iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 2h

👀 Interesting call this 👇

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 1h

And here's the Filthy Loot section of my vanity shelves:

Bodypunk, New Meat In A Clean Room, Like You Never Had Wings, Isolation Is Safety, and Soft Ceremonies.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 1h

What a sweet deal! Do you know how many great stories that is? No, neither do I.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 2h

Tired: knives in black leather gloves & spurting blood Wired: strangled by fuzzy blankets and drowned in lukewarm chicken soup

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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 5h

Cover reveal! Our October issue looms upon the very near future with fantastic art from Katie Beardmore! zurl.co/CZz1I

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 4h

All too brief. Watching 12-36 hours of Herzog and Shannon shooting the shit would heal me so deeply.

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 7h

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Guy who has the skin complexion of a dead pig soaking in a kiddie pool of KY jelly: I'm da king of da capitalism

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Every morning they tell their stylist "wet my dries the way I like it" and the stylist sighs before slathering them up with hagfish mucus "Just like Steve jobs and his turtlenecks," each of these Nazi freaks burbles himself as he gets lubed up for the long day of sexually harassing his employees.

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Dan Cerinthedark @etbeeegood.bsky.social · 21h

*death metal guy flipping thru medical journal for song names ooh, Eyestalk Ablation perfect

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why are some booksellers allergic to the term "horror?" Let's talk about it...tomorrow on my newsletter! #horror #booksky #writing cjsubko.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Subscribe | Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind

Newsletter for author C.J. Subko about writing, books, psychology, and more

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 29/09/2026

hey all!!! this Wednesday, which is tomorrow, i'll be at @storyhour.bsky.social with @megelison.bsky.social !!!! holy carps!!! you know you wanna attend this one. free author readings online, to refill the creative well! 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern youtube.com/@storyhour2020

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Story Hour

Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

when a two star review truly understands your soul better than most five stars. make it the blurb. THE MARIGOLD.

No. Noooo no no, did not like. Characters meh. Didn't care what happened to them. Glacial overwrought pace. Prosey AF. Felt like I was wearing a grey sludge patina over my soul for days while reading. Nearly DNF. Need several dozen hot showers and a good fantasy novel to shake the feeling of being sunk neck deep in neverending dull Scottish muggy moors for a week under a doomsday sky, alone. Not even birds. If soggy ancient grain bread were a novel.

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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know when you open a door and there's the door you already opened, closed in front of you, and you think to yourself, Ha, I guess I must've not opened the door, and then someone opens you instead? That feeling?

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 29/09/2026

This is correct. My quote skeet of this just got you pregnant.

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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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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Much of the idea for my new book came from two things: my sort-of obsession w/ board games & rpgs AND this poem by D.H. Lawrence. Below is a fantastic reading of it. youtu.be/l7kxagMFr5Q?...

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"The Ship of Death" by D.H. Lawrence (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

YouTube video by SpokenVerse

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

divorce is dinosaurs. ive always said this

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 29/09/2026

I would not marry a tuna

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m reading VELO/CITIES STORIES by @kkoja.bsky.social and holy shit if you haven’t read it fix your life and make it up to our good dark Lord asap. I’m sure it’s not too late already. Your name has definitely not been carved deep into the hide of a great heaving luminescent beast. That’s silly.

The cover for Velo/cities by kathe koja

A person looks up with an attitude of insouciant appraisal head titled up to bare its throat. It is beginning to come apart like ink dropped into water

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 28/09/2026

Highly recommend this collection!

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 28/09/2026

I don't really do favorites, and was mistaken about the year as this is from 2000; but it's a grimy, passionate, cruel film with an incredible ensemble cast. It meant a lot to me during that (personally horrible) time and in retrospect may have been my first visit to Carcosa. Very underappreciated!

Movie poster for The King Is Alive. Draped and hooded figures in a sun-scorched landscape seen only from behind or in ssilhouette. You may be asking yourself: Is this Carcosa?

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A blurb from my good friend @horrorsong.blog for my forthcoming collection, Noctivagants!

