Colin Dickey

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Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. He/him.

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For all his other faults, Cotton Mather was very outspoken advocate for pro-smallpox vaccinations; after a 1721 outbreak in Boston, an anti-vaxxer tried to kill him and another inocculator by throwing a grenade into the window of his home (it failed to explode)

Yesterday this sign said “God bless our veterans and first responders,” happy Fourth

Anyway, this isn’t all bad—for me, quite the opposite. Some number of years ago I tried to lay out why I thought my childhood of being constantly exposed to terrifying things was actually a good thing… bombmagazine.org/articles/201...

Once again, in case you’re wondering why Gen Xers are “like this,” watch any Disney movie between Walt’s death & The Little Mermaid, the shit we were raised on. Tried to rewatch The Rescuers last night and it is utterly Bananapants that a single soul thought this was acceptable kids’ fare

I think I was only 3 or 4 when my mom took me and my older brother to see The Fox and the Hound when it came out, so I was too young to remember much, but I clearly remember both my mom and my 7 year old brother just absolutely bawling their eyes out by the end of that movie. Insane!

It's a piano mash up of "Blurred Lines" and "Rape Me" and trust me you do not want to be exposed to it

Ok, I can report that if you search for "most obnoxious Amanda Palmer song" the Internet absolutely delivers.

I'm in

OK Bluesky comrades, who can afford to donate at least $5 a month to @psabortionfund.bsky.social? They are an all-volunteer led abortion fund based in South Carolina. They do such good work. Will you join me as monthly subscribers? donorbox.org/support-the-... - they need a min of $10,000 a month.

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Ok, I can report that if you search for "most obnoxious Amanda Palmer song" the Internet absolutely delivers.

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"From the history of haunted houses, to books bound in human skin, to how we talk—or avoid talking completely—about death." TODAY 7 Haunting Works of Nonfiction by @rachaelconrad.bsky.social featuring: thread/ psychopomp.com/7-haunting-w...

7 Haunting Works of Nonfiction - PSYCHOPOMP.COMpsychopomp.com When it comes to your towering to-be-read piles, fiction isn’t the only thing that can have a gothic flair to it. The same, of course, goes for the horror

He did these movies back to back, how did he not fire his agent and then eat them

If you wanna see Anthony Hopkins chop his hand off and have a cannibal dinner party in a movie designed by Dante Ferretti twice, you can do a Hannibal (2001)/Titus (1999) double feature. Don’t do this what the fuck am I doing.

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It's here, it's real, it's REALLY A BOOK THE ONES WHO COME BACK HUNGRY, my scary, wintry vampire book, creeps onto bookshelves everywhere today! Go sink your teeth into it

Prison abolition for everyone but Julie Taymor’s enablers

We are watching Julie Taymor’s godforsaken monstrosity “Titus” and lol it was produced by Steve Bannon, yes that Steve Bannon

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The “joe biden has the chance to do the funniest thing ever” jokes are now literally correct

Joe Biden has the potential to do the legalest thing now

If the Supreme Court decides in favor of Trump’s claim that a sitting president has immunity from prosecution, the logical and legal thing for Biden to do would be to simply assassinate him before the election

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We are watching Julie Taymor’s godforsaken monstrosity “Titus” and lol it was produced by Steve Bannon, yes that Steve Bannon

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Seriously, no a soul in the entire world: Elizabeth:

The most Taylor Swift Ween album is White Pepper and the most Ween Taylor Swift album is Evermore.

Some sort of massive fire at the edge of JFK, not a super cool feeling tbh

I was not watching the debates because I was having drinks with good friends like a normal healthy person and then I come here and my TL is all debate deep cut shitposting and I honestly have no idea how it’s actually going

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How did no one tell me that Ayo Edebiri got emotional over the Great Molasses Flood?? (via GBH)

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Killer @colindickey.com read on @annaleen.bsky.social's Stories Are Weapons and the history of disinformation and psychological warfare. Two great minds in one piece!

The Weaponization of Storytellingnewrepublic.com The American public is more susceptible than ever to skewed narratives.

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I'll track this down. Their nonfiction writing is some of the most captivating I've read.

My review of @annaleen.bsky.social’s newest book, Stories Are Weapons, is up at The New Republic—a really fascinating meditation on the world of disinfo that focuses on the dangers and possibilities of storytelling: newrepublic.com/article/1819...

The Weaponization of Storytellingnewrepublic.com The American public is more susceptible than ever to skewed narratives.

Feeling equal parts ashamed and proud for having goaded @cadaverformosus.bsky.social into watching Hannibal last night (the movie, not the show), a movie so bad it warp speeds past “so bad it’s good” and into “so bad it’s avant-garde absurdist theatre”

All in all coming back to civilization seems like an error

I spent a lot of time walking on glaciers and apparently not dying, which is as surprising to me as it is to you

Hey Bluesky, here’s the ship I was sailing on over the past few weeks, above the 80th parallel, anchored to an ice floe we spent the day walking around on. Not pictured: the bowhead whale that breached on the other side of the ship less than 20 meters away.

Ok friends, I’m headed off on a ship to sail around Svalbard for the next two weeks, see you in a few

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The only cemetery in Longyearbyen, mostly from a Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918