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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 12h

Lately I've been writing about fascists losing.

CAN'T IMAGINE WHY

Horror Makes Us Happy @horrormakesushappy.com · 15h

Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 12h

IT'S SO GOOD

SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 15h

All hell can’t stop us now.

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 12h

I'm a basic bitch for Barbie Girl 😂

But I spent this period of my life listening almost exclusively to punk and emo, which are uhhhh not well represented here.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 17h

Welcome new Bluesky users, to prove that your are at least 36 years old, the minimum age for this website, please list your favorite song on the first ten volumes of Now! That’s What I Call Music. Please consult this playlist if you need assistance.

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Now thats what i call music(US Vol 1-10 by Cooper Lund on Apple Music

Playlist · 174 Songs

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 17h

One of our responsibilities as a publisher is to register copyrights. Turns out that's rather difficult to do when the U.S. Copyright Office is *closed due to government shutdown*.

America: so functional, much supreme. 😒

www.copyright.gov

#copyright #publishing #GovernmentShutdown

Notice

Due to a lapse in government funding, the U.S. Copyright Office is closed, as is the Library of Congress. As such, the office is unable to update the information on this website, respond to inquiries, or process transactions. Registration and recordation submissions will be accepted for the purpose of securing date of receipt but will not be processed. Website updates and all normal business activity will resume when the government reopens.

If you would like to file a copyright registration or submit a document recordation, our online systems are available. Filing your registration claim now will help ensure the earliest possible effective date of registration, although submissions will not be processed until the Copyright Office reopens.

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Jeremy Hot Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 2d

my therapist: sometimes you simply have to experience an emotion instead of thinking about it
me, nodding sagely: and then it goes away
therapist: well not necessarily
me, shaking my head furiously: no, I don't like that

Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

Me: I just don't understand why I can't just out-think my anxiety and emotions and simply react and respond in the most ideal way every single time and never feel bad
My therapist of eight years: *audibly loading gun*

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 2d

If I worked in tech support:

ME: Okay, turn off the computer.

THEM: And then turn it back on again?

ME: No.

a man is carrying a suitcase in front of a no parking fire lane sign

ALT: a man is carrying a suitcase in front of a no parking fire lane sign

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 5d

My two-year-old somehow figured out how to change both my Microsoft password *and* my keyboard layout (from the lock screen, no less!) so when I went to reset my password, I unknowingly made an even worse hash of things. Cue an hour of troubleshooting to untangle it all, interrupting my writing. 😭

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 6d

Just going to repost one of my favorite threads of all time.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 20

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

(1/n)

Beautiful crow against a black background

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 6d

🎯

perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 6d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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drewcifer @graysonsyd.bsky.social · 6d

Self-care is taking yourself out to go see a horror movie.

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 6d

I had really promising interviews with two different game studios earlier this year, for very exciting projects.

Both of those studios announced layoffs, financial difficulties, and general future uncertainty today.

#gamedev is in so much trouble. 😭

Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 7d

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 · 7d

Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this

Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 7d

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

TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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.

Question Four

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 · 7d

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.

#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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

#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

It's so perfect 🥲

Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 8d

Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 9d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

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

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