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a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. coming soon: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
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For context, that a little less than 900 lbs of uranium. Or roughly the equivalent of a very large pumpkin’s worth of boom juice.

Brad Lander via @jfrejnyc.bsky.social on Insta: “I am proud as a Jewish New Yorker to be on that slate alongside a Muslim New Yorker. Jewish New Yorkers and Muslim New Yorkers are not going to be divided against each other. Our safety, our freedoms, our thriving are bound up together.”

HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, comes out September 2025 PREORDERS open now from your favourite bookstore or US: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/?... Australia: www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/

When the world feels terrible, making a positive difference can make everything feel a little more bearable. Horror actor and queer icon Mark Patton is wrestling with a host of illness that are keeping him from working, and he could use our help to get through it.

Here's a literary/pop culture that's wild to me - in the Sherlock Holmes stories, John Watson is a veteran returning from Afghanistan. In two modern day reboots, "Sherlock" and "Watson," John Watson is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan.

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More than 20 killed in suicide attack on Damascus church www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

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You know, if you genuinely think Bleak House is too obscure, maybe a university humanities degree isn’t for you. Seriously. I have a BAA; the only way I’d have stayed longer in academics would have been if they were paying me to.

Insane ChatGPT message

They're preparing ground

love a good broken arrow meme

Health Canada won’t challenge Alberta’s plan to make almost everyone pay to get updated COVID vaccines 𝙖𝙣𝙙 greatly restrict access to the shots. This probably paves the way for other provinces to follow suit, should they want to. ICYMI 👇

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More and more people have now sought shelter in the area where Baha is staying. As a result, sometimes the truck bringing water doesn't have enough to go round. Please help to ease his family's struggle if you can, and don't forget about Gaza. www.gofundme.com/f/brgdd-help... @mommunism.bsky.social

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Anywho, to actually touch upon the fantasy world I'd wound up making, out of rock operas and rock history? I wound up with a setting in which angels are living music, songs anthropomorphized as celestial entities, and musicians tapping into backbeat of existence as akin to magicians and sorcerers.

ME: Wonder what the best way to cook these gluten-free chicken nuggets is CELEBRITY TV CHEF THE CRYPTKEEPER: Simply cook them in your SCARE DIE-er with a spritz of BOIL, kiddies!! Heeheeheeheeeee!! ME: So that’s “air fryer” and “oil” I assume CELEBRITY TV CHEF THE CRYPTKEEPER: Yes ME: Ok

Please check out what it took @todseelie.bsky.social to get these photographs of the No Kings protest, in a blue city in the U.S.A. (free to read) and support the @flaminghydra.com cooperative for $3/month to keep independent work like this alive and thriving flaminghydra.com/subscribe

Rina Barone of Curiosity House Books (locally known as ‘the pink house’) in Creemore, Ontario was kind enough to ask me a few questions about my writing and my process: rinabarone.substack.com/p/why-i-writ...

I served before, during, and after 9/11. My uncle is 20+ years older than me and both of our DD214s have the same thing on them. We were at war so long in the ME that there were 3 generations of folks serving in the sandbox at the same time. Obama gave us a treaty. Biden gave us peace for the 1st

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Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

And today we have a full dress rehearsal followed by a choir performance. Roughly six hours of work; I can’t believe Cal is invested enough to be capable of it, but he is! The power of community through music.:)

Hey everyone! I decided to celebrate 10 of my favorite horror and horror-adjacent themed music videos: open.substack.com/pub/thehorro... Appreciate any shares/subs - please enjoy!

80 days of siege on Gaza, no food, no water, no medicine. We have run out of everything. The price of a bag of flour is more than $500. Please help us buy a bag of flour. We need your help more than ever. Please help us ❤️‍🩹🙏🫂 gofund.me/78acabc1

" Organizing Is Relationships. Relationships lead to organizing. Issues alone lead to tasks." labornotes.org/2025/06/art-...

“Money that would otherwise go to shareholders is poured back into creating high-quality and affordable homes … which, in turn, has a ‘price-dampening effect’ on the wider market.” At its core, the issue is about having housing remain a profitable investment, not the stigma.

Since it's almost Midsummer...

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Happy solstice everyone! 😕🧵🪡🐻🔥 #Ikea #Midsommar #IkeaInstructions #a24

OOPS. As of April 2025, that number is actually 41,000 National Guard members who havent been paid their bonuses in addition to the $100 MILLION of fraud associated with the bonuses owed to active duty soldiers.

BREAKING: Iran’s Parliament approves the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Decision needs ratified by Iran’s Security Council. It would trap 20% of the world’s oil supply and send a catastrophic shock through the global economy.

I’d say it’s unbelievable except it happens again and again and again. The erasure is deliberate.

MIT just pubbed a study on ChatGPT users. “Brain scans revealed neural connection collapse... a 47% reduction in brain connectivity. When researchers forced ChatGPT users to write w/o AI, they performed worse than people who never used AI at all. It's not just dependency. It's cognitive atrophy.”

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Kaine: "It's clear that there is no congressional authorization for Trump's war against Iran ... It's unconstitutional for a president to initiate a war like this without Congress. Every member of Congress needs to vote on this."