The Virginia State Seal, which has everything: Virginia Creeper, nudity, armor, vanquished tyrants, swords, spears

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

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

If there is a single ideological line that unites every action of the two administrations this failure has run, it's causing unnecessary death through defiant stupidity.

You've got to admit, they did a cracking job patching him up after that incident in opening the Ark of the Covenant.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

elizabeth broadbent (@elizabethbroadbent) Hey friends, I don’t do this. Only for Candace. Please help.

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Candace Nola has spent years not only writing some of the best horror fiction out there, but also editing, publishing, promoting, and all-around supporting other writers and artists; she is a great writer and an even better person, and she needs help now. Please do what you can.

I don't normally share Substack posts but this is an urgent, unique circumstance. Please read & help Candace out if you're able— she's done so much to champion and cheerlead for Horror and indie authors, and now *she* needs some support:

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Congratulations to @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social on the release of a fabulous collection!!!

Donate to Urgent and Critical Need for life-saving transfusions , organized by Candace Nola Hello Everyone. I am currently facing a severe medical crisis… Candace Nola needs your support for Urgent and Critical Need for life-saving transfusions

Hey friends!! I’m not one to do this. But Candace Nola is one of my favorite people on earth. She’s done so much for the horror community, and she nearly died. Now she needs help paying for iron infusions. If you can give — please. It’s needed.

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#HorrorWriting

Bright, multi-colored graphic with a white card in the middle that says, “Happy We Need Diverse Books Day!” Beneath the title text is an illustration of four people quietly reading books together. At the bottom of the graphic is the official date for We Need Diverse Books Day: April 14th, 2026.

Bright, multi-colored graphic with a white card in the middle that says, “What is We Need Diverse Books Day?” Contains the following description: We Need Diverse Books Day was created to highlight the importance of reading books that reflect our beautifully diverse world. It’s a chance to uplift, celebrate, and take action to support diverse books and the diverse artists that create them! At the bottom of the graphic is the official date for We Need Diverse Books Day: April 14th, 2026.

Wishing everyone a very happy #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay! 🎉📚❤️

Need some ideas for how to celebrate today? Here are eight easy ideas 🧵

for me “doom scrolling” is actually just the pathological hunt for the first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel

The three fingered guy, the plane that looks like a decepticon, whatever is going on with the three horned angel thingy behind donnie; if the man is consistent about one thing, it's his commitment to quality.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

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I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

In an administration characterized by constant, unceasing lies, it really takes a lot for a single lie to stand out, but this one does. I would be willing to bet everything I own that the President hasn't read a single book to completion in the last 25 years, including his own ghostwritten ones.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

The strait of hormuz is open for transit defense secretary Pete hegseth said. The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping he said it is open for transit should Iran not do that

my living room is ready for guests. the only thing prohibiting entrance right now is i am blindly firing a 30.06 at my door. should i stop doing that, it will be perfectly safe to enter.

Black Horror Month: Paula D. Ashe Rounding out our interviews, we have the queen: Paula Ashe!

And because Black Horror Month should never truly end, I have a substack interview with the divine @pauladashe.bsky.social today! (And she never disappoints):

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It's Women in Horror Month Let's talk about misogyny.

Imma make some people angry and I don’t care

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If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Smart people have already written about the many problems of generative AI better than I could, but I’ll tell you this about the thing I know: writing is about writing. It’s an action. A verb. It’s what we do. I write, you write, they write. Skip that and you’re not a writer.

LISTEN TO BLACK WOMEN: THE WUNMI MOSAKU CINAMATIC UNIVERSE OF BEING CORRECT The Wunmi Mosaku Cinematic Universe of Being Correct traces how horror keeps proving the same truth: when Black women identify danger early and speak plainly, survival depends on whether anyone lis…

Horror keeps proving the same rule: Black women identify danger early. Survival depends on whether anyone listens.

A look at the Wunmi Mosaku Cinematic Universe of Being Correct, where clarity is never the problem. Reception is.
👻📽️ #blackwomeninhorror
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