I've always wondered if Callisto was intentionally kind of a phony. "Oh you pretty boys like Nightcrawler can walk around on the surface. I don't have that choice. I'm missing an eye, I have to live in the sewer." Had to look up her powers, wasn't even sure she had any.

We need to bring back “iconic actor branded horror anthology” as a publishing genre.

Another interesting study here. For fiction short stories, people can id chatgpt (which is not even the best fiction model) at or below chance, wrong more often than right. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Bot or not: Can people tell the difference between stories written by a human or by an AI system? | Judgment and Decision Making | Cambridge Core

Bot or not: Can people tell the difference between stories written by a human or by an AI system? - Volume 21

cambridge.org

Boy, the 70s were something!

DC not afraid to go with the classics.

"Hey, Jimmy, got that op research on Paxton. Kind of a nothingburger, he didn't change his voter registration when he moved. I mean, lots of people do that. Worse for him, I guess, since he goes on about election fraud. Before we go with this I have to check, www.texastribune.org/2026/08/05/t...

Talarico voter registration in question amid scrutiny of Paxton - The Texas Tribune

After hitting his GOP foe for voting under an address where he no longer lived, the Tribune and ProPublica found the Democratic Senate candidate also appears to have done so.

texastribune.org

These screenshots were taken out of context. Yes, the men are wearing head to toe camo, but these are tactical sports bras. Worst of both worlds - enough to be disrespectful but not enough to be actually horny.

I was reminded looking up Secret Wars UK covers that only Marvel UK had the commercial nous to put the most important scene in comics history on the cover

Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · last mo.

Secret Wars II is most famous for the scene in which Spider-Man teaches cosmic naif the Beyonder to take a dump but the honest truth is that you can read any of the issues of this miniseries and the question "how in the name of god did this get published?" is never far away

Every year or so I scan through mainland China direct to streaming movies looking for a diamond in the rough. China makes like five good movies a year and 10k bad ones, and not good bad ones like the 80s and 90s. Some screenshots will earn a viewing, I am not a strong person.

This man has a sex tape.

Watching a show from the last days of NAWA, Aug 1991, Taz(maniac) vs Tommy Dreamer with Joey Styles commentating. If you thought Taz' early ECW outfits were humiliating...

When I see old clips of Jim Ross or Joey Styles, I wonder if they dropped their regional accents to sound more standard, if they later cranked up their "original" accent as part of the character, and where their "normal" voice falls inbetween.

Here's a good example of selection bias. I was curious how effective campaign money actually is, saw that between 90-95% of the best funded campaigns win, which went against what I was seeing in a lot of races I followed. Here's where the bias comes in - the ones I'm paying attention to are close

The Phantom Zone criminals can project their thoughts to influence the will of mankind, basically Richard Shaver's Deros.

NEW POINT OF IMPACT BOOK ALERT! We are thrilled to say that today is release day for Cell Block: Dead Men in Old Stone, by Sterling Dodge ( @fugitivecourier.bsky.social )! Bone-crunching action galore! Get it in ebook and paperback below! books2read.com/deadmenoldst...

Watched STREET WARS (1992) This movie is absolutely wild. It's like Boyz n the Hood, but with kids cleaning up the streets by shooting people with Uzis from microlights. Do yourself a favour and watch this film.

Book signing in one week at the Half Price Books on May Ave in OKC! Be there! I love you.

@worstmovies.bsky.social unknowingly pulled a fake out on me. Does anyone else remember the Sega CD game Night Trap?I realize it's made up of nothing but FMV, however, the plot is so ridiculous and dated, I really think it would work as a film. On the nose or something more subversive, just gimme.

Worst Movies Ever@worstmovies.bsky.social · 4d ago

Night Trap (1993) TMDB score 41% A New Orleans cop tries to track down and stop a vicious and demonic killer whom has sold his soul to the devil for invulnerability and immortality. #movies #moviesky #badmovies

So @oivas.com gave me one of his dad’s old Larry Kent pulps in Finnish. This was a hugely successful long running faux American crime series published in Australia by Cleveland Publications, but l had no idea it had also been republished overseas. I wonder where else it appeared?

Got the whole study on AI and rare expressions, it's here: arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20349 I'll start with my biases - I've provided data to tons of academic researchers and at best they have no subject matter expertise on the topic, at worst use bad faith cherry picking and willfully misinterpreting the

Every time I see Mark Dacascos in something I think "this isn't very good, but I like Mark Dacascos, he was good in..." and then I can't think of enough good Mark Dacascos movies to justify a positive opinion. Crying Freeman? Brotherhood of the Wolf? Watching Drive now supposedly his best.

You never know what you'll find at PulpFest! We are thrilled to be sharing some space with author Clyde Wrenn ( @clydewrenn.bsky.social )! He's brought PulpLand to Pittsburgh! Come get some!

A book good enough for a debut author to be offered $2m, which is fucking insane, dropped by his agent on vibes and because the author's story changed, whatever that means. Still only seeing this happen to debut Black authors. Even if they are using AI, Black www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use

Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’

theguardian.com

20. What songs inspire you to write? My wip each character has their own little soundtrack. For instance, the pirate queen goes with Adam Ant.

Warmed my heart a little seeing 95% of the comments calling bullshit that AIPAC bought an election by spending millions _against_ the winner, but oh no, turns out that every one of those bluesky lefties was paid by ZOG. And must have paid bluesky to suppress the millions organically supporting her.

Trash Fiction Championship@trashmenace.bsky.social · last wk.

A generous reading of this Onion joke ad is that campaign contributions have a corrupting influence on the actions of politicians, which is worse still if they're intended to promote policies that will increase violence in the middle east. A less generous reading would be -my girlfriend would have