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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden

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Author of The Huntress and the Trickster and Unfold (coming Dec 15) | Former entertainment journalist looking for a new career | Tattoo enthusiast, metalhead, gamer | [email protected] | https://linktr.ee/tristanzelden (He/Him)

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · Nov 17

Quick intro for new followers:

I'm a former journalist seeking work (hit me up. I am interested in any comm work around entertainment/art). I am also the author of the urban fantasy novel The Huntress and the Trickster and working on some horror.

Where else I am: linktr.ee/tristanzelden

tristanzelden | Twitter, Instagram, TikTok | Linktree

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Politico @politico.com · 21h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20h

You can understand this shutdown with 3 numbers.

15M — the number of people Republicans want to kick off health care

20M — the number of people Republicans want to 2x health premiums for

0 — the number of times Republicans have called the House back to reopen the government

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · 1d

37 people have signed up for an ARC for Unfold, my slowburn creature feature that is Succession meets [insert your favorite creature feature]. Can I get to 40 or 50 people before sending them out to people on Wednesday? Sign up via the link or share it to people. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

UNFOLD Arc Form

This is for you to submit to me that you would like an ARC of Unfold, my second novel and my first horror. ARCs will be sent on the week of October 15th, either on the 15th or sometime around that wee...

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Mike Flanagan @mikeflanaganfilm.com · 2d

Seven years sober today. Almost impossible to imagine my life any other way. I’m so grateful to everyone who helped and held me along the way.

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · 2d

I swear, he must have some dirt on people to get himself cast in these huge movies so regularly. God, he sucks, both as a person and as an actor.

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Dr Sean Travers @seanjetravers.bsky.social · 2d

Hannibal and Will if we got a season 4

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · 3d

This week on my Substack, I wrote about telling honest stories and taking risks, and how that is how you find your readers and have something to resonate with them. open.substack.com/pub/tristanz...

Writing Stories That Align With Your Truth

One of the most important aspects of writing is not technical, but rather comes from the human aspect.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

we need to abolish this shit

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · 3d

Love this show. I hope it sticks the landing.

Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 4d

While a fourth season of YELLOWJACKETS has already been ordered up by Showtime, it has been announced this weekend that the fourth season will serve as the final season.

“Yellowjackets” Will End With Fourth and Final Season

While a fourth season of “Yellowjackets” has already been ordered up by Showtime, it has been announced this weekend that the fourth season will serve as the final season. Creators Ashley Lyle and Bar...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 5d

Like we really need to internalize that the response to fascism is to reject any equivalence between violent, supremacist, or exceptionalist ideologies & other ideologies that are defensive, communal, or constructive. Even when the former masquerade as the latter. You just have to reject that.

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · 5d

This was really good. I am not as high on it as most people seem, but still a really good movie. Not nearly as gnarly as people made it out to be, but there was a scene or two that were certainly gross as hell lol

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 5d

I get it but I really dislike the "the political climate is tense" phrasing the same way I don't like the "Gaza war" phrasing - we're foregoing that one side is people who want to live and the other side is people who have more power and both the means and intent to destroy and harm.

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 5d

Honored to be named alongside these amazing folks on Variety’s Horror Impact Report 🖤 variety.com/lists/horror...

Horror Impact Report: From Ryan Coogler to Lisa Dreyer to Osgood Perkins, Variety Stakes Out the Top in Genre Films and TV

Horror Impact Report: From Ryan Coogler to Lisa Dreyer to Zach Creeger, Variety Stakes Out the Top in Genre Films and TV.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6d

The Washington Post is using bothsidesism to justify everything Trump is doing.

From yesterday on political purges in the military. They compared it to covid vaccine policies.

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A screenshot of a paragraph from an article with white text on a black background. The text discusses Hegseth’s actions since taking office, stating that he has challenged traditional norms by saying as recently as last week that generals and admirals should resign if they don’t support the Trump administration’s policies. It compares this to the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, which led to the dismissal of thousands of troops.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 6d

It always amuses me how few people seem to grasp that food assistance programs and international food aid are in fact agricultural subsidy, not charity.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6d

Trump’s tariffs and cutbacks are bankrupting farmers. He thinks they’ll keep supporting him no matter what, but his approval numbers say otherwise.

Tweet from Amy Klobuchar that reads:
“27 million pounds of chicken
2 million gallons of milk
67 million eggs
That’s how much food grown by American farmers never made it to hungry families because of the administration’s decision to cancel deliveries to food banks.”
Below the text is an image showing trucks on a highway with a banner labeled “CANCELED” and a caption: “Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid.” The source line reads: “From projects.propublica.org.”

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 6d

When you say this, what I hear is "3D TVs and NFTs are here to stay"

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 6d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · 6d

In one week, people will be getting their hands on (digital) copies of my new book. In about a week people will be reading ARCs of Unfold. Surreal, exciting, and anxiety-inducing lol

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 6d

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 6d

basically this. your favorite small art house studio uses AI and it helped make expedition 33, which everyone seems to be willing to give a pass. clearly its not a hard line for some people especially if it wins game of the year awards

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Kimberly @crazysexyghoul.bsky.social · 6d

Every time someone I respected, especially creatives, posts one of those fad horror AI portraits, I die a LOT inside.

I’m very close to not alive at this point.

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · 6d

As it should be 🤘

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 6d

There’s an interview going around about AI, so before there are any questions, let me state unequivocally that BLACK PHONE 2 is 100% organic. AI was not used at any stage of the filmmaking from idea generation, research, look books, writing, onscreen images - anything. We’re old school and love it.

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