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Manticore Nightstriker
@adamscantwell.bsky.social
Minor writer. https://adamscantwell.blogspot.com/
“A Forest with its Mouth Open Wide” still in print, hardcover weird fiction collection (search ebay)
Previously Egaeus Press, Mount Abraxas, Raphus Press, Fiddleblack
Is smart to want good? Who say can?
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
GHOST SHIP (2002) is one of my favorite movies, I must’ve seen it more than 15 times
a close up of a young girl with long hair
Alt: Ghost girl from GHOST SHIP
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December 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
New story from my visiting mom: when I was very little she was dating the brass player Phil wood from Sons of champlin, and apparently i met his neighbor who was the composer of Monster Mash, Bobby “Boris” Pickett !!!
December 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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I can confirm as an actual fact that Palantir is absolutely silly with cocaine. Top to bottom. No one there is sober.
December 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Marie Windsor would like to remind you she’s not taking any of your guff. Photo by Roman Freulich for Hellfire (1949). #botd
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Some movies are:
CONQUEST (Fulci)
CAL-TIKI THE IMMORTAL MONSTER
THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON
THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH starring Barbara Steele
CASTLE OF THE CREEPING FLESH
December 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Gaming the system is very the-system coded
December 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Bro types in my office are increasing the level of vocal fry, I think it's meant to signal nonchalance and ultra-attenuated contempt for everything within earshot
December 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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i am begging publishers to bring back mass paperbacks. i am not in the income bracket to buy sprayed edges. i am not in the income bracket to buy.... regular edges. i can afford 0 edges. a circle book.

95% of the books on my shelves are either borrowed from the library or ARCs.
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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As was clear during Trump 1, roughly 37% of Americans are committed to white supremacy &/or Christian nationalism, no matter the cost. Very much reminds me of the Reconstruction South, which doubled down on the plantation regime that had destroyed the country in the aftermath of emancipation.
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Not arguing with his ideas but for me doctorow is a no
December 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
a great great book that you can easily imagine being made into a terrible terrible film
and here we thought the Narnia news was questionable
December 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Chinged Victory
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
People would read more if books were pocket-sized. The mass market paperback still exists but barely, the paper stock is gray-brown and deeply humiliating, the books too fat from no editing and bad page design, they’re barely cheaper than titles in that obtuse motley format we call trade paperback
December 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
you will be visited by 3 spirits
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Lander going after Rep Dan Goldman in NY-10

*BRAD LANDER TO LAUNCH HOUSE BID AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY: POLITICO
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Disc...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Adorno: “The premier demand upon all education is that Auschwitz not happen again. Every debate about the ideals of education is trivial and inconsequential compared to this single ideal: never again Auschwitz."
January 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Tech used to have an aesthetic and didn't track your spending habits
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The top US leaders & donors have a combination of Nazi and S. African apartheid ideology (which were themselves initially patterned after US racism/segregation/violence) and Jim Crow. Their vision is also world war. They all already built bunkers so they can die like Hitler when they are defeated.
Whether it's bizarre tariff policies, the recent National Security Strategy statement encouraging white nationalist & authoritarian regimes in Europe, or the more visible attempts to resurrect the explicitly racist Immigration Act of 1924, the throughline is the same: reviving the Jim Crow state.
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Marvel movies were a fundamentally busted idea- a movie can’t be drawn by Michael Golden or Gene Colan or Jack Kirby now can it?
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM