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mandolin mama @mandolinmama.bsky.social · 17h

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a round image divided in half. the left half is a cross section of a tree showing all the rings. the right half is a human fingerprint. they are very similar.
quote:- at the top, "tree stump & human fingerprint." at the bottom, "we are earth".

~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 18h

10 horror movies I love:

🪓 The Shining
🦈 Jaws
🪣 Carrie
🛏️ The Exorcist
🤰 Rosemary’s Baby
🏚️ Repulsion
🍖 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
🧟‍♂️ Night of the Living & Dawn of the Dead
✝️ Night of the Hunter
🤴 Hereditary

Nadia Bulkin @nadiabulkin.bsky.social · 21h

10 horror movies to get to know me

🔥 Saint Maud
🫗 Personal Shopper
🎦 Red Rooms
↩️ It Follows
👹 Noroi: The Curse
👰🏻‍♀️ Demon (2015)
😢 A Dark Song
📸 Lake Mungo
👂🏻 Kwaidan
🪓 The Descent

Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 2d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🩸Messiah Of Evil
🪏Dead And Buried
✝️Exorcist III
🔪Alice, Sweet Alice
🪟The House With The Laughing Windows
🎅Black Christmas '74
🐺The Thing
📺Ghostwatch
⚪Phantasm
🪦Creepshow

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 19h

Love the title and the excerpt. Good stuff!

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 22h

I love that guy. He's putting his lack of resources and musical talent to very good effect.

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Jill Hand @jhandy.bsky.social · 1d

Kids growing up on the mean streets of suburban New Jersey learn early to double consonants when adding a suffix to a stressed syllable ending in a single vowel and consonant.

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 22h

Like the Nazis freezing and starving in winter Russia.

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 22h

Keep the faith!

~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 22h

That's cool.

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 23h

Things im "debating " anyone on
Racism
Misogyny
Transphobia and homophobia
Genocide

They are all bad and evil full stop
Its like asking me to debate about if we should eat shit sandwiches
No motherf*cker.
NO

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 23h

Just a reminder: many of the folks on BS are here to get away from toxic social media elsewhere, including endless AI slop. Not everybody hates AI, but many of us here sure do. Endless posting of AI imagery will get you unfollowed, not least by me. Let’s support real artists and real people, not AI.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 1d

All the dozens of trans teens and young adults who have said to me "I wish you were my dad, my dad [some horror story]" beg to fucken differ

As do I

So very few are accepted and to claim otherwise is a straight up lie

We are talking about the SURVIVAL OF CHILDREN here, this is not a fucken debate

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.

It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 1d

The Family of Street Acrobats: The Injured Child, Gustave Doré, 1873

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 1d

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 1d

That’s cool.

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm happy this is turning out to be a decent movie. Springsteen is absolutely one of my dudeville heroes and my truest example of a modern, thoughtful, yet still traditionally-masculine male. And therapy is great, and not only for emergencies. Everyone can benefit. www.jezebel.com/i-hope-deliv...

I Hope 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' Inspires More Men to Go to Therapy

Though occasionally clichéd, the biopic remains a testament to what makes Springsteen a storyteller worth listening to—and how therapy changed his life.

www.jezebel.com

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, not much, just fascism happening in real time. CNN allowed Stephen Miller to re-record a paragraph in which he blurted out, “plenary authority,” which is full, unconstricted power. That’s what we need, right? Trump and Stephen Miller with unconstricted power?

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 1d

Relatedly, I recommend Polly Schattel's 8:59:29, a tale of demons and hexes, of class and education, and of technology’s pernicious expansion as a governing social force. Wicked, sardonic, intelligent horror fiction.

Buy: journalstone.com/bookstore/8-...

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 1d

Aw you’re so sweet. I loved your very perceptive blurb, btw!

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa. Yeah, that’s not for me. But go nuts!

~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

Jalapenos aren't too bad. It's the hotter ones that get me.

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

Cerebral, thoughtful, VISCERAL horror for your horror holiday season. Get to it, weirdos!

Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 2d

'tis the season for horror fiction.

Might I suggest Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and/or Peel Back and See? 👻💀🔪

Buy them at your local bookshops if you can.

They're also available on Amazon and the like: tinyurl.com/28hwvecx

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder to go see OBAA if you’re at all interested in state of the art modern auteur filmmaking. It’s not a perfect movie by far, but PTA is an essential voice of cinematic compassion, empathy and deep black humor. The cast is incredible, even Leo. The whole thing is a gift. Go see it.

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 2d

HEY IT'S MY BOOK BIRTHDAY

YESSSS

Cancer Eats the Heart is out in the world! Disabled, dying, and chronically ill turn to vampirism as a cure, only to be hunted by twisted vampire hunters for their bones

pauljessup.com/books/cancer...

Cancer Eats the Heart

For Nix, waging her own private war with multiple sclerosis, a haunted house and a cryptic drifter aren’t the strangest things she’s ever encountered. No, what unnerves Nix is the adole…

pauljessup.com

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

Dayum, this woman hits all the red flags. At this point I think pretty much every single transphobe is a closet white supremacist-nazi egg. It feels like if someone doesn’t have at least have a smidge of empathy for trans folk, it speaks to something deeper in their character.

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