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Emily C. Hughes

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Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Vulture, Slate, Reactor, & more. She/her. 🍉 readjumpscares.com

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · Dec 10

GOOD MORNING the 2025 horror list is LIVE! repost to destroy a TBR: readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...

2025’s New Horror Books

All the new horror books coming in 2025, featuring an array of slashers, ghosts, vampires, cults, monsters both human and otherwise, and all manner of nebulous eldritch terrors.

readjumpscares.com

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Jeremy Hot Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 2h

me and my friends would've killed rokos basilisk with hammers I can tell you that much

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 19h

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18h

disgusting. no.

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Bet or yet Road to 1k 🍥 (GhostGlitch) @betyet.bsky.social · 18h

Are you a writer

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 19h

I endorse this with my whole heart and I also think, at least for this one weekend, we can all agree that Love & Death and Interiors (and, sure, Annie Hall) are Diane Keaton movies and you can watch them bc what’s brilliant about those movies, which is a lot, is overwhelmingly bc of her

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 20h

HOW THE FUCK IS DIANE KEATON DEAD BUT THAT OLD BITCH WOODY ALLEN STILL ALIVE???

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 19h

interesting thing to do with your one wild and precious life!

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 20h

goddammit

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 20h

Diane Keaton, who won an Academy Award for best actress for her portrayal of the titular quirky character in Annie Hall and portrayed Kay Adams in the three Godfather films, has died. She was 79. Read about her life and legacy: bit.ly/47kDP0j

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22h

I think Zohran is great and inspiring and much needed right now, but all he's doing is like the job as it's supposed to be. Starts with a set of principles and advocates for them. It's like how everyone goes crazy for Chotiner for just doing the job. Not an indictment on either of them but the rest.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 22h

stars of the lid

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 23h

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

the inverse of this is how much of politics is now just accepting that you have to vote for people who hate you, so your best option is to vote for people who hate other people more than they hate you

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 1d

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 1d

That a politician would be standing up for trans people in this moment is deeply important and meaningful.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

TRACY: New York City needs another 9/11.
GRIZZ: Why would you say something like that?
TRACY: I’m sick of having to go to midtown for a Big Gulp!
GRIZZ: Tray, 9/11 was the day Osama bin Laden killed 3000 people.
TRACY: Osama did that? Damn. I told him not to take so many double shifts at the 9/11.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

B plot is Tracy finding out about 9/11, which he’d never heard of before

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

Jack gives Jenna an extremely sexist half-hour sitcom with “created by Liz Lemon” at the end of the credits. It is immediately canceled, to great outrage on the right. A conservative website called The Dogwhistle interviews Liz and she’s super mean to them, so they blame her for sabotaging Jenna.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 2d

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

Kevin.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

any product that depends on the long term stability of its maker is inherently defective

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

They brick you because they can.

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15

Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

arstechnica.com

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d

WE’RE THE SAME AGE

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d

I promise you do not need to tell me about the Internet archive thanks

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d

anyway, I highly recommend you sell your books to a publisher other than Quirk!

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d

hey they finally thought to email authors about the Quirk sale four days later! …via a mass email blast that asks us to “hold all questions till December” and “continue working with your contacts at Quirk” (cute that he assumes we still have any)

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 5d

would you like to take a guess as to whether I, as a Quirk author, have received any communication whatsoever about this? because lol guess what

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 2d

Huh. Just noticed a strange hooded figure at the periphery of my daily life. Hope it’s not me from the future trying to stop a horrific event from occurring but accidentally creating a closed time-travel loop that guarantees it due to her interference, lol. Hang on a sec, someone’s at the door

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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