Scott Tate
@typhonicbeast.bsky.social
He/him and happy to try to remember to use whatever your own pronouns are. Books, movies, comics, sci-fi, horror, mystery, art, whatever pops into my head. Just a dude seeking to abide. Colorado, USA.
When I unexpectedly lost my best friend to a brain aneurysm at 37, her donated organs saved seven lives plus someone’s eyesight. This is monstrous.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoRFK Jr: "I'm announcing that HHS has begun the decertification of Network for Hope, the organ procurement organization."
Took me a few minutes but I just realized that Armstrong's birthday is now also the date that Elon's space junk made a new crater on the moon. Once again the 21st century commentary writes itself.
"The small whirlpool-like structures on the sun’s surface were identified as... Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities... Scientists have seen KHIs in lakes and oceans, and in cloud formations on Earth, and even in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, but have never confirmed their existence on the sun."
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 8h agoUnprecedented images may explain one of greatest mysteries of the sun
brb, starting a petition to go back to calling modern hydraulic lowriders "trick flivvers"
100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 9h agoAug. 5, 1926: “Bucking like a bronco. This trick flivver has the rear axle moved forward, throwing the car off balance. In it are Helen Owens, Athleen Dickey, Myrtle Cannon, Mary Lynn Owens and Margaret Wise, all of Fitzgerald, Ga.” (Mid-Week Pictorial)
Imagine being a humble farmer going down to the ol' watering hole to check on your simple otter trap and finding a pissed off leopard.
100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 9h agoAug. 5, 1926: A leopard that had been imported from India to live in a zoo in Middletown, N.J., escaped from its shipment box while it was left unattended and is on the loose, authorities reveal. It’s shot and killed two months later after wandering into an otter trap.
No cheating post your lock screen
WritingPIs@writingpis.bsky.social · 10h agoNo cheating post your lock screen
Favorite horror movie for every year of the 1990s: 1990: Tremors 1991: The Silence of the Lambs 1992: Ghostwatch 1993: Hocus Pocus 1994: Wes Craven's New Nightmare 1995: Demon Knight 1996: Scream 1997: Scream 2 1998: Bride of Chucky 1999: The Blair Witch Project
Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed)@slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 21h agoFavourite horror movie for every year of the 1990s: 1990: The Exorcist III 1991: Silence Of The Lambs 1992: Ghostwatch 1993: Leif Jonker's Darkness 1994: In The Mouth Of Madness 1995: Demon Knight 1996: The Frighteners 1997: Cure 1998: Disembodied 1999: Ravenous
If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
Oh, and being on set for something you wrote also involves trying to decide if it's more annoying when an actor changes a line for the worse or when an actor changes a line for the better.
August 4, 1922: The 13 million telephones in the USA observe a minute's silence in memory of the inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
It’s always “You have ADHD.” Why is it never “Thank you for telling me about the geologic history of what is now New Jersey after having spent hours reading about it because you saw this cool rock outside a Barnes & Noble, Mike.”
Plenty of other people pointing it out, but in case you haven't heard: Today (August 4, 2026) is the setting of Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story "There Will Come Soft Rains." Worth a few minutes of your time to read or reread if you get a chance.
On this date (Aug 4) in 1892, Lizzie Borden's father & stepmother were murdered. Lizzie was charged but later acquitted. Everybody's buzzing about the upcoming Borden thing on Netflix, and Spirit Halloween has some Borden merch this year. Are we poised for a Borden renaissance for some reason? 🪓
Reposting this painting I did last year (one of my personal favorites) because today is International #Owl Awareness Day. Humanoid owl cryptids deserve love too!
Scott Tate@typhonicbeast.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Owlman of Mawnan Acrylics on 11 x 14 in. stretched canvas With special thanks to @sce007.bsky.social for the encouragement #art #cryptid #folklore #Owlman #Kowanden #Cornwall #Mawnan
#Cymru am byth 🏴 (I myself am not Welsh by nationality, but there's a healthy dollop of it in my genetics and my soul)
ScreenRant@screenrant.bsky.social · yesterdayIt has been revealed that #Lucasfilm and #Disney will team up with S4C and the Welsh government to produce the first-ever Welsh-language dub of #StarWars: A New Hope. ⭐️ Read More: bit.ly/4bvRSSB
For those of you who follow me for my #art ... I promise I'm still painting. I'm just not good about finishing anything lately. I'm sure some of you can relate.
Is there *anything* he won't find a way to try to profit from? No. No, there is not.
Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 2d agoWhy is Trump Media selling early access to Trump's social posts?
One cannot be raised on the teachings of Buffy Summers, Aragorn, Aslan, Dean Winchester, Ryan Atwood, Sydney Bristow, Max Guevara, Veronica Mars, Rory Gilmore and the Baudelaire trio, and not grow into an adult with very forthright opinions (with a side of chronic nostalgia).
Trump will blame anybody but Iran. I suppose he'll mumble some BS conflation about "radical Communist Dumocrats." Or maybe blame Pirro for emboldening the "vandals" who obviously count a few hackers among them. 🙄
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2d agoAccording to the FBI, at least seven states have now been targeted in a growing wave of cyberattacks on critical water infrastructure across the country. https://to.pbs.org/4wxZZ9y
Candid photo of Hercule Poirot, sans moustache, and notable mystery author and amateur detective J.B. Fletcher.
Dr Pop Culture USA@drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 2d agoPeter Ustinov was married to Isolde Denham, Angela Lansbury’s half-sister, from 1940 to 1950.
Immigrant Explains Difficulty Assimilating To Culture That Constantly Reboots Film Franchises
How dare they paraphrase the Dude when they could have just quoted him directly
The Dude Stirring His Drink
Alt: The Dude Stirring His Drink
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago‘A rug helps anchor all the pieces’: how to start decorating your home
On Monday, Aug. 3, Colorado Parks & Wildlife is offering free entry into all 43 of its state parks in honor of the milestone. https://www.westword.com/arts-culture/colorado-state-parks-free-entry-150-birthday-40917386/
Get free entry at all Colorado state parks for the state's 150th
Colorado's 150th birthday is a gift that keeps on giving.
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Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
If they pull together an old-school alternative to the lamentably neutered modern version of what 60 Minutes has become, may I strongly suggest inviting Stephen Colbert onboard for a quick spot at the end in the tradition of Andy Rooney.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 2d agoEx-60 Minutes boss wants to create rival broadcast with fired staffers: report
