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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1h

Finished a reread of THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING and it is an underrated choice for the spooky season! From the Black Riders, Barrow Wights and then the whole of the trek through Moria whether it's the Watcher or the Balrog, this is a book filled with terrifying encounters from monsters to ghosts!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1h

I would be EXTREMELY annoyed to discover my PR is "AI"-generated, and as someone bombarded with dozens of "AI"-generated emails daily, I assure you the stink of "AI" is immediately noticable and immediately dismissible. Publishers are not doing their new books any favors in using it.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22h

If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.

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How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right

From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3h

🕯️🥀 SHORT HORROR STORY 🥀🕯️ One night, Jace finds a runaway in his barn. A boy with a horrifying story. ❌ no romance 🕸️ gothic-horror 📔 26 pages 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/b4aB7L 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/someone-else... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12... [ #booksky ]

kindle cover for someone else's horror story by rebecca crunden; shows an old wooden room with candelabras and rising fog

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 14h

Watching the first episode of the new Carrie series and its a new take on the idea. Interesting early premise, but I'm not sure it needs to be stretched into an eight episode miniseries.

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Carrie White

ALT: Carrie White

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fuck. Off.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🧵, but also I REALLY want to emphasize "the book is written the way it is for a reason." I sometimes see things like "I don't know if X was on purpose" and yes, yes it was. Unless it's an actual typo or some formatting accident it's on purpose. The author did that on purpose.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the reasons I'm happy I picked up stoic philosophy in my mid 20s is that it helped me assess my needs and wants in a way that was achievable. When I stopped worrying so much about what I couldn't control and focused on what I could, life became immeasurably better!

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Indeed. My chronic problem with how self defense laws get applied in Canada is it often seems to be at the whim of Crown prosecutors whether a self defense claim is legitimate or not no matter the circumstances. And those are often subject to prosecutors desires for convictions.

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Ray Baker @bigbabyray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The way to tell if you’ve met this kind of guy is to ask what is the first rule of firearms and if he doesn’t immediately tell you to treat every gun as if it’s loaded and that they’re dangerous tools then he’s the guy Sky is describing.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There were things I thought i would have done by the time I was 30 that never ended up happening. The ones that did were surprising, but in a good way. My 20 year old self would be genuinely surprised where I ended up and probably happy for it.

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𖤓𝖘𝖊𝖔𝖍𖤓 @seohofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Fall of Rhaenys Targaryen (WIP)

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Made the hilarious discovery that my autocorrect "fixed" one of my MCs names to "room in" for some reason and I'm just laughing to myself now.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The bots seem to be catching on to the fact I'm getting close to self publishing again. I don't think I've had so many self proclaimed "book marketing experts" follow me in a while. Watch this post for more!

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Genuinely cannot fathom patting myself on the back for thinking of automating away one of the most formative experiences a parent can have with their child.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ahhh, I spent half an hour agonizing over word placement in a sentence and finally decided its good. Editing done for the day 👏

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kruger @kruger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey! Here I am yet again with the offer! I can draw you a spaceship, vehicle, mech, aircraft, static or in a dynamic pose, with the best rendering and detailing i can offer, plus a complex background of your liking for 200 USD, like the examples!PM me here or via valahor@gmail.com if interested

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Would be deeply funny if the next administration used eminent domain to seize the whole property for "security" reasons and effectively kicked the Trump family out. A real "thanks for the property" moment.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I enjoy researching war, plagues, imperialism and politics. That does not in fact mean I think those things are good or fun. They have however been integral to the human experience which means I think it's good to be familiar with them.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can be an expert on things you are opposed to. Just because you have knowledge of something and can explain it in detail, it does not necessarily follow that you are a proponent of them

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Joel Chaim Holtzman @joelchaimholtzman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

JOB OFFER: A client reached out to me with a book cover gig I am unable to take on right now! Pays well. Post your work in the comments for the client to take a look! (I am not affiliated with this project, the client will reach out to you if they are interested)

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Technically we can absorb them as territories (that just requires an act of Parliament) but to create a whole new province would require a constitutional amendment, which is not impossible but as experience shows, insanely difficult to get in practice. Though without a test this one is hard to say.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

to be fair if you look at separatists in Alberta or even the PQ in Quebec, not entirely hard to see *why*

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the abstract I understand why companies fight against easy integration of operating systems, but as a consumer I genuinely hate it. Take me back to the universal Microsoft era of the 2010s!

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Occasionally the Crown (abstract) is in fact a positive feature of a system where the Crown (person) can be a net negative. Sometimes those dense layers of tradition can do something right.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At points Washington was almost as dangerous to his army as the British. Ditto Congress!

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 07/10/2026

Tired: Alberta succession Wired: Maine concession

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Successful Harry Potter fanfic appears to produce two outcomes: 1) a good career as a fantasy author 2) an obsession with the singularity and desire to build AI God via the formation of a Bay area sex cult. There is no middle ground.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The time for the spooky coffee mug has come ☕️🎃

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A Warhammer 40K Techpriest, with a balloon that makes it look like he's saying the quoted post

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Zach Cregger's new RESIDENT EVIL is an excellent addition to the film universe of the franchise. But it is not for the faint of heart! Read on and see how I was converted from a skeptic to a believer! matthewstienberg.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/r...

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Resident Evil (2026)

In an exciting new addition to the Resident Evil film canon, we come to a brand new look at Resident Evil as story with an all new pulse pounding picture told through the lens of the 2020s horror g…

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morpheme enthusiast @anderswo.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Chrisjen Avasarala from the Expanse, with a speech bubble

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Halloween season always makes me want to try my hand at regular horror, but I think that's some time away for me as I work on pacing.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The whole Mines of Moria arc is just a Lovecraftian tale.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wild that the first half hour of Gears of War E Day could just be a bit of reskinned Resident Evil 2 remake.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think it can just be taken for granted that the OLP would rather burn the province to the ground and let Ford win forever before they would ever allow the ONDP to win either.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have a sincere fear of a coming "digital dark age" where a simply staggering amount of information from the 21st century is lost because digital storage is not actually that great compared to physical storage. We know paper lasts centuries! Digital is iffy at even 5+ years!

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A nonfiction book written in, let’s say, the year 1795, is most likely still around in a library somewhere and every other work it referred to is probably accessible in some archive as well. A nonfiction book written in 2007 probably cites a bunch of urls that are dead or rotted beyond recognition.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Resident Evil (2026)

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is really good, unsurprisingly. I will only add that "state vs. state" warfare being the norm is itself only really true in Europe for a few centuries; for most of history states spent more time fighting non-state actors and policing unstable frontiers in perpetual low-level conflicts.

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The Return of the Cutting-Off Way

Structural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict."

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Without a cup of strong coffee I'm tired by 11am I'm finding 😅

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today! Let's talk about how the new Resident Evil movie is awesome this afternoon!

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