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 27/09/2026

I did not realize we were allowed to sign books like this.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 27/09/2026

Reading the great Robert Kloss's The Alligators of Abraham. Anyone in the US, I recommend you don't look at even one spoiler and let the realization of what you're reading punch you in the gut organically as it's revealed in the text. For those who want their truth brutal and void of romance.

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was a fascinating issue to put together. Waste is so ever-present in capitalist society that we rarely stop to think about what it actually is, or what it could be instead.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 27/09/2026

Encouraging anyone interested in ambiguous erotic difficult queer fiction with lots of giallo guts to request & review. Think of it as unsolved mysteries with butt sex. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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Dead Boys Don’t Cry

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 14/01/2026

Columbo arresting AI for murder

Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) meets Robby the Robot in the episode Mind Over Mayhem which aired on February 10, 1974

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 26/09/2026

There are fireflies born without mouths because they don't live long enough to eat, only to mate and die.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 26/09/2026

You ever break out into an actual cold sweat because you see a man that's so hot? I've gotta change my shirt. This is crazy.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My weird girl lit novel got a STARRED REVIEW in Publishers Weekly! 🤩 "Using aliens to explore alienation, SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT brilliantly turns abduction narratives on their heads. Piper continues to outdo herself.“ out October 27 from Saga! 🛸 www.publishersweekly.com/9781668077122

She Isn’t Herself Tonight
Hailey Piper. Saga, $18 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-6680-7712-2
The latest foray into supernatural horror from Bram Stoker award winner Piper (A Game in Yellow) offers an enthralling twist on the classic alien abduction plot. At age 30, Rabbit (a reclaimed childhood nickname) is eagerly awaiting the return of the aliens, or “Guests,” as she refers to them, that first came for her at age 10 and then again at age 20. She has never felt truly understood, not by her mother, who paraded her around local churches as a child to tell the story of her first abduction—substituting the aliens for angels—nor her recent ex-boyfriend, Leo, who accused her of being “too much work.” As she reels from the breakup, she takes comfort in knowing that the “Guests,” the only ones who have ever made her feel safe and cared for, will be returning soon. Piper mines a lot of tension from Rabbit’s yearning for her abductors, making readers just as anxious for their arrival as Rabbit herself, even as, in the meantime, Rabbit’s body undergoes a mysterious, possibly extraterrestrial transformation. Using aliens to explore alienation, this brilliantly turns abduction narratives on their heads. Piper continues to outdo herself. Agent: Lane Heymont, Tobias Literary. (Oct.)

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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you shouldn't take an iced coffee to a job interview because you shouldn't be trying to get a job. you should be digging an enormous pit or a complex system of tunnels

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muad'dweeb🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @webway.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Yes, they're all girls now."

Screenshot of an article header from Warhammer Community, showing new Custodes miniatures and the title "New Custodes: What you need to know"

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 26/09/2026

we noticed you from beneath the bar. though we have never known sunlight, our awareness stretches to many things in your world. a cloud just starting to release its rain. government agents dragging bodies to the corner. your thong peeking out the back of your jeans

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 26/09/2026

Pleased and downright fascinated to read a review of my short story "Take Him" in Brief Ecology. The story was recently an editor's pick on @gavagai.com & I'll confess it was very difficult to place & rejected many times, which makes the interest and attention of the reviewer especially lovely.

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Maddy B. Hare @mbhare.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

the lion does not concern herself with social media (is a large cat, has no hands)

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 26/09/2026

This is where I post from

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 26/09/2026

You may be eligible to file a claim

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Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyway, everyone was trans and naked and it was heaven.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a new micro about DYING in the latest @identitytheory.bsky.social. Thanks to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for selecting this, and to you for reading it! It's very short.

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I Died - Identity Theory

I emerge from the forest to discover I died.

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 24/09/2026

what if it was called TransSpotting and Ewan McGregor was a handsome young transsexual man having a light period...

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 24/09/2026

Going to miss all my bisexual friends when they fade into the aether tomorrow at dawn

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