I'm at the point where I won't go to the hospital, knowing I probably should, because we're still trapped under the bills from my relapse and The Kid's gender affirming care after being cut off by insurance. I stopped asking for help because of guilt and shame, but...the need is still there.

Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚@cknightwrites.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My autoimmune disease is progressive and terminal; it will make me blind, paralyze me completely, end my life. I have to constantly battle back against it, and I've been doing the bare minimum for years because of cost. I need more, and I need help. Every single cent helps. ko-fi.com/cknightwrites

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 3h ago

Hasbro on DHS’ use of Optimus Prime in their deportation slop.

Kicking off my day with some birthday freebies, as is tradition.

It's my birthday! Come celebrate by telling me your favorite weird, unhinged, disturbing, or heartwarming fact. Also, if you wanted to buy a book, today would be a real neat day for it: books2read.com/ap/nze9MZ/TL...

Hey, folks! I'm extending the Cursed Morsels: A Food Systems Horror Anthology call, so you now have until September 28th to submit a story. I was worried I wouldn't have enough stories to fill the book, so it seemed like the right move. Details here: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN Until September 14th) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Ideal…

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Seriously beginning to wonder whether social media is actually benefiting me in any way or if it's just a button that's not hooked up to anything that I keep smashing.

The bread is poisoned and the circus is too expensive.

We have a really well developed ability to project ourselves onto other things.

tunes to make you run away@whippoorwont.bsky.social · 3d ago

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

Hey gang, I truly hate to come around with hat in hand, but my chronic underemployment has left me in a real short-term financial jam, and I could really use some help getting out of it. If you'd consider tossing me a couple of bucks it would mean a lot to me. ko-fi.com/mxdshipwreck

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I just cracked open my third monster energy drink of the morning so, yeah, this week is going great so far! On the bright side at least my head stopped hurting.

Today’s the day!!! My new novel, WE TURN GRUESOME AT NIGHT, is officially out 🖤

Exactly one week since I found Monte. Same box :3

This kitten shit is easy.

Sorry but if antivaxxers were truly looking for people to just treat them kinder they wouldn’t have aligned themselves with every single hate movement that exists, and it’s intolerant to everybody else to act as if that’s not exactly who they are

You want queer communist BIPOC trans art but you also want it from people spending millions on propping up fascist regimes. You are a fucking child. Turn off the cartoons and engage with material reality for two seconds. These people are your enemy.

Announcement! A brand new horror novella, Die Lonely!, will be published by @edgeandbusby.com Jan. 2028!

🎃 Raw Blood and Nerve wants polished, weird-as-hell horror for Halloween 2026. 🩸 ≤6,000 words 💰 1¢/word or $50 minimum 💵 $100 bonus possible 🎃 Halloween optional 📅 Sept. 29 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

the whole idea behind MAHA and the griftosphere more generally is that there is One Neat Trick and that is why they fundamentally do not and can never have a point even if there are small benefits to some particular thing there is no One Neat Trick and never will be

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d ago

Second, MAHA isn’t all that concerned with treatment of disease anyway. Its core claim is that nearly all diseases can be prevented through virtuous lifestyles. If we were all drinking raw milk and taking zinc supplements, we wouldn’t be coming down with heart disease and depression and COVID.

If you've ever worked on a farm, at a ranch, in a food bank, at a grocery store, in a food shipment warehouse, at a food marketing firm, or at any other food systems-related job, I'm very interested in the story you might submit to our food systems call. cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Submission Calls

Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN Until September 14th) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Ideal…

cursedmorsels.com

Coming this Friday from Jack Finn and Crystal Lake Publishing! He Who Has Done Evil is a chilling fusion of historical fiction and supernatural terror, where colonial sins return with teeth and claws to prove the ghosts of empire do not rest, they hunt.

Not all meat is destined for the grinder.

Nearly all stores that sell new books can order a book for you even if they don't have it on their shelves. Here's a quick thread about how that works, and how it's ESPECIALLY helpful for writers who self-publish or have work with small presses.

Cherae@clclarkwrites.com · 3d ago

If you check out @ninocipri.bsky.social on insta, you can see why it's so helpful to authors to request/pre-order books in stores and how it works in real time! www.instagram.com/reel/DakqVmu...

Stop complane about art engmanet being low if you not actively sharing and supporting others art. Nothing on here gets seen without that support to get it on the timeline. You want more art then it’s just that easy to just engage with it even just by commenting on the art you like.

This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan

We're celebrating @elfordalley.bsky.social over on Instagram this week. Why not head on over and be in with a chance of winning a paperback copy of one of his titles 🐀🖤🐀

Spaces for kids have been destroyed or re-worked into stores, adult spaces aren't allowed to be actually "adult" lest we anger the CC companies, and supposedly neutral spaces are full of gambling/porn ads, disinformation, and right-wing pipelines. An internet that is increasingly not for anyone.

Anyway, this quote ... “We sent it out to actors, and no Black actors wanted to play in a movie where there are no good Black people,” he said. “And it sort of died. But then AI came along, and I didn’t need Black actors.” ... is a perfect example of exactly who AI was created for.

"Is this a flea bite or a tiny kitten scratch" new horror story coming soon. Also fun fact unrelated to anything in my life right now, did you know that sticktight fleas carry plague?

Part of being a kitten is just pausing to have an existential crisis every so often as the weight of existence beads down upon you and you glimpse the horrors through the veil. Then your brain reboots and you flip over and resume playing.

This is kicking off in 15 at @booksonthebosque.bsky.social Come see us! Be there or be square!