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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 2h

Hahaha not my 20 year game dev career floundering in the chaos of the entire tech industry crawling up its own asshole 🥲

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4h

Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this

Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 7h

Ridicule is a powerful weapon against oppressors who are obsessed with their own moral superiority!

TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 10h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 7h

A good editor helps you make the most out of your piece. A great editor makes you more of yourself than you were.

Sure, bad feedback stinks. Sometimes it's something you don't want to hear. And sometimes the editor is wrong!

But I treasure a good editor.

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 10h

I'm pretty late to the #HorrorWritersChat party, but I just barely started Horror × Hope, where you’ll find my original fiction—horror, hopepunk, and everything in between—as well as non-fiction pieces pairing horror and hope in current events.

open.substack.com/pub/horrorxh...

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 10h

From beyond the mausoleum door echoed a mournful song, and its notes stirred a memory within you, buried generations deep: traditions long since colonized by modernity, your heritage denied. Tonight, with the veil at its thinnest, your ancestors usher you into your truth.

#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 14h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

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There he is! Baron Crescendo! Oh how the skies split open to his guitar, how more of us fly in the air! And look, a note from him, just for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Well? Go on! Word or rhyme, continue his Muse!

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 10h

I'm deeply partial to folklore, because those ancient stories and beliefs bring us to face forces so much bigger than ourselves that they drag us from our egos into a world we’re just part of, rather than one we expect dominion over.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 14h

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

Question Three

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

It is always a delight to see our violinists perform! How the living bend their splintering bones as they float above us all! Tell us, our ghostly compatriots – which of us are better? Of the folkloric kind? Or invented by our shadowy creators?

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 10h

Ghosts in any kind of liminal space are absolutely my jam. Bonus points if time itself is also fucked up there.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 15h

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 14h

I'm a PNW-based writer of occult horror—supernatural, folk, cosmic—which is often (though not always) politically-charged.

I arrive today in the visage of a Biblically-accurate angel who is *super mad* at the way religious belief has been twisted to serve evil ends.

#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 15h

Be welcomed to the ethereal music hall! A stringed aperitif is in order… do tell the Symposium what do you write, from where… and what IS, indeed, your wraithful visage for tonight?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 15h

It's so perfect 🥲

Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 18h

Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 15h

This is so wildly irresponsible. Privatizing schools and getting rid of all regulation and oversight over them would lead to *so much* child abuse.

The foxes are governing the henhouse.

www.propublica.org/article/educ...

#uspolitics #education #publicschools

As tax dollars are reallocated from public school districts and families abandon those schools to learn at home or in private settings, the new department officials see little need for oversight. Instead, they would let the marketplace determine what’s working using tools such as Yelp-like reviews from parents. Burke has said she is against “any sort of regulation.”

President Donald Trump himself said in July that the federal government needs only to provide “a little tiny bit of supervision but very little, almost nothing,” over the nation’s education system except to make sure students speak English.

Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 1d

I think the thing I miss most from childhood is that I didn't have eight million things competing for my time

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 1d

"Let our stories be Pandora’s box, unleashing all the things fascists fear the most."

This is a great piece ❤️

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 1d

From Elphaba to Zelma Stanton, witches in pop culture push back against oppression; they show us how to imagine a better world and encourage us to fight against authoritarianism, propaganda, and censorship 🧹

reactormag.com/rebellion-ac...

Rebellion, Activism, Imagination: Why We Need Witches More Than Ever. - Reactor

Witches teach us how to push back — and raise hell — in the face of authoritarianism.

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Stanley Q Woodvine @sqwabb.bsky.social · 2d

Impatient to see the much vaunted "checks & balances" that I've heard all my life are built into the United States political system to prevent exactly what's happening now. Appears tho, that a bunch of fast-moving fascist wannabees figured out the checks & balances only work s-l-o-w-l-y, if at all.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2d

And I just… we could do this. We could afford to do this, as a country. There is no good fucking reason why we cannot do this. We simply choose not to because we believe that Jesus loves billionaires more than loser slothful creative people

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 2d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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Becky @beckygracelea.bsky.social · 4d

She hath risen.

“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 3d

Here we go

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 3d

My favorite thing is how everyone says to use a VPN for privacy and security but now all the websites block VPN connections 😡

Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 3d

I've done, it for sure.

That said, I think many of us are so used to truly free speech, that unlearning that expectation in an increasingly authoritarian environment will take a lot of time.

But also, the more speech we self-suppress, the more dangerous that speech becomes for others. 😬

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 3d

Did the OnlyPosts feed die? I haven't seen it update in four days, but Following is still current.