NecronomiCon was, once again, a total blast and absolutely incredible. If you're into weird fiction, it's an absolute must-attend con, great insightful panels, welcoming and diverse scene, really the top o' the heap of cons in my opinion!
Eric Williams
@geoliminal.bsky.social
anarcho-communist; calling upon the aid of Hell books: Toadstones (Malarkey Books 2022); Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation (Paradise Editions, 2023) website: geoliminal.com/writing/
Masaki Kobayashi‘s 1964 horror classic KWAIDAN is coming to theaters this Fall with a 4K restoration of the Director's Cut. The film spins four tales of the supernatural. "These haunting tales, adapted from Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening."
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
forever-wars.com
For the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about W.G. Sebald and how Austrian literature shaped him as an academic and writer of fiction: clereviewofbooks.com/wg-sebald-si...
One Misfortune After Another: On W. G. Sebald's "Silent Catastrophes" - Cleveland Review of Books
An impressively miserable lot, to be sure, but once Sebald advances from the general to the particular, distortions emerge in his gloomy but picturesque vision...
clereviewofbooks.com
the year is 2028 coca cola bottles now tell me to steal neighborhood dogs. cheetos want me to kill my dad.
charles (young QB agnostic) mcdonald@fourverts.bsky.social · 5h agois everything just completely insane and incoherent now
I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning
Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterdayReport Suggests Nearly No One Is Buying AI Generated Goods https://kotaku.com/3d-model-markets-are-being-flooded-with-ai-sellers-but-no-ones-buying-2000724790
lmao wow ward churchill died. his sept 11th essay remains a perfect encapsulation of the "terrible man just made great point" things, but for real, he was a bonkers as polygenist, fuck him
#OtD 18 Aug 1936 the gay socialist poet Federico García Lorca was most likely executed, during the Spanish civil war. "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...
King Ludd’s Rag is a magazine devoted to long short stories. With no ads or grants we rely on sales to cover author payments (a somewhat nominal fee of $100 per story). The 27th issue comes out in October and is up for preorders now: malarkeybooks.com/store/klr27
King Ludd's Rag No. 27 — Malarkey
King Ludd’s Rag No. 27 features two short stories: "Deadhead" by E. Nolan and "Sunscorched in Cactus Town" by Rebecca Grandsen.
malarkeybooks.com
I love how Toni Morrison was one of largest financial backers of Ishmael Reed’s play that portrays Lin-Manuel Miranda being haunted by historical figures who were omitted or whitewashed by the musical and for glossing over Hamilton's slave ownership and treatment of Native and Black populations.
Toni Morrison Funded Anti-Hamilton Play Because She Hated Musical So Much
Writer Ishmael Reed has been one of Hamilton's most ardent critics and wrote a play called "The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda" in 2019.
newsweek.com
Xavier D’Leau@xavierdleau.com · 6mo agoThis is a Lin Manuel Miranda hate account and podcast. linktr.ee/jadeandxd
not often you get told your book made someone want to read Borges, so expect to see me reposting this great review of TOADATONES a lot
Millions of Dead Chris@thecorlew.bsky.social · 4d agoFriday Links is UP! Featuring @geoliminal.bsky.social @kdonhoops.com @jwashing.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658713
not often you get told your book made someone want to read Borges, so expect to see me reposting this great review of TOADATONES a lot
Millions of Dead Chris@thecorlew.bsky.social · 4d agoFriday Links is UP! Featuring @geoliminal.bsky.social @kdonhoops.com @jwashing.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658713
Today at #NecronomiConPVD, the feminine as monstrous, featuring witches, xenomorphs, slashers, mothers as “smothers,” and yūrei. The theme for this weekend seems to be…
Lucille Bluth's Iconic 'Good For Her' - Arrested Development
Alt: Lucille Bluth holding a cupcake and saying “Good for her“ in an episode of Arrested Development.
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If you read one thing about Jason Arday (RIP) and the vicious media onslaught against him, make it this. “His rise and fall expose the moral bankruptcy of a system that wants the appearance of racial progress without the work of structural change.” open.substack.com/pub/paulddf/...
Who Killed Jason Arday?
Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British a...
open.substack.com
The guy who started the pile-on that led to Jason Arday's death is an actual full-scale white supremacist.
Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 4d agoIn the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
Friday Links is UP! Featuring @geoliminal.bsky.social @kdonhoops.com @jwashing.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658713
Please enjoy this interview with horror-leaning S&S mag editor @carlc75.bsky.social! eternalhauntedsummer.com/forests-haun...
Interview: Carl Ellis
[Today we sit down for a quick interview with Carl Ellis. An author and editor, Ellis is launching a new fantasy/horror zine entitled Ichor Magazine. Here, Ellis discusses his plans for Ichor, the …
eternalhauntedsummer.com
I say this without exaggeration that this is honestly one of my favourite short story collections ever. I don’t think there’s a story here I don’t like, and too many to name that I adore. @geoliminal.bsky.social should bless us with a sequel.
Malarkey@malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 5d agoWe have a few copies of @geoliminal.bsky.social’s delightful and underpriced collection of short stories available. Toadstones, in addition to containing the finest of writing, also features what most scholars agree is the amazingest book cover in history. malarkeybooks.com/store/toadst...
We have a few copies of @geoliminal.bsky.social’s delightful and underpriced collection of short stories available. Toadstones, in addition to containing the finest of writing, also features what most scholars agree is the amazingest book cover in history. malarkeybooks.com/store/toadst...
Toadstones by Eric Williams — Malarkey
Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star’s lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper’s final job for her late employer. An exhumation to retrieve a poetry manuscri...
malarkeybooks.com
The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet
“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder
science.org
'...greenhouse gas concentrations, global sea level, and ocean heat content all reached record highs in 2025.' climateandcapitalism.com/2026/08/11/e...
Emissions, sea level and ocean heat reach record highs | Climate & Capitalism
Meteorologists’ report shows record and near-record temperatures across the globe in 2025…
climateandcapitalism.com
I've talked about the Sameer Project before—an excellent life-saving on-the-ground initiative in Gaza. Since April 2024, they've distributed nearly a quarter of a million meals alone (plus water, medical care, and shelter). But funding has dropped so much that they'll have to shut down without help.
Food & Water x The Sameer Project
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...
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including some remarks on @minorliteratures.bsky.social
badaude@badaude.bsky.social · 2w agothe @bostonreview.bsky.social asked me, What Was the Internet? One thing it was (is!) is a space for literary experimentation that bypassed offline gatekeepers, now under threat. featuring 3am Magazine @minorlits.bsky.social @tobiasvryan.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
This could be the basis for a lovecraftian story about the serpent god Yig. "When my mother was a girl, she was a snake catcher. She made a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows. She just grebbed them!"
