On "gatekeeping", writing is the price of entry to being a writer. It's the only bar you have to clear.
Nelson Stanley
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Romany. Angry. Stories in Ogerog Annual #1, Seize the Press, The Dark, Northern Gravy, Weird Horror #9, Old Moon Quarterly, Kaleidotrope, other places...
Joel Schumacher's Weird of the White Wolf
Maddy B. Hare@mbhare.eurosky.social · 2d agoChristopher Nolan's Pale Fire
Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye are the "two punk icons giving The Cramps a second life": www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How two punk icons are giving the Cramps a second life
“If you lose culture," Henry Rollins explains, "the society dies.”
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I do think ai detectors are nonsense and that there is an obvious racial bias in who gets actually cancelled for ai (as with anything else) but on the other hand this particular guy's own agents distrusted him enough to turn down a six figure payday so the benefit of the doubt only goes so far
Sitting on the terrace of the Dôme, drinking Pernods and talking about sanity with enormous hollows under my eyes.
its disrespectful to your own body to unthinkingly advertise something on it
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo agoDo you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
I passed a guy in the street who was saying to a woman, "The euphoria … it was just incredible. I can see how people get addicted," so I lingered in front of them and it turned out they were talking about claw machines
"A straight line is a lie we tell ourselves; the crooked path is the truth the river knows, for it is only by wandering that we find our way home." Virginia Woolf
Rare and pleasant to find a reading of Le Guin's *Omelas* that recognises the depth of her ethical inquiry.
Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · last wk."Those who treat Omelas as a utilitarian allegory wish to view the child as a concession, a 'gotcha' moment illustrating the ethical quandary alleged to inhere in all joys and comforts. But such a reading is erroneous."
Tiernan's story is amazingly fucked up Check it out!
Cursed Morsels@cursedmorsels.bsky.social · last wk.Between this @gaycannibalism.bsky.social story and the @kjy1066.bsky.social story from earlier this summer, @typebarmagazine.bsky.social is publishing some great fucked-up fiction. Highly recommend "Pink Plastic": www.typebarmagazine.com/pink-plastic/
Originally written by Sarah Harrison and published in the magazine “Slightly Foxed” in Autumn 2010…
No platform, no pasaran!
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · last wk.#OtD 29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info: www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...
When I get to the shop it is open. I carry the papers in. The shopkeeper and I agree that it’s warm. The screen that I have to tap to pay needs rebooting. It takes ages to warm up. The shopkeeper says ‘Sometimes the screen is also tired.’
Murder! [Trans]migration! Mostly post-industrial wastelands! Emotional violence! Actual violence! All in my story "A Vessel", available now in the bumper value Ogerog Annual #1... Buy some Weird Lit! Read my horrible story! www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBMJGZQN
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Released 53 years ago today The self-titled debut album by the New York Dolls; it was released on July 27, 1973, and features the track "Jet Boy." New York Dolls - Jet Boy - Old Grey Whistle Test 1973 #punk #punks #punkrock #protopunk #newyorkdolls #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Gutted. RIP.
Punk Rock History@punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 2w agoI have only just learned this sad news. Lou Koller, the vocalist of the New York hardcore legends Sick of It All, has died. The band announced this today in a statement on social media. The singer succumbed to his severe cancer yesterday. #RipLouKoller 💔🖤
Something something Bronze Age Collapse something loss of written Greek something something writing as technology something something nothing to see here, folks...
The only sci-fi we have going in real life is Children of Men, and it is genuinely disconcerting to hear from evangelists who not only cannot see it but genuinely appear to think they’re Buck Rogers
Barrister Rajiv Menon KC is facing potentially two-years in prison for doing his job. This has never happened in British legal history. Sign the petition 👇 https://netpol.org/2026/07/15/stop-the-prosecution-of-rajiv-menon-save-britains-juries/
"Juries are being cut for political reasons. The descent into authoritarianism is being promoted by govts and now, it seems, by the judiciary, or at least this particular representative of the judiciary. Rajiv, stand firm, and when you look round, there are 1000s behind you": Michael Mansfield KC
We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.
Roberta Metsola@president.europarl.europa.eu · 2w agoFifteen years ago today, 77 lives were taken - most of them young - on an island that should have been a place of summer, friendship, and first ideas about the world they wanted to build. On that day, Norway grieved, and Europe grieved with it. Utøya. Oslo. We remember.
Mention of Bob Hoskins on the timeline has me watching this on repeat several times again
Why would you ever trust a computer enough to upload your consciousness to it? Just die in a Victorian manor and transfer your consciousness to its dilapidated walls in the traditional fashion
The first few sentences of James Baldwin’s essay collection “Notes of a Native Son.” What a writer.
we can’t have nice things anymore because humans are desperate to defend the worst behavior in others with social work terms