PS Cavanaugh

With a mysterious bug causing upheaval at home, a content writer in @pscavanaugh.com’s “A Bug Screamed at Me, Yet I Must Carry On as Normal” can't focus. “The bug’s antennae twitched and it clicked its mandibles and my...” Continue reading at crypticfrogpublishing.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/i...

Hazel

Just remembered my short story "A Bug Screamed at Me, Yet I Must Carry On as Normal" is now free online at @crypticfrogpub.bsky.social's website. crypticfrogpublishing.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/i... It's perfect for lovers of: - Big bug - The bug's howl - The shrieking black bug

We gotta try designing a society where psychopaths don’t rise to the top

I think the worst part of being a writer isn’t the rejection part (get used to that very quickly lol) but the ‘perpetually waiting for a good email’ part

Incredible what big babies they are. Totally unused to any sort of serious pushback. Spoiled children who have coasted unbothered through life.

*screeches wildly* IT'S HERE!!! I am so, so, SO excited for everyone to finally get to read this collection and to introduce you to Shelley and her haunted video game in "Shelley's System Data for the Play Test of Sinister Susurrations." *screeches wildly again* IT'S SO COOL!!! 🎮😈

This has my first anthology credit in it! It was so great working with Merc, who did an amazing job curating and editing this one-of-a-kind collection.

Hey NY, Chicago here. I made you some graphics cause we're all on the same team. Fuck ICE.

Don’t love that the depravity of Altman has allowed the insanity of Amodei to fly under the radar. Amodei is more dangerous IMO.

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

A Portage Park restaurant owner remembers Silverio Villegas González, the quiet, hardworking cook who was killed by an ICE agent. https://bit.ly/47F0Ryf

The bath survivor

I will NOT be negatively polarized I will NOT be negatively polarized I will NOT be negatively polarized I will NOT be negatively polarized

He saw the Applefest coverage

OPPORTUNITY WINDOW is an anthology of #timeloop stories! It will be open October 15th thru 22nd (2026)—note this is ONE WEEK—and responses will go out after the window closes. Originals and reprints accepted. Full guidelines: mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#opportunityw... I look forward to reading!!

I think when we hem and haw about people going no-contact with their families and what it says about society, what we're often doing is revealing our own discomfort with seeing others starting to pull blocks out of the Jenga tower of Empire and refusing to suffer Just Because.

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

I really don’t think this angle is working for the AI dudes, but too many of them have drunk the Rationalist Kool-Aid. They can’t help themselves. They think “we’re the only ones who can safely shepherd God into existence” is a compelling pitch for normal people.

Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.

Pretty sick of all this!!

I think things would be better if instead of displacing anger at the bad dad/husband/whatever in our lives and projecting those qualities onto internet strangers, we confronted the bad people in our lives directly and left the strangers, who we know nothing about, alone.

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

After a few days in Vienna I am fully tram pilled. Time to start laying rail Chicago.

I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!

My story “A Bug Screamed At Me, Yet I Must Carry On As Normal” is in this! The title pretty much explains it! You better bet I’ll let you know when the story is available online too but heck if you’ve got 3 bucks why don’t you give this a buy!

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:

Campaign Brandon is back. Would love to see Campaign Brandon stick around this time if he wins.

Besides the point but I like that no one on the left tries to pretend Macklemore’s music is good

That third one is by me :)

Earnest question, is there any easy way to mute posts that are just dunking on screenshots from Twitter/X? Otherwise, gonna keep the whack-a-mole approach going I guess.

It's kind of crazy that the right wanted to turn Charlie Kirk into their Reichstag Fire, but instead they accidentally turned him into their Harambe

If you write "I work for Anthropic and I think it might kill humanity" and I'm not reading it off of a Dropbox manifesto after you painted the walls of the HQ I'm inclined to think you're not being sincere

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too