Was gonna take a little 2-week break from the novel WIP to write a short story. Got about 500-1,000 words in before I realized this story is actually a sort of stand-alone chapter of the novel, and an important one at that (though I still think it'll work as its own thing). Funny how that happens.
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Sign the petition and defend the freedom to read.
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my husband sent me this video of two bees fucking on his book 🥲
Seriously, I'm not shocked that Bluesky is vibe-coded. But I've already ditched FB and Twitter for similar reasons, and if this ship is sinking too I'm basically offline. Is Mastadon still a thing? Is it even worth it?
Are there any social media platforms that HAVEN'T become completely infested with AI?
Thanks! Sorry for missing that rule. Won't happen again. :)
I'm David, and I mostly write pulpy horror (think monsters, dinosaurs, and weird body horror) with literary heart. My debut collection (below) turned four years old last week! This week I'm reading THE WRITHING, VERDANT END from @cursedmorsels.bsky.social, and I most recently watched UNDER THE SKIN.
YESSSCREEONK!!!
Super-American, a costumed hero wearing red-and-white-striped trunks and a star-spangled blue cape, stands atop a building to address a huge crowd gathered below. He says, "AMERICANS UNITE! Together we can whip these totalitarian dogs!" FIGHT COMICS #15, 1941, art by Dan Zolnerowich.
one place a music lover can get away from "industry chicanery" & manufactured viral hype is the record shop. leave yr phone in your pocket &shuffle through the bins. if u can't play records, go to the thrift & get a $7 used dvd player to play cds. text friends for recs. slave to the algo is a choice
"...the preliminary research has now been completed. Today the machine will start production. It will turn out a thousand science-fiction stories a year. We have invested more than a hundred million sole in this business..."
- "Preliminary Research" by Ilya Varshavsky, 1965
"But what can the two of us do alone?"
"Alone, true, but with such hatred..."
Her eyes held a strange gleam. I felt afraid and overjoyed.
-Amparo Dávila, "The Houseguest"
And this, friends, is why we do not support Amazon under any circumstance. Just no.
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One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire.
One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.
we're talking about Columbo here but I wanted to point this out
the "doesn't carry a gun. guns are tools of the enemy." trope is just... the hugest manliest masculine big dick energy imaginable. It's the baddest ass of character traits. You never fuck with that guy. It's so cool, it's the coolest.
The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it
Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis
Cover of 3LBE Volume XI with a colorful illustration of various odd creatures alongside a list of contributors Thomas Ha · Ruth Joffre · Steve Toase · Aliya Whiteley · Joe Koch · Eugenia Triantafyllou · Christi Nogle · Octavia Cade · A.C. Wise · Mari Ness · E. Catherine Tobler · Avra Margariti · K.S. Walker · Brian Evenson · Nadia Bulkin · Corey Farrenkopf · Premee Mohamed · Katie McIvor
Pre-orders are open for 3LBE VOLUME XI print anthology with 18 stories by Thomas Ha, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, A.C. Wise, E. Catherine Tobler, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Premee Mohamed, and more, with 29 new illustrations. www.3lobedmag.com/store.html
The unfinished sequel to Hedwig & the Angry Inch.
Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"
Just a reminder that the DOJ is currently violating the law by withholding large portions of the Epstein Files
Exactly. Fix your hearts or die.
In case you missed it yesterday, I have a new story out in the April issue of Nightmare Magazine! The Final Girl Trap is now available to read online.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
easiest way for me to save my time, money and energy
If genAI becomes the accepted "new norm" in major film/TV production or Big 5 book publishing, I'll be watching/reading a lot less new stuff. Same with music, etc. I'd happily rather spend the rest of my life in a pre-2020s media bubble than embrace the anti-art, anti-human, anti-life theft machine.
oh look: wholesomeness
In the '80s, Harlan Ellison wrote about the Voyager 1 flyby of Saturn and noted his dismay about this amazing achievement of humanity having to share headlines with a devastating war in Iran. Almost half a century later, here we are again: cretinous leaders tainting wonder with needless bloodshed.
