"SpaceX remains its own biggest customer. There just aren’t enough other people who want its rockets. And, I dunno, maybe if the rockets were a primary focus of the company, SpaceX wouldn’t be in danger of blasting a new crater into the Moon with its space trash." Read more: buff.ly/d9lBTQN

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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I'm very grateful to the HWA board for quickly and resoundingly rejecting Giron's opinion piece and removing her from the board. This was 100% the right call, and frankly, I wasn't entirely sure it would be made. But the statement pulls no punches and leaves no room for doubt. That's good. ... 1/?

How anyone at the HWA let that pro-AI essay be published is beyond me. It's not just the stance or the tired argument about "gatekeeping" so much as the fact that it reads like the worst kind of angry Facebook post your parents ever embarrassed you with. The editor should be ashamed they let ... 1/?

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It is worth noting that the writer of that HWA newsletter telling people to embrace AI, has an AI based coaching app they are selling

Finally got around to watching Backrooms. It was extremely fine. Immensely okay. But no, there's some good shit in there. I especially admired the choice to make every shot feel liminal, even cityscapes and other interstitials. Doesn't really hang together too well or say much, but I had a fun time

A ★★★ review of Backrooms (2026)

There's a lot to like about Backrooms, but also not a lot of it holds together as well as it could've. The visual and sound design are great. It's not a "scary" film in particular, more discomfiting, ...

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yeah no thanks, I just read the synopsis of Threads last night

Talking Scared Podcast@talkscaredpod.bsky.social · yesterday

This is maybe the scariest episode I've ever released. Annie Jacobsen joins me for a conversation about BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO - her speculative non-fiction menace of a book, in which she traces an engineered pathogen from its lab escape to the end of civilisation. Enjoy. Sort of.

Received these in the mail, and they are BEAUTIFUL. From Obsidian Codex Press. Details: www.patreon.com/lovecraftezi...

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d ago

Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ritual Chime Blight by NI Yipeng www.artstation.com/a...

This is what happens when you tolerate intolerance.

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.

Don't forget to pre-order this beauty, if you haven't. Dropping October. We're not crowd-funding this. The only way it keeps going is through your generosity. Plus, it's pretty good. Shoot me a line if you're unsure if you've pre-ordered. Thx!! undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

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Awakening

to be clear: if i see you wearing these they will be smashed

A6700 Laowa 65mm Macro

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Fuckin hell yeah! Clash is awesome, Joe is awesome, dead boys are ... well, I don't know, context matters. Either way, this is great news. Congrats, can't wait to read it!

Joe Koch@horrorsong.blog · 2d ago

In case you missed it, here's the PW announcement! We're already finalizing the ARC & cover. I am excited. I am ready to make you suffer.

Man, today sucked. Time to hunker down and finally watch Hokum, a movie I wanted to see in theaters but couldn't because I couldn't afford to drive an hour and a half to see it.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonades* *grenades made of lemons, to wage war on life

A felon getting immunity to cheat on his taxes is a good enough compromise for GOP leadership to confirm the felon’s personal lawyer to be the U.S. Attorney General.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

“.. Blanche posted a second statement saying that only Mr. Trump, two of his sons and the Trump Organization would be immune from audits ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Prepared to donate to candidates whose platform includes opposing genitalia inspectors for little girls.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

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Does everyone here know that @craigbrittain.com, who is currently masquerading as an anti-MAGA warrior, was fined in 2016 for operating a revenge porn website? A *lot* of y’all follow him. ⚠️ Marked as unsafe. ⚠️ www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

It's supposed to be 109 tomorrow. I'd say "kill me", but what would be the point when I'm clearly going to die anyway.

Breathe through your nose Scream out your mouth

The only other time a second-term president had approval ratings this low at this point in the cycle, he resigned a week later.

Finally getting around to watching Weapons. I'm only like, what, 8 months late or something? A year? So far I'm digging it, anyway.

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