Michael Tichy
@emptywrites.bsky.social
He/Him. Author of ambivalent realism and other variations of sadness. Wound of the West out now from Castaigne Publishing. https://castaignepublishing.bigcartel.com/product/wound-of-the-west
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Michael Tichy
@emptywrites.bsky.social
· Jun 20
IN THE EYES OF THE HUNGRY
IN THE EYES OF THE HUNGRY is a horror anthology inspired by the works of John Steinbeck. Featuring David Simmons, Brendan Vidito, plus more. Edited...
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It’s here. Available on Castaigne and the other place. 9 horror stories in the footsteps of Steinbeck. Read it, sit with it, share it with a friend.
In the Eyes of the Hungry
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In the Eyes of the Hungry
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Reminder that this is my NEW new account, and I’m still looking for my folks. ♥️
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Reminder that this is my NEW new account, and I’m still looking for my folks. ♥️
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Waiting to see who in the media will clearly state that Trump and Johnson have been lying for weeks saying these funds don’t exist
BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump administration "did not comply" with his order.
A hearing has begun over the enforcement of a federal judge's order to fund SNAP benefits through November.
Plaintiffs say Trump is holding "full SNAP benefits hostage for political leverage during the shutdown."
Coverage ahead
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Plaintiffs say Trump is holding "full SNAP benefits hostage for political leverage during the shutdown."
Coverage ahead
www.allrisenews.com/p/snap-judgm...
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Waiting to see who in the media will clearly state that Trump and Johnson have been lying for weeks saying these funds don’t exist
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Here's the rest of it if you don't want to click the link, and I'll post a link of a reading.
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Here's the rest of it if you don't want to click the link, and I'll post a link of a reading.
I’m on this weird dive about the doldrums lately and finished The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad this morning which is autobiographical about Conrad’s early life working as a sailor. The middle section is especially good depicting the creeping madness of being stranded helplessly on becalmed seas
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I’m on this weird dive about the doldrums lately and finished The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad this morning which is autobiographical about Conrad’s early life working as a sailor. The middle section is especially good depicting the creeping madness of being stranded helplessly on becalmed seas
The latest hellhouse LLC - lineage is without question the worst in the series. On top of being terrible, it’s incomplete, basically ending suddenly on a revelation that will be the subject of the next installment, a movie that, if there’s any reason left in the world, will never be made
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The latest hellhouse LLC - lineage is without question the worst in the series. On top of being terrible, it’s incomplete, basically ending suddenly on a revelation that will be the subject of the next installment, a movie that, if there’s any reason left in the world, will never be made
I’ll be the first to say it. Welcome to Derry is going in a really stupid direction. But I’ll stick around because I have to see how it plays out.
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’ll be the first to say it. Welcome to Derry is going in a really stupid direction. But I’ll stick around because I have to see how it plays out.
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Happy Halloween!
1/ Thinking about my vampire book, now in that ether between completion and a contract, i have the breathing room for the abstract stuff. Bataille says existence is a discontinuity, being a separate living thing. Vampires are a paradox because death is the promise of a return to continuity but their
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1/ Thinking about my vampire book, now in that ether between completion and a contract, i have the breathing room for the abstract stuff. Bataille says existence is a discontinuity, being a separate living thing. Vampires are a paradox because death is the promise of a return to continuity but their
The weirdest part to me is how the people obsessed with living forever don’t really enjoy living now. They’re the same ones who read chatgpt summaries of books and look down on people who prioritize leisure. So it’s like they want to create a literal hell to exist for eternity on the permagrind.
I hate that I've now learned a new thing our tech overlords have bestowed on incredibly dumb people to toss into the discourse but here's some funny tweets about it
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The weirdest part to me is how the people obsessed with living forever don’t really enjoy living now. They’re the same ones who read chatgpt summaries of books and look down on people who prioritize leisure. So it’s like they want to create a literal hell to exist for eternity on the permagrind.
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Want horror movie recommendations to close out yer Spoopy Season?
Gonna link a bunch of public patreon posts with mostly underappreciated horror films so you can impress your friends and/or consider signing up as a subscriber. 🧵
Gonna link a bunch of public patreon posts with mostly underappreciated horror films so you can impress your friends and/or consider signing up as a subscriber. 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Want horror movie recommendations to close out yer Spoopy Season?
Gonna link a bunch of public patreon posts with mostly underappreciated horror films so you can impress your friends and/or consider signing up as a subscriber. 🧵
Gonna link a bunch of public patreon posts with mostly underappreciated horror films so you can impress your friends and/or consider signing up as a subscriber. 🧵
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seeing people talk about setting up mini food pantries in tandem with giving out halloween candy while corporations fund extreme makeover: white house edition is the sign of sick, broken society. i mean what in the actual fuck.
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
seeing people talk about setting up mini food pantries in tandem with giving out halloween candy while corporations fund extreme makeover: white house edition is the sign of sick, broken society. i mean what in the actual fuck.
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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The "don't talk about social issues" strategy only works if you *admit that was your strategy after the fact*. We're in this doom loop where Democrats try something, gaslight themselves into believing they didn't try it, then decide to try it again.
"if we just don't talk about it, they can't hit us for talking about it" has been thoroughly discredited but we're going to keep trying it because the point was always that party elites/centrist Dems don't want to talk about those things, not whether it was good strategy/messaging to do so!
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The "don't talk about social issues" strategy only works if you *admit that was your strategy after the fact*. We're in this doom loop where Democrats try something, gaslight themselves into believing they didn't try it, then decide to try it again.
The really wild part is how many of the 20% are also part of the “close to half”
one of the most deeply infuriating aspects of american politics is close to half of americans would love if 20% of the country starved to death
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The really wild part is how many of the 20% are also part of the “close to half”
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It's still vampire season, give the podcast a listen
Wanna hear @ossuary.bsky.social talk with me and Russ about Dracula: Prince of Darkness? Of course you do!
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S3E3: Dracula Prince of Darkness w/ OF Cieri
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October 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It's still vampire season, give the podcast a listen
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I love the tense setpieces and tragedy of Michael Mann's Heat, but I wish it was about a witch looking for her lost cat in the Alps. Also Waingro should still be in it
October 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I love the tense setpieces and tragedy of Michael Mann's Heat, but I wish it was about a witch looking for her lost cat in the Alps. Also Waingro should still be in it
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I’ve got a new story coming to godless soon.
“AIN SOPH AUR”
Here’s a blurb about it from BR Yeager…
"Shelton expertly hauls the weirdness of Ashton Smith and Hodgson into the 21st century accelerationist security state. Suspect everything. Fear everything."
Soon…
“AIN SOPH AUR”
Here’s a blurb about it from BR Yeager…
"Shelton expertly hauls the weirdness of Ashton Smith and Hodgson into the 21st century accelerationist security state. Suspect everything. Fear everything."
Soon…
October 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I’ve got a new story coming to godless soon.
“AIN SOPH AUR”
Here’s a blurb about it from BR Yeager…
"Shelton expertly hauls the weirdness of Ashton Smith and Hodgson into the 21st century accelerationist security state. Suspect everything. Fear everything."
Soon…
“AIN SOPH AUR”
Here’s a blurb about it from BR Yeager…
"Shelton expertly hauls the weirdness of Ashton Smith and Hodgson into the 21st century accelerationist security state. Suspect everything. Fear everything."
Soon…
I’m watching Bloat on shudder and it’s pretty good. But as a psychiatric prescriber it’s absolutely hilarious that this dude is concerned his wife is taking pills again so he searches for the cvs receipt and it’s a low dose tricyclic antidepressant and he’s all “the fuckin pills again.”
October 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’m watching Bloat on shudder and it’s pretty good. But as a psychiatric prescriber it’s absolutely hilarious that this dude is concerned his wife is taking pills again so he searches for the cvs receipt and it’s a low dose tricyclic antidepressant and he’s all “the fuckin pills again.”
Unorthodox is when you can bribe someone directly and receive preferential treatment for it
October 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Unorthodox is when you can bribe someone directly and receive preferential treatment for it
This extends so far beyond politics. There is a broad fetishization of working class aesthetics as kind of the last remnant of the American ideal of rugged individualism but like everything in this country they want to sand off the edges and divorce the aesthetic from the experience of the thing.
i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity
October 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This extends so far beyond politics. There is a broad fetishization of working class aesthetics as kind of the last remnant of the American ideal of rugged individualism but like everything in this country they want to sand off the edges and divorce the aesthetic from the experience of the thing.
Contribute to accelerating climate change while you track it. Very efficient
New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.
Google Earth Gets an AI Chatbot to Help Chart the Climate Crisis
New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.
wrd.cm
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Contribute to accelerating climate change while you track it. Very efficient
2 miles in 18:39 today!
Brrrr, fall has fallen.
Brrrr, fall has fallen.
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
2 miles in 18:39 today!
Brrrr, fall has fallen.
Brrrr, fall has fallen.
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Quoted anonymously but with permission, a friend's wise take on those grumbling about not being invited to the scene. TLDR: make your own scene.
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Quoted anonymously but with permission, a friend's wise take on those grumbling about not being invited to the scene. TLDR: make your own scene.
Photos from last weekend at voidcon 3 by Ben Russell are instantly some of my favorite pics of me ever.
October 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Photos from last weekend at voidcon 3 by Ben Russell are instantly some of my favorite pics of me ever.