"invoke the Factory," the name all of us real Cakeheads know it by. "We clocking in for a shift tonight, fellas?" is how I ask my bros to go down to the Factory with me.
Matt@tiredgenerally.bsky.social · yesterday
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Buy KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST from my local bookstore now: https://www.ebbooksellers.com/item/Hq3ZF19tm0p_ea_Y-YTFdA
Matt@tiredgenerally.bsky.social · yesterday
Rush to get... The Failure of the Century at the World Fantasy Convention!
Author Ryu Murakami, whose edgy works explored sex, violence, and youth culture, has died, his publisher said Friday. He was 74.
Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami dies at 74
Murakami’s works, which explored sex, violence, and youth culture, were translated globally.
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Highly recommended! (Which goes for everything Lane wrote.)
Swan River Press@swanriverpress.bsky.social · 4d agoQuis est iste qui venit? THE ANNIVERSARY OF NEVER Joel Lane Dublin: Swan River Press (2015) “It was like a black and white film, or someone else’s memory.” swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/th... Day 22/31 #Booktober #Halloween🎃👻
One bazillion years ago I was editor of Soft Skull Press, an explicitly anarcho-Marxist publisher which through lawsuits bankruptcies buyouts and shuffling became two words owned by a billionaire, a billionaire who today shut down her company as it unionized.
I don't even play video games and I am touched by all the people lamenting the end of Bioware.
BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare
The next ‘Mass Effect’ will be canceled as part of the layoffs
bloomberg.com
I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.
Michel Devanakis (Greek, born 1962) The Edge, 2020 Oil and acrylic on canvas 70 x 100 cm Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Years ago, I worked acquired and edited a book at @beaconpress.bsky.social on this topic. It's amazing to see these projects come on line and work so successfully. I hope the momentum is there to keep them going despite... everything.
Colorado wildlife overpass cut vehicle-animal collisions by 91%, report finds
Elk, bear, frogs and other animals have used the overpass, which connects 39,000 acres of habitat, since its completion
theguardian.com
Been at this for 25 years, and today is the first time I signed contracts for two short stories in one day, and I was also solicited for two more short stories this evening.
Dear Claude please suggest some online side hustles (easy) I can do to get myself out of debt ($80,000,000,000) no nudity feet OK
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d agoBREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.
The Pirate Princess getting around visa issues by performing in international waters is so fittingly perfect
All Elite Central@allelitecentral.com · last wk.Like Ilja Dragunov before, Kairi Sane is believed to be dealing with visa issues and is waiting for this to be resolved before signing with AEW. She is able to work on the Jericho Cruise because this will be in international waters. (Source: Dave Meltzer — Wrestling Observer)
Okay, ya'll. The Apex Magazine Kickstarter still needs another $8,637 to fund 2027 and we only have 10 days to go. I'm starting to get STRESSED! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2027
An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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I tend to exhale when someone snaps my picture.
Teddy Ruxpin's Stunt Double@ruxpinsdouble.bsky.social · 6d agoI was probably out with my friends
DARKEST DEPTHS, a crowdfunded graphic anthology and tribute to the late @tgrant.bsky.social, is now available to the general public via @crystallake.bsky.social. Amazon link is thier affiliate (I think!). My story "Prisoner's Cinema" was drawn by E. V. Cantada and lettered by Micah Myers.
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the sound that this alien probe makes in Star Trek IV? literally Leonard Nimoy going “wub wub wub wub” into a microphone
Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social · 6d agoWe all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.
Santo contra el cerebro del mal was shot in Havana during the revolution, which is why the streets are empty in many of the exterior shots. Everyone was hiding from occasional bursts of gunfire.
Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social · 6d agoWe all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_21482 ISO 21482 is a cool biohazard warning symbol, meant for *inside* sealed radiation sources. The expected audience is people literally right in the middle of the process of tearing open orphaned sources, hence the little guy running away
ISO 21482 - Wikipedia
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Ann was one of the kindest colleagues I have ever known: encouraging, genuine, secure in her own work and self. She was one of my champions at WaPo, and she knew the score there. Ann never hoarded information or opportunity—quite the opposite. She knew there was always room for more of us. 💔
Ann Hornaday, longtime Washington Post film critic, dies at 66
Ann Hornaday, who helped Post readers understand the enduring magic and occasional disappointment of movies, died Sunday at her home in Baltimore. She was 66.
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What that tells me is that there's a certain 'quality bar' you have to be above to be 'in the game' so to speak. But once you're 'in the game' the bestseller list depends on being pushed by the system (being on on the list people first see) or randomly discovered by network effects (word of mouth).
In Korean TV series, the good guys drive Hyundais and the government + gang/corporate bosses drive Genesis. Just saying.
Jalopnik@jalopnik.bsky.social · 6d agoMan, making cars is hard.
