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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks to horror movies, I truly fear the day someone says to me, "You need to get out of the house" because nothing good happens after that sentence #frightclub

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Feare Response 😱 @feare.org · 03/10/2026

The real bogeyman of this story is Ronald Reagan, for closing all these asylums #FrightClub #Session9

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ever since I got out of work everyone seems determined to piss me off, so I'm DEFINITELY going to need some sessions. Nine of them should do!

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Fright Club @frightya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Get outta your mind with a #FrightClub double feature Friday. Beginning with Session 9 (2001) at 10 PM ET. Available on Shudder. Then continue at 11:45 PM ET with Eli Roth's Dream Eater (2025). On Tubi, Prime, Shudder. We don't really dance, but we're in the zone.

Poster for Session 9 (2001), by Brad Anderson. David Caruso, Peter Mullan, Brendan Sexton III, Stephen Gevedon, Josh Lucas. "Fear is a place." All the images are indistinct. There's a room, with an abandoned wheelchair, and an almost transparent figure of a man walking down a few steps, away from the room, in the foreground. In the background, a creepy-looking abandoned asylum (a real place, and that's exactly what it was). This is all in shades of rust. Everything looks very old, like it might not really exist anymore.

Poster for Dream Eater (2025). Man, looking wet and dirty, with horizontal lines on the image like he's on an old television, silently screaming. "It won't let you sleep." Alex Lee Williams, Mallory Drumm.

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Are there any libraries who have created programming policies that address the use of generative AI in speaker presentations? Are they not allowed at all, or require disclosure? I'm considering my options for my library. 📚

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And by "shaped me" I mean these games changed how I thought about storytelling, gameplay, characters, or just my own capabilities. Also, it's all the DA and all the ME games, but I gave these two the credit for first blowing my mind on NPC relationships

My 9 Games - The 9 Games That Shaped Who I Am. Images are covers for Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect 2, Jet Set Radio Future, The Last Half of Darkness, Assassin's Creed II, Bioshock, Super Mario 3, Stardew Valley, Clair Obscur Expedition 33

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think it would say a lot about a person to know their answer to both of those experiences, especially if the answers are not the same and which is which. Also if they're like, "I'm not quite ready for all this dystopia, but I think if I get a PSL and put on a playlist I can get in the mood."

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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🎃 The Wicker Amber 🎃 @elementalamber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My dreadful dearlings, there's a BIG update over at our gfm. Please share and donate if you can!

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Actually I'm going to say, while it might upset some writing in the genre (specifically men who write women for insta-vulnerable, as if that isn't mega sexist): More horror protagonists should be men who spend a lot of the story screaming and crying and terrified. Let them be vulnerable characters.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

- Social media brain rot where we've failed to see that we are human beings connected to other unique human beings and therefore, just because something doesn't reflect my experience, it doesn't mean it's wrong or "bad" or something you can't still read/watch/play, etc.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm definitely going to pull a muscle laughing at these closed captions. #frightclub

Still from Grizzly of The Bear with the closed captioning:
(rocket zooming) (bear exploding)

A still from Grizzly that shows an explosion with the closed captioning:
(rocket zooming) (bear exploding)

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Leonardo Decapitator @xenionx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

5 stars if this bear swats that helicopter out of the sky. #FrightClub

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Fright Club @frightya.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fun fact: Bears do not truly hibernate. They enter torpor, during which they can and do wake up and walk about now and then, and sometimes even find a bedtime snack. #Grizzly #FrightClub

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Vinz Clortho 🎃🍸 @vinzclortho84.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh no! This bear has a Go Pro. #FrightClub

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My brain is a plastic bag full of crap with a little hole at the bottom, where pieces of information slip through when I'm not looking. Normally, I look stuff up constantly to offset this. I didn't today, so learn from my folly that it is LIBRA season

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Writing "wisdom" I hate: WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW. This is the worst advice ever. It would be better if it was KNOW MORE SO YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT IT. Every good writer I know is constantly researching and getting new information and asking experts. It's a terrible bit of advice!

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A lovely write-up about a lovely watch party! The company is always fantastic, they are so knowledgeable and funny and I wish I could make it more often.

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ReelRank @reelrank.net · 09/09/2026

🎥 Did you know? Bluesky has a nightly horror watch party. 🧟‍♂️ @miss-machete.bsky.social sat down with @frightya.bsky.social , who runs Fright Club, to talk community, scheduling chaos, and the worst shark movie they've ever survived. blog.reelrank.net/bluesky-has-... Read it! ☝️ #FilmSky #HorrorSky

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Bluesky Has a Horror Movie Club (And You’re Invited!)

