Rob Pierce
@robpierce2verbs.bsky.social
Rob Pierce has written several books, including Desire Is Death. Also the author of the Uncle Dust trilogy, among others. He lives in Santa Cruz, CA, with his corgi Misha and an oak cask of ennui.
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Absolutely read the hell out of @keithrosson.bsky.social's 'Fever House' yesterday, couldn't put it down until I was done 👍 Now for 'The Devil By Name'... @blackcrowbooks.bsky.social @jamieleenardone.bsky.social
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‘Fever House’ – Keith Rosson (Black Crow Books)
Page Count: 515 Pages After reading a couple of reviews for ‘Coffin Moon’, I was keen to find out, for myself, what Keith Rosson was all a...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Absolutely read the hell out of @keithrosson.bsky.social's 'Fever House' yesterday, couldn't put it down until I was done 👍 Now for 'The Devil By Name'... @blackcrowbooks.bsky.social @jamieleenardone.bsky.social
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REP. MASSIE (a Republican): “Trump will protect you if you vote the wrong way… if you vote to cover up for pedophiles — but I would remind my Republican colleagues this vote is going to be on your record longer than Trump is going to be president.”
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
REP. MASSIE (a Republican): “Trump will protect you if you vote the wrong way… if you vote to cover up for pedophiles — but I would remind my Republican colleagues this vote is going to be on your record longer than Trump is going to be president.”
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A reminder that in 2022, President Biden signed the “Eliminating Limits to Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims Act,” eliminating the statute of limitations to file civil action for federal sex offenses. Seems relevant.
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
A reminder that in 2022, President Biden signed the “Eliminating Limits to Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims Act,” eliminating the statute of limitations to file civil action for federal sex offenses. Seems relevant.
So disappointed that the "14 charged in Mafia backed betting scandal" article on ESPN did not include a slew of colorful nicknames. Come on, give me a reason to read the article. Where's Vinnie the Brick?
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
So disappointed that the "14 charged in Mafia backed betting scandal" article on ESPN did not include a slew of colorful nicknames. Come on, give me a reason to read the article. Where's Vinnie the Brick?
Zatoichi Goes To The Fire Festival (1970, d. Misumi) Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman finds himself at odds with a blind warlord who is overtaxing his people. I’d retitle this Zatoichi Goes To The Bathhouse, as I remember nothing about a fire festival but damn that bathhouse scene was entertaining.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Zatoichi Goes To The Fire Festival (1970, d. Misumi) Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman finds himself at odds with a blind warlord who is overtaxing his people. I’d retitle this Zatoichi Goes To The Bathhouse, as I remember nothing about a fire festival but damn that bathhouse scene was entertaining.
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Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (1967, d. Yamatoya) Sho is a hitman hired to return a kidnapped woman. In addition he is to kill abductors, including their boss, Koh, who years ago raped and murdered Sho’s wife.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (1967, d. Yamatoya) Sho is a hitman hired to return a kidnapped woman. In addition he is to kill abductors, including their boss, Koh, who years ago raped and murdered Sho’s wife.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
I have a lot in common with many attractive people here, including the fact that I’m not that interested in sex with me either.
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I have a lot in common with many attractive people here, including the fact that I’m not that interested in sex with me either.
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I wrote a crime novelette for the Myopic Duplicity anthology and it’s now available as an audiobook AND e-book! Special thanks to @jeffcircle.bsky.social, @leonardoaudio.bsky.social, and @victordeanda.bsky.social!!
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I wrote a crime novelette for the Myopic Duplicity anthology and it’s now available as an audiobook AND e-book! Special thanks to @jeffcircle.bsky.social, @leonardoaudio.bsky.social, and @victordeanda.bsky.social!!
Samurai Rebellion (1967, d. Kobayashi) Ichi (Yoko Tsukasa) offends a lord and is offered to Yogoro (Go Kato) as a bride. Yogoro’s family wants to say no and offend the lord but Yogoro says it would be an honor.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Samurai Rebellion (1967, d. Kobayashi) Ichi (Yoko Tsukasa) offends a lord and is offered to Yogoro (Go Kato) as a bride. Yogoro’s family wants to say no and offend the lord but Yogoro says it would be an honor.
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Repugnant words from Megyn K; not surprised, are ya?
"don't worry, he's just into 15-year-olds" perhaps not as exculpatory as you think
Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.
Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Repugnant words from Megyn K; not surprised, are ya?
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Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
Harakiri (1962, d. Kobayashi) Great film by Kobayashi about a man (Tatsuya Nakadai) who demands a true samurai ending, a hara-kiri. The residents suspect it’s a scam, as so many have been showing up demanding hara-kiri then getting paid off and leaving.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Harakiri (1962, d. Kobayashi) Great film by Kobayashi about a man (Tatsuya Nakadai) who demands a true samurai ending, a hara-kiri. The residents suspect it’s a scam, as so many have been showing up demanding hara-kiri then getting paid off and leaving.
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
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Such a piece of shit.
President Trump criticises France and others for celebrating remembrance day, saying, "We're the one that won the wars"
Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Such a piece of shit.
The Blue Gardenia (1953, d. Lang) Based on a story by Vera Caspary, who wrote Laura, good noir until it hits the pasted on happy ending. Raymond Burr gets Anne Baxter drunk, tries to rape her but she fights him off, wakes on his floor and runs.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The Blue Gardenia (1953, d. Lang) Based on a story by Vera Caspary, who wrote Laura, good noir until it hits the pasted on happy ending. Raymond Burr gets Anne Baxter drunk, tries to rape her but she fights him off, wakes on his floor and runs.
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As one of the people who had books with Down & Out, which went under, I'm looking for an agent/publisher. Gabino Iglesias wrote a great substack about agents: link here.
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
Too Many Sharks: A Warning About "Agents"
No, seriously
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November 9, 2025 at 5:44 AM
As one of the people who had books with Down & Out, which went under, I'm looking for an agent/publisher. Gabino Iglesias wrote a great substack about agents: link here.
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
A History of Violence (2005, d. Cronenberg) Viggo Mortensen is excellent as Tom Stall, a diner owner/husband in a near perfect family until there is an attempted armed robbery in his diner and he kills the robbers. He is hailed as a hero but not by the gangsters who recognize his photo
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November 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
A History of Violence (2005, d. Cronenberg) Viggo Mortensen is excellent as Tom Stall, a diner owner/husband in a near perfect family until there is an attempted armed robbery in his diner and he kills the robbers. He is hailed as a hero but not by the gangsters who recognize his photo
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Wrote a thing about agents. If you’re a new writer or are actively querying, hope this helps keep you safe!
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
Too Many Sharks: A Warning About "Agents"
No, seriously
gabinoiglesias.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Wrote a thing about agents. If you’re a new writer or are actively querying, hope this helps keep you safe!
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
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"The government begins excavating the bones in late February"
The Squatters, by Shawna Yang Ryan
Narrator: Rebecca Wei Hsieh
Host: Kat Day
Audio: Chelsea Davis
pseudopod.org/2025/11/07/p...
This story originally appeared in the 2025 Anthology, Silk and Sinew
The Squatters, by Shawna Yang Ryan
Narrator: Rebecca Wei Hsieh
Host: Kat Day
Audio: Chelsea Davis
pseudopod.org/2025/11/07/p...
This story originally appeared in the 2025 Anthology, Silk and Sinew
PseudoPod 1002: The Squatters
The government begins excavating the bones in late February to coincide with the events planned to commemorate the massacre. It is meant to gesture that they truly do intend to follow through on their...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"The government begins excavating the bones in late February"
The Squatters, by Shawna Yang Ryan
Narrator: Rebecca Wei Hsieh
Host: Kat Day
Audio: Chelsea Davis
pseudopod.org/2025/11/07/p...
This story originally appeared in the 2025 Anthology, Silk and Sinew
The Squatters, by Shawna Yang Ryan
Narrator: Rebecca Wei Hsieh
Host: Kat Day
Audio: Chelsea Davis
pseudopod.org/2025/11/07/p...
This story originally appeared in the 2025 Anthology, Silk and Sinew
Shadow Kill (2002, d. Gopalakrishnan) Holy fuck, what a great film. A hangman who feels guilty, because he has discovered that a previous man he killed was innocent, is told that his next victim is also innocent, but that’s what happens when you’re poor.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Shadow Kill (2002, d. Gopalakrishnan) Holy fuck, what a great film. A hangman who feels guilty, because he has discovered that a previous man he killed was innocent, is told that his next victim is also innocent, but that’s what happens when you’re poor.
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On my rewatch of Slow Horses, I continue to marvel at how even the best spies on the show have fucked up in major ways (including Lamb and Taverner). What's weird is how they determined that anyone could deserve to be labeled a Slow Horse.
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
On my rewatch of Slow Horses, I continue to marvel at how even the best spies on the show have fucked up in major ways (including Lamb and Taverner). What's weird is how they determined that anyone could deserve to be labeled a Slow Horse.
Heart of Glass (1976, d. Herzog) Gloriously shot story of a village trying to recreate the ruby glass that was their town’s lifeblood until its maker died, its superstitions and madness and town seer, is also a look at the descent of the human race. Great work from Herzog and his hypnotized cast.
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Heart of Glass (1976, d. Herzog) Gloriously shot story of a village trying to recreate the ruby glass that was their town’s lifeblood until its maker died, its superstitions and madness and town seer, is also a look at the descent of the human race. Great work from Herzog and his hypnotized cast.
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Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.
Slade covers Max Frost. Great song culled from a great movie, Wild in the Streets.
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Slade - The Shape Of Things To Come
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November 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Slade covers Max Frost. Great song culled from a great movie, Wild in the Streets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=idoj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=idoj...