Nat Cassidy
@natcassidy.bsky.social
USA Today bestselling horror noveler (MARY; NESTLINGS; REST STOP; WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME). TV actor. Musician. Up next: I KNOW A PLACE, May 5, 2026, Shortwave Books. (he/him)
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Working on the final new addition for this and, oh hey, have I mentioned it’s
🚨AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER??🚨
Over a dozen stories, including the Stoker Award-nominated novella, “Rest Stop.”
Available in print + e-book (@shortwavebooks.bsky.social) as well as audio.
May 5, 2026.
📖🗝️
Come with me …
🚨AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER??🚨
Over a dozen stories, including the Stoker Award-nominated novella, “Rest Stop.”
Available in print + e-book (@shortwavebooks.bsky.social) as well as audio.
May 5, 2026.
📖🗝️
Come with me …
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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
Oh, I bet this’ll be pretty funny—
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😭😭😭😭😭
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😭😭😭😭😭
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Oh, I bet this’ll be pretty funny—
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😭😭😭😭😭
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😭😭😭😭😭
“We had to kill them because they refused to die.”
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“We had to kill them because they refused to die.”
Not quite the point of this post, I know, but every now and then it’s really bracing to re-confront how we’re living through the absolute fucking worst presidency by, like, a factor of five.
So is it going to be the affordability panic, the indiscriminate murder at sea, or the Epstein files that does it?
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Not quite the point of this post, I know, but every now and then it’s really bracing to re-confront how we’re living through the absolute fucking worst presidency by, like, a factor of five.
Again and again and again and again and again, the lower courts do the work, issue thorough and well-considered rulings, and then the Supreme Court just goes, “Nah.”
SCOTUS conservatives just blessed the Texas GOP's gerrymander. It'll be used next year.
They stay the lower-court ruling, written by a Trump-appointed judge, that found the gerrymander to be illegal.
While no clear vote, Alito wrote a concurrence; and only the three liberal justices dissented.
They stay the lower-court ruling, written by a Trump-appointed judge, that found the gerrymander to be illegal.
While no clear vote, Alito wrote a concurrence; and only the three liberal justices dissented.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Again and again and again and again and again, the lower courts do the work, issue thorough and well-considered rulings, and then the Supreme Court just goes, “Nah.”
I don’t use Spotify, but my Apple Music account is happy to continue outing me as a cliched, white, middle aged, classic rock dork.
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I don’t use Spotify, but my Apple Music account is happy to continue outing me as a cliched, white, middle aged, classic rock dork.
Working on the final new addition for this and, oh hey, have I mentioned it’s
🚨AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER??🚨
Over a dozen stories, including the Stoker Award-nominated novella, “Rest Stop.”
Available in print + e-book (@shortwavebooks.bsky.social) as well as audio.
May 5, 2026.
📖🗝️
Come with me …
🚨AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER??🚨
Over a dozen stories, including the Stoker Award-nominated novella, “Rest Stop.”
Available in print + e-book (@shortwavebooks.bsky.social) as well as audio.
May 5, 2026.
📖🗝️
Come with me …
December 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Working on the final new addition for this and, oh hey, have I mentioned it’s
🚨AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER??🚨
Over a dozen stories, including the Stoker Award-nominated novella, “Rest Stop.”
Available in print + e-book (@shortwavebooks.bsky.social) as well as audio.
May 5, 2026.
📖🗝️
Come with me …
🚨AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER??🚨
Over a dozen stories, including the Stoker Award-nominated novella, “Rest Stop.”
Available in print + e-book (@shortwavebooks.bsky.social) as well as audio.
May 5, 2026.
📖🗝️
Come with me …
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My book of the year. Hits the ground running and doesn’t let you take a beat. Also has one of the most disturbing deaths I’ve read for years. Absolute masterpiece @natcassidy.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
My book of the year. Hits the ground running and doesn’t let you take a beat. Also has one of the most disturbing deaths I’ve read for years. Absolute masterpiece @natcassidy.bsky.social
It’s so funny to imagine Patience and Prudence recording their sweet little bobby-socks-n-saddle-shoes songs in the 1950s, having zero idea how many nasty horror filmmakers would later use them to creep people out.
December 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It’s so funny to imagine Patience and Prudence recording their sweet little bobby-socks-n-saddle-shoes songs in the 1950s, having zero idea how many nasty horror filmmakers would later use them to creep people out.
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Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
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Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by @claymcleod.bsky.social is on sale for $2.99 digitally.
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes - Kindle edition by Chapman, Clay. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Wake Up and Open Your Eyes.
www.amazon.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by @claymcleod.bsky.social is on sale for $2.99 digitally.
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One of the most important works of literature in my life. This play opened my eyes to what was possible in drama, in comedy, in philosophy, in performance, in conversation with the past. My first play was an almost direct homage and I’ve been chasing it ever since. RIP to a true genius.
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
One of the most important works of literature in my life. This play opened my eyes to what was possible in drama, in comedy, in philosophy, in performance, in conversation with the past. My first play was an almost direct homage and I’ve been chasing it ever since. RIP to a true genius.
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How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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Give Trump the splashy headline and credit then wait five paragraphs to mention these deals were only possible because of Biden's legislation. Paper of Record! 🙄
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Give Trump the splashy headline and credit then wait five paragraphs to mention these deals were only possible because of Biden's legislation. Paper of Record! 🙄
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Trump objectively IS the most openly corrupt president in U.S. history. And suing people to stop them from saying it is part of that unprecedented corruption.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trump objectively IS the most openly corrupt president in U.S. history. And suing people to stop them from saying it is part of that unprecedented corruption.
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Related; Dems can flip the AZ legislature next year, help us!
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November 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Related; Dems can flip the AZ legislature next year, help us!
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
If anyone wants *prime* weird Kier, I highly recommend Lars von Trier’s THE KINGDOM series. My god does it go to some wild places and Udo Kier is Udo Kiering to extents never before thought possible in it.
Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If anyone wants *prime* weird Kier, I highly recommend Lars von Trier’s THE KINGDOM series. My god does it go to some wild places and Udo Kier is Udo Kiering to extents never before thought possible in it.
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans people have literally always been here; every time I see someone sneering "oh but there were no trans people when I was in high school," well. I dated a trans girl in high school, and was close friends with a trans guy.
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans people have literally always been here; every time I see someone sneering "oh but there were no trans people when I was in high school," well. I dated a trans girl in high school, and was close friends with a trans guy.