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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 15h

Marvelous new @helleborezine.bsky.social! Looking forward to digging in to this article to find out what’s going on here & if there’s any chance I’m ever going to get my lipstick just right ever again

An ornate mirror with only the room behind it in the reflection

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 1h

The RAND Corp just released findings that the 2025 LA homeless count may have been off by up to 7900 people. The undercount coincides with “rough sleepers” - people without a vehicle or tent. The neighborhoods most affected are Venice, Hollywood and Skid Row.

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Growing Inaccuracies in Official Counts Jeopardize LA Homelessness Wins

Official homeless counts increasingly underestimate the number of people living on the street in three key LA neighborhoods. Without a correction, this undercount could divert resources from the commu...

www.rand.org

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15h

There’s more of us than there are of them. They can’t control us. They can’t stop us from voicing our dissent. Thugs and thuggery is not a winning future, even if they think so. See you at No Kings.

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Nicole Rodovsky @nrodovsky.bsky.social · 12h

I didn't, it made me happy! 😂

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Nicole Rodovsky @nrodovsky.bsky.social · 14h

Watching "The Haunting of Bly Manor" on Netflix:
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James Brooks Cascade @alaska.bsky.social · 14h

#Alaska

Grubby, the opossum that came to Alaska in a shipping container, dies of old age at Alaska Zoo

The Virginia opossum ran loose for weeks in Homer before being caught and taken to the Anchorage zoo.

www.adn.com

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Nicole Rodovsky @nrodovsky.bsky.social · 14h

True...

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 14h

I’m a-gonna go way out on a limb (ahem) and predict a wave of jokes will come now.

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 1d

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15h

what’s most damning, IMO, about the “swastika flag in the background of a Zoom call” thing is that it’s clearly been up for a while, like, he didn’t put that up this AM, and nobody has said anything to him about it (nor did he think to take it down) because it’s just expected behavior among the GOP

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Nicole Rodovsky @nrodovsky.bsky.social · 14h

I STILL say...

a cartoon character is sitting at a table with a bowl of fruit and vegetables .

ALT: a cartoon character is sitting at a table with a bowl of fruit and vegetables .

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 16h

Q4.
Do hang around for the outro, in around 10 minutes.

Which is the easier route? Or the more satisfying?

#HorrorWritersChat

Q4
In your stories: is desperation scarier than the supernatural?

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 16h

#HorrorWritersChat Q3.

Who do you scare? As a writer, it's our chance to bite back, perhaps.

Q3
Do you write horror that scares the poor, the wealthy or everyone equally?

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 16h

Q2. So many of you are diving in courageously. I salute you. Don't worry, now we go more abstract.
#HorrorWritersChat

Q2
How does scarcity or deprivation shape the worlds you build in your stories?

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 16h

Today we delivered to senior management in NY a petition signed by 1,300 ProPublica readers, donors and supporters, as well as fellow journalists at peer newsrooms and former ProPublicans. It’s clear that we have wide support for a fair contract NOW.

ProPublica Guild Secretary Jeff Ernsthausen presents CEO Robin Sparkman with our petition signatures.

ProPublica Guild members gather in CEO Robin Sparkman’s office delivering petition signatures.

ProPublica Guild members gather in the hallway outside CEO Robin Sparkman’s office, delivering petition signatures.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15h

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 15h

Young Republicans in the ‘90s were also racist, Hitler-loving creeps who wanted to do real harm to people who weren’t like them.

Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

Today on zero surprise www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

It’s not new, it’s not a response to Trump, it’s not a turn to evil - The same garbage was happening at my university in 1991 when a group of Young Republicans threatened to rape me so I would stop embarrassing the school with my queerness

www.politico.com

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 15h

It was the MWRG (Mormon Women for Ethical Government) who pushed the Utah Supreme Court to enforce the anti gerrymandering reforms the legislature had been ignoring (that the people voted for), so I would not count this option out TBH

Project Azar @projectazar.com · 15h

If the Mormons start memeing in favor of the frogs, I think it's a sign Trump is losing the FBI, which I welcome with open arms. Bring on the latter day memes.

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Nicole Rodovsky @nrodovsky.bsky.social · 15h

Especially if the bagpipes blow flames like the Unipiper's.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered.

Judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing workers during the government shutdown

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown. U.S.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 16h

Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.

Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Amber Hathaway, Little White Flowers author @amber-hathaway.bsky.social · 16h

In my current WIP, my main character Carrie lives in a trailer park, and that plays heavily into the story. She's acutely aware of her otherness and tries to blend in. When her best friend Christine, also from the trailer park, goes missing, the police don't take it seriously.

#HorrorWritersChat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 16h

Q2. So many of you are diving in courageously. I salute you. Don't worry, now we go more abstract.
#HorrorWritersChat

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Vee @icalasari.illusoria.ca · 16h

#HorrorWritersChat

Oh sweet just soon enough to squeeze in another answer before my shift

It shapes it somewhat. Lots of horror derived from how society treats us neurodivergent by throwing us out, plus one of my main horror characters is literally named Broke for a few reasons

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 16h

Q2. So many of you are diving in courageously. I salute you. Don't worry, now we go more abstract.
#HorrorWritersChat

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

Marquette Park this morning, ~45 min ago at 70th and Washtenaw per anon FB post. Through a screen, someone films Border Patrol agents taking a man into a red minivan and driving away. Another angle of this shared to social media shows it happened in front of a daycare.

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 16h

Tom Coombe here, writer of short horror stories. Rich people call themselves "comfortable." I'm what you might call "uncomfortable." I make enough money to pay my bills, but not enough to retire or save or do anything other than occasionally go out to eat.

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 16h

Oh right then here we go, if it glitches I'll wait till it's back up then fire the next.
Can't say fairer than that. Hi #HorrorWritersChat, let's talk riches. Or poverty. Moral or cash, I don't mind which.
Horror is one of the more egalitarian genres I think. More room for poor...

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Question One
Assemble, horror bods!
Tell me what kind of horror you write, and how poor are you - financially or morally? You choose....

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Nicole Rodovsky @nrodovsky.bsky.social · 16h

No, I draw the line at quote-posting ME but making it so I can't reply?? Blocked.