Shiny black cover of THE LAST CANTERBURY TALES by Jean Ray, translated by Scott Nicolay with doubled horizontal image one atop each other of darkened room with tiled floor, columns, stained glass windows, and a statue of hooded/robed person hands together up beneath chin

A lovely surprise from @wakefieldpress.bsky.social for review! A new Jean Ray translation by Scott Nicolay. LES DERNIERS CONTES DE CANTERBURY (1944). Feed the Belgian Weird addiction.

On the blog, @reading1000lives.bsky.social (Daniel Haeusser) reviews Eerie Whispers: Exploring Canada's Reluctant Relationship with its Ghostly Lore, by Brian Baker (2025).
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Bag with Severin logo and copies of THE FINAL PROGRAMME showing comic-style art and of THE GHOST.

Newly arrived goodies from @severinfilms.bsky.social for upcoming feature on @skiffyandfanty.com discussions! If you haven't seen these yet, check 'em out. THE FINAL PROGRAMME (1973) the only cinematic Michael Moorcock adaptation to date, & THE GHOST (1963) with the incomparable Barbara Steele.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

A pair of fascinating sounding releases for 2026

The Skiffy and Fanty Show: Movie Review: The Congress The news of the Writer Author’s Guild going on strike, followed by the SAG-AFSTRA Strike, and the desire for studios to use so-called A.I. not only in scripts and writing, but, more crucially…

with all the talk of Witherspoon and now Bullock urging the use of AI, going to reup this review of THE CONGRESS, where actors and actresses being replaced with AI versions is only *part* of the story...

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Check it out!

Given that the whole thing is built on the theft of other people's work, it seems quite apposite, really.

Recommend

On the blog, @reading1000lives.bsky.social reviews Dead Lover (2025). "... one of the more endearing and awesome parts of Dead Lover [is] its constant gender bending and gender blurring characters."
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On the blog, @pematson.bsky.social reviews "Rabbit Test and Other Stories" by Samantha Mills. "Seeing all these great stories together really reinforces what an excellent and versatile author Mills [is]..."
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all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

‘OBEX’ is a Bewitching Fairytale About a Man Forced to Step Away from His Screens We chat with Baltimore-based filmmaker Albert Birney about the movie’s inspiration and themes, as well as his dog Dorothy’s big debut.

I interviewed Albert, who's from Baltimore. He's a sweetheart

This is really good as well. So far Ted Lieu, Chris Murphy, and Elissa Slotkin making this point with crystal clarity. More Dems need to do this.

The marbled blue crescent of the Earth sets beyond the cratered, sharply curved horizon of the Moon.

Totality, beyond Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun.

New from Artemis II. Earthset, and the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon.

Even cooler

Apparently this group is taking off in the zeitgeist and hype. They are Quebecois and I dig it.

I recall seeing that climate change was impacting the communities of bacteria that are involved in traditional chocolate production, which doesn't help matters at all.

FREE PLANET #11 features what I believe to be the best single panel @jebriodo.bsky.social and I have ever done.

Sex, violence, justice; FREE PLANET #11 has it all; in comic shops everywhere April 8, only from @imagecomics.com.

Is that a shell?

a mass of green anemones mostly closed and red sea stars

there's still so much fecundity and enduring beauty in the nonhuman world. let's preserve and treasure it.

An intricate octopus cut from a single piece of paper

Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.

A photo of CDs of The World Is to Dig

April 14 The World Is to Dig arrives. Pre-order now at TMBGshop for vinyl, cassette or CD or instant download and receive it all before the corporate streamers. If anybody is still making 8 tracks, make yourself known!

Much rejoicing!

The furries have been with us always

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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Newly uncovered footage of teleporting FEMA official Gregg "Icky Elf" Phillips.