperatures in 1997, a teal line in 2025, and a red line in 2026. The red line surpasses all others reaching 3.07ºC, and at an earlier point (September) than the previous El Niño that reached a comparable range in November 2015.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

She deserves that dog: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

UnitedHealthcare, which just posted profits of $5.5B for the 2nd quarter, takes your tax dollars under the pretense of providing coverage to Medicare patients. That’s up from $3.4B last yr bc they intentionally decreased the amount of medical care they will cover. That’s their entire business model

"The second quarter 2026 medical care ratio was 86.7% compared to 89.4% in the second quarter 2025," the company said of the ratio, which is the percentage of premium revenue that goes toward medical costs. "The year-over-year decrease was driven by benefit design and pricing discipline, member mix and medical cost management initiatives.”

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My sincerest hope is that if ppl buy THE SHIP OF DEATH that they will mosey on over to THE NOTHING THAT IS or TONE-BONE and taste how crazy the sauce can go. Fingers crossed.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/09/2026

The current situation in Saudi Arabia is pretty dire. The Houthis successfully targeted the east-west pipeline that supplied up to 7m barrels of oil/day to avoid the strait of Hormuz. The Houthis are rapidlt advancing on the Bab Al-Mandab strait and could block shipping traffic there soon.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 11/09/2026

Today is the last day to get 25% off of all B&N preorders. While you're picking out new books, please consider adding my forthcoming and perhaps my best, Dead Boys Don't Cry. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-boys-...

Dead Boys Don't Cry by Joe Koch-gold and sepia image of a blurred figure whose gesture's meaning is uncertain.

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A rogue ai is not going to wipe out humanity. That’s just industry propaganda and honestly more of an accountability sink than anything. Normal ai will, however, facilitate fascism and accelerate climate collapse which will kill a lot of us.

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Life in 2026 is watching secret police disappear people off the street one day, a coastline falling into the ocean the next, and wondering if each new cataclysm will be the one that causes the whole collective to turn its head and take notice and each time a little less surprised when it doesn’t.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “The European External Action Service of the EC has said there were indeed Russian and Israeli networks that spread these hoaxes and attacked the Spanish government and European governments on a very corrosive topic like the fight against irregular migration. 1/

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

With all the ongoing revelations of hwa tomfoolery i think what would really help right now is a ten minute video asking for everyone to be patient

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Finished revision of novel three and ready to sub. Looks like it’s a true detective s1 and cocktail Sunday.

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 19/08/2026

I thought Joe was making a very dark joke, but nope, this is just Reality now, I guess? (I'm not in the HWA, but JFC it's partly because almost everything I've seen about it could be its own horror story) It's like they're actively trying to drive authors away

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 18/08/2026

Would you believe 3 of my books are available to purchase and that buying or reviewing them helps me write more? Links here, plus a few you can't buy anymore to make you suffer envy. horrorsong.blog/books/

Sutter Cane fan asking Sam Neill, "Do you read Joe Koch?" Sam at Weirdpunk Books made this.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I really hope we aren’t going to have a super creepy person as the HWA president. I really, truly hope that’s not what we’re getting.

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🪼Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 18/08/2026

Patrick Barb is running unopposed and there has been no response to the statement from Theo. HWA members and staff: demand better. To my friend Theo: thank you for coming forward. To Patrick: power is a thing to not be toyed with. You should know better.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’d reiterate that the key incident that drove the Cancel Culture panic - a wholly elite project, imposed from the top down - was the sight of Harvey Weinstein being dragged sobbing from court to jail, unprotected by his wealth, and the internet-based movement for justice that went with it.

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Here is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong? | Nesrine Malik

A movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Xochilt Avila @xavilawrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm very upset and disappointed to learn that Patrick Barb is not *just* running for HWA president, but he's running unopposed. The *only* professional horror writer's organization needs to be led by someone who understands and respects the power they hold.

