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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 5h

As a double feature? Undecided as yet:

* Bones and All (2022)
* Orlando (1992, Tilda Swinton)
* Let The Right One In (2008 Sweden, not the American remake)

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 5h

Tonight's movie was You Won't Be Alone (2022), set in nineteenth-century rural Macedonia. Described as about witches, the protagonists are serial skinchangers. Not so much a horror movie as an exploration of being human with occasional gory transitions.

An orange sun at sunset, framed through a wide doorway looking out into a valley. Silhouettes of brush line the bottom edge of the view, while rushes hang down from the top. The interior of the doorway is entirely dark and a light haze obscures the sky. An upper rail and a post to the right frame - as a corner by Mondrian - the sun.

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 12h

New turntable slipmat, from Cold Spring in the UK.

Viewed from above, a turntable with a blue base. A white slipmat with a ten-pointed black star with narrow rays alternating wavy and straight is centered on the slipmat. Around the edge, the words "WHEN YOU LISTEN TO COIL DO YOU THINK OF MUSIC?" in a sans-serif vertically thin typeface, in all caps.

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Oompa loompa doompa dee doo
We have a little sight to show you

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 1d

Neat! I liked it enough on a first watch this evening I might watch it again some other time myself. I loved the score and really admired the costuming work.

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's spooky season movie: A Wounded Fawn (2022), featuring the Erinyes, bagh nakhs, tagelharpas, and conch shells - the last two on the film score.

Closeup of a bronze statue: the face of a frightened man, mouth open, left arm raised in warding, against a black background. The point of view is bracketed to left and right by a pair out-of-focus irregularly-shaped objects.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s the first day of Banned Books Week! Take a look at the thread and see if there’s something you can do to protect our freedom to read!

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 9d

Banned Books Week starts on Sunday, October 5—there are a ton of ways to support!

Find ways to get involved here: www.ala.org/bbooks/banne...

(If you're overwhelmed, even just checking out, buying, or elevating a banned book is helpful! Talking about them w/ the ppl in your life is an action!)

A graphic that reads BANNED BOOKS WEEK, Oct 5 - 11, 2025.

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. ala.org/bbooks

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 4d

In this spooky season, happy birthdayversary (1941) to Anne Rice.

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 4d

My favorite Cure track is Fascination Street, for its bassline, but the question was "upbeat" song. :)

Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 5d

Fun fact: in the horror movie Bring Her Back (2025), a character watches a videotape, which begins with a flash of a URL. That site is a working website and contains video that could be on the videotape in the movie. www.thisisnotacult.xyz

we found you. | this is not a cult.

www.thisisnotacult.xyz

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 5d

"Love Cats", The Cure

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 5d

question for the timeline

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 5d

Just watched it as well! Intense and well done.

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 5d

Spotted the A24 in Bring Her Back (2025).

A VCR on a shelf where someone is about to put in a videocassette. "A24" is on the dust shield inside the VCR insert slot.

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 5d

For spooky season this year, Shudder has released a new Ghoul Log! Screenshot from Revenge of the Ghoul Log (2025).

(context: Ghoul Log is a fall tradition of the Shudder horror streaming service, a halloween-themed variant of the "christmas fireplace" video.)

The general motif for this year's Ghoul Log is a kind of terrarium scene.

An orange pumpkin, glowing yellow through its eyes, nose, and mouth, surrounded by glass beads and fungi and moss. A few candles, not all lit. On stage left at the edge of the screen, a skull rests. Perched on the skull is a black tarantula with orange and yellow banded legs.

Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 5d

Call me Ishmael. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 5d

The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

cc: @greatdismal.bsky.social

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 6d

Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 5d

For the first time, Disney’s rare, out-of-print gateway horror movie SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983) finally arrived on streaming today, now playing exclusively on Disney+:

Rare Halloween Film ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ Makes Streaming Debut on Disney+ Today

It’s a Halloween treat! For the first time ever, Disney’s rare, out-of-print gateway horror movie Something Wicked This Way Comes finally arrives on streaming today, exclusively on Disney+. The 1983 ...

bloody-disgusting.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 5d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 5d

TGI(stfu)F. Learn the script.

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 6d

The customer support rep was very nice, assured me they took down my comment in full, and that my comment would be passed on to "higher ups".

Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 6d

[1] was a footnote I took out for lack of space and didn't remember to delete the marker, so here it was:

[1] I don't remember exactly how long, but I remember Lillyhammer premiering on Netflix and that was 2012 according to wikipedia, so sometime before then.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 6d

As someone who is a hobbyist archivist I cannot recommend enough making your own physical copies of any queer and trans media that is important to you sooner rather than later.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Steve Burnett @steveburnett.bsky.social · 6d

Calling Netflix 1-866-952-4456 to say "I've been a customer since before 2012 [1] and if Netflix starts removing shows with trans and queer characters from its programming I will cancel my subscription" took me maybe two minutes.

Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 6d

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure.

Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Mark Bouchard @barkmouchard.bsky.social · 6d

now that the month where people try and cram 31 horror movies into 31 days has started, i thought id share a list of 20 horror movies that rock but feel underwatched/talked about

1. ISOLATION (2005)
2. HAUNTED SCHOOL (1995)
3. RED ROOMS (2023)
4. DREAM HOME (2010)
5. HIRUKO THE GOBLIN (1991)
6. GHOSTWATCH (1992)
7. VERMINES (2023)
8. MESSIAH OF EVIL (1974)
9. INCANTATION (2022)
10. THE SNAKE GIRL & THE SILVER HAIRED WITCH (1968)
11. SOCIETY (1989)
12. THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (1988)
13. THE CHANGELING (1980)
14. MAGNETIC ROSE (1995)
15. THE PIT (1981)
16. HISTORY OF THE OCCULT (2020)
17. A LIZARD IN A WOMAN’S SKIN (1971)
18. MARTIN (1977)
19. THE RELIC (1997)
20. PIRANHA (1978)

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 7d

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

Trump announces 'TrumpRx' website for pharmaceutical drugs after Pfizer deal

Trump said the move will help improve healthcare access for low-income Americans.

abcnews.go.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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