👻Michael J. Riser𖤐🧊❌👑

I'm pleased to finally introduce the new michaeljriser.com, built with @ghost.org. There are words to backfill, & more coming (including a new piece shortly), but this took tons of work, from images (my own photography), backend setup, to custom code. I hope it's somewhere you'll want to hang out.

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

Check this out if you want to read a bunch of ex-journalists' thoughts on the current (gestures to the smoking crater) state of things, and also me being very very nostalgic about the games magazine era

Yeah. I've been out of work for years. I'm surviving on freelance stuff that can't pay the bills. I'm lucky enough to have a spouse with a decent job and a house we own (which comes with its own set of financial nightmares given insurance rates, but that's another story). Many aren't so lucky.

Take note, US voters, students. Resistance works, perseverance works, protests work.

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

A stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, whose government cultivated close ties with Donald Trump and his family, has conceded defeat to a student-led opposition movement in a historic parliamentary election.

Thanks so much! You can download graphics here or order your own posters, stickers, and preorder sweatshirts & t-shirts! alternatehistories.com/collections/...

As an uninsured, apparently unemployable person, let me tell you just how much haunted shit I would put up with in exchange for free therapy

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

I have a famously unpopular opinion that Argento generally makes very bad films, but I do happen to enjoy Suspiria. Dunno if I'll make it tonight as today was another real bad fuckin day, but definitely come join #folkhorrorfriday for a good flick and good company if you're able.

Critic friends: I'm repping SILVER SCREAMERS and you *HAVE TO* see it. It's a doc about a group of seniors who get together to make a short horror film. It's a love letter to independent filmmaking, realizing what horror can do, and the joy and pains of growing old. It's so good it made me cry.

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

Ever fucking green

🩸 COVER REVEAL 🩸 Earth Filled With Blood @afsulli.bsky.social is out June 2027 from Gallery Books ! @cookemcdermid.bsky.social Across Canada, ancient blood-drinking creatures have survived for generations by hiding in plain sight… Preorder here: bit.ly/EarthFilledW... 🖤👻📚

The wealth of the ultra-rich is surging while regular people struggle. Every billionaire deploying their resources and connections to stop or evade Prop 40 is a demonstration of why it's needed. voteyeson40and3.org

Remember the viral Darth Vader public comment over Flock? Well, San Diego is actually coming closer to cancelling their $2M Flock contract. This comes after a councilmember flipped his support of Flock, and in response, Anthony Ralphs, the man behind the Darth Vader suit, bought him flowers.

Kelowna city counselor candidate. He won.

that's real weird because there were Maine Indivisible groups in your office every single day during the Kavanaugh confirmation repeatedly telling you he was going to do exactly that

Democrats are preparing to investigate Musk if they win control of the House in November, Politico reports. Potential probes would focus on his DOGE leadership, federal job cuts, alleged data breaches, government contracts and Starlink’s role in Ukraine.

10 DAYS TO GO until the end of the Apex 2027 Kickstarter, and we're 40% away from our funding goal! ⏰⏰⏰ if you've been considering treating yourself to an annual subscription or some exclusive Apex merch, now is the time to do so! Let's lock in another year of strange, shocking, beautiful fiction! 💪

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Shit, this is either a shocking tragedy or an unbelievable commitment to taking a sermon to the next level. https://globemagazine.com/priest-killed-by-falling-crucifix-during-livestream-was-preaching-about-death-all-of-us-here-will-also-die/

Democracy is not something we inherit. It is something we protect, election by election, vote by vote. Early voting is already open in many states and Election Day is just 18 days away.

Buffalo,NY..No Kings @Maddow.bsky.social

Update: WE ARE BACK IN! We can post again. This was utter bullshit on the biggest early vote effort in history. But it will not stop what we're building. No Kings means no kings in the White House or in Silicon Valley.

You ever just wake up and say, "Wow, I'm really not okay"? I think I need to maybe have an extremely long meditation today before I do literally anything. I didn't wake up on the wrong side of the bed, I woke up underneath it.

Thanks for ruining all my hopes, Screen Rant. #folkhorrorfriday