Bill
@caractacus.bsky.social
He/him. Writer, editor, fact checker. Not a candy. https://ktepi.com/
My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
Statement from the HWA Board of Trustees: The Executive Leadership and Trustees on the Board of the Horror Writers Association has voted to remove Sephera Giron from her position as Trustee effective immediately.
Wondering what my answer would be to the "favorite sandwich filling" question on that Waitrose podcast (an impossible question) led to lamb sandwich time: shoulder's currently slow-cooking after brining since Sunday in spicy Afghan pickle brine. Probably labne, onion, fresh mint.
This is indistinguishable from a LiveJournal comment circa 2004 in all but subject matter.
Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · 23h agoSo apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?
Absolutely wild that the first hit you get when Googling the results of #MI8 and Trump is a Fox News headline claiming the Trump-endorsed candidate won. He *lost*, badly, to someone who had dropped out of the race! The actual story has the news right, but the Google hed is a total fabrication.
FINALLY we have local tomatoes and eggplant. I've got eggplant confit in the oven, and we'll have ratatouille with leftover Indian tonight. And I'll have a tomato sandwich somewhere in there, because this is ridiculous, it's fucking August.
Instead of my posting the "1 like equals 1 mundane fact" meme, just imagine this is what I've been doing all along.
We finally have the plot for an American update of "Slings and Arrows."
WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston@wcvb5.bsky.social · 2d ago'Rocky Horror Picture Show' musical director made fake threats, police say | Click on the image to read the full story
Once again, your regular reminder that Alt NPS is a grifter account that is not worth your time or respect.
AltWatcher@altwatcher.bsky.social · 2d agoAfter a few months of mostly sticking to banal news updates, the Alt National Park Service is going back to their conspiracy LARPer roots.
The Ray Bradbury story "There Will Come Soft Rains" is making the rounds - set on August 4, 2026. Nimoy's reading gave me the shivers! archive.org/details/brad...
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Just pinched the edges of a hardcover book trying to screenshot it.
here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?
Every so often I remember that both Marvel and DC had an embarrassingly silly "real name reveal" at the end of a movie: Zendaya isn't "Michelle" ... she's MJ! JGL's cop is named Robin! It's the kind of wink you only think of because you're on the third reboot.
Who is your favorite (if you have one) “Cousin Oliver,” that is a kid added to a show late in its run?
Sitcom People@sitcompeople.bsky.social · 3d agoWho is your favorite (if you have one) “Cousin Oliver,” that is a kid added to a show late in its run?
Key to my comics reading aesthetic: a next door neighbor's father had owned a newsstand, so she had been a big comics reader in the 50s and 60s and let me read giant stacks of them. They were all DC, mainly Superman, a huge portion of "imaginary stories," red K, Mxyzptlk, and Bizarro.
Bill@caractacus.bsky.social · 3d agoI'm sure I had read comic strips in the paper before this, but this was my first comic book, left behind by a foster brother when I was 5. (I'm old, the comic was new.) I knew Spider-Man from the cartoon and The Electric Company. Not sure if I had seen the FF cartoon yet. I was hooked right away.
For people who've been around long enough to have heard all the stories, the thing about this comic is that this is the foster brother who abused me, the earliest of three abusers when I was a kid, so there's a lot of *stuff* tied up in my introduction to comics.
Bill@caractacus.bsky.social · 3d agoI'm sure I had read comic strips in the paper before this, but this was my first comic book, left behind by a foster brother when I was 5. (I'm old, the comic was new.) I knew Spider-Man from the cartoon and The Electric Company. Not sure if I had seen the FF cartoon yet. I was hooked right away.
This is worse than the ones that don't allow apostrophes at all. This means you thought it through and decided to target me specifically.
I’m frying chicken that I brined in Indian spiced buttermilk, but we ordered naan, korma, dal, and gobi to go with it, so this might not count as home cooking.
No, there is no "Department of Ancient History," but I had to get into the habit of saying "I have a degree in ancient history" so that fellow middle-aged men realize I don't know shit about World War II or the Civil War and did not read that book about World War II or the Civil War.
It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
We already have two movies planned for our Boston weekend, but there's a midnight showing of Sleepaway Camp at the Coolidge...
Probably not the first time Footwear News came up in a discussion of S and M, but nevertheless.
juudes@bsky.social@juudes.bsky.social · 5d agoMay I point out that the "recent example on the web" you have here is very wrong! I can imagine there may be other similar examples.
Also, of course, this, still bsky.app/profile/scal...
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4mo agoI don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
MAMMAL BULLYING A REPTILE: Nice body temperature dude. Did the sun pick it out for you