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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 19h

One of the most beautiful collections of stained glass is at Cypress Lawn in Colma, California. The light under this glass dome is magical. Day 3: glass #31DaysOfGraves

Stained glass ceiling in blue and red at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Day 3 of #31DaysOfGraves - Glass Scotland has been endowed with a remarkable inheritance of of 18th century #MementoMori symbol laden monuments, but many are now fragile and endangered. In 2008, this early example of an Adam & Eve stone in Lyne Kirkyard was restored and placed in a glass case.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the first grave monuments that spoke to me stands in the little cemetery down the road from the farm where I grew up. This is one of my favorite cemetery in autumn photos, too. Day 2: urn. #31DaysOfGraves

Zinc obelisk monument surmounted by an ornate urn topped with a zinc eternal flame. The urn stands against a vivid blue sky. A tree with orange leaves is in the corner of the photo.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I spent one of my most memorable Mother’s Days with my family exploring the cemetery in Dublin, California. Such a lovely place. Day 1: flowers. #31DaysOfGraves

Black granite monument marked Dublin Cemetery illustrated by a man pushing a hand plow surrounded by bright orange nasturtium flowers.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 29/09/2026

Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a day Teach a man to transform permanently into a fish, you'll probably never hear from him again

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Chad Savage @savagesinister.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jack Skellington sings "There are few who deny; at what I do, I am the best." I wanna know who those few are, and their reasoning...

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Jack Skellington in Red - The Nightmare Before Christmas

ALT: Jack Skellington in Red - The Nightmare Before Christmas

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Give me hedge and a cloud-omened sky and I'll give you a witch-telling of tomorrow. Give me autumn lanes to walk and verges to harvest and I'll make my witch-graft a healing of illnesses yet to knock at door of winter. Let the land be my calendar of magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The natural world that so astonished Annie Dillard & Wendell Berry is right outside your front door, right now, hungry to be encountered. Encounter it. Be an instrument of awe.

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Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#31DaysOfGraves prompts are ready for October 1st 2026! 🪦Welcoming posts from graveyards, cemeteries, or related places throughout October. No rules - interpret however and wherever you want, but AI is strongly discouraged. Browse previous posts using the tag. Translations welcome, German is below 👇

An image of the New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków, overlaid with text:
#31 Days of Graves
Day 1: Flower
Day 2: Urn
Day 3: Glass
Day 4: Entrance
Day 5: Vehicle
Day 6: Weather
Day 7: Home
Day 8: Animal
Day 9: Lettering
Day 10: Missing
Day 11: Humorous
Day 12: Ordinary
Day 13: Unusual
Day 14: Brick
Day 15: Language
Day 16: Faith
Day 17: Music
Day 18: Earth
Day 19: Water
Day 20: Fire
Day 21: Air
Day 22: Mourning
Day 23: Wings
Day 24: Contrast
Day 25: Tree
Day 26: Accident
Day 27: Portrait
Day 28: Landscape
Day 29: Fruits/Vegetables
Day 30: Colour
Day 31: Memento Mori

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can it be Halloween yet?

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Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Horror writing is political. www.instagram.com/reel/DcOro90...

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

3 high school girls from the movie Mean Girls in a car say “Get in loser. We’re reclaiming the em dash from the little robots.”

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There is no good use of generative AI because the technology was built on theft of creative labor. If that position surprises you from an artist whose life's work was scraped and used without permission to train trillion dollar technology, educate yourself. www.michaelwhelan.com/faq/#digital...

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 12/08/2026

Hyping @morbidloren.bsky.social and Automatism Press, but I’m a little biased due to appearing in the 20th anniversary issue of Morbid Curiosity later this year :)

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Automatism Press

Website for Automatism Press

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

No artist ever just wanted the end result. Every artist of any kind wants to see the product of their labours, the expression of their dreams, their struggle realised. The process is the art, the end result is the prize. Anyone who thinks any gen-ai is art fails to understand this simple truth.

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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A book is not a product like the shelf upon which it sits. Art is not a product like the frame in which it is displayed. If you think of stories or art like that sort of product, if you use AI to "create" it, you are not a storyteller. You are not an artist. This is not an opinion. It's a fact. 5/6

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NPR @npr.org · 25/07/2026

Back in the '90s, I learned the art of staying cool in Egypt. At that time, air conditioning was not common. In the extremely hot summer of 2026, how are people managing? n.pr/4pC2Rzw

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COMIC: Temps are predicted to hit 106 in Egypt this week. How do people stay cool?

Back in the '90s, I learned the art of staying cool in Egypt. At that time, air conditioning was not common. In the extremely hot summer of 2026, how are people managing?

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That guy @stuartbayens.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A federal judge has approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about US$3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.

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Judge approves a US$1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

A federal judge approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay authors about US$3,000 per book.

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"Later when their political careers were examined, it was found that they were destroyed by the microscopic algae against which their systems were almost deliberately unprepared. . . slain, after all man’s legal defenses had failed, by the humblest thing that God in His wisdom put upon this earth."

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

On July 12 @ 3 pm - 5 pm we're having a very special SF in SF with @sarahgailey.bsky.social. SF in SF is one of my all-time favorite events, and where I was lucky to meet Terry Bisson. This one will be at the SFPL: www.sfinsf.org?p=3088

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Join SF in SF with Meg Elison & Sarah Gailey FREE at the SFPL 7-12

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Sunday July 12, 2026 — 3:00PM – 5:00PM The San Francisco Public Library Main Branch Koret Auditorium, Lower Level 100 Larkin Street between Grove & Fu…

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Jennifer Brozek @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I receive scam/spam like this almost every day. They hit my contact form, my email, text me, DM me on social media. I even once had someone call me. (TL;DR - don't use AI in your contact with creatives.) whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/11/p...

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Please I Beg of You Do Not Use “AI” In Your Business Communications

The other morning I was clearing out the multiple daily emails I get from scammers who have used “AI” to praise one of my books in order to get me to use their “marketing” s…

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Good morning

A man falling from the sky with the caption: Everything will kill you. So choose something fun.

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A zine for Mother’s Day Download here: austinkleon.substack.com/p/dont-call-...

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The average American has three friends

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Tired: Write what you know. Wired: Know what you write. Research is one of the best things about writing fiction.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

There's nothing wrong with you, and you are not broken. The world that should offer us peace, warmth, and secret libraries in the forest frequented by sophisticated animals in little tweed suits is broken.

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Make it easy on yourself or you'll end up like me. 💀

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 03/04/2026

Did you know... magnolia evolved on earth about 95 million years ago! Magnolia is so old in fact that it pre-dates the existence of bees and butterflies, meaning they relied on beetles to pollinate in their early days.

A close-up of pink flowers emerging from a tree, a blue sky is in the background

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 03/04/2026

Waking up at a Waffle House with no idea how you got there

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Watching the Artemis launch, I unexpectedly found myself recalling the excitement, apprehension and sense of unquantifiable possibilities felt by the little girl I was watching the Apollo missions, muted by the intervening decades, as if I were hearing once familiar music playing a long way off.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

“because the reason the piece-of-shit AI loves an emdash is because it stole all our work, and all our work features a lot of goddamn emdashes. It doesn’t use emdashes. We use emdashes, and it stole our work and then mimics us. Emdashes and all.”

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

For #Caturday: a poignant photo by Paul Koudounaris of a beloved pet's tombstone. Despite popular belief, the cat's name was not Dewey. This was the surname of the cat's family. "'He was only a cat,' but he was human enough to be a great comfort in hours of loneliness and pain."

An old tombstone that reads: DEWEY 1898 - 1910. "He was only a cat" but he was human enough to be a great comfort in hours of loneliness and pain.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

What's a cemetery memoir? I wrote about the spectrum of memoirs that examine cemeteries in all their glory. Check it out at bookdna.com/best-books/c...

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The best cemetery memoirs

Loren Rhoads shares the 5 best books on cemetery memoirs. Have you read The Secret Life of a Cemetery?

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The world would be a better place if people read more books

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