An interview with the account runner behind Fright Club

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TIL that my favorite movie almost came out on my birthday! (Birthday today, release date was the 18th) It's an incredible film and entry into horror and haunted house movies specifically. It looks fantastic, the acting perfect, and I fell in love with it before I ever read Shirley Jackson.

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excuse me, I need to go find enough drugs to take that will transport me to any other dimension or timeline than this one

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh good, now I have more time for actual horror filmmakers who make their own movies! Thanks for freeing that up for me Danny.

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BJ ColanGIALLO @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm sorry to continue talking about today's Horror Nonsense, but it is so upsetting that a fellow queer person saw this photo and diminished its importance as if it were a performative gesture, and not the beautiful proof that @fangoria.bsky.social's foundation and legacy is one of queerness.

Amelia Emberwing, Angel Melanson, Bryan Fuller, Sean Abley, Kerry O'Quinn, Michael Varrati, BJ Colangelo, Brendan Haley, Michael Kennedy, Harmony Colangelo, and Kolleen Carney.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

as a reader of historical romances i have to say the thing where she makes him give up his elaborate revenge plot to prove his love?? baffling. unrealistic. girl this is a group project now

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kay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

there is no more romantic relationship status than ‘in cahoots’ and more people need to understand that

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The Hanged Man @thehangedmanclub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join the October drawing & writing challenge fun with a #DragonAge themed prompt list fromt The Hanged Man. One prompt per day: sketch, paint, drabble, flash fic, theorize, or research and post with #THMtober. Tag @TheHangedManClub here or on Tumblr & we’ll share! Or join in on Discord.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've never used ChatGPT and somehow live a successful happy life so people panicking about what we'd do without it have a short memory of, uhhh, not so very long ago

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Bree, Bane of The Board 👻🌝 @dhampirvampire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For anyone wondering, yes this is about the decompilation project. ☠️

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Patrick K Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Every open world game should have a radio and every in game radio should have an industrial station. I don't care if your game takes place in 11th century Sri Lanka, it needs to have it

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Finally a day with perfect weather, so I spent it at my local botanic gardens alongside many retired folks (expected) and a small group of goth kids (pleasant surprise!) Enjoy these very goth plants with me to mark day one of my birthday staycation

Purple Shamrock with light purple flowers against dark purple triangle shaped leaves

Persian shield plant that has leaves lined in dark green with bright purple in between the veins

Ruby moon hyacinth beans, a bright purple flower with dark reddish purple pods

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A 300-million-year-old tree species declared extinct in the wild in the 1990s now numbers around 10,000 mature trees. China’s cliff cypress survives in and around Chongqing’s Xuebaoshan reserve, the product of two decades of seed-banking and propagation work buff.ly/cGHwM0M #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Species classified extinct makes comeback in Chongqing reserve

After being declared extinct, the ancient cliff cypress — a 300-million-year-old "living fossil" — has staged a stunning comeback in Southwest China's Chongqing, thanks to a two-decade-long…

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 12/09/2026

Local woman wakes up, redistributes all the profits from monster corporation owners, shareholders snd lobbyists to those whose homes and lives have been destroyed by climate change, makes oatmeal.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you teach #MLIS classes, consider bringing me in to talk to your classes about the job search. Too many LIS professionals out here giving advice that worked for them 20 years ago, but it's a different world now. 📚

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Libraries need more than quiet support. They need visible action. Sign petitions. Call your representatives. Submit public comments. Write letters. Send postcards. Hold officials accountable. Get loud for libraries and librarians: action.everylibrary.org

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/09/2026

Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park: Community members have gathered to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the death of local resident Silverio Villegas González, whom an as-yet unidentified ICE agent shot and killed on this block at the start of "Operation Midway Blitz."

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My experience is that there is no reasonable compromise with fascist. Every competition is a tug of war towards the edge of a cliff. Rejecting the premise of their ridiculous questions is the *only* way to respond. We cannot have a little ableism, eugenics, sexism, transphobia, etc. as a treat.

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Throwing out the reminder that my Patreon has been around so long I have a $1 tier still. If 1/10th of the number of folks who follow me joined at $1, I could not worry about rent, etc. So asking in light of still being unable to get a job. 🫠😭 patreon.com/cypheroftyr

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Tanya C. DePass — creating Articles, blog posts and Let's Plays of diverse gaming

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