I'm just gonna point out that the essays defending the use of GenAI in art are usually really poorly argued.

A few very pointed thoughts on "that" op-ed from the HWA newsletter: An organization with a published anti-AI statement should know better than to publish an inflammatory, antagonistic, racist, poorly researched, poorly argued, pro-AI op-ed in their newsletter. I have seen the statements that...

Have always appreciated Ruthanna Emrys (@r-emrys.bsky.social) and Anne M. Pillsworth's take on my stories. I based this one on a) my experience as a half-Indonesian in college/grad school, and b) mysterious trail disappearances (Trenny Lynn Gibson, Paula Jean Welden). reactormag.com/a-little-kno...

A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing: Nadia Bulkin’s “Things to Know Before You Go” - Reactor

This vacation carries a terrible curse...

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Shit! One of my favorite actors, capable of so much intensity (and willing to do so much insane work). RIP Sam Neill.

Sam Neill as Dr. Grant Looking Surprised

Alt: Sam Neill as Dr. Grant Looking Surprised

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Carol Duncan@carolduncan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Oh my heart. We've lost Sam Neill. :(

This is how I found out that 17 years after my first nomination, my writing actually won a Shirley Jackson. Thanks @johnlangan.bsky.social. Thank you to the jurors. Thank you to my publisher @ghoulish.bsky.social. This is wild, lol.

CONGRATULATIONS TO NADIA BULKIN FOR WINNING A SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD FOR HER COLLECTION, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY! WE ARE SO INCREDIBLY PLEASED!!! HELL YES!!! AHHHHHH! @nadiabulkin.bsky.social

Me watching women's sports: I hope everyone has fun! 😇 Me watching men's sports: Dear God please not X or Y or Z 🤮

THE LONG WALK: In a destitute America, fifty boys walk under military guard until only one is left. Despite the premise this is neither YA hopepunk nor Lord of the Flies; the boys are all depicted fairly and kindly, making the perverse cruelty of the situation all the more searing. Grade = A-. (HBO)

What I find most hilarious* about the Graham Platner thing is that both "centrist Dems" and "leftists" are blaming the entire thing on each other. As well as claiming that the only people still supporting him are each other (I've seen supporters in both camps so don't even try that on me). *gross

Roommate and I are aligned on so many things in so many ways, but he will still root for the U.S. national team in whatever sport and I'm just sitting there going

Chelsea Islan Smiles and Gives Thumbs Up

Alt: Indonesian actress Chelsea Islan looking like she's hiding something

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Ha ha I hate it here

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

Posting to mark the hilarity of a Moroccan player who plays for a Dutch FC sending the Netherlands home last night. -- "If a player of Moroccan heritage was good enough for Oranje, the assumption was they would choose the Netherlands. That assumption no longer exists." www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

World Cup 2026: How Morocco won the battle for Dutch-born talent

Morocco’s World Cup meeting with the Netherlands tells a story about migration, identity and the battle for Dutch-born talent.

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Hey it's me!! Also on the subject of what you can do with a poli sci degree... fiction is indeed the only thing I do for money related to my poli sci degree. Which is kind of hilarious considering I went through a "what if I drop out of college to become a writer" period that really upset my mom.

Brian Keene@briankeene.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm up early for day 65 of Women In Horror Year. Grab a coffee or a tea and let's talk about @nadiabulkin.bsky.social's blisteringly great She Said Destroy: www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...

An astonishing expose of the secret directives Tulsi Gabbard received throughout her political career. They appear to have come from the leader of the cult to which she belonged.

Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career — The Washington Post

I obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them.

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Me watching DC election results come in and seeing regime-friendly McDuffie and Pinto losing

I feel like I should be more hyped about a movie like The End of Oak Street because I love dinosaurs, but I feel like I've just about mcfuckinghadit with generic suburban families in peril.

INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes. We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s odds

The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.

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BACKROOMS: A furniture store owner discovers a door to what appears to be an endless office space littered with busted AI artifacts. Definitely more about eerie vibes than anything else, but as a "No-End House"-like expression of uncanny 90s suburban malaise, it's on point. Grade = A-.

Hahaha. NPR doesn't know the difference between unnoticed and under-reported because they're guilty of the second one

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Misogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed.

Everyone should go read “Issues with Authority” but only if you can deal with psychic cult members working for the CIA and beauty contestants with holes in their bodies. Now Shirley Jackson nominated!!!

Nadia Bulkin@nadiabulkin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Honestly did not expect this -- ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY, my second collection, got nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award! 😯 I'm very honored and thrilled for the press as well @ghoulish.bsky.social

Honestly did not expect this -- ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY, my second collection, got nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award! 😯 I'm very honored and thrilled for the press as well @ghoulish.bsky.social

LURKER: An awkward hanger-on worms his way into the inner circle of a self-obsessed singer-songwriter. Think Parasite x Ingrid Goes West, except this psychodrama about a symbiotic, toxic relationship is set between two young men in LA and suffused with menace and loneliness. Grade = A+. (HBO)

The Traitors Canada Season 3: one of the best I've ever seen (and I've seen so many). Can be challenging to keep a game show formula fresh, but damn did they pull it off. Hats off 🇨🇦

The knockout story of @chaosium.bsky.social's collection is @nadiabulkin.bsky.social's "Pro Patria!" for no real reason related to today's political climate. (Vaguely gestures around, screams eternally) #horror #booksky

Starting season 2 of Deadwood, and I have just one question: does Timothy Olyphant's acting ever improve?

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

WHISTLE: See below. Grade = D. (Shudder)

Nadia Bulkin@nadiabulkin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I propose an immediate moratorium on horror movies where the way to dodge a death curse is to have one's heart stopped and then restarted. It's an embarrassment to the death curse genre, and frankly, to Death itself.