Nat Cassidy
@natcassidy.bsky.social
USA Today bestselling horror noveler (MARY: AN AWAKENING OF TERROR; NESTLINGS; REST STOP). TV actor. Musician. Out now: WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME, April 22, 2025, Tor Nightfire. (he/him)
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Nat Cassidy
@natcassidy.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Do these introduction-y posts do anything? I guess we shall see! Hi, new followers and/or The Curious: I write spookyangry horrorbooks like MARY, NESTLINGS, REST STOP, and the upcoming WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME. I've also maybe appeared as a scumbag on your favorite crime procedural TV show!
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November 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
If anyone wants *prime* weird Kier, I highly recommend Lars von Trier’s THE KINGDOM series. My god does it go to some wild places and Udo Kier is Udo Kiering to extents never before thought possible in it.
Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
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Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If anyone wants *prime* weird Kier, I highly recommend Lars von Trier’s THE KINGDOM series. My god does it go to some wild places and Udo Kier is Udo Kiering to extents never before thought possible in it.
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans people have literally always been here; every time I see someone sneering "oh but there were no trans people when I was in high school," well. I dated a trans girl in high school, and was close friends with a trans guy.
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans people have literally always been here; every time I see someone sneering "oh but there were no trans people when I was in high school," well. I dated a trans girl in high school, and was close friends with a trans guy.
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Um. Did he forget what happened? The dementia is really, really bad.
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Um. Did he forget what happened? The dementia is really, really bad.
When I was a child, a prominent politician’s career was ended for spelling potato wrong.
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
When I was a child, a prominent politician’s career was ended for spelling potato wrong.
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one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
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Highly recommend following @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social and viewing her #ResistenceLive broadcast on YouTube today to understand Epstein Files Transparency Act and end flood of speculation on what can and cannot be redacted or withheld by Bondi. Facts will calm your fears.
Everyone needs to watch my show on this from an hour ago, because there are explicit limitations on her ability to do this in the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
youtube.com/live/xEB1mOJ...
youtube.com/live/xEB1mOJ...
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Highly recommend following @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social and viewing her #ResistenceLive broadcast on YouTube today to understand Epstein Files Transparency Act and end flood of speculation on what can and cannot be redacted or withheld by Bondi. Facts will calm your fears.
Definitely feels appropriate to turn the manuscript of my coming-of-age horror story over to my editor today, the 31st anniversary of my bar mitzvah.
(Pictured: my official bar mitzvah portrait, volunteering at an animal shelter; and me at someone else’s b’nai mitzvah, being fucking cool as hell.)
(Pictured: my official bar mitzvah portrait, volunteering at an animal shelter; and me at someone else’s b’nai mitzvah, being fucking cool as hell.)
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Definitely feels appropriate to turn the manuscript of my coming-of-age horror story over to my editor today, the 31st anniversary of my bar mitzvah.
(Pictured: my official bar mitzvah portrait, volunteering at an animal shelter; and me at someone else’s b’nai mitzvah, being fucking cool as hell.)
(Pictured: my official bar mitzvah portrait, volunteering at an animal shelter; and me at someone else’s b’nai mitzvah, being fucking cool as hell.)
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Only a couple of major news outlets (CNN, USA) are covering this at all. You would think if the goal was clicks and views, this would be all over the media. If clicks are not the goal, it makes you think about: what is?
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Only a couple of major news outlets (CNN, USA) are covering this at all. You would think if the goal was clicks and views, this would be all over the media. If clicks are not the goal, it makes you think about: what is?
Ahh! What an honor to see WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME included among Audible’s Best of 2025! I will extol to the heavens the brilliance of Helen Laser’s narration and Macmillan Audio's production any chance I get, so this happily gives me another excuse!
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ahh! What an honor to see WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME included among Audible’s Best of 2025! I will extol to the heavens the brilliance of Helen Laser’s narration and Macmillan Audio's production any chance I get, so this happily gives me another excuse!
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70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish!
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish!
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
GUESS WHAT: REST STOP IS COMING FOR YOUR EARS, TOO … and it’s bringing friends ...
So excited for this collection to have found an audiohome with Simon Maverick. The narrator we’ve got is an absolute superstar, and there just may be some extraspecial audio delights included, as well.
So excited for this collection to have found an audiohome with Simon Maverick. The narrator we’ve got is an absolute superstar, and there just may be some extraspecial audio delights included, as well.
More big news!
I KNOW A PLACE: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, @natcassidy.bsky.social's first collection, will be getting an audiobook from Simon Maverick, an audio imprint of Simon & Schuster!
The audiobook is available for pre-order now everywhere audiobooks are sold!
I KNOW A PLACE: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, @natcassidy.bsky.social's first collection, will be getting an audiobook from Simon Maverick, an audio imprint of Simon & Schuster!
The audiobook is available for pre-order now everywhere audiobooks are sold!
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
GUESS WHAT: REST STOP IS COMING FOR YOUR EARS, TOO … and it’s bringing friends ...
So excited for this collection to have found an audiohome with Simon Maverick. The narrator we’ve got is an absolute superstar, and there just may be some extraspecial audio delights included, as well.
So excited for this collection to have found an audiohome with Simon Maverick. The narrator we’ve got is an absolute superstar, and there just may be some extraspecial audio delights included, as well.
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every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
May it bring him as much joy and success as was found by Prometheus himself.
The first rule of plutocrat AI competitions is 1. name your new company with a classical allusion or Tolkien reference. I see Bezos went with the former. How… great.
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
May it bring him as much joy and success as was found by Prometheus himself.
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"Epic fantasy is not merely what Tolkien made it.
There are plenty of epics out there which feature people like me. Sundiata’s badass mother. Dihya, warrior queen of the Amazighs. The Rain Queens. The Mino Warriors. Hatshepsut’s reign. Everything Harriet Tubman ever did."
N.K. Jemisin
There are plenty of epics out there which feature people like me. Sundiata’s badass mother. Dihya, warrior queen of the Amazighs. The Rain Queens. The Mino Warriors. Hatshepsut’s reign. Everything Harriet Tubman ever did."
N.K. Jemisin
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"Epic fantasy is not merely what Tolkien made it.
There are plenty of epics out there which feature people like me. Sundiata’s badass mother. Dihya, warrior queen of the Amazighs. The Rain Queens. The Mino Warriors. Hatshepsut’s reign. Everything Harriet Tubman ever did."
N.K. Jemisin
There are plenty of epics out there which feature people like me. Sundiata’s badass mother. Dihya, warrior queen of the Amazighs. The Rain Queens. The Mino Warriors. Hatshepsut’s reign. Everything Harriet Tubman ever did."
N.K. Jemisin
<democrat does something that even whiffs of impropriety>: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
<republican takes break from unprecedented corruption to enjoy some human trafficking>: “Look, I’ve pored over the penal code and since there appears to be no explicit de facto statutory violation, we’re actually not allowed to care.”
<republican takes break from unprecedented corruption to enjoy some human trafficking>: “Look, I’ve pored over the penal code and since there appears to be no explicit de facto statutory violation, we’re actually not allowed to care.”
Kate Bolduan: "The president has not been accused of any crimes or wrongdoing as it relates to Jeffrey Epstein or these files even with these emails being released. That's one thing we need to make clear. There's no accusations of any wrongdoing so far."
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
<democrat does something that even whiffs of impropriety>: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
<republican takes break from unprecedented corruption to enjoy some human trafficking>: “Look, I’ve pored over the penal code and since there appears to be no explicit de facto statutory violation, we’re actually not allowed to care.”
<republican takes break from unprecedented corruption to enjoy some human trafficking>: “Look, I’ve pored over the penal code and since there appears to be no explicit de facto statutory violation, we’re actually not allowed to care.”
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Oops, Things Are Getting Uncanny Here In Both Funny and Dreadful Ways
Football in the Groin
Oops, Now the Audience Is Cursed, Too!
Oops, I’m a Different Genre Than How I Started!
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Oops, Things Are Getting Uncanny Here In Both Funny and Dreadful Ways
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If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
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This Guy Isn't The Hero, It's That Guy Over There!
It's All Meat Really, Why Aren't You Horny?
Really Good At Our Jobs, Then Shit Goes Wrong
Why Oh Why Did You Bring A Catholic Priest To Exorcise A Pre-Christian Entity?
Fuckup Arrogant Male Saved By Smarter Woman, Again
This Guy Isn't The Hero, It's That Guy Over There!
It's All Meat Really, Why Aren't You Horny?
Really Good At Our Jobs, Then Shit Goes Wrong
Why Oh Why Did You Bring A Catholic Priest To Exorcise A Pre-Christian Entity?
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Top 5 Film Genres:
Oops, Now the Audience Is Cursed, Too!
Oops, I’m a Different Genre Than How I Started!
Oops, We Discovered Greater Emotional Resonance Out of Unconventional Film Structure
Oops, Things Are Getting Uncanny Here In Both Funny and Dreadful Ways
Football in the Groin
Oops, Now the Audience Is Cursed, Too!
Oops, I’m a Different Genre Than How I Started!
Oops, We Discovered Greater Emotional Resonance Out of Unconventional Film Structure
Oops, Things Are Getting Uncanny Here In Both Funny and Dreadful Ways
Football in the Groin