Stabby
@yorkshiregabby.bsky.social
Spooky Scary, AuDH, queer, uncomfortable Horror writer + editor Based in Yorkshire
Celebrate Halloween by writing and submitting a weird story about weird art to me
Zachary Gillan@megapolisomancy.bsky.social · last mo.I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/
Happy Halloween! Got to take this one last chance to show off this pumpkin, carved by the lovely @motiblackart.bsky.social In 2057 Archaeologist Eva Sinclair helps to excavate a Bronze Age massacre site. But why are there gigantic parch marks in the shape of ferns? www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
Next zine fair, selling publications, stickers, prints, originals, etcs Expect: spirit mediums, hallucinations, low blood pressure in high blood pressure situations, class war, animals, Gateshead Gothic Couture aesthetic
Write horror? Join the #HorrorWritersChat community every Wednesday Next meeting: Wednesday 28 October at *3 pm EDT (USA) / 7 pm GMT (UK) All horror writers of any subgenre and from any time zone are welcome! *Change in US time due to clocks going back early in the UK. #AmWriting #HorrorSky
So do we think the day after The Purge is a school day or nah?
For those who didn't take science past the 8th grade, "the mash" is actually how they reproduce, so this is really serious.
The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com · 7d agoStudies show monsters mashing earlier every year due to climate change
I've put next year's call for talks up on UPenn... go and check it out! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/109315
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
The World Fantasy Awards are about to start! Whether E. Catherine Tobler receives a tree statue or not, I would love to know that Elise's needs are being met. If you could honor her with some support in her recovery from cancer, chemo, and complications, that would be a great and beautiful thing. 💖
The Deadlands@thedeadlands.com · 2w agowe love see all the support for our Elise thank you thank you for all the shares, the donations, and the kind words about her--it means a whole world. if you can donate/share/send good vibes, we'd love to receive them still xo
We simply gotta hand over critical infrastructure in the UK to this guy, he's too cool not to
@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄🟫@amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 5mo ago“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”
Titus Bagpipe Breadbox Girlboss enjoys a cozy rainy day. (He is the youngest and largest of our large and terrible sons.)
"Meg? What a beautiful name. Is that short for Megaflora or Megafauna?"
If you haven't been able to muster care after the past several decades our slide into 2000 AD Judge Dredd style fascism because it hasn't applied to you and yours, don't worry, they're just making their way down the hit list and will be with you momentarily.
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · last wk.The policy sets out the duty to disclose applies to any jobs or duties "segregated by sex" www.wearequeeraf.com/trans-prison...
Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...
27-year-old man credited for saving kids, driver in runaway school bus
A 27-year-old Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency.
goodmorningamerica.com
University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 2w agoFrom the govt's press release: "The developer estimates that Jackdaw will create 27 new direct jobs and safeguard 273 existing jobs that would otherwise be lost." Odd that so much is made about this being good for jobs. Your nearest out-of-town supermarket likely generates more jobs.
As predicted no UK mainstream media has mentioned the overturning of the New Zealand puberty-blocker ban, despite it being covered by Reuters.
New Zealand court strikes down puberty blocker ban
New Zealand's High Court has struck down regulations banning new prescriptions of puberty blockers for adolescents with gender dysphoria, ruling that the measures were made unlawfully and amounted t...
reuters.com
Wait - has this whole period of Labour governance been a Channel 4 experiment?
I think my gripe with Labour tackling predatory car park charges and ppl not wearing headphones on transport is that yes sure fine great to both of those but I can’t really bring myself to care about shit like that when trans women are dying of cancer because the NHS refuses to treat them
Apex Magazine @apexmag.bsky.social is doing their annual Kickstarter and I urge everyone to back one of the genre's most constantly amazing magazines! BONUS: If you share this post you're in the running to receive a signed book from me. Details in thread. 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2027
An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
kickstarter.com
Not just, you can't get it on the NHS Literally, we can't sell it to you, and likely nowhere round here will So that'll be fun, next time the school sends out an email about the latest wave of infections
In case anyone wonders how Covid is going over here... I tried to book a vaccine last month, because we've been in with my mum since my dad died last year, and A. she's elderly, disabled and had lung issues, and B. I've got 2 kids in school who are constantly getting ill It was a no (1/2)
Billy Hanlon@bhanlon15.bsky.social · 2w agoNYT: 'How Bad Is Another Case of Covid?' “Every time there’s a wave, there’s another wave that’s going to follow with patients developing new onset long Covid,” said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/w...
Watching Hope (2026) and the most terrifying thing is that people keep drinking from any ol' container they find with liquid in it? I get being really thirsty but like, sniff it first?
Now is the time to care about everyone, not “once we win” The time to care about everyone is always always always now
I give Stephen King a lot of guff, but I respect the shit out of him for having the guts to ask, "what if a car was just born evil?" and figuring out the answer.
