Making this one by @garethwatkins.bsky.social free to read today.

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2w ago

"There has never been a better time in human history to be stupid," @garethwatkins.bsky.social writes. "Today even the stock market is for dumb guys. There’s quantum physics for idiots." www.welcometohellworld.com/there-has-ne...

lol eat shit

the sims got it figured out, i wish i had an ominous rotating crystal shard hovering above my head at all times letting people around me know the aggregate status of my meters

Good on @weareravenous.com for being so thoughtful about freelance commissions, and also … man, things are bleak www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance...

the energy I’m bringing into August

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

staring god dead in the eye and saying you’re locked in here with me

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wait does this mean you can leave hell?

Apparently r/gaming got ahold of this and is mad at it but they don’t pay me so I don’t give a shit.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Blogged it. Happy Hater Week. aftermath.site/war-crime-n6...

If you have a comedy show coming up, please feel free to use this image I made instead of AI

Matt Apodaca@mattapodaca.bsky.social · last yr.

I’ve been seeing too many people using AI generated images to promote comedy shows and I just think that’s wack and it shouldn’t be happening!!! There’s not an acceptable excuse for it and also it looks bad! Makes it seem like the general quality of the show will be bad too!!

This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.

Do YOU want to write for Episodes? Great news: now you can! We're open for freelance pitches again after a long absence. Here's a pitch guide: episodes.ghost.io/episodes-is-...

Episodes is OPEN for freelance pitches!

Want to write for us? Check out this pitch guide!

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God damn I love THAO hoorah for new album inbound finally youtu.be/zRsZDlT-cho

THAO - Sick of the Times ft. Tune-Yards & The Linda Lindas (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Thao

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Her Personal Hell finally answers the question “What if Nicolas Winding Refn made a movie?”

phone booth lands outside of garage, doors open. rufus come meet these most excellent babes that we have just plucked from a dire situation out of a crevice of this australian hanging rock

This is your informal (not formal) notice that Act Two (the second half) of Ambrosia Sky (an atmospheric sci-fi cleaning game about saying goodbye) comes out next week (August 6th). It's a free (🚫💰) update for all existing owners, which could be you (the person reading this)! ➡ ambrosiasky.com

I want something else / to get me through this / semi-Cronenberg-style guy / baby baby I’m not listening when you say… “his wife???”

I had a great time chatting with @paultremblay.bsky.social about horror writing, unusual narrative approaches, and his new anti-AI novel DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

Processing: How Paul Tremblay Wrote Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep

The author on writing horror and comedy, unusual narrative approaches, and pouring AI anxieties into fiction.

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reading a shitty article by a writer I don’t like: what a fucking hack, pathetic reading an article from a writer i do like that admittedly isn’t their best work: yeah you get your bag, baby

[with a mouthful of dog shit] I told you I couldn't be hypnotized

Telescopes probably use mirrors which means there is absolutely no way to know how many vampires there are in space.

KANSAS CITY

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 4mo ago

Someone 2 years ago reviewed the Silent Hill book I made with my friend @brockwilbur.bsky.social and I'm just now seeing it! I'm glad they liked it! youtu.be/Zxui3GOpLzw?...

Our Special Place by Whitney Chavis and Brock Wilbur | Video Game Book Club

YouTube video by Paul Werkema

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AI event flyers are ruining my life cause I didn't know I had so many friends with bad taste

Dudes! I got to profile Kelly Sue DeConnick for Publishers Weekly! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Kelly Sue DeConnick Keeps it Close to Home

In her latest comics series, the comics author mixes monstrous magic into a timely family dramedy.

publishersweekly.com

Flipping through a King's Quest guidebook, I came across some lovely photos of some of the Sierra On-Line team at work, including Roberta Williams. Likely early-mid 1988. 📖: The Official Book of King's Quest: Daventry & Beyond, 1988.

Is it “What have they done to us?”

backrooms (2026)

what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked

So...Bill Paxton from Frailty? Republicans want Bill Paxton from Frailty running a state government?

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4w ago

Colorado's Republican candidate for governor hunts demons and says he killed a man when he was seven.