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I want to boost Theo's accusation again because the Horror Writer's Association doesn't seem to have acknowledged it at all. Given that this is about a presidential nominee I would expect there to at least be consideration of the statement.

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you’re a member of the horror writing community, please take a moment to read this

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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

K.C. a main character in my vampire novel, clearing her head after spending hours in chat rooms laying bait for incels. Honestly, how can you not want to read this?

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Remember folks, this was ALWAYS about polluters and the threat posed to them by climate action: #ScienceUnderSiege

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is probably the one that will get me some death threats. But in the year of our lord 2026, if your writing isn’t making some swath of insect want to unalive you then what are you even doing?

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

John Berger isolated why conservatism relies so heavily on advertising images in the 80s

Text reading: Publicity is, in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future. It cannot supply the standards of its own claims. And so all its references to quality are bound to be retrospective and traditional. It would lack both confidence and credibility if it used a strictly contemporary language.

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My vampire novel is on sub. This pretty much encapsulates the gist of it. “Yeah. I mean, the prose is fire but i don’t know what you’re implying by sending me a book about vampires murdering incels.” -Bram Stoker, author of Lair of the White Worm

Scene of woman vampire feeding on a man in a chair. Taken from the film Byzantium. Text banner above reads To catch a predator

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Reposting for the people who don’t keep 🧛 hours

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

When the guy who got famous for playing a vampire is starring in a movie about a guy who was an influence on your vampire novel that dares to ask, what if a vampire fed entirely on incels?

Pattinson as Chris Hansen in Primetime. In suit with hands wide. Caption says “you realize how this looks, right ?”

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

youtu.be/WY5btzk0w9w?... As someone whose vampire novel on sub is interview with the vampire x to catch a predator, the timing of this movie is very auspicious to me.

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Primetime | Official Trailer (Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, 2026)

YouTube video by Entertainment Tonight

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It’s interesting that this whole hwa embarrassment happened to occur right before the hwa election. I just like the idea of a conspiracy with the most embarrassingly low stakes imaginable so let me cook

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The tescreal umbrella of philosophies is interesting because among the sociopathic class, there are people who legitimately believe these things and people who find them useful for rationalizing their behavior and it’s virtually impossible to tell the two groups apart (and probably not worth trying)

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The narrativising of this is kind of maddening. OpenAI's model didn't "break free and hack HuggingFace." Meta's model didn't "break free and hack another company." Tech companies are blatantly doing illegal acts and saying their AI did it on it's own as a promotional stunt. That's it.

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

HWA- “we had no idea what this person represented whose editorial/advertisement we sent to all our members in today’s newsletter. Please admire our vigilance as we throw her under the bus. You see, we here at the HWA run a very tight ship.”

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Couldn't write and couldn't teach so she built an app

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” wasn’t meant to be a warm blanket to wrap themselves in that these grifters always treat it as.

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I wonder sometimes what it must feel like to be deeply embedded in the HWA. Because from the outside, it generally appears as though the real mission statement of the organization is about sheltering mediocrity, and I’d assume at times an awareness of that must insist itself, however unbidden.

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What a deeply embarrassing organization

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 04/08/2026

In case you missed it, here's the PW announcement! We're already finalizing the ARC & cover. I am excited. I am ready to make you suffer.

PM deal: Joe Koch's "Dead Boys Don't Cry" a cosmic-erotic slasher and queer anti-murder mystery told through interlocking stories pitches as "Cruising" meets Robbe-Grillet's "The Erasers" to Clash Books for publication June 2027.

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I think more novels should have Greek tragedy type choirs telling the mc how badly they’re fucking things up so I’m going to be the change I want to see in the world. Anyway, this edit is going swimmingly, thanks for asking.

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The first 10 minutes of the latest episode of the burning man doc lays bare what a meaningless exercise in self indulgence it is. Arresting climate protesters while billionaires make snacks for people for 7 days so they can spend the rest of the year ignoring the horrors that sustain their wealth

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

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