Taik Hobson
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Remember livejournal? Great stuff tucked away here #ThomasMDisch
tomsdisch.livejournal.com/2006/04/29/
tomsdisch.livejournal.com/2006/04/29/
Endzone
tomsdisch.livejournal.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Remember livejournal? Great stuff tucked away here #ThomasMDisch
tomsdisch.livejournal.com/2006/04/29/
tomsdisch.livejournal.com/2006/04/29/
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Anticapitalist magazine of dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, and unsettling horror. Here for a bad time.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I'm on edge that any one social media site might implode at any given moment, so we're endeavouring to make the newsletter more frequent this year in an effort to spread our internet presence around and also post some slightly more longform thoughts and goings on at STP HQ.
You can subscribe here.
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Don’t know who credit image to, but
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Don’t know who credit image to, but
0430 wake up calls
look good on paper
take balls to answer
then freeze them while you boot
up the word processor
as so
look good on paper
take balls to answer
then freeze them while you boot
up the word processor
as so
January 5, 2026 at 8:36 AM
0430 wake up calls
look good on paper
take balls to answer
then freeze them while you boot
up the word processor
as so
look good on paper
take balls to answer
then freeze them while you boot
up the word processor
as so
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My wife is dead, I am disabled and I have nothing. If you can, please help me and my Charlie cat get back to the UK. Signal boosts would be most appreciated. Thank you. wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/m...
December 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
My wife is dead, I am disabled and I have nothing. If you can, please help me and my Charlie cat get back to the UK. Signal boosts would be most appreciated. Thank you. wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/m...
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James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette, Elias Koteas in Crash (1996) By David Cronenberg
January 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette, Elias Koteas in Crash (1996) By David Cronenberg
Happy new one let's go fire walk with me
January 3, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Happy new one let's go fire walk with me
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If you’re ever taking a multiple choice exam in medicine, I don’t care at what level you’re at, or which branch of medicine it is, if there is any mention of custard pies at a summer picnic, the answer will always be acute toxemia from Staphylococcus aureus.
January 2, 2026 at 8:41 PM
If you’re ever taking a multiple choice exam in medicine, I don’t care at what level you’re at, or which branch of medicine it is, if there is any mention of custard pies at a summer picnic, the answer will always be acute toxemia from Staphylococcus aureus.
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Dome Rain Falling Stones
Brian Catling RA
Brian Catling RA
January 3, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Dome Rain Falling Stones
Brian Catling RA
Brian Catling RA
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December 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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James Young: "Brian and I got together for a couple of days in the winter of 2012 when Oxford was flooded. He came round to my place with some loose pages of his poetry and one of his published collections ‘Late Harping’.
catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
I Flood The Land, by Brian Catling & James Young
16 track album
catling-young.bandcamp.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
James Young: "Brian and I got together for a couple of days in the winter of 2012 when Oxford was flooded. He came round to my place with some loose pages of his poetry and one of his published collections ‘Late Harping’.
catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
It's hard to look on the bright side of things when even the sunrise looks AI generated.
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
It's hard to look on the bright side of things when even the sunrise looks AI generated.
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This isn't even the point, but I feel pissed off that my years of editorial experience and genuine, lifelong enthusiasm for the work is being channelled into a new role as a professional fluffer for a large-language model.
December 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This isn't even the point, but I feel pissed off that my years of editorial experience and genuine, lifelong enthusiasm for the work is being channelled into a new role as a professional fluffer for a large-language model.
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Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
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fascinating thread
Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
December 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
fascinating thread
The elegantly named Fruit-Sucking Moth, famed familiar to the garden variety Blog-Posting Scribe (could be it's the other way around); one’s not far from the other
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The elegantly named Fruit-Sucking Moth, famed familiar to the garden variety Blog-Posting Scribe (could be it's the other way around); one’s not far from the other
A big happy birthday to Bill, the likes of which and so on and so forth. Also: always happy to share Radiant Blake by Chloe Cumming
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A big happy birthday to Bill, the likes of which and so on and so forth. Also: always happy to share Radiant Blake by Chloe Cumming
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Brian Catling's contribution to The William Blake Birthday Book (2007), on occasion of the visionary's 265th birthday
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Brian Catling's contribution to The William Blake Birthday Book (2007), on occasion of the visionary's 265th birthday
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
If there was ever a case to be made about not playing to the market it's this: thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...
I couldn't go on after the bit by Kim Hyesoon😭
I couldn't go on after the bit by Kim Hyesoon😭
Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum
There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.
thebaffler.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If there was ever a case to be made about not playing to the market it's this: thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...
I couldn't go on after the bit by Kim Hyesoon😭
I couldn't go on after the bit by Kim Hyesoon😭
For what it's worth I do relate to that fish going against the group, especially when it gets clicked
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
For what it's worth I do relate to that fish going against the group, especially when it gets clicked