Michael Cerliano
@michaelcerliano.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric at Texas Woman's University. Critical theory, visual culture, the weird. "Tell me strange things."
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
Tfw you see a trailer and realize the movie was developed specifically for you.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE | Official Teaser | Searchlight Pictures
YouTube video by SearchlightPictures
m.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Tfw you see a trailer and realize the movie was developed specifically for you.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
Taking a break from other stuff to work on my article.
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Taking a break from other stuff to work on my article.
Might as well put up the Krampus tree.
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Might as well put up the Krampus tree.
Blessed Samhain and Happy Halloween to everyone!
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Blessed Samhain and Happy Halloween to everyone!
At the Lamplight Theatre Company's staged reading of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
October 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
At the Lamplight Theatre Company's staged reading of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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Secret Life / La vie secrète - 1928
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18685
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18685
October 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Secret Life / La vie secrète - 1928
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18685
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18685
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In the 1860s, the veil between the living and the dead was thin. William H. Mumler, the first known spirit photographer, took photographs of the dead that are both a record of longing for someone who will never return and a belief in the power of photography.
A History of Photographing Ghosts
In 1860, William H. Mumler set up the first photography studio that claimed to capture the dead, and his success started a movement of spirit images.
hyperallergic.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
In the 1860s, the veil between the living and the dead was thin. William H. Mumler, the first known spirit photographer, took photographs of the dead that are both a record of longing for someone who will never return and a belief in the power of photography.
Love to be in the library at night.
October 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Love to be in the library at night.
This week's curry posting brings you a chicken biryani bowl with garlic naan and a mango lassi. It also brings you course prep for discussing Foucault's concept of the archive and the practice of synthesizing research, and a field trip to the library.
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This week's curry posting brings you a chicken biryani bowl with garlic naan and a mango lassi. It also brings you course prep for discussing Foucault's concept of the archive and the practice of synthesizing research, and a field trip to the library.
Spooky sights on the square. 🎃
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Spooky sights on the square. 🎃
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Are you ready for HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology?
👉🏼Pre-orders for Tales of Occult Britain are open worldwide on helleborezine.com
👉🏼Pre-orders for Tales of Occult Britain are open worldwide on helleborezine.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Are you ready for HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology?
👉🏼Pre-orders for Tales of Occult Britain are open worldwide on helleborezine.com
👉🏼Pre-orders for Tales of Occult Britain are open worldwide on helleborezine.com
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I've put a few new drawings up at
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop
October 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I've put a few new drawings up at
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop
Current mood: this passage from "Nyarlathotep"
October 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Current mood: this passage from "Nyarlathotep"
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Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Inferno, Canto X:
Many artists have attempted to illustrate Dante Alighieri's epic poem the Divine Comedy, but none have made such an indelible stamp on our collective imagination as the Frenchman ...
www.openculture.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Best I can do, UNT. Go Mean Green! Beat USF!
October 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Best I can do, UNT. Go Mean Green! Beat USF!
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A storm / La tempête - 1932
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18894
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18894
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A storm / La tempête - 1932
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18894
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18894
Course prep and then some preliminary research on the human potential movement for my article and my conference paper proposal.
October 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Course prep and then some preliminary research on the human potential movement for my article and my conference paper proposal.
This week, a chicken tikka pizza and garlic naan with a mango lassi for Course Prep Curry. We're covering annotations, citations, mind maps, and other research nitty gritty. Will I use my own work to both serve as a useful example and to give me a chance to talk about myself? Sources say "maybe."
October 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This week, a chicken tikka pizza and garlic naan with a mango lassi for Course Prep Curry. We're covering annotations, citations, mind maps, and other research nitty gritty. Will I use my own work to both serve as a useful example and to give me a chance to talk about myself? Sources say "maybe."
Got my official Denton Halloween library card today 👻
October 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Got my official Denton Halloween library card today 👻
Current side quests:
Article for American folk horror zine
Grant application
Conference proposal
Best to all of you in your journeys 🧙♂️
Article for American folk horror zine
Grant application
Conference proposal
Best to all of you in your journeys 🧙♂️
October 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Current side quests:
Article for American folk horror zine
Grant application
Conference proposal
Best to all of you in your journeys 🧙♂️
Article for American folk horror zine
Grant application
Conference proposal
Best to all of you in your journeys 🧙♂️
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SIgn up now for our forthcoming campaign to publish the lost books of Victor Neuburg!
tinyurl.com/vinepress
tinyurl.com/vinepress
Coming soon: Lost occult books of the 1920s: relaunching Vine Press
Publishing never-before-seen books by legendary British occultist Victor Neuburg and officially relaunching his 1920s Vine Press.
tinyurl.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
SIgn up now for our forthcoming campaign to publish the lost books of Victor Neuburg!
tinyurl.com/vinepress
tinyurl.com/vinepress
If only there was a term for this sort of thing 🤔
October 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
If only there was a term for this sort of thing 🤔