Sam Richard
@sammytotep.bsky.social
Widower | Owner Weirdpunk Books | Author | Wonderland & Lit Nasties Award-Winner | BNW & Splatterpunk Award-Nominee | Anarchist | Aging Punk | Bi | He/Him | 'Saddest Man in Indie Horror' | Void Collective | Zinester | MPLS
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Sam Richard
@sammytotep.bsky.social
· Nov 12
The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God comes out at the end of this month and is up for pre-order!
Weird horror short stories about isolation, grief, guilt, art, acidic body fluids, queerness, burning down a regenerating church, brick-cats, abandoned malls, and more.
weirdpunkbooks.square.site
Weird horror short stories about isolation, grief, guilt, art, acidic body fluids, queerness, burning down a regenerating church, brick-cats, abandoned malls, and more.
weirdpunkbooks.square.site
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I’m a slow reader, but that doesn’t mean I can’t try to finish 10 books on my TBR before the end of the year. Right? Right! Work by @sammytotep.bsky.social @matthewmitchell.bsky.social @catmscully.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @raewilde.bsky.social @alexwoodroe.com and more.
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I’m a slow reader, but that doesn’t mean I can’t try to finish 10 books on my TBR before the end of the year. Right? Right! Work by @sammytotep.bsky.social @matthewmitchell.bsky.social @catmscully.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @raewilde.bsky.social @alexwoodroe.com and more.
Ok, but he's right though.
Dad Calling Just To Say He Loves King Crimson https://theonion.com/dad-calling-just-to-say-he-loves-king-crimson/
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ok, but he's right though.
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QUEER SAINTS features @ericlarocca.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @ericraglin1992.bsky.social @sammytotep.bsky.social @itsviviactually.bsky.social @emnays.bsky.social @xavilawrites.bsky.social and many, many more!
If I can reach 1000 followers by the end of the day, I’ll permanently make all the ebooks on my website free.
The queer horror anthologies THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS VOLS I & II, featuring the best horror writers working in the business, and my debut novel I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU.
FREE FOREVER!
The queer horror anthologies THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS VOLS I & II, featuring the best horror writers working in the business, and my debut novel I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU.
FREE FOREVER!
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
QUEER SAINTS features @ericlarocca.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @ericraglin1992.bsky.social @sammytotep.bsky.social @itsviviactually.bsky.social @emnays.bsky.social @xavilawrites.bsky.social and many, many more!
This has been one of the most unproductive periods of both my writing and publishing life. I'm exhausted.
I'm also breaking through something, and maybe that's what this has all been about.
I'm also breaking through something, and maybe that's what this has all been about.
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This has been one of the most unproductive periods of both my writing and publishing life. I'm exhausted.
I'm also breaking through something, and maybe that's what this has all been about.
I'm also breaking through something, and maybe that's what this has all been about.
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Please remember that flawed human beings who have made mistakes deserve dignity too, an undocumented person with a criminal record still doesn’t deserve violence at the whim of the government.
Not everyone ICE is targeting is a perfect person and you shouldn’t fixate on that.
Not everyone ICE is targeting is a perfect person and you shouldn’t fixate on that.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Please remember that flawed human beings who have made mistakes deserve dignity too, an undocumented person with a criminal record still doesn’t deserve violence at the whim of the government.
Not everyone ICE is targeting is a perfect person and you shouldn’t fixate on that.
Not everyone ICE is targeting is a perfect person and you shouldn’t fixate on that.
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#OtD 10 Nov 1891 Jewish Ukrainian anarchist, Simón Radowitzky, was born. At 15, he took part in the 1905 Russian Revolution, killed a police chief in Argentina at 18, endured 20 years of prison, fought fascism during the Spanish Civil War, and more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1264...
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#OtD 10 Nov 1891 Jewish Ukrainian anarchist, Simón Radowitzky, was born. At 15, he took part in the 1905 Russian Revolution, killed a police chief in Argentina at 18, endured 20 years of prison, fought fascism during the Spanish Civil War, and more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1264...
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ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
Don't wait up for me, honey. I'm cracking another beer and watching black metal music videos.
November 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Don't wait up for me, honey. I'm cracking another beer and watching black metal music videos.
This movie is so fucking good.
Tonight's watch, Wolfen (1981). A coked up slurry that seems to anticipate the British invasion comics with meaty ideas about urban renewal as violence, colonization as self inflicted psychosis, cultural appreciation veering into cultural insensitivity, and tech panopticons. Shade the Changing Wolf.
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This movie is so fucking good.
Holy shit, there's a new Katamari game!
October 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Holy shit, there's a new Katamari game!
8-bit Samael is keeping me going today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBBN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBBN...
Samael - Sleep of Death ("8 Bit" / CT)
YouTube video by NocturnalNL
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
8-bit Samael is keeping me going today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBBN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBBN...
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Isn't this just the S&L scandal from the '80s?
Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales.
Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...
Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...
The AI Circular Economy
Big tech companies and wealthy investors are driving an AI bubble - but they won't be the ones feeling the pain when it bursts.
graceblakeley.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Isn't this just the S&L scandal from the '80s?
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Okay, there's also a review of the recent @sammytotep.bsky.social book with a shout out to his surprisingly beautiful "Jizz Christ", and a mad list of talent in Yeager's intro.
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Okay, there's also a review of the recent @sammytotep.bsky.social book with a shout out to his surprisingly beautiful "Jizz Christ", and a mad list of talent in Yeager's intro.
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Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.
October 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.
All crowned in butts and glory.
October 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
All crowned in butts and glory.
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My haul from VoidCon 3! Really this is only a fraction of what I would have walked away with if I had the cash - there were so many amazing artists and vendors there! I'll just have to start saving for VoidCon 4 🖤
October 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My haul from VoidCon 3! Really this is only a fraction of what I would have walked away with if I had the cash - there were so many amazing artists and vendors there! I'll just have to start saving for VoidCon 4 🖤
I spent all weekend surrounded by friends, engrossed in conversations about writing, publishing, creativity, forging a truly diy approach, shit-talking, friend-praising, and more. Honored to call these fucks friends, and to have made new ones.
I took zero photos but made the front page of a paper.
I took zero photos but made the front page of a paper.
October 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I spent all weekend surrounded by friends, engrossed in conversations about writing, publishing, creativity, forging a truly diy approach, shit-talking, friend-praising, and more. Honored to call these fucks friends, and to have made new ones.
I took zero photos but made the front page of a paper.
I took zero photos but made the front page of a paper.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
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jesus wept // @horrorsong.blog & @sammytotep.bsky.social of @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social @ @voidcon.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
jesus wept // @horrorsong.blog & @sammytotep.bsky.social of @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social @ @voidcon.bsky.social
VoidCon is already on fire.
October 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
VoidCon is already on fire.
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is the guy in the bathory shirt walking down the gettysburg sidewalk here for voidcon? and other questions i am asking myself
October 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
is the guy in the bathory shirt walking down the gettysburg sidewalk here for voidcon? and other questions i am asking myself