Costa Koutsoutis
@costakout.bsky.social
Weird/SFF/crime writer. RUNNING THE TRAIN, THE HOWL OF THE EARTH, NO CASTLES, & more. He/Him.
“Drums, drums in the deep…”,
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“Drums, drums in the deep…”,
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speculative genre ephemera, broadcast by costa koutsoutis
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Buncha new followers, so hi there, ya freaks. I am a writer, I write weird crime/SFF/horror, sometimes I do essays. I have books for sale. I am also a college professor but I don't really talk about that much . I have two cats who annoy the shit outta me. Get more here;
This might be one of the coolest photos I've ever seen.
February 16, 2026 at 1:16 PM
This might be one of the coolest photos I've ever seen.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Subscribe for as low as $2/month to get new chapters when they go out (plus other fiction and nonfiction from me too!);
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Your periodic reminder I serialized a sci-fi mystery on Patreon, MAPMAKERS, about something weird on a hostile Internet in a future ten minutes from now. You can read the first chapter for free on my blog;
All Hail the Mapmakers
All hail! Today I said fuck it, threw it all to the proverbial wind, and launched MAPMAKERS. A science fiction mystery I have been tinkering with for a long time, I am now serializing it over on P…
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February 9, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Your periodic reminder I serialized a sci-fi mystery on Patreon, MAPMAKERS, about something weird on a hostile Internet in a future ten minutes from now. You can read the first chapter for free on my blog;
Vonnegut wrote about Debs (who his grandfather admired), which is how I learned about him. Upon confronted by a judge after being arrested for labor organizing & why a man from means like him would do so, Debs apparently responded with “Because of the Sermon on the Mount.” I think about that a lot.
February 16, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Vonnegut wrote about Debs (who his grandfather admired), which is how I learned about him. Upon confronted by a judge after being arrested for labor organizing & why a man from means like him would do so, Debs apparently responded with “Because of the Sermon on the Mount.” I think about that a lot.
Computer programmers are not the same as writers and artists. There's nothing wrong with being a craftsman, making tools that help us live, but AI is not a tool, you are not making anything of value.
February 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Computer programmers are not the same as writers and artists. There's nothing wrong with being a craftsman, making tools that help us live, but AI is not a tool, you are not making anything of value.
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I will say that -- discussions of tactical violence and non/violence aside -- that I think Chaya should, personally, get her clock cleaned at some point by the people whose lives she tries to ruin
Chaya Raichik is trying to get an elementary-school teacher fired for reposting a single viral video with zero additional commentary
February 15, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I will say that -- discussions of tactical violence and non/violence aside -- that I think Chaya should, personally, get her clock cleaned at some point by the people whose lives she tries to ruin
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i don't know who needs to hear this (yes i do) but being so exhausting and annoying that people don't want to bother speaking to you anymore does not equate to "winning" an argument
February 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
i don't know who needs to hear this (yes i do) but being so exhausting and annoying that people don't want to bother speaking to you anymore does not equate to "winning" an argument
LMFAO this is very funny
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 1:02 AM
LMFAO this is very funny
Might add THE QUIET MAN and MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS to the bill too. The 1974 Finney one, of course.
Fuck it, we’re watching RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and THE LAST CRUSADE tonight homies.
February 14, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Might add THE QUIET MAN and MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS to the bill too. The 1974 Finney one, of course.
Fuck it, we’re watching RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and THE LAST CRUSADE tonight homies.
February 14, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Fuck it, we’re watching RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and THE LAST CRUSADE tonight homies.
Holy shit look at this little guy
February 14, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Holy shit look at this little guy
There’s some new construction going on in my neighborhood and the guys are working at night (because there’s a school nearby I guess so they can’t do anything during the day?) so in the night I randomly hear Bigfoot-esque metal knocking, like how some suspect Sasquatch knocks on trees.
February 14, 2026 at 2:18 AM
There’s some new construction going on in my neighborhood and the guys are working at night (because there’s a school nearby I guess so they can’t do anything during the day?) so in the night I randomly hear Bigfoot-esque metal knocking, like how some suspect Sasquatch knocks on trees.
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"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that
"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars
February 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that
His character in SPY, a send-up of the Jason Bourne archetype, is very fucking funny (largely due to how straight-faced he plays it) and I wish he did more comedy.
Jason Statham is set to play Jason Statham in Jason Statham Stole My Bike, a new action-comedy from Bullet Train director David Leitch.
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...
February 13, 2026 at 9:57 PM
His character in SPY, a send-up of the Jason Bourne archetype, is very fucking funny (largely due to how straight-faced he plays it) and I wish he did more comedy.
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The rise of Gen AI use in professions like teaching and librarianship is connected to the devaluing of those fields and the expectation to do more with less every year. AI offers people a fast and cheap (or free) solution to a problem whose real solution is more funding and resources.
February 13, 2026 at 1:28 AM
The rise of Gen AI use in professions like teaching and librarianship is connected to the devaluing of those fields and the expectation to do more with less every year. AI offers people a fast and cheap (or free) solution to a problem whose real solution is more funding and resources.
No, I will in fact not now, nor ever, add you as an app onto my Desktop, MS Outlook. Don't ever talk to me, you are not human, you are beneath me, how dare you.
February 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
No, I will in fact not now, nor ever, add you as an app onto my Desktop, MS Outlook. Don't ever talk to me, you are not human, you are beneath me, how dare you.
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New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.”
When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.
On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.
On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
The Art of Haunting
The email was innocuous enough. A woman wrote to me explaining how her partner had been talking about my work and how much he’d enjoyed it—in particular, he’d remembered me giving a TEDx talk about gh...
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February 13, 2026 at 2:04 PM
New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.”
When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.
On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.
On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
Jesus wept what a bunch of cucked losers.
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Jesus wept what a bunch of cucked losers.
Every time I think about ASOIAF stuff (which isn’t that often but still) this comes to mind; A lot of the the books’ “history” and lore hinges heavily on the fact that this fantasy kingdom was only held together through the threat of a WMD.
i think all the time about what @scumbelievable.bsky.social said about the Targaryens: they're like if each individual Kardashian had their own F-16 fighter jet
February 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Every time I think about ASOIAF stuff (which isn’t that often but still) this comes to mind; A lot of the the books’ “history” and lore hinges heavily on the fact that this fantasy kingdom was only held together through the threat of a WMD.
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If a person says something like "The Enlightenment was a mistake" or "Freedom is incompatible with democracy" or some other reactionary magic spell, that person has established they should not be listened to by anyone. Such opinions should exclude them from polite society and the body politic.
rod dreher is not that interesting. he is a guy very clearly filled with self hatred tied to repressed feelings related to his gender and sexuality, and rather than deal with them, he blames “modernity” and “secularism” for why he’s unhappy. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
If a person says something like "The Enlightenment was a mistake" or "Freedom is incompatible with democracy" or some other reactionary magic spell, that person has established they should not be listened to by anyone. Such opinions should exclude them from polite society and the body politic.
As the kids say, I am back on my bullshit.
February 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM
As the kids say, I am back on my bullshit.
Like the Against Me! song sings in favor of, I actually got (almost) "8 Full Hours of Sleep"
February 13, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Like the Against Me! song sings in favor of, I actually got (almost) "8 Full Hours of Sleep"
If see someone doing this in public I should be allowed to put them in a cannon and shoot them out to sea.
wouldn't mind trying a "kurachino" — cappuccino inside a rotisserie chicken -- but how do i fit it into my car's cup holder? any ideas from you kurachino lovers out there?
February 12, 2026 at 11:07 PM
If see someone doing this in public I should be allowed to put them in a cannon and shoot them out to sea.
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RETVRN
February 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
RETVRN
Fountain pens and pocket knives are the time and money-sink of the PROPER gentleman.
Need to stop men wasting their money on gambling and start them wasting their money on watches
February 12, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Fountain pens and pocket knives are the time and money-sink of the PROPER gentleman.