this is not at all to understate the danger we are dealing with but if I were trying to steal an election I would probably try to get my plan in motion at some point before the first three and a half million votes or so had already been cast, thank God our fascists are stupid procrastinators

Reminder: The U.S. has been staging public executions for a while now. ** (this text also serves as alt-text for the picture of Renee Good below; she's smiling; the text appears in the bottom left of the image)

Todd Alcott@toddalcott.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you are seeking to assuage, console, and comfort then where is the confrontation? Why even be horror? If we aren't here to horrify then what is the point? Why call it horror at all? Genuinely wtf are we doing here?

I do want to clarify a few positions. It isn't that I think horror can't have a happy ending (though you really have to earn it) but that isn't the same as uplifting. Poltergeist has a happy ending. It also forces you as the audience to confront some awful truths about modern America.

Dorian Dawes@doriandawes.bsky.social · 20h ago

Can't stop thinking about the people who want horror to be hopeful and uplifting and why that is so diametrically opposed to what horror is and why we need horror

agreed with the caveat that i think taco bell should make it explicit in their marketing that the chicken crunchwrap, their boldest innovation in decades, is transgender

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 14h ago

Yes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.

Susan Collins had the power to vote no or stop the funding from passing, but she chose to give Trump what he wanted—billions of our tax dollars going to ICE. ICE must be abolished.

nightmare. also, good op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...

Opinion | A TikTok Tarot Card Reader Accused Me of Murder. My Life Turned Upside Down.

If my face and name were not my own, who was I?

nytimes.com

"This corporation is just performing a ritual submission to LBGTQ+ people" is actually an argument that this is awesome folks!

Yes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.

@stefanpaetow.bsky.social@stefanpaetow.eurosky.social · 22h ago

That's nice and all, but much of this is performative, *especially* when corporations are cowed by shareholders and anti-LGBT+ activists. The likes of Costco who gave anti-DEI activists the middle finger should be celebrated because they stand for diversity even in the face of shouty assholes.

This is the level of social acceptance I want for LGBT people:

It’s a sticky biological reality that Jacobin sucks

oh is it monday

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

wrote about Ossoff and El-Sayed calling the Nazis out as Nazis, and how this is a major change from the D party tradition of catering to white identity. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/democrats-...

Democrats Suddenly Are Willing to Call Nazis By Name

Consensus white supremacy is looking wobbly.

everythingishorrible.net

i guess this is just kind of how judges are trained to think but man after two years i am sick of this song

Molly Roberts@mollyroberts.bsky.social · 15h ago

"You know why I'm furious right now? I was hearing from everybody on plaintiffs' side that this was going to happen and I said repeatedly, no, I trust the government. I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done."

i just wanna see ONE attorney for the government spend a single night in a cell for contempt before 2028 that really doesn't seem like much to ask but every judge in the country seems to feel as though it'd be breaking the seventh seal of the apocalypse!

This is the behavior of a dictator. All elected officials must full-throatedly condemn this lawless act of intimidation. I stand with @ilhanmn.bsky.social.

A reminder that we are on native land. From the Bronx to Brooklyn, we honor the original New Yorkers—from before "New York" existed—and the indigenous communities in our city and state today. We resist erasure with reckoning, and marginalization with celebration.

Chronovisor is definitely enmeshed with films and styles of the past, appropriately enough. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPt2...

CHRONOVISOR | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Grasshopper Film

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Jon Dies At The End@accordingtojond.bsky.social · 21h ago

Still thinking about Chronovisor. I've been quite mixed on Cosmic Horror, Blackwood's The Willows terrifies me, Lovecraft bores me, partly, I think, because the monsters all look a bit silly. But Christian Cosmic Horror, that touches something deep. The Second series of Broken Veil touches on this..

just made myself cough from laughing

We asked the governor about income inequality, her Cornell University investigation, and what she'd say to Palestinian New Yorkers on October 7.

Taxing the Rich, Courting the Left: Hell Gate Interviews Governor Kathy Hochul

We asked the governor about income inequality, her Cornell University investigation, and what she'd say to Palestinian New Yorkers on October 7.

hellgatenyc.com

Ukraine keep going ur doing amazing sweetie

WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦@waterblusky.bsky.social · 2d ago

Cloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

I think a lot about how "awareness" became the key currency of a lot of advocacy and protest in the era of social media and how much that has actually been awful for affecting change

Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 2d ago

And then, yeah, the meta-points of: "What is the point of making a smug-ass film. Did you raise awareness? Is awareness what we need? We're all aware. Everyone's aware. Awareness is so cheap and plentiful. And yet we keep repeating mistakes. And I see it but I'm trapped in it too."

Mike Flanagan's Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Also not mentioned in the piece: Republicans joking about the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi, the blanket pardon of January 6th participants, no matter how violent their crimes. This dark atmosphere didn't just suddenly manifest of bipartisan causes.

big day for masuke #critterposting

Masuke🐶+rocogirl👩@rocogirl.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm Masuke, 17 years old. I made it through today! I ate about half my meal, plus an apple, a sweet potato, two pieces of bread, a little cheese, and two sticks of Churu. I also pooped and went for lots of walks. First off, Day 1 of the long weekend—done! Good night

ME WATCHING KIYOSHI KUROSAWA MOVIE: i wonder what he means with that… KIYOSHI KUROSAWA: the computer :) is literal satan :) :)