Summer specimen sorting at the day job. I love it when I have time to play with the cool stuff in the back. 🦈 Portal alligator snapping turtle by @vsteiner.bsky.social.

BREAKING: One person is dead and several are injured after a car drove into a crowd during Berlin’s LGBTQ+ Pride parade.

One dead and several injured during Berlin’s LGBTQ+ parade after car drives into crowd

Berlin’s Pride parade, known in Germany as Christopher Street Day, is one of Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ celebrations.

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Prides are meant to be a place where all can feel safe, welcome, and seen. We are sending our love to the victims, their families, and the entire city of Berlin today.

Time for an Evening Update! We're just over 80% done the map. Help us bring these states home! givebutter.com/USS2026 West: CA 30 WA 12 NEast: NY 83 NJ 48 CT 18 Midwest to TX: TX 63 IL 38 MI 25 IN 15 OK 11 South: FL 99 GA 43 VA 33 SC 3

United States of Science 2026

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · last mo.

The 2026 United States of Science Challenge starts NOW! Each bubble represents classrooms we’ve matched with scientists this year. This a competition to fill bubbles with $10 donations to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social The first region to fill all bubbles wins. 👇🏻 givebutter.com/USS2026

Pages Against the Patriarchy is starting soon! Pages Against the Patriarchy is a live-streamed virtual event celebrating the bold, brilliant voices of women who use the written word as a tool for resistance and expression. YouTube livestream link: www.youtube.com/live/yAgZjQ9...

200+ eBooks sold in the past 3 days after a spontaneous decision to milk that precocious upstart Am@&on's prime days shenanigans for all they're worth?! Hell yeah, 10pCult turns out & supports indie publishing🖤☠️ LAST DAY to get eBooks & mags 50% off. Do it to it: tinyurl.com/yc7mfhv4

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Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.

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Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · last mo.

🔥SALE🔥 Prime Day is now thru the 26th? COMPLETELY COINCIDENTALLY, ALL OUR E-BOOKS & MAGAZINES ARE 50% OFF THRU THE 26TH. Buy from our webstore, get your books & mags delivered INSTANTLY, + you own them outright! (Sorry, not applicable to preorders) 🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

Tell Dennis I said 🪲 @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social

My friend is hosting a Latinx in Publishing Happy Hour on 6/17 here in NYC! Who am I seeing there? 👀 Also this is mainly for publishing professionals and aspiring pub pros, aka those who work in-house and adjacent (like agents & scouts), not writers...though they are welcome to come to support LXP

I've been seeing an uptick in "Where are the women writing horror? Is it all men?" posts and, while it might be engagement bait, I want to say: The only reason you're not finding women writing horror is because you've not bothered looking. It takes seconds to find us. We're quite loud, I assure you.

Happy Pride, St. Augustine! Snaps for House of Prism for putting on an incredible parade and Pride Fest and for making everyone feel safe, despite the bigots. #pride

On June 12, 2016, a shooter killed 49 and injured 53 in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL. They were targeted because they were LGBTQ+ and Latinx. My hometown responded with love, grief, & a commitment to #honorthemwithaction.

The number of Gothic women running from castles and Ghost Brides at horror prom was delightful. #StokerCon

Pride looks gorgeous on you, Pittsburgh

I won big at the Diversity Grant Raffle! Breathtaking zombie by @greg Chapman and FUTILITY by Nuzo Onoh. Not pictured, hand blood splattered book@arks from UPitt students. #stokercon

One of the best ways to stalk your literary idols is to publish some books and land yourself on a panel about queer gothic horror at StokerCon. Follow me for more tips 👻 #imyournumberonefan #billymartin poppyzbrite #queerhorror #horrorwriter

So cool to meet @mlmorgenstern.bsky.social from @talestoterrify.bsky.social at #StokerCon! Their audio productions are gorgeous. And psst: they're currently open to submissions.

Meredith Morgenstern she/her | Read banned books@mlmorgenstern.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Finally got to meet the talented and wonderful @victorianations.bsky.social last night before the opening ceremonies! Go listen to her creep-tastic story about a daughter's undying devotion, "Mama," at Tales to Terrify episode 664!

I have goblin trinkets to share, too! Choices include glow in the dark, practical anatomy, or unsettling invertebrate. #StokerCon

S.H. Cooper@pippinacious.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oh and if you do see me, feel free to ask for a tiny bird skull or tiny cat (if I don't attempt to foist one on you first)! Trinkets are how I offer my friendship. My awkward, awkward friendship. #stokercon2026

Thank you to all the HWA volunteers who have worked endlessly to bring about StokerCon 2026. After a night hugging, chatting, cheering, planning, and reveling in my badass horror friends, I'm so grateful for your efforts. #StokerCon

A few things about the AC Hotel Marriott Pittsburgh, #StokerCon: The street entrance is a foyer with elevators. The lobby is on the top floor. Your keycard will let you go to your room floor and get into the street entrance after 10:00 pm. The lobby bar serves food and is open in the evenings.

Pittsburgh, your buildings always take my breath away. #StokerCon

Pianist playing The Life of a Showgirl in the Pittsburgh Airport. I'll miss the Swifties this #StokerCon.

StokerCon curly folks: Have you packed all your survival goodies? Bonnets, squish-to-condish unguents, travel diffusers, clips, sticks, summoning chants, anointing balms, moon chart, offerings to the Fae in 3 oz. travel containers?

Celebrating the first day of #Pride 🏳️‍🌈 by subbing stories of queer body horror and bleak anti-capitalism to overtly inclusive publications.

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Alt: Calavera Arcoíris Herejes skull dripping rainbow paint

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Woot! New horror magazine launching!

Emily C. Hughes@emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Introducing @darkertimes.bsky.social - a new worker-owned website for cultural criticism about all things horror! www.darkertimes.com

Almost time for horror prom! Making sure my blacks match for #StokerCon. 🩸📚

T-shirt from @igreggreene.bsky.social arrived! Celebrates Why I Love Horror edited by @raforall.bsky.social ! Link to get your own in comments. @laneheymont.bsky.social @thetobiasagency.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

This year’s virtual #StokerCon has some of the best panels we’ve held, at a low cost of $75. Register at www.StokerCon.com/registration.

Becky Spratford@raforall.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Recorded the Virtual StokerCon panel "So You Want to Edit and Anthology" yesterday with this crew. Can't wait for people to see it. Thanks to @igreggreene.bsky.social for running the show. @kcgrifant.bsky.social @richardthomas.bsky.social, Kristy Park Kulski, James, Chambers, and Jamal Hodge.

Mapping out my room snacks and cemeteries for #StokerCon.

Mystery House from Sierra, played on an Apple II. Forever in my heart.

Celeste Ng@pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When poison ivy is so pretty in the sunshine, you have to take her photo.