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patrickcarlson
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Living the atomic half-life | Design Lead and Writer on @thelongdark.bsky.social |@hinterland.bsky.social | Game systems | The end of the world | My opinions only | More horror than you think
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Nice to see things ramping up on this app. Mildly curious how this place picks up the pieces of what's left on the "other site."

As for me, I tend to post about cinema, horror games, apocalyptic ephemera etc. etc.

Also my cats, and occasional snapshots of life in the PNW.

Glad you're here.
a blurred image of a person 's face with a few lines
Alt: from Jacob's Ladder, a favorite of mine
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always helps me to turn to the classic stories.

“All we did was survive.”

“That’s enough.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
now reading (finally)
December 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
a motion picture that only becomes more relevant day by day. Watch the movie, buy John’s book.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer is available. If you haven’t already purchased a copy I encourage you to do so. I put a lot of work and heart into this one and if you enjoy my work I’d appreciate your support

stickingplacebooks.com/darkness-vis...
Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer - Sticking Place Books
John Bleasdale Jonathan Glazer has created some of the most unforgettable images in twenty-first-century cinema. From the dreamlike menace of Sexy Beast to the haunting abstractions of Under the Skin ...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
picked up and read the four issue run this morning — even by 90s Dark Horse standards this ended up being an intense read. Lots of Alien: Earth backwards echoes. I wonder if some of this made its way into the mood board for that show.

That show so reminded me of these old Dark Horse comics.
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
it’s uncanny how the images and words that hang with us in life, from this or that movie or book, anticipate so many things better than any friend’s advice, or parent’s quiet nudge.

We were already always where we’d end up being, just set apart in time from the moment itself.
December 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif.
December 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
what a franchise — Wendy’s, Burger King, Casablanca!
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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fall back into place
December 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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I've just handed in the last page for Event Horizon and #5's an absolute belter. Real honour to be back doing all this. I'll be talking about it all more with @oblivionbarpodcast.com soon, too, so take a gander and we'll circle back soon!
We ask @tristansbones.bsky.social comics writer and artist about his most pivotal comics and how he got into the industry!

Want to see his terrifying artwork? Grab Event Horizon: Dark Descent is at comic shops.

#IDWDARK #Horror #EventHorizon #EventHorizonDarkDescent #HorrorComics #Advice
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how "busy" you were
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- that one person or fictional character you could NOT shut up about, you made sure they never forget
December 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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"Leaders" and their Lists
December 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
this is cool
Updated 1:1055 (LEGO Ent-D set scale) chart! Already filling out a good bit, probably gonna take a little break to get through some commissions but I'm excited to keep on it! :)

What should I build next?
December 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
a tech portal on 3 hour car trips in a vast state, in an even vaster nation. Brought to me by Japan, for even more mythological impact.

Incredible device, the Game Boy.
Behold, Dindendo Lame Boy™.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
again, for the 10,000th time, this is a Democratic party largely controlled for the last 40 years by the most hedonistic, lascivious, baby-boomer monsters the country has ever produced.

We just want to survive and pay our rent out here. And live in dignity with our neighbors.
December 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Scanline visions of Mega Tokyo 2032. ⚡
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
in case you’re wondering how that SCOTUS birthright case is likely to go:
In his excellent biography of William F. Buckley Jr., Sam Tanenhaus notes that "as far as white Southerners were concerned, both the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Amendments weren't really part of the Constitution." In 1957, Buckley called them "inorganic accretions" (p. 380).
December 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
these are powerful, important images. Thank you for sharing this part of yourself, @belgianboolean.bsky.social.
Hey folks, last weekend I talked a bit out my dad who was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. He took his own life a couple years back; and in the aftermath, mom found boxes of slides he took during his two tours (mostly '67). I'm scanning the slides and will post the standouts in this thread.
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
these first three issues are great, btw. Weird, disturbing, and pivots off the movie in unexpected ways.

More issues to come.
friday night reading -- 1/3:
December 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow
We look to the #Sky for so many things, but answers are the ones we find just for us. 2023 Nevada #Sunset
#Nikon
#WestCoastKin
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotoOfTheDay #Art #Clouds
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Goodnight🌟
December 6, 2024 at 7:44 AM
friday night reading -- 1/3:
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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been vaguely thinking about ways I could help cover upcoming heart surgery costs using my minuscule skills...articles on requested topics? help with research/scripting/etc? translations? bank robbing? idk very open to ideas or projects or anything, I hate ~considering~ money
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM