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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 18m

31 days of horror recs day 9!

Carmilla, specifically the edition edited by Carmen Maria Machado. This version comes with some fun metafiction by Machado via the intro and footnotes, an original vampire story wrapped around one of the classics. Also: It's Carmilla! Essential vampire reading.

The cover of Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado. The cover of the book features several bats, which is weird because Carmilla doesn't turn into a bat. That's a Dracula thing. Carmilla transforms into a black cat. There should be a cat on the cover! What the hell, Lantenrfish Press? This edition is really good, though.

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404 Media @404media.co · 51m

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Stella Cheeks @stellacheeks.bsky.social · 4h

Part of the college experience is feeling like your going to die an hour before an assignment is due and then accidentally writing the best thing your ever written.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 14h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 15h

Yup. When I’ve mentored writing interns at marketing agencies my big piece of advice has been to never be the bottleneck.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 17h

I genuinely attribute much of my career success as a freelance journalist to being reliable, pleasant, communicative, and turning in clean copy. It's not always my job to create a work of artistic genius! Often, I need to make the solid, functional table someone ordered, and do so on time

🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 18h

This sounds like some kind of weird humble-brag but it’s really true. You don’t have to eat glass, but you’d be surprised how far you can get by being reliable and easy to work with. Raw drafting talent is worth nothing if you’re a piece of shit who can’t hit deadlines.

Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 19h

Todd McFarlane: The one thing I've learned as I got older is you can't change personality. You either eat glass or not. You can't teach that. Rob LIefeld and I were glass eaters. Not the best artists, but we stood up. You should have seen what happened if we actually had f*ckin'' talent."

#nycc

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21h

Gonna say it, not enough games about defeating Klansmen, Confederates or neo-Confederates.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 21h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 19h

Sam, why did you close all the stores when you were mayor?

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 1d

Joe is making a great List

Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 7d

It’s October! Time for 31 days of horror recommendations. In the past I’ve just done movies, but this year I’m branching out. Movies, books, video games, any kind of horror media. Not everything on this list will be good, but I’m confident that everything will be interesting.

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks, Kory!

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 1d

31 days of horror recs day 8!

John Carpenter has made a lot of classics, but even his B-tier stuff is good. Prince of Darkness isn't his best movie, but it is a helluva ride. A quantum physicist and a Catholic priest team up to fight a demonic glowing tube. Havoc ensues. It rules!

A woman approaches a glowing green tube. The cylindrical artifact emanates an eerie light, and is surrounded by candles as if it's some kind of sacred or unholy artifact.

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 1d

Every time a politician talks like this they should get dumped with green slime like they’re on You Can’t Do That on Television.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 1d

Poltergeist is so damn good that I always forget everyone survives to the end.

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most transformative and artistically ambitious movies ever made, followed by a goofy and admittedly fun horror comedy that might as well be in a different continuity, followed by nothing of note.

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 1d

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and it’s not even close.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 1d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

screencrush.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Erik Grove @erikgrove.com · 1d

I specifically told Joe I was waiting for this list last time I saw him and he doesn’t disappoint. I am always excited to see unexpected gems every day in October!

Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 7d

It’s October! Time for 31 days of horror recommendations. In the past I’ve just done movies, but this year I’m branching out. Movies, books, video games, any kind of horror media. Not everything on this list will be good, but I’m confident that everything will be interesting.

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Erik! Very happy to hear that from a fellow horror fan!

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 1d

31 days of horror recs day 7!

Let's stick with comics one more day. Emily Carroll is amazing, and A Guest in the House is a beautiful, meditative, and terrifying look at one character's isolation and interiority. I don't want to say more. It's the kind of thing that rewards knowing nothing.

A two-page spread from A Guest in the House by Emily Carrol. A knight confronts a gigantic dragon in a cavern. Text reads: "I would find them, snug inside damp caverns, panting, pacing. When I sliced through them they would realize their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels... " here the knight cuts into the dragon's belly, letting loose a shower and treasure and blood. Text continues: "...and I beneath..."

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 2d

One of my go-to sushi orders is natto rolls with raw quail eggs on top.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 2d

31 days of horror recs day 6!

Speaking of Bernie Wrightson, Jenifer [sic] is a short comic illustrated by Wrightson and written by Bruce Jones. It was published in Creepy #63 in 1974. It's a nasty portrait of psychosexual abuse and torment, and one of the more upsetting things I've ever read.

An bearded man holds a woman over a log, ready to cut her head off with an axe. In the distance an onlooker says "Dear God!" Narration text reads: "That was the day I first saw her face, first looked into her eyes, first heard her name... Jenifer."

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 3d

Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running was very much a book I needed to read when I read it. It changed my approaches to both exercise and writing.

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 3d

PR’d at the gym this morning, but I was disappointed because it wasn’t a very big PR. It’s so annoying that gradual, difficult, incremental progress is often the key to accomplishing things.

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 3d

I love it! If you liked I Saw the TV Glow you’ll probably like it as well.

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 3d

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre gets a lot of its horror from the emptiness and desperation of dying rural communities.

Maybe it’s just me, but We’re All Going to the World’s Fair felt very much about suburban and exurban isolation.

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 3d

31 days of horror recs day 5!

When I think of Frankenstein I think of Bernie Wrightson. His 1983 illustrations of Mary Shelly's novel perfectly capture gothic drama of the book. When I found Wrightson's Frankenstein at my local library as a kid I was transfixed. I still am, decades later.

An illustration by Bernie Wrightson for Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. The Monster holds Victor Frankenstein up by his jacket, threatening him. The title of the illustration is "I Shall Be With You on Your Wedding Night," and if you've read the novel you know exactly what that means. Behind Victor and the Monster the laboratory is a riot of glass bottles, equipment, wires, and tubes. There is detail in every frame, and and somehow the entire story of the novel exists in this image.

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