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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 24/09/2026

Breaking my Bluesky hiatus to share this rad as hell tote @emmadawn.com designed for @kingsbookstore.bsky.social. Go get it! Passively shame the losers! Make art!

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 17/09/2026

feeling bad about myself and I think it's because of social media so I'm taking a break from this website—find me on email or my website contact form if you need me

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 17/09/2026

Two, and the first time doesn't need to be on purpose but the second time does.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wrote about Backrooms and Walter Benjamin (also Freud, liminality, memory, and capitalism) www.darkertimes.com/walter-benja...

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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Hallucination

Or, why I stopped worrying and learned to love Walter Benjamin in the Backrooms.

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 16/09/2026

"From day one we have deceived you through hyperbole to adopt a technology made from stolen material that is only good at assisting with fraud. Please trust us when we tell you something that sounds unbelievable at face value."

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In bid to spur investment, Carney offers businesses chance to screw over Indigenous community of their choice

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💀 Cromortuary 💀 @lapanique.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Zit Remedy will no longer be Ed Sheeran's backing band

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 16/09/2026

Late season barbequing. Twilight grilling.

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

I think Flight of the Conchords is the most emblematic comedy of its time.

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

don't term search to argue with strangers you fucking psychos

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

There's a longstanding criticism that The Lord of the Rings is too descriptive. I think that general idea is what brought us to our time of media illiteracy, shortcuts, and AI slop. When he describes a hill for two pages, Tolkien is asking you to use your imagination to conjure a nonexistent place.

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 14/09/2026

unbelievable to me that people who frame their politics as "we're the good guys" seem perfectly fine with conceding to their opponents' most fundamentally "we're the bad guys" policies like institutional transphobia, but I guess lots of people are just morons

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

And you thought flying from Pearson sucked before. Buckle up.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Take a listen to me rant about history and how we need to know history to understand this moment.

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 07/09/2026

Been a little while since I promoted it, so if you're a new follower you might not know about HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE. It's an essay collection about PTSD and pop culture, combining memoir with criticism of film, music, books, and games. Available wherever you buy books! #CanLit

The book HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE: ON VIOLENCE AND MEMORY on top of a Costa Rican police report and a cruise ship floorplan, next to some bullet casings.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 15/09/2026

Just name the whole country Loblaws and get it over with

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 15/09/2026

I want that movie though, where a guy is just trying to find a bunch of weird keys in an annoyingly laid out, kind of converted art museum (which I believe is what the racoon city PD is?)

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

My prolific blog plans have been rerouted due to very good [REDACTED] plans. But I'm going to try my best to keep Everything is Scary alive for the next couple years. while I'm busy with [REDACTED]. My current plan is to put expanded versions of my Hooptober reviews on there.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 15/09/2026

I wrote about Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's", which is actually about Roman Holiday, and about memories of grocery stores and the past and all that we kind of liked and loved for Alt-Rock Dept, my column at @pastemagazine.bsky.social www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...

pastemagazine.com

Deep Blue Something’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” finds forever in “kind of”

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

I am really excited that we are about to receive one of the best horror video game film adaptations ever and it will immediately be received by its core audience as terrible because they don't understand that a direct adaptation of Resident Evil 2 is impossible.

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Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 15/09/2026

Me too late to catch my morning bus

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004). Screenshot from my crappy flatscreen of Alice running vertically down the side of a building (Toronto/Raccoon City Hall). It is night and physics do not matter.

The camera pans out, showing Alice, tiny now, but still running.

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 15/09/2026

I’m worried that this is registering to folks as “what strange times we live in” and not “something is very wrong with Sanders’s approach to this topic.”

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

I for one think it's beautiful that no matter how hard he tries, the people around Mitch simply refuse to let him go

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

Feels weird that Clive Barker is back but Kickstarting his new trilogy.

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

TV is back. Movies are back. AI is "taking a break" (out of money). Books: still here and still loved. We're going to be ok.

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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Totally agree. Do not waste time debating things that could be playtested.

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

Happy Hooptober to all who celebrate!

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Rina O'Malley @rinaomalley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Katie Dippold winning an Emmy for a pilot spec she wrote EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO is the universe screaming "Don't Give Up!"

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

tourists are going to go nuts for the next Martha's Vineyard after tonight

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

now that Katie Dippold has a 10x Emmy winning series can people stop pretending her Ghostbusters movie was bad?

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 15/09/2026

695 words down after a full day of work ain't no getting off this train we're on

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 14/09/2026

Also yes hello this is TOMORROW Sept 15 at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social ! 7 pm! Be there or be a rectangular thing and get a small amount of swag! :D (You will be expected to dress as a spy BUT you can be undercover if you like.)

audreys.ca

"Wickhills" Book Launch with Premee Mohamed | Audreys Books

Edmonton's Oldest Independent Bookstore selling new books for adults and children

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 14/09/2026

writing about true crime in this next book

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 14/09/2026

Not that it's actually up for debate, but Fangoria reviewed my first book in an edition of Nightmare Library, so I'm ride or die. Also, by now their graphic tees compromise about half of my wardrobe.

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 14/09/2026

Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🐈⭐️ COVER REVEAL!! ⭐️🐈 Thrilled to share the cover of my next graphic novel for young readers, MEATBALL: KING OF THE FOREST, coming March 2027 from @MacKidsBooks in the U.S. and @TundraBooks in Canada!

Cover of a book called "Meatball" with a cat leaping in the air

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 14/09/2026

this should be about destroying Ed, not reappraising Thrift Shop

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Leo McKay Jr. @leomckayjr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I know Canadians are feeling desperate about… pretty well everything. But guys. Selling off our shit to finance bros… that’s what brought us to this level of desperation. We’ve had 50 years of governments giving shit away to corporations. The result has been the most entrenched oligarchy ever. Fuck.

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 14/09/2026

I'm no stranger to complaining about feeling left out, but I think we need to pull back on this idea that simply wanting to write for a specific outlet—and maybe are even a good fit based on skill and expertise—means you deserve to be published with them.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 14/09/2026

It's alarming how transparent everything can be, artists says something that clashes with the corporate interests of a major AIPAC donor who owns these stadiums get immediate dismissal, without much fanfare. I get that Ed Sheeran/Pink are the easy targets of ire, but that's not the biggest problem

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That said, Occam's Razor drives me back to the likely truth: They are out of money and everyone is falling for it. I need details on how this is going to kill everyone. If you're doing an elaborate bit to alarm people about Anduril, I'ma need you to tell Wired or 404, or I will keep laughing at you.

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 14/09/2026

Lovely news: The Butcher’s Daughter has been nominated for Newfoundland’s Killick Capital Fiction Award. Congrats to @corinneleighclark.bsky.social @sohopress.bsky.social and me 🖤

Longlist for Newfoundland’s Killick Capital Fiction Prize - the salt box olive, the beltane massacre, seal of salvage, vigil, and the butcher’s daughter

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 14/09/2026

among the scam emails from this morning I got a refreshingly human one that doesn't mention any of my books, just essentially pitched me on a vanity marketing service—glad to see even some fraudsters are resisting AI

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 14/09/2026

god, I'm going to need to take the contact form off my website—I can't handle these AI scam emails anymore

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Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 14/09/2026

THE LOST SEASON by Stacey May Fowles is the kind of memoir that digs into your heart and untangles invincible knots. Insight after insight, delivered with seemingly effortless humour, sorrow, honesty, and horror. Highly recommended for all fans of good books. #canlit

A red book with an illustration of a pink bunny in the fetal position. It's THE LOST SEASON by Stacey May Fowles! Available wherever you buy books.

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