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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.

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Anticapitalist magazine of dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, and unsettling horror. Here for a bad time.
buttondown.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Love the movie (and this photo) to bits.
January 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM
@theobserveruk.bsky.social I'm afraid the article doesn't credit the writer. (But has as a clue '...now 81, is my platonic ideal of a writer...' and the fact that @mjohnharrison.bsky.social posted it.)
January 3, 2026 at 11:16 AM
I rest my case
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
A follow-up on how the rest of the cast ended up would be welcome.
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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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
And as though leaf-shaped wings as camouflage is not cool enough, here's how:

www.newscientist.com/article/2468...
How a moth uses an optical illusion to disguise itself as a leaf
The smooth wings of fruit-sucking moths appear to be ridged like a leaf – but the resemblance is created by nanostructures that reflect light in an unusual way
www.newscientist.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM