You know you want to be part of the next issue of Crossroads. The theme is the folk horror of landscape (US-specific). Now taking proposals for issue 3(both art and writing)! See the call:

Crossroads - Issue 3 - Proposal

The issue theme is "This Haunted Landscape" and will focus on the folk horror of place in the USA. Think haunted places, sacred spaces, and regional cryptids. All contributors will receive a $50 paym...

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This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterday

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.

i would again start finding joy in giving feedback on student papers about the inherent value of their original, idiosyncratic, irreplaceable voices

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 17h ago

I have one answer.

being cooped up all weekend because of a cold while a barrage of bad news fills the timeline is, shockongly, not good for my already shaky mental health. scrolling and posting won't help but neither would me getting people sick at a community organizing thing, am i supposed to just rest?

A large number of people believe that they need to fight the movie they're watching and either "win" or "lose" against it, and that drives me mad.

David Sims@davidlsims.bsky.social · 4d ago

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

The Amnesty report JKR doesn't want people to see. Download, distribute

kirakira High Cheers!!@kiraisgr8.bsky.social · 5d ago

archive.org/search?tab=a... right here in document search! archive.org/details/repo... or here for the doc itself i believe websites can self exclude from the wayback machine, which the archive respects in general, which is probably what they did

"Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun."

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 4d ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

The American Red Cross has opened another evacuation shelter at the Spokane Convention Center for anyone under evacuation orders in north Spokane.

Red Cross opens second evacuation shelter at Spokane Convention Center

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. -- The American Red Cross has opened another evacuation shelter at the Spokane Convention Center for anyone under evacuation orders in north Spokane.

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don't you have something to storke other than that knife? #horrorwatch

he's gonna pickle the fur skin. for later i guess. #horrorwatch

i'm very worried for my Spokane friends right now

kate b.@katebitz.bsky.social · 4d ago

this is incredibly abnormal and scary. always a possibility this decade, extremely bizarre to experience in real time. we’ve got important stuff loaded in the car, not going anywhere at the moment because by all accounts traffic is already very bad www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

i always forget the Catholicism subplot the judge brings up once #horrorwatch

i've missed a fair number of #horrorwatch nights this summer, but i'm popping in for an old classic

Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.

this month's blog post: writing routines, moving, Hadestown, writing groups, Marge Simpson, irrealism, greek stuff. i have a summer cold, i have no idea how coherent any of this is

Dregs

An essay for August.

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August is Women in Translation Month so obviously I'm out here waving the HORROR FICTION flag for book recommendations!

August Submissions Open Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.

August Submissions Open

Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.

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"that's how accidents happen" SIR? HELLO? #folkhorrorfriday

wait, it's the Tying Person to Rope to Find Something bit from A FIELD IN ENGLAND! this really is just a pandemic update! #folkhorrorfriday

the juxtapositon of Zach's cult leader speeches and Olivia's sciencey cosmology is a bit pointed #folkhorrorfriday

this is good horror because someone confident in their own belief system who also resorts to physical coercion is scarier than a horde of zombies #folkhorrorfriday

dario argento ass tent here #folkhorrorfriday

it's weird knowing what Ben Wheatley has been up to lately here in the states when watching this from just five years ago #folkhorrorfriday

love a creepy kid's drawing about forest lore, nothing could go wrong at all #folkhorrorfriday

excited to revisit a film i know i saw but have very little memory of for #folkhorrorfriday

forgot to post this earlier this week: i drove through Salt Lake and decided to look for the filming location for CARNIVAL OF SOULS. instead i found thousands and thousands of spiders. ecohorror!

Fear of Everything 11: Utah

Carnival of Souls, indie films, millions of spiders

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Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.

Elias Thorne@truebe.horse · 6d ago

saw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...

swear to god i'm this close to assigning every AI rube a punk

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

Our final romp through the woods is Ben Wheatley's IN THE EARTH. Join us Friday at 9pm ET. The movie can be streamed for free on Tubi. #FolkHorrorFriday