Sam Richard
@sammytotep.bsky.social
Widower | Owner Weirdpunk Books | Author | Wonderland & Lit Nasties Award-Winner | BNW & Splatterpunk Award-Nominee | Anarchist | Aging Punk | Bi | He/Him | 'Saddest Man in Indie Horror' | Void Collective | Zinester | MPLS
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Sam Richard
@sammytotep.bsky.social
· Nov 12
The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God comes out at the end of this month and is up for pre-order!
Weird horror short stories about isolation, grief, guilt, art, acidic body fluids, queerness, burning down a regenerating church, brick-cats, abandoned malls, and more.
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Weird horror short stories about isolation, grief, guilt, art, acidic body fluids, queerness, burning down a regenerating church, brick-cats, abandoned malls, and more.
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Sam @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social who sets the standard in keeping things Weird & Punk, Queer AF & highly anarchic:
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Home | Weirdpunk Books
Weirdpunk Books are a publisher of weird and dark horror fiction and related subgenres.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sam @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social who sets the standard in keeping things Weird & Punk, Queer AF & highly anarchic:
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2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
It's a real Silent Hill ass morning here in Minneapolis.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It's a real Silent Hill ass morning here in Minneapolis.
Milo Goes Back to College and Takes Some Goddamn Gender Studies Courses.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Milo Goes Back to College and Takes Some Goddamn Gender Studies Courses.
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The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
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Eraserhead baby labubu
August 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Eraserhead baby labubu
Asking the homies in the chat to share photos of the most problematic media they own so you can cancel them later.
a cartoon character has a diamond on his forehead and glowing eyes
Alt: a cartoon character has a diamond on his forehead and glowing eyes (Mr. Sinister from X-Men: The Animated Series)
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Asking the homies in the chat to share photos of the most problematic media they own so you can cancel them later.
Still have a scant few of these!
Remembering the time that I ordered a signed, numbered copy of All Will Writhe by Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social from Weird Punk Books @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social and requested number 19.
The reply was simple:
I will make this happen!
It still makes me smile.
Thank you both (all) again!
The reply was simple:
I will make this happen!
It still makes me smile.
Thank you both (all) again!
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Still have a scant few of these!
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I am truly and genuinely so glad you asked!
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I am truly and genuinely so glad you asked!
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
Honest appraisal is that everything is fucked and I have to go to work in 20 minutes.
I just want art and community and growth and joy.
Feeling a lot of numbness, despair, decay, and grief.
Spent a lot of time with ghosts lately.
Need to figure out how to write again. I'm afraid I've forgotten.
I just want art and community and growth and joy.
Feeling a lot of numbness, despair, decay, and grief.
Spent a lot of time with ghosts lately.
Need to figure out how to write again. I'm afraid I've forgotten.
Weirdpunk is woefully behind this year on basically everything. Sorry if you're waiting on me. I'm trying to get outta this cave, but it has been super difficult. Looking for hope. Looking for passion. Looking for that part of myself that needs to create.
Everything is so far away right now.
Everything is so far away right now.
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Honest appraisal is that everything is fucked and I have to go to work in 20 minutes.
I just want art and community and growth and joy.
Feeling a lot of numbness, despair, decay, and grief.
Spent a lot of time with ghosts lately.
Need to figure out how to write again. I'm afraid I've forgotten.
I just want art and community and growth and joy.
Feeling a lot of numbness, despair, decay, and grief.
Spent a lot of time with ghosts lately.
Need to figure out how to write again. I'm afraid I've forgotten.
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if you're wondering why we don't see as much gaza despite the steady trickle of reports that israel continued strikes throughout the "ceasefire," it's because they deliberately killed most of the journalists in palestine
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
if you're wondering why we don't see as much gaza despite the steady trickle of reports that israel continued strikes throughout the "ceasefire," it's because they deliberately killed most of the journalists in palestine
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can't imagine why video games are struggling when the prevailing business model is "we didn't pay any people to make this, but you can pay us (monthly) to play it, and pay even more to play the whole thing, but also you don't own it"
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
can't imagine why video games are struggling when the prevailing business model is "we didn't pay any people to make this, but you can pay us (monthly) to play it, and pay even more to play the whole thing, but also you don't own it"
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I get why authors are compelled to do it, but few things make me want to read a book/story less than those tropelist pointing to the book marketing banners. I really wish they'd go away, but I guess they Do work as a marketing tactic on more people than they're off-putting to.
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I get why authors are compelled to do it, but few things make me want to read a book/story less than those tropelist pointing to the book marketing banners. I really wish they'd go away, but I guess they Do work as a marketing tactic on more people than they're off-putting to.
Ok, but he's right though.
Dad Calling Just To Say He Loves King Crimson https://theonion.com/dad-calling-just-to-say-he-loves-king-crimson/
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ok, but he's right though.
This has been one of the most unproductive periods of both my writing and publishing life. I'm exhausted.
I'm also breaking through something, and maybe that's what this has all been about.
I'm also breaking through something, and maybe that's what this has all been about.
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This has been one of the most unproductive periods of both my writing and publishing life. I'm exhausted.
I'm also breaking through something, and maybe that's what this has all been about.
I'm also breaking through something, and maybe that's what this has all been about.
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Please remember that flawed human beings who have made mistakes deserve dignity too, an undocumented person with a criminal record still doesn’t deserve violence at the whim of the government.
Not everyone ICE is targeting is a perfect person and you shouldn’t fixate on that.
Not everyone ICE is targeting is a perfect person and you shouldn’t fixate on that.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Please remember that flawed human beings who have made mistakes deserve dignity too, an undocumented person with a criminal record still doesn’t deserve violence at the whim of the government.
Not everyone ICE is targeting is a perfect person and you shouldn’t fixate on that.
Not everyone ICE is targeting is a perfect person and you shouldn’t fixate on that.
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#OtD 10 Nov 1891 Jewish Ukrainian anarchist, Simón Radowitzky, was born. At 15, he took part in the 1905 Russian Revolution, killed a police chief in Argentina at 18, endured 20 years of prison, fought fascism during the Spanish Civil War, and more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1264...
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#OtD 10 Nov 1891 Jewish Ukrainian anarchist, Simón Radowitzky, was born. At 15, he took part in the 1905 Russian Revolution, killed a police chief in Argentina at 18, endured 20 years of prison, fought fascism during the Spanish Civil War, and more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1264...
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ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
Don't wait up for me, honey. I'm cracking another beer and watching black metal music videos.
November 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Don't wait up for me, honey. I'm cracking another beer and watching black metal music videos.
This movie is so fucking good.
Tonight's watch, Wolfen (1981). A coked up slurry that seems to anticipate the British invasion comics with meaty ideas about urban renewal as violence, colonization as self inflicted psychosis, cultural appreciation veering into cultural insensitivity, and tech panopticons. Shade the Changing Wolf.
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This movie is so fucking good.
Holy shit, there's a new Katamari game!
October 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Holy shit, there's a new Katamari game!