Nicole M. Wolverton (she/her/hers)
@nicolemwolverton.bsky.social
Philly-area writer of (mostly) horror & thrillers. MEAT SWEATS (YA horror) coming in fall 2026 from Horrorsmith Publishing | HWA, SFWA, SCBWI, Codex | avowed monkeywrench | horror academic | scent-obsessed | nicolewolverton.com
Speaking of the biennale, apparently Jewel is debuting a new art exhibit in Venice to run concurrently with the art biennale next year. I mean, I don't know that I have much interest in this either, but I'm more likely to see this than to check out the US pavilion.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Speaking of the biennale, apparently Jewel is debuting a new art exhibit in Venice to run concurrently with the art biennale next year. I mean, I don't know that I have much interest in this either, but I'm more likely to see this than to check out the US pavilion.
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So the US chose its artist for the US pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale, with a Trump-allied arts group at the helm. I suspect I'll be skipping this pavilion next year.
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Alma Allen Rumoured To Represent United States At 2026 Venice Biennale
Alma Allen could take the reins for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, opening next May — though no one is quite ready to say so out loud...
artlyst.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
So the US chose its artist for the US pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale, with a Trump-allied arts group at the helm. I suspect I'll be skipping this pavilion next year.
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Very sad about this.
Kristján Guðmundsson, one Iceland’s best known postwar artists, died last Friday at his home in Reykjavík, aged 84 artreview.com/kristjan-gud...
Kristján Guðmundsson, Icelandic conceptual artist, 1941–2025
The artist passed away at his home in Reykjavík, aged 84
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November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Very sad about this.
I've been limping around my house the last day or two--I took a pilates class that kicked my ass. I've been taking pilates now for about two months, & this is the first class that made me ache (in that good exercise-y kind of way). It's making me think, though, of the first time I took a 1/
a woman in a military uniform has the name lucy on her chest
ALT: a woman in a military uniform has the name lucy on her chest
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November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I've been limping around my house the last day or two--I took a pilates class that kicked my ass. I've been taking pilates now for about two months, & this is the first class that made me ache (in that good exercise-y kind of way). It's making me think, though, of the first time I took a 1/
Oh brother. Now companies are trying to butter up decision makers using half-baked AI slop. Just got a work email from a vendor, praising me to high heaven for my masters horror thesis, relating it to my day job, then asking me for work. The PS totally gave it away--said he was looking forward to 1/
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Oh brother. Now companies are trying to butter up decision makers using half-baked AI slop. Just got a work email from a vendor, praising me to high heaven for my masters horror thesis, relating it to my day job, then asking me for work. The PS totally gave it away--said he was looking forward to 1/
Hey, hive mind--where are you ordering custom stickers from these days? I know Sticker Mule is out due the owner's political numptiness.
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hey, hive mind--where are you ordering custom stickers from these days? I know Sticker Mule is out due the owner's political numptiness.
Good. I vividly remember when Jones won his senatorial race. I was in Hong Kong right outside a Buddhist temple when the news broke, and his win felt like such a big deal.
Some great news this Sunday morning 👏🏼
“Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones plans to enter the Alabama governor’s race against current U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville”
www.al.com/life/2025/11...
“Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones plans to enter the Alabama governor’s race against current U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville”
www.al.com/life/2025/11...
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Good. I vividly remember when Jones won his senatorial race. I was in Hong Kong right outside a Buddhist temple when the news broke, and his win felt like such a big deal.
The shots from the author photoshoot I just did are going to be delightful. There were costume changes, a butcher knife, a raw steak, a bloody human heart (not actual), and the photographer and I trying not to traumatize a family also having portraits taken at the same place.
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The shots from the author photoshoot I just did are going to be delightful. There were costume changes, a butcher knife, a raw steak, a bloody human heart (not actual), and the photographer and I trying not to traumatize a family also having portraits taken at the same place.
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If you're buying gifts for the holidays, maybe consider supporting artists, writers, creators. Gift someone a Patreon, commission an art piece, buy a book, purchase handmade jewelry, etc. Your support means everything.
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you're buying gifts for the holidays, maybe consider supporting artists, writers, creators. Gift someone a Patreon, commission an art piece, buy a book, purchase handmade jewelry, etc. Your support means everything.
2nd year in a row that I've been positioned in front of this store at this book festival... and twice now I've fantasized about using it as a horror setting. Guess it's the universe awakening me to evolve the plot bunny.
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
2nd year in a row that I've been positioned in front of this store at this book festival... and twice now I've fantasized about using it as a horror setting. Guess it's the universe awakening me to evolve the plot bunny.
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And here's your schedule for the 10th Writing the Occult, when we go hunting critters.
Tickets are £40 + booking fee (for both live access and the recordings of all sessions), and are available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
Tickets are £40 + booking fee (for both live access and the recordings of all sessions), and are available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
And here's your schedule for the 10th Writing the Occult, when we go hunting critters.
Tickets are £40 + booking fee (for both live access and the recordings of all sessions), and are available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
Tickets are £40 + booking fee (for both live access and the recordings of all sessions), and are available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
I'm lying here in bed, daydreaming about next year's trip to Italy and thinking about what I want by to wear.
patrick star from spongebob squarepants is laying on his stomach and smiling .
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November 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I'm lying here in bed, daydreaming about next year's trip to Italy and thinking about what I want by to wear.
So she's either worried about getting hauled to The Hague for GOP crimes or she's getting herself freed up to prep a POTUS run.
Or both.
Or both.
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
So she's either worried about getting hauled to The Hague for GOP crimes or she's getting herself freed up to prep a POTUS run.
Or both.
Or both.
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Not for nothing, but if Danger Yam and his buddies want to deny women-dominated health field degrees professional status, we'll just have to take over more male- dominated fields that do have status. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Faster pussycat, burn, burn.
Faster pussycat, burn, burn.
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Not for nothing, but if Danger Yam and his buddies want to deny women-dominated health field degrees professional status, we'll just have to take over more male- dominated fields that do have status. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Faster pussycat, burn, burn.
Faster pussycat, burn, burn.
For those of you who are self-pubbing, I ask you to kindly consider making your books available on Kobo (if you already aren't). I am on an Amazon boycott (since January), so I have a Kobo reader instead (which is superior to a Kindle). Amazon's DRM is a PITA to remove.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
For those of you who are self-pubbing, I ask you to kindly consider making your books available on Kobo (if you already aren't). I am on an Amazon boycott (since January), so I have a Kobo reader instead (which is superior to a Kindle). Amazon's DRM is a PITA to remove.
You know, just when I think I couldn't be surprised by MAGA types... this is freaking bonkers.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
GOP staffer accused of faking kidnapping by anti-Trump activists
The staffer allegedly gave $500 to a body modification artist so that he would carve deep scars into her body, as part of her alleged scheme
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November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
You know, just when I think I couldn't be surprised by MAGA types... this is freaking bonkers.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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After a few false starts, my new knitting project is underway--the Oktoberkind sweater. What's on the left will eventually look like the sweater on the right. The purple color is off in this photo; it's more of a muted purple. I'm maybe about 1/3 of the way down the top-down raglans. I'm looking 1/
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
After a few false starts, my new knitting project is underway--the Oktoberkind sweater. What's on the left will eventually look like the sweater on the right. The purple color is off in this photo; it's more of a muted purple. I'm maybe about 1/3 of the way down the top-down raglans. I'm looking 1/
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Love looking at it like this. It’s true. Artists are less delusional even though sometimes we feel MORE delusional. Have to remember that. There’s a strength to being unsure about things. An excerpt in The Guardian from George Saunders’ speech from the National Book Awards last night.
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Love looking at it like this. It’s true. Artists are less delusional even though sometimes we feel MORE delusional. Have to remember that. There’s a strength to being unsure about things. An excerpt in The Guardian from George Saunders’ speech from the National Book Awards last night.
Uh... just arrived at my pirates studio for a 5p class and the fire department just rolled up, lights and sirens ahoy, at the building next door. I... don't see or smell smoke.
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Uh... just arrived at my pirates studio for a 5p class and the fire department just rolled up, lights and sirens ahoy, at the building next door. I... don't see or smell smoke.
My country music-loving grandfather might have liked my dad more if he knew that his great-grandmother's second cousin was married to Dolly Parton's very distant cousin. My grandfather very likely didn't know someone in his own family was married to a distant cousin of Hank Williams, either.
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My country music-loving grandfather might have liked my dad more if he knew that his great-grandmother's second cousin was married to Dolly Parton's very distant cousin. My grandfather very likely didn't know someone in his own family was married to a distant cousin of Hank Williams, either.
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
Today's #sotd is a Prague brand I picked up when I was on vacay there a few weeks a go (details in alt text). It's very chocolate-vanilla forward... at first. It dries down to a sort of grimy, musky version of a gourmand. #perfumesky
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today's #sotd is a Prague brand I picked up when I was on vacay there a few weeks a go (details in alt text). It's very chocolate-vanilla forward... at first. It dries down to a sort of grimy, musky version of a gourmand. #perfumesky