Colin Dickey
@colindickey.com
Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Don't sleep on this offer, folks! Also, don't sleep on this embalming table, you sickos
shiftedshaped - emily mae@shiftedshaped.bsky.social · 2h agoLooking to get rid of a heavy porcelain embalming table.. You in the market? Breaking it down feels so sad & wasteful.
Society really started going to shit once restaurants normalized calling sandwiches “sandos”
Perhaps my favorite haunted house story of all time, and the one I go back to the most.
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
My exwife and I used to sing “No Children” together because we thought it was fun and ironic and anyway we’re divorced now
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d agoI don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
It is shocking to me that they let this man out in public, let alone pretend he is in charge of *anything*
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Now we have a big decision to make. Do we take the pavers that are red -- the red, brick pavers -- and do we change them into a granite?"
My god this thread (complimentary)
Louis@louisevans.bsky.social · 6d agoAngela Carter writes like she’s on the run from Horny Interpol
Good observation by Jonathan Shay that all three of the great Greek tragedians depicted Odysseus as a complete and total asshole because all three were themselves war veterans and certainly knew a thing or two about having to serve under idiot commanders.
Look, we talk a lot about how GenX kids were exposed to a lot of terrifying shit passed off as "kid's movies"--Return to Oz, The Last Unicorn, The Neverending Story, The Rescuers, etc. But nothing, and I mean *nothing*, was as fucked up as that Garfield comic. Nothing comes close.
Karl Steel@karlsteel.bsky.social · 2d agogreat chain of material from @colindickey.com here on, WARNING, dead pets, mourning, and a very, very scary Garfield: glacialerrata.beehiiv.com/p/glacia-err...
fwiw, I’ve found a sometimes winning argument with people who might be on the fence about this absolute bullshit is “these sick fucks want random adults you don’t know to look down your daughter’s shorts before they’ll let her play soccer”
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
We really should be pushing more colloidal silver on the “Do Your Own Research” crowd—at least that way they’d be instantly marked and you’d know to avoid them
Marc Veldhoen@marcveld.bsky.social · 2d agoI'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.
RFK Jr’s voice sounds like someone feeding rocks to a kitchen sink garbage disposal, like the CIA is waterboarding a toad.
Will you fucking look at this ridiculousness
Elizabeth Harper@cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 4d agothe belly rub lover
If you could help spread the word, that would be great.
Colin Dickey@colindickey.com · 5d ago10 years ago Ally Brueger, a student of mine, was murdered in broad daylight while she was out jogging. To this day there have been no arrests. But someone out there knows something. If you know anything that could bring some closure and peace to her parents, please contact Michigan State Police.
10 years ago Ally Brueger, a student of mine, was murdered in broad daylight while she was out jogging. To this day there have been no arrests. But someone out there knows something. If you know anything that could bring some closure and peace to her parents, please contact Michigan State Police.
Who shot Ally Brueger? After 10 years, jogger's killing remains a mystery
Students at Western Michigan University are helping digitize and organize the case file.
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Goddamn I hate agreeing with JCO, and yet
Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 7d agoOkay now it's getting real
Someone I know please buy this and then take me on adventures with you
Bring a Trailer@bringatrailer.bsky.social · last wk.Mystery Machine-Style 1994 GMC Vandura G-1500
[eleanor rigby voice] connecticut bigfoot hids in the woods outside Lyme but is spotted by rubes doesn't have boobs
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last wk.FAKE NEWS, BIGFOOT HAS PROPORTIONALLY BIG NATURALS
This guy kept talking to me at this bar and asked me what I did and I mumbled “writer” and then asked him what he did and he said he was a private equity lawyer and I said “oh so you’re responsible for the decay of the world” and then he left the bar
jesus christ people will not shut the fuck up about it even in death
Said it and meant it and can’t wait for you all to read this
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · last wk.In a very nice blurb, @colindickey.com said that ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES "opens up the questions whose answers too often go assumed and unasked: Who is worth mourning? Are there other ways of grieving?" The wait is almost over, since it's out tomorrow!
i love @colindickey.com’s newsletter and i love this installment extra glacialerrata.beehiiv.com/p/glacial-er...
Glacial Errata, No. 81
Five Things for the Week of July 27, 2026.
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it’s called the odyssey because so many of you are acting odd after seeing it
My read is that there was a time when Wilson was seen as *the* public intellectual authority on Homer and now she's pissed that someone else with a high profile has another take on it. It all comes across as extremely weird and petty.
Summer Warhammer Chick@celticdragon1.bsky.social · last wk.Being an expert on the original source material *doesn't make you an expert on a visual artistic interpretation* of that material. I really think she fundamentally doesn't understand film as an artistic medium.
