Joe Streckert
@joestreckert.bsky.social
Portland writer. Erstwhile podcaster. Occasional author. Horror fan and pinball enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/joestreckert
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Alert the populace —the beacon is LIT (in all senses of the word):
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Alert the populace —the beacon is LIT (in all senses of the word):
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Happy Thanksgiving, America!
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, America!
My four-year-old just asked “What would happen if a zombie ate a vampire’s brain?” and I genuinely don’t have an answer for him.
Presumably the vampire would die. Beheading kills them. Brain-eating is like beheading? But would the vampire then turn into a zombie? Go from one undead type to another?
Presumably the vampire would die. Beheading kills them. Brain-eating is like beheading? But would the vampire then turn into a zombie? Go from one undead type to another?
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My four-year-old just asked “What would happen if a zombie ate a vampire’s brain?” and I genuinely don’t have an answer for him.
Presumably the vampire would die. Beheading kills them. Brain-eating is like beheading? But would the vampire then turn into a zombie? Go from one undead type to another?
Presumably the vampire would die. Beheading kills them. Brain-eating is like beheading? But would the vampire then turn into a zombie? Go from one undead type to another?
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thank you for putting a wide variety of $600+ items on your holiday gift guides. I never know how to spend my gift budget of $600+ per person
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
thank you for putting a wide variety of $600+ items on your holiday gift guides. I never know how to spend my gift budget of $600+ per person
Yup, same. I'm deeply annoyed that experiencing oceans of AI slop has gotten me to believe in something like the human soul.
Honestly, as an avowed atheist and materialist it is pretty irritating to admit that even the worst piece of human-authored creative writing I ever read did, in fact, contain a spark of the Divine.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Yup, same. I'm deeply annoyed that experiencing oceans of AI slop has gotten me to believe in something like the human soul.
If you're wondering what to do with the turkey this year, these two recipes are worlds better than just popping the whole thing in the oven. Turkey can be very good when done well.
This worked well! Turns out herbs and wine make turkey taste better. Use these recipes! Kenji knows what he’s talking about!
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
If you're wondering what to do with the turkey this year, these two recipes are worlds better than just popping the whole thing in the oven. Turkey can be very good when done well.
I thought "This list better have The Raven on it," and lo and behold IT DID!
FYI: Boris Karloff had a career that extended far beyond just James Whale's FRANKENSTEIN. Here's seven of our favorite movies starring the horror icon.
7 Boris Karloff Films To Watch That Aren’t FRANKENSTEIN
Boris Karloff had a career that extended far beyond just James Whale's FRANKENSTEIN. Here's seven of our favorite movies starring the horror icon.
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I thought "This list better have The Raven on it," and lo and behold IT DID!
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
This magazine cover is a core memory for me. Simon Belmont looked like the ultimate badass.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This magazine cover is a core memory for me. Simon Belmont looked like the ultimate badass.
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Trasitoen Espiral
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20020
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20020
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Trasitoen Espiral
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20020
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20020
Got around to The Substance last night. The more I think about it the more I don't like it. The heightened reality of the cinematography and design didn't work for me. It felt cruel and mean-spirited, and while it seems to have had some kind of feminist intent it felt more than a little misogynist.
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Got around to The Substance last night. The more I think about it the more I don't like it. The heightened reality of the cinematography and design didn't work for me. It felt cruel and mean-spirited, and while it seems to have had some kind of feminist intent it felt more than a little misogynist.
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People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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a Space Wolves short with everyone speaking Danish
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
a Space Wolves short with everyone speaking Danish
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I am once again asking fans to be kinder to each other.
November 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I am once again asking fans to be kinder to each other.
Ghosts, like all gods and monsters, are mental shorthand. Constructs that we imagine, not mind-independent things. I don’t believe in ghosts as a literal thing out there in the world. But I appreciate the sentiment of a place or thing “having” ghosts.
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Ghosts, like all gods and monsters, are mental shorthand. Constructs that we imagine, not mind-independent things. I don’t believe in ghosts as a literal thing out there in the world. But I appreciate the sentiment of a place or thing “having” ghosts.
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Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
skepchick.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
It is both extremely affirming and also sort of weird and uncomfortable when a stakeholder tells me “this project should be like this” and then links to my own work.
November 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It is both extremely affirming and also sort of weird and uncomfortable when a stakeholder tells me “this project should be like this” and then links to my own work.
A short cosmic horror story about the deafening silence of god.
This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on November 19, 1996.
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A short cosmic horror story about the deafening silence of god.
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Books with Pictures (@bkswpicspdx.bsky.social) in Portland, Oregon is a GREAT comic shop, and its owner in @omgkatiep.bsky.social is one of the best. The shop is going through a hard time right now, and if you want to help BwP out, they opened a GoFundMe to help do just that.
Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde
Dear friends: I need your help.
I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now
www.gofundme.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
McMenamin’s is definitely Portland slop. Is it good? Eh. There are better breweries and pub food. But there’s always one nearby and I’m never going to be all that mad about tots and beer.
I want everyone to post their hometown slop (if you don't have a cuisine that qualifies then your town has zero culture).
Skyline is fine and hits at 3 am just like taco bell lol
Skyline is fine and hits at 3 am just like taco bell lol
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
McMenamin’s is definitely Portland slop. Is it good? Eh. There are better breweries and pub food. But there’s always one nearby and I’m never going to be all that mad about tots and beer.
This is such a good edition, and Machado's metafiction goes perfectly with the original. If you like vampire stuff I can't recommend this highly enough.
Carmen Maria Machado's Carmilla is sapphic bullshit, but I believe it
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November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is such a good edition, and Machado's metafiction goes perfectly with the original. If you like vampire stuff I can't recommend this highly enough.
Those stupid Clippy-ass “Help me write” prompts in Google Docs make me want to do a Butlerian Jihad.
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Those stupid Clippy-ass “Help me write” prompts in Google Docs make me want to do a Butlerian Jihad.
Been vacationing with the family on Vancouver Island. It’s lovely. However, we must return home. We miss our cat.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Been vacationing with the family on Vancouver Island. It’s lovely. However, we must return home. We miss our cat.
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I don’t know if I have a top 5 movie genres but I definitely have a favorite and it’s:
- group of strangers are put into/wake up in an enclosed space they can’t leave and have to Figure It Out while also learning if the others are friends or enemies
- group of strangers are put into/wake up in an enclosed space they can’t leave and have to Figure It Out while also learning if the others are friends or enemies
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-Two girls bond over evil
-Art drives people insane
-Australia is weird
-Everybody who died shows up at the end as ghosts and makes you cry
-Repo Man
-Two girls bond over evil
-Art drives people insane
-Australia is weird
-Everybody who died shows up at the end as ghosts and makes you cry
-Repo Man
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I don’t know if I have a top 5 movie genres but I definitely have a favorite and it’s:
- group of strangers are put into/wake up in an enclosed space they can’t leave and have to Figure It Out while also learning if the others are friends or enemies
- group of strangers are put into/wake up in an enclosed space they can’t leave and have to Figure It Out while also learning if the others are friends or enemies