Happy coming out day to all who celebrate. Coming out was the best decision I ever made - it genuinely saved my life. I wrote about those struggles several years ago, in the form of this video essay, which remains some of my most honest work. youtu.be/E_TNelGse54?...

A Video About HBO's The Last of Us (Episode 3)

YouTube video by laborkyle

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I don't know why you've waited to read @boneysoups.bsky.social's deliciously bloody RED SACRAMENT, but the ebook is currently under $3. I mean, that's less than one-third of a banana, Michael.

The Red Sacrament

A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris on the cusp of revolt and revolution, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and ...

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Great things about Norway thus far: refills on coffee everywher, a great public transport system, excellent knitwear as far as the eye can see and seagulls that know no fear.

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

I reviewed Mike Flanagan's CARRIE, a limp and lifeless adaptation which sands away everything ugly and difficult about the original novel and replaces it with... not much, actually. www.patreon.com/scumbelievab...

lmao, I was too nice www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

god, this was a challenge

Had an amazing evening at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social talking with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and Eleanor Drage about AI, political economy and the political imagination necessary for a better tech future to a packed out audience

“The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon” by Jon Greenway :

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon

Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.

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This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

Ok, silly, sweet, mostly funny and occasionally eye roll worthy while also being deeply and earnestly self-exposing. The matte paintings are beautiful, the performances are really enjoyable and there's some great needle drops. I love the movies!!

Jon@thelitcritguy.bsky.social · last wk.

Now watching, FINALLY

Now watching, FINALLY

The real horror is of course, the capitalist "Grindset" (ba-dum tsss!)

Seventeen to go. Only seventeen 🫠

Jon@thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

69. David Annandale, "Ruinstorm" - never encouraging when the author feels the need to explain their symbolism in the afterword. Aiming for cosmic horror but can really only arrive at a repetitious cycling through overly familiar images. Another deeply disappointing book.

It’s wild how late they are. Cute was the aesthetic move fifteen years ago, now dominated by korean and Chinese producers. And also that thing isn’t that cute www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/fro...

From minimal to magical: Playful designs, cute collaborations reshape K-beauty marketing

Korea's beauty industry is ramping up collaborations with cute, popular characters for limited-edition merchandise to generate hype on social media and drive sales. The shift reflects the industry’s f...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”

If you'd like to know what reading dozens upon dozens of 40k novels can do to a person, I invite you to listen to the below.

Happy Hour at Hippel's@sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 3w ago

How do we narrativize dystopia when utopian futures have faded? How does the Horus Heresy help us understand Hegel's ideas about tragedy, religion, and Empire? Join @laboringleon.bsky.social , @thelitcritguy.bsky.social , and myself as we get Grimdark! open.spotify.com/episode/6J1P...

How do we narrativize dystopia when utopian futures have faded? How does the Horus Heresy help us understand Hegel's ideas about tragedy, religion, and Empire? Join @laboringleon.bsky.social , @thelitcritguy.bsky.social , and myself as we get Grimdark! open.spotify.com/episode/6J1P...

living through a red scare in Berlin while Nazis are taking over other states is very exciting! if only someone diagnosed the mass psychology of group paranoia

Rip Ferrus Manus, you would have loved Armoured Core VI by FromSoftware

🚨NEW POST🚨 Zach Cregger's take on Resident Evil is a blast, trading out a gun-totting Milla Jovovich in favor of traditional survival horror that embodies all the anxiety of its spineless yet lovable lead. Great time at the movies! 🔗 www.patreon.com/stevebaxi/po...

On the next episode of Acid Horizon:

Reposting because I have under one month left of an interminable three-month notice period, and any and all bits of freelance work I can get in the meantime is going to help me through a financially difficult time as I start working for myself.

Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So I handed in my notice at my current job this morning - long overdue, my company is becoming more toxic as it and its industry circle the drain. I'm going to be starting my own thing, but that could mean some lean months ahead. If anyone has any freelance writing work then DM me.

"The forces of the enemy mobilise a political subject, but not in a history of their choosing." Me for Prometheus drawing on Baudrillard, Jonas Marvin, Kian Aspinall and @johntheduncan.bsky.social 's analysis of 'neoliberal fascisms' in the consumer society.

Prometheus Magazine@prometheusmagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

Adam C. Jones looks at how neoliberalism has restructured the political subjects required for classical fascism, producing a "Simulacral Fascism" of signs and sensibilities detached from historical forms. prometheus-mag.com/2026/09/01/t...

#OtD 10 Sep 1676 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley died aged 66. He was a tailor and the primary theoretician of the Diggers during the English civil war who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8250...

Let people enjoy things? No.

Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · last mo.

i don't think anyone should enjoy anything

reading this like dearheadofmine.substack.com/p/the-nonfic...

Wrote a whole book about why this is true 🙏

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’m coming to understand that maintaining hope is radical.

you heard it here first: Gretchen and I are in the business of making you look cool and business is booming 😎

Sean@flyingwalruss.bsky.social · last mo.

Thanks for making me look cool at Barnes & Noble @scumbelievable.bsky.social & @boneysoups.bsky.social. The snobby employee i see all the time said I have “incredible taste”. Sorry for being late, but I’m so pumped to finally dive in

In my review of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, I talk about letting go of discourse, getting out of your head, and embracing bimbo mindset.

RS Benedict@rsbenedict.bsky.social · last mo.

A Long Dismember www.currentaffairs.org/news/teenage...

Realizing I have more James Swallow novels in my future

Jon@thelitcritguy.bsky.social · last mo.

66. James Swallow, "Garro" - from the best book in the series to the worst. I'm trying to find something of interest to say but god this shit sucks. I'm dangerously close to burning out on these books and there's still twenty